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27/10/2025

Who can tell me the name of this plant, whose leaf has left this distinctive imprint?

26/10/2025

Little bit excited about this.

Experimenting with new mediums for celebrating our Rākau

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22/10/2025

New Moon Moods 💜

Cacao, Fire, Sunset gorgeousness.

This phase feels gentle this month, which I’m all good with.

The gentle momentum of previous rituals embedding.

Not feeling the need to call in anything ‘new’ for me this month, it feels more like a time of nourishing and honouring the blossoming of previous efforts. And making sure to create the time to see it. For that feels like abundance to me.

To Be, is enough.

Grateful and Grounded feels like this months Intention 💜

How have you been honouring this New Moon time?

20/10/2025

6 weeks of watching this cluster of Tātarāmoa 🥰

I’ve been really enjoying connecting with this one place and plant.

6 weeks ago I noticed her fresh shoots, then 3 weeks ago her flower clusters started.

It was great to check in on her again on Sunday, to find these beautiful bunches.

There’s more of them waiting to bloom too 🥰

Connection is imprtant to our wellbeing and happiness. I find that connection with a Tree, Plant or Place is perhaps more important tham Connection with other People.

We have no need for masks of any kind when we’re connecting with Nature, we can just simply Be. Practice Being who we are with no judgements or performance. So it becomes easier when we’re back among our People friends.

Do you have any favourite trees or spots that you check in on to see how they’re going as the seasons change?

18/10/2025

I hope to always remain enamoured with the beauty and complexity of the Plant Kingdom.

We’re starting to sow seeds for this year’s Three Sisters vege patch. Having worked with the Three Sisters in my Cottage Māra Kai for a couple of years, now I get to contribute to the vege garden on the Homestead block with Mama, yah.

Corn, Beans, Squash.

Such a clever and simple way to grow food.

Anyone else growing like this, or would like to know more about the concept in behind?

I’m happy to share what I know. The theory crosses over beyond the garden too, as with most teachings from Nature 💚

15/10/2025

The absolute Joyfulness of watching a whole flock of Tui enjoying this Kowhai tree in the Kaitoke Regional Park 🥰

So good.

12/10/2025

There’s something Delightful and Simple and Enough in the light from a candle.

It’s Warm, Alive, Gentle, Fierce, Beautiful and Focused.

Perhaps attributes to aspire to.

It doesn’t take over the whole room in an unauthentic way like modern lights. It simply emanates Light and Life in the space it’s in.

I’ve been doing Candle rituals lately and am very much enjoying how much it brings me right into the present moment.

Bringing the warmth from the flame into my heart space to fill the spaces that need some TLC from walking through this life ❤️‍🔥

When’s the last time you noticed how much warmth and light comes from one single candle?

06/10/2025

As many times as you need to ❤️‍🔥

Even if you’re not where you thought you’d be, the plan didn’t roll out like you thought, or you fell off the wagon.

Maybe that just means you were on the wrong wagon or the plan failing has put you where you’re actually meant to be.

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t teach the ego a thing or two to see it, but it does mean that you can just start again. From where you are now x

Reassess, take the learnings, and move on.

02/10/2025

How good is working on things you love doing 🥰

To make the time to sit and go through old photos and do some editing this morning was delightful.

To practice putting them out into the world so they can live beyond my memory cards.

I rather like this one. This Kōtare | Kingfisher spent quite some time hollowing out the nest in the Walnut Tree for his Lady.

Watching them decide which tree to choose, the pile of sawdust dropping onto the lawn as he worked away, and the life process that followed as they laid and raised their clutch for the year.

All very amazing to observe.

And makes the photo become a carrier of a larger story as the Kōtare returned back to the homestead block in Kuku after being absent for many years.

What a wonderful time to be alive.

30/09/2025

Hearing stories of efforts that other Nations and People are putting in to living with the Land is always so inspiring.

The sharing of stories of efforts going on globally, to affect change locally. How good.

Reciprocity always comes up with Earth Cultures.

This was a fabulous, inspiring and heartening zoom to listen in on

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26/09/2025

It’s Puawānanga / Clematis season

Heralding the Spring season as this beautiful and delicate vine blooms from the forest canopy.

She talks to seeking knowledge and inner peace. Elegance, transformation and spiritual growth.

Makes sense as you see how they reach and grow. Seeking to outer edges of the forest canopy to bloom into the light.

Star like flowers, adorning the canopy in beauty.

The ngahere on my drive into the city this last week has been sprinkled with these bright white flower clusters 🤍🤍🤍

Have you spotted any blooms yet this year?

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