Cran Bethadh - The Tree of Life. Lauren Kelly

✨Yesterday, I shared about 'Beauty in Bloom' from the karminativekollective. Here are some of the featured DIYs. And just look at that gorgeous list of plant allies!

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🌕🍓Full Strawberry Moon in Gemini ♊️

Goodness, I feel like everything is just happening at once at the moment!

✨Now we have entered Sagittarius season, things are feeling a lot more positive after lots of heavy Scorpio energy. Things are starting to move and I am trying to harness this energy to cut through long-term procrastination and get things done. To make changes and put in place habits I have been wanting to implement for a long time.

✨It also feels like the perfect time to really look at things you are holding onto that you no longer need to carry and let it go!! ❄️

*Sadly not my picture, the moon is not visible at the moment! Image credit: Onkamon Buasorn/Getty Images

Just the beginning! Planted echinacea, lemongrass, bergamot and calendula to join chamomile, spearmint, lemon balm, nettles (rescued from the weeding pile! 😆), chives, parsley and dill. Still working on my big herb garden area, so in pots for now. There is still quite the list of things I plan to add! What would you include? 🪴

Today’s veggie box - lettuce, spinach, kale, cabbage, asparagus! ☺️

Miss 11 and I will be at the Deniliquin Farmer’s Market tomorrow morning!

💎 Earrings!
🥦 Vegetables!
🌱 Seedlings!
💧 Essential oils, including custom rollers!

We would love to see you there! 😊

Super Full Blue Moon in Pisces. ♓️ 🌕The most super super moon for the year - with the moon at its closest point to the earth, so she is enormously beautiful. 🔵And a blue moon - the second full moon in one calendar month - to boot. Could it be any more amazing?! 💫So much energy swirling with this one. 💥Things coming to the surface that have been held onto for too long - harness the energy, get clear in what you no longer need to carry and release it. It is also a good time to look at things in your life that no longer serve you. Are there things you are doing only out of habit, taking valuable time away from other, more aligned activities that could bring more joy? ✨Take the time to journal, meditate or just sit quietly and reflect - does your life look just how you want it? Are there things you can let go of to make space for a new path or small tweaks to bring your life more in line with your vision. 🌝Leverage the huge energy to get clarity and release anything that is holding you back. ☺️

Homegrown deliciousness ready for the oven!

Garden abundance for today!

Loving my garden at the moment - it’s a great chance to reset, even if only for a few minutes.

I am harnessing the energy of the new moon 🌚 to finally get going with my extended herb garden 🌿.

Watch this space! ☺️

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🌸Super Full ‘Blossom’ Moon in Aquarius ♒️

The second super moon for this year, she is beautiful! Although I really think I need tutoring on how to get a decent picture of the moon. 🌝

This year, the full moon coincides with the fire festival of Imbolc 🔥 and the themes are quite aligned. I will do another post with my reflections! 😊

And this one!

Focus on the right emotion!

Love this slant on not pouring from an empty cup!

Really true!

🌕Full 'Citrus' Moon in Sagittarius.♐️

🍊This month's moon is feeling much calmer than last month! I can't quite believe it is June already. Our moon names seem to be a bit out of whack this year, with really no frosts since our 'frost moon' in May and our oranges are not yet ready to harvest on this citrus moon.

🍓Strangely, this moon is known as the Strawberry Moon in the northern hemisphere and we are having a big flush of autumn strawberries, so things are a little topsy-turvy!

🌝This full moon, I feel it is a good time to reflect on the year so far and everything that has been accomplished. It is often surprising how much we have done when we actually stop to reflect. There are grounding energies to encourage us to slow down and take time to be quiet as we head towards the winter solstice. But Sagittarius, a fire sign, encourages exploration and looking outwards, so we have a balance this full moon of reflection/introspection AND being open to new opportunities and experiences that will be coming up. Embrace it and enjoy some quiet time with exciting plans to come! 😀

🌝 Full 'Frost' Moon in Scorpio - partial eclipse peaking at 3:30am Saturday. 🌬 ♏️

Well it has been a minute! So much going on in life and sadly this page has fallen by the wayside - no Full Moon post since February! 😢

🌝 I have REALLY been feeling huge energies the past week and fell into a bit of a hole. Full moon, eclipse and scorpio energies have combined to bring up a lot of fear and limiting beliefs that I have needed to sit with and process. Tonight I took some time to write them all out and release them - look at that burn! I have also laid out my entire crystal collection for charging.

🔥After sitting for a minute and watching the flames, I pulled a card from my Green Witch Deck. Take what you will from it!

✨I hope you have all managed to navigate the super-charged energies this week with grace and flow and have emerged positively transformed and energised. I am hopeful to be back to posting more often very soon!

😴Some further musings on balance and the part rest plays!

