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And thank you back for keeping the spark lit; it is the true gift passed on throughout the ages.
Vibrant and rugged it is! Mars sure is an amazing ally when navigated properly. Anger was a fuel in my teenage until mid-20’s as well and if not the spark lit, surely kept the drive up and running amidst the challenges of life until I was ready for the great surrender.
This is helping me put into perspective what I have often considered a difficulty in the past. One accepted a long time ago, but placing it in a context of it being in service to love instead of seeing it as a spanner thrown in the works is where the real shift is for me. It is not so much about making a strength out of a weakness, but rather showing the Source behind a challenging aspect that is only waiting to be sublimed through acceptance and humility. While it is ultimately all Love, we still have to choose and embrace it consciously. Until then… it is a lot more patient than we can be as humans and tends to come and knock at the door every now and again to remind us of its presence, in hopes we give in one day or another.
Happy fruition! These ones tend to be well deserved and long lasting as a reward. 🙏
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Australia is so vast it’s a bit of a double-edged sword: there’s a variety of plants that can grow across the country but they may come from super far depending on where you live. I would thus encourage you to find your local herbalists/herb shops/growers/health shops to work with, so you get acquainted with what’s happening in your area, make contact and engage with the local herbal community.
When I was in the Brisbane area I did try the Happy Herb Co. as well, they had a bunch of dried herbs (as Georgia said they only offer quite small quantities) and some tinctures too. That’s where and when my herbal journey started so I couldn’t tell you about the quality of their products as I was super new to it all; however the “spagyric tincture” I got from them felt nowhere near as qualitative as Natura Sophia Spagyrics. You can still get regular tinctures and herbs from them and hopefully get good results with that. I also worked for an organic shop company in the area that had a decent selection of dried herbs in bulk, which was quite handy at the time. Surely Tassie would have a whole bunch of different herbs to offer! May not be local though, but if you’re after specific plants it may be a good area to look into.
And then there’s the bush and all you can harvest respectfully there… which would provide you with some fresh material at least.
Natura Sophia does ship to OZ far as I know but it wouldn’t be a sustainable choice, nor a cheap one. Great if it’s just for yourself to try different plants and be sure of the quality, otherwise I would keep it as local as possible 🙂
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Yes, Source is behind it all and yes, it can be difficult at times to recognize. The way I have become accustomed to see it is that every challenge comes to us to make us accept those parts of us we haven’t accepted yet. If it happens once, it is a warning (or a ‘debt paid’, in the principle of karma); twice means repetition, meaning there is something to resolve that requires conscious engagement. Thrice and more – the message is not getting across and as a result, the events designed to make us ‘get it’ will be more difficult and obvious at each occurrence. It’s a fantastic design.
It doesn’t matter which way the challenge comes to us. It may be a person, a situation… the world around us reflects who we are and so we attract what we need to resolve. It is all a big game at the end of the day, in which we learn to know and be who we are through the lens of the world/the Universe mirroring us to ourselves. It is much harder to see clear enough and not get entangled in that web without stepping back and observing. I believe that is what we learn here at EH – recognizing the patterns behind relationships, rather than focusing on the events themselves.
I do enjoy your engagements Marilyn, behind occasional far-out structures (in my eyes) the point always comes around and hits a sweet, unexpected spot. Love is in the air although the smell may not please everyone. 😆
Please share your charts if brave enough, that’s the goal! I might create a new discussion for that purpose.
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I thought that would come on the table sooner or later! And what best way would there be to open up to the community. Here’s my blueprint – would love to hear insights from people here 😄
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Thank you for reading and sharing Melanie. My intention was to hear from others as I don’t have much experience with Spagyrics so I’m glad interest is sparked!
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@ianki There are indeed quite a few planets either at home or exalted in my chart with none of them in their detriment or fall, on top of house rulers mostly corresponding to the houses as Aries was rising. It is however rather a night chart, with all Mars, Venus, Mercury, Sun, Jupiter and Moon below the horizon; only Saturn and the outer planets are above. I could say that these benevolent placements are balanced with a bunch of squares and oppositions though 😅
What’s more, Saturn (1° into the 11th house) conjuncts Neptune (those two oppose Jupiter in Cancer) but I didn’t mention Uranus conjuncts Neptune as well on the other side (both in the 10th house – while opposing the Sun, also in Cancer); all three in Capricorn… Yes, it has been an interesting life so far!
