July 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Welcome to Season 11 of Every Day Tarot! This season, we’re exploring the fascinating connections between Tarot and plant allies.
In today’s episode, I’m introducing you to borage—a beautiful, star-shaped blue flower known for bringing courage and gentle strength. I’ll share how this soothing, heart-centered plant helps us move through transitions, calm fiery energy, and reconnect with our inner resilience. You’ll also hear about the tarot archetypes borage aligns with and learn practical, magical ways to work with this garden ally in your daily life.
What we explore in this episode:
What borage is and why it’s known as a plant of courage
Which tarot cards and astrological energies borage resonate with
Practical ways to work with borage in ritual, gardening, and daily life
💐 Meet the Plant Ally: Borage
Borage (also known as starflower) is a striking, bee-loved plant with bright blue, star-shaped blossoms and prickly green leaves.
Traditionally celebrated for its ability to bring courage and lift spirits, borage offers steady, heart-centered support during big life transitions or times of burnout. There’s an old folk saying — "I, Borage, bring always courage" — that reflects its grounding and reassuring energy.
🔮 Borage & Tarot
Borage resonates with tarot archetypes that honor courage, resilience, and heart-centered strength:
Strength — embodying inner fortitude, bravery, and the power of gentle self-compassion.
The Hermit — inviting introspection, grounded clarity, and the courage to listen to your inner wisdom.
Astrologically, borage is connected to Jupiter, the planet of expansion and optimism, and to Leo season, encouraging us to lead with heart, embrace boldness, and stay cool-headed even during fiery times.
🌿 Plant Magic & Energetics
Edible Uses: The flowers are edible (they taste like cucumber! 🥒) and can be added to salads, candied, or even frozen into ice cubes for summer drinks.
Ritual Use:
Carry dried borage flowers close to your heart to invite courage and calm.
Add fresh flowers to salads or freeze them in ice cubes to infuse meals and drinks with supportive energy.
Incorporate borage into your altar or use it in charm bags for strength during big decisions.
Gardening & Offerings:
Borage is easy to grow and self-seeds generously, symbolizing abundance and ongoing support.
Plant borage to attract pollinators and invite gentle, expansive energy into your space.
Harvest the flowers mindfully and offer thanks, recognizing the plant as an ally rather than just a resource.
Energetic Properties:
Cooling and calming, borage soothes emotional “solar burn-out” and brings balance to fiery energies.
Strengthens heart-centered decision-making, helping you act from a place of deep self-trust rather than panic or fear.
If you haven't listened to my other seasons yet, go check them out!
Today's Tarot Pull:
From Anima Mundi Tarot Deck by Megan Wyreweden, I pulled The World (upright).
The World card brings a message of completion, wholeness, and seeing the big picture. Just as borage teaches us to stay steady and embrace the long view, The World invites us to celebrate cycles, integrate lessons, and step confidently into the next phase of life.
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tarot and borage. Whether you're a seasoned tarot
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episode. All right, so welcome to season
11. Today is the first episode of
season 11 where I'm talking all about Tarot and plant Allies.
So if you haven't listened to myother seasons yet, you can check
those out. Season 1 was all about tarot
basics. Seasons two and three I went
through all the Major Arcana cards and an overview of the
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four suits. In season 4 I talked to tarot in
pop culture. In season 5 I went through 13
common tarot spreads. In season 678 and 9 I went
through the Suit of Wands, Pentacles, Swords, and Cups.
And Season 10 that I just rounded out recently was all
about Tarot and witchcraft. So like I said, now we are here
in season 11 where I'm talking all about tarot and plant
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allies, and today I'm talking about tarot and borage.
So first of all, what the heck is borage?
I don't think I had ever heard of it until I started gardening.
Maybe I'd seen it. I don't.
I don't totally think so. It's not super common honestly,
but it's one of my favorite plants to grow.
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I love looking at it, it feels inherently witchy.
They have blue flowers and with five petals each and it also has
5 green leaves, like one betweeneach petal.
So very magically coated I wouldsay.
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I have some in front of me rightnow, so I'll have some pictures
of Borage, the plant and a drawing of Borage as well on my
website or on my Instagram. If you want to take a look at
what it looks like. If you don't want to go there,
you can always Google it. But yeah, the plant is has very
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green, sort of spiky leaves, notspiky like a rose plant where
there's thorns, but spiky like just sort of like you wouldn't
necessarily want to eat it without cooking it.
It kind of it's it is sort of a like mucilage plant is with a
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word that comes to mind. And interestingly, like the
plant magic around porridge and some of its usage are related to
sort of soothing courage, strength.
I even found somewhere where they were talking about that
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forage can be used to soothe your solar energy.
So right, sometimes we have plants to that we want to sort
of like that help elevate to write into excitement or just
sort of elevate us. And I'll probably talk about
some more of those this in the next couple episodes.
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So very sunny plants, often maybe spicy like ginger or
cayenne or cinnamon or basil or peppermint, right?
All of those kind of have this like warming effect when you eat
them. And so Bora just sort of
consider the opposite of that. So it's in this category of
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plants that are helping soften, relax, create a sense of calm
for your sun energy. So I thought this would be sort
of appropriate, at least for me right now.
We just passed the summer solstice or in between sort of
witchy Pagan holidays with Lugnasa coming up on August 1st,
which is actually forage is a common plant used at that time
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when you again are sort of in the height of the heat.
And it's been going on for a while, at least in the Northern
hemisphere at that time of year.And you want some soothing,
right? We can think of other soothing
plants. This isn't on the list here, but
like aloe, they put lavender on here, borages on here, poppies,
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rose, dandelion root. So again, we're sort of thinking
about where this season is goingto be sort of the overlap of
witchy aspects of the plant, right?
And Taro and sort of correspondences.
And then also like herbalism, sohow you might use the plants
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almost as medicine. I am not trained as an
herbalist. I'm going to dabble a bit in
talking about that. But the main thing is going to
be how do you work with this plant?
Which is why I'm calling the season plant allies.
So right, we're not necessarily talking about plant medicine
fully. We're not talking about plant
magic fully. We're talking about sort of
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again, like working with the plants, this idea that plants
are their own beans and each plant is different.
