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#MorningPages 28 Jan 26
9. Pluviôse honoring Poplar, Eddie Buczynski b1947, Agnes Sampson executed 1591, Yud Shevat, St Thomas Aquinas, Feast of Khnum-Re & Ptah
#Herb of the Day: Double Daisy • Bellis perennis plena #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear blue, F
#ink Colorverse DaVinci Glow
#tarot or #OracleDeck Mushroom Spirit Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 10 Tremella • Tremella fuciformis: yin, what do you need to fill your cup?

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “As the black poplar produces only small seeds and unobtrusive flowers, it was viewed as infertile and accordingly linked with death and the underworld. Thus when in the course of his wanderings it is time for Odysseus to consult the deceased prophet Teiresias, who alone can tell him how to reach his home, the hero must travel to the Grove of Persephone, which abounds in willow and poplar: here he will find access to Hades’s house. And Pliny the Elder reports that the followers of the philosopher Pythagoras, who believed in the transmigration of the soul, were buried covered in leaves of the black poplar. Although the white poplar was sacred to the sun god Helios and accordingly linked with light and life, it, too, had funerary associations. As Pausanias writes, the hero Heracles brought the white poplar from the underworld, where he had gone to fetch the triple-headed dog Cerberus, guardian of the dread House of Hades.” — Annette Giesecke, The Mythology of Plants, 2014. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a ruffled white fungus on a log; a clear blue, plastic fountain pen; a swatch of of chromashading medium blue ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

#MorningPages 27 January 2026
8. Pluviôse honoring Daphne mezereum; Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day; Sts. Lydia, Dorcas & Phoebe; Pacifying of Sekhmet, St. Julian
#Herb of the Day: Balm - Melissa officinalis #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - scarlet, F
#ink Diamine Bah Humbug
#tarot or #OracleDeck Sibyls Oraculum
 #CardOfTheDay Tumultu • Confusion - don’t be afraid to ask questions

Open notebook, text from the post & additional text: “Dorcas signifies a roe, or gazelle, & was the name, probably, given to indicate some peculiar characteristic of this amiable woman. Dorcas lived in Joppa, now called Jaffa, a seaport upon the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 45 miles northwest of Jerusalem. She had early become a convert to the Christian religion, and must have been a most zealous disciple, as she 'was full of good works and alms-deeds, which she did.’ She was not satisfied with advocating the right way, or giving in charity; she worked with her own hands in the good cause—she made garments for the poor; she relieved the sick, she comforted those who mourned. We feel sure she must have done all these deeds of love, because when she died, the 'widows’ were ‘weeping, and shewing the coats and gnrmeats Dorcas had made.’ Peter, the apostle, was journeying in the country near Joppa when Dorcas died. The disciples sent for him to come and comfort them in this great affliction; he went, and prayed, and raised the dead Dorcas to life.[…]A woman was thus distinguished for her ‘good works’ And her name has since been, and will ever continue to be, synonymous with the holiest deeds of woman’s charity, till time shall be no more.” — H G Adams, A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, 1857. Below is a card a battered mosaic of octopodes & fishes; a dk red fountain pen; a swatch of dk red ink w/red shimmer; & a bottle of same.

#MorningPages 26 January 2026
7. Pluviôse honoring Tinder polypore, Robert Cochrane b 1931, Moll Dyer Day, Brishma Ashtami, Sts Timothy & Titus, St Paula, a lucky Tycho Brahe day
#Herb of the Day: White coltsfoot • Tussilago alba
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Monteverde Mountains of Earth
#ink Monteverde Citrine
#tarot or #OracleDeck Literary Witches Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Snail - taking your time, the sacred, fragility

