New Moon in Scorpio
This Scorpio New Moon is a whole spiritual reconstruction zone, my loves. The Sun, Moon, and Mercury retrograde are all cozied up in a Kazimi, facing off with Uranus, and basically saying, “Hey sweetheart, no more surface-level anything.” This is breakthrough astrology — passionate, disruptive, and relentlessly honest. Something in you is rising from the deep, a truth you’ve tried to outpace or outsmart finally catching up in the best possible way. Don’t rush to manifest or fix or polish. Sit with the thing behind the thing behind the thing. What’s awakening in you? What are you ready to stop pretending you can’t feel? This is where transformation begins. Listen on Soundcloud, or right here.
Full Moon in Taurus
She’s earthy, glowing, and not here for your hustle. This Taurus Full Moon (November 5, 2025 at 8:19 am ET) reminds us that healing doesn’t have to hurt to count. With Uranus shaking up our comfort zones and Mars freshly in Sagittarius, the energy is equal parts chaos and clarity — like cleaning out your emotional closet and finding a $20 bill and your old grief at the same time.
Slow down. Touch the ground. Let your body lead you home. Stability isn’t about control — it’s about trust.
This Full Moon in Taurus Tarot Layout and the journaling prompts are great ways to work with the energy personally. I do not go through them in the reading, but hope you can use them as part of your ritual and work for this Full Moon.
New Moon in Libra
Full Moon in Aries
Autumn Equinox/Mabon
Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo
Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
New Moon in Virgo
Journaling questions for the Virgo New Moon
Where in my daily life or routines do I feel called to refine, simplify, or reorganize?
What habits, structures, or mindsets once served me but no longer do? Am I willing to release them?
If I could begin again today with a clean slate, what would I prioritize?
Where does perfectionism keep me from starting? How can I practice devotion instead of “getting it right”?
What would I create or call in if I truly believed I was already worthy?
How can I prepare for change while staying open to surprises and Uranus-style plot twists?
What is one small, consistent action I can take daily to tend the garden of my intentions?
Intention practice:
Write down one clear, specific intention you want to plant under this New Moon—something both inspiring and doable. Then write the first tiny step you can take this week to begin nurturing it. Place it somewhere you’ll see every day, like a reminder that devotion, not perfection, is the key.
Virgo New Moon Affirmations
“I plant these seeds with devotion, not perfection, and trust the universe to help them grow.”
“I release the old story and write a new one, rooted in worthiness and steady care.”
“I honor small, imperfect steps as sacred acts of transformation.”
“I am open to the unexpected, knowing it carries wisdom for my path.”
“With Virgo’s devotion and Uranus’s spark, I begin again—ready for the garden of my becoming.”
^ Layout for the group reading
^ Personal Tarot Layout for this New Moon
Earth Medicine for August
Slay, Queen. So, we are dealing with the Solar Queen Mountain Lion, and her fierceness, but really her ability to keep exquisite boundaries and use pride, not in the shadow aspect of that word, but in the ability to acknowledge what we are exceedingly good at and what we excel at.
Mountain Lion has gone by many names—cougar, puma, mountain lion, panther, and so many more names. Cougar is the South American name, while Puma is Quechuan (spoken by the Incans, means Powerful). Early colonists in the Americas mistook the Cougar for a female lion. When they asked the Natives why they only brought the skin of the female lion, they relished the ignorance and told the white traders that the males lived in the distant mountains and were so fierce that no one would dare hunt them—hence the name Mountain Lion for the North American cougar. Cougar are one of the largest wild cats and likes to hunt in twilight, when it can stalk and ambush its prey unseen. This ghost-like quality led some tribes to believe the scream of the Cougar was an omen of witchcraft. The Seminole and Shawnees revered Cougar for its hunting skills. Often Cougar fetishes were carried for courage and to invoke power for themselves. The Pueblo used Cougar as its guardian of the North. In South American, Cougar is used as a bringer of abundance and wealth. Cusco Peru is designed in the shape of a cougar and is associated with the Incan Sky and Thunder God. Traditional Aztec shaman understood that Cougar possessed healing power and would use a sharpened Cougar bone to ward off death, or they would hang Cougar body parts over their patients.
