Black Hawthorn in Leo
Marika Clymer reflects on the energies of Leo Season 2024 and the vital lessons of the PNW native Black Hawthorn plant. Black Hawthorn can teach the importance of purpose, identity, strength, and a pathway towards healing our wounds around not feeling seen. Marika also explores a deepened understanding of the astrological archetype of Leo, drawing interpretations from the tarot in the Strength Card.
The Secrets of How the Earth Keeps Her Time - Working with the Medicine of Presence
In this short excerpt from the collaborative zine project, Bodies of Land, Marika discusses the secrets of how the Earth keeps her time, in what she calls the “practice of presence”. As we become more in tune with the Earth’s rhythms, we find that the human-made construct of time is indeed an illusion, and it is through the active practicecof observing nature that we cultivate an ability to place ourselves within the omnipresent timeline of the Earth herself.
The Inherited Privilege of Being Connected to Land
In this short piece, writer Marika Clymer explores the settler-colonial relationship in regards to actively fighting against systems of oppression that displace communities from their homelands. In response to the Ceasefire Movement for Palestinians, Marika interrogates her relationship with the land as an unearned privilege, looking closely at the nuances of ancestral trauma and settler-land relationships as they intersect with the Zionist movement in Gaza.
Stillness as the Gateway to the Heart
Our eco-energetic insights for the month of April guided by the Spirit of Western Trillium flower (T. ovatum).
Grief Decomposes our Love like a Body
“Grief Decomposes Our Love like a Body - How our body digests death through grief”. This short piece draws from an eco-somatic approach, paralleling the decomposition process with human physiological processes for metabolizing difficult death and difficult emotions such as grief. An ecological perspective can help us find new ways to see and understand our body as a reflection of nature.