Today’s GRACED podcast episode, we talk about the themes of the Empress card with Raven Rose – a womb healer, kambo practitioner, and menstrual health herbalist. The themes of the Empress card include creativity, fertility, goddess energy and how to embody that within one’s own body. This could mean healing the womb space, understanding your relationship to your body and how that impacts your creativity.

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00:00 Intro

01:47 Interview with Raven begins

02:25 Raven’s journey with womb healing

05:26 Transforming pain into purpose

07:10 Connecting with ancestors

16:05 The power of meditation

18:59 The power of self-awareness and the words we speak

20:53 The Empress and birthing a new cycle

21:35 AD Have you joined the Mystic Mondays Coven yet? It’s our free online community! ⁠coven.mysticmondays.com⁠

32:23 Connecting to your womb space as your creative center

35:06 Raven’s Sun, Moon, Rising

37:33 Grace gives Raven a Tarot Reading

42:35 End of episode – remember to leave a podcast review!

💖 Introduction

Hello hello! Welcome to the GRACED podcast where we infuse everyday magic into your everyday life through rituals and wellness, tarot, astrology, business, and so much more.

Today’s guest is Raven Rose, a womb healer, Kambo practitioner, and menstrual health herbalist. We talk about Raven’s experience having painful periods, which led her on a path to understand her cycles, both physically and spiritually, which ultimately led her to empower herself with herbal and ancestral knowledge, unlocking her creativity.

Raven and I talk about the themes of the Empress card, accessing one’s fertile creativity, connecting to your womb space – which has no gender – as well as ancestors, dreams, and so much more!

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Now let’s get into the episode!

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✨ Interview with Raven begins

Grace Duong: Hello and welcome to the podcast, Raven.

Raven Rose: Yeah, thanks for having me Grace. I’m really excited about this.

Grace Duong: Amazing! So today we’re diving into the themes of the Empress card. Which represents the themes of Goddess energy, fertility, love, creativity, birth, and Mother Earth. I thought who would be better to talk to than my dear friend, Raven, Who I feel embodies goddess energy in her everyday life by prioritizing her rituals of rest, cultivating creativity and finding purpose through her own pain of healing her womb. Raven, could you tell us more about how you started Moon Medicine, and how you were led on to this journey of healing your womb, and eventually offering your wisdom to others about how to heal theirs.

✨Raven’s journey with womb healing

Raven Rose: Yeah, so first, I would say that my journey with my journey has womb healing has been a big part of it, but womb healing has really been more of a catalyst for deeper self exploration and really tapping into my spiritual journey and being an active participant in my spiritual journey. So I really appreciate everything that I’ve learned from my womb healing experiences but ultimately they’ve fueled me on the bigger spiritual journey, and that’s kind of like the, That’s been more of the focus of my life when I look back over all the things that I’ve done to connect with my womb space, balance my menstrual cycle and all of that. And really, that’s how Moon Medicine started, was me exploring how to heal myself because I tried to do the medical route when I didn’t have an idea of what to do about my cycle when I was experiencing a lot of menstrual pain. And so the menstrual, the medical route took me down a path of dealing with the really damaging effects of hormonal birth control, and not only physically but emotionally and mentally. And once I realized the impact that that had on me, I basically separated from it completely and decided to just take my own path. And that was when I really drove into nutrition and meditation and all the things that have become a really big part of my life now, and also led me down a path of studying women’s herbalism and ethnobotany going to the Ucatan and studying womb massage, and also doing a year of herbal field studies and actually going out into the field and connecting with plants, and also going into the Amazon and living in the Amazon to become a Kamba practitioner, where I lived for a month. And so I had all these really amazing experiences that were part of my womb healing journey, but in the bigger sense, they were part of my spiritual journey and my journey of life. And that’s how I created Moon Medicine, was basically, I forgot about that part going on this journey of, Yeah, doing all these explorations into herbalism and womb wellness. That is how Moon Medicine started. I actually didn’t have any intention of starting a business, but I had gone so far down the path and learned so much that people were starting to approach me for guidance on how to balance and heal their menstrual cycles. And also because I incorporate a lot of ancestral work in my womb healing, Because the two are, so they’re completely intertwined. It’s kind of hard to do womb work without also doing ancestral work. So that was a big part of what I brought into my business as well.