Cougar teaches us about power—how to step into our own power, how to handle power struggles from other people. Because Cougar is a solitary hunter, cougar teaches us to walk alone in our power and about our own strength—both when to display it and when to hold back. It stalks for a long time before it kills. It keeps watch. She is the boundaries keepers, as my teacher Pixie Lighthorse uses Mountain Lion, teaching us about honoring our boundaries and protecting ourselves. Cougar is territorial and carefully marks the area she patrols. By marking its boundaries, she walks confidently in the world. Cougar can act as a sentinel and you can call her in to stalk your own perimeter against attack. She also is lovely at protecting what needs to stay inside—reminding you when you are misplacing anger, rage, disappointment, vulnerability and fears onto other people. Cougar invites you to start being an expert of you, stalking your intentions, watching for who is overstepping your boundaries, asking how and if your needs are getting met, or are you compromising them to play nice? Hint: cougars don’t play nice. Cougar can help us look at who we are giving our power to. Blaming others is an obstacle to your own authenticity. Feeling guilty or ashamed will also trip up the path.
Young cougars learn how to use their power through trial and error, which helps strengthen them and hone their skills. So, when working with Cougar, expect to think about the ways in which your boundaries and power has been violated as a means of learning. Cougar shows up when you are ready to assert your power and you have worked through that process.
Cougar doesn’t often come when your boundaries are small or simply about saying no. Cougar comes as an ally to asserting yourself. Many times when we start setting boundaries, the people around us who violated those boundaries feel uncomfortable and resistant to us. Cougar can help us continually stay in our power, even when we are being bullied to acquiesce to the status quo. Since not many like it when we change the rules to the game they are winning, use Cougar as an ally to help rewrite the rules. Cougar is unequivocally a leader, but because they are solitary, the “leadership” is not out there, but in the soul. Cougar asks you to decide who is in charge of you—your soul or your ego, humility or competition? Are you recognizing your own strength and determination. Are you determining your own fate?
Cougar is fast and powerful and ask you to save and protect your energy and take action only when the time is right. But when cougar attacks, she is decisive and goes for the kill. The Mountain Lion is sometimes called the Solar Queen because she activates the Solar plexus. So, we will strengthen and work with Solar Plexus energy and working in the gut for intuitive guidance. I also like to use Cougar as a guardian and guide to the Lower World.
Our other medicine this month is Peridot and Sunflower. Let’s start with Sunflower, which are blooming all over the dang place.
Sunflowers are a gift from this land—North American born, sun-kissed and soul-deep. Long before they became backyard staples or Instagram darlings, sunflowers were a staple of life for Indigenous peoples across what is now the Southwest. In places like Arizona and New Mexico, they were cultivated over 3,000 years ago not just for beauty, but for sustenance and healing. The seeds were ground into flour, mixed into grain blends, or eaten by the handful. Their oil—rich with skin-loving vitamin E—was used for cooking, skin, and hair care. Even the stalks were repurposed for building materials. Nothing wasted. Everything honored.
And that spirit of reciprocity? It still pulses through every golden spiral.
Physically, sunflower remains a generous ally. Its seeds are packed with calcium, magnesium, and vitamin E—a simple, joyful nourishment that feeds both body and nervous system. Its oil softens skin, soothes inflammation, and brings a little sun into every cell. Emotionally, sunflowers lift us. Literally. Studies—and everyday human experience—suggest that keeping sunflowers in the home can reduce anxiety, uplift mood, and ease feelings of depression. They turn their faces to the light. And when the light is hidden, they turn to each other. Isn’t that just the most tender thing?
Spiritually, the sunflower is a radiant teacher. Like little heliotropic saints, young sunflowers follow the sun across the sky each day. But beyond that celestial choreography is a deeper magic. The spiral of their seeds follows the Fibonacci sequence—nature’s sacred geometry—reminding us of infinite potential and perfect imperfection. We, too, are part of that same divine math.
In ritual, sunflower is potent solar magic. It carries the bold, bright energy of the Sun—life-giving, clarifying, unwavering. Place sunflowers on your altar to call in abundance, success, or simply the courage to shine. Use sunflower oil to anoint candles in prosperity spells, or blend it into bath rituals for confidence and joy. Dried petals tucked into a pouch can enhance intuition, bring psychic clarity, and help you reconnect to your inner light when things feel dim.
They also protect. Yes, these cheerful giants carry a quiet, ancient power. Hanging dried sunflowers above doorways can ward off negativity and invite in only what serves your growth. Their seeds, tucked into a charm bag, can anchor you in positivity and shield your spirit from the weight of others’ projections.
And emotionally? They are medicine for the heart. Gaze at a sunflower when you need to remember who you are. When you’re tired of hiding. When you’re unsure whether your joy matters. (It does.) Sunflower reminds us that blooming is not selfish—it’s sacred. The world needs your radiance.
