Spring has Sprung.

What are you planning  this month?

As I was taking my daily walk yesterday I was so happy to see the stirrings of Spring.  I was delighted to notice the emerging wild garlic leaves and daffodils preparing to flower with crocuses aplenty and some primulas too.  I felt so happy to feel that welcoming shift of energy; re-awakening & a returning Spring in my step.

As we step into March and Spring our energy begins to  improve as nature re-awakens and we stretch; uncurl and face the warming sun,  It is time to manifest our  projects/seeds; share and calling with the world and encourage our projects to come to fruition.

So what do I have in store for you this Springtime? 

Well – first and foremost it’s time to focus on Spring foods full of bitters to support the liver and encourage  healthy  happy hormones and digestion.  The best time to support the liver is around the Spring Equinox – that moment of balance, of rest and action.

If you are interested in cleansing with the seasons please read more about my Spring liver cleanse which begins March 14th for 14 days and includes

*Hair analysis, WiseWoman box full of remedies, zoom meet ups and mentorship, interaction and lots of delicious Spring foods and recipes to support your liver .

sign up to my Liver is Queen cleanse

 

Spring Crystal:  Moonstones

In tune with Gaia energy we can include crystal support during Springtime. With its watery pearly white sheen  moonstone  gently soothes and balances  emotions;  helps neutralise negative thoughts and feelings;  opens our hearts and minds  encouraging us to trust in the future and to remain focus and positive.

♥ Happiness ♥ New beginnings  ♥ Nurturing ♥ Fertility and motherhood ♥ Destiny ♥ Love ♥ Hope ♥ Intuition ♥ Easy childbirth ♥ Safe travel ♥ Luna energy/Yin ♥ Abundance ♥ Ancient wisdom

Crystals have been worn for thousands of years and are rich in power and magic.  Whatever crystal you are attracted to  – wear or hold it/them to bring a little magic into your life.

Moonstones are a very feminine stone believed to help hormone production, metabolism and reproduction. Legend states that its brightness  and power raises to its peak around the full moon. Moonstones have long been known for its calming, soothing qualities.  Its energy is balancing and healing, assisting emotions by bringing them under the control of Higher Will. Moonstone opens the heart helping identify emotional patterns that are stored in the subconscious and serves as a guardian to contain explosive passions stimulating confidence and composure.   Carry one as a talisman or place your moonstone at the centre of your chin (the Moon Centre) to create balance.

Balance hormones: the stone of eroticism, stimulating kundalini  and desire. It is the ultimate reproductive  crystal; helping you align with your own natural rhythm and energy cycles. It powerfully affects the female reproductive system, enhances fertility and promotes ease in pregnancy and childbirth, alleviates menstrual problems including peri-menopause, cyclical fluid retention, PMS, pain, emotional instability and more. Oedema and bloating –  just as the moon influences water, moonstones helps with internal fluid retention whether that is cyclical with your monthly bleed or digestive.

Detoxification: liver and pancreas.   Helps assimilate nutrients  and relieves digestive disturbances.

Sleep:   An elixir can be used to help insomnia and sleep walking. 

Spiritual: Traditionally used to enhance psychic abilities and intuitive feminine power and clairvoyance.  Moonstones are the stone of destiny. Just as their name dictates they connect with the moon- yin energy; Divine Feminine  and the goddess. Moonstone helps men become in-tune with their feminine side & stimulates the right side of the brain, encouraging nonlinear thinking and emotional balance.

Wear your bracelet during Spring time. Moonstones come in a variety of colours and so do the moonstones within the bracelet.  Their colours range from a creamy colourless to grey, blue, brown, yellow, green, or pink. The clarity ranges from transparent to translucent.

 

Spring Plant:  Bellis Perennis – the common DAISY

Spiritual growth – clarity – overcome obstacles – creative thinking – honesty – faith – fertility – life path

I know it’s a little early because we are only just stepping into March but I am craving seeing the common daisy once more.  They are so uplifting and sunshine-like; promising warmer sunny days, bees and longer day light hours.

I liken this sweet little plant to a combination of yin and yang – the yellow centre is the yang energy – determination, sun energy, re-birth/fertility, projects and energy. The yellow is mid Spring to me,  fun, fertile and fresh bringing  the child like innocence of an idea into focus.

The beautiful white petals which surround the centre (to me) protect the yellow centre and ooze yin energy protecting the centre and integrate all the past in positivity and Divine light.

As a whole the daisy represents all that has gone before – our life lessons; learned wisdom, cyclical and ancestral empowerment, day time, night time moon, yang and yin energy, Divine connection, goodness and faith.