✨I spoke a bit yesterday about my tendency to get caught up in 'doing' - if things are working well and I feel like I'm getting things done, I tend to keep pushing with that energy and do more and more while the going is good. This tends to be at the expense of REST. In my head, I'm very on board with rest being essential and not needing to be earned. But when things are rolling, I always think - just this next thing, tick things off the list whilst you have the time/energy. You can rest when everything is ticked off the list - spoiler, the list is never completed!!

✨It tends to be a false efficiency, because I just keep on doing all the things until it is 'too late'. All my energy is gone and I am wiped out. Whereas if I consciously added in routine periods of rest - without having to 'earn' it and without guilt! - I would probably actually get more done over time, with a more steady rate of work. Balance!! It seems to come into everything at the moment.

🍂Today, I am bleeding for the first time in 9 months (peri-menopause shenanigans 🙄) and it is wearing. I actually wonder if it is the universe's way of forcing me to take it easy - as I said, the first few months of the year are hectic. My impulse now I don't have so many 'time-sensitive' jobs was to rush around getting all the other stuff done - tidying and all the things on the 'when I have time' list. But really, rest is what my body needed - so it all but forced it on me!

🍂To me, rest doesn't have to be lying down or sleeping. Today, I have just been 'pottering' - no hustle or having to get 'xyz' done. Just going with the flow. I have a Mabon simmer pot on the stove and my house smells delightful!

🍂I hope you have found some time to rest today - even if only to read my post!

It's all about balance...⚖️

Balance is a word that has been on my mind a lot lately - mainly because I am struggling to find it at the moment!

🌓It is also a seasonal theme, with the Autumn Equinox/Mabon tonight and tomorrow being a time of equal light and dark. We have a time of beginnings, with a New Moon as well as the sun moving into Aries. As aries is the first sign of the zodiac, it is the start of the astrological year.♈️

🍂This really resonates with me, as I always find the start of the calendar year to be a little overwhelming and hectic. Coming out of the Christmas/New Year period, with Miss 7's birthday on Boxing Day to boot, we then have an annual week long camping trip, back to start a new school year then Miss 11 and Mr 14 have their birthdays within 5 days of each other, not to mention the local show at the same time plus this year we also had V heading off for his 8 day ride to raise funds for cancer research. I have been feeling like I am in 'survival mode' for the past little while!

🍂All in all, I am feeling the need to pause and reset before moving forward with the year again! I love the idea that tomorrow is 'another' new year and I can rest, re-evaluate and move on with a better balance.

🔥Aries is a fire sign and this energy is really something I have come to realise I need to be aware of and consciously balance. My own sign (Sagittarius) is a fire sign and I do tend to get swept up in this energy, pushing and busy 'doing'. Getting lots done, yes, but then crashing and burning if I am not careful to balance the 'doing' with just 'being'!

🤍Yesterday Miss 11 and I spent some time refreshing my altar and rearranging the area.
🌾A gourd, chestnut, cloves and mushrooms from our lawn, corn dolly and my lovely toadstool and crystal apple symbolise the beginning of harvest time of Mabon.
Black and white candles for the equinox and orange for autumn. Plus some pinecones and pine-needles from our neighbours. Miss 11 selected the crystals intuitively.
Malachite for overall well-being, also know as the 'stone of transformation.
Moonstone was chosen for the new moon, but it is also very relevant for this post, being linked to cyclical change, inner clarity, balance and embracing new beginnings!
Carnelian for courage, endurance, energy and motivation.

I hope you all have the opportunity to pause, rest and reset as we head into the darker part of the year. 😊

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I have lost both my pretty posts so far! But I really wanted to share about BOGO day 2 as we have 2 beautiful, grounding oils today!

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I recently 're-discovered' Cedarwood and am finding it amazing for a bedtime diffuser with lavender. So calming and relaxing.
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🍎I had some sad apples and peaches, so tried making some fruit leathers for the first time! I don't have a dehydrator, so just used my oven on the lowest setting. Couple of lessons learnt - spread the puree more thickly and they didn't need anywhere near as long as the recipe said!

They were a little thin and crispy, but the kids kept coming back for more, so I'll count that as a win! 🙃

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Love this post. Pretty sure the kids are going to turn out fine! 😊

Just me?! 🥴😆

When you have some early windfall apples and over-ripe plums, what do you do? Make jam of-course!

Let me know if you would like some - limited availability!

My lovely Wyandotte girls have started to lay! 🥚🥚

After observing closely for a while, I have realised that the girls always come out of the coop in the same order when I let them out in the morning - Poppy (back left), then Bronto (front right), then Cheep Cheep (front left) and Hetty the grumpy chook last - after I have walked away!

Wondering if this is something all chooks do? 🐔