In true Mercury and Venus retrograde in Scorpio season, I’m late to get this post up! Apologies!

In the 60’s and 70’s there was much talk that those born in Aquarius and Scorpio would have the most helpful Sun signs for the coming New Age. We may question when the New Age will be here in full. We may wonder how far into the death throes of the Kali Yaga machine age we are. However, I think most of us would believe we are in process. So let’s consider why Scorpios help us right now.

The big leap moving into the New Age is from a mind based way of life is to an intuitive based way of life. Living with the mind in charge has broken the world. The mind is a construct of ideas with no coherence, whereas intuition taps us into the eternal within us. Scorpio calls us to this leap. It is not a mind based sign. It promotes felt, emotional processes of transformation and alchemy.

This can sometimes mean that Scorpios or those with a lot of Scorpio in their charts may have a hard time explaining themselves in a mental way to a world that clamors for mental explanations of everything. This is not how Scorpios work. They bring things into consciousness, resolve complex concerns and sink into truth, but not in a wordy, mental sort of way. They map out their inner landscape outside the limited framwork of mind.

When Scorpios do this deep inner work of transformation using their intuitive gifts, they move mountains. If they resist the work, they can feel like icebergs. We may recognize in a Scorpio we know and love that something heavy is there within them that needs to flow, but we can’t quantify what it is or even what is going on. Only they can move this energy. The good news is that harnessing their inner strengths, they can do it.

THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL

Mind promotes the idea of control. Scorpios can have the strength to let go of this illusion of control. Scorpios can move into a space of knowing control is not the point. They can masterfully dismantle a control mindset. Their deep subterranean waters can help them flow into their eternal self which knows control is never the task or the destination.

Despite what the mind would claim that we can control everything by thinking, we are never in control of how things evolve. We can reject this truth and double down in a futile effort to control or we can let go into this truth that we are not in control. We are responsible for how we show up in our lives and what energy and focus we bring to our lives BUT we are not in charge nor can we control OUTCOMES. Scorpio knows this.

FOR THOSE BORN BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1983 and NOVEMBER 1995

This group of Core Millennials have Pluto in Scorpio. This generational group is confronting head on issues about control. This group are intense, deeply driven old souls constantly navigating themes of personal power, emotional survival and the shredding of old psychological patterns. Social media arose to take them off mission and ensnare them in efforts to control the narrative with the creation of manufactured facebook and instagram personas. This shadow side of Pluto in Scorpio actually reveals the work of this group: to be true to themselves. I salute the many in this group of souls who either returned or remained ever true to the essential task of living their truth with blazing honesty and a courageous inner search for the genuine.

AN ASIDE ABOUT BOOMERS

BTW I will get back to this when I write about Leo season next year, but right now I want to say one thing about Boomers. In contrast to those with Pluto in Scorpio, Boomers have Pluto in Leo so they tend to like the limelight. Sadly this means that as a group we seem to have an enormous reluctance to leave the spotlight. It is time for Boomers to let go of the spotlight. We do not need to be the bright young things taking center stage at the party. In point of fact, we are NOT the bright young things at the party anymore. It’s time for us to let other generations take center stage and for us to get on with the vital work of going within to do some Scorpio soul searching.

SCORPIO SOUL SEARCHING

We all have a deep wells of truth submerged and subconscious within us. Scorpios have a particular power to bring these truths to the surface, but Scorpio season fuels this process for us all. Scorpio season bring this material into the light of day more easily than at other times of the year. The Scorpio energy of this time of year helps us metabolize these deep truths into a felt and conscious reality.

SCORPIO SEASON

In Scorpio season, the tasks of Scorpios become the work for all of us. The veil thins between the known and unknown worlds during Scorpio season. Scorpio season brings hidden truths to the surface. This rising up reveals things we may not want to face. If we are brave enough, these surfacing truths empower us to be emotionally more self aware and make choices from what we intuitively know to be true. In doing this work, we can become more at peace with what is going on inside us. This inner emotional calibration creates an energy field that radiates grounded calm. By engaging consciously in this process, surfacing truths are less likely to leave us off balanced or reactive.

SCORPIO AS RULER OF THE EIGHTH HOUSE

Scorpio rules the 8th house. A mysterious house, the 8th house concerns things you can’t control, ego death, the unexpected, merging and the dismantling of who you think you are. Mind concepts don’t alchemize these situations, but Scorpio’s strengths do.

