Klara
@themoonunfolded
Poet and Tarot reader; Moonbird; Plant person Book a Tarot reading 🌼
If you want to feel into the energy of The Sun card, buy/grow some sunflowers. There's something so life affirming about them.
We can take the symbolism further and think of how stone is harnessed in service to beauty, solidifying natural phenomena, becoming a vessel for light. I think site specific architecture, like Ellsworth Kelly's chapel, Austin, and Luis Barragán’s Casa Estudio, captures Saturn’s exaltation in Libra.
The idea that Saturn exalts in Libra, a domicile of Venus, can seem discordant, but I think looking back to the early Babylonian representation of Saturn as the storm god Ninurta helps explain their compatibility. 🧵
Mage of Knowledge by Breton, from a collection of Surrealist Tarot images.
My favorites are the Isfahan rose on the left and Sharifa Asmani on the right. Very fragrant with lots of petals. I use them in magic, extracts, etc. Last year I planted a Jacob's coat climber and can't wait for it to take off!
Hard to see in this photo, but I love how the iridescent colors in this carpenter bee's wings are the same as the flowers. Nature rhyming.
If you want to build an enchanted and unique garden, make fragrance your centerpiece so that there is always something lovely to smell. Scent creates an evocative texture and plants that smell nice usually look nice, too.
I've developed a little obsession with travelling matchbox altars. (And they fit perfectly into the antique matchbox holders I've collected over the years.)
The 6s bring mediation, an intervention that leads to harmony. After the resistance of the 5s, the 6s offer a resting point where support gathers round to move us forward. 6 of Swords: mediation of thoughts Pents: mediation of resources Cups: mediation of emotions Wands: mediation of actions
The Fool is a key that unlocks other Tarot cards. If you are having a hard time accessing the meaning of one of the Major's, approach that archetype through the lens of the Fool. As the first card in the deck, the fool knows about transitions, about leaving one identity and learning another.⬇️
Making snow-modified flower essences today, by passing already-made flower essences through snow as it melts. These essences are even gentler than flower essences and support subtle rebalancing.
This is the time of year I start dreaming about gardening. In last night's dream I was dividing plants and giving them to other gardeners. Here are some roses from last June in case you need them 🌹
In Tarot the Fives teach us about holding more than one possibility at the same time. You don’t have to make a choice yet; the invitation is to accept that there are choices and to gently make space for them. 5 of… Swords: invitation to hold another perspective,
Not a winter person at all. But these are some things that cheered me up this weekend: Post snow pink sky People fighting oppression Reading the January Selendromium from @practicalastros.bsky.social Seeing the first snowdrop flower emerge
It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk. -Olga Tokarczuk
Sweet, brave gaillardia facing the early winter ❄️ So grateful for late season bloomers.
Ice covered roses make a sweetly fragrant rose tincture that's a great comfort through winter months 🌹