And so thinking about, yeah, howyou work with that.
So borage, they have blue flowers like I said, or purple,
kind of depends on what age the flower itself is.
I think they turn more purpley over time or they get sort of
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maybe bleached by the sun a bit and turn more pinky purple.
They're very good for grounding,for cooling, relaxing, like I
said. And a lot of plants that have
that quality of this sort of like if you've ever had okra and
maybe you didn't like it, where it can be this kind of like
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mushy aspect of a plant. So borage the leaves and stuff,
if you were to cook them down, they would sort of act like
that. If you pull borage the plant or
break things off of it, other than the flowers, you get sort
of like a Milky or a stickiness of the plant.
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So that is part of it. Let's see what else.
Yeah, the colors, right? So we have Blues and greens,
which are again are cooler colors as well.
So actually in front of me, I have a green candle today and I
have 5 borage flowers because I have borage in my yard.
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Like I said, it's honestly one of my favorite things to grow in
the garden. It's very unique looking.
It's in the same family as comfrey, if you know that plant
at all, and sort of has a similar quality where if you
pull the leaf, it's a little like stringy and kind of
prickly. Again, not thorns, but like
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uncomfortable to sort of just like handle bear with your bare
skin. You can do it.
It's also a very deeply rooted plant.
It has a taproot like comfrey does and and really likes to be
right in this grounded way. So that's a little bit about
borage the plant and I will havea picture.
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I have a medicinal herb coloringbook that I got I guess during
Covad. I looked in the introduction and
it talked about the book was created during the coronavirus
pandemic as a way to help peoplelearn about herbalism through
the soothing and therapeutic action of coloring.
And it were some herbalists thatcreated this coloring book.
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I love coloring. I find coloring very soothing.
And so one of the things I had colored previously in here was
borage. So I'll have that picture.
And I colored it, you know, fairly accurately to the colors.
But like I said, it sort of has these blue flowers, and blue is
fairly rare as a natural color in nature.
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It says Borage is an annual plant from the Mediterranean,
grown in gardens worldwide and much loved by honey bees.
Yeah, actually, I went outside in my yard to try to take some
pictures of Borage, the plant for you all so I could post
some. And there were so many bees,
which I love. And so I just had to, you know,
again, get real, get nice and close and be calm and then
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start. We started taking some pictures
of the plant. It says it has traditionally
been used for people in a state of convalescence, recovering
from nervous exhaustion, debility and low mood as a
demulcent. So again, that's that.
Like, mucilage quality or like, if you think of the word mucus,
those all come from the same root word, which is the sort of,
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like, sticky thing that, kind of, like, sits with you for a
long time. It's also a diaphoretic and
diuretic. Yeah.
Diaphoretic and a diuretic And borage.
Leaves and flowers can help withrespiratory infections.
The oil from the seed is valuable for people struggling
with premenstrual tension, rheumatism, eczema and chronic
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skin conditions. And a lot of those conditions
that it helps with are things that are sort of about
inflammation or redness. Again, if you think of eczema or
chronic skin conditions, and so again, we have this like blue
plant soothing aspect of the plant that sort of that to me
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just sort of makes inherent sense that like, yeah, OK, this
would help people in that way. So I'll say this every episode,
but I am not giving any medical advice.
This is not herbalism advice. Don't just go outside eating
this plant and thinking that, oh, it's going to help my
rheumatism or my eczema. If you want to work with the
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plant and by ingesting it in anyway, a Safeway to do that is you
can pick the flowers. So the blue little flowers,
they're pretty easy to pick. You can also clip them off.
And a common thing to do with them is put them in salads.
If you've ever maybe been to a fancy restaurant and had a salad
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that had edible flowers in it, that can be very fun.
So borage, the the flower itselftastes like a cucumber, if you
kind of know what that is like. Again, another kind of cooling
plant or produce. And so you can safely consume
the flowers without an herbalist.
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I would say beyond that, I wouldsay contact your chosen medical
provider, naturopath, herbalist if you want to consume or ingest
or put the plant on any other part of your skin or body.
And I will again say that every episode, but even just working
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with the plant, it could look like we're going to talk about
some tarot cards that are associated with the plant in a
minute. So you could pull these tarot
cards out. You could, again, you could
purchase this medicinal coloringbook if you wanted to get to
know some other herbalist plantsthat I'm going to probably talk
about. You could, you know, draw blue
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stars. You could, again, like I said,
if you, if you want to grow the plant, it's very easy to grow,
at least for me where I live. I think I literally planted at
one time in a raised bed in my garden.
I started it from seed. The seeds are pretty big, not
quite as large as sunflower seeds, but about half that size,
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and they're sort of around that shape.
They're sort of like long and sort of hard and black, I
believe. But anyway, I started the seeds.
I still have the seed packet that I started the seeds from
one time. Like I said, I probably planted
a couple of them just sort of, I'd read it was good for
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different kinds of bees, native bees, and that it was this cool
blue flower. And I was like, great, cool.
You can like eat the flowers. Lovely.
Love that. I love when plants can kind of
like hit all these different aspects of ways to work with
them. And I think I planted them once
and now they're in my yard forever.
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They will sort of seed themself and move slightly.
They're not challenging to get rid of and actually my chickens
love to eat them. They'll like they'll eat all the
flowers off and then sometimes eat some of the leaves.
So I love that too. So if I ever get some in like my
garden pathways or if they startto spread in places that I don't
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want them to, I just pull them and give them to my chickens.
Again, you don't have to do that.
You can compost them if you want.
You could pick the flowers maybeAnother common thing if you like
look online to do with borage flowers is to like put them in
one you make ice cubes. So like if you have an ice cube
tray, you can put the flowers inthe ice cubes and then you can
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use that ice in like your summergarden drinks because again, the
flower is safe to eat. So of course if the ice melts
and it ends up in your drink andyou accidentally eat it, like
it's OK. So that is lovely as well.
And like I said, it is the sort of magical looking plant, or at
least the flower with like we have a very like pentacle and
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pentagram sort of vibe where we have 5 petals.
