November 26, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode, we talk about the power of brown—the color of soil, tree bark, cacao, roots, and so much of our embodied, earthly life. Brown invites you to reconnect with your foundations: your body, your home, your long-term growth, and your relationship to the land.
What we explore in this episode:
How brown is created in color theory, and where it shows up in nature and everyday life
What color magic is and how brown works as a grounding, root-level energy
Ways brown shows up in tarot symbolism through roots, wood, soil, and plant allies
Understanding Brown in Color MagicBrown is a darkened or desaturated shade of orange, often created by mixing many colors together. It’s one of the most common colors in the natural world—showing up in soil, bark, seeds, nuts, coffee, cacao, animal fur, and human hair and eyes.
In color magic, brown can represent:
Grounding and stability
Home, hearth, and domestic magic
Endurance and long-term commitments
Roots, ancestry, and land-based wisdom
Slow, sustainable growth
Practicality, work, and responsibility
Embodiment and connection to the physical world
Brown isn’t always a “flashy” spell color—but it’s the one you reach for when you want something to last, to be real, and to be rooted in the body and the earth. When working magically with brown, you might focus on:
Grounding and centering practices
Long-term projects and slow growth
Creating or tending a home or hearth space
Commitments that need patience and resilience
Days of the Week & Brown
Brown doesn’t have a traditional, fixed day-of-the-week association in many common correspondence lists. However, you can intuitively place brown where it makes sense for your practice:
Tuesday (Red | Mars): if you’re working with brown as a deepened, earthier extension of red or orange, especially around courage + survival.
Sunday or Monday: if you blend brown with golds, creams, or whites as “warm earth” or “home-light” energy.
Or simply as your “Hearth Day” color—whichever day you clean, cook, budget, meal-prep, garden, or tend your home.
Tarot, Symbolism, and the Power of Brown
In tarot imagery, brown often appears through wood, soil, bark, roots, and plant material. It points us toward themes of embodiment, time, and structure—the unglamorous but sacred work of staying alive and building a life.
The Hierophant (The Healer | Kindness) - Brown imagery here is about drawing wisdom from what has survived, not just what is written.
The World (Success) - Brown shows that true “world” energy includes the body, the land, and your lived reality, not just spiritual ideals.
Queen of Cups (Calm | Harmony) - Brown suggests emotional maturity that’s grounded, not floaty or detached.
Therapists Who Tarot Deck, Prompts by Dreya Blume and Images by Rebecca Bloom
Seven of Earth (Oak) - Brown bark, acorns, and wood point to legacy, stewardship, and trust in time.
The Hanged One (Burdock) - Brown here symbolizes the inner work that happens underground, unseen, but vital.
Seven of Fire (Cinnamon) - Brown reminds us that heat and spice can be grounded, embodied, and rooted in tradition.
The Hierophant (Cacao) - Brown cacao beans and drink remind us that wisdom must be taken in slowly, with respect.
💭 Today's Tarot Pull:
From Seasons of the Witch Samhain Oracle, I pulled Third Harvest (Upright).
This is a card of preparation, gratitude, and stored abundance. It asks you to look at everything you’ve grown, gathered, and built and recognize that it’s enough to sustain you through the “winter” seasons of your life.
Reflective prompts on this card:
What have I harvested this year—skills, relationships, healing, money, art, insight?
Where can I pause and really acknowledge how far I’ve come?
What “stores” (rituals, people, tools, savings) can I lean on when my energy dips?
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All right, well, welcome to season 18, where I'm talking all
about color magic. If you haven't listened to my
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other seasons yet, you can checkthose out.
But today I'm talking about the color brown.
So I'll get into general things about the color.
We'll get into a bit of color magic.
We'll talk days of the week correspondences, and then we'll
talk specific tarot cards that have the color brown on them in
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my decks. And then I will pull a card at
the end to talk about how we canwork with the color brown today.
So to start, we'll be jumping over to Wikipedia about the
color brown. So brown is a color.
It is can be thought of as darker or usually desaturated
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shade of orange, which is interesting.
So if you listen to my orange episode earlier this week, there
might be some similarities in the printing and painting color
model. Brown is usually made by
combining yellow, magenta and black.
And then in the color model, theRGB.
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So red, green, blue color model used to project colors onto TV
screens and computer monitors. Brown is the result of combining
red light at low intensity and green light at an even lower
intensity, with blue light also being present in most shades of
the color. So right, often again, brown.
Like if you ever did painting orwatercolor or anything like that
as a kid, mixing colors together, right, markers or
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anything, you know, that kind ofmixing a lot of colors together
often makes it look brown. And the color brown is seen
widely in nature, in wood, soil,human hair color, eye color and
skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood
and rich soil. Let's see here.
And then, yeah, in like the color model that you would have
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used as a kid again, like the red, yellow, blue primary color
model. Brown is made by mixing the
three primary colors, red, yellow and blue together.
According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the US,
brown is the least favorite color of the public.
Often associated with kind of gross things, right?
Fecal matter, plainness, rustic.Although we do have some a
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positive associations like baking or warmth or wildlife or
autumn or fall and music. The music one is interesting.
I would why maybe just, I don't know.
That's very interesting. Let's see here.
Is there anything else I want totalk about with brown?
