WEATHERING July 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary Weathering the wild storms in our lives requires shelter and insulation from the cold both literal and metaphorical, that insulation is made up of self-compassion and yes, self-care. “Self-care...
MATARIKI June 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary Matariki falls on June 28th this year, so let’s take this month to cultivate a deeper understanding of our Māori new year and why it is an important ritual for...
NOW I BECOME MYSELF May 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary My work, my love, my time, my face Gathered into one intense Gesture of growing like a plant. As slowly as the ripening fruit Fertile, detached, and always spent, Falls...
OIKOS April 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary Oikos (Greek) – habitat, environment, home. We don’t often consider how intertwined we are with nature because we have grown up to believe that we are separate from it....
ANTHROPOLOGY March 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary Participant Observation as a Way of Life. For our March Meditation month I want to highlight an anthropological tool that is used in the field when learning about other...
SWANNING February 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary I have always love the image and symbolism of the swan. A swan embodies grace, elegance and dignity. I equally love the term, swanning around, even though it has negative...
RADICAL REGENERATION January 01, 2024Wellington Apothecary A practical and pagan way to begin a new year and a new you. Radical regeneration requires rewriting ones story. Most of our stories that we live by and...
RITUALS December 01, 2023Wellington Apothecary Rituals are the key to creating a good life and a buffer for when times are not so good. We call them rituals because this word invokes a sense of...
WILD INSIDE November 01, 2023Wellington Apothecary “We may have left the natural world but the natural world has not left us.” - Michael McCarthy, Environmental Journalist We may be living with smartphones, artificial intelligence and...
SYMPOIESIS October 01, 2023Wellington Apothecary The word “sympoiesis” derives from the ancient Greek sún (“with, together”) and poíēsis (“creation, production”), meaning “becoming-with.” And so, we live, create and become who we are together with everything...
BIORHYTHM September 01, 2023Wellington Apothecary “To decompose is to become different. It’s a process that mirrors our emotional worlds. We recycle old versions of ourselves, integrating new experiences and then using those memories to transform...
UNDERLAND August 01, 2023Wellington Apothecary “Sometimes in the darkness you can see more clearly.” - Robert McFarlane I recently read a book by Robert McFarlane called Underland, about the rich and varied life underground....