Like I said, we have 5 green sort of leaves in between.
Yeah. And like I said, it's a fun
plant to grow because it does just kind of seed itself, which
I think is great as a gardener because yeah, then you don't
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have to do too much work, which I love that.
All right, so let's see, what else do I want to talk about?
Oh yeah. So I was looking up sort of like
correspondences with borage or plant magic associated with it,
and I found the site eldrumherbs.co.uk.
I'll link it in the show notes where they talk about different
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herbs. And they had this quote put in
there that said the old saying states that I borage bring
always courage and it certainly does just that.
They say that they've used it for patients who are facing big
decisions, major life changes, as well As for those who are
just about scraping the bottom of the energy barrel.
And they say they've taken it themselves for similar things.
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It always has a great effect andsomehow manages to take the edge
off panic, making for a cool head and rational decisions.
So I like that phrase that I borage bring always courage
because it also again, in sort of this herbalist, when we think
of plants as medicine, they talkabout that is it can be like
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heart medicine. And again, This is why you
should consult an herbalist or your naturopath or anything if
you want to consume plants or like more parts of the plants
because dosage and knowing any contraindications for medication
you may be on is very important,especially when it comes to
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heart medicine. So again, be safe out there,
look things up before you do it.Find good professionals that can
advise you on these things. If you really do want to work
with plants differently, let's see what else the planetary
influence is. Jupiter.
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It said it's associated with LUGor LOO or other warrior gods
like Aries. Yeah, like I said, the festival
associated with Borage is Luke NASA, which is generally August
1st. The constitution of the plant is
cool and moist, which again, if you were to pull the plant, you
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would sort of be able to tell that like if it was out in the
wild and you just picked it and pulled it.
Because it kind of has this, like I said, it kind of like
bleeds like a sappiness and the Blues and the colors of it are
sort of this cooling aspect. What else do we want to talk
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about with plant magic? Let me see if there's anything
else. Well, then maybe.
Well, I'm looking at multiple sources here.
Yeah. A board has been used as
depression medication previouslyacross ancient times.
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It can be used in charms, spells, rituals or potions to
stimulate courage and strength. Like I like they shared on the
Eldrum herbs website that right if you have to make big
decisions or sort of like havingif you're feeling burned out
right again, if we think about the word burned out, it's like a
fire burning out. So if we think about how do you
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revive after such things is generally to do something the
opposite, which would be this cooling, which also it sounds
like this goes along with Jupiter, evoking expansive
feelings of joy and enthusiasm. It says another thing you can do
with some flowers. You could put them in a pouch.
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You could dry them as well if you wanted and put them, it
says, close to your heart if youwant that.
Like I said, the plants themselves, if you were to like
eat the flowers, they sort of taste like cucumber.
It's very mild. And they can be put in salads.
It sounds like they can be candied for cake decoration.
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So again, things that are sort of, you know, very pretty as
well. They you can use the leaves and
you can also steep them and maketea.
But again, look up things about that.
This is like a culinary use of borage, but also, right, it's
different if you're going to useit cosmetically or medicinally,
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which again, don't be messing around with taking things
medicinally if you're not consulting a medical
professional in that way or unless you are an herbalist
because it can have other yeah, counter indications that can
affect your liver, it can affectmedic blood thinning medication,
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etcetera. So be careful when you're doing
those things. But yeah, it's a lovely plant to
look at and work with. Yeah.
So in relation to the tarot, I looked up sort of, I didn't have
any. And this might be something I
need to add to my repertoire or some of my book library, but I
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don't have necessarily like a magical plant relation book or
correspondences. I guess I will talk about this
in a minute when we get to usageof porridge, but I have the
Hearth Witches Compendium, Magical and Natural Living for
Every Day by Anna Franklin, and they do have in here some
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different things to do with porridge, but they also have a
list of sort of the magical herbalism of plants.
So they talk about, like I said,with porridge, rouses from
lethargy, excites, activity, courage, Lucanasa, like I said,
psychic awareness, meditation, inner journeys.
It's ruled by the planet Jupiterand the Zodiac sign of Leo,
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sacred to Lul and Lug. So those are sort of, it's again
like correspondences. And like I said, when I looked
up tarot cards associated with Borage, they talked about the
strength card and also the Hierophant.
But I don't totally know why, but I pulled some of those cards
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that sort of gave the vibe. So I'm looking at the Therapist
Who Tarot deck and also the Effedia Rosa tarot.
And in the Therapist Who Tarot deck, it's interesting the
colors of the cards for both. They rename the Hierophant as
the healer in here and then theyhave the strength card which is
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about self love. They're very blue-green yellowy
colored cards on here which I thought was interesting.
And then the Afidia Rosa has some animals and plants on the
cards. They don't specifically say what
plants they are depicted but looking at them to me neither of
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them look like borage on either card.
So the strength card has like a snake and then some multi more
like a Peony or a rose or something flower on there, like
a multi petaled like multiple levels or layered petals flower
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and they're sort of reddish pink.
That could also be like camellias or something.
And then on the Hierophant card,only Fidia Rosa deck, they have
what looked to me like Datura flowers.
I'm going to look up Datura realquick.
But yeah, they sort of look likethese bell flowers.
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So Datura is a different sort ofmagical plant.
It is poisonous or, you know, strong medicine or hallucinogen.
So that would be different than Borage.
But I just thought that was interesting that Datura is, to
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me, what looks like is depicted on this card.
So if you want to work with Borage again, you could kind of
pull those cards and create a ritual.
Like I said, you can pull out your greener blue candles or
other crystals associated with that, that have these cooler
tones or are associated with that heart energy, right?
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That courage and strength that we associate with the heart.
So that could be like rose quartz.
I have like a rock that's painted like a rainbow colors
that in the shape of a heart. So I pulled that one sort of in
front of me. And I'll also, I'll put up a
picture of the candle, the borage flowers and my, the tarot
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cards I pulled. And sort of my, I have like a
tarot card stand that fits some cards on it with the triple moon
in front of it. And so that's where I put kind
of my crystals and tarot cards when I'm doing episodes.