In magical practice, sunflower helps with:
Manifestation – visualizing goals and holding them up to the light
Joy & positivity – especially when the weight of the world is too much
Divination – boosting intuition when used with tarot or dreamwork
Self-love & confidence – particularly in solar plexus energy healing
Protection & clarity – holding strong boundaries with warmth
And don’t forget: in the darkest of days, when the sun is nowhere to be found, sunflowers turn to each other. That, to me, is the real heart of this flower: community, resilience, and the quiet miracle of facing the light together.
You can work with sunflower in some practical, soulful ways in your spiritual, healing, and everyday life:
🌻 Practical & Magical Uses for Sunflower
1. Sunflower Tea (Petals or Leaves)
A gentle, uplifting herbal tea made from dried petals or young leaves.
✨ Use for:
Brightening low moods
Calming anxiety
Opening the heart and solar plexus chakras
🌞 Add a bit of lemon or honey for extra solar magic.
2. Sunflower Oil (Infused or Cold-Pressed)
Use high-quality sunflower oil as a base for ritual blends or body care.
✨ Use for:
Anointing candles in abundance and confidence rituals
Moisturizing the skin with solar energy
Massage oil for self-love, especially around the belly and chest
🌞 Infuse with calendula, orange peel, or cinnamon for a sun-charged boost.
3. Dried Petal Charm Bags or Spell Jars
Tuck dried sunflower petals into a small charm bag with a few sunflower seeds.
✨ Use for:
Joy, courage, and attracting good luck
Carrying in your bag for a little portable sunlight
Amplifying psychic clarity during tarot readings
🌞 Add citrine, bay leaf, or a written affirmation for extra power.
4. Sunflower Seeds on Your Altar
Place a small bowl of seeds on your altar as an offering or intention-holder.
✨ Use for:
Manifestation spells (each seed holds potential)
Representing abundance and new beginnings
Feeding birds and squirrels as a devotional act of kindness
🌞 Speak your wishes into the seeds before offering them.
5. Sunflower Petal Bath Soak
Add dried sunflower petals to a warm bath with Epsom salt and a few drops of sunflower oil.
✨ Use for:
Clearing energetic heaviness
Recharging your light when you feel dimmed
Ritual bathing on a Sunday or during a Leo moon
🌞 Bring a yellow candle into the bathroom to call in solar guidance.
6. Sunflower Crown or Flower Offering
Weave a sunflower into a crown or place a fresh bloom on your ancestor altar.
✨ Use for:
Ceremonies of joy, transformation, or creative birth
Honoring solar deities or spirit guides
Reclaiming your radiance and celebrating your unique magic
🌞 Especially powerful for summer solstice, Lammas, or Leo season.
7. Hanging Sunflowers for Protection
Hang a dried sunflower head near your front door or above a window.
✨ Use for:
Warding off negative energy or envy
Protecting your home with cheerful boundaries
Inviting warmth, peace, and light into your space
🌞 Wrap with yellow ribbon or herbs like rosemary for added strength.
8. Spiral Meditation with Sunflower Seeds
Follow the spiral of a sunflower’s seed pattern during meditation.
✨ Use for:
Connecting to the cycles of life, death, and rebirth
Grounding in nature’s design and your place within it
Accessing deeper inner wisdom and trusting your path
🌞 Journal afterward to record any insights or guidance.
Now, Let’s talk about Peridot—an often forgotten ally in crystal healing. Peridot is used for clearing emotional heaviness and reconnecting to your true heart
Peridot is the gem-quality form of olivine, a mineral forged deep within the Earth’s mantle—way below where most crystals are born. It’s one of the only gemstones that forms not in the crust, but in the fire of the Earth’s belly, then gets pushed to the surface through volcanic activity. Literal lava child.
Even cooler? Peridot is one of only two gems that’s also found in meteorites—which means some of the peridot we’ve discovered on Earth didn’t come from Earth at all. Cosmic adoption.
Its signature chartreuse glow—somewhere between olive green and golden lime—comes from iron content. The higher the iron, the deeper the green. And unlike most crystals, peridot isn’t pleochroic. That means it doesn’t change color depending on the angle or light. It stays true. Just like its medicine.
🌿 Healing Work with Peridot
Peridot is a stone of the heart and the solar plexus, which is a rare combo. Most stones pick one chakra and stick with it. But peridot? She bridges power and softness. She’s for people learning to lead with love while still holding boundaries. For people reclaiming their voice without shutting down their heart.