SCORPIO FLOWER ESSENCE

Our Scorpio Flower Essence was created to support Scorpios in their vital work and steer them away from Scorpio stumbling blocks. The feedback we have gotten about this mix so far has been powerful. What has surfaced for me is that no matter when you were born, this Scorpio Flower Essence helps us all in inner work we all must do.

*I made my first Flower Essence, Goldenrod, when I was seven. Out in the Lilac bushes with my dolls, Heidi and Wendy, I mixed up some Goldenrod tea in little china cups then drank it all down. Somehow even then I knew I needed Goldenrod‘s support to stand up for myself.

*The Nature Spirits here returned my focus to Flower Essences in late 1980’s. Green Hope Farm took off as a mail order business in 1993 after many people pointed out that the pantry I had filled with Flower Essences “for my family and other animals” was perhaps for other beloveds too.

*Ever since then, we have been sharing our Flower Essences with people and animals all over earth.

*Our Animal Wellness Collection remedies are for people too. One of my favorite Essences is Flow Free, but I have worked with all 22 remedies extensively (even Spraying!).

*Lions, tigers and bears! We have shared Flower Essences with a vast number of animals. They are so responsive to these gentle, healing tools. We particularly cherish our work with rescue animals. Please let us support the rescues in your life!

*We love answering your questions about Flower Essences. The staff on email have more than seventy five years combined experience answering email questions! Thank you for your interest and wonderful sharing! And yes, we oooh and ahhh over the photos you send of your animals. A lot.

*Whenever you want, we can make custom mixes for you and the beloveds in your life. Feel free to ask me in particular to make your mix. I love this process of tuning in to what will best serve you. If you want to pick your Flower Essences yourself, the Flower Essence Suggestions for Common Concerns is a goldmine of suggestions for a wealth of topics.

Children can use Flower Essences from the moment they are born, and they love Flower Essences. One of my daughter’s first word was Flower. She would open her mouth like a baby bird and wait for her Flower drops!

*You can’t take too many Flower Essences or take them incorrectly. Flower Essences are electrical information from the Flowers. They are the unique wisdom of the Flowers shared through their electrical vibration. Flower Essences offer your electrical system this information and your electrical system decides what to do with the information. Flower Essences have no volition to do anything. Your electrical system is always in charge and very much up to the task of sorting out the information and making upgrades in response to the vibration of the Flowers.

*Except for our collections from abroad, our Flowers for our Flower Essences are grown here at the farm in our organic gardens and greenhouse. The photos, mostly taken by me and always filter free, of are of these Flowers and these gardens.

*If you have any trouble ordering on our website, remember you can order via email or phone.

*We have gotten lots of questions about astrology since introducing our Astrology Collection. The staff goddesses who are students of astrology suggest Chani Nicholas’ You Were Born for This as a great book to read. They suggest Astrobutterfly as a website to check out. They suggest Astro-seek to get a free natal birth chart.

*We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and kindness you have showered on us! We feel so grateful to be here sharing these wonderful healing gems with you!

Here rescue beloved Sheba inspects this year’s pumpkins

In response to your requests, we add a new mix to our Astrology Collection with a mix for Mercury Retrograde.

The next Mercury Retrograde is in Scorpio. It begins in full October 24th and continues to November 13th. After an explanation for the Flower Essences in this mix, there is a brief discussion of the gifts and challenges of this particular Mercury Retrograde.

Here are the Flower Essences in our Mercury Retrograde mix with a brief explanation for why each Essences is in the mix.

Blackberry– The mercurial planet of Mercury tends to make us move too fast. Blackberry helps us slow down and sort out the tangles with patience.

Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue– Mercury can mess up electrical devices including us! Thank goodness for this one.

Eyes of Mary– Mercury Retrograde can make elements of daily life go sideways. Eyes of Mary helps us remember the big picture i.e. this Retrograde will pass.

Coral Pink Rose and Red Clover– These two help us release our fear mindset around Mercury Retrogrades.

Rosa Mundi– This Rose helps us keep our sense of humor as well as our ability to persevere through Retrograde delays and plot twists.

The Way Forward– Shows us the way forward through Mercury Retrograde speed bumps.

Feverfew– Feverfew helps us remain calm in response to Mercury’s influence on the mental body.

