05/25/2025
Messenger is herbal tea blended for the Gemini archetype. The name is inspired by the song of the same name by Blonde Redhead.
Peppermint, gingko, oat tops, hawthorn leaf and berry, catnip, mullein, licorice & sage make up this comfortably aromatic & soothing blend.
The Gemini twins, third sign of the zodiac, are all about relationships, communication and on good days a most beautiful emergent behavior resulting from a good mutually beneficial pairing. This intellectual master of the rubric is a mutable air sign ruled by mercury and will likely tell us all how & why!
Gemini’s bodily dominion starts at the shoulders and moves through the first couples of the body—arms to fingers & includes the lungs, nerves, sensory receptors, the nervous system. It rules the action of breathing and all the tubes, tunnels & capillaries of the body. It is easy to see the communicative mercurial nature of the nervous system and how that is reflected in the active perceptions of hands and fingers while the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for continued breathing while sleeping. All these tubes, tunnels, hands & nerves communicating relentlessly.
We’ve got carminative peppermint here to make the windy gemini much more pleasant, highly nutritive & restorative oat straw (nervous system) & mullein (lungs), smooth moving gingko for brain, blood and lung health, licorice has a sweet moistening flavor that gemini needs for their windy driness, sage moves water through salt (another important factor for the driness of the gemini type), hawthorn works on the heart which pumps blood information through those tubes gemini rules and catnip is a nervine with an affinity for the diaphragm.