Some emotional + energetic medicine of peridot:
Releases old emotional baggage – especially guilt, shame, and resentment. Think of it like spiritual composting.
Clears the heart – helps with jealousy, bitterness, or grief that’s hardened into armor.
Empowers the solar plexus – helping you stand in your truth, in your enoughness, without needing approval.
Invites growth and renewal – especially after long, dark seasons. Peridot says: You can rise again, and this time, softer.
Working with peridot in healing sessions or ritual can be especially potent when you're…
Calling your energy back from past relationships
Healing the inner child around receiving love
Breaking ancestral cycles of emotional suppression or martyrdom
Rebuilding self-trust after burnout or betrayal
Tending the nervous system after a period of chronic hypervigilance
You can lay it over the heart or solar plexus in energy work, wear it over your chest, or just hold it during journaling or prayer. It also works beautifully with breathwork or toning (especially low hums that vibrate in the belly).
🔮 Peridot in Spiritual & Magical Work
Spiritually, peridot is a cleanser and light-bringer. It’s associated with:
The Sun – bringing life force, joy, and clarity
The element of Fire and Earth – grounding transformation
The planet Mercury – communication and thought (it’s also August’s birthstone!)
The sign of Leo – courage, radiance, and openhearted presence
In magical and intuitive work, peridot can be used to:
Protect the aura from emotional vampires and energy leaks
Enhance clairvoyance and psychic boundaries—it helps you see clearly without absorbing others’ stuff
Open the path to abundance—especially when your blocks are emotional or karmic
Align with solar deities or cosmic consciousness—great for channeling or solar plexus invocations
Because of its cosmic connections (hello, meteorites!), peridot also links us to star energy, making it a bridge for working with starseeds, galactic healing guides, or cosmic ancestry.
It’s also excellent for empaths who want to stay open and protected—not armored, but sovereign.
🌞 Final Notes for the Heart
Peridot is like a personal solar flare for the soul. Not in an overwhelming way, but in a gentle reawakening kind of way. Like sunlight on closed eyes. Like coming home to a version of yourself you’d forgotten existed.
She says:
You don’t have to earn your radiance.
You don’t have to hide your fire.
You don’t have to carry what’s not yours.
Just exhale. Let it go.
Let your heart glow green-gold.
Full Moon in Aquarius
New Moon in Leo
Full Moon in Capricorn
New Moon in Cancer
This is the Collective Layout that I use in our recording.
This is a personal tarot layout that taps into the energy of this specific New Moon in Cancer.
Full Moon in Sagittarius
New Moon in Gemini
This layout is for your personal work with this specific New Moon.
Earth Medicine for May
Our medicine of the month is about Drinking up life and we go on that journey with Hummingbird. Beltane’s journey on May 1st was led with three separate pollinators, and I think the message carries all month that we take in joy, nourishment, kindness, love, when we find it, and by doing that, seeking each moment of joy, we spread light, and remember when we spread light to one person, it pollinates them, and they can bloom. But it starts with us nourishing ourselves. As I said in the membership group, do no harm, but take no shit…this is the work on now. Hold boundaries but still be sweet.
HUMMINGBIRD
Let’s talk about hummingbird medicine. There are over 300 species of Hummingbird, and they are only found in the Americas.
Though she be tiny, the Hummingbird has much medicine to share with us. Hummingbird has an incredible memory, remembering every flower she visits and the intricate routes to return to them. She also knows just how long to wait for a flower to generate more nectar, so it can return to feed. Hummingbirds also recognize humans and knows who refills bird feeders and who doesn’t.
This is essential for their survival, as their constantly humming wings never stop, making their wisdom one of constant motion and quickness. Because they never stop flapping their wings, they need to eat every ten minutes, with a fast metabolism. Hummingbird brings a joyous energy to their environment, bearing light in their iridescent wings and energy.
Hummingbird travels more than 2000 miles in a single migration, beating its wings up to 5400 times per minutes so travel at speeds of 33 mph. But they don’t fly only in one direction. Hummingbird are extremely adaptable because they can hover, fly up, down, backwards and forwards…making them a beautiful ally of those who tap into the multidimensional universe. Hummingbird is seen as the medicine of the present, of joy, of playfulness, of happiness, of action, and of endurance. They are the bringers of light and the sacred.