Equanimity– Equanimity makes such a difference during Mercury Retrogrades.

Grounding– Our old friend Grounding helps us in all the ways that electrically overcharged systems need help. Much like a lightening rod, it helps any electrical overcharge dissipate benignly.

Balance in a Blue Moon– Support for all those “out of the blue” Mercury Retrograde challenges.

Snapdragon– Mercury is the planet of communication, so there are often communication snafus during a Retrograde. Snapdragon can help us avoid saying things we’ll later wish we hadn’t said.

Safe Passage– To help us get through Mercury Retrogrades in one piece!

Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio

Mercury Retrogrades call us to review, renew and go deep. In the sky, the planet appears to circle back over old territory and calls us to do likewise. A Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio suggests a time of deep emotional review.

Scorpio as a fix water sign often keeps strong emotions buried beneath the ice, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t emotions under the ice. This Mercury Retrograde will call us to excavate these submerged feelings and bring them up to be felt and released. One of the Staff Goddesses told me today that if we let ourselves feel an intense feeling fully for 90 seconds it will begin to clear. How many of us run from even giving ourselves that 90 seconds? This Mercury Retrograde will give us a chance to see what is under the ice ready to be felt and released. This Retrograde will help us transmute the unconscious into consciousness. Let the new Mercury Retrograde mix support you in this work!

P.S. We are loving our chats with you about your natal charts! It has been fun figuring out sets for you all to work with! We look forward to adding this mix to your Astrology support tools!

Our birth chart is a snapshot of the possibilities and potentials that we have given ourselves for this life

Libra has a certain flavor as all signs do.  If your moon, sun or rising sign was in the sign of Libra when you were born, one of the key things you will be tending to is one on one connections.  

Libra brings a focus on dynamics with you and one other person. These one on one relationships may be working partnerships, romantic relationships, a friendship or a family relationship.  Libra is not about groups. It is about singular connections.

Balance in relationship is the highest expression of Libra.  Meeting someone halfway, seeing both sides of a situation or being an equal.  The symbol for Libra is the scales, reflecting this balance.

Our intention with our Libra mix is to help those with Libra in their charts to support themselves to stay in the highest expression of Libra.  

The sensitivity to another can sometimes mean Libras go 90% of the way versus finding the middle ground. Libras may take too much responsibility for a relationship dynamic. Libras’ job is to find the middle ground then stop. The Libra mix supports Libras finding self confidence, so that they know this is enough.  Libras can be so tenderhearted that they lose complete track of themselves in an effort to maintain a relationship.

Consider the Libra mix if you struggle with co-dependency, giving too much, abandoning yourself, indecision, analysis paralysis, inflexibility about fairness or acknowledging you have needs too.

Libra plays a role in your chart even if it is not one of your big three of sun, moon or rising sign.  You may find that you have planets in Libra that activate Libra, but even if Libra is an open house in your chart with no planets in it, Libra plays a role depending on what house it is in.

If you have Libra in your 1st house it is your rising sign.  Your challenge may be to prioritize your needs as much as you prioritize the needs of others. This is a challenging placement because this is the house of the self while Libra is the sign of the other so relationship dynamics may be difficult in an ongoing way.

If you have Libra in your 2nd house, this might suggest a focus on work life balance and issues like fairness in the workplace such as income equality. You may be drawn to work in professional partnerships

If you have Libra in your 3rd house, your work might center on communication and education. You might be a tutor or a therapist or one on one coach,  Your relationships with your siblings may be important.

If you have Libra in the 4th house, your relationships with your childhood home and your mother set a template to evolve from be it positive or negative.  There may be issues of fairness around family dynamics.  For example, you might have been expected to be a parental force in your family before this was appropriate.

If you have Libra in your 5th house you probably like working in creative partnerships.  This could include romantic partnership or partnership as parents.  You can lose yourself in the ideal of romance.

If you have Libra in the 6th house you may strive for balance in your health and daily routines and you may seek beauty in your environment.

If you have Libra in the 7th house, this is a dream placement as the 7th house is all about partnerships and Libra is all about partnerships.  The caveat here is that this might be too much of a good thing and you may need to keep a focus on your own identity.

If you have Libra in the 8th house, in theory it is a good placement but once again there is the possibility of taking Libra strengths too far and giving too much, being too connected too fast and deep and merging in too many areas.  This placement can throw off Libra’s quest for balance and leaves room for you to be taken advantage of.