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I love that on the Wikipedia they will pull like images that
they associate with each colour.So what they show in this one
are coffee beans, a brown bear, the planet Mars.
So a gun, right? In our orange or red episodes,
we've talked about Mars, an amber brown eye and then a
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brownfield. So again, we have a lot of
naturally occurring things, likelots of Browns in nature.
All right. Yeah.
And apparently so the the English word for brown was brune
and was like dusky or dark shadeof the colour.
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And that's how we kind of got the English word brown.
In a lot of other languages likeTurkish, Greek, Portuguese,
Spanish, French, the word for the color brown comes from
coffee or the color of coffee. So you have like cafe, right?
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It's like that in Spanish. And then also chestnuts.
So like, again, the naturally occurring thing.
Nuts, Castania in Latin and someother places.
And then in other places that comes from the word chocolate.
So it's almost like we named it after write the things that we
like and that we're maybe natural in your part of the
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world. And so that's very interesting.
And in Japan, it comes from the color of tea.
So again, sort of associated like the colour orange, right?
Where it's like we had the fruit1st and then we kind of work
backwards towards the name of the colour.
Sounds like brown is similar in a lot of ways.
All right, so brown and colour magic again, not not all colour
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magic like talks about the colour brown.
Usually we kind of go with like the rainbow colours, right?
Red, how does it go? Red, yellow, orange, green,
blue, indigo, Violet? I feel like I forgot one there.
Anyway, so we don't always have pink, right?
We don't always have white or black or brown.
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And the other one that came up was like grey, which I'm not
going to do this season, but we will talk about gold and silver.
I felt like grey was too similarto silver, whereas brown I felt
like has its own associations. Again, sometimes negative.
But in the rachelpatterson.co.ukarticle about colour magic, they
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talk about the brown is associated with endurance houses
and homes, uncertainties and influence, friendships.
Very interesting houses and homes I got, maybe because we
make them of wood or like mud orThatcher, all of those things
are more brown. I almost thought I'd said
horses, which I was like, Oh yeah, horses are brown.
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But no houses and homes on my days of the week
correspondences, there's no colour.
Like there's no day associated with brown.
Again, I think we could kind of go like Tuesday is red because
for the planet Mars and the God too, I always have to look up.
And so it could be that one that's probably like the closest
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because of yellow Sunday, white for Monday, red for Tuesday,
purple for Wednesday, blue for Thursday, green for Friday and
black for Saturday. When I I have some brown shirts
and as you know, as I've talked about, I like to wear the colors
associated with each color of the week for the color magic
correspondences. So today I'm recording this on
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Monday I'm wearing white, although I'm wearing black
pants, so I have a white shirt. I actually organize my shirts
colors by the days of the week. So we start with the yellows for
Sunday. I kind of put the Browns with
like either Sunday, Monday or Tuesday because I only have two
yellow shirts. I think I have a lot of white.
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So I have usually I'm covered for Monday and then yeah, again,
like Tuesday with I kind of lumpall of like red, orange because
orange also doesn't have its ownday color.
Pink also doesn't have its own day color.
And then brown sometimes too on those days or sometimes I wear
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them on Sundays. It kind of depends.
But usually at the beginning of the week, I'm not totally sure
why. I guess it those are the days
that it feels closest to the colors of like if we were to
mix. All right.
So yeah, I got not a lot of talkthere.
It's not really in my days of the week correspondences, but
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I've shared with you how I choose to deal with that.
And again, in tarot, I would saybrown, not normally like a
feature color, although I did pull some of my ducks to look
for brown and I kind of knew ones that have brown in them.
They're ones I've showed before.So the Herb Crafters tarot and
the therapist who tarot deck andI think a lot of it is because
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of the herb crafters tarot is all plants pretty much.
Yeah, I guess all plants. So I knew because there's a lot
of brown in nature. Like I could find some some
brown cards and that one and I remember that they have cacao,
so like the like origin of chocolate in there.
And I was like, OK, perfect. Like that's definitely brown.
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And then in the therapist or tarot deck, I feel like they're
they use watercolor to do the imagery, which is very cool and
just because of watercolor. So instead of like photos or
digital art or well, even acrylic paints, watercolor
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again, because it kind of mixes together.
I feel like you end up with moreBrowns sometimes because again,
like when you were a kid and youuse all the colours at once
because that seems really fun. Like you can end up with brown
more often. So I just was like, OK, I know
these two decks have them. A lot of my other decks are very
brightly colourful, maybe have abit of brown in them, but I knew
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these two would have ones that had like a decent amount of
brown that I could pull. So let's start with the
Therapist Who Tarot deck. So I pulled 3 cards from here
and there were actually more that had brown.
All of these cards though, in this deck they rarely feature
just one color. So, you know, take the brown
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association with a grain of saltfor these ones.
But we have here the healer, which is I'm going to have to
look it up now. It's the fifth card.
So is that the I was going to say it's the sovereign in the
this is the Hierophant. Oh, interesting.
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OK, so the healer and the therapist do tarot Doc is the #5
major Arcana card, which is the Hierophant.
And then I also pulled that cardin the herb crafters tarot.
So both the Hierophants are in this, which is interesting that
those are associated with brown.The Hierophant is usually
depicted as like a very Pope, like looking person, a very
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religious person. So both of these ducks, you
know, obviously the plant one, it's not going to have people.
