Badger, Animal Meditation Club, 3/16/26

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We also offer loose herbal smoking blends, roll-your-own herbs, pipes for herbs, teas, tinctures, gem, animal, and flower essences, other wellness products, and herbal consultations to support various goals, including emotional wellness, spiritual balance, and lifestyle transitions.

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To protect the health of actors and other people working on film or theater productions, tobacco and marijuana are not allowed indoors and often in production in general. Clear Mind is the top choice for prop cigarettes. It is a light smoking blend, making it easier on actors' bodies and those getting the secondhand smoke. The herbs in it are formulated to help creatives do their work. Clear Mind has been used as a smoke producer in major productions (like Oppenheimer movie) to stand in for cigarette, marijuana, crack smoke, and more! I love making prop cigarettes to spec for movies. If you have a project that needs a certain look, or lots of loose material, please reach out.

Q: Are your products regulated or approved for smoking cessation?

Herbal cigarettes are not regulated as medical products nor approved by government agencies for smoking cessation. They are offered as supportive alternatives, not treatments.

By Lily Michaud in Mar 16, 2026

This week we meditated with badger energy on 3/16/26.

Meditation

•My eyes feel very sharp and I see white stripes going down my forehead. This feels like strong liver/gallbladder energy.

•"This helps with gallstones"

•The animal shows me a doctor in a lab coat (but in a mustard color), they are grinding herbs to powder and giving them to people.This is good medicine for practitioners, to help understand imbalances/sources of tension in the body and find herbal remedies (especially roots I think). The animal shows me living in a burrough with roots hanging down. You eat the tips of the roots, here and there, so no one above knows that someone is living below. When you sleep the roots have a way of making their way into your dreams. The animal tells me "You like burdock, but not enough. Drink more and it'll help with your ear."

•The animal continues to assess me (as in my health/body). The two white lines power into my eyes. Over and over. The pathway I feel on my forehead is the area of the GB13-16. I mostly felt it on my forehead, stongly pulsing energy up and down this stripe bilaterally.

This is a side view of the gallbladder meridian and points of the neck and head. This image is from https://www.openchannelacu.com/straightfromtheacupuncturistsmouth/2015/10/21/magic-acu-points-monday-gall-bladder-41 but has been modified to add white energy in the area that runs onto the forehead to portray the feelings of my vision.

•This animal lives in another world.

•I kept seeing a phoenix. It would have to shed because it was really angry, but when it was reborn, it still had the hatred in its soul. I saw it about eight times.

•I kept trying to figure out what animal it was. Each idea I had got crossed out, but I did see a Hufflepuff image.

Hufflepuff coat of arms, featuring a badger! The background is outerspace, the colors are mostly yellows

•I asked lots of questions, like what did it want to offer? It said "Power", I said for what? It said, "Power to love." When I kept asking questions, it said, "Why are you doing it this way?"

•I saw something smooth, solid, and strong.

•I feel vigilence (gaurding and protecting), and standing ground. Also, warmth and coziness, graceful movements at times, little feet near the water or on the earth. Joy in making things.

Summary and Experimental Use

Badger, badger, badger! What a huge reputation of fierceness, yet when I first tried this, I got such a clear feeling of joy. I noticed that badger brought out a lot of inquisitiveness, which it seems to use effectively to sus out health problems. At the same time, it may not like it as much directed towards itself. Badger is known as the smallest bear in some indigenous traditions, and like a chihuahua compared to a larger dog, is known to be much more ferocious than the larger kin. Badger medicine is strong, leadership and medicine energy, they get to the bottom of things and will not rest until they do. They live in burroughs and eat roots. The points going to the eyes in their physical body are black, whereas in my experience they were white (but that is more energetic). This animal seems very gallbladder (in a Chinese medicine sense), forcefully and creatively working through tough problems. The burdock eased ear symptoms right away. The ear symptoms are related to nervous system stress, burdock supports both the liver (nervous system correlation) and kidneys (ear correlation).

I would consider badger energy for herbalists working to find remedies (particularly for tough cases) and joyful making, vision issues, gallstones, gall bladder support, and navigating anger. Anger is a valuable, constructive emotion. If you do not weild it and manage it properly it can be corrosive. Use corrosive energy to strategically wear away at problems that need to be broken down, not friends or allies in the fight for more power to love and heal. This brings to mind a favorite book: Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those Youa'd Rather Cancel, by Loretta Ross. Check it out. Imbalanced badger can get a bad rep. If you related to badger, ground and include other perspectives, and appreciate your ability to see things through.

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