So I'll have a picture of that on my website and probably on
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Instagram as well, if you want to take a look at that and get
some inspiration. But lastly, let's talk about
some other usage for borage. So, right, I talked about you
can eat the flowers, right? It sounds like there's some
levels of steeping the leaves for tea or other things.
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But in the book The Hearth, which is Compendium, I just
looked up Borage in the back of it and it had a couple different
things. So it did talk about its
association with Luke NASA, which like I said is on August
1st and is sort of the period ofthe year.
It says this where the summer growth and the beginning of the
autumn. So it's the end of the summer
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growth and the beginning of autumn harvest.
Not really where I live to be honest.
Our summer growth ends maybe more like September, but again,
we don't really get started in summer until July.
But that is sort of the traditional way of celebrating
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that festival, which is interesting too, because you
sort of have like Midsummer or solstice right in the end of
June, which is about like the height of the sun.
And then you have Lucanassa, which is more about right, where
you might want some cooling aspects.
Like I said, it's been hot for acouple months, right?
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You're sort of maybe over the sun or you're kind of looking
for ways to cool off, make rational decisions, take your
edge off the panic. Like they talk about with
porridge. And so they list porridge in
here as special ritual foods of Lucanasa.
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They list apples, basil, borridge, chicory, fenigreek,
fennel, honeysuckle, poppy seeds, grapes, vine leaves and
nasturtium flowers, as well as potatoes, bilberries, don't know
what those are, and other soft fruit, wine, beer and bread.
So all of those things are associated with that holiday,
which is interesting. So borridge is in there and at
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least right now, yeah, my borridge is really going it's
going strong right now. I'm on recording this July 7th,
2025 S and it'll probably still it kind of goes throughout the
summer. It likes the hotter weather, at
least where I live. So they do talk about using
borridge flowers and a floral salad in here.
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So this book has magical and natural living for every day.
So some things you can eat, somethings are skin care, some
things are making wine, some things are like what to grow if
you want to have sort of like I know they have a list in here of
like magical if you want to havea magical garden or a culinary
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garden or stuff like that. So yeah, they talk about putting
it making a salad of spinach, romaine lettuce, cucumber,
carrot, mint or nasturtium flowers, violets and borridge
with oil and some lemon juice and a garlic clove.
So if you want to make a inspired salad tonight as you
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think about working with borridge, maybe even if you
don't have it, but in sort of the inspiration of that, that
can be very fun to do. And again, all of those things
are very cooling. You have nasturtium, which is
like a very also the the whole part of the plant is edible and
you can eat the flowers on thoseviolets, right, are Violet
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colored. We have that purple, blue aspect
to them. Nasturtium have bright green
leaves and usually are between like yellow, orange, red kind of
flowers and they use mint, right?
Another cooling thing, cucumber cooling.
Carrot is generally cooling, maybe unless you cooked it or
added spices to it. But all of those things are very
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in line with the cooling aspect of borage as we previously spoke
about. And then, yeah, I thought it was
interesting that was associated with Leo.
I don't know if that's just, again, because of the time of
year that it's associated with the Lucnasa, which would be
during Leo season Zodiac wise. But yeah, I that was just kind
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of interesting to me because again, Leo, OK, so maybe part of
it is that Leo is right, this fire sign high energy.
So right, you could potentially use forage as a way to do you
have a lot of Leo in your chart and you want to sort of work
with it or calm it down a bit ifyou maybe need to work on being
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grounded or work on, you know, not taking on too much or
getting burned out. Borage would be a good plant to
work with there. And the last thing I wanted to
say was I did find an online, like I said, I don't have any
ducks that are botanical ducks right now.
I have some that have plants andanimals on them, but none
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specifically. But I did find one online.
It is the Druid plant Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr Gomm.
The art is by Will Worthington and they have a borage card and
it says courage comes in many forms, from heading into literal
battle to having an uncomfortable conversation.
Perhaps today is the day to havemore courage to tackle an issue
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that's been on your mind or heart and blessings for that.
The card in this one has borage on it.
It has some other plants, actually, thyme and Rosemary,
which are often in flower at thesame time of year that Luke NASA
would be happening and that borage would be flowering.
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It says borage. Like I said, associate with
courage. Maybe you need to work it like
you need to embody your courage yourself right now, a strong and
generous heart. Maybe looking beyond your own
needs to perceive the greater good of those around you, or
standing up for someone who's weaker than you or who needs
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protection, or even advocating for yourself.
And so it also is this way of, right, grounding yourself and
advocating for ourselves. And borridge can sort of right,
help us with that, which I love.I love learning more about plant
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correspondences. Let's see.
Yeah, I think that's all I want to share about borridge, which
was a decent amount today. So I hope you enjoyed that.
This whole season will be different plant allies and how
to work with them using the tarot.
Like I said, I'm going to be going off of vibes, probably
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things that grow in my garden, ones that really speak to me or
that I feel like have a a sort of innate relation to the tarot.
There is this idea and herbalismthat if you live at a place, I
think they say for two years like in the same on the same
land for two years, that after two years the plants will start
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to like attune themselves to youand the plants that you need
will show up in more abundance. So that is also just interesting
to keep in mind. I definitely have some plants in
my yard that I did not plant andthat are always very present and
like to say hi to me or maybe I planted once like the board and
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they continue to come back year after year without any effort
from me and sometimes even purposely getting rid of some of
them. So that I really like that
concept of working with plants like that as well, because I
think there is this sort of right.
It's a correspondence and it's a, it's a relationship to work
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with plants. Even though I would say, I was
going to say a lot of the Western world, but I don't
totally know. I didn't grow up with sort of
viewing plants that in that fashion that they sort of have
their own right correspondences and things to map, you know,
uses for them, but also just ways to work with them and that
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they work with us as well to sort of help us.
So I really like that. I am going to go ahead and pull
a card to see if there's anything else we need to know
today or that Borage wants to tell us.
Let me think, what card deck do I want to pull from?
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I'm going to pull from that Anima Mindy deck by Megan wire
window. OK, just jumping all over the
place. So I'm going to give a quick
shuffle or two and see what elsedo we need to know?
