Ida Mae's Herbals

I did not begin studying herbs in earnest straightaway.  As a little girl, I listened to stories about my grandmother's granny knowing how to cure this or that with herbs.  I loved hearing about my grandmother's childhood  and strolling around her gardens as a child, watching her work tirelessly, seeing her can and preserve. I watched her save everything, recycle before it was popular, and "make do."  I watched my grandfather repair everything, and build things.  I saw him return from his hunts. I saw them work together to manage everything. Beneath all of this was an undercurrent of vigilance and self-reliance.  I respected it while I saw others around me dismiss it as silly and old fashioned.  They grew up during the Great Depression, and I listened to their stories and those of my great uncles and great aunts. Jude leaning into the corn When I was older, I studied history, anthropology, and then humanities.  I learned how recently war ha...

This Sunday the 20 th there will be a total lunar eclipse.  The eclipse begins at about 10:33 pm EST. The total eclipse will occur from about 11:41 pm to about 12:43 am Monday the 21st. The Super Blood Wolf Moon will have risen and the total lunar eclipse will be visible from North and South America and partially visible in areas of Europe and Africa into the early hours of Monday.   A super moon is when a full moon is at or near perigee, which is it’s closest point to Earth in its orbit.   The Earth, sun and moon will line up creating a lunar eclipse, during which the Earth’s shadow casts a red hue over the moon as the sun’s light passes through the Earth’s atmosphere.   Hence  the term “Blood Moon.”  Wolf resonates with those who teach, with attributes of loyalty and wisdom, with a deep relationship with family and ancestors, and a strong connection with instinct and intuition.   If your spirit animal is the wolf, you will find you...

Sacred Manifestation Elixir supports realistic self-empowerment &  helps overcome setbacks. https://www.idamaeapothecary.com/apps/webstore/products/show/7917398 How are everyone’s resolutions going?   Often by the second week of January a lot of people are struggling with an "all or nothing” concept with their resolutions.   By now, you may have found that “I will eat no white bread” or "I will do yoga every day” becomes difficult in the face of all the things you have to do in a day. If Monday comes and goes and you ate a load of doughnuts for breakfast because someone brought them to the board meeting at work, maybe you think tomorrow you can start eating healthily again, because today you blew it.   M aybe you decided to quit smoking and you were very nearly run off the road on your way home from work, so you went by the convenience store and bought a pack of cigarettes. One last pack and you’ll be done.    Or you skipped your tr...