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19/06/2026

Summer Solstice-tide

As the cycle turns we welcome the longest day, and honour the sun, the light, the Summer.

Embracing the sun and the power of fire.

Fire is transformation;

New beginnings.

Rebirth.

Renewal.

Honour the light within and the
expansion of that light;

Setting intentions.

Truly being in the moment.

Embodying, honouring, and expressing the life giving energy of the sun.

Forage, cook, feast, make sacred offerings & transform in the light of fire.

18/06/2026

Rosebay Willowherb is revered for her gifts of energetic and spiritual healing. She embodies the essence of resilience and renewal, thriving in disturbed soils and razed-to-the-ground landscapes. As such, she will hold your hand as you undergo transformation, helping overcome trauma and adversity by fostering inner strength, healthy growth and emotional balance. She is also wonderful at clearing energetic blockages and restoring harmony within the whole being.

She has an affinity with the vagus nerve and as such is masterful at calming frenetic energy, shock, and grief. Fireweed calms digestive issues, gastrointestinal inflammation and ulcers, and alleviates coughs and bronchial issues. Topically, this herb can soothe skin irritation, burns, and rashes.

Placing dried rosebay willowherb under the pillow is said to promote vivid and insightful dreams and add clarity to their interpretation.

Fireweed is, unsurprisingly, strongly associated with the element of fire. She is a powerful addition to rituals and invocations that involve transformation, rebirth, renewal, and the harnessing of fire’s energy, vitality, and power.

In folklore, it is said that carrying a piece of this plant as a charm can promote physical healing and well-being.

Some say that planting this herb in gardens can create a bridge between the human and fairy realms.

Blessings from the hedgerows.

17/06/2026

I have long been drawn to the wild edges of things; to the resonance of nature, to the expansion of consciousness, to the testing of boundaries. As a teenager I devoured books by Marian Green and Doreen Valiente. I set out circles, cast runes and read Tarot; I lit candles, wandered in the graveyards at night, and played with all the fire. I wished for the kind of power that I thought witchcraft could bring, and I threw myself on the mercy of fate to test what is real, over and over again. I learned my lessons the hard way, and I know I am lucky to have survived.

It took many years of walking this path for my wisdom to grow into an understanding of how truly magical the realms that we inhabit are; of how what happens in one realm affects another and is therefore real, and true. Of how the universe that we live in is responsive and alive, and that we are responsible, conscious actors expressing consciousness through it.

There is a fundamental and inescapable responsibility held by a conscious being in a conscious universe, whose very thoughts and imaginings can become doorways into new realms; whose actions create ripples in past and future, who understands that time is not a linear thing but a continuum; yet another aspect of the conscious and relational cosmology in which they exist. We are part of the fabric of reality, and we cannot escape our responsibility to it.

If God is dead, everything is permitted, wrote Dostoyevsky, offering morality as an objective force governed by a vengeful man in the sky, but what if we take that same sentiment and replace God with cosmology? What happens then? What if it is not the death of God (or objective moral judgement) we need to fear, but the death of responsibility; the flattening of a cosmology of right relationship which holds balance as the force of “morality” right at the centre into a place to ascend from, or escape.

The rest of this (quite long) article is up on my substack.

15/06/2026

I don’t feel like promoting myself right now. You’ll find me in the meadow.

11/06/2026

Bright and beautiful Agrimony is a common sight in our summer meadows and hedgerows, standing tall and bright with yellow flowers along her strong upright stem. She is a potent medicinal and magical herb with a rich history and folklore:

Call on agrimony to reveal what is hidden - placing agrimony under a pillow was thought to induce deep, dreamless sleep, and some tales suggest it could reveal the identity of a thief if placed beneath a person’s head.

Use agrimony to release - agrimony is associated with purification and protection rituals. It is commonly used in spells to break hexes and reverse harmful intentions.

Ask agrimony to cleanse - when burned as an incense or scattered around a home, agrimony is said to cleanse the space of negativity and foster a peaceful environment.

Call on agrimony for help - Agrimony has a reputation for revealing hidden truths and promoting a sense of calm and safety. The herb was said to be useful for healing elf shot (some say this is akin to chronic fatigue).

Ask agrimony for emotional support - the flower essence is indicated for those suffering from fear and anxiety, and to dispel hidden emotions.

