When you feel unhinged, pause. Where do you feel this in your body?

When the mind chatters, pause.
Is this the story of your best life? your highest self?
If no, re-write it or seek the script authored by the great spirit/goddess/god.

When you don’t understand.
Stop assuming. Be curious. Allow possibility. Acknowledge the options.

Invite a dialogue with these parts of yourself.
Remember you are whole. You are sacred.

Autumn is the season of metal in Chinese Medicine. The energy is exacting, precise, cutting, reflective and alchemical.

Just as the trees drop their leaves, we too are to let go of the old. This is the natural rhythm of the season.

Many of us have outgrown jobs, relationships, locations. With integrity, now is the time to cut loose that which no longer serves you.

Sometimes these decisions come in a brilliant flash. The action required is crystal clear. At times, we are reconsidering change year after year. The action required is still murky. Reflect.

The time around the solstice will center us once again as the transition/earth season. The newness of how are choosing to live may feel, momentarily, unsettling.

We will dream up our next best life in the stillness of winter. We will rest and restore.

The spring will come, like it always does, and we will move forward anew.

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This Lentil Cilantro Soup exquisitely supports the water/winter organ pair of the Bladder and Kidney. This is the perfect soup to catch the tail end of winter in harmony food support. This pair of organs, when in balance, support our need to restore, unplug, dream and merge into higher states of consciousness.  The seeds of the year are planted during the winter, sprout during spring. come into full bloom in summer and return to the earth during fall. What have you planted this winter in the quiescence of the season?

The soups can be created and enjoyed in any order.  However, the order of the soups as presented journeys you through the 12 organ network in order of energetic flow.  One or two may even become your favorite go to soups throughout the year. The first and last vegetable combinations concentrate on the Metal element organs: large intestine and lung respectively.

All Nourishing Winter Soup Cleanse recipes can be found  a few posts back (click here).

Wanna dive deeper into the cleanse with spices, soup toppers and self-care actions?  Check back in for our upcoming posts or follow our blog to have the posts delivered to your email

Gardening Tip:  Direct Sow Cilantro Seeds

In the south, we are able to have fresh cilantro during winter and spring simply by direct sowing every three weeks. I watch the weather and sow my seeds just before or during the rains. So sow those seeds! 

Fill your kidneys with blue-black light

Compliance Tip: Element Wisdom Cards

Choose an Element Wisdom Card each day to support the organ systems, seasonal harmony or your constitution. These unique messages support your seasonal health & elemental constitution as determined by your 5 element practitioner or our Seasonal Medicine Element Quiz.

Spices: 

Peppercorns: 

nature: hot, pungent

action: opens pores, promotes sweating, warms abdominal organs

direction: outward

affinity:  Liver, Lung & Kidney

Whole Foods Tip: Cilantro Berries

Discover the delightful in between stage from cilantro leaf to coriander seed – the amazing, little known cilantro berry.  This tender green pod pows with flavor.  I love to eat it fresh, toss in into the end cook stage of a stir fry or fancy up my salsa. 

Toppers:

Chives: 

nature: warm, pungent

action: warms coldness. supports sexual function, removes dampness

affinity: Kidneys

Pollinator Tip: Bees adore the Cilantro flowers.  Like buckwheat, they are an early source of pollen and nectar to forage. If your spice plants bolts, bee happy – don’t worry.

Self Care:

To support the kidney and its expression as the adrenal: tonify the vagal nerve to move into rest & digest mode.

How to practically soothe your nervous system and improve vagal nerve tone:

• Take a cold shower or plunge
• Splash cold water on face & neck
• Sing, laugh, chant, hum, & hug
• Restore the microbe of the gut
• Relax jaw tension
• Meditate on loving kindness
• Positive Social Connect

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xoxoxoxo Sarita

The soup cleanse is developed with simplicity in mind.  However, onion and garlic base may not be the best fit for everyone or we might tire of the same flavor or feel creative. A percent of people are sulfur intolerant; in these cases, I suggest a simple vegetable stock or herbal tea.  

My favorite long game way to create vegetable stock is to consistently contribute all the trimmings from my organic vegetable meal prep into a collective freeze.  I save all the heads, tails, skins, peels, cores from vegetables and fruits that cross my cutting board and add them bit by bit to a collective in the freezer.  When needed, I simply add the fresh and frozen scraps with chosen whole spices to very clean water and simmer on medium-low with lid on for 10-15 minutes once the stock has come to a gentle boil.  

A short game to create a quick soup base is brewing or warming herbal tea.  My winter favorite quick tea bases are ginger, chai and green tea.  Over the years, my tea ritual has evolved to almost exclusively bulk teas.  The quality of the herbs are superior and the cost overall less when we re-brew the leaves.  As long as there is color in the second or third or fourth ‘washing’ of the leaves, there are powerful antioxidants and phytonutrients.  The additional benefit is that it naturally decaffeinates the teas by water processing.

Herbal teas deliver botanical medicine.  

Vervain Collective Tranquilium Tea by Oracle

To free the medicine, we choose the best preparation method, temperature, and timing.  Boil or steep the herbs multiple times until there is little color left.  Combine all brews into one large container and drink room temperature or cool from the refrigerator throughout the day or over the next few days. For more information about tea preparation visit our previous post Brewing Teas: free their medicine.

Focus

Each season has a corresponding set of organs that reach their energetic peak during the 73 day period.  Water rules the winter season. The bladder, kidney and adrenals are expressions of the water element in the landscape of the human body.  In addition to the organs and the yin/yang organ pair (kidney = yin & bladder = yang).  The water element manifests as the physical organs, their energetic pathways (meridians), the hair, teeth, bones, brain and spinal cord. You can learn more about simple, harmonious ways to support the water element here.

Supporting the practice of focus is one powerful way to promote winter wellness.  One of our patients sent an image of how she integrates the Element Wisdom Cards into her life.  She chose the card with intention and placed it in  her workspace for the week.  She reported that the Focus card was a tremendous support to anchor her mind.  The focus card may also be used on an altar or vision board to support your dreams or in your meditation space to focus your attention back to the breath, sensation or heart.  The element wisdom cards help you find your authentic and unique path to wellness – step by step.

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Return.

In celebration of cycles & dynamic change. In praise of the light. The earth/transition season supports our return. My question to you: to which aspects of your last cycle do you choose to return? Which aspects of your last cycle do you choose to release? Choose wisely beloveds. Inevitably, these bodies return to the earth; live & love fully while here #earth #transformation For support in your dynamic journey of seasonal health & wellness visit element-wisdom.com

Technology interface has been a mixed blessing for us mere mortals during 2020.

Do you remember The Matrix trilogy? Recall how Neo has a choice: return to the Source and reboot the Matrix (humanity wins) or crash the Matrix (humanity looses).

There are programs running that are quite literally rewiring our brains. Are you able to walk away from your device and SM content?

First you have to wake up from the matrix.

Then you can choose to master it. Are you creating a life where technology serves you or enslaves you? Are you reacting or responding? Maybe it’s time for a reboot during these Earth days of Transition? How about a technology or SM fast during one or some of your holy days?

And…..it is always time to return to the source. That is precisely what the winter season is all about. And we haven’t even started talking about the extra cellular matrix. Join us in rewilding yourself back to source and be supported with our Element Wisdom Card Decks for your constitution & current season. We have some exciting plans for 2021 with the Element Wisdom Journey.