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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

Oh the beautiful garden hydrangea, spanning continents for thousands of years. Overlooked in magic because they are "just a garden plant" but oh what powerful Medicine it carries. πŸ§΅πŸŒΏπŸ’œ #WitchSky #PlantMedicine #ShadowHerbalism

A group of hydrangea blossoms spanning from blue to vibrant pink. With their leaves as a background.
jul 2, 2025, 6:40 am β€’ 51 2

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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

Venus ruled, Libra corresponded and, no wonder, considering the big and beautiful color-changing blossoms that stay beautiful even after death. This plant is toxic for a reason. Beauty in shallowness.

jul 2, 2025, 6:41 am β€’ 6 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

At closer look her blossoms are only leaves meant to trick the pollinators as her own try flowers are small and unshowy. Mirroring the ideal client to work with this powerful plant ally. Obsessed with beauty, this client uses outward appearance to mask inner insecurities.

jul 2, 2025, 6:41 am β€’ 6 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

This is Libra shadowed. An almost paranoia obsession with how they are perceived by others. Masking with beauty, grace, and *perceived* vulnerability. Curated vulnerability.

jul 2, 2025, 6:42 am β€’ 7 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

They can write all about their traumas and shadows and show you what they want you to see without actually doing the work. Like it is a show. This is classic "Golden Child" trauma as well. I need to be perfect to be accepted.

jul 2, 2025, 6:42 am β€’ 7 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

Hydrangea teaches that this outlook is poisonous. It shows us our mirror. Meditate with the plant to understand your masks at the first layer: Observation. Hydrangea shows us what we have been hiding. What we are hiding from.

jul 2, 2025, 6:43 am β€’ 11 1 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

Observation is the first key of shadows as you cannot work with them if you cannot see them. And this ally SHOWS. /end

jul 2, 2025, 6:43 am β€’ 13 0 β€’ view
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Alder Burns @adiantum.bsky.social

wow!! However do you find all this out about an ordinary plant?

jul 2, 2025, 11:33 am β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

YEARS of clinical experience, research, and autistically obsessed infodiving, and hedgejumping with experimentation with some amazingly chill and brave clients haha

jul 2, 2025, 11:54 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Melissa Love @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social

This is just... literally my whole personality. My obsession πŸ€£πŸ˜…πŸ–€πŸŒΏ

jul 2, 2025, 11:56 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view