Mythic Roots

www.forestfablez.etsy.com ~ Infusions of myth, magic, and medicine Senses open to the wonder of this world, I immerse myself in the enchantment of the universe.

Inspiration births magical elixirs of earthly delights. Enjoy your jaunt through the Forest.

04/08/2026

Violets are blooming💜
When you are a plant lover, time is measured by blooming seasons. The first Violet bloom is an important moment in the year for me. It marks my only son’s birthday! It also calls back the memories of loved ones who have passed during that time frame.

Flowers and leaves contain pain-reliving and anti-inflammatory compounds and can be used for headaches, skin irritations, respiratory illnesses, for breast health and as a gentle sleep aid.

Energetically, this plant can soothe the pain of grief and heartache. The leaves are shaped like hearts; sometimes plants give you clues on how to work with them…

I make my Breast Caress and Heart’s Ease with wild violets as the main ingredient. She’s a wonderful ally for those recovering from trauma.

04/04/2026

Our library has a giving garden behind it. Volunteers grow food for the local community kitchen which provides free meals for those who need it. Every town should be full of these and medicinal plants as well. This is how we stay free, healthy, and empowered.

03/31/2026

The siren of The French Broad River.
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Made with 100% wool

Among the waters of Asheville, North Carolina, lives the Lorelei of the French Broad River.
Here, from the time when the Cherokee lived free, lives the river siren. If one who is weary or in despair sits beside the stream or utters a wish to leave this world, they will begin to hear a soft and exquisite music blending with the lapping of the waves.
The siren was slowly appear and seduce them into her arms with her song, before drowning them in the cold waters below.

03/23/2026

Tiny blues for me and you.
When I wonder about world, creation, the “rulers”, etc I see rouge sprites, long ago, casting enchanted seeds all over the earth to bring us joy and beauty in this realm. Flowers 🌸.
Blue flowers 💙

03/13/2026

The Brown Mountain Lights
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There are mysterious lights in these Blue Ridge Mountains. The most well known place to see them is around Brown Mountain. Large orbs of various colors that move through the valleys and ridge tops.
They’ve been around a long time; the local Cherokee had their tales of them as did the settlers later.
You can hear one tale from the folklore in this blue grass song playing by Tony Rice!

03/11/2026

Hyacinth and how it was created by Apollo from the blood of his lover.

03/08/2026

One of the first flowers of spring is the Narcissist, known by most as Daffodil. A pretty little thing filled with poison inside. With the label narcissist being used so often, I thought we’d get to its roots today as my Narcissist flowers are blooming all over the yard. There is always a story....

The flower was used by the ancients medicinally, very carefully, as it is also a POISON and creates a numbing effect (Narcs tend to be numb to the pain of others). The name stems from the Greek word for intoxicant (NARCOTIC) and comes from the character in Greek myth known by the same name, Narcissus. It is this myth that the term Narcissist comes from as well as the name of the diagnosis, Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Narcissus was a boy born of a nymph and a river god. He was beautiful to look upon, with bright yellow hair. He left a trail of broken hearts behind him. He loved no one, but girls and boys and men and women adored him. One day, in his teen years, he saw his reflection in a pool of water and fell in love with himself. He could not look away. He wasted away and died there obsessing over himself. The gods took pity on him and allowed him to live eternally as the Narcissus flower (daffodil) which was born where he lay, by the pool of water. One of the hearts he broke belonged to the nymph, Echo. She had been cursed by Hera so that she could only ever repeat the last couple of words spoken to her. Echo fell for Narcissus in the forest where she was hiding and could only stand by and watch as he fell in love with himself. She was so devastated by his lack of love that she crept away to a cave and withered away herself. All that remains now is her voice, repeating what was just said…

If you’ve ever had any sort of relationship with someone who falls under the label, you know the damage they can do. How they seem to be filled with a poison that slowly kills your spirit, your nervous system, and if you stay long enough, can make you physically ill. You wither away, like Echo.

The daffodil is a good reminder that toxic things can come in pretty little packages.

02/04/2026

Icy winter roads mean no work for me so I dug back into an art form I used to play with. Felting wool. I’ve been working on pictures of local scenes and legends. These are the first 3 going up at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville, NC

Cold Mountain, a local peak by my home where the book and movie of the same name take place. The heron plays part in the book as a poignant moment for the main character, Ada, and in a mysterious story of fathering another character. Excerpt from the book by Charles Frazier:

They stepped slowly toward the river edge and the heron turned to look at them with some interest. He made tiny precise adjustments of his narrow head as if having trouble sighting around his blade of beak. His eyes seemed to Ada to be searching for her merits and coming up short.

— What are you doing up here? she said aloud to the heron. But she knew by the look of him that his nature was anchorite and mystic. Like all of his kind, he was a solitary pilgrim, strange in his ways and governed by no policy or creed common to flocking birds…She had seen a scant number in her life, and those so lonesome as to make the heart sting on their behalf. Exile birds. Everywhere they were seemed far from home.
This piece is $50 plus shipping if you’d to purchase before it goes up locally.

01/02/2026

Here’s to living as well as we can this year. Let’s pull those dreams off the shelf, dust off the excuses move towards the life we want.

Keep each other free, inspired, and safe.

12/05/2025

This is for the ladies. But also if you love one and want to understand her mysteries better. We talk a great deal about pms how to to mitigate it. But what if we remembered another way? Searched way back in the strands of our dna?

This is a time when we are open and sensitive to the energies of others. We are vulnerable yet powerful. We need tender care from ourselves and others. We need not to be around crowds or to be taking care of life’s trivial issues which end up in frustration and irritability. We feel these things because we are in a different space during this time and overwhelm can happen quickly in the outside world.

This is a time to care for yourself. Wrap yourself in warm blankets, sit by a fire, let the darkness envelop you. Try to have as little stimulation as possible.
All around this world, throughout time cultures in tune had moon lodges or menstrual lodges where women would go during this time.

Darkess, fire, quiet. This is where we discover our strength. We come back to our heart, (our hearth) the source of strength inside each of us. The powerhouse of our blood. The center of our extrasensory perception. This is where we find our power and inspiration to keep going. This is very opposite of the complaints I hear from so many women, with many actually having suicidal thoughts this time of month when they force themselves into a lifestyle that does not make space for this special time we visit every single month.

When you feel yourself getting agitated or weepy, retreat. Tend to your inner fire. Gather yourself at your heart(h) and learn how to truly nourish yourself. Build your blood and enrich your inner world.

I have been learning the ways in which plants can assist us during our cycle and have begun growing many herbs which I will be offering to you in a tea blend next season. I’m grateful to be able to steward this land that the free peoples once lived on and loved and to have the opportunity to work with the plants for the next season of repairing our ripped relations with the earth.

12/03/2025

Fort Hill Earthworks in Ohio. Long ago, these lands held civilizations which constructed many of these hilltop enclosures and enormous geometric earthworks aligned with celestial events such as equinox and solstice sunrises and the risings of certain stars.
We walk on sacred, mysterious lands still holding stories and secrets.

12/02/2025

Just for fun 😊. This was going to be a Halloween short but I didn’t finish it in time so figure I’d share on this week of bitter weather for ya’ll.
I’ve been having so much fun during the growing off-season hunting legends with friends, fam, and taking sweet little solos entering the deeper spaces.

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