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “When a witch is about, any individual mishap, any storm-swept crops or any blighted harvest is laid at her door, and Poor Moll must have been held accountable for many sins of which she was never guilty, but, at last, there came a great affliction upon all the people, and by universal opinion the plague was attributed to her evil influences. What this calamity was the story does not relate. Maybe, some terrible epidemic of diseaso or some great loss of lives or property by storm and flood. Anyhow, it was enough to arouse the whole community and the people determined to rid themselves of Moll Dyer and her blighting witchcraft. But how could this be done without failure and withont bringing down upon them greater evil? After long consultation it was agreed to destroy Moll Dyer's hut by fire, and force her to seek shelter in another place. It was mid-Winter and such a Winter as the old times knew. It is related that on a dark, stormy and freezing night her hut was surrounded and fired by the avenging people. With barely time to save herself, she escaped from the flames and fled to the woods.” — (Written for the Beacon) “Legends of St. Mary’s: Moll Dyer,” Saint Mary’s Beacon, Leonardtown, Maryland, August 18, 1892. Below the text is a card with an illustration of snail; a black fountain pen with gunmetal trim; a swatch of burnt orange ink; and a rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 25 January 2026
6. Pluviôse honoring Laurustinus, St Dwyn, Antoine Court de Gébelin b. 1725, Ratha Saptami, Burns Night, Feast of Osiris, 1st Quarter Moon in Taurus 🌓♉️
#Herb of the Day: Pine • Pinus strobus #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted
#FountainPen Kaweco Student - rock, M
#ink Sailor Seiboku
#tarot or #OracleDeck Moonology & Moonology Manifestations
 #CardOfTheDay 1st Qrt Moon in Taurus - release control; 1st Qrt Moon - Your commitment is being tested

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Many of Burns’s earliest poems, songs and letters reveal his radical views and his empathy for the poor and vulnerable in society. He was without doubt a champion of the oppressed and an enemy of the ruling class and of aristocratic power and privilege. Burns’s magnificent poem Address of Beelzebub (1785)5 is a dramatic monologue aptly described by Gerard Carruthers as “one of Burns’ most savagely satirical poems”.6 The poem castigates the Highland landlords for their treatment of tenant farmers who were desperately trying to escape from the poverty of the Highland estates by emigrating to Canada. It clearly has a strong contemporary resonance given the worldwide refugee and migrant crisis exacerbated by the election of Donald Trump and Theresa May. In this poem Burns is writing in support of the right of migrants to emigrate for economic advancement and in search of liberty and freedom.” — Charlie McKinnon, “The radical Robert Burns,” International Socialism: a quarterly review of socialist theory, 9 January 2018. Below the text are two large cards—one with with an illustration of a quarter moon above a figure seated next to a standing stone, the other of a quarter moon in the night sky— and an ivory and blue fountain pen with gold tone trim.

#MorningPages 24 January 2026
5. Pluviôse honoring the Bull, Feriae Sementiva*, Paganalia*, St. Timothy
#Herb of the Day: Stalkless Moss • Phascum muticum (Acaulon muticum) #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - Au black, M
#ink Diamine Sparkling Shadows
#tarot or #OracleDeck Nocturne Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Grasshopper • Pamphagidae spp. - moving forward, faith, adventure

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Varro reports that the Septimontium was celebrated, not by the Roman people as a whole, but by the ‘people of the hills’, while the Paganalia were held by the members of a pagus. In short, there were a variety of ways in which feriae could be celebrated. Further diversity is suggested by the lack of a consistent terminology: in the imperial period, people could no longer distinguish between various forms of religiously relevant days such as dies nefasti, dies religiosi and dies atri, and even legal texts assimilated dies nefasti and feriae. The result was that the various, originally distinct concepts of time were assimilated to each other. Even more confusing is the officially sanctioned modification of the character of a number of holidays: Caesar transformed the legal marking of three feriae into NP-days, thus clearly reacting to changing religious attitudes.” — Michael Lipka, Roman Gods: A conceptual approach, 2009. Below the text is a black card with an illustration of the side view of a grasshopper; a gold tone fountain pen; a swatch of dark grey ink with gold shimmer; and a cylindrical bottle of same.

