Intentions

Plants

• A bunch of rosemary on the door Protection and Boundaries

  To put a sign of protection and welcome at the entrance.

• Cleaning the house: making room The Home

  To leave the house ready for rest and for kindness.

• A pot of cinnamon and orange The Home

  To fill the house with a warm scent at the start of the month or before company comes.

• Your bond with plants Plants

  To show gratitude to the plants that keep you company in a practice.

• Garlic: firmness and protection Plants

  To remind yourself of a boundary you want to hold in your home.

• A rue plant by the front door Plants

  To set by the door a plant that watches over the house.

• Basil: joy, affection and welcome Plants

  To make room for joy in your home and welcome whoever comes.

• Mugwort: cleansing and shelter Plants

  To close the day and give your room a quiet time.

• Rice: sustenance and abundance Plants

  To give thanks for your food and get ready to share it.

• Cactus: endurance and the ability to adapt Plants

  To remember that you can adapt without giving up on your own care.

• Cumin: taking care of what comes Plants

  To receive with gratitude and manage with care.

• Sunflower: being seen and recognized Plants

  To show what you know how to do.

• Corn: provision and continuity Plants

  To keep in mind where the things that sustain you come from.

• Honey: sweetness and the ability to receive Plants

  To open yourself to receiving kindness and to giving it.

• Pine: permanence and home Plants

  To keep you company through a time of building or putting down roots.

• Rose: love, harmony and beauty Plants

  To give affection time and to watch your words.

• Aloe vera: renewal and care Plants

  To give patience to what you want to renew.

• Wheat: harvest and thanks for what sustains you Plants

  To give thanks for the year's sustenance and save its seed for the next.

• Consecrating a plant on its day Plants

  To dedicate a plant to an intention on the day of its planet.

• Bitter herbs and sweet herbs Plants

  To let go of what weighs on you and then take in what you want to grow.

• A basil and rosemary bath Baths

  To close a heavy stretch and start the next one feeling fresh.

• A cinnamon and honey bath Baths

  To get ready to receive and to take care of what comes.

• The seven sacred baths Baths

  To dedicate each day's bath to a quality, with that day's plants.

• St. John's water Baths

  To start the summer with your face washed in flower water.

• The scents of the week Incense and Scents

  To dedicate each day to its planet, with the plants that go with it.

• Amorum: harmony in love Perfumes

  To dedicate a scent to the love that lets people grow.

• Ventura: prosperity and service Perfumes

  To dedicate a scent to recognizing opportunities and adding value.

• Tutelar: clarity and safekeeping Perfumes

  To dedicate a scent to the care of your space and the clarity of your decisions.

• Choosing your Bach flowers Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To recognize what you feel today and pick the flowers that go with it.

• Bach flowers for fear Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with the fear you feel today.

• Bach flowers for uncertainty Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with your doubt, your indecision or your discouragement.

• Bach flowers for little interest in the present Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with you back to today.

• Bach flowers for loneliness Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with your way of being with others and without them.

• Bach flowers for oversensitivity to influences and ideas Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with you when other people or changes affect you too much.

• Bach flowers for despondency or despair Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with your discouragement, your guilt or your anguish.

• Bach flowers for too much concern for others Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To find the flower that goes with you in caring without holding on, convincing or imposing.

• Making up your bottle Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To mix the flowers you chose in a personal bottle for two or three weeks.

• A glass with your flowers Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To go along with a passing mood without making up a bottle.

• The five-flower combination Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To go along with a moment of fright, nerves or crisis.

• Your flowers without taking them Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To keep your flowers with you in the bath, on your pulse points or in the air of your room.

• Making an essence by the sun method Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To keep a flower's presence in water for your altar or for misting your home.

• Flower essences of other lands Flower Essences and Other Essences

  To choose, among flowers of North America and Australia, the one that goes with what you feel.

• Good Friday: welcoming a protective plant The Year

  To welcome a plant into your home and commit to caring for it.

• The St. John's Eve herb bundle The Year

  To hang the herbs of the shortest night at your door as a sign of protection.

• Summer: aloe, knots, and a braid The Year

  To care for what is growing.

• Rosemary for remembrance Everyday Rituals

  To tend a memory that matters to you.

• The seed of patience Everyday Rituals

  To stay with processes that need steady attention.

• A lavender dream pillow Dreams

  To go to bed with a scent that readies you for rest and peaceful dreams.