* shopping list; all organic ingredients w/ more specific safety requirements that require further discussion before purchase

Plants for medicinal juices: 2 bunches celery, 2 cucumbers, 10 lemons, fresh roots turmeric & ginger, garlic, herbs (lemongrass, thyme, basil, rosemary, dill)

Lemon blend (juiced with rind) tonic with added herbs (lemongrass, thyme, rosemary, basil)

Hot water plain with plain lemon blend (juiced with rind), early morning

Hot water with llanten tea to detoxify+drain infections

Hot water with Artemisia tea to detoxify+drain infections

Hot water with Tulsi tea to detoxify+drain infections

Plants for medicinal soup: (further discussion)

Plants for fermenting jars: 10 heads of garlic, beets, red onions, purple cabbage, fresh roots ginger & turmeric, herbs (lemongrass, rosemary, thyme)

Emergency supplies: Lysine, Eucalyptus radiata, unbleached organic empty teabags (less than $15 Amazon)

* tasks for kitchen & garden broadcast sessions; all sessions include helpful information how to participate while isolated, severely disabled, and being tortured to death... AND... how to build new opportunities to be supported in caring community and by direct relationships with others.

Organizing & space healing

Fermenting jar adventures

Vegetable chopping, roots, garlic, and herbs for medicinal foods

Intuitive Social Gardeners' Coalition (& garden parties) coordination

The kinds of dirt that pile up, the best ways to clean it, and how to make really good cleaning experiences

Physical movement practices (many sorts)

Live music / art, conversational broadcasting, & media coordination for Garden Parties and Eisteddfodau

Feeding the body alternating with "fasting" (more medicinal foods) & gradually rebuilding non-veg carbs digestion

Community relationships -- including relationships with community -- that relieve pain, restore healthy function, and realize "impossible" achievements

Physically healing indoor+outdoor environmental spaces and the bodies of living beings through creative expression

Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Sat Sep 28 06:36:10 EDT 2019


Today's Card
Yarrow (Reversed)

Lus chosgadh na fola

Achillea millefolium

upright
Fidelity • Masculinity • Virility

reversed
Divination • Uncertainty • Indecision

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Yarrow is a hardy perennial native to Britain and Europe and found throughout the northern hemisphere, from Ireland to China. Usually considered a weed, it grows everywhere, although it prefers sunshine and a fertile soil. Flowering in late Summer or early Autumn in clusters of white or pink, it reaches a height of about 1 m (3 1/4 ft).

The card shows Yarrow in flower growing by the snakestone altar in Cumbria. It is a late Summer’s afternoon and a rare smooth snake glides past.

Upright Meaning   One name for Yarrow is ‘Seven Years’ Love’, since it was believed that a charm made with Yarrow could keep couples loving and faithful for seven years. What happened after that we do not know, but Yarrow’s association with fidelity may provide a clue as to what this card means for you. Faithfulness to a partner or to certain values or shared ideas forms the basis of trust, and sometimes we can take this for granted without fully examining it. A review every seven years is a wise idea – for business partners as well as lovers. Values, goals and boundaries can be assessed and re-contracted, with the potential for a renewed sense of purpose and commitment.

Some writers say that Yarrow is sacred to the Horned God and the male principle, and another meaning of this card might revolve around your relationship to masculinity. Many of us hold a partly conscious representation in our awareness of a powerful and virile man that we would like to become or merge with. It is possible that this card signals a time in which you will start to work more consciously with this figure.

Reversed Meaning   Yarrow stalks have been used for divination for centuries. We turn to divination when we are uncertain about the future or need guidance. This process can easily become fatalistic and disempowering; used wisely an oracle should encourage us to draw on our inner wisdom and stimulate our ability to think more deeply about our situation before making any decisions. This card reversed may indicate that you are turning to this oracle to help you make a choice that, deep down, you suspect you’ve already taken. But hesitancy and doubt have their values: they help us to avoid arrogance and impulsiveness, and to fine-tune our decisions and timing. Sometimes in an oracle we seek only the echo of our own thoughts and feelings.

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A Plant of Divination

From the earliest times, Yarrow was recognized as an important plant. It may have been used as an offering as long ago as 60,000 BCE; pollen samples from the grave of a Neanderthal man in northern Iraq show it was present. Later it was mentioned by Dioscorides, and by Pliny who tells us that the centaur Chiron taught Achilles how to make a salve from Yarrow to heal his warriors.

Yarrow’s ability to staunch bleeding was widely known in America and Canada where the indigenous peoples used it to heal wounds, and the leaves were chewed as a general cure-all. It was a favourite plant of Saxon and medieval herbalists, and is an important constituent of traditional Chinese medicine.

Yarrow’s ability to stem bleeding was recognized all over Britain and Scotland, and this is reflected in many of its common names such as Soldier’s Woundwort and Staunch Grass. Highlanders used it in a healing ointment and it may have been burnt as an insect repellent, as it was in North America. It’s now known to contain strong repellent compounds.

In the Orkneys, depression was treated with Yarrow, and all over Scotland it was considered good for sheep and black cattle.

Yarrow stalks have traditionally been used for divination in both China and Britain: in China, fifty stalks are used to divine from the I Ching, the Book of Changes; in Britain, we have records of the plant’s use in love divination. There were connections between these far-flung regions in ancient times – h

undreds of Bronze Age mummies have been found in western China with clothing (including tartan leggings) and DNA that traces them to the Celtic lands – but the same plant being used for divination is more likely to be a result of chance.

In England, Yarrow was used as a remedy for staunching nosebleeds; a leaf was inserted into a nostril while the diviner chanted: ‘Yarroway, Yarroway, bear a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now.’

In Scotland, women or girls who were curious about their prospects were advised to pick Yarrow with their eyes closed on a May morning, while reciting: ‘Good morrow, good morrow, to thee braw Yarrow. And thrice good morrow to thee. I pray tell me today or tomorrow wha is my true lover to be?’

A challenge for a Druid today would be to find new ways to work with Yarrow as a divining tool, to broaden its application to other areas of life.

‘The nature of the Yarrow is round and spiritual.’
The Ta Chuan (The Great Treatise)



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