Because Hummingbird is native to the Americas, but most specifically to South America, you find many legends of Hummingbird through the Aztec, Maya, and Inca. Mayan legends explain that the reason Hummingbird is so tiny is because it was created out of the scraps of feathers left over when other flying creatures were made. In both Mayan and Incan traditions, Hummingbird is the representative of the North and the ability to guide us to our ancestors. Hummingbird is known to accompany shamans to the Three Worlds, Upper, Middle and Lower, during the journeying process and also regarded as a psychopomp, or one who guides souls to the afterlife. Hummingbird is also a retriever of lost souls because it can fly quickly into small spaces and bring back the soul undetected. In many traditions, Hummingbird carried the prayers to the Gods, whispering on the wind the requests and gratitude of the shaman, and teaching the people to “drink deeply from the nectar of life”.
In some Peruvian shamanic traditions, the Royal Hummingbird is known as Siwar Q’enti in the Quechua language, the language of the Incan Empire. Hummingbird is one of the most important archetypal creatures, known for its ability to fly in many directions: up, down, backward, forward, and also to stay hovering in place. Maybe for that reason, Siwar Q’enti is also invoked during the calling in of the North direction during some shamanic opening ceremonies, “whispering to us in the winds” and “teaching us to drink deeply from the nectar of life.”
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada says “Hummingbird medicine takes our nectar and cross pollinates us with the universe so that we are always connected to the great web of life. When we call forth the energies of Royal Hummingbird, we open to a profound relationship that gives us the ability to weave the beauty, peace and lightness of the heavenly realm into our everyday for a greater sense of love, gentleness and service in our lives.” This tiny iridescent bird packs a huge amount of energy, darting tirelessly from flower to flower in search of nectar. She is full of life, energy, and bravery. Hummingbirds can teach us how to use flowers for healing and work with plant medicine. She also helps us relearn how to honor our body and reembody our body after trauma or illness. She is a symbol of healing and abundance.
Interested in working with hummingbird a little more intensely? Take this guided shamanic journey with hummingbird.
Calendula
Our plant ally this month is Calendula, a sunshiney bloom with ancient roots and modern magic. Officially known as Calendula officinalis, she’s not the same as the marigolds in your flower beds, even though folks often mix them up. Calendula is her own medicine—an herb of healing, protection, and joy. She’s been a companion in my practice for years, especially when my skin or spirit needs a little extra love.
Calendula is beloved in herbalism for a reason. She’s anti-inflammatory, soothing, and gently powerful—used traditionally to heal wounds, ease eczema, calm sunburn, and bring balance to irritated or inflamed skin. Even her slightly bitter taste carries that signature plant wisdom, that grounding earth medicine. And yes, she works just as beautifully in tea, oils, tinctures, and spiritual baths.
One of my favorite ways to work with her? A bano—a ritual bath. I boil water with intention, prayers, maybe a little song, and dissolve Dead Sea salt and Epsom salt into it. Then I turn off the heat and add calendula petals (and sometimes other herbs, depending on the moment). Let it steep like tea for the soul. Once it cools, I strain it through cheesecloth and pour it over my head in the shower—or soak in it if I don’t mind the cool water. That temperature drop shocks the aura just enough to shake off the dust of the day and realign your field. It’s like a reset button. Calendula is especially beautiful for this kind of energy work. She helps clear, soothe, and bless.
Beyond the body, Calendula is pure solar magic. She’s tied to the sun and the element of fire but holds a gentler flame—one that heals instead of scorches. In witchcraft and folk magic, she’s long been used to ward off negativity and invite in love, luck, and protection. Hanging dried calendula above your door is an old tradition for keeping unwanted energy out. Her petals can be scattered in ritual circles, tucked into dream pillows, or used in spellwork for justice, healing, and clarity.
Calendula has that kind of “speak truth with warmth” energy. She teaches us to rise up like the sun and still remain soft. She’s about abundance—not just in finances (though yes, she’s a great ally for money magic and job success), but in attitude. In beauty. In resilience. If she’s blooming in your life, there’s a message there: keep creating the environment where joy can grow.
And if you want to grow her? Calendula is easy. She thrives in compost-rich soil and full sun but doesn’t like intense heat. She reseeds herself if you let her, which is the most Calendula thing ever—always showing up again, ready to heal, ready to brighten. Just keep deadheading the spent flowers to prolong her bloom time. The sticky resin at the base of the flower heads is part of her medicine, so don’t be afraid to get your fingers a little tacky.
You can eat her too—those golden petals can be sprinkled in salads, stirred into eggs, frozen into herbal ice cubes, or steeped into teas and butters. I remember once, in the deep heart of winter, an herbalist friend brought me a quiche speckled with calendula petals. It felt like sunshine on a fork.
Calendula reminds us that beauty is medicine. That healing can be soft. That even in hard seasons, we can bloom.
