Moonrise Herbs Blog

Happy July, moonbeams and welcome back to #TAROT&TEA! Today we felt the call of the Nature's Whispers Oracle Deck by Angela Hartfield & Josephine Wall. Our Card of the Week is 7. AMPLIFY YOUR POSITIVE EMOTIONS.   This card reminds us that there is always a chance to bring good fortune and beneficial influence to any moment or event in our lives. Sometimes it takes a bit of adjustment in our motives or attitudes, but when when we tap into the well of positive energy within, it can flow "in concentric circles affecting all of your desires and beliefs....as circles...

Welcome back to Tarot & Tea, moonbeams! We wish you a beautiful, blessed and healthful Summer! Today we are working with the gorgeous Sun & Moon Tarot by Vanessa DeCourt. As you may remember, this deck combines tarot with i-ching, Taoism, Kabbalism, mythology and astrology and the sweet modern artwork just evokes a very summery feeling for me.Our Card of the Week is the IV of SWORDS. Swords are linked with the element of Air and are often related to rational or mental matters. The more traditional tarot images IV of Swords often depict a knights tomb, but here we...

My goodness, this summer just got hot! With the sun at it's peak strength, we hope that you are all taking care of that precious skin you're in, sweet moonbeams! This #floweressencefriday we offer you a deliciously cooling spritzer blend to give you some relief during these balmy summertide days.   Cool It Now Cooling Flower Essence Spritzer In a 4oz bottle blend Equal Parts: -Aloe Vera juice -Filtered water -Lavender Hydrosol (or you can use a strong tea infusion if the hydrosol isn't available) -8 drops of Rescue Remedy (or Five Flower Formula) -Between 2-5 drops Peppermint Essential Oil...

Happy Moonday the Juneteenth and welcome back to Tarot & Tea! After these past few gorgeous days of summer sunshine, the Magical Mermaids & Dolphins Oracle from Doreen Virtue seemed the perfect choice for our pre-Summer Solstice reading. This deck is not only beautiful, capturing the beauty and joy of mermaids and dolphins perfectly, but 10% of the royalties go to Oceana, an international conservation organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the world's oceans!   Today the cards decided that we needed to "STAY OPTIMISTIC" this week. We have been through so much but this card reminds us not to...

Greetings, moonbeams! It's #floweressencefriday and we thought it would be fitting to talk about Lavender as a flower essence as it is blooming now and is one of the flowers of the sign of Gemini. As many of you may know already or have just read about the herbal therapeutics and applications for aromatherapy with Lavender in our latest newsletter, we won't cover that here. Lavender as a flower essence does much of the same thing on an energetic level.... it calms and uplifts the body and mind of those in nervous or high-strung states. It also supports the nervous...