Anima Mundi Apothecary

♐🌕 The Blue Moon rises in Sagittarius on May 31, and she is enthusiastic about it!! This is the second Full Moon of May, which is an uncommon occurrence, following Scorpio’s intensity on May 1 with something far more willing to laugh at itself. Sag is Jupiter’s sign: expansive, philosophical, a little too honest, and completely convinced the adventure is worth it.

After weeks of Scorpio’s depth dredging and Ta**us season’s slow, grounded reckoning, a Sagittarius Blue Moon feels like a valve releasing. Maybe not everything’s resolved yet, but Sag genuinely believes they will be, and that belief, it turns out, is its own kind of medicine.

June carries this opening energy forward. Venus and Jupiter are glittering together in Cancer through early June, building toward their exact conjunction on June 9. This is one of the sweeter transits of the year: warmth, belonging, the heart opening toward something it had quietly given up on.

Then Mercury slows into retrograde through Cancer, June 29-July 23. Old contacts resurface. Feelings become harder to name precisely. The advice, as always: sleep on it before you send it. 🌀

On June 19, Chiron enters Ta**us for the first time since his discovery in 1977! Eight years of the wounded healer moving through the sign of Earth, body, and belonging. Pay attention to this.

The Blue Moon is just the beginning. Will you let her be a little wild? Drop MOON in the comments for your full June forecast.
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At what moment did you realize that fear wasn’t a warning anymore? When did the habit form? When did you stop trusting your gut and start trying to negotiate with it?

In Latin American curanderismo, there’s a concept called susto, or “soul fright.” Its counterpart is the slow reclamation of the soul it scattered: limpias. Smoke and stillness draw the spirit back like warmth draws feeling back to a numb hand.

Spirit tools from our apothecary to help clear what’s accumulated:

🪵 Palo Santo, the Holy Wood, has been burned in Andean & Amazonian ceremonies for centuries to clear what has accumulated. Fear leaves residue. Smoke removes it.

🩸 Sangre de Grado, Dragon’s Blood, has been revered across Amazonian healing traditions as a sealer of physical & energetic wounds. It closes what fear opens.

💨 ICYMI: A very special wild-harvested Mexican Copal Blanco is new to our apothecary! Bursera bipinnata, used by the Aztec & Maya for thousands of years as a living bridge between earthly & unseen realms, helps carry our intentions upward like a prayer made visible. And did you know that the word “copal” originally comes from the Nahuatl word for incense, “copalli”?

Burn these herbs to send a message to your spirit guides & yourself: I’m here. I’m present. I’m no longer lost inside my worry. Magic doesn’t wait for courage. Release the fear, and magic will find you.

What plants or rituals helped clear your path? 🐉

More than half of you is water. 🌊 Biologically speaking, your brain is approximately 73% water, not to mention your blood, your lungs, and the fluid your cells float in. You are, at a molecular level, mostly ocean. How dreamy does it feel knowing that?
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols spent years documenting how being near water changes us in measurable ways. Heart rate slows, blood pressure drops, and the brain shifts into alpha waves. That’s the same quiet hum we reach in meditation! Nichols called this state “Blue Mind,” a particular kind of calm that water induces in us.
Doctors in Georgian England wrote prescriptions for exactly this. The “sea cure” was a real, documented medical treatment beginning in the early 1700s, prescribed for melancholia, nervous exhaustion, and general depletion. Women, especially, were sent to the coast for weeks at a time. Even then, people understood that the body knows how to return to itself, and water is where it remembers.
Do you recall the first time you stood at the edge of the sea?
Every coastal tradition on Earth holds water as sacred, as medicine, as the original source. The Afro-Brazilian reverence for Yemanjá. Lakota water ceremonies. Bali’s holy springs. The Ganges at dawn. Humans have always had healing rituals for standing at the edge of something vast and letting it work on us.
You carry the waters because you ARE the current. Tag someone you want to experience Blue Mind with 💙 and consider this your sign to get to the sea!!


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You’ve been so well trained in the art of becoming. The next version! The healed version! The more disciplined, more abundant, more spiritually evolved version! 🌿 Whole industries are built on the gap between who you are right now and who you’re “supposed to” be getting to. Somewhere inside all that striving, the being part gets skipped.

But let this be your Sunday sermon: don’t rush past the joyous juiciness of being. 🍊 There’s a concept in many Indigenous traditions of what might be called “right relationship with time.” It encourages a continuous, cyclical return to presence over linear progress toward a single destination. Sit and simmer in being. Revel in it. Just BEING leads to becoming divinely aligned. ✨ Have you tried this lately?

Transformation isn’t something that happens once you arrive somewhere. It’s merely the quality of attention you bring to where you already are. Plants, our ever-wise counterparts, understand this fully. 🌱 A seed doesn’t become a tree by resenting being a seed. It does what this moment asks of it, and the becoming takes care of itself.

This doesn’t mean stop growing. We’re still in the Year of the Fire Horse, and the true New Year, Spring, after all! 🔥 But please allow growth to feel like living in every moment, not mucking through a performance review you’re perpetually failing.

Honest end-of-week truth to journal or reflect on: In what ways are you moving through your “mundane” life too fast to actually feel something more “profound”? 🌙