Emerald
So, what’s the deal with Emeralds? I mean, aside from being absolutely gorgeous, they’re packed with history, healing, and symbolism. St. Hildegard of Bingen (a badass medieval mystic who loved her crystals) once said, “All the green of nature is concentrated within the Emerald.” And honestly? That’s exactly how it feels when you hold one.
Emerald is a variety of Beryl (yes, the same mineral family that gives us Aquamarine and Morganite), and it’s been adored for literally thousands of years—like, it was sold in Babylon as early as 4000 BCE. Cleopatra was obsessed with it. The Incas worshipped it. The name even comes from a Sanskrit word that basically means “the green of growing things.” How poetic is that?
Known as the “Stone of Successful Love,” Emerald is all about heart energy. It opens up the Heart Chakra, bringing in love, compassion, and a little bit of domestic bliss. Whether you’re looking to deepen your relationships, attract a soulmate, or just feel more connected, Emerald’s got you.
But it’s not just a love stone. It’s also incredible for intuition and insight—especially anything connected to vision, both literal and metaphorical. People have long believed Emerald could sharpen the mind, enhance psychic abilities, and even help you see the future. It’s associated with wisdom, clarity, memory, and discernment. Basically, it’s the go-to if you need your heart and your head working together.
On the physical side, Emerald’s thought to be a rejuvenator. It's said to help with everything from eyesight and sinuses to the heart, liver, and spine. Some traditions even say it can aid fertility and recovery from illness. It’s that whole green, life-giving vibe—it just wants everything to grow and heal.
In terms of emotions, Emerald is like a soft hug for your soul. It’s said to soothe heartbreak, lift heavy energy, and help clear away old wounds—especially those that left you feeling powerless. It encourages you to live from your heart with trust, hope, and compassion—not just for others, but for yourself, too.
Spiritually, it connects you to Divine Love and abundance—not just money (though, yes please), but a kind of holistic, soul-deep abundance. It reminds you that there is always enough, and that the universe wants to support your joy.
Whether you’re wearing it, meditating with it, or placing it on your altar, Emerald helps bring balance, beauty, and emotional harmony. And hey, if you’ve got something creative or visionary you’re working on, this stone will happily sit by your side, cheering you on with ancient wisdom and good vibes.
Full Moon in Scorpio
The tarot layout I use for the collective Full Moon reading
Personal Full Moon in Scorpio layout for you to play with - use oracle cards or tarot cards!
New Moon in Taurus
Blessed New Moon in Taurus, friends! This one gets deep, but you are ready for it, right?
Earth Medicine of April
April’s medicine is gentle, sweet, Spring medicine—Rabbit, a prey animal, sweet pea flower, and Emerald, also the affirmation is you got this, sweet pea. A bit of Mothering from Mother Rabbit. Let’s talk about Sweet Pea first.
SWEET PEA
The sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) is an annual climbing ornamental garden plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) that is native to Italy and the Aegean region. It is similar in appearance to its pea-like relatives, but it is toxic. Sweet peas and rosary peas aren’t that closely related to garden peas, or even sugar snap peas. Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are grown for their flowers and have toxic seeds. Rosary peas (Abrus precatorius), as their name implies, are grown for beads and are fatal if ingested — if it’s thoroughly chewed, a single rosary pea is enough to kill an adult human. Garden, snow, and sugar snap peas are different cultivars of Pisum sativum, and are grown for their edible shoots, pods, and seeds. L. odoratus, A. precatorius, and P. sativum are members of the family Fabaceae, but so are plants like lupine, Scotch broom, and logwood trees. For this reason, it’s important to draw a distinction between folklore and magical uses of edible peas, versus sweet pea or rosary pea. The sweet pea is best known for its fragrance and is ornamental.
The Sweet Pea in History and Folklore
The sweet pea was developed in England from seeds received from Italy by Henry Eckford specifically for the garden trade during the Victorian era.
In the language of flowers, the sweet pea means “farewell and thank you for a lovely time”.
Symbolism of Sweet Pea
Sweet Pea is often associated with delicate beauty and is admired for its vibrant, fragrant flowers. It symbolizes charm, grace, and pleasure.
Victorian Flower Language
In the Victorian era, Sweet Pea was used to convey messages and sentiments through the language of flowers. Different colors and varieties were assigned specific meanings, such as blissful pleasure, gratitude, or tender memory
Sweet Pea has a long history of symbolizing nurturing and affectionate love. It is often associated with maternal love, friendship, and gentle emotions. Sweet Pea’s appearance during the spring season is seen as a symbol of new beginnings, renewal, and the arrival of warmer weather.
