Nourishing Rituals

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Name: Jessica 

Instagram: @withopenwings

Western Astrology: Sagittarius Rising, Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon

As a free-spirited wanderess and healer of multiple modalities, Jessica favours creating long-lasting change and freedom from within first. Her main mission is to empower highly sensitive empaths to reconnect with and reactivate who they are at a soul level, so that they feel safe to be here now and show up as their most authentic selves.

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Engage more deeply with yourself and nature...

Pick a ritual or few to keep practising over the next month and integrate into your daily life, or why not try all of these activities at least once and see how you feel… 


If something starts to feel like a chore, leave it for now and try something different or come back to it at a later time. If it feels nourishing, nurturing and brings peace and joy into your life, keep it up!

1.

Cosy tea time. Try out some new teas or hot drinks, then recreate them at home. Make it into a ritual. Choose a favourite mug. Set an intention in the tea. Hold to your heart and make a wish. Whatever intuitively feels good for you.

2.

Curl up with a new notebook / journal. Reflect, give gratitude, set intentions - Where were you this time last year? What’s changed? How have you grown? What are you calling in? What are you looking forward to?

3.

Cooking therapy using colourful seasonal veggies and nuts (allergy-dependent). There are so many inspiring recipes to try for all levels on Instagram, Pinterest, and via personal blogs through a quick search.

4.

Wrap up and walk in nature and amongst the trees as often as possible. Or unleash your inner child and go play in the leaves with friends - either the big kids or little ones in your life.

5.

Bring back the art of putting pen to paper to write letters and send love notes to your nearest and dearest, whether they’re the other side of the world or just down the road. No doubt it’ll put a huge smile on their face to receive some loving snail mail.

6.

Start a book or film club with your friends or followers, whether you meet in person or discuss online.

7.

Put your device away and have a phone-free evening watching one of your favourite films or doing a mindful activity, distraction-free.

8.

Make your own bath salts with some seasonal harvests and essential oils, such as rosehips, or dried oranges and cinnamon.

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Pick a pumpkin and get creative whether cooking, carving, painting or decorating. Be mindful of how you dispose of these and utilise the insides for roasting, pulping up for soup and/or baking the seeds with oil, salt and paprika for a tasty crunchy snack.

10.

I won’t bore you with all of the stats, but Halloween is one of the most unsustainable celebrations of the year with all the candy wrappers and one-use, non-recyclable costumes. Get inventive and make home-made Halloween costumes this year from old outfits and costumes, visit thrift and vintage stores or arrange a clothes swap with friends.

11.

Get crafty foraging fallen twigs and leaves to create your own makeshift wreath or create beautiful collages and pictures by taking rubbings of collected leaves using paper or other materials and any type of crayons or chalk. Experiment!

12.

Work with the moon. We have a New Moon Eclipse aligning with the first couple of days of this edition, while the Full Moon Eclipse falls 2 weeks later, towards the end of the month. Eclipses simply heighten any actions we take and can sometimes give us an unceremoniously firm but loving nudge onto a more aligned path, if and where we might need one. It can be a powerful ritual to write down your dreams, goals, wishes and intentions with the new moon, and to write down anything and anyone you wish to forgive and release onto a piece of paper at the full moon, burning safely in a fireplace or fireproof bucket outside. These practices can be done at any time that feels good for you, but they may feel extra potent on or near a new and full moon. Fire is a powerful, transmutable element and when used in an intentional way to let go with love, it can have profound effects, creating space for new and more aligned circumstances, people, places and opportunities to enter our lives (aka all of the wishes you made and the intentions you set at the new moon). Alternatively, it can be just as powerful to wrap up warm, head outside on a clear night, look up at the sky and speak your intentions or anything you wish to release to the moon instead, whether in your head or out loud.

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Learn something new! This edition of The Fall comes out on Friday 13th - research this date and uncover its true origins and ‘lucky’, witchy history. Share your new discoveries and revelations with others!

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