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Thank you for your perspective and contribution Marilyn, I am slowly soaking it in.
I agree with you about the modalities being only secondary to the plants themselves. As a musician I could draw the parallel with instruments, which are only conduits for Sound, which is Vibration, which is the Music of Life. A wooden flute and a metal or plastic one will all have their own distinct tone; even two wooden flutes will achieve very different results depending on the wood and shape used. Yet ultimately it is what comes out of it that matters – the sound produced is what heals, not the instrument itself, even though it does direct and shape that very sound to give it the sought-after effect and so has a strong influence on it that way. The form matters in that it provides a tangible structure, but the essence is what is pursued.
<div>I do like the mapping bit. What I feel from that is a sense of the return of the cycle and all of the layers that have to be crossed through to reach physicality again, all the way from nothingness. Like different bodies (or Sephiroths for that matter) slowly shaping each other as they intertwine until reaching the physical sphere, widely influenced by the ethereal one, last before matter; and so shape happens in the way it can/has to, as you said in the moment, shaped from all the factors that influence that moment, as well as all of the previous stages. What emanates from the plants, and ourselves, beyond the physical, seems to me like this formless boundary, right at the crossroads between matter and non-matter. It shapes and is shaped by it all; it influences and is influenced by all. And what else but that divine Love could be the source of such oddly magical event? Mars asserts. I enjoy contemplating that it does so out of Love. </div>
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Thank you for your insights Ben. I have used both Milky Oats and Blue Vervain with success as well, but as you may have seen none of them is available as a spagyric essence at Natura Sophia. My idea was to address the soul level primarily, and Nettles essence did just that, in a form that allows for this, although as Cameron mentioned, a tincture could have worked too – maybe with slightly less effectiveness in the spiritual realms.
MIlky Oats works on a totally different level, although suited for my case also. At best it would have worked on the aftermath of the anger, which is a frazzled nervous system; this is addressing the symptom, not the cause. The psychological picture described by Sajah is unfortunately not really a match for my profile and so I did not feel the need to go there for this specific issue.
Blue Vervain gets closer to the truth and I thank you for the reminder that it is a good medicine for me; I will return to it in due time. However I found Nettles to be closer to the Mars archetype in its nature and thus more able to get to the point I was aiming at, as this corresponds closely to my natal chart imbalance. Plus, as mentioned Blue Vervain does not exist in the spagyric essence form and while it could have worked on the psycho-emotional & spiritual spheres in its own way, I wanted to be as specific as I could in my choice of remedy and figured a spagyric essence was needed.
I will probably start the course again when I have the time and will, to deepen my understanding of it all and make things click together a step further. There is always something more to grasp upon reviewing our acquired knowledge.
As far as you are concerned, you may want to not be so hasty in your judgments and appreciations of people’s thought processes: firstly it belongs to them and they don’t necessarily need to hear underlying, patronizing contempt hidden behind emojis and laconic sentences but instead may need support and well formulated explanations as to why they may not be headed the right way. This is a lot more constructive and helpful than criticizing for the sake of it. Second, they might hold some truth you haven’t perceived or didn’t want to acknowledge. A quick search into the Strategic Formulation Roadmap bonus shows a chart of psycho-spiritual dynamics and correspondences Sajah uses for spagyrics. Blue Vervain’s dynamics relate to ‘overworked, overstressed, self-critical, hard on self and others; worked to the bone’ with Venus-Air as primary rulers, while Nettles’ ones are indicated as ‘anger expressed or suppressed, frustration with life, irritable’ with Mars-Cardinal-Fire-Aries as rulers. The latter is exactly what I was looking at addressing and this, without having referenced that chart at the time. This is what happens when one’s work involves intuition alongside knowledge.
We’re all here to learn and it will be so until the day we pass, at least long as we are willing to reassess our ways of functioning with ease, grace, humility and acceptance. Take it easy man, it may be easier for your clients to receive your message if it is well explained and wrapped up nicely rather than in a passive-aggressive and condescending tone.
Blessings to you and I’m looking forward to hearing about your experiences with spagyric essences.