Growing Sweet Peas
Sweet peas are easy to grow in a sunny spot provided they don’t get too hot. They like to climb and look nice dressing up a fence.
Don’t try to eat these like peas. They are not edible and are moderately toxic.
Magical Correspondences
The sweet pea isn’t a very ancient plant, so it doesn’t have a lot of magical history behind it. However, its fragrance and airy nature correspond to the air element and its fragrance is said to inspire loyalty and affection.
Sweet Pea is believed to possess magical properties related to love and friendship. It can be used in spells or rituals to attract or enhance love, foster strong friendships, or bring harmony to relationships.
The enchanting beauty of the Sweet Pea is associated with enhancing personal charm, grace, and attractiveness. It can be used in glamour spells or rituals to amplify one’s natural beauty and magnetism.
Sweet Pea is thought to bring joy, happiness, and positive energy. It can be used in spells or rituals to uplift the mood, promote optimism, and attract happiness into one’s life.
Sweet Pea is believed to stimulate creativity and inspire artistic endeavors. It can be used as a magical tool to unlock artistic potential, overcome creative blocks, or enhance imaginative abilities.
Some practitioners associate Sweet Pea with protective energies and healing properties. It can be used in rituals or charms to provide spiritual protection, promote emotional well-being, or aid in healing processes.
Herkimer Quartz “Diamonds”
Herkimer Quartz “Diamonds” are the high energy seekers of the crystal world. Unusually transparent with a brilliant sparkle, they manifest pure, solid Light and are powerful amplifiers of spiritual energy. As perfect conduits of the universal Life Force, they are exceptional healing crystals used in meditations, dream and vision work, and advanced spiritualization applications.
Herkimer Diamonds are the most powerful of all Quartz crystals. Being doubly terminated, they have the ability to not only transmit their energies but to receive spiritual energy and amplify and focus it intently. Â They are reportedly harder than all other Quartz, giving them the strength and durability to handle difficult challenges beyond the scope of other Quartz crystals. What they lack in physical size, they more than makeup for in spirit energy.
This mineral owes its name to Herkimer County, New York, USA, the principal place where it is found. The small, double-terminated crystals are short and stubby, formed in a hard rock matrix, giving them strength. They may be exceptionally clear and colorless or contain rainbow inclusions, air bubbles, or black carbon deposits. A small percentage of these crystals contain enhydro inclusions of water. Some are smoky rather than clear, and similar-looking crystals have been found at other sites but generally do not have the same hardness or high gloss of genuine Herkimer Diamonds.
Herkimer Diamond is a great ally for dreams, visioning, purification, and spiritualizing a physical life. Herkimers help bridge to the transpersonal chakras, stimulating the third eye and crown and then bridging to those upper chakras in meditation. They are healers of the auric field and are particularly useful for clearing blockages and energy fogginess. dreams, visioning, purification, and spiritualization of a physical life. It helps bridge to the transpersonal chakras, stimulating the third eye and crown and then bridging to those upper chakras in meditation. They are healers of the auric field and are particularly useful for clearing blockages and energy fogginess.
Herkimer Diamond is an “attunement stone,” useful for attuning to another person, group, or environment. It is particularly beneficial to use before the “laying-on-of-stones” or other healing situations when the practitioner and subject are not well acquainted. It is an exceptional crystal for linking people who have to be apart. For attunement, the Herkimers should be held simultaneously as one at first, then upon parting, each person should retain one of the stones; or, a cluster may remain at one location while an individual carries a portion of that cluster on his person to connect with the energy of a group or environment.
Herkimer crystal is also valuable in its ability to receive and magnify the influence of other stones. It expands a small or soft energy stone, giving it the strength and effects of a much larger stone. Herkimer Diamonds have a crystal memory, accepting and retaining information that can be retrieved later. They may also be programmed with love, well-being, or healing thoughts for others to draw on.
The Herkimer Diamond is extremely useful in healing environments where its clarity, brilliance, and high frequency facilitate the removal of energy blocks or debris and stimulate healing by increasing the amount of Light energy the body can utilize. It is an exceptionally strong crystal for clearing electromagnetic pollution, radioactivity, and geopathic stress and makes an excellent environmental spray or gem elixir. Larger Herkimer, even cloudy, included ones, may be used to grid a home, healing space, or bed.