#MorningPages 23 January 2026
4. Pluviôse honoring the Snowdrop, Vasant Panchami
#Herb of the Day: Peziza • Peziza acetabulum (Helvella acetabulum) #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Platinum Prefonte - dark emerald, M
#ink Colorverse Erebus Crater
#tarot or #OracleDeck Wild Medicine herbal deck
 #CardOfTheDay Burdock • Articum lappa - stick to something

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Given the importance of marriage the English even had a spell to use as a last resort: the unmarried woman would sow burdock seeds on a piece of grass. On a Friday morning, she had to go to a quiet and deserted place, half an hour before sunrise, and say: I sow, I sow! Then, my own dear, Come here, come here, And mow, and mow! She would see a vision of her future husband mowing the sprouted burdock seeds with a scythe. If she was not frightened then the match would take place. By the 16th century burdock was considered to be under the influence of Venus and any connection with the goddess of love would have been an inducement to use the plant. The burdock was composed of many burrs and a popular game, which went back to the Middle Ages and possibly beyond, was for boys to pick off the burrs and throw them at each other. The burrs would easily stick and the boy with the fewest burrs stuck on him was the winner of the game.” — Vivian A. Rich, Cursing the Basil and Other Folklore of the Garden, 1998. Below the text is a card with a splotchy, watercolor botanical illustration of burdock in bloom; a dark green translucent plastic fountain pen; a swatch of dusty green chromashading ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

#MorningPages 22 January 2026
3. Pluviôse honoring Butcher’s Broom, John Dunne b. 1572, St. Vincent
#Herb of the Day: Early Whitlow Grass • Draba verna
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - purple, EF
#ink Diamine Masquerade
#tarot or #OracleDeck Grimalkin’s Curious Cat Tarot
 #CardOfTheDay 2 of Swords - reversed - you may need to make a decision without clear information

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Always a little hard to realize that this prickly shrub, so often condemned to slow, dusty starvation in the shrubbery, is a member of the aristocratic family of Lilies. Turner, in his Libel//us of 1538, called it Butcher’s broome or Petygrew [Ruscus aculeatus]. How much did it have to do with butchers? William Coles, in his Adam in Eden, 1657, wrote ‘now it is used by few unless it be Butchers who make cleane their stalls, and defend their meat from the flyes therewith’, which does not suggest he had seen the Butcher’s Broom in the hand of a butcher. However, W. A. Bromfield declared in the Flora Vectensis, 1856, that butchers in his time decorated ‘their mighty Christmas sirloins with the berry-bearing twigs’, which were also used in the Christmas decorations of church and home. Identified with the mursine agria or Wild Myrtle of Dioscorides, it was reputed to be ‘of a gallant clensing and opening quality’ (Culpepper, etc.). It has also been said that the young shoots can be eaten, but this again is derived from Dioscorides’ account of mursine agria.” — Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman’s Flora, 1958. Below the text is an upside down card with an illustration of an orange cat balanced on two crossed swords above a moon and a school of fish; a purple pen; a swatch of dusty pink ink with gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 21 January 2026
2. Pluviôse honoring Moss, St Agnes, Gregory Rasputin b. 1869, Agathos Daimon*
#Herb of the Day: Black Hellebore • Helleborus niger
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Studio - dark brown, M
#ink Diamine Wilted Rose
#tarot or #OracleDeck Old English Tarot
 #CardOfTheDay The Fool - a new adventure, a hasty decision