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✨ Transforming pain into purpose

Grace Duong: That’s awesome! So I just wanted to back up to give people context into why you started Moon Medicine. Because I know your story, but listeners do not. So, from what I understand, you started Moon Medicine from your own pain of experiencing menstrual pain. Is that right?

Raven Rose: Um, yeah, I had really painful menstrual cycles for a long time, and I had to find my own way in healing because the medical world didn’t really have a solution for me, and ultimately what it came down to was finding my own path, finding my own way, working with herbs, working with meditation, which has been, I would say, one of the biggest healers for me, and dealing with pain was a pretty big catalyst for the journey that I took.

Grace Duong: Great! You were speaking about ancestors, and I was wondering how you incorporate your connection to your ancestors and what wisdom that you’ve gotten from your ancestors over the years.

Raven Rose: Yeah, so my ancestral work, I would say, really, I started getting a lot of messages from my ancestors when I was younger, in my dreams, and when I really dove into ancestral work more as an adult was when I was at a point in my healing journey of trying to get rid of menstrual pain, I got to a point where I felt like I had done everything I could. I didn’t really know what else to do. I had gone from ten days of pain down to like two and a half days of pain, but it was still really really intense and so I tried to ask for help and asked for guidance. I needed some more clarity on how to actually clear the pain that I was still dealing with and I didn’t have anywhere else to turn but to my ancestors. So I was already working with herbs a lot and making herbal smoke blends and herbal incense blends, and that really helped me to kind of open up that connection. I was also doing a lot of getting back into dream work in a really big way because dream work was really big for me as as a kid growing up, and so I got back into dream work and just asked my ancestors to help me to guide me and they came through in a really big way through my dreams. And then as I started learning Tarot. Actually I was trying to read all the books and learn about the cards, and eventually I started doing readings for my family and my dad told me that my great grandmother also used to read Tarot, and one of my aunts also used to read Tarot. And so, when I learned that, I reached out to them through dream work, and received so much guidance from them about how to read Tarot, how to work with energy, how to dig deeper into plant medicine and dream work. and the relationship that I have with my ancestors has just blossomed ever since.

✨ Connecting with ancestors​

Grace Duong: So I was wondering whoever wants to connect to their ancestors through dream work. How would they go about that?

Raven Rose: Yeah, well, I would say definitely start with just opening that connection verbally, maybe creating a sacred space for yourself where maybe you have, maybe one evening you basically create a little ritual around incorporating the elements. That’s one thing that was really important for me when I was first starting out with connecting to my ancestors. I would always have a cup of water near my bed. Usually a plant of some kind, and with the plant that you choose, you can choose whatever really really speaks to you, because usually whatever it is that really speaks to you, whatever you most gravitate towards that’s something that you have an ancestral connection with. So, I would say, go for like a glass of water or plant that can represent the element of earth. Water obviously represents water. Having a candle, but making sure that you’re blowing that out before bed. And then your voice would be the element of air, and asking your ancestors for guidance,  asking them for just to make themselves known in your dreams. I would say do that for a span of time You know, make it a true ritual. Maybe you do this for three nights in a row, or for seven nights in a row of just opening that dialogue, speaking to your ancestors, talking to them like you would talk to a close friend and sharing with them what’s happening in your life, and then paying attention to your dreams to see what symbols show up for you. Symbolism is so big when it comes to ancestors for me. Because I come from two lineages of spider women. Spiders have always been a part of my dreams, and whenever I have big dreams with spiders, It’s always at this really important time in my life when things are shifting and changing and it’s kind of like their way of saying “Hey, connect with us. We’re here to help guide through this big transition.” So pay attention to any of those symbols that come through and also pay attention to any other patterns that you notice. If you notice that in each of those dreams you are in water. That’s a really big symbol for an emotional connection or spiritual connection, and that’s something that you can pull from your dreams into your day to day life to then start exploring.
Maybe working with water in different ways, maybe doing some kind of practice with water. Maybe you’re doing herbal baths or working with herbal teas? And that could be a pathway for you to further export your ancestral lineage.

