Earth Star | Hornbeam | Badger
I Fully Support Myself.
Badger claws his way into your cards when it’s time for you to grow and expand beyond a past version or younger part of yourself. Growth can be extremely uncomfortable, so we often hold onto the past where things felt more certain. Maybe you’ve recently gone through a loss, ending or change and you are not quite ready or don’t know how to let go or move forward. The key lies within letting yourself feel it. Fully support yourself through the layers of denial, grief, sadness, and anger, and feel everything until you push through to the other side into the upgraded version of yourself, however long that takes.
Badger brings the medicine of the passage of time, of conscious, forward movement, of accepting the aging process, of facing your fears while feeling your full heart. When we are too afraid to feel something we numb ourself to it, and eventually parts of our life and our body start to become lifeless and stagnant. It’s those boxes in the basement you can’t get yourself to go through or the closet you are too exhausted to look at or clean, or anything you feel you are too tired, too afraid, too late, or too old to deal with. Badger brings the energy to dig in so as not to make mountains out of mole hills.
Fully living means seeing and feeling everything while not gripping anything too tightly. Take the shield off of your heart and know that true growth comes when you can fully support yourself through the inevitability of time passing. Remember that grief is a mirror reflection of how much you have loved so feel it with your full heart and love yourself through it. Badger signals the light at the end of the tunnel and the dawn of a new day.
Bach Flower Essence: Hornbeam
Key Words: growth, passage of time, denial, stagnant energy, aging, facing fears, feeling your feelings, mountains out of mole hills, self-saboteur, falling asleep, healing grief, suicide, sacrificial lamb, sleeping in, numbness, kidney stones, cancer, fungus, feet and ankles, toe nails, lymph and blood circulation, heart beat
Action Steps:
Move stuck energy by cleaning an area in your living space and getting rid of at least 10 items.
Be honest about any past experience you went through that you still have a hard time thinking about. This is a sign you have more feeling and healing to do around it.
Get out of the ghosts of the mind and into the movement of your body. Get up and move when the mind wanders for too long.
If something feels too painful to let go of or move through, find a talk-therapist or grief counselor or other trauma therapy.
Settle and clear your heart before bed with sound therapy or frequency music. The mood we fall asleep in is the mood we wake up in.
Are you being called to grow out of an old version of yourself but it feels impossible or too scary? Pray for clarity, guidance, and support if your soul is telling you that it’s time for change.
Are are you unwilling to accept that everything physical has to perish? Contemplate and journal about any denial you are holding around your mortality.
Clear stagnant energy in your body through healthy eating and exercise. Positive change will wake up dormant parts of you.
Contemplate if you are too afraid to look at certain things so you pretend they don’t exist. When in your childhood did you do this? Journal what comes up.
Do you feel like a sacrificial lamb? Ie: always taking it for the team, absorbing it all so no one else suffers? Journal around what this means to you.
Get a lymph massage or a deep tissue massage.
Contemplate if sleep is a safe-place for you and if you ever felt that sleeping was the only place to feel safe. This includes episodes of passing out or blacking out.
Try yogic backbends. Work to strengthen or release the muscles on the backside of your body.
Are you holding onto an old story? Meditate on what you may be afraid to let go of.
If you have reached the feeling of total numbness to life and an inability to feel other people or connect, it is time to call your spirit back. Ask God to show you the way and listen closely.