Spagyric medicine uses daisy energetically  to help us synthesise information (including ancestral influence) so we understand and accept who we are; our ancestral lineage and use this knowledge and wisdom to re-birth and guide us on our life path.

It feels as if daisy is the perfect plant for us right now with so much global chaos surrounding us.  We must stay true to who we are and trust our own decisions, ethics and values.

Daisy :

Emotionally: the plant for a project.  It helps integrate projects into a global perspective. Helps overcome bereavement and grieving.  Connects at soul level – reconnects us on our life path, Helps us get over past obstacles, re-centre and re-find our identity.Helps us learn and listen to our mind and body. Connect to divine harmony with the earth; Stimulates creative thinking; Supports honesty and loyalty.

Physically: Great for soft tissue trauma especially for muscles, breasts, abdominal walls, uterus and genitals  – it acts in a similar manner to arnica. Use it post trauma remedy – bumps and bruises.  Deep and lasting injuries.  Bellis Perennis  (daisy) actually means “lasting all year”  which from a naturopathic perspective means chronic. Supports all abdominal and pelvic issues; rheumatism, headaches; Breast engorgement & congestion. Pregnancy – uterine pains, sciatica and ligament changes during pregnancy.  A wonderful  aid post  birth – c-sections, forceps, post-partum and traumatic births. It’s also an anti-inflammatory and bactericide.

Spring Seasonal foods: As you know I am all about eating seasonally so here is the list of seasonal goodness this month! 

Sea veggies: laver, dulse, carragheen, egg wrack, sea lettuce, sugar kelp, sea kale.

Sea foods: oysters, scallops, mussels, elvers, coley, dab, lemon sole, pollock, salmon amongst others

Hedgerows: Alexanders, cleavers, beech leaves, bistort, burdock, chickweed, comfrey leaves, dandelion, fat hen, Good King Henry, hawthorn tips, nettle tips, orache, rampion, sea beet, sorrel, tansy, watercress, wild garlic, wood sorrel

Salad Leaves: At my local community farm where I volunteer we have been harvesting some delicious salad leaves – wintercress, salad burnet, lettuces, rocket, Mizuma, mustard leaves, komatsuna, pak choi, broccoli sprouts, lambs lettuce, raddichio,

Edible flowers:  primulas, cowslips, violets, broom, gorse (by the way Westlands sell some amazing edible flowers!)

Veggies: Royal potatoes, asparagus, green garlic, sorrel, purple sprouting broccoli, onions, cauliflower, kale, cabbages, kallettes, chard, endive, spring onions, radishes, spinach, turnip, spring greens, rhubarb

Herbs: parsley, chervil, coriander, bay, sage, rosemary,

 

Spring recipe:  

2-Ingredient Dark Chocolate Truffles by the Minimalist Baker

Vegan, gluten-free dark chocolate truffles made with just 2 ingredients and simple methods! So easy, creamy, delectable, and sinfully rich. Servings 16 (truffles)

255 g dark chocolate  (very finely chopped or  72% cacao or higher). 90 ml light (or full-fat) canned coconut milk (well shaken). 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional). 24 g unsweetened cocoa or cacao powder, or ground nuts

Place finely chopped chocolate in a medium-sized mixing bowl. The finer the chocolate is chopped, the easier it will melt.  In a separate small mixing bowl, add coconut milk and heat in a small saucepan over medium heat until just starting to simmer.  Immediately add coconut milk to chocolate and loosely cover with a cooking lid or towel to trap the heat in. Do not touch for 5 minutes. Then lift cover and use a mixing spoon to gently stir, trying not to incorporate air. Continue stirring until completely melted, creamy, and smooth – add vanilla if you wish. Add vanilla (optional) & stir.  Place in the fridge to chill uncovered for 1-2 hours or until almost solid. A good test is dipping a knife into the middle of the bowl to see if any chocolate sticks. If it comes out mostly clean, it’s ready to scoop. If there’s still wet chocolate in the center, continue refrigerating. Once firm prepare a small dish of cocoa or cacao powder/nuts/seeds for rolling (optional). Use a tablespoon to scoop out small balls and then gently roll in hands to form mouth sized balls. Roll in your dish of cacao powder to coat and shake off excess and set aside.  This should make about 12-16 truffles.

 

Justine Evans ND  refers to herself as a WiseWoman and Hormone Alchemist.  She is a Registered Naturopath,  Degree qualified nutritional therapist & passionate about regenerating seasonal living using food as medicine. Justine connects life with natural cycles and seasons whilst integrating functional medicine with traditional healing  &  alchemy. She is available online and in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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