This month I’m working through cycle 2 of the Lunar Apothecary and have also found myself working very closely with this full moon in Cancer energy as well. This full moon has been particularly difficult for me. I’ve found myself yearning for a family and a stable relationship and all of those things of love. The prompt for the month of December in the Lunar Apothecary was to create a remedy for yearning and at first I wasn’t sure what to do for that. A few days ago, I realized that I needed to nurture and be caring of these desires for a family, children, and a loving partner.

Red Raspberry:

As a simplars witch (I’ve made that term up), I am always about working with what I have. I happened to have some herbal blends that included red raspberry and one in particular that is called love and happiness. So I’ve been making it a point to drink that blend. Red Raspberry has spoken to me as a perfect herb to first nurture and nourish me physically but secondly to nurture and nourish me mentally and emotionally as well. Red Raspberry is a womb healing herb that I also feel instills a strong sense of peace and resilience within a woman. It reminds me of high priestess energy. So it is perfect in preparing my body to have a child at some point and my mind as well.

I do still want to make something that will soothe my yearnings for love and support my belief that it is coming for me, so I think I will either purchase a fertility blend with herbs that I would choose myself if I had them or use the herbs I have here already and create a tea blend. I do have oatstraw and chamomile. If I could though, I would purchase red raspberry, red clover and nettles. These herbs are so good for so much and would definitely instill in me crone wisdom and belief in myself. Almost like grandmother herbs (nettles in particular) reminding me that everything is going to work out :-).