starflower living, naturally

Starflower Living magazine

Starflower Living, naturally is an online magazine published by Starflower Press. Published each New Moon, it is for people who want to embrace earth-based conscious living. The purpose of Starflower Living is to disseminate information on natural living and lifestyle choices to support people in these changing times. Our ethos is based on integrity, passion and right livelihood.

Why the name Starflower Living?

Starflower is also known as borage. It comes from the Celtic word borrach, which means courage. It is known to bring happiness and raise the spirits. We hope that Starflower Living brings you monthly inspiration to live a courageous, heart-centred life.

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Issue 12

Starflower Living Issue 6

50 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 12:

  • Editorial
  • Walking Across Scotland
  • Plantain Salve
  • The Power of Menstruation
  • Nature Meditations
  • Breastfeeding & Childhood
  • Breastfeeding & Bonding
  • Moving home and EMR
  • Humour and Patience
  • Boy to Man
  • Timelessness

Issue 11

Starflower Living Issue 6

30 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 11:

  • Editorial
  • Nettles
  • Ground Yourself
  • Celebrate Spring
  • Assaults on Family life
  • The Art of Personal
  • Growth
  • What about the Listener?

Issue 10

Starflower Living Issue 6

34 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 10:

  • Editorial
  • Lemon Balm
  • Earth Medicine
  • Taliesin’s Birth
  • Fire Up Your Creative Life
  • Becoming Fleur

Issue 9

Starflower Living Issue 6

42 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 9:

  • Editorial
  • Sage
  • First Blood Ceremony
  • Slow Parenting
  • Water Meditations
  • Health Notes
  • New Moon in Aquarius
  • Walk in Her Shoes
  • In My Kitchen
  • The Moon and your Fertility
  • Fitting in
  • Barefoot Birth

Issue 8

Starflower Living Issue 6

46 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 8:

  • Editorial
  • Irena Sendler
  • Motherwort
  • Holistic Breast Health
  • A Metaphysical look at Miscarriage
  • Health Notes
  • New Moon in Aquarius
  • Mercury Retrograde
  • In My Kitchen
  • Attachment Parenting Teenagers
  • A Gift of a Job?
  • Palmistry

Issue 7

Starflower Living Issue 6

52 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 7:

  • Editorial
  • A New Evolutionary Perspective on Happiness
  • Fear or Wholeness?
  • Comfrey
  • Surrendering to the Solstice
  • Balance your life
  • Transforming Parenthood
  • New Moon in Capricorn
  • In My Kitchen
  • Health Notes
  • Healing Humanity’s Heart Chakra

Issue 6

Starflower Living Issue 6

44 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 6:

  • Travelling as a Mother
  • Reclaim Your Pelvic Floor
  • Chicory
  • Celebrate Winter Outdoors
  • Ice Art
  • Beat Flu, naturally
  • First Aid for Insect Bites
  • Joy: a flower meditation
  • Wild Mothering
  • New Moon in Sagittarius
  • In my Kitchen
  • Iron Woman
  • Zinc
  • Rosemary
  • Cosmic Ordering
  • Detoxing the Pill

Issue 5

Starflower Living Issue 5

52 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 5:

  • Editorial
  • Soulmates
  • Catnip
  • Lightening Up and Letting Go
  • Unassisted Childbirth
  • The Story of our Ancestresses
  • Great
  • New Moon in Scorpio
  • In my Kitchen: Autumnal Recipes
  • Burning the Past: the healing power of the fire ceremony
  • Store your Harvest
  • Halloween: Festival of the Wise Grandmother
  • Grief: Nature’s Sabbatical
  • Strengthen your Chi
  • Control

Issue 4

Starflower Living Issue 4

60 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 4:

  • Editorial
  • Walking with Beauty
  • New Moon in Libra
  • Officiating Weddings
  • Healing Adrenals
  • Thyme Honey
  • In my Kitchen
  • Conscious Uncoupling
  • Love (poem)
  • The Starthrower
  • Autumn Equinox
  • Creating a Charmed Life
  • May Di Vorce be with You
  • The Mirror of Relationships

Issue 3

Starflower Living Issue 3

48 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 3:

  • New Moon in Virgo
  • Nature Mandalas
  • An Alkaline Lifestyle
  • In My Kitchen
  • Herbs for Digestion
  • Keeper of the Sacred Space
  • Natural Cleaning
  • Negative Ions
  • Right Livelihood
  • Flower Meditations
  • Intention and Surrender
  • The Starthrower
  • Valerian
  • Earth Medicine
  • Healing Anxiety
  • Daily Rituals for Peace

Issue 2

Starflower Issue 2

52 pages, PDF
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Inside Issue 2:

  • New Moon in Leo
  • Wild Courage
  • Inside the Mind of an Iron Man
  • Creativity at Midlife
  • Star Thrower: Leo
  • In my Kitchen: Quinoa
  • Chamomile
  • The Heart Smile
  • Earth Medicine
  • The Inner Child
  • Zest for Life
  • Return to the Red Tent

Issue 1

Starflower Living Issue 1

38 page, PDF
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Launch issue New Moon in Cancer, June 27th 2014
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Inside Issue 1:

  • Planting Seeds: New Moon intentions
  • Pilgrimage to the Crone
  • Dancing with the Silver Crown
  • Gardening by the Moon
  • Earth Medicine
  • Star Thrower: making a difference
  • Start the day in a good mood
  • Herbal Healing: Calendula
  • Floatation Therapy
  • Vegetarian Recipes
  • Sacred Sexuality
  • The Knight in Shining Armour
  • Beauty is in the Ear

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