Grace Duong: That’s amazing. There’s so many tid bits that you said that are sparking these lights that are going off in my brain. But I love that you learned Tarot from your ancestors and that they gave you tips through your dreams, and that you’re able to have such a strong connection to them through your dreams. And when you’re talking about spiders in the Cosmic Creatures deck, I remember writing about how spiders also weave webs. And so essentially you’re also creating stories together with your lineage through these webs and stories that you’re spinning and currently spinning. Yeah, that’s amazing.
So how do you feel that your ancestors are guiding you forward to what you’re being led to now?

Raven Rose: Yeah. this has been really, because I’m at this point of transition in my life where I’ve been re focused on my artwork and music, and now it’s been kind of a really big shift to look at my priorities and what’s actually driving me and I think for me being able to understand myself on a deeper level really requires me to reach out to my ancestors and ask them for guidance. This is something that I’ve always kind of done where if I feel blocked or if I feel like I’m ready for a new path. It’s kind of like I have to go back to where I came from in order to know where I’m going next, so connecting with my ancestors now is like it’s such an important part of my life with where I’m at. In order to take steps on a new journey, because I’ve been having lots of spider dreams lately and lots of spiders showing up in my life. Randomly spiders in my car while I’m driving and I’m like “Okay. This is definitely a sign that there’s a big transition coming.” There’s a lot of guidance that my ancestors have for me. And it’s interesting because at each stage of life and each part of my journey, there are different ancestors that can show up, at this stage of my life yhat I’m stepping into. Now I have ancestors that are showing up that were with me when I was very young and I was more connected to music. And as I’m stepping into art work and music more and more, the quality of the dreams have shifted a little bit, and the guidance that I received has shifted more, because I have just a different set of ancestors that are showing up for me now.

Grace Duong: That’s beautiful and I love that you essentially have a spiritual team guiding you forward, and different ancestors are appearing for you, depending on what your needs are in the moment. And so I feel that whoever is listening, to also not be afraid to ask for help, and to be open to who comes forward, but also to clarify, to call in your most benevolent ancestors. You know, people who, or spirits who have your best interests at heart. I wanted to also tie in the Empress card, because the Empress is very much rooted in Earth energy, and ancestors are rooted in Earth energy as well. I mean in the spiritual realm, too, and I love that ritual you had mentioned that combines the four elements of Earth with the plant. And you also mention that whatever plant you’re drawn to, typically you have an ancestral tie to. Water, which relates to your emotions.
Air, which is your voice and breath, and also essentially comes from your ancestors too. And fire, the spark that can transcend, can burn what no longer needs to be there, but also can be a source of connection to bring you to a new phase of life.
What rituals are you drawn to nowadays?

Raven Rose: Yeah, so I actually wanted to tap in on what you said before about calling who you’re calling in as far as ancestors, and then I’ll jump into the rituals that I’m connected to now.  One of the things that I have noticed in the journey is that it’s really important to, of course, to be mindful about the energies that we’re calling in, but also to remember that the energies that come in are going to be connected to what is happening within us. And if there is some kind of imbalance within us, we’re naturally going to attract some external energies that match that. Yes, it’s important to ask for our ancestors who have our highest and best interest in mind, but also to be aware that if there is some kind of disharmony within us, or if there’s something that needs to be healed.
Oftentimes, it’s the ancestors that can reflect that energy back to us. That can also help and be a part of that journey, and with the assistance of those more helpful and loving and benevolent ancestors. Yeah, so that’s one thing, and then, as far as my current rituals. Lately it’s mostly been focused on artwork. I have always been really drawn to just the creative process and what that looks like, and I’m right now working on what the creative process looks like for me.

