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Foxglove – Medicine – Health In Balance

DREAMS – Do you dream of hospitals? Doctors? Shamen? Magic pills? One of society’s proudest boasts is our seemingly magical ability to cure illness, or at least palliate its effects. If your dreams yearn for healing, something inside you recognizes that you need help.

Challenge – How can we develop the confidence to choose the “right diagnosis” for what ails us? When should we request a “second” or “third” opinion? How can we stay on the “right” course, or even assess the “rightness” of any course, considering all our past mistakes? We need “heart strengthening.” “Foxglove” is the source of digitalis, a powerful heart medication. Listen to your heart. What questions do we wish to ask? Who do we want to be? Where are we trying to go?

Danger – Can we tell the difference between a “fortifying” or a “harming” path? TV pharmaceutical ads list grisly side effects for pills tackling a mere vague malaise. How can we overlook these threats? Perhaps the ultimate “danger” lies in ignoring the warnings our dis-ease gives. What does “I want to be young again” really mean? We are all mortal. We have just so much time left to plan. To “become”.

Opportunity – Some people are more confident following an “experts recommend” course exactly, others adapt and customize as they go to achieve a path that feels more personally designed. I look for joy. Joy is the moment when planets and moments all click into alignment and we feel we accepted as a beloved child of the universe. Let’s unclog our ears, remove the plank from our vision and simplify our world to recapture the moments of joy experienced in childhood. Hunger, confusion and uncertainty were part of it, but a trusted loving, guiding force rescued us over and over again, prompting us to respond with a love as generous as we can summon. Today’s mantra is

Mantra – I heal