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “According to Pliny, Black Hellebore was used as a purgative in mania by Melampus, a soothsayer and physician, 1,400 years before Christ, hence the name Melampodium applied to Hellebores. Spenser in the Shepheard’s Calendar, 1579, alludes to the medicinal use of Melampode for animals. Parkinson, writing in 1641, tells us: ‘a piece of the root being drawne through a hole made in the eare of a beast troubled with cough or having taken any poisonous thing cureth it, if it be taken out the next day at the same houre.’ Parkinson believed that White Hellebore would be equally efficacious in such a case, but Gerard recommends the Black Hellebore only, as being good for beasts. He says the old farriers used to ‘cut a slit in the dewlap, and put in a bit of Beare-foot, and leave it there for daies together.’ […] Once, people blessed their cattle with this plant to keep them from evil spells, and for this purpose, it was dug up with certain mystic rites.” — Mrs. M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal (1931), 1971. Below the text is card with an illustration of a medieval jester at the edge of a cliff, staff and bag in hand, and a dog nipping at his tunic; a brown fountain pen with silver tone trim; a swatch of pinky brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 20 January 2026
1. Pluviôse honoring Spurge-laurel, St Agnes Eve, Noumenia (1. Gamelion), St Sebastian, St Fabian
#Herb of the Day: St. Fabian’s Nettle • Lamium garganicum
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen TWSBI Eco - black, 1.1 stub
#ink Diamine Best Wishes
#tarot or #OracleDeck Lineages of Change tarot
 #CardOfTheDay 8 of Earth - vision, habit, practice, profit; herb: Gentian

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The spell-casters of Wiesbaden mixed 'the names of God, the holy Trinity, some special angels, the Virgin Mary, the twelve apostles and the three kings, also with numerous saints, with the wounds of Christ and his seven last words...with gospel verses and certain prayers'. In Lower Brittany, saints' statues were whipped, the Lord's Prayer was addressed to the moon and the devil was propitiated as a cereal-god. In Portugal, the saludadores mimed Catholic rites of blessing and aspersion and mixed this with popular motifs: 'Their procedure was usually based on the miraculous blessing of water in a bowl with a cross of salt, together with an invocation of the Holy Trinity or, sometimes, of demons; this water was then sprinkled over the "damned livestock" with a branch of spurge-laurel'. Again, these instances could be multiplied endlessly from the literature. Across Europe, throughout the centuries we are discussing, magic often seems indistinguishable from religion.” — Bengt Ankarloo et al, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Vol IV: The Period of the Witch Trials, 2002. Below the text is card with a collage of a well dressed woman with a hat made of the earth, plants, and pencil shavings; a black fountain pen with a clear plastic barrel; a swatch of dark green ink with green shimmer and red sheen; and a rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 19 January 2026
30. Nivôse honoring the Sieve, Edgar Allan Poe b1809, Hekate’s Deipnon*, Rosh Chadesh* (Shevat), Feast of Ptah & Hermes, MLKjr Day (observed), a Tycho Brahe day
#Herb of the Day: Manchineel • Hippomane mancinella
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear, EF
#ink Venvstas Canna di Fucile into Colorverse Moonlit Veil
#tarot or #OracleDeck Inner Eye Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 10 of Diamonds - endings

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Europeans first encountered the manchineel in the Caribbean and quickly discovered its unwelcome properties. The Spaniards named it ‘el arbol de la muerte,’ the tree of death. Fearsome stories spread about the tree. To lie in the shade of the tree, it was said, is to risk a swollen head, headache, and sore eyes. If by chance a drop of dew falls from the tree into someone’s eye, it will burst. There is some truth behind these old tall tales. The leaves and wood of the manchineel contain toxins that burn the skin severely. If the poison mixes with dew or raindrops, it does serious damage on contact. A scientist from the University of Florida who was studying the manchineel had some personal demonstrations of the toxicity of the tree. One time, a dew drop slid from the tree and spattered on his ear. It produced a blister. Another time, the case was much more severe. Juice from one of the tree’s fruits—which resemble small, green apples—seeped onto his hand. His arm turned ulcerous and was paralyzed for several days.” — Edward R. Ricciuti, The Devil’s Garden: Facts and Folklore of Perilous Plants, 1978. Below the text is large playing card—the 10 of ♦️— with a central clip art illustration of a skull crowned with marigolds; a clear plastic fountain pen; a swatch of charcoal grey ink; and a teardrop shaped bottle of a light grey ink.