✨The power of meditation​

Raven Rose: And I’m also someone who likes to study, and learn, and take all the courses, and do all those things but I found for me right now what’s most powerful is connecting to those creative processes and practices that are really truly my own and come from my own essence. So my daily ritual. One of my biggest daily rituals is a morning meditation. I meditate every day. I’m meditating for, now eight hundred and two days in a row at this point, and Meditation has brought me much closer to my creative energy and my own creative expression. So that’s a really important daily ritual for me. Also, I love to work with herbs. I work with herbal teas a lot. I often will do a practice where if there’s a particular herb that’s really calling out to me from my meditations, like lately it’s been milky oats or oat straw. I’ve been working with that in a more like regular basis, so I’ll work with an herb for like a full moon cycle, or for just a span of time that it’s really calling out and speaking to me, and then just pay attention to the insights and the wisdom that I get from working with that plant, and what I feel most drawn to in my day to day life, and how it helps me to navigate my life in a different way.
For me, lately, it’s been about breaking out of old comfortable patterns and stepping into new ways of living and being. My rituals have my main ritual, which is meditation, has been like the guide for me to explore new ways of living.

Grace Duong: That’s amazing, so I also wanted to go back and clarify about the benevolent ancestors. I’m very much a believer that inner reflects outer, and so, I totally agree with you that whatever needs to be healed or whatever is coming forward is present for you in the moment. I feel that in connection to ancestors, and to the intention of calling a presence in, whether it be an ancestor, or a guide, or whatever you want to call in. I think it’s nice to add in that extra word to be intentional about what you choose to call in, and whatever is reflected in the external world doesn’t necessarily have to be an ancestor per se, but can play out as a situation or a person that you meet in your life or you know something that feels like a karmic relationship or something like that. So I think that the lessons that we learn in our lives can expand beyond our ancestors, but I think the practice of using specific words can be helpful because words are spells.

✨The power of self-awareness and the words we speak​

Raven Rose: Yeah, I totally agree, words are really really important. What the words that we say to ourselves, the things that we call into our lives, how we think about ourselves. It’s all very very important to the journey. A big part of my journey has been really being mindful about my words and how I am speaking about myself and how I’m speaking about others and just having that awareness. That self awareness is so important. Because it can be easy if you haven’t learned to pay attention to how how we’re speaking about ourselves or things like that. That we can call in things that we don’t necessarily want. So yeah, absolutely!
It’s so important for the journey to have that self awareness of how we speak about ourselves, how we speak about others, what we’re calling into our lives. And that’s actually been a really big part of of this transition for me, and you know this, my daily rituals and practices and just observing my daily life and being mindful of how I speak about myself, but also the people that I have around me and this is why I think we get along so well because we’re both really mindful about our words and how we speak, and lately I’ve had to cut some people out of my life that do not have that same awareness and it’s kind of challenging, but also really important part of the journey because how we speak about ourselves and how we speak about others is the life that we create for ourselves.

Grace Duong: And ultimately we have a relationship with ourselves through the end of time, and the people that come in and out of our lives are often reflections of how we choose to love and treat ourselves. And I think that’s very Empress energy of cutting people out that aren’t necessarily vibrating at the level that you want to vibrate at. And sometimes it can feel very confining because your soul wants to evolve into a new level of expression.  And I think that’s something about the Empress card that is so powerful that there’s this birthing cycle. There’s expression, there’s creativity, and so I was wondering what does the creation process look like for you in how you’re exploring it and coming into a new phase of expression for yourself.

