HERBAL SPOTLIGHT: STAR ANISE

STAR ANISE: Air & Water - Masculine - He TAURUS: Earth - Venus - Fixed

CRYSTALS/STONES: Mahogany Obsidian/Tiger’s Eye CHAKRA: Third Eye/Crown

Star anise is a friend who listens with warmth. Attending to needs, his comments may be sweet or spicy. He keeps things moving and celebrates happiness in appetite. A pat on the back to forget about it and see what’s ahead. Bringer of the unlimited, both tangible and abstract. 

Star anise is the caller of connection. He reaches out to surrounding spirits and asks their aid. To uplift essence and protect an expanding vibrance. Encouraging a warm comfort in the unknown. He peeks through the subliminal lens to look for what is not seen. A shell that carries more than the seed. 

His soothing sweetness softens a cough. A mask for the bitter medicine reluctantly swallowed. A snap to attention for mundane mindsets. He sweetens the spoils of fortune to the willful warrior. A path of puissant paradise. 

His spice points at what seems obvious and suggests another look. A tingling heat of steady change. He will help to move a dream. Or climb into air; to be everywhere. Sips of his rust enliven a build of iron. A boost of red in the cell that is self.

Familiar with the dark, he sets the moon aside. To focus on a proper use for stars. The sparkle of action in a cosmic dawn. To cast off the evil eyes lurking in the shadows. And warm the ideas of comfort and care.

He is ablaze without a forceful radiance. Ready to welcome the spent and strained. Star anise is the fixed bridge over troubled waters. Foundation for the steps of change. He rests peacefully. Beyond the banal. With willing days of passion and love. 

STARRY BAY RECIPE

1 Cup Epsom Salt

5 Star Anise Pods

5 Bay Leaves

DIRECTIONS

Run Bath.

Toss ingredients into water.  

Get in bath. 

Breath and relax.