But in the therapist Suterra duck, they also like there's a
bit of renaming that goes on. And so it's interesting that
they don't, they choose not to use a hierophant.
And so they have the healer. And so it says the word
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associated with this one is kindness.
And we kind of see like some tree roots in this one, which is
interesting, or like something that alludes to tree roots.
And then we see these, like, brown circles that almost look
like how tree stumps look, wherethey have like, you know, the
rings of a tree that you can kind of tell how old they are,
that each ring is for a year of growth.
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If you didn't know that, Yeah, that's how you do that.
And then on the back of the therapist who tarot cards, this
does not have a tarot deck guidebook with it, but it does have
reflection questions. On the back.
It says what is your secret weapon?
When do you feel most powerful and about what should you be
more patient? So very interesting.
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And then like I said, yeah, I also pulled that card from the
Herb Crafters Tarot and that is the cacao card.
So I'm going to read a bit from that tarot deck guide book.
So cacao, right, is what chocolate comes from.
And these have like sort of a poem or phrase associated with
it, then a description of the card, then sort of the tarot
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definition. And then also had a craft with
it because this is herb crafting.
So this says the Hierophant or cacao.
A revelation is at hand. Seek the truth and spiritual
teachings. The most potent wisdom emerges
from the heart. So this one says the secrets of
the sacred are available to all.Learn them, teach them.
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Drinking pure cacao is an ancient practice that leads to
greater perceptive awareness by opening the heart.
Commercial chocolate is cacao stripped of some of its
beneficial properties, cloaked and delicious yet sometimes
harmful ingredients. Only true cacao can open the
capillaries and increase blood flow.
Spiritual teaching must speak authentically to reach the
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heart, but some things must be revealed slowly, as too much
cacao can cause the pulse to quicken again.
If you've ever consumed something that has like a lot of
caffeine or something right you,you've maybe experienced that
learning too much too fast can be overwhelming.
Have patience with the pace of the divine.
Remain devoted to mystery and yet have respect for ceremony,
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which again, like a lot of us consume chocolate now, which
again is mixed with milk products and other things, often
oils and other stuff to make thedelicious product that we sort
of know and love. But traditionally cacao, I mean,
if you've ever had like a very high percentage chocolate bar
where it's like 90% chocolate, you will realize that chocolate
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is has like no sugar in it. So they add sugar to chocolate
bars, right. Again, to make them taste maybe
more normal to our palate or along with other things.
But it really, yeah, decreases, right, Some of the the strength
or bitterness, the cacao and thecacao was traditionally like a
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medicine that we got was practice.
So we've sort of bastardized is what I want to say, like this
ceremonial practice and turned it into like perhaps like junk
food, which we definitely, at least in the USI would say, have
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a tradition of doing, where they're sort of things that we
have changed from their originalstate and perhaps don't feel as
connected with anymore. But yeah, this is saying, right,
that just like cacao, right, it's very powerful.
And so there's also this aspect of, oh, you got to take it slow,
right? Like when things are very
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powerful again, like if you think of a very like a bitter
taste, perhaps like coffee or again chocolate if you don't
have ones that have as much milkor sugar in them, it's like,
yeah, no, I can't eat that much of it.
I've had like 9899% chocolate and I'm like, yeah, no, like a
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like a let me think how big likea chocolate?
Do you remember those candies like little squares or like
sprees or like skittle? Like a skittle sized amount of
chocolate is like about good when it's like 99% chocolate for
me personally anyway. So you can try cacao.
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They are also a bean like coffeesort of anyway, so let's move
on. But cacao where we have the
Hierophant and the healer and the therapist who tarot deck,
both associated with brown and here, which kind of has a gun
that like warmth. I like that that's renamed to
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the healer and the therapist Utero one that feels sort of
apartment for this. Let's see here.
OK, let's move on to the other cards.
So I pulled some other Major Arcana cards, so I'll look at
those two. So we have the world in the
therapist Utero deck, which again, I would say sort of
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traditionally because it depictsthe world itself or the planet
like or of Earth or often this like circular aspect.
Here we have again, sort of a circular aspect almost looks
like a seed. If you're like a gardener, if
you've planted seeds before, especially if you've planted big
seeds like a pea or like beans or anything, you'll know that
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when they first sprout or if they're soaked in water, they
will sort of like grow this little root out of it.
And that's sort of what this card looks like.
Like we see this green circle, like bubble, and we see kind of
like a human figure in the middle that's brown and then all
of these roots coming out the bottom.
So it's almost like the seed is like cracking open and right,
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it's becoming something else. So here we have the world, which
is here it says success and the reflection questions associated
with it are what is the riskiestthing you've ever done about
what should you be more careful?And when was the last time you
lied? Very interesting.
So right, again, the world is sort of that's the last major
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Arcana card in the cycle. If we start with the Fool, we
end with the world and again we think about as a cycle.
So then we start over again. So we have that circular aspect.
We also have the brown sort of rootedness again literally the
earth, which is interesting. Another one I pulled, and this
is from the Herb Crafters Tarot is the hanged one or the hanged
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Man. And this is depicts burdock,
which burdock is often considered a weed.
