Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, Autumn feels like it is already here, with just a lunar cycle to go until the Equinox, I am leaning into the seasonal shift. As we enter into the solar sign of Virgo with the dark of this New Moon, I want to reflect on the energy of it’s Tarot correspondence, The Hermit IX. The Hermit speaks to us in this modern life, in this time of unraveling and...
23 days ago • 5 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, This summer is moving by so quickly, and the weather here is Italy is shifting. Autumn is soon upon us, as the world keeps spinning on her axis. Sometimes I wish I could pause time all together, take a snap shot of the moment and freeze it in time. I suppose that is what a memory is, isn’t it? But memories become clouded with age and the...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, Well this is a New Moon that has me in a reflective space. Two days ago was the feast to Mary Magdalene, and I attended a beautiful gathering in Italy at a place called the Citta della Luce, it is a spiritual community in my region of Le Marche, where they focus a great deal of their practice on Reiki, Astrology and Family Constellations. I...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, I hope your Summer is flowing smoothly. I have been in the midst of slow living, harvesting plants, food, and teaching about the Good Medicine Road. LUNAR MUSING: Full MOON IN capricorn Lunar Harvests…. spiky things, liver things, nurturing things. Tending the wild apothecary, loving the soil. I spent the morning harvesting Nettle, Artichoke...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, I am writing to you from my home in Italy, at our little rustic farmhouse and permaculture homestead Ca’Inti. Happy to be reunited after two months apart from my sweetie! LUNAR MUSING: New MOON IN cancer This dark of the moon finds me in grounded space, seeking connection with the land. I did not have time to write a full musing this cycle, yet I...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, This Full Moon in Sagittarius highlights the deep meaning of the concept of “I Seek”, as associated with this 9th house. LUNAR MUSING: FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS This is a sign that took me some time to understand. In retrospect, I think I just wasn’t ready for it’s lessons, I have Uranus and Neptune in Sagittarius, so I think I am just a late...
3 months ago • 7 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, I hope this message finds you in a reflective place. These last six weeks have been a major hermit time for me, attuning to a seasonal shift here in the tropics that is akin to the feeling of winter. The rains are here and I love being solo on my farm. I spend my days just doing me, talking sometimes to just myself, my plants and my animals. It...
4 months ago • 6 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Greetings Plant Lovers, Mystical Creatures and Friends, I hope this message finds you in a reflective place. These last six weeks have been a major hermit time for me, attuning to a seasonal shift here in the tropics that is akin to the feeling of winter. The rains are here and I love being solo on my farm. I spend my days just doing me, talking sometimes to just myself, my plants and my animals. It...
4 months ago • 6 min read
Village Witch Regenerative Herbalism | Tarot Tales | Spiritual EcologyMyth | Magic | Musings Hi friends, allies, plant lovers and mystical creatures, I am writing this on this moon, because Scorpio Full Moon, in the solar month of May, in the sign of Taurus, is all about Death and Life. We celebrate Beltane and Mother’s Day, this Full Moon is referred to as the Flower Moon. We see the plants in bloom. And yet with all this life abounding, we are reminded of the Sacred Balance of Scorpio,...
4 months ago • 4 min read