medicine of the month

|tea infusion|

Work with Lotus each day as a tea.
I invite you to begin drinking Lotus in the evenings, as we journey in the dark depths of the mud this month.

Begin to weave Blue Lotus into your life, your rituals + practices, into your body + spirit.

Notice how the plant feels in your body in the night, at the end of a long day, how they invite you to spend your evenings.


CREATING AN EVENING
RITUAL WITH LOTUS

In the evening + night time of our day we are in the energy of Fall + Winter and descending into the Root/Earth energy.
This is a beautiful time to invite Lotus in to soothe our nervous systems and enter the energy of our Roots.
I invite you to create an evening ritual with your Lotus Tea.
Maybe you want to make your tea and spend some time journaling after a long day, watch the sunset,
have a long bath or shower in candlelight, do breathwork + meditation, beauty rituals, make art, read, whatever it may be.
I invite you to begin to weave in this practice and welcome in some evenings away from screens to be present with the Lotus.

Allow yourself to be comfortable in the stillness + silence of the darkness.

Making Your Infusion

You can infuse your petals + flowers for 30 minutes - 8 hours. Always covered with a lid.

Begin to experiment with the length of infusion you feel called to do and when.
& the difference you begin to feel with the lighter vs stronger infusions.

I enjoy doing Ceremonial Infusions for 6-8 hours for meditation + ceremony work. I find that this longer infusion activates my 3rd eye for visioning + active dreaming.

I enjoy lighter infusions for 1 hour, that soothe my mind + anxiety + stress, and bring me into a sweet hum sleep in the evening.
lighter infusions are wonderful to drink in the morning and in the daytime to relax when you feel anxious.

You can also drop into meditation + ceremony work with a light infusion.
It does not always have to be so strong. I have been really enjoying the lighter meditations lately, that seems to hit a different chakra and allow for a different type of visioning + meditation for e personally.

Play around + experiment with what is true for you. Please share with us in the community page as you begin to feel into it.

OFFERINGS TO THE LOTUS

Offer your intentions, prayers, + gratitude to the Lotus in the physical. I invite you to take some petals outside into nature, or to the waters. Sit with the flower/petals, hold them at your heart, and whisper your intentions + prayers + gratitude + reverence to the flower now having met them in meditation. Offering your presence + love as your journey together begins. Dig a hold in the earth and bury your petals/flower with your spoken prayers into the earth - or offer them into the ocean/river/waters. Maybe you also want to offer the lotus something with your petals - a special stone, roses, a strand of your hair - something from your heart and bury it/release it with your petals. This is a powerful yet simple practice in reciprocity, and in connecting and weaving your relationship into the physical.

OBSERVING THE FLOWER MEDITATION

Please use a whole flower for this practice. + have your a journal + pen.

Hold the dry flower in the palm of your hand and just begin to notice it. Gazing at the colors, smelling it, observing the textures, looking at it from an ants perspective. Flip it over and do the same to the back. Getting to know every inch of this beautiful creation.
Grab your journal + pen and sketch what you see, drawing each little shape and texture that you notice - this does not have to be the best drawing ever, release perfectionism and just create and allow it to be a practice of observation + beauty + presence. You will be so surprised at all of the things you begin to notice.

Then do this same practice with a flower that has been infused in your tea. Pull it out of the jar and hold the wet flower in your hand. Notice how it has changed! Observe what you see and write it down + draw this version of the flower too.

What do these textures and colors begin to share with you about the medicine of the flower? Where it comes from? How it transforms? What it has to offer you? Use your intuition and write down the messages you receive from both the dried + infused flower.

CREATING YOUR ALTAR

If you already have an altar in your space, I invite you to add a lotus flower or petals to it.
You can also add the medicine for the next month to charge there too.

If you don’t have an altar in your space - I invite you to create one! A place where you keep your special objects, where all of the element
are honored - just as you were invited to create for our opening ceremony. & include your lotus petals + medicines if you feel called to.

An altar is a sacred space that allows for the elemental energies within us to be directed to one place. A place of devotion + beauty + love.
Tend to it like you would yourself. Enjoy arranging it, setting up your special things, keeping it clean, lighting a candle there, having fresh flowers.
Allow it to be an expression of your spiritual journey.

PLANT MEDITATION

I invite you to continue your practice with plant spirit meditations - just as we did in the Opening Ceremony. Sit with the plant, smelling it,
anointing your body, taking in each sip with presence + intention, and when you feel ready and feel the plant in your body - call in the plant spirit and see what comes through for you. The more we practice this, the deeper we can go. Or simply drink the plant in silence with presence and journal and listen to music. Begin to weave this ritual into your weeks. I invite you to try to sit with the plant in meditation/silence at least once a week.

DRINK LOTUS AT THE WATER

If you live near a body of water - an ocean, river, creek, lake, etc - I invite you to take a cup of your tea and drink by the water. Close your eyes and tune in to the sounds of the waters around you as you drink. Just be present here and enjoy. Bring your journal and write whatever may come through or your experience here. Leave your spent petals/flower to the waters and begin to feel the Lotus, yourself, and the water communing together. It is a special experience to drink Lotus by the waters and my favorite ritual.

DRINK LOTUS OUT IN NATURE
Bring a cup out into somewhere in nature that you love to visit or simply in your backyard/garden. Allow the Lotus to get to know you there, too.
Offer the land some of the lotus water. Begin to connect the Lotus to your land, and court a place in nature that you’d like to begin to go
to drink the Lotus there often. Develop a relationship in the physical.

DREAMING WITH LOTUS
As you drink Lotus before bed, set an intention as you close your eyes, to dream with them. Ask the plant to take you on a journey or reveal
something to you. Begin to pay attention to your dreams when you drink Lotus in the evenings. Keep your journal near your bed, and as
you wake up write your dreams down, whether they make sense or not. Begin to court this practice of dream recalling. The more you stay
consistent with it, the more you will start to be able to recall your dreams in detail. Dream recalling is an ancient practice of working in
non-linear realms with the plants. Maybe you even want to place a petal under your pillow!

NOTICING THE SIGNS + MESSAGES

Lotus has this powerful way of allowing us to slow down so we can truly notice, observe, and listen to the world around us.
Be open + notice the signs + synchronicities that begin to arise. Parts of your meditations that show up in your physical realm.
Create a sign for the spirit of Lotus or your spirit guides to communicate with you and witness the miracles that show up for you.
My sign is a feather - and lately, I seem to always find one on my walks right before I offer ceremony. Begin to take notice of these small
messages of love from your guides + the Lotus. Collect the physical signs + gifts you receive for your altar.

Please share in our Community Page your experience with any of these rituals
or photos you would like to share to inspire one another. <3