It is a very deeply tap rooted, A rooted plant.
So it has a very long taproot, kind of like a carrot would.
Or other kind of rooted plants, beets, parsnips, other things.
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So here we we see that really long root and if you use burdock
medicinally, generally you use the root aspect of it.
So we see the root here and it says embrace a foe as a friend,
tap into nourishment found in the depths, let go of control
and lasting change takes time. It's very similar to our cacao
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message here. That right powerful things to
take time. It says challenge presents an
opportunity for growth. Though burdock is a tenacious
weed, it can also be a valuable plant.
The presence of burdock might indicate where the land is
lacking nutrients. Using the large leaves as mulch
can bring nourishment to the surface.
When the leaves breakdown, the soil will improve and burdock
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will no longer have conditions to thrive.
Flip the script on a difficult situation because again remember
this is like the Hanged Man card.
See the problem as the solution.Burdock is also a valuable ally
for the liver as it helps clear and release toxins.
But healing the land or the bodyrequires a long term commitment.
Surrender to the process. Deep change takes time, so again
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we have that like time immemorial message.
The other cards I pulled were from the Herb Crafters one, the
Seven of Earth and the Seven of Fire, which would be like the
Seven of Pentacles and the Sevenof Wands.
Those are the earth and fire elements.
So the earth one is oak, like a oak tree or acorns, you know,
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And then we have cinnamon for the Seven of Fire and both of
these, right? If you think of cinnamon sticks
and also of acorns, right? Those are all brown products
that we have. And I thought it was interesting
they were both sevens. I mean, 7 is seen as like a
powerful number in a lot of ways, like a magical number.
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So the seven of fire, we have cinnamon.
Ancestral traditions remind us who we are.
Answer the call of the ancients,seek vision, vision from
ancestors and take a stand for your whole authentic self.
And then so that was cinnamon. And then for earth, which is oak
here or pentacles, it says live by the rhythms of the earth,
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work slowly and steadily towardsyour goal and plant for the
generations to come. So again, we have this like very
earthy garden Rudy plant metaphors, right?
With all of these almost, which is very interesting.
I was not necessarily expecting that across, but I guess because
we see maybe brown so much in nature, soil, trees, a lot of
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plants, right? A gun in the autumn times and
all the trees lose their leaves,everything turns very brown.
And what else? It says oaks are slow growing,
long lived sovereigns of the land.
Oaks only grow about 1 foot per year.
When it's time to build your future, listen for the call of
the earth. Like the oak, you have worked
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hard and gather your rewards. It says that during Hurricane
Harvey. A Texan said that seeing a 1000
year old oak standing after Hurricane Harvey.
You don't get old by being weak.Have faith in your work.
The fruits of your labor will last beyond your lifetime.
Look to the pace of nature for guidance.
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The seasons will give you direction.
So again, very nature based themes.
And then our final card is the Queen of Cups where we see again
the sort of brown or a bit more like gold orange person.
They're holding a big kind of bowl or cup in front of them
that's blue. And this is the Queen of Cups
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equivalent or the Queen of Cups in the Therapist Who Tarot Duck.
It says calm and harmony and thereflection questions on the back
say what question must you answer as soon as possible?
What matters most and what conversation have you been
avoiding? All right, some very interesting
themes here today, ones I was not even expecting.
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So let's go ahead and ask, pull a card here about how can we
work with the color brown today?I'm going to be using these
seasons of the witch Salwin Oracle, illustrated by Guyana
Rose and created by Lorraine Anderson and Juliet Diaz.
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How can we work with the color brown today?
Are there any other messages we need to know?
Let's see here, OK Oh, I pulled this card the other day, The
third harvest. The poem associated with it
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says, Daughters of the woods, feel thy sacred swell with
suppleness, taste the gathering of honey's milk filling your
emptiness. And it's kind of like a prepare
for winter card, which feels appropriate right now as I it is
getting colder where I live. Let's see.
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Salwin served as a practical holiday that told our ancestors
to prepare for the coming winter.
The third harvest was a time to gather up the remainder of crops
to prepare and store them to have enough food to last the
harsh conditions. The last of wheat would be
ground to flour, the remains of fruits and vegetables would be
pickled and canned and meats salted.
Everything with the shelf life was stored in the underground
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Cellars and packed with ice. The winters may be harsh and
gathering up your food is hard work.
There's a feeling of abundance and pride in getting prepared
again. We have that like slowness
theme, right? Where it's like, all right, like
we're entering the slow season of the year.
Let's make sure that we're stocked up and we're ready to
kind of like hunker down and be cozy for winter.
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Imagine looking at your food stores and seeing a physical
representation of your work. Imagine seeing the abundant
rewards of planting your seeds and nourishing them as they
grow. If you are holding the third
harvest, you are being guided togather up your accomplishments
and to celebrate your wins. Take a look at everything you've
done and achieved. Make a store of these wins to
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come back to whenever you are feeling low or like you have
failed. The easiest way to attract more
abundance is to feel abundant. Having the stockpile of feel
good moments will kick start youand can help turn around
feelings of lack or stagnation. So there's also this theme of
sort of like gratefulness, right?
Like we're going to be grateful for the things that we've gained
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from this year and really think about those things instead of
sort of maybe being fearful for our potential to, you know,
metaphorically starve through the winter time.
