Leo. Groove Is In The Heart, an herbal tea blend

Groove is In the Heart, an herbal tea blend for Leo. The name is inspired by the Deee-Lite song of the same name: extremely fun to dance to!

We’ve blended this tea to support the nervous system of the hot blooded, lion-hearted performer, ruled by the Sun and guided by the heart! In fact, if you wanted to prepare these cooling herbs like a sun tea, or just serve it iced, during the Leo season, I think you’ll be pleased. Leo’s archetype is to take the information they’ve been given and that they’ve earned and figure out what to actually do with it: how to express it and put it into the world. And this sunny, supportive, heart lifting tea is just perfect to go along with creative expression meant to be seen! Shine on Leo.

Holy basil vana, gotu kola, hawthorne, linden, calendula, rue, lavender

Leo is very yang, active, sign, it’s the 5th one of the zodiac, is fixed, and ruled by the Sun. As Sajah Popham says, their mantra is I Will. They are often found using their will power to wield whatever asset or knowledge that they have to articulate and express their creativity to an audience that they must have. A well balanced Leo relies on their heart, their vital truth, to express to the world rather than the clinical intelligence of the mind which can come off disingenuous. Physically, Leo, moves down along the body on the yang side of Cancer’s yin meridian. Where Cancer stays with the watery, yin elements of the chest and breasts, Leo gets behind the big yang action stemming from the chest to stay in that powerful cycle between the chest and the heart. The force of the cardiovascular system with the heart pumping blood through the body is somehow heaved by the lungs. Leo also has a close affiliation with the myelin sheaths of the nervous system, the coating of the nerves so the electrical impulses sending information from one nerve to the next can do so without fritzing. The upper back, right behind the heart is part of the musculature that Leo supports.

Here, we picked holy basil is an adaptagen to the nervous system and to help with myelin sheaths; gotu kola also works on the nervous system from a circulatory stanpoint; hawthorn and linden are both cardio supportive herbs…linden is a really pretty and profound anti inflammatory herb as well. Dual action heart soothing and inflammation soothing is perfect for the forceful Leo who expresses from the heart with force which would likely bring on inflammation; calendula is an archetypal Leo and Sun plant, it soothes the tissues of the belly and enteric system which is a first stop for inflammation, especially with any sort of emotional component to it. Rue is helpful, I think, to accessing truth, it’s wise and protective, we want these expressive performers to speak and act their truth! And finally lavender is cooling, open, and full of uplifting expressive essential oils!