#MorningPages 18 January 2026
29. Nivôse honoring Mercury, Mauni Amavasya, World Religions Day, Ogham month of Birch begins, New Moon in ♑️
#Herb of the Day: Samphire • Crithmum maritime
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted
#FountainPen Conklin Herringbone Signature, F
#ink Diamine Sugar Snap
#tarot or #OracleDeck Moonology & Moonology Manifestations
 #CardOfTheDay New Moon: a new start is coming; New Moon in Capricorn: step up & lead

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “I have tried to like this stuff, but with no success. I try a tiny bit every year, hoping that, as with avocado, I have finally got the taste. Indeed, I know few people who do like it, everyone spitting it out and suffering its lingering flavour for hours afterwards. It is odd, then, that it was once so highly prized that the nineteenth century saw the now much preferred Marsh Samphire rejected with anger as a low adulterant. It is an attractive plant, with succulent, narrow, branching, pale green leaves and umbels of yellow flowers from late spring. Individual sprigs look great on any dish, and the texture is good. But all this is ruined by a flavour that is undeniably half way between carrots and white spirit. Fortunately, the white spirit component is much less noticeable in immature plants, becoming progressively stronger as the year proceeds.” — John Wright, The Forager’s Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Harvests, 2019. Below the text are two large cards depicting a new moon one on a purple celestial background the other on in a green night sky over craggy mountains with the symbol for Capricorn in the corner and a chiseled, silver tone fountain pen.

#MorningPages 17 January 2026
28. Nivôse honoring Zinc, Betty White b. 1922, Eartha Kitt b. 1927, Robert Fludd b. 1574, St. Anthony of the Desert, Janus Festival
#Herb of the Day: Star Windflower • Anemone hortensis
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Kaweco Sport - green, F
#ink Fountain Pen Revolution Gilded Ivy
#tarot or #OracleDeck The Southern Botanic Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 7 Solomon’s Seal • Polgonatum biorum - ease, gladness

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “See Janus comes, Germanicus, the herald of a lucky year to thee, and in my song takes precedence. Two-headed Janus, opener of the softly gliding year, thou who alone of the celestials dost behold thy back, come propitious to the chiefs whose toil ensures peace to the fruitful earth, peace to the sea. And come propitious to thy senators and to the people of Quirinus, and by thy nod unbar the temples white. A happy morning dawns. Fair speech, fair thoughts I crave ! Now must good words be spoken on a good day. Let ears be rid of suits, and banish mad disputes forthwith! Thou rancorous tongue, adjourn thy wagging! Dost mark how the sky sparkles with fragrant fires, and how Cilician saffron crackles on the kindled hearths ? The flame with its own splendour beats upon the temples' gold and spreads a flickering radiance on the hallowed roof.” — Ovid, Fasti translated by James George Frazer, 1959. Below the text is a card with an illustration of an herb with lance like leaves and couplets of white bell-shaped flowers on the stem; a dark green pocket fountain pen; a swatch of dark green ink with gold shimmer; and a cylindrical bottle of same.

#MorningPages 16 January 2026
27. Nivôse honoring Lead, Concordia, Isra Mi’raj
#Herb of the Day: Red Archangel • Lamium purpureum
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - turmaline, EF
#ink Monteverde California Teal
#tarot or #OracleDeck Tarot of the Cosmic Seed
 #CardOfTheDay 2 of Cups - friendship, unity, lovers

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Archangel is hot and dry in the first degree, bitter in taste, under the dominion of Mars, and it is good against Quartain Agues; the flowers of the Archangel, or the distilled waters stayeth the whites in women, and the flowers of the red Archangel stayeth reds: The herb is effectual for Tumors or swelling sof the Kings Evil’s in the throat to dissolve them, being bruised with some Hogs Lard and applyed thereunto. It also, allayes the pains of the Gout or Sciatica, and aches of the joynts, being used in like manner, it openeth obstructions, and dissolveth the hardnesse of the Spleen, by drinking the decoction of the herb in wine, and applying the herb hot pultiswise to the Region of the Spleen; it is a good repercussive in inflammations, and stayeth the corroding of,m Ulcers; it cureth the rising up of the skin about the roots of the nails, being applyed thereunto; and it is said to stanch bleeding at the nose, the bruised herb being applyed to the nape of the neck.” — Robert Turner, The Brittish Physician: or, TH Nature and Vertues of English Plants, 1664. Below the text is a card with an illustration of two feminine busts with headdresses facing each other with a cup above and below them with a line of the moon phases between; a bright aqua fountain pen with a silver tone loop clip; and a swatch of teal ink with purple-red sheening.