If you have Libra in the 9th house, this is a great house for Libra suggesting things like travel or scholarship with another.  Downside might mean relationships might be a little mental.  Grounding is important as Libra is an air sign.

If you have Libra in the 10th house, this is the house of the father so that may be a key relationship.  There is a higher chance that your work has a public face in the arts or other aesthetic realms.

If you have Libra in the 11th house this supports you in your humanitarian beliefs and goals and your efforts to make things fair and balanced.  You will like collaborating with others on these goals.

If you have Libra in the 12th house, it may not be evident but relationships may be a challenge for you.

Our Libra mix is there to help you find the optimum balance of your Libra gifts and steer you away from Libra liabilities.

We will do this same kind of blog as we move into Scorpio season!!!!!! And remember our Staff Goddesses want to support you in learning about your natal chart, so email us with questions!

My garden calendar includes many seasons: garden design work in late winter, seed starting and garden clean up in early spring, an insanity of planting in May and June, weeding and harvesting in summer, more harvesting and garden clean up in fall then more garden dreaming in early winter.

For Jim there are TWO SEASONS: Cleaning up Molly’s OUTSIDE MESSES (spring through fall) and cleaning up Molly’s INSIDE MESSES (fall through winter).

Here we see Jim with his chariot lawn mower and small mower for small garden paths, both needed for the extremely complicated mowing here all thanks to my involved garden beds.

But back to today’s controversy topic. Cleaning MY MESSES is always a very complicated fight negotiation. The problem is, I don’t experience some of the things that DRIVE JIM CRAZY as messes. He, however, does.

Take for example his current CLEAN UP project. On the backside of one of our sheds, there is a big shelf where I store all my seed starting stuff. Any time I buy a six pack of seedlings or a plant, I save the plastic to use in my own greenhouse starts. I’ve been saving this stuff since 1987. So yeah, I have a lot of plastic containers on the shelves. Big deal! It’s fine! They sit OUTSIDE on a MOLDY OLD SHELF doing ABSOLUTELY NO HARM TO ANYONE. But Jim has decided that this area is in EXTREME need of cleaning. No one has a view of this shelf from anywhere. There is room for everything on the shelves. It is actually pretty tidy, but to Jim IT IS A CRISIS like explosive diarrhea or lice.

Today is the tail end of the three day Nor’easter. Jim could be inside reading a detective story wearing a smoking jacket with a glass of cognac, but instead he is out there DEALING WITH THE SITUATION.

To prepare for battle this particular clean up, Jim has built a mighty shelf on the inside of the shed. This shelf could easily handle gold bricks, yet it will be called upon to store Jim’s idea of a select group of plastic pots.

Note that Sheba has chosen to leave us to our negotiations squabbling.

Jim also has begun the annoying delicate process of taking stuff off my moldy shelves to decide what to keep on the new shelves and what to recycle. The first thing he pulled out was my black plastic flats. These hold transplants of seedlings once they are growing in individual pots. Jim decided I needed 30 of these flats. I pointed out that I used at least 10 of these for my tomatoes ALONE, so I wasn’t sure 30 would get it done. He countered by noting that all the ones he’d selected for recycling were poorly constructed or broken. Welcome to America Jim, that’s how things are made here.

So….. basically things have started off with a bang well. I hope the wind and rain picks up enough to force Jim to come in. I’ll have the smoking jacket waiting. Then I can sneak down and pull some of the black plastic flats from his recycle pile.

Tomorrow when the storm ends, we will examine the five thousand hundred other objects on these shelves with the same level of disharmony. Should be fun.

All this is in preparation for Jim coming inside for the season of INSIDE MESSES. This winter he plans to redo our kitchen. He will replace our forty year old cabinetry that was junky when we installed it but has now broken down completely. In order to force me to do this redo get me ready for this exciting project, Jim has let these broken shelves FALL OFF so that now the cupboards are wide open and the need for action ( think explosive diarrhea and lice) is evident.

My cherished butterball paddles, madeleine cookie tins and steamed pudding molds are now revealed in all their glory. This has led Jim to sweetly suggested that MAYBE we don’t NEED four steamed pudding molds in the new kitchen. I plan to just nod in agreement about everything he wants to recycle, then take what he considers to be EXTRA down to the new shelves in the shed.

With any luck he won’t notice this pile until next spring!