✨The Empress and birthing a new cycle

Raven Rose: Yeah, for me, it’s very cycle based. I really do connect with my the phases of my menstrual cycle to it’s just a part of how I express myself and I’m very much aware of how the phase that I’m in can impact the medium that I work through. How it can impact the type of just the energy that is coming up through my artwork.

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Raven Rose: So for me, connecting to my menstrual cycle is really, I don’t know. I wouldn’t say it’s an essential part of my life, because it’s just my life. It’s just how I live. It’s just how I operate is through my own cyclical nature, which is really important for me because I’ve been in periods of time like many people have, where I was not connected to those phases of my cycle, and that brought a lot of health issues. So for me right now, for example, I am my ovulation phase, which has been a really powerfully creative time. During this time, I cannot start my day unless I create something, unless I put some kind of artwork on to paper. So that’s really important for me, and then like through the phases of my cycle, it depends on where I’m at some phase, like in my follicular phase, I’m much more about, kind of like this playfulness and curiosity. I can maybe dive into learning a new style and exploring that. Whereas in my luteal phase, I’m more focused on the finer details of my art work. That’s kind of when I go back, and will put finishing touches or add second or third layer to a piece. Just kind of get into more of the details of the work, and as I’m approaching menstruation, I just noticed that there is a shift more away from water color as my main medium to music and song. So, I kind of just allow myself to flow through the phases of my menstrual cycle for my creative process.

Grace Duong: I love that! I love that because on a micro level, you’re really checking in with yourself and the cycles that you’re going through within your own body and then on a macro level there’s also the cycles of Earth, with seasons changing, and every year we know what’s coming, and I mean, like winter, spring, fall, summer, not in that order, But there is change. There’s a constant cycle of change that we as humans experience, and sometimes I think people are afraid of change, and I feel like from knowing you, you’re someone that welcomes change. You’re someone that really wants to grow, and you’re always developing yourself, And I also feel like that’s another reason why we get along so well and so I’m wondering what would you say to anyone who is resisting change?

Raven Rose: You know, actually, this has been in my mind lately that It can be really paying attention to when you’re feeling really comfortable and just knowing that like being in a comfort zone doesn’t really get you the kind of experiences that you may want to have in life. And I feel like, for so many people, I hear my elders, my living elders talk about how you know life goes by so quickly, and maybe they’re feeling disappointed about certain aspects of life, and when I hear them speak, I just immediately think of the fact that a lot of times when people feel disconnected from
getting to the later stages of life, it’s because they missed out on things that they wanted to do, and things that they wanted to experience. And I have so many elders that look at me In my path, and they’re like; “Oh, I want to do that! I wish I could do that.” I think it’s really important to be mindful of the comfort zone, because that’s what keeps people where they are doing what they’re doing the same thing day in and day out, and being okay with being uncomfortable and going outside of the comfort zone is such a great practice for exploring yourself and for being able to embrace change and it doesn’t have to be this big, huge thing of like completely changing everything in your life and doing things that make you super, just out of sync with who you are, but it can be smaller things, like trying a different place in town, going to a workshop that you wouldn’t normally go to. Meeting a different group of people, connecting with different kinds of people doing small things that maybe don’t seem super big at first, but they’re just out of your normal routine, can be such great ways to just experience more of life and get to know more of yourself as well, because every time we have these experiences we are meeting ourselves in a different way and experiencing ourselves in a different way, which is such a wonderful catalyst for change, because it’s like “Oh, well, that wasn’t so bad! That was actually interesting and fun, and I could probably do something like that again.” or maybe something a little bit different, and that just kind of creates this chain reaction of stepping a little bit further outside of the comfort zone each time.

Grace Duong: That’s beautiful. So some thoughts came up of integrating habits, helpful habits that support you in your life. And what I feel from you is, you now have created a habit of meditation, of connecting to your art work through water colors I think, integrating habits in a way where it’s supporting your life style but also who you’re constantly becoming and when you’re talking about comfort zone. that could also kind of be classified as something within your comfort zone. However, I’m wondering what the divide is or what the overlap can be between helpful habits in your comfort zone, and what the difference is between the two?

