Rosaria Wellbeing & Apothecary

28/11/2025

Harvesting herbs and happiness 💕

Today’s harvest was Mugwort - Lady Artemisia herself.

I have been watching, waiting and feeling for the right moment to gather this herb from our family garden.

It was gifted to my mum and planted with excitement, and it has been growing in abundance ever since!

So abundant that it began taking over the space, especially my potted white sage which was not looking very happy about it.

Instead of seeing the invasiveness as a negative thing, I chose to shift the story.

I saw it as Mugwort telling me that it was time.

Time to harvest.

Time to honour her presence.

Time to put her to good use in my apothecary.

So today I did just that.

She is now resting so any little garden visitors can wander off.

Next I will wash the leaves and hang the bundles to dry, ready for the magic they will eventually become.

There is exciting medicine in the making, my heart is alive with the spark of creation.

Rosaria 🌹

27/11/2025

The Snake 🐍 is the part of you that survived what should have broken you.

It held your pain so you could keep moving.
It swallowed truth you weren’t ready to speak.
It shed pieces of you that were never meant to stay.

The Snake is the self you became
when life demanded too much
and offered too little.
It is the instinct, the rawness, the shadow, the silent knowing.
It crawls close to the earth
because healing often begins where you fell.

But there is a moment..
a moment every soul must face..
where survival is no longer enough.

That is where the Horse enters. 🐎🔥

The Horse is the self that returns
after you’ve faced the dark and didn’t disappear.
It is not the opposite of the Snake —
it is what the Snake was preparing you for.

The Horse rises because you no longer fear your own power.
It carries the truth the Snake uncovered.
It runs with the fire you thought you lost.
It breathes with a chest that finally expands again.

The Horse is movement, yes..
but more than that:
it is permission.
Permission to become loud.
Visible.
Fast.
Unapologetically alive.

The transition from Snake to Horse is never gentle.
It is the moment you realize:

I cannot stay who I was
just because I learned to survive as her.

This is the crossing.
The inner revolution.
The soul remembering itself.

If this image found you…
you are already standing at the threshold.
One foot in the skin you’ve outgrown,
one foot in the fire calling your name.

And once you take the first step forward..
there is no going back.
Not to the silence.
Not to the shrinking.
Not to the version of you built from fear.

2026 won’t just change your life.
It will change who you are inside your life.

This is the turning point — the moment your old self bows, and your new destiny steps forward. 🌙🔥🐎

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Rosaria 🌹

24/11/2025

As the year starts to close,
I keep thinking about how far I’ve come.
Not the big wins.
Not the shiny moments.
But the quiet ones.
The days I picked myself up when no one was watching.
The nights I chose peace instead of arguing
The mornings I kept going even when my heart felt heavy.
I’m not the same woman I was in January.
I’m softer.
Stronger.
More intentional.
More myself.
And honestly - I’m proud of her.
The year didn’t break me.
It shaped me.
And I’m walking into what’s next with a whole new energy.

I know there are many others who have experienced the same vibes this year... I feel you.

Rosaria 🌹

24/11/2025

This morning, as I was checking on my rose geranium flower-essence, a damselfly landed softly on the plant.

A tiny, iridescent visitor.
Light as breath.
Present.
Aware.

It felt like a quiet affirmation.

An energy of grace, transformation, and gentle clarity arriving right where medicine was being made.

Damselflies carry the reminder to stay in the moment.

Release the weight of yesterday, soften any fear about what’s ahead.

Move with the currents rather than against them.

Trust the unfolding.

Their presence holds a kind of joyful lightness, a renewal of spirit, and a widening of perspective… much like the rose geranium itself, which soothes the heart and steadies the emotional body.

A beautiful little blessing on the essence.

A message to return to softness, to clarity, to flow.

Happy Monday!

Rosaria 🌹

18/11/2025

Learning to be with plants…

to slow down, to observe,
to connect.

Deep listening.
Plant communion.
A relationship built in quiet moments.

And now… the joy of harvesting.