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#MorningPages 15 January 2026
26. Nivôse honoring Tin, Martin Luther King, Jr. b. 1929, Carmentalia, Seijin-no-Hi, St Paul the Hermit
#Herb of the Day: Ivy • Hedera helix
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy LX - marron, EF
#ink Kyo no oto ochiguriiro
#tarot or #OracleDeck Urban Crow Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 23 Growth - “the lesson may be difficult at first”

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “On St Basil’s Eve tin, lead, wax or egg-white were poured into water (blessed water is sometimes specified) and predictions made from the shapes formed. This is a practice which seems to have been popular at all social levels, from peasant girl to tsarevna, although one must suspect that it was for many no more than a parlour game. John Parkinson, an Oxford don who visited Russian in 1792-4, observed: ‘At Count Golofkin’s they were casting lead for the purpose of telling fortunes, a piece of superstition constantly practised on the eve of the new year. They also make use of wax for the same purpose. On this night they have also several other superstitious practices which among us are observed on St Mark’s Eve.’ This scholarly impartiality, it must be said, is a little uncommon among foreign travellers writing about Russia — all too often they describe with scorn or amusement practices which were in fact widespread in their own country.” — W. F. Ryan, The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia, 1999. Below the text is a card with an illustration of young crows cawing and flying about a cityscape; a dark brown fountain pen with a copper loop clip; a swatch of dark brown ink; and a rounded rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 14 January 2026
25. Nivôse honoring the Cat, Shattila Ekadashi, Makara Sankranti, Pongal
#Herb of the Day: Fruitless (or barren) Strawberry • Fragaria sterilis (Potentilla sterilis)
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - sage, F
#ink Corverse hwang cho
#tarot or #OracleDeck Wild Medicine herbal deck
 #CardOfTheDay Skullcap - Scutellaria spp.

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The nervous system responds well to self-care in all forms, including getting enough sleep, herbs, food, meditation, yoga, dancing, singing, spending time in nature, working at something you care passionately about, putting time aside just for you—time to play, and time and space to enjoy the simple pleasures of good relationships. It also responds positively to receiving nurturance, and especially to feeling cared about by others, even by just one other being. I use all forms of medicine for this system, from helpful affirmations and meditations to physical and energetic exercises, to nervine tinctures such as motherwort or skullcap, adaptogenic infusions such as holy basil, tonic syrups made from herbs like violet and dandelion, and smoke recipes that combine herbs such as lavender, damiana, and artemisia. I favor infusions of herbs such as oats, roses, linden, and lavender that can be taken internally and also used as footbaths and full-body baths for nourishing and soothing the nervous system and easing emotional pain.” — Robin Rose Bennett, The Gift of Healing Herbs, 2014. Below the text is a card with a splotchy watercolor illustration of a sprig of purple blooming skullcap; a light green fountain pen; a swatch of dusky pale green ink; and a sample vial of same.