Raven Rose: Yeah, like for example, with my meditation practice, it’s always different even though it’s a daily practice. That could be almost seen as like a comfort. It’s always pushing me in a different way. It’s something that when I go to my meditation it’s not always easy. It’s not always something that I want to do. It’s not always something that feels nice and comfortable. A lot of times it doesn’t. and so having that as a daily routine for me, meditation actually does push me out of my comfort zone. It’s much more comfortable to not look inside than it is to look inside, so every day with meditation I’m looking deeper and deeper within myself before going out into my world or in my day. So yeah, that’s something where it’s really any kind of introspective practice. Anything that helps you to look deeper within yourself is something that will ultimately, It’s like pushing to the edges from within. That way, I can push to the edges in how I live my life.

Grace Duong: Yeah, and it’s always so revealing when you do that work for yourself whether it’s meditation or journaling or pulling cards. I think just the willingness and openness to explore those parts of yourself are very brave.

Raven Rose: Yeah, and it’s really powerful to experience deeper and deeper levels within. It just really can transform anyone who’s feeling stuck or not ready for change. I would say, meditation or any of those introspective practices would be really helpful for seeing a big change in life.

Grace Duong: Amazing. So the Empress card has a lot to do with birthing a new project. Sometimes when the card pops up, it can also indicate a physical birth of a baby. And so I was wondering how much fertility has been a theme for you or not been a theme for you within your own exploration of your menstrual health.

Raven Rose: Yeah, well, fertility is more than about being able to make a baby. It’s connected to our creativity. For example, I do breath work practice that is focused on cultivating the energy from the ovaries, which is that energy of fertility and energy of creation, and beyond making a baby. Fertility is connected to our creativity. While you don’t need to be in your menstruating years, and ovulating to be connected to your creativity. It is a really big source of energy for our creative growth and expansion. So yeah, fertility has always been a part of having a healthy menstrual cycle. In order to have a healthy menstrual cycle, we need to be ovulating regularly and menstruating regularly, and so fertility is just a sign of our health and our well being. Whenever we are going, if someone that does go through a period of time where they are not ovulating. Maybe they’re not, Because if you’re not ovulating, then you can’t menstruate. So if you’re going through a period of time when your menstrual cycle Is off, and you’re not menstruating, then that’s saying that something is out of synch. Something in your life, whether it’s externally or internally is out of synch and causing an imbalance. And that is a sign that something needs to be done. There’s needs to be a change. Something needs to be brought back into harmony. And a lot of times it’s going to be from the inside out, finding peace and harmony within. What is going to help us to balance our nervous systems and regulate our hormones, so that we can have peace and harmony in our menstrual cycles and I oftentimes see like, in my practice, a lot of people who have in balanced mental cycles in our external world as well, and are having trouble with fertility, are also living really imbalanced lives, which stems from inner disharmony, because again, it’s that as above, so below as within, so without where whatever we have happening internally within us can have such a big impact on how we experience our cycles, and how we experience our lives. So fertility is like this very physical, but also kind of cosmic way of letting us know that something is out of harmony within our bodies, and in our lives.

✨ Connecting to your womb space as your creative center

Grace Duong: I love that explanation because the menstrual health is an indication physically of where you can be at if you have a female body, health wise. However, that’s also in a lot of ways symbolic of; “Are you taking care of yourself mentally? Are you taking care of yourself spiritually?” In what ways are you nurturing yourself? if you feel like you’re in creative rut, or if you feel like you’re blocked in some way like writers block, or you know not developing, I would say, supportive practices that then get you into a creative state. To then earth, that big project. if you have one. So a lot of it is, I would say, nurturance of oneself.

