Flower Power Magic Potions

🌹 Rose 🌹

This is a Nootka rose, one of the few wild roses indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. It may not look much like your typical English "David Austen" rose, but it is just as powerful, if not more so.

The Nootka rose has been used by Indigenous peoples in ceremony and in medicine to treat a number of ailments. Around the world, roses are prized for their beauty, fragrance, medicinal properties, and edible hips. Rose oil is extracted for use in cooking, cosmetics, medicines, and anointing. While roses are often associated with love, romance, and beauty (and well-known as an aphrodisiac), they have a broad range of applications due to their analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

You will find roses in my Womb Time and Self-Love bath teas at .auraarcana !

🪺 Ostara 🪺

The Vernal Equinox marks the beginning of Spring, a season of fertility, birth, growth, and change. Outwardly, we can find literal evidence of this as we notice flower buds emerging, birds nesting, and critters coming out of their long winter's nap. Inwardly, we can notice in ourselves a desire for new beginnings and a willingness to get us there. Now is a great time to shake off the old and start anew. Using cleansing herbs like lavender, rosemary and sage (found in my "cleansing" potions) are helpful in these rituals. These are available at .auraarcana and in my online shop at the link in my bio.

🌞 Winter Solstice 🌞

Today we celebrate the return of the Sun. We face the bitter cold with fire and laughter. We look ahead to the brightening of days, and take comfort in the promise of Spring.

Happy Solstice!

Bath teas at .auraarcana
are just flying by!

I've had to restock within *days* of my last drop instead of weeks or months later as usual. Thank you for your patience as I handle this massive change in volume.

Also, a big THANK YOU to everyone who is making an effort to support small local businesses this year. Whether that's me or someone else in our community, I'm just glad you're diverting some hard earned dollars from the greedy billionaires who are destroying the planet. Mother Earth thanks you too!

See you at the Winter Spirit Market tomorrow, Dec 17, in the !