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How can we use our courage? How can we embody our heart
centered tests? Is there anything that Borridge
wants to tell us or anything else we need to know?
All right, I got the world card.How lovely.
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The World is the last card in the Major Arcana, and in this
deck, the world is depicted as the Amazon Rainforest.
It says the Amazon rainforest accounts for 20% of the Earth's
oxygen production, giving it thenickname The Lungs of the Earth.
This card is about wholeness, unity and understanding.
The fruits of your labor have paid off and you have a sense of
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closure now that the cycle has come to an end.
You were starting to see the bigpicture and where you stand in
the world around you. So upright.
It's about completion, triumph, end of journey, unity, travel
and global awareness. Well, no small potatoes is my
first thought there, right, Onlyabout the whole world and how we
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interact with that. And again, like I said, it's the
last card in the Major Arcana. So it's a very powerful card, as
are all the Major Arcana cards. But right, it's about
completion. Again, if we think about how the
Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana are sort of the same
journey, just spread out differently, the world would be
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sort of equivalent to 10s in theother suits, which is again,
about completion. So something is coming to a
close. Sounds like something's coming
to fruition, right about harvest, which is what Lucas is
about as well. So yeah, sounds like things are
going well and we're sort of thefruits of our labor are coming
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to pass. So I love that.
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episode. All right, so welcome to season
11. Today is the first episode of
season 11 where I'm talking all about Tarot and plant Allies.
So if you haven't listened to myother seasons yet, you can check
those out. Season 1 was all about tarot
basics. Seasons two and three I went
through all the Major Arcana cards and an overview of the
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four suits. In season 4 I talked to tarot in
pop culture. In season 5 I went through 13
common tarot spreads. In season 678 and 9 I went
through the Suit of Wands, Pentacles, Swords, and Cups.
And Season 10 that I just rounded out recently was all
about Tarot and witchcraft. So like I said, now we are here
in season 11 where I'm talking all about tarot and plant
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allies, and today I'm talking about tarot and borage.
So first of all, what the heck is borage?
I don't think I had ever heard of it until I started gardening.
Maybe I'd seen it. I don't.
I don't totally think so. It's not super common honestly,
but it's one of my favorite plants to grow.
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I love looking at it, it feels inherently witchy.
They have blue flowers and with five petals each and it also has
5 green leaves, like one betweeneach petal.
So very magically coated I wouldsay.
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I have some in front of me rightnow, so I'll have some pictures
of Borage, the plant and a drawing of Borage as well on my
website or on my Instagram. If you want to take a look at
what it looks like. If you don't want to go there,
you can always Google it. But yeah, the plant is has very
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green, sort of spiky leaves, notspiky like a rose plant where
there's thorns, but spiky like just sort of like you wouldn't
necessarily want to eat it without cooking it.
It kind of it's it is sort of a like mucilage plant is with a
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word that comes to mind. And interestingly, like the
plant magic around porridge and some of its usage are related to
sort of soothing courage, strength.
I even found somewhere where they were talking about that
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forage can be used to soothe your solar energy.
So right, sometimes we have plants to that we want to sort
of like that help elevate to write into excitement or just
sort of elevate us. And I'll probably talk about
some more of those this in the next couple episodes.
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So very sunny plants, often maybe spicy like ginger or
cayenne or cinnamon or basil or peppermint, right?
All of those kind of have this like warming effect when you eat
them. And so Bora just sort of
consider the opposite of that. So it's in this category of
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plants that are helping soften, relax, create a sense of calm
for your sun energy. So I thought this would be sort
of appropriate, at least for me right now.
We just passed the summer solstice or in between sort of
witchy Pagan holidays with Lugnasa coming up on August 1st,
which is actually forage is a common plant used at that time
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when you again are sort of in the height of the heat.
And it's been going on for a while, at least in the Northern
hemisphere at that time of year.And you want some soothing,
right? We can think of other soothing
plants. This isn't on the list here, but
like aloe, they put lavender on here, borages on here, poppies,
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rose, dandelion root. So again, we're sort of thinking
about where this season is goingto be sort of the overlap of
witchy aspects of the plant, right?
And Taro and sort of correspondences.
And then also like herbalism, sohow you might use the plants
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almost as medicine. I am not trained as an
herbalist. I'm going to dabble a bit in
talking about that. But the main thing is going to
be how do you work with this plant?
Which is why I'm calling the season plant allies.
So right, we're not necessarily talking about plant medicine
fully. We're not talking about plant
magic fully. We're talking about sort of
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again, like working with the plants, this idea that plants
are their own beans and each plant is different.
And so thinking about, yeah, howyou work with that.
So borage, they have blue flowers like I said, or purple,
kind of depends on what age the flower itself is.
I think they turn more purpley over time or they get sort of
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maybe bleached by the sun a bit and turn more pinky purple.
They're very good for grounding,for cooling, relaxing, like I
said. And a lot of plants that have
that quality of this sort of like if you've ever had okra and
maybe you didn't like it, where it can be this kind of like
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mushy aspect of a plant. So borage the leaves and stuff,
if you were to cook them down, they would sort of act like
that. If you pull borage the plant or
break things off of it, other than the flowers, you get sort
of like a Milky or a stickiness of the plant.
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So that is part of it. Let's see what else.
Yeah, the colors, right? So we have Blues and greens,
which are again are cooler colors as well.
So actually in front of me, I have a green candle today and I
have 5 borage flowers because I have borage in my yard.
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Like I said, it's honestly one of my favorite things to grow in
the garden. It's very unique looking.
It's in the same family as comfrey, if you know that plant
at all, and sort of has a similar quality where if you
pull the leaf, it's a little like stringy and kind of
prickly. Again, not thorns, but like
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uncomfortable to sort of just like handle bear with your bare
skin. You can do it.
It's also a very deeply rooted plant.
It has a taproot like comfrey does and and really likes to be
right in this grounded way. So that's a little bit about
borage the plant and I will havea picture.
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I have a medicinal herb coloringbook that I got I guess during
Covad. I looked in the introduction and
it talked about the book was created during the coronavirus
pandemic as a way to help peoplelearn about herbalism through
the soothing and therapeutic action of coloring.