Although I think traditionally sort of people would actually
starve more come spring because that's when you've kind of run
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out of all your food. The weather is getting warmer,
which actually means that your, your food that's been stored in
cold, dark areas actually goes bad faster.
And then it's like the some plants have started to come up,
but nothing's super substantial.A lot of our, you know, higher
calorie crops like corns or any grains or beans or things like
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that are much more like summer fall plants.
And so right in the spring, we have asparagus, we have garlic
scapes, we have, you know, various flowers.
But again, it's like there's no fruits yet really, unless you
live in sort of a more tropical or temperate area, but not a lot
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going on. And there's some things
flowering again, but it's like you can't, you can't eat just a
lot of flowers. And so that's actually
traditionally the, the harder time of, of year.
So here, right, we're actually going into our sort of like, all
right, you've done all the hard work.
Now we get to look at it right. Go in your pantry and be like,
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yes, look at us. Go look at all that food I
stored up. Look at how prepared I feel.
Look at my garden, you know, theabundance from the garden and
then let me try to kind of live off of that for this time of
year, right, Kind of living off right again, perhaps the the
highs of summer or the joys of vacation or things like that and
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trying to, you know, find joy inthese Carter colder, darker
months as well, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
All right, well, thanks for joining me today.
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for transformation. I'm kicking off my workshops
then it'll be monthly in 2026 and I have a link for if you are
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divine wisdom of the tarot. I'm your host, Camille, A
Saunders healer, intuitive tarotreader, and professional witch.
And today I'm talking about the color brown and color magic.
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All right, well, welcome to season 18, where I'm talking all
about color magic. If you haven't listened to my
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other seasons yet, you can checkthose out.
But today I'm talking about the color brown.
So I'll get into general things about the color.
We'll get into a bit of color magic.
We'll talk days of the week correspondences, and then we'll
talk specific tarot cards that have the color brown on them in
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my decks. And then I will pull a card at
the end to talk about how we canwork with the color brown today.
So to start, we'll be jumping over to Wikipedia about the
color brown. So brown is a color.
It is can be thought of as darker or usually desaturated
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shade of orange, which is interesting.
So if you listen to my orange episode earlier this week, there
might be some similarities in the printing and painting color
model. Brown is usually made by
combining yellow, magenta and black.
And then in the color model, theRGB.
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So red, green, blue color model used to project colors onto TV
screens and computer monitors. Brown is the result of combining
red light at low intensity and green light at an even lower
intensity, with blue light also being present in most shades of
the color. So right, often again, brown.
Like if you ever did painting orwatercolor or anything like that
as a kid, mixing colors together, right, markers or
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anything, you know, that kind ofmixing a lot of colors together
often makes it look brown. And the color brown is seen
widely in nature, in wood, soil,human hair color, eye color and
skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood
and rich soil. Let's see here.
And then, yeah, in like the color model that you would have
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used as a kid again, like the red, yellow, blue primary color
model. Brown is made by mixing the
three primary colors, red, yellow and blue together.
According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the US,
brown is the least favorite color of the public.
Often associated with kind of gross things, right?
Fecal matter, plainness, rustic.Although we do have some a
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positive associations like baking or warmth or wildlife or
autumn or fall and music. The music one is interesting.
I would why maybe just, I don't know.
That's very interesting. Let's see here.
Is there anything else I want totalk about with brown?
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I love that on the Wikipedia they will pull like images that
they associate with each colour.So what they show in this one
are coffee beans, a brown bear, the planet Mars.
So a gun, right? In our orange or red episodes,
we've talked about Mars, an amber brown eye and then a
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brownfield. So again, we have a lot of
naturally occurring things, likelots of Browns in nature.
All right. Yeah.
And apparently so the the English word for brown was brune
and was like dusky or dark shadeof the colour.
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And that's how we kind of got the English word brown.
In a lot of other languages likeTurkish, Greek, Portuguese,
Spanish, French, the word for the color brown comes from
coffee or the color of coffee. So you have like cafe, right?
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It's like that in Spanish. And then also chestnuts.
So like, again, the naturally occurring thing.
Nuts, Castania in Latin and someother places.
And then in other places that comes from the word chocolate.
So it's almost like we named it after write the things that we
like and that we're maybe natural in your part of the
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world. And so that's very interesting.
And in Japan, it comes from the color of tea.
So again, sort of associated like the colour orange, right?
Where it's like we had the fruit1st and then we kind of work
backwards towards the name of the colour.
Sounds like brown is similar in a lot of ways.
All right, so brown and colour magic again, not not all colour
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magic like talks about the colour brown.
Usually we kind of go with like the rainbow colours, right?
Red, how does it go? Red, yellow, orange, green,
blue, indigo, Violet? I feel like I forgot one there.
Anyway, so we don't always have pink, right?
We don't always have white or black or brown.
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And the other one that came up was like grey, which I'm not
going to do this season, but we will talk about gold and silver.
I felt like grey was too similarto silver, whereas brown I felt
like has its own associations. Again, sometimes negative.
But in the rachelpatterson.co.ukarticle about colour magic, they
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talk about the brown is associated with endurance houses
and homes, uncertainties and influence, friendships.
