CELEBRATING THE JOURNEY — FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS
Paeonia sp.
This Full Moon rises in Sagittarius - the sign of the seeker, the truth-teller, the eternal student of life. Sagittarius asks us to zoom out, to look at the bigger picture, and to find the meaning in the pattern. To stop measuring our progress in straight lines and begin to understand that we are always moving in spirals, always circling back to familiar themes with deeper eyes and wider hearts than before. It is a sign that understands, deeply, that the journey itself is the teacher.
And right now, I have a lot of spirals to reflect on.
ONE YEAR Anniversary
It’s been one year since I launched Wild Rose Wellness! One year since I made the scary and deeply aligned decision to build something rooted in everything I believe in - women, bodies, cycles, nature, nourishment, and the radical act of coming home to yourself.
I won't pretend it has been linear. There have been seasons of momentum and seasons of quiet. Moments of certainty and moments of wondering what I'm doing and why. But that is the nature of any living thing, isn't it? Growth moves in cycles. So does healing. So does everything that matters.
Sagittarius energy reminds us that the journey is the point. Not the destination, not the milestone, but the actual messy, meaningful, expanding and contracting journey of becoming.
And I am so proud of the woman who began this journey a year ago, even though I understand her so much more deeply now.
THE LONGER THE DISCONNECTION, THE LONGER THE RETURN
This is something I come back to again and again in my own healing and in my work with women: we do not heal in a straight line, and we do not heal on a schedule.
The longer we have spent in survival mode, in disconnection from our bodies, in processed foods and environmental overwhelm, in hormonal disruption and nervous system dysregulation, the longer and more nonlinear the journey back to ourselves can be. This is not a flaw nor failure. This is physiology, this is nature.
And my own body has been reminding me of this. My bleed returning this month is a small and enormous thing at the same time. It is my body saying I feel safer now, I am finding my rhythm again. And that didn't happen overnight. It happened through months of small, consistent, quiet choices. More nourishment, more rest, more listening. Fewer apologies for the pace of my own becoming.
These are the real wins. The ones that live in the body, in the gut, in the quiet knowing that something is shifting.
deepening into the natural world
Something else is completing this month. Something I have been holding with so much tenderness.
I am finishing my Herbaculture internship with Herb Pharm - a ten-week immersion in growing, tending, and deepening my relationship with the plant world. It has changed me in ways I am still finding words for.
These weeks have looked like dirt under my fingernails and early mornings and the particular kind of quiet that only comes when you are paying close enough attention to something growing. Extremely rural, far from the noise and chaos and pace of life I had known - no familiar faces, no family nearby, no scrolling, no hustle. Just land, and plants, and the women I have been living and learning alongside, who have slowly, quietly become their own kind of family to me. And remembering what it feels like to simply be present inside a life.
That is a privilege I do not take lightly. And it is also the life I am consciously, intentionally building.
Sagittarius asks us to create a life that reflects who we are actually becoming - not who we used to be, not who the world expects us to be, but who we are in our most alive, most rooted, most authentic expression. Spending ten weeks living in relationship with the land, learning the language of plants, deepening my practice as an herbalist - that is me answering that call.
I will be weaving this more fully into my work going forward. Herbs are not separate from the healing work I do with women. They are medicine. They are relationship. They are one of the oldest conversations between humans and the natural world, and I am so grateful to be learning that language more fluently.
Crater Lake National Park
WHAT THIS FULL MOON IS ASKING
Growth is rarely a straight, predictable path. We move in spirals, in cycles of expansion and contraction, and when it looks like we are revisiting old ground, we are often simply seeing it with clearer eyes.
This Full Moon in Sagittarius is an invitation to find the meaning in your spiral. To zoom out from wherever you are in your journey and ask:
What has actually shifted?
What have I built, even quietly?
What small wins am I walking past without pausing to honor?
Your body finding its rhythm again is a win. One more month of showing up is a win. Choosing rest over output is a win. Learning something new, going slower, going offline, getting your hands in the dirt, following your heart … these are wins.
Paeonia sp.
And with that, I am taking a little pause this month, celebrating these cycles, sitting with all that has been, and feeling into where my next chapter wants to begin. You can find me nourishing and feeding community on the kitchen team at Spirit Weavers Gathering, and then I will be back, writing to you again at the Summer Solstice.
Until then <3
If you are seeking a deeper relationship with your body, your cycles, and your own natural rhythms - if you are ready to stop abandoning yourself in order to keep up with the world - I would be honored to walk alongside you.
My work weaves together food, herbs, nervous system support, and cycle awareness to help women come home to themselves after years of disconnection and survival mode. If that is calling to you, I would love to connect.