And it were some herbalists thatcreated this coloring book.
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I love coloring. I find coloring very soothing.
And so one of the things I had colored previously in here was
borage. So I'll have that picture.
And I colored it, you know, fairly accurately to the colors.
But like I said, it sort of has these blue flowers, and blue is
fairly rare as a natural color in nature.
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It says Borage is an annual plant from the Mediterranean,
grown in gardens worldwide and much loved by honey bees.
Yeah, actually, I went outside in my yard to try to take some
pictures of Borage, the plant for you all so I could post
some. And there were so many bees,
which I love. And so I just had to, you know,
again, get real, get nice and close and be calm and then
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start. We started taking some pictures
of the plant. It says it has traditionally
been used for people in a state of convalescence, recovering
from nervous exhaustion, debility and low mood as a
demulcent. So again, that's that.
Like, mucilage quality or like, if you think of the word mucus,
those all come from the same root word, which is the sort of,
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like, sticky thing that, kind of, like, sits with you for a
long time. It's also a diaphoretic and
diuretic. Yeah.
Diaphoretic and a diuretic And borage.
Leaves and flowers can help withrespiratory infections.
The oil from the seed is valuable for people struggling
with premenstrual tension, rheumatism, eczema and chronic
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skin conditions. And a lot of those conditions
that it helps with are things that are sort of about
inflammation or redness. Again, if you think of eczema or
chronic skin conditions, and so again, we have this like blue
plant soothing aspect of the plant that sort of that to me
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just sort of makes inherent sense that like, yeah, OK, this
would help people in that way. So I'll say this every episode,
but I am not giving any medical advice.
This is not herbalism advice. Don't just go outside eating
this plant and thinking that, oh, it's going to help my
rheumatism or my eczema. If you want to work with the
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plant and by ingesting it in anyway, a Safeway to do that is you
can pick the flowers. So the blue little flowers,
they're pretty easy to pick. You can also clip them off.
And a common thing to do with them is put them in salads.
If you've ever maybe been to a fancy restaurant and had a salad
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that had edible flowers in it, that can be very fun.
So borage, the the flower itselftastes like a cucumber, if you
kind of know what that is like. Again, another kind of cooling
plant or produce. And so you can safely consume
the flowers without an herbalist.
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I would say beyond that, I wouldsay contact your chosen medical
provider, naturopath, herbalist if you want to consume or ingest
or put the plant on any other part of your skin or body.
And I will again say that every episode, but even just working
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with the plant, it could look like we're going to talk about
some tarot cards that are associated with the plant in a
minute. So you could pull these tarot
cards out. You could, again, you could
purchase this medicinal coloringbook if you wanted to get to
know some other herbalist plantsthat I'm going to probably talk
about. You could, you know, draw blue
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stars. You could, again, like I said,
if you, if you want to grow the plant, it's very easy to grow,
at least for me where I live. I think I literally planted at
one time in a raised bed in my garden.
I started it from seed. The seeds are pretty big, not
quite as large as sunflower seeds, but about half that size,
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and they're sort of around that shape.
They're sort of like long and sort of hard and black, I
believe. But anyway, I started the seeds.
I still have the seed packet that I started the seeds from
one time. Like I said, I probably planted
a couple of them just sort of, I'd read it was good for
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different kinds of bees, native bees, and that it was this cool
blue flower. And I was like, great, cool.
You can like eat the flowers. Lovely.
Love that. I love when plants can kind of
like hit all these different aspects of ways to work with
them. And I think I planted them once
and now they're in my yard forever.
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They will sort of seed themself and move slightly.
They're not challenging to get rid of and actually my chickens
love to eat them. They'll like they'll eat all the
flowers off and then sometimes eat some of the leaves.
So I love that too. So if I ever get some in like my
garden pathways or if they startto spread in places that I don't
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want them to, I just pull them and give them to my chickens.
Again, you don't have to do that.
You can compost them if you want.
You could pick the flowers maybeAnother common thing if you like
look online to do with borage flowers is to like put them in
one you make ice cubes. So like if you have an ice cube
tray, you can put the flowers inthe ice cubes and then you can
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use that ice in like your summergarden drinks because again, the
flower is safe to eat. So of course if the ice melts
and it ends up in your drink andyou accidentally eat it, like
it's OK. So that is lovely as well.
And like I said, it is the sort of magical looking plant, or at
least the flower with like we have a very like pentacle and
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pentagram sort of vibe where we have 5 petals.
Like I said, we have 5 green sort of leaves in between.
Yeah. And like I said, it's a fun
plant to grow because it does just kind of seed itself, which
I think is great as a gardener because yeah, then you don't
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have to do too much work, which I love that.
All right, so let's see, what else do I want to talk about?
Oh yeah. So I was looking up sort of like
correspondences with borage or plant magic associated with it,
and I found the site eldrumherbs.co.uk.
I'll link it in the show notes where they talk about different
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herbs. And they had this quote put in
there that said the old saying states that I borage bring
always courage and it certainly does just that.
They say that they've used it for patients who are facing big
decisions, major life changes, as well As for those who are
just about scraping the bottom of the energy barrel.
And they say they've taken it themselves for similar things.
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It always has a great effect andsomehow manages to take the edge
off panic, making for a cool head and rational decisions.
So I like that phrase that I borage bring always courage
because it also again, in sort of this herbalist, when we think
of plants as medicine, they talkabout that is it can be like
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heart medicine. And again, This is why you
should consult an herbalist or your naturopath or anything if
you want to consume plants or like more parts of the plants
because dosage and knowing any contraindications for medication
you may be on is very important,especially when it comes to
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heart medicine. So again, be safe out there,
look things up before you do it.Find good professionals that can
advise you on these things. If you really do want to work
with plants differently, let's see what else the planetary
influence is. Jupiter.
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It said it's associated with LUGor LOO or other warrior gods
like Aries. Yeah, like I said, the festival
associated with Borage is Luke NASA, which is generally August
1st. The constitution of the plant is
cool and moist, which again, if you were to pull the plant, you
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would sort of be able to tell that like if it was out in the
wild and you just picked it and pulled it.
