Connecting with your inner child

Finding home and seeking comfort

Wildflora Tarot

Dec 11, 2024

Issue # 17

Welcome to another issue of Wildflora Tarot!

What you’ll find in the newsletter this week:

Tarot Reflection: 6 of Cups
A tarot spread: A conversation with your inner child
Plant Profile: Sword Fern

6 of Cups

Nostalgia - Refuge - Comfort - Safety - Kindness - Innocent Pleasures - Childhood - Protected - Sheltering - Familiarity - Sweetness - Forgiveness - Generosity

An adolescent boy holds a cup with a white flower inside to a younger girl. It is a simple gesture full of love, innocence, and affection. In front of them are four more cups with white flowers inside and another one behind the young boy. Abundance surrounds them. They are inside a walled city, with an armed guard standing in the distance. They are protected.

When this card comes up in a reading, it is an encouragement to connect with your inner child. Think of a time in your life when you felt safe, carefree, and playful. When you were free of all inhibitions and shame and could be exactly who you wanted to be.

A therapist once told me that your 10-year-old self was the most authentic version of you. It was when you were old enough to make some of your own decisions – what you liked to do, what you wanted to wear, who your friends were – but still young enough to be able to make those decisions free of all judgment, as your inner critic didn’t have a voice yet.

Perhaps this card is calling you to practice what brought you joy when you were 10 years old, to reconnect with a childhood friend you’ve lost touch with, or to see your therapist to heal the wounds that separated you from your inner child.

December feels like the time of year when we gather with our families, engage in traditions we’ve held onto since childhood, and remain cozy, safe, and warm in our homes. We long for comfort and familiarity as the days get colder and darker. We reminisce on the good times of the past year and look forward to making more happy memories in the days to come.

What does home mean to you? Is it a place? A person? A feeling? It is time to nest, sweet child.

From now until December 23, I am booking Year Ahead Readings.

30-Minute Year Ahead Readings - delves into the twelve calendar months, seasonal themes, and your personal card of the year for 2025. This reading comes with a write-up of the cards chosen and meanings interpreted that will be emailed to you within one week of the reading. $77

A conversation with your inner child

Who is your inner child? What archetypal figure best represents them?
What is something your inner child lacked? Perhaps something that left them scarred that you forget about or have blocked out.
What is something you can do to heal your inner child?
How can you best connect with and heal your inner child?
What does your inner child want to say to you? What message do they have to share with you?

Sword Fern

Latin: Polystichum munitum

Halq’emélem: sthxá:lem (Spoken by the Stó:lō, or People of the River, who have lived for time immemorial in what is now called the Fraser Valley)

Identification: A large evergreen fern growing in bunches up to 1.5 meters tall. The easiest way to identify a sword fern is to look at the base of one of the pointed leaflets, where there is a small lobe, making the leaflet look like the handle of a sword.

Habitat: They thrive in moist, shady areas and are very common to find in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

History: Sword fern leaves were used by northwest coast peoples as a protective layer in traditional pit ovens, between food in storage baskets, and on berry-drying racks – the original wax paper. The young roots that grow in the Spring were sometimes eaten as a starvation food by many Coast Salish peoples as well.

Sources used:

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

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