#MorningPages 13 January 2026
24. Nivôse honoring Copper, Tjugondelag Jul, St. Knut, Lohri, St. Hilary
#Herb of the Day: Yew • Taxus baccata
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Moon Man Ti200, F
#ink Diamine Marley
#tarot or #OracleDeck Wild Moon Lunar Phase deck
 #CardOfTheDay 25. Crescent Moon - threshold release

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all associated the yew tree with mourning and this belief has continued, however unconsciously, into modern times. Yew trees are still planted next to funeral homes and in graveyards in the US, though few people would recognize this ancient symbology. It was customary in England and Wales to carry yew branches to a funeral and place the branches into the grave of the beloved. In late medieval funerals, sprigs of yew were tucked into the shrouds of the dead. Garlands of yew, rosemary and willow were placed on the coffins of unhappy lovers, some customs tell. In churchyards in Brittany, the roots of the yew trees were said to grow into the mouths of corpses to stop the dead mouths from talking. […] The Yew also has ancient associations with the underworld, thus having a connection with Hecate, Persephone and Proserpina (the Roman version of the Greek Persephone). It was a plant that grew in Hecate’s garden.” — Corinne Boyer, Under the Witching Tree, 2020. Below the text is a card with a watercolor illustration of a the crescent moon; a brushed aluminum fountain pen; a swatch of chromashading purple ink; and a small, square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 12 January 2026
23. Nivôse honoring Iron, Plough Monday*, Compitalia, a Tycho Brahe day
#Herb of the Day: Darnel • Iolium perenne
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot Pluminix - peacock blue, EF
#ink Diamine Bliss
#tarot or #OracleDeck Magic Spells Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Goblet - celebration, ritual, joy

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “For a once.widespread custom, it is surprising that so few Plough Monday celebrations remain. Across the country, the Monday after the 6th was marked by processions and extor- tion. The Plough Jags — also known as Plough Jacks/Bullocks/Stots/Witches, according to the location — sang their way through the streets with a plough or mock-plough, demanding donations. Refusal led to the householder’s lawn or front step being ‘jagged’ — ploughed up. The man collecting the cash wore outlandish costume: fixed details included a bullock’s tail, and often a hat made from a fox. Many of these all-male collecters opted for drag, in which case they were called Bessie. Occasionally non-payment was inadvertent. At Winterton in Lincolnshire last century, a woman opened her door to be confronted by a man dressed as a sheep. She was so terrified that she refused to come out. The Jags promptly destroyed her garden.” — Quentin Cooper & Paul Sullivan, Maypoles, Martyrs & Mayhem: British customs, myths and eccentricities, 1994. Below the text is a large card with a central illustration of a large goblet; a swatch of aqua blue ink; and a small, square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 11 January 2026
22. Nivôse honoring Salt, Burning the Clavie, Carmentalia, Feast of Hathor, a Tycho Brahe day
#Herb of the Day: Cockscomb • Celosia cristate
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen ystudio Resin - red, F
#ink Kyo no oto adzukiiro
#tarot or #OracleDeck Odyssey Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 28. Beggar at the Feast - listen rather than speak

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Carmenta, the Happy Prophetess, was Moon Goddess, Goddess of Beginnings, and Goddess of Childbirth. Carmenta, who could foresee the future, chanted words of encouragement with an inspired voice in prophetic strains. ‘Every land is to the brave his country, as to the fish the sea, as to the bird whatever place stands open in the void world. Nor does the tempest rage the whole year long; trust me, there will be springtime yet’ (Ovid Fasti). There could be no sign of death inside her temple, where leather sandals and animal skins were forbidden. In fact, the Romans thought that pregnant women should never wear the skins of dead animals or their children would be born dead. ‘It is not lawful to bring leather into her shrine, lest her pure hearths should be defiled by skins of slaughtered beasts. If you have any love of ancient rites, attend the prayers offered to her: you shall hear names you never knew before’ (Ovid Fasti).” — Frances Bernstein, Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome, 2000. Below the text is a large card with an illustration of Odysseus disguised as a beggar and Eumaeus on the road to Odysseus’s palace; a swatch of red bean colored ink; and a rounded rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 10 January 2026
21. Nivôse honoring Gypsum, Voudoun Traditional Day (Benin), Libation to Hera*
#Herb of the Day: Gorse • Ullex europaeus
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - candied violet, EF
#ink Diamine Raise a Glass
#tarot or #OracleDeck A Witch’s Ally Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Snake - “Fulfillment of desires will be attained if you complete the tasks ahead of you.”

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