Raven Rose: Yeah, absolutely and beyond the menstrual cycle. Anyone, everyone has a womb space. It doesn’t. The womb space is more of an energetic space, rather than always being a physical space, so regardless of someone’s gender, they can connect to that creative center and nurture it and cultivate it. And it’s something that Is really important for our spiritual growth and because it’s also about accepting all of who we are, and a lot of times, for example, I’ve worked with a lot of male clients as a kambo practitioner, and it’s always something that tends to come upwhere womb health is not just about the menstrual cycle, it’s also about the energetics of how you’re connected to your creative canter.

Grace Duong: I really love that. I love that because I think most people, including myself thought about the womb as a physical space in my feminine body. However, we both integrate masculine and feminine energies, and I feel like a lot of the imbalance could be having too much of one, or just running off. like for example, I think for a long time I was like running off a lot of masculine energy, and just like doing a lot of things, producing a lot of things, making a lot of decks. and that is tiring. After a while, you know, you get burnt out and part of bringing back that feminine energy of nurturance, or even just letting yourself rest and diving into the cycles that are present for us, you know, it’s every day we follow a cycle as well, you know, we wake up when the sun rises, depending on your schedule, and then most of us tend to sleep at night when the sun sets, and the moon is present for us in her majestic beauty. And so I almost, because as a person who has identified with my creativity for so long, there was a part of myself that really resisted like habits or supportive habits, or you know, I almost didn’t want to be tied down by them. But something that I’m realizing more and more is that there are certain structures that can help us feel more free in our lives, and to feel more balanced, and to integrate our energies in ways that help us becomethe version of ourselves that we want to be in our present day lives.

Raven Rose: Yeah, absolutely.

✨Raven’s Sun, Moon, Rising

Grace Duong: So if it’s all right with you, we can wrap up our conversation with some rapid fire questions.

Raven Rose: Sounds good.

Grace Duong: Cool. So what is your sun, moon, rising?

Raven Rose: Gemini Sun, Cancer Moon, and Libra Rising.

Grace Duong: How do you feel about that combination?

Raven Rose: Oh, I absolutely love it. I feel like having a… I actually have a stellium in Gemini, Sun, Venus, North Node and Chiron, all in Gemini. And it’s such a nice… I love, I mean, I know that I came into this world at the perfect time to have this combination because it’s so complimentary to have all of this air, Gemini air energy, But then also this Libra Rising kind of like balance energy, and this is something that has been with me. I mean, obviously my whole life, but I often am seen someone who brings a lot of balance to conversations to interactions and things like that which I absolutely love! Cancer Moon has been a learning experience, for sure. I feel like for a lot of time, my moon being in cancer meant a lot of, Almost like a feeling of obligation to service to serve others, rather than really supporting myself in the ways that I need to be supported. So that has been a learning experience for me with my business and how that has evolved. But ultimately it’s been a really great combination and I’ve really just enjoyed having all this air energy. I mean, obviously with Gemini, and with also having Venus and Gemini, it just makes all of these learning experiences that much more beautiful for me. So, that’s been nice having that ruler, my 1st House ruler with my Sun.

Grace Duong: Love it. What are some of your favorite rituals for connecting to nature?

Raven Rose: Oh, that’s a good one. You know, I wouldn’t say I have a favorite right now because I’m so Gemini and I’m always changing, but I do right now. I’m very much looking forward to spending time outside as the seasons are changing,  and having that like bringing my my paint outside. I guess that would be something that I’ve done in the past as well, but I’m really looking forward to seeing the new blossoms on the trees and being able to capture that through my artwork, and connecting with nature in that way through. I’m kind of just like being able to express the energy and voice of nature in my artwork.

✨ Grace gives Raven a Tarot Reading

Grace Duong: Amazing. I had another question. Sorry, kind of just floated out of my brain. Would you like a Tarot reading?

Raven Rose: Yeah, that would be awesome.
Grace Duong: Amazing. What would you like to focus on today?

