FOLKLORE FROM THE WITCH'S GARDEN The green witch and herbal aficionado would agree: the cure to what ails you is often at hand’s reach, and the layman or unfamiliar garden-tender would do well to differentiate detrimental weeds from familiar and friendly faces. After all; as the land begins to stir following a period of frigid dormancy, so too does its inhabitants, eager to Spring back into action while simultaneously needing supplemental nutrients and support to do so. That’s where cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the land that nurtures us comes into play, and why we’d like to (re ..read more

This article was originally posted Dercember 24th 2023 as part of our Olfactory Allies and Fragrant Talismans newsletter series, which highlighted correlations between astrological transits and fragrant plant matter. View the full newsletter here. VETIVER · CYPRESS · PATCHOULI MYRRH · COSTUS ROOT The wheel of the year turns and turns. As the Sun bade farewell to the sky on December 21st, the night began its final procession as sovereign of the landscape before its celestial antipode reclaimed the right to the throne. The Sun’s progressive return to its northern apex is a languorous one ..read more

This article was originally posted December 8th 2023 as part of our Olfactory Allies and Fragrant Talismans newsletter series, which highlights correlations between astrological transits and fragrant plant matter. View the full newsletter here. Pine · Poplar Bud · Oakwood · Pink Pepper Poor Sagittarius—while the Sun moves through the domain of the celestial archer, the northern hemisphere wanes into darkness. Ever on a quest for expansion, fulfillment, and wonderment, cold and gray November’s transit into December can feel restrictive to Sagittarius, who lives by ..read more

This article was originally posted September 29th 2023 as part of our Olfactory Allies and Fragrant Talismans newsletter series, which highlights correlations between astrological transits and fragrant plant matter. View the full newsletter here. Tobacco · Chrysanthemum · Cannabis · Opoponax · Wormwood As the drama of autumn unravels and the curtain begins to slowly fall, mother nature lays down her coat of brilliant scarlet and gold. Her skirted blooms droop, her branches are stripped bare, and what fruit has been left behind returns to the soil, often with a sticky, wet pop. If L ..read more

This article was originally posted September 29th 2023 as part of our Olfactory Allies and Fragrant Talismans newsletter series, which highlights correlations between astrological transits and fragrant plant matter. View the full newsletter here. Rose · Apple Blossom · Myrtle  Yarrow · Damiana · Ylang Ylang Last month, Virgo urged us to rethink, rework, and redistribute how we organize our resources, but we may have found our desire for control thwarted as we navigated a series of disharmonious retrogrades. These periods, which oft require much unearthing a ..read more

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Mastic · Clary Sage · Narcissus · Valerian · Cèpes · Carrot Seed Welcome to September, sweet friends, and the final chapter of summertime. While moved to check in and ask; “how have you been?”, we suspect you may feel as though you’ve been white-knuckling it through the start of Virgo season, which debuted on August 23rd. A mutable, Mercury-ruled earth sign, mindful maiden Virgo demands that we make stock of the ways we’ve grown and the crops we’ve gathered throughout the first three quarters of the year before we move into the last. Mercury retrograde, too, began on August 23rd, joining ..read more

Cinnamon · St. John’s Wort · Agarwood · Saffron · Olibanum · Bay Laurel The Sun began its ingress into Leo on July 22nd, where it will languor until the 23rd of August. Adversely, Venus, ruler of the sensual world, began its retrograded course just moments before; a difficult transit that will have us grappling with the pleasure sectors in our lives into September. Venus calls us toward pleasure—as she recedes into the sign of the solar lion, she invites us to take a step back with her for a better picture of what makes our lives feel full, fecund, and lush, as well as the moving parts ..read more

A blessed, belated Summer Solstice! As we languor in the warmth of the sun’s rays and celebrated its life-giving light, we simultaneously welcomed its shift into Cancer, the celestial crab.\  On the cusp of the tangible, the astral, and the watery depths of emotion, lunarian Cancer tends to find themselves preoccupied with security and soft landings lest they retreat back into their hardened shells to protect their tender inner-world. Nurturing, sensitive, and protective, Cancerians are connected to the world through an acute awareness of and tether to its beating heart. This heightened s ..read more

  With feet I stayed, and with mine eyes I passed Beyond the rivulet, to look upon The great variety of the fresh May. Canto XXVIII, Purgatorio   With this message we celebrate the notes of Jasminus grandiflorium & sambac, also known as Common Jasmine or the Poet's Jasmine. Aptly, we choose to revere these notes during the estimated month of birth of Dante Alighieri, writer of the Divine Comedy, and whose Canto XXVIII, marked by the appearance of the Proserpine-like character of Matelda in Purgatory, is a lush display of the blooms of May an ..read more