Because it kind of has this, like I said, it kind of like
bleeds like a sappiness and the Blues and the colors of it are
sort of this cooling aspect. What else do we want to talk
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about with plant magic? Let me see if there's anything
else. Well, then maybe.
Well, I'm looking at multiple sources here.
Yeah. A board has been used as
depression medication previouslyacross ancient times.
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It can be used in charms, spells, rituals or potions to
stimulate courage and strength. Like I like they shared on the
Eldrum herbs website that right if you have to make big
decisions or sort of like havingif you're feeling burned out
right again, if we think about the word burned out, it's like a
fire burning out. So if we think about how do you
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revive after such things is generally to do something the
opposite, which would be this cooling, which also it sounds
like this goes along with Jupiter, evoking expansive
feelings of joy and enthusiasm. It says another thing you can do
with some flowers. You could put them in a pouch.
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You could dry them as well if you wanted and put them, it
says, close to your heart if youwant that.
Like I said, the plants themselves, if you were to like
eat the flowers, they sort of taste like cucumber.
It's very mild. And they can be put in salads.
It sounds like they can be candied for cake decoration.
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So again, things that are sort of, you know, very pretty as
well. They you can use the leaves and
you can also steep them and maketea.
But again, look up things about that.
This is like a culinary use of borage, but also, right, it's
different if you're going to useit cosmetically or medicinally,
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which again, don't be messing around with taking things
medicinally if you're not consulting a medical
professional in that way or unless you are an herbalist
because it can have other yeah, counter indications that can
affect your liver, it can affectmedic blood thinning medication,
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etcetera. So be careful when you're doing
those things. But yeah, it's a lovely plant to
look at and work with. Yeah.
So in relation to the tarot, I looked up sort of, I didn't have
any. And this might be something I
need to add to my repertoire or some of my book library, but I
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don't have necessarily like a magical plant relation book or
correspondences. I guess I will talk about this
in a minute when we get to usageof porridge, but I have the
Hearth Witches Compendium, Magical and Natural Living for
Every Day by Anna Franklin, and they do have in here some
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different things to do with porridge, but they also have a
list of sort of the magical herbalism of plants.
So they talk about, like I said,with porridge, rouses from
lethargy, excites, activity, courage, Lucanasa, like I said,
psychic awareness, meditation, inner journeys.
It's ruled by the planet Jupiterand the Zodiac sign of Leo,
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sacred to Lul and Lug. So those are sort of, it's again
like correspondences. And like I said, when I looked
up tarot cards associated with Borage, they talked about the
strength card and also the Hierophant.
But I don't totally know why, but I pulled some of those cards
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that sort of gave the vibe. So I'm looking at the Therapist
Who Tarot deck and also the Effedia Rosa tarot.
And in the Therapist Who Tarot deck, it's interesting the
colors of the cards for both. They rename the Hierophant as
the healer in here and then theyhave the strength card which is
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about self love. They're very blue-green yellowy
colored cards on here which I thought was interesting.
And then the Afidia Rosa has some animals and plants on the
cards. They don't specifically say what
plants they are depicted but looking at them to me neither of
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them look like borage on either card.
So the strength card has like a snake and then some multi more
like a Peony or a rose or something flower on there, like
a multi petaled like multiple levels or layered petals flower
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and they're sort of reddish pink.
That could also be like camellias or something.
And then on the Hierophant card,only Fidia Rosa deck, they have
what looked to me like Datura flowers.
I'm going to look up Datura realquick.
But yeah, they sort of look likethese bell flowers.
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So Datura is a different sort ofmagical plant.
It is poisonous or, you know, strong medicine or hallucinogen.
So that would be different than Borage.
But I just thought that was interesting that Datura is, to
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me, what looks like is depicted on this card.
So if you want to work with Borage again, you could kind of
pull those cards and create a ritual.
Like I said, you can pull out your greener blue candles or
other crystals associated with that, that have these cooler
tones or are associated with that heart energy, right?
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That courage and strength that we associate with the heart.
So that could be like rose quartz.
I have like a rock that's painted like a rainbow colors
that in the shape of a heart. So I pulled that one sort of in
front of me. And I'll also, I'll put up a
picture of the candle, the borage flowers and my, the tarot
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cards I pulled. And sort of my, I have like a
tarot card stand that fits some cards on it with the triple moon
in front of it. And so that's where I put kind
of my crystals and tarot cards when I'm doing episodes.
So I'll have a picture of that on my website and probably on
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Instagram as well, if you want to take a look at that and get
some inspiration. But lastly, let's talk about
some other usage for borage. So, right, I talked about you
can eat the flowers, right? It sounds like there's some
levels of steeping the leaves for tea or other things.
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But in the book The Hearth, which is Compendium, I just
looked up Borage in the back of it and it had a couple different
things. So it did talk about its
association with Luke NASA, which like I said is on August
1st and is sort of the period ofthe year.
It says this where the summer growth and the beginning of the
autumn. So it's the end of the summer
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growth and the beginning of autumn harvest.
Not really where I live to be honest.
Our summer growth ends maybe more like September, but again,
we don't really get started in summer until July.
But that is sort of the traditional way of celebrating
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that festival, which is interesting too, because you
sort of have like Midsummer or solstice right in the end of
June, which is about like the height of the sun.
And then you have Lucanassa, which is more about right, where
you might want some cooling aspects.
Like I said, it's been hot for acouple months, right?
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You're sort of maybe over the sun or you're kind of looking
for ways to cool off, make rational decisions, take your
edge off the panic. Like they talk about with
porridge. And so they list porridge in
here as special ritual foods of Lucanasa.
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They list apples, basil, borridge, chicory, fenigreek,
fennel, honeysuckle, poppy seeds, grapes, vine leaves and
nasturtium flowers, as well as potatoes, bilberries, don't know
what those are, and other soft fruit, wine, beer and bread.
So all of those things are associated with that holiday,
which is interesting. So borridge is in there and at
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least right now, yeah, my borridge is really going it's
going strong right now. I'm on recording this July 7th,
2025 S and it'll probably still it kind of goes throughout the
summer. It likes the hotter weather, at
least where I live. So they do talk about using
borridge flowers and a floral salad in here.
