2024: A Herbal Reclamation

Its 2024...a new year, new frontier for changes and chances. Reflecting upon 2023, I've realized that the 2020's have done a number on us globally. The need to understand what that means and how can roll with the punches while riding the waves is essential for this decade. I often look to numerology (pythagorean method) for understanding and have come to this clarity:

2024 = 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8

"8" is often seen as a karmic number which aligns to the saying, "you now reap what you have sown"

This saying is two-fold, as we have to determine what is that we have seeded from the last eight years (and even further back) and make sure that we are ready to receive the harvest of our work or be prepared to endure the challenges that we have allowed to accumulate and go unresolved. While an "8" year can be a time to accumulate wealth, gain inheritance and be awarded for your work, it can also be a time where you are asked to pay what is owed; property, taxes, and assets that are overdue in payment can see a year of troubles. With that said, further context to the numbers can helps us to understand how "8" will impact us globally and personally.

For 2 0 2 4...

"2" is the number of connections and relationships

"0" is the reset number for a new cycle

"2" again...connections and relationships and follows after "0" which can be interpreted to the renewal or reset of relations

"4" is about foundation and organization. The point of seeding.

...Therefore..."2024" is the year where relationships and/or connections to person, place, thing, or ideas is reset or renewed in order for newer connection and relationships can be established for the purpose of building a foundation, establishing growth and progress and/or organizing.

Now this may or may not apply to you but it seems to add up from my end of the perspective. I look at each number in the year and determine that the meaning of each number develops into a phrase or theme for this year. This is a personal method that I have adopted and if it works, by all means utilize it.

Now that I have provided this context I want to get back to this year of "herbal reclamation". This is an ideal year for the reclaiming of traditions and the roots of our cultures to enhance the better self and ignite the sparks of life we need to progress as the beautiful beings we recognized ourselves to be. In a society where colonial oppression and racism have prevailed, the ability to "heal thyself" by connecting with nature has its challenges. Whether its the ills of pollution or being unable to have access to quality seeds and soil, we have been restricted from our innate right to connect to the land and the growth that nourishes.

All is far from lost though...

We can reclaim our right in this year in various ways. Here are some that I would like to share:

This list could be endless and is intended to be an initiator to your journey this year. For the global melinated majority, the herbal reclamation for this year is to maintain, sustain and redress the connections to nature through ancestral cultures and preserve the importance of not only taking back but to also pay forward to the Earth and those who continue to care for her.

Happy New Year!

Start the new year with tea blends and baths that will inspire your year of reclamation!