Artemis, Instinct, and Violet Leaf: Seasonal Aromatherapy for the Flower Moon

In this Flower Full Moon episode, Amy Anthony (NYC aromatherapist) explores how instinct rises in May — not as chaos, but as young yang emerging. Through a mythic ecological lens, she turns to Artemis and Pan to understand this seasonal polarity shift: mature yin creating the boundary that protects new vitality.Amy begins with a reading of Carol Tufts’ “Hades and Persephone,” then traces how winter’s containment gives way to spring’s full-on blossoming of play, appetite, and instinct. She explores Jung’s instinctual map, the ecology of protection, and shares a new myth she wrote for this season — a tale of Artemis and Pan that reveals what happens when instinct ignores the boundary that holds it.The episode closes with Violet Leaf, the Artemis of plants: cool, shaded, and uninterested in anyone’s nonsense. A plant ally for Flower Moon time, Violet moderates rising yang with cool clarity rather than control.This episode weaves aromatherapy, myth, seasonal ecology, and psyche into one seasonal teaching: young-yang vitality stays whole only when a clear, unsentimental boundary holds it — not coddling, not controlling, simply holding the field so instinct doesn’t collapse into chaos.Read the companion article — with two poems for Artemis and more information on Violet Leaf.Access: Amy's Free Online Library of classes and articles.