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Thank you for sharing Angeline! I agree with you, Gemmo feels quite subtle like a flower essence. Never heard of Tamarix – what a gorgeous tree!
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Hi Renginar! You’re absolutely correct, the time/event that started the issue is crucial to resolve it. I’ve worked extensively on the causes of my allergies, especially last year (lucky enough to have a teacher who can trace those things back to their origins), and so I’d say I need another year to confirm that all this has been digested and to see if it’s mostly behind me now.
I wouldn’t say Gemmo is miraculous (especially without working on the origin of the trouble) but it really does help support the body gently and safely. In my little experience it is a mild but effective practice, working in the background. I also haven’t tried anything else but that allergy formula, so it’s hard to have a broad view of it so far. More experience needed at this stage, but I like the way it provides new horizons in terms of herbal medicine!
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Thank you for sharing Marilyn, it’s good to hear that Gemmotherapy can somehow be achieved with more than ‘just’ trees. From that book I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ve seen a couple of non-tree ones among the list: Rosemary and Pollen. There could be a few more, I just quickly went through and was pleasantly surprised about those. While I can understand the reason(s) trees are favored in this practice, I don’t see why flowers couldn’t technically be used as well and this is nice confirmation!
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Hi Amanda, looking forward to hearing from your experimentations! Please share when your tinctures are ready and you’ve had a bit of a trial with them – if you feel like it 🙂
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Hi Caryn, yes anticipation is a lot better. I’ve narrowed down my allergy season and now know when it starts almost to the day which makes it easier to start ahead, but have struggled in the past to gauge the timing, partly because I was living at the other side of the world where seasons and pollens are different.
Happy exploration!
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Hi Lucille from Mullumbimby! (This brings up memories – I worked for a few months on an organic farm in Murwillumbah some years ago 😄)
I have noticed there is a fair gap between Naturopathy courses comparing here in France and OZ/NZ – you guys get an actual degree, whereas here it is not technically recognised so far but only accepted (or more accurately, tolerated…) so we don’t have any official qualifying courses yet. Some schools are more serious than others and work towards having some recognition and those are longer (3-4 years), more expensive courses. Mine is all self-paced, online and not as involved, although from what I’ve gathered talking with other French practitioners the longer ones are not necessarily full time either but just spread out in time, so at the end of the day it seems that we are learning roughly the same things but in different ways. Unsure if other schools in France bring up Gemmotherapy but mine does.
So you get qualification without the magic, and we get (some of) the magic without qualification… What a choice! 😁 I’m happy to have the magic but as I will potentially move back to Aotearoa at some point, it’ll be annoying having to start all over again because there won’t be any bridging or recognition option… I do feel there’s a bit more freedom in Oceania than here when it comes to those practices so far though, so I trust I’ll be able to do my own thing without too much fuss. 🤞🌿
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If you haven’t tried Reishi yet, it is quite magical for seasonal allergies… A friend at the time introduced it to me (it was actually the first tincture I ever tried!), and from then on it went a lot better each year compared to the previous 20 years without it. She nearly fixed all her allergies with it too. Capsules work greatly too! My mum has had miraculous results with them, from unable to be outside to just having to take a couple of capsules when a crisis starts (after a couple of month-long sessions on it). I’ve also used a bit of Dead Purple Nettle tincture this year as I made one earlier in the spring, I feel like this helped too. And stopping gluten/dairy products is definitely a must as far as I’m concerned – can handle them okayish year round except around the pollen season, which took me decades to understand. 😩
In the blend I was taking there is Common Hornbeam, Rosemary and Blackcurrant (glycerinated macerates) + Nettle extract + Tarragon hydrosol. That woman crafts about 30 different simples and 10 blends just for gemmo.
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</div>It seems to be a bit of a process as the bud season is usually quite short and many trees have similar budding times, so early spring is super busy with the harvest and transformation of those – the timing has to be on point. She was saying it takes a whole day of picking to barely get 100g of Hawthorn buds…
Lucky day for those who are interested, I had a quick look and an English translation for one of the main reference books on the subject is available. It’s a nice book with an explanation for the main buds currently used (I think it’s not quite up to date anymore but the main ones are in there), some formulas, an index by ailments and a history of this modality.