Raven Rose: I guess I’m really curious about my, just the energy of this next chapter that I’m moving into. Yeah, so maybe just like a general for the spring, summer, kind of energy.

Grace Duong: Awesome! Okay, so I’m shuffling the cards and I’m going to pull three cards to check in on Raven’s upcoming spring energy. So I pulled the Emperor, Eight of Wands reversed, and King of Pentacles,

Raven Rose: Interesting.

Grace Duong: Yeah, and Raven reads Tarot as well, so she knows what all of this means. But what I’m getting from the Emperor is you’re really becoming the authority in your own life, and you making the rules and the structure in a way that really serves you and your life style. So there’s no one you know hanging over your shoulder like you are the boss, and you also have a big picture vision of how you want to see your life unfold. What the Eight of Wands is telling me is that there’s no need to rush with any of this, and there’s very much a beauty in the unfolding of divine timing, and that everything will reveal itself in time when you’re ready. When you know whoever is supposed to come in is ready. Basically there’s just like seeds being planted for spring that will blossom,
Grace Duong: you know in the summer, and I think there’s just a lot of things that. even taking your own pace is a form of rebellion, you know, and very Emperor that you’re not going to budge for anyone else in this next phase of what you’re building in your life. And then the King of Pentacles. I feel like it could mean a couple of things. I feel like someone could be coming in, someone that you’re interested in, who has King of Pentacles qualities, but I also feel like you’re embodying more of that of those qualities yourself, of being like the master of your material gains, and really becoming confident with all of the magnetism that you’re able to attract just by being yourself and also doing it on your own terms. Did you watch the Super Bowl, by the way? Well, in the half time show, Rihanna performed this year. Yes, and I loved it because she just did her thing at her own pace. You know, she didn’t really have to dance too much because she’s Rihanna and she just set that tone and I feel like that’s very much the energy of this reading. That you are the boss of your life. You get to set the rules, you get to decide, you get to move at your own pace, at whatever pace that is, and through that you’re like attracting more luxury, you’re attracting more opportunity, you’re attracting more, just more! In a way that feels really good to you, and I feel like because you’re attracting from that energy of feeling really stable within yourself and feeling really confident in just overall, loving yourself to a point where you don’t really need it from the outside, but you’re attracting it because you’ve cultivated that relationship with yourself, so it’s becoming effortless.

Raven Rose: I totally, that totally resonates. That was beautiful. Thank you.

Grace Duong: Yeah, definitely.

Grace Duong: Yay! So happy for you.

Raven Rose: Yeah, I’m really excited. That definitely just give big confirmation for me of the next steps that I’m moving into in life. And really, yeah, just being able to own it and kind of cultivating things in the way that makes sense for me. I love it.

Grace Duong: Beautiful! Raven, thank you so much for joining me. I’m so grateful for your presence. I feel like you just have a natural lilt and a natural way of speaking about things that makes it easy for people to understand, and also this connection to your ancestors and also the earth. I feel like it’s a really beautiful way to connect to almost like a rebellion in choosing one’s self or choosing one’s history or choosing, you know, where we come from in nature. So thank you so much and I just wanted to ask you. Where can the listeners follow up with you?

Raven Rose: Yeah, so my website is moonmedicine.co, I’m also on Instagram @moonmedicines and you can go through those channels to find me on Youtube. My Youtube channel is also @moonmedicines but yeah, that’s the best place to find me and honestly, this has been so much fun. I’ve really enjoyed chatting with you. And just like all the explorations that we got to dive into today were really beautiful.

Grace Duong: Agreed, thank you so much, and talk soon.

Raven Rose: Okay.

✨ENDTRO

Thanks so much for tuning into today’s episode with Raven! Raven embodies the Empress energy so beautifully and I’m so grateful she was able to share her magic with us today. From healing her pain to purpose, to connecting to your room space aka your creative center and unlocking your creativity – I’m wondering – what parts of this interview most resonated with you?

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As always, sending you so much Grace, today and everyday.

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