The snow is melting, finally! The birds are singing up a storm. I saw my first Great Blue Heron of the season flying overhead yesterday. The sugar maples are decorated with sap buckets and the sap is running. Sometimes on these cold mornings the sap has turned to clear ice…
The moon will be full this Saturday and there will also be a lunar eclipse. I love eclipses. It is so starling to see our familiar moon look so red and mysterious. Like the equinoxes and solstices, eclipses offer an opportunity for change, a shifting of energies but these give…
Last week I taught a “Tools for Stress Relief” class at the hospital where I work as a nurse. We had a great time and everyone went home with a custom-made aromatherapy spray or roll-on. They can use the spray or roll-on when things get tough and they need some…
One of my most beloved companions and best friends is actually the moon. It’s true! There have been so many times in my life when I have been lost, bereft, homesick and I have looked up to the moon for comfort. I remember being in the depths of finals in…
“Something infinitely expansive is seeking to breathe through you, lifting your life to its highest possibility. Say yes.” ~ Marianne Williamson It has been a long winter. A very cold and long winter. I am so ready for spring I can hardly stand it. And even though tomorrow is…
Welcome to my new blog! I’ve loved posting images, sharing stories and hearing from you on my previous blog Becoming Crow Lady, but it’s time to move on over to WordPress and link my blog with my Crow Lady Healing website, combining them into a lively resource. I’ll be updating…
My older daughter and I took a walk during the most recent storm in our area and we saw a huge beautiful red-tailed hawk fly slowly across the field through the falling snow. I grabbed a picture of where it landed on the branch of a big spruce. It was…
It’s been great to see so many of you this fall. I had a wonderful time at the annual craft fair at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. Along with my Salves and Massage oils I’ve been busy making up wonderful smelling and powerful sprays and roll-ons for a variety of…
Above is a photo of my secret weapon against the colds and sicknesses of the season. My Clinical Aromatherapy Teacher Kathy Duffy LPN MH CCAP teaches her students about the “lost art of the healing compress”. I was skeptical the first time I tried a hot compress with essential oils.…
There is an aromatherapy legend from the middle ages about the power of essential oils in fighting disease. Back then, glove makers would impregnate the gloves they made with essential oils to ward off the Bubonic Plague, using lavender, lemon, rosemary, eucalyptus along with other oils. The legend goes that some…
