This week on The Gilded Leaf, I rise with you into the sixth chakra and sit with the quiet power of the third eye — not as a trick or a spectacle, but as the place in me that knows what’s true long before language finds it. I pour a cup of mugwort herbal blend, my favorite dreaming herb, and let its wild, silvery scent curl up around us as I tell the story of Alaska winters, ink‑dark skies, and the nights when the aurora rearranged what I believed about my own smallness.

I trace the path we’ve already walked together — root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, and throat — and share how fear, guilt, shame, grief, and silence slowly soften into a steadier seeing when the body finally trusts its own signals. This episode is an invitation for you, and for me, to clear the inner window just enough that our own knowing can step forward again, gentle but unmistakable.

🌿— The Gilded Leaf

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