Use agrimony for protection- agrimony was often used in sachets or amulets for protection for its power to dispel negative energies or influences.

Remember that all herbs are multidimensional and work on all layers of being. If a herb is said to protect then it will protect on all levels.

Much of what wild plants reveal to us as their medicine will not be found in books but by direct communication and learning.

The plants are far more magical than we can explain in words.

09/06/2026

Foraging for our food and medicine from a place of heart-centred reverence, open-eyed wonder, knowing reciprocity, and deep respect has the power to reconnect us with our ancestors and the wisdom they held so lightly but so sacred, living as they did so close to their hearts and the land as a living, communicating entity.

There is a big gaping hole in our history, a missing space in which a knife was driven between us and our roots, where we were brutally severed from our traditions, where we were taught to fear and reject not just our own nature, but the larger nature of which we are a part.

And flashes still remain, in maypoles and holy wells, in cider making and ancient hedgerows, in green men, and village traditions we no longer understand. We must not reject these small, slight flashes of our history for they are holding the threads of remembrance and connection back to our older ways. Flashes which in turn hold their own threads back, back, back to the earth, back to ourselves, and back to resonance.

To love the land on which we stand is to love it as it is, while holding the vision for better times for all beings. If we can hold this paradox then we can grow forwards, backwards, up, out, and down at the same time. If we can hold this paradox we can heal, remember, and rebuild our connections to the living land beneath our feet.

🌿Come and join me in Lavenham for foraging, wild medicine & folklore walks. June and July walks open for booking. Check out links for details.

08/06/2026

As this herb of thresholds and consciousness expansion begins to fully embrace the energies of summer and fill the hedgerows and wild edges, I am drawn again to sharing my deep love for her.

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

A herb of protection, she was hung over doorways as a guardian to prevent unwanted energies or beings from entering the home.

A herb of rejuvenation, leaves of mugwort were placed into shoes to ward off fatigue during long journeys.

In herbal medicine, mugwort is used for digestive issues, menstrual problems, and to stimulate lucid dreaming.

Placing a sprig of mugwort under one’s pillow can enhance dreams and offer prophetic visions, a practice stemming from its association with the moon and feminine energy.

In magical practices, mugwort is often used in rituals of divination, protection, and healing. She is dried and burned as incense, used in saining, or infused into aromatic oils.

Her strong connection to the moon makes her a staple in lunar magic, aiding in the enhancement of psychic abilities and intuition.

Mugwort can also be used to cleanse and prepare for spiritual work, honouring her as a herb of introduction and communication bridge between the physical and spiritual realms.

🪶If mugwort calls you, I have many offerings in my apothecary .folk.apothecary made with her, in honour of expanding consciousness, and even an immersive course to drop you deep into resonance with her. The links are exactly where you’d expect them to be for all of these offerings, but I don’t need to tell you where they are, you’re not an idiot.

Brightest Blessings to you all,

Bernadette x

05/06/2026

Comfrey and Elderflower Fritters.

I like eating comfrey. I don’t care if it pi**es people off. My bones like it, my lungs like it, my roots like it, and the community it raises in me likes it too.

Why do we fear plants because someone put them in a false box once and demonised them? Comfrey is such a wonderful medicine, such a delicious and nourishing food, but the super-limiting boundaries of a flawed animal study (the ethics of that are a discussion for another day) have caused a worrying level of outrage and fear in relation to one of our most precious ancestral herbs.

The question we should all reflect on is, why is it so easy to dismiss thousands of years of use, to deny the wisdom and responsibility of our ancestors, to disconnect ourselves from a world of healing, and to choose reduction over deep-bone knowing?

What was severed in us by that made us so easy to confuse and bewilder?

I will continue to eat comfrey.

To make this, just make a simple batter of flour, fizzy water, and baking powder. Mix in some elderflowers sprung from their stalks by running a fork downwards along the stem (this is very satisfying). You can add a little sugar if you like. It should be the consistency of thick paint. Dip the comfrey leaves in the batter then fry them in an oil or fat of your choosing. I serve them with the hedgerow jelly I make every autumn, but you can use whatever you fancy.

Every time I eat comfrey I can feel the magic of this ancient medicine filling my bones with connection. I am not telling you to eat comfrey, make up your own mind.

02/06/2026

Energetic protection is about right relationship.

With space.
With energy.
And with self.

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