Very interesting houses and homes I got, maybe because we
make them of wood or like mud orThatcher, all of those things
are more brown. I almost thought I'd said
horses, which I was like, Oh yeah, horses are brown.
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But no houses and homes on my days of the week
correspondences, there's no colour.
Like there's no day associated with brown.
Again, I think we could kind of go like Tuesday is red because
for the planet Mars and the God too, I always have to look up.
And so it could be that one that's probably like the closest
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because of yellow Sunday, white for Monday, red for Tuesday,
purple for Wednesday, blue for Thursday, green for Friday and
black for Saturday. When I I have some brown shirts
and as you know, as I've talked about, I like to wear the colors
associated with each color of the week for the color magic
correspondences. So today I'm recording this on
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Monday I'm wearing white, although I'm wearing black
pants, so I have a white shirt. I actually organize my shirts
colors by the days of the week. So we start with the yellows for
Sunday. I kind of put the Browns with
like either Sunday, Monday or Tuesday because I only have two
yellow shirts. I think I have a lot of white.
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So I have usually I'm covered for Monday and then yeah, again,
like Tuesday with I kind of lumpall of like red, orange because
orange also doesn't have its ownday color.
Pink also doesn't have its own day color.
And then brown sometimes too on those days or sometimes I wear
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them on Sundays. It kind of depends.
But usually at the beginning of the week, I'm not totally sure
why. I guess it those are the days
that it feels closest to the colors of like if we were to
mix. All right.
So yeah, I got not a lot of talkthere.
It's not really in my days of the week correspondences, but
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I've shared with you how I choose to deal with that.
And again, in tarot, I would saybrown, not normally like a
feature color, although I did pull some of my ducks to look
for brown and I kind of knew ones that have brown in them.
They're ones I've showed before.So the Herb Crafters tarot and
the therapist who tarot deck andI think a lot of it is because
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of the herb crafters tarot is all plants pretty much.
Yeah, I guess all plants. So I knew because there's a lot
of brown in nature. Like I could find some some
brown cards and that one and I remember that they have cacao,
so like the like origin of chocolate in there.
And I was like, OK, perfect. Like that's definitely brown.
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And then in the therapist or tarot deck, I feel like they're
they use watercolor to do the imagery, which is very cool and
just because of watercolor. So instead of like photos or
digital art or well, even acrylic paints, watercolor
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again, because it kind of mixes together.
I feel like you end up with moreBrowns sometimes because again,
like when you were a kid and youuse all the colours at once
because that seems really fun. Like you can end up with brown
more often. So I just was like, OK, I know
these two decks have them. A lot of my other decks are very
brightly colourful, maybe have abit of brown in them, but I knew
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these two would have ones that had like a decent amount of
brown that I could pull. So let's start with the
Therapist Who Tarot deck. So I pulled 3 cards from here
and there were actually more that had brown.
All of these cards though, in this deck they rarely feature
just one color. So, you know, take the brown
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association with a grain of saltfor these ones.
But we have here the healer, which is I'm going to have to
look it up now. It's the fifth card.
So is that the I was going to say it's the sovereign in the
this is the Hierophant. Oh, interesting.
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OK, so the healer and the therapist do tarot Doc is the #5
major Arcana card, which is the Hierophant.
And then I also pulled that cardin the herb crafters tarot.
So both the Hierophants are in this, which is interesting that
those are associated with brown.The Hierophant is usually
depicted as like a very Pope, like looking person, a very
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religious person. So both of these ducks, you
know, obviously the plant one, it's not going to have people.
But in the therapist Suterra duck, they also like there's a
bit of renaming that goes on. And so it's interesting that
they don't, they choose not to use a hierophant.
And so they have the healer. And so it says the word
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associated with this one is kindness.
And we kind of see like some tree roots in this one, which is
interesting, or like something that alludes to tree roots.
And then we see these, like, brown circles that almost look
like how tree stumps look, wherethey have like, you know, the
rings of a tree that you can kind of tell how old they are,
that each ring is for a year of growth.
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If you didn't know that, Yeah, that's how you do that.
And then on the back of the therapist who tarot cards, this
does not have a tarot deck guidebook with it, but it does have
reflection questions. On the back.
It says what is your secret weapon?
When do you feel most powerful and about what should you be
more patient? So very interesting.
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And then like I said, yeah, I also pulled that card from the
Herb Crafters Tarot and that is the cacao card.
So I'm going to read a bit from that tarot deck guide book.
So cacao, right, is what chocolate comes from.
And these have like sort of a poem or phrase associated with
it, then a description of the card, then sort of the tarot
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definition. And then also had a craft with
it because this is herb crafting.
So this says the Hierophant or cacao.
A revelation is at hand. Seek the truth and spiritual
teachings. The most potent wisdom emerges
from the heart. So this one says the secrets of
the sacred are available to all.Learn them, teach them.
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Drinking pure cacao is an ancient practice that leads to
greater perceptive awareness by opening the heart.
Commercial chocolate is cacao stripped of some of its
beneficial properties, cloaked and delicious yet sometimes
harmful ingredients. Only true cacao can open the
capillaries and increase blood flow.
Spiritual teaching must speak authentically to reach the
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heart, but some things must be revealed slowly, as too much
cacao can cause the pulse to quicken again.