A soft reminder that what we tend to with presence
.always blooms back into our hands.

Super heartwarming to harvest my own chamomile and calendula flowers for the first time .

What will I make with these? 🥰

Rosaria 🌹

16/11/2025

“My daughter isn’t a reflection of me,

She’s the evolution.

She’s stronger, braver, and more unapologetically herself than I ever knew how to be.

She asks the questions I was too afraid to voice.

She speaks truths I once kept buried.

She walks with a fire I had to fight to find.

She is not my shadow, she is my legacy.

She carries my love, not my fears.

And watching her rise into who she’s meant to be?

That is the honor of my life.”

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16/11/2025

For a moment, the world fell away.
All that remained,
was the pause my body had been quietly asking for.

Smoke rising…
Rain falling…
Mineral water holding…
Native bushlands grounding…

A soft nudge
to slow down,
tune in,
and…

Let the elements hold you.

Elemental pause

Rosaria 🌹

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

5 HERBS FOR REST

LAVENDER (Lavandula spp.) - Lovely lavender encourages deep restoration. This beautifully fragrant herb of tranquility helps our brains to embody relaxation, supports restful sleep, and rejuvenates the nervous system.

CALIFORNIA POPPY (Eschscholzia californica) —
Long used by herbalists for addressing stress and insomnia, cheery California poppy is a delightful relaxant that helps both mind and body to process the events of the day.

SKULLCAP (Scutellaria lateriflora) - Like a cozy nightcap keeping relaxing thoughts in and stressful thoughts out, skullcap just the herb for promoting rest.
Calming without being strongly sedating, skullcap sets the scene for relaxation and recovery.

PASSIONFLOWER (Passiflora incarnata) - For those on the go-go-go train, passionflower is a soft reminder to slow down and stop any cycling thoughts that are interrupting your ability to rest. Passionflower offers respite and the ability to renew the self.

CHAMOMILE (Matricaria chamomilla) - A warm, floral hug in a cup, chamomile tea is a classic herb of rest.
Chamomile is restorative and enables the self who is seeking rest to be soothed and calmed enough to deeply relax.

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10/11/2025

Today’s garden update:

Little chamomile flowers starting to bloom.

I am super excited about these!

So delicate and sweet.

Known for soothing the nervous system,
easing digestion and calming the heart.

A gentle humble healer.

Looking forward to harvesting these mini delights for the apothecary creations 🔆

Rosaria 🌹

09/11/2025

I have been waiting for this…The moment to gather the first seeds of borage.

I intentionally bought these three borage plants as tiny seedlings from the local nursery.

This plant formed part of a dual essence I created for the Spring Equinox this year, marking a season of renewal and courage.

Borage offers heart strength and gentle encouragement when the path feels uncertain.

It reminds me to trust the process of becoming, to meet each stage with grace, and to open my heart to abundance in all its forms.

As I gather the seeds, I feel its teaching settle within me.

Borage stands as a living emblem of courageous abundance, showing that true prosperity arises not from striving, but from steady vitality and trust in lifes rhythm.

Its bristled leaves speak of resilience, and its blue star flowers mirror the boundless sky, grounding and expanding all at once.

Traditionally known to gladden the spirit, borage carries the medicine of brave abundance: to give freely, to keep blooming, and to trust that renewal always follows release.

Its nectar calls the bees, tiny messengers of prosperity, reminding me that generosity invites life to flow.

Now, as I hold these seeds in my hands, I see the cycle complete itself.

What once flowered now becomes continuation, courage turning to sustenance, beauty becoming renewal.

Each seed carries the echo of its bloom, the promise of return.

I look forward to sowing these seeds next spring, to see if and what grows from them, a hope of expansion for my borage patch and future plantings.

To harvest borage is to honour this rhythm: courage into beauty, beauty into abundance, abundance into new beginnings.

May the courage of borage infuse my hands, and the rhythm of abundance flow through all I create.

Rosaria 🌹

07/11/2025

Slow work is soul work… 🌹

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