Herkimer is a good crystal for spirituality and alternative therapies teachers. As a power stone in the workplace, it brings positive attention and prosperity through high achievement, assists with research and study as it stores knowledge, and stabilizes company finances.
Rabbit Medicine
Courageous, Innocent Rabbit existing in the wild is a lesson on resilience, intuition, magick, creativity and fertility. Rabbit symbolism is also evident in various spiritual and religious practices. In Christianity, rabbits represent rebirth and resurrection, particularly during Easter celebrations. The rabbit's ability to reproduce quickly also signifies fertility and new life. In Buddhism, rabbits symbolize humility, kindness, and compassion. The story of the selfless rabbit who offered his body as food to a hungry traveler is a popular Buddhist tale highlighting the virtues of generosity and selflessness.
In Earth-based spirituality, rabbits are associated with the moon and are believed to possess magical powers. The rabbit's ability to burrow into the earth symbolizes its connection to the spiritual world. In Shamanism, rabbits represent intuition, fertility, and transformation. The rabbit's ability to navigate the underground tunnels signifies the journey into the unknown and discovering hidden truths.
East Asian and indigenous American folklore, based on pareidolic interpretations that identify the dark markings on the near side of the Moon as a rabbit or hare. Legends of Moon rabbits also exist among some indigenous cultures of North and Central America.
The Maya moon goddess frequently is depicted holding a rabbit In Mayan art, glyphs, hieroglyphics, and inscriptions, a rabbit frequently is shown with the Moon Goddess and another deity related to the Moon.
According to an Aztec legend, the god Quetzalcoatl, then living on Earth as a human, started on a journey and, after walking for a long time, became hungry and tired. With no food or water around, he thought he would die. Then a rabbit grazing nearby offered herself as food to save his life. Quetzalcoatl, moved by the rabbit's noble offering, elevated her to the Moon, then lowered her back to Earth and told her, "You may be just a rabbit, but everyone will remember you; there is your image in light, for all people and for all times."
In Canada and the United States, a Cree cultural legend tells a different story, about a young rabbit who wished to ride the Moon. Only the crane was willing to take him there. The trip stretched the crane's legs as the heavy rabbit held them tightly, leaving them elongated as the legs of all cranes are now. When they reached the Moon, the rabbit touched the crane's head with a bleeding paw, leaving the red mark cranes wear to this day. According to the legend, on clear nights, Rabbit still may be seen riding the Moon.
With my teacher Pixie Lighthorse, I was taught to work with Rabbit for creativity, art and vulnerability. Working with Sister Rabbit means setting ourselves up for creation, prolifically discovering our whys. What are our guiding lights? What values and motivations underlie our process—creative or joy-seeking.
Rabbit is a prey animal, but do not underestimate the power of wild Rabbit. Though she is a vegetarian and a prey animal, she is not to be undervalued. She is often the totem of children, for she reminds them of themselves. She is soft, vulnerable, and can be tamed as a pet in some cases. But she is to be respected as a feral creature: protective of her young and her warren, an excellent provider, and instinctual Mother.
One of the gifts of rabbit is her hypervigilance and she can be a true guide for those of us with trauma, childhood wounds and healing the inner child, because she is always hyperalert, aware, anxious. So, she is also a great ally for those of us who deal with nervousness. Rabbit is known for speed, and her alertness is paramount to her survival. She relies on her senses of smell and eyesight to keep she and her “kittens” safe. She knows where safety is, and always has a plan to get back to it if she has found herself too vulnerable. The beauty of Rabbit is that she never stays in her hidey-hole longer than needed. As soon as real threat has passed, she's back out in the open again. She does not isolate out of fear, but maintains calm awareness at all times. Her survival is not linked to her ability to get underground fast, but to her willingness to continue showing up vulnerable in the open grassy meadows where the sweetest nourishment awaits.
A Rabbit doe creates up to eight litters a year, along with the support of her buck, suggesting that she paces herself for creation in a way that we can heed. In order for her to do her job with efficiency, she must accept that she is as fertile as she chooses to be. For us humans, we're able to learn from Rabbit by pacing ourselves for the good work we do. For some of us that looks like a daily practice, or showing up in public spaces a few times per year. We get to choose! And once we do, we can make a deep commitment to ourselves and our craft.
Rabbit inspires a fire in the belly for creation, and quite literally, in the sacral chakra, which governs the reproductive organs and systems, and vibrates to the color orange when in active health.
Creativity lifts us out of stale routines, breathes new life into old life stories, and teaches us how to catch flame from our dormant state of being. It is required for all of life to exist, and places us squarely in the position of START again and again.