If you've ever consumed something that has like a lot of
caffeine or something right you,you've maybe experienced that
learning too much too fast can be overwhelming.
Have patience with the pace of the divine.
Remain devoted to mystery and yet have respect for ceremony,
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which again, like a lot of us consume chocolate now, which
again is mixed with milk products and other things, often
oils and other stuff to make thedelicious product that we sort
of know and love. But traditionally cacao, I mean,
if you've ever had like a very high percentage chocolate bar
where it's like 90% chocolate, you will realize that chocolate
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is has like no sugar in it. So they add sugar to chocolate
bars, right. Again, to make them taste maybe
more normal to our palate or along with other things.
But it really, yeah, decreases, right, Some of the the strength
or bitterness, the cacao and thecacao was traditionally like a
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medicine that we got was practice.
So we've sort of bastardized is what I want to say, like this
ceremonial practice and turned it into like perhaps like junk
food, which we definitely, at least in the USI would say, have
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a tradition of doing, where they're sort of things that we
have changed from their originalstate and perhaps don't feel as
connected with anymore. But yeah, this is saying, right,
that just like cacao, right, it's very powerful.
And so there's also this aspect of, oh, you got to take it slow,
right? Like when things are very
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powerful again, like if you think of a very like a bitter
taste, perhaps like coffee or again chocolate if you don't
have ones that have as much milkor sugar in them, it's like,
yeah, no, I can't eat that much of it.
I've had like 9899% chocolate and I'm like, yeah, no, like a
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like a let me think how big likea chocolate?
Do you remember those candies like little squares or like
sprees or like skittle? Like a skittle sized amount of
chocolate is like about good when it's like 99% chocolate for
me personally anyway. So you can try cacao.
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They are also a bean like coffeesort of anyway, so let's move
on. But cacao where we have the
Hierophant and the healer and the therapist who tarot deck,
both associated with brown and here, which kind of has a gun
that like warmth. I like that that's renamed to
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the healer and the therapist Utero one that feels sort of
apartment for this. Let's see here.
OK, let's move on to the other cards.
So I pulled some other Major Arcana cards, so I'll look at
those two. So we have the world in the
therapist Utero deck, which again, I would say sort of
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traditionally because it depictsthe world itself or the planet
like or of Earth or often this like circular aspect.
Here we have again, sort of a circular aspect almost looks
like a seed. If you're like a gardener, if
you've planted seeds before, especially if you've planted big
seeds like a pea or like beans or anything, you'll know that
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when they first sprout or if they're soaked in water, they
will sort of like grow this little root out of it.
And that's sort of what this card looks like.
Like we see this green circle, like bubble, and we see kind of
like a human figure in the middle that's brown and then all
of these roots coming out the bottom.
So it's almost like the seed is like cracking open and right,
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it's becoming something else. So here we have the world, which
is here it says success and the reflection questions associated
with it are what is the riskiestthing you've ever done about
what should you be more careful?And when was the last time you
lied? Very interesting.
So right, again, the world is sort of that's the last major
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Arcana card in the cycle. If we start with the Fool, we
end with the world and again we think about as a cycle.
So then we start over again. So we have that circular aspect.
We also have the brown sort of rootedness again literally the
earth, which is interesting. Another one I pulled, and this
is from the Herb Crafters Tarot is the hanged one or the hanged
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Man. And this is depicts burdock,
which burdock is often considered a weed.
It is a very deeply tap rooted, A rooted plant.
So it has a very long taproot, kind of like a carrot would.
Or other kind of rooted plants, beets, parsnips, other things.
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So here we we see that really long root and if you use burdock
medicinally, generally you use the root aspect of it.
So we see the root here and it says embrace a foe as a friend,
tap into nourishment found in the depths, let go of control
and lasting change takes time. It's very similar to our cacao
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message here. That right powerful things to
take time. It says challenge presents an
opportunity for growth. Though burdock is a tenacious
weed, it can also be a valuable plant.
The presence of burdock might indicate where the land is
lacking nutrients. Using the large leaves as mulch
can bring nourishment to the surface.
When the leaves breakdown, the soil will improve and burdock
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will no longer have conditions to thrive.
Flip the script on a difficult situation because again remember
this is like the Hanged Man card.
See the problem as the solution.Burdock is also a valuable ally
for the liver as it helps clear and release toxins.
But healing the land or the bodyrequires a long term commitment.
Surrender to the process. Deep change takes time, so again
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we have that like time immemorial message.
The other cards I pulled were from the Herb Crafters one, the
Seven of Earth and the Seven of Fire, which would be like the
Seven of Pentacles and the Sevenof Wands.
Those are the earth and fire elements.
So the earth one is oak, like a oak tree or acorns, you know,
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And then we have cinnamon for the Seven of Fire and both of
these, right? If you think of cinnamon sticks
and also of acorns, right? Those are all brown products
that we have. And I thought it was interesting
they were both sevens. I mean, 7 is seen as like a
powerful number in a lot of ways, like a magical number.
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So the seven of fire, we have cinnamon.
Ancestral traditions remind us who we are.
Answer the call of the ancients,seek vision, vision from
ancestors and take a stand for your whole authentic self.