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So this book has magical and natural living for every day.
So some things you can eat, somethings are skin care, some
things are making wine, some things are like what to grow if
you want to have sort of like I know they have a list in here of
like magical if you want to havea magical garden or a culinary
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garden or stuff like that. So yeah, they talk about putting
it making a salad of spinach, romaine lettuce, cucumber,
carrot, mint or nasturtium flowers, violets and borridge
with oil and some lemon juice and a garlic clove.
So if you want to make a inspired salad tonight as you
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think about working with borridge, maybe even if you
don't have it, but in sort of the inspiration of that, that
can be very fun to do. And again, all of those things
are very cooling. You have nasturtium, which is
like a very also the the whole part of the plant is edible and
you can eat the flowers on thoseviolets, right, are Violet
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colored. We have that purple, blue aspect
to them. Nasturtium have bright green
leaves and usually are between like yellow, orange, red kind of
flowers and they use mint, right?
Another cooling thing, cucumber cooling.
Carrot is generally cooling, maybe unless you cooked it or
added spices to it. But all of those things are very
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in line with the cooling aspect of borage as we previously spoke
about. And then, yeah, I thought it was
interesting that was associated with Leo.
I don't know if that's just, again, because of the time of
year that it's associated with the Lucnasa, which would be
during Leo season Zodiac wise. But yeah, I that was just kind
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of interesting to me because again, Leo, OK, so maybe part of
it is that Leo is right, this fire sign high energy.
So right, you could potentially use forage as a way to do you
have a lot of Leo in your chart and you want to sort of work
with it or calm it down a bit ifyou maybe need to work on being
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grounded or work on, you know, not taking on too much or
getting burned out. Borage would be a good plant to
work with there. And the last thing I wanted to
say was I did find an online, like I said, I don't have any
ducks that are botanical ducks right now.
I have some that have plants andanimals on them, but none
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specifically. But I did find one online.
It is the Druid plant Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr Gomm.
The art is by Will Worthington and they have a borage card and
it says courage comes in many forms, from heading into literal
battle to having an uncomfortable conversation.
Perhaps today is the day to havemore courage to tackle an issue
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that's been on your mind or heart and blessings for that.
The card in this one has borage on it.
It has some other plants, actually, thyme and Rosemary,
which are often in flower at thesame time of year that Luke NASA
would be happening and that borage would be flowering.
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It says borage. Like I said, associate with
courage. Maybe you need to work it like
you need to embody your courage yourself right now, a strong and
generous heart. Maybe looking beyond your own
needs to perceive the greater good of those around you, or
standing up for someone who's weaker than you or who needs
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protection, or even advocating for yourself.
And so it also is this way of, right, grounding yourself and
advocating for ourselves. And borridge can sort of right,
help us with that, which I love.I love learning more about plant
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correspondences. Let's see.
Yeah, I think that's all I want to share about borridge, which
was a decent amount today. So I hope you enjoyed that.
This whole season will be different plant allies and how
to work with them using the tarot.
Like I said, I'm going to be going off of vibes, probably
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things that grow in my garden, ones that really speak to me or
that I feel like have a a sort of innate relation to the tarot.
There is this idea and herbalismthat if you live at a place, I
think they say for two years like in the same on the same
land for two years, that after two years the plants will start
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to like attune themselves to youand the plants that you need
will show up in more abundance. So that is also just interesting
to keep in mind. I definitely have some plants in
my yard that I did not plant andthat are always very present and
like to say hi to me or maybe I planted once like the board and
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they continue to come back year after year without any effort
from me and sometimes even purposely getting rid of some of
them. So that I really like that
concept of working with plants like that as well, because I
think there is this sort of right.
It's a correspondence and it's a, it's a relationship to work
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with plants. Even though I would say, I was
going to say a lot of the Western world, but I don't
totally know. I didn't grow up with sort of
viewing plants that in that fashion that they sort of have
their own right correspondences and things to map, you know,
uses for them, but also just ways to work with them and that
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they work with us as well to sort of help us.
So I really like that. I am going to go ahead and pull
a card to see if there's anything else we need to know
today or that Borage wants to tell us.
Let me think, what card deck do I want to pull from?
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I'm going to pull from that Anima Mindy deck by Megan wire
window. OK, just jumping all over the
place. So I'm going to give a quick
shuffle or two and see what elsedo we need to know?
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How can we use our courage? How can we embody our heart
centered tests? Is there anything that Borridge
wants to tell us or anything else we need to know?
All right, I got the world card.How lovely.
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The World is the last card in the Major Arcana, and in this
deck, the world is depicted as the Amazon Rainforest.
It says the Amazon rainforest accounts for 20% of the Earth's
oxygen production, giving it thenickname The Lungs of the Earth.
This card is about wholeness, unity and understanding.
The fruits of your labor have paid off and you have a sense of
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closure now that the cycle has come to an end.
You were starting to see the bigpicture and where you stand in
the world around you. So upright.
It's about completion, triumph, end of journey, unity, travel
and global awareness. Well, no small potatoes is my
first thought there, right, Onlyabout the whole world and how we
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interact with that. And again, like I said, it's the
last card in the Major Arcana. So it's a very powerful card, as
are all the Major Arcana cards. But right, it's about
completion. Again, if we think about how the
Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana are sort of the same
journey, just spread out differently, the world would be
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sort of equivalent to 10s in theother suits, which is again,
about completion. So something is coming to a
close. Sounds like something's coming
to fruition, right about harvest, which is what Lucas is
about as well. So yeah, sounds like things are
going well and we're sort of thefruits of our labor are coming
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to pass. So I love that.
All right, so if you'd like to join me on the journey of using
the tarot for transformation, you want to dive deeper into the
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together for 12 weeks of calls and journaling to discover what
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happens. We want to transform our lives
through the tarot. Links for the tarot decks I talk
about will always be in the shownotes and on my website if you'd
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And thanks for joining me today on Everyday Tarot.
Just as a reminder, the podcast comes out daily, Monday through
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