A guide for my healing process

So, second relationship break up in less than a year. What a track record eh? LOL

So I thought I'd draw a card as a guide for the process of healing my heart once again and I've drawn Heather. It was funny, as I was shuffling and thinking about how Im feeling now, I thought of Heather and its interesting how it turned up :)

Im not sure of copyright etc at the mo for me to post up the cards, but I figured I would post a pic of some mountain heather. The above pic is one I found on the web from Maison de Stuff, I hope they dont mind, but it was such a fabulous picture I just had to share. And I've also got Damh the Bard going round my head, with his version of Wild Mountain Thyme, whilst we are all around the blooming heather. Or rather, drunk as skunks in a pub on the Clee or Glastonbury Town Hall :D

A piece of heather that I used for some other healing work with Spirit that I did recently came from Lake Vyrnwy, so perhaps I need to take a trip out to visit some wild and rugged places at the mo. The great outdoors is such a place of nourishment and inspiration to me, so I should make an effort and go out and do things that will make me feel better. Of course, right now all I want to do is hide under the duvet. Very warrior-woman of me LOL.

The little huts of the community are really important to me. My friends, my druid community, have been an amazing and overwhelming network of love and support for me over all the recent wobbles. I am so honoured and humbled to have such people that I can call friend. Like worker bees, we all support and look after eachother. :D Not to mention the folks on Aecletic Tarot, who have been supportive, helpful and wonderful, the kindness of 'strangers' is just beyond words right now. Ive had random support from the most unlikely of places, co-workers and even my ex who said such lovely things to me. So im seeing a lot of positivity and 'lucky heather' in what feels a pretty shitty time right now. Although I have a 0-2 score with love (im trying to find a funny angle to it all, im not being flippant, just, me), I am loved, honoured and respected - held safely so I can experience, process and do what I need to do. Theres not many folks that can say that about their lives!

Bees also to me, I feel, speak of communication. And that has been a problem over recent weeks. Communication has been icky, has been misunderstood, under the influence of honeyed mead, and sometimes not even there at all, like a Bee bashing against a window. So perhaps now its time to make communications as clear as possible. Bees also to me link with messages from the Gods, whispers on the wind etc. Perhaps I need to listen to what Spirit has instore for me now :)

Theres stuff in the book about heather promoting rest to the weary. And after 2 relationship breakups, my heart does feel very weary. Sure I'll survive and I'll keep going - during all this turmoil and emotional highs and lows ive surprised myself with my uni course and getting brilliant grades (hey, gotta blow my own trumpet!). But emotionally I feel I need a little support. So, when I go to bed tonight Im going to do some imagining and stepping through the Heather card, or maybe even visit the Sacred Garden and see if I can find Heather in that inner landscape to share its healing with me as I dream :)

And to end, here we have the Princess of Swords from the Druidcraft tarot, high in the heathers :)

ETA -
I did go to sleep thinking of heather, and today I feel full of energy and much more rested and at peace with things. Its sorted my head out a bit more and emotionally I feel much more stable and in a better place of some more processing :) Granted I cant remember anything in my dreams that could relate to the card, but I just trust that its work happened on the Other Realms :)

So I decided this afternoon to hit some books - Culpepper, Greives Modern Herbal, Cunninghams Herbal, a Druid's Herbals (Ellen Evert Hopman) and Herbcraft (Franklin and Lavendar) and in the older texts of Culpepper and Greives there is NO MENTION of heather at all. Now I've looked under all sorts of odd names but I cant find anything. But I did look up some interesting correspondences to heather so I think I'll look into these a bit more as I learn more about these plants :D
Gender Female
Planet Venus
ElementWater
I dont know what I'd do with this information, but its interesting that whilst I agree with female and venus, I dont agree with water. Water makes you think of just general emotion and intuition. I want to think of heather as rain... I get such cleansing glee from rain (its my frogskin!) and heather has a magical history of rain-making. Its that soft rain that the wind beats hard into your face, that takes your breath away yet totally revitalises you. Its the sudden heavy rain that makes two friends dart for cover and become lovers under the tree etc.
I really love heather :)