And then so that was cinnamon. And then for earth, which is oak
here or pentacles, it says live by the rhythms of the earth,
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work slowly and steadily towardsyour goal and plant for the
generations to come. So again, we have this like very
earthy garden Rudy plant metaphors, right?
With all of these almost, which is very interesting.
I was not necessarily expecting that across, but I guess because
we see maybe brown so much in nature, soil, trees, a lot of
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plants, right? A gun in the autumn times and
all the trees lose their leaves,everything turns very brown.
And what else? It says oaks are slow growing,
long lived sovereigns of the land.
Oaks only grow about 1 foot per year.
When it's time to build your future, listen for the call of
the earth. Like the oak, you have worked
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hard and gather your rewards. It says that during Hurricane
Harvey. A Texan said that seeing a 1000
year old oak standing after Hurricane Harvey.
You don't get old by being weak.Have faith in your work.
The fruits of your labor will last beyond your lifetime.
Look to the pace of nature for guidance.
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The seasons will give you direction.
So again, very nature based themes.
And then our final card is the Queen of Cups where we see again
the sort of brown or a bit more like gold orange person.
They're holding a big kind of bowl or cup in front of them
that's blue. And this is the Queen of Cups
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equivalent or the Queen of Cups in the Therapist Who Tarot Duck.
It says calm and harmony and thereflection questions on the back
say what question must you answer as soon as possible?
What matters most and what conversation have you been
avoiding? All right, some very interesting
themes here today, ones I was not even expecting.
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So let's go ahead and ask, pull a card here about how can we
work with the color brown today?I'm going to be using these
seasons of the witch Salwin Oracle, illustrated by Guyana
Rose and created by Lorraine Anderson and Juliet Diaz.
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How can we work with the color brown today?
Are there any other messages we need to know?
Let's see here, OK Oh, I pulled this card the other day, The
third harvest. The poem associated with it
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says, Daughters of the woods, feel thy sacred swell with
suppleness, taste the gathering of honey's milk filling your
emptiness. And it's kind of like a prepare
for winter card, which feels appropriate right now as I it is
getting colder where I live. Let's see.
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Salwin served as a practical holiday that told our ancestors
to prepare for the coming winter.
The third harvest was a time to gather up the remainder of crops
to prepare and store them to have enough food to last the
harsh conditions. The last of wheat would be
ground to flour, the remains of fruits and vegetables would be
pickled and canned and meats salted.
Everything with the shelf life was stored in the underground
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Cellars and packed with ice. The winters may be harsh and
gathering up your food is hard work.
There's a feeling of abundance and pride in getting prepared
again. We have that like slowness
theme, right? Where it's like, all right, like
we're entering the slow season of the year.
Let's make sure that we're stocked up and we're ready to
kind of like hunker down and be cozy for winter.
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Imagine looking at your food stores and seeing a physical
representation of your work. Imagine seeing the abundant
rewards of planting your seeds and nourishing them as they
grow. If you are holding the third
harvest, you are being guided togather up your accomplishments
and to celebrate your wins. Take a look at everything you've
done and achieved. Make a store of these wins to
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come back to whenever you are feeling low or like you have
failed. The easiest way to attract more
abundance is to feel abundant. Having the stockpile of feel
good moments will kick start youand can help turn around
feelings of lack or stagnation. So there's also this theme of
sort of like gratefulness, right?
Like we're going to be grateful for the things that we've gained
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from this year and really think about those things instead of
sort of maybe being fearful for our potential to, you know,
metaphorically starve through the winter time.
Although I think traditionally sort of people would actually
starve more come spring because that's when you've kind of run
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out of all your food. The weather is getting warmer,
which actually means that your, your food that's been stored in
cold, dark areas actually goes bad faster.
And then it's like the some plants have started to come up,
but nothing's super substantial.A lot of our, you know, higher
calorie crops like corns or any grains or beans or things like
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that are much more like summer fall plants.
And so right in the spring, we have asparagus, we have garlic
scapes, we have, you know, various flowers.
But again, it's like there's no fruits yet really, unless you
live in sort of a more tropical or temperate area, but not a lot
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going on. And there's some things
flowering again, but it's like you can't, you can't eat just a
lot of flowers. And so that's actually
traditionally the, the harder time of, of year.
So here, right, we're actually going into our sort of like, all
right, you've done all the hard work.
Now we get to look at it right. Go in your pantry and be like,
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yes, look at us. Go look at all that food I
stored up. Look at how prepared I feel.
Look at my garden, you know, theabundance from the garden and
then let me try to kind of live off of that for this time of
year, right, Kind of living off right again, perhaps the the
highs of summer or the joys of vacation or things like that and
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trying to, you know, find joy inthese Carter colder, darker
months as well, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
All right, well, thanks for joining me today.
If you want to join me on the journey, I'm using the terror
for transformation. I'm kicking off my workshops
then it'll be monthly in 2026 and I have a link for if you are
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interested in that. I'll send you more info.
Thanks for the tarot decks I talk about will always be in the
show notes and on my website if you'd like to look at them or
purchase them. And thanks for joining me today
on Everyday Tarot. Just as a reminder, the podcast
comes out daily Monday through Friday for all of 2025.
You can e-mail me me at camilleasaunders.com with your
thoughts, questions, and more. All right, see you soon.
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Bye bye.
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