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Something ended. You remain.
After the Fire was created for the ground that exists after upheaval—the strange, exposed place where what was has already burned away, but what comes next has not yet fully emerged.
At the heart of this working is fireweed, one of the first plants to return to disturbed ground. It grows alongside yarrow, representing the restoration of boundaries, and goldenrod, carrying the symbolism of emergence, confidence and movement toward what comes next.
This is not a ritual for becoming who you were before.
It is a ritual for meeting the person who remains.
Use After the Fire when closing a chapter, reclaiming yourself after a difficult season, beginning again, or marking the moment you realize survival has slowly become something more.
Inside the kit
- After the Fire botanical anointing oil
- After the Fire ritual sachet
- Forest Fire Black Salt
- Ritual candle
- Written reclamation working
- Botanical correspondence card
Botanicals: Fireweed • Yarrow • Goldenrod
Invocation
I do not return to what I was.
I grow from what remains.
Softness and sovereignty were never opposites.
Thorn & Bloom is a working for the place where tenderness meets protection.
Wild rose becomes The Open Heart—the part of us still capable of tenderness, intimacy and love. Yarrow becomes The Boundary, reminding us that closeness does not require unrestricted access. Nettle becomes The Thorn, the protective force that asks what our anger, resistance and instinct may be guarding.
This working does not ask you to become harder.
It asks whether you can remain soft because you have learned to protect what is soft.
Use Thorn & Bloom for self-love work, relationship reflection, rebuilding trust in yourself, examining patterns of overgiving, or strengthening boundaries without closing your heart.
Inside the kit
- Thorn & Bloom botanical anointing oil
- Thorn & Bloom ritual sachet
- Hand-collected wild rose petals
- Ritual candle
- Shadow-work card
- Written ritual guidance
Botanicals: Wild Rose • Yarrow • Nettle
Shadow question
Where can I soften because my boundaries are strong enough to protect me?
Invocation
My softness does not require my surrender.
Access to me is sacred.
The Tiger's Boundary is a ritual of conscious access.
Not every boundary needs to be a wall. Some are gates. Some are thresholds. Some simply require us to remember that we are allowed to decide who enters, what stays, and when something must leave.
Yarrow carries The Boundary. Nettle carries The Thorn—protective force and the refusal to remain undefended. Sage carries The Knowing, inviting discernment between what belongs to us and what has been placed upon us by others.
Use this working when establishing a boundary, reclaiming personal space, ending unwanted energetic or emotional entanglement, preparing for a difficult interaction, or simply returning authority over your life to yourself.
Inside the kit
- The Tiger's Boundary botanical anointing oil
- Protection ritual sachet
- Forest Fire Black Salt
- Ritual candle
- Written boundary-setting working
- Botanical correspondence card
Botanicals: Yarrow • Nettle • Sage
Invocation
I decide what enters.
I decide what remains.
I decide what leaves.
You do not need to know what waits on the other side before you cross.
The Threshold was created for the in-between.
The old answer no longer fits. The new one has not arrived. Something is changing, but it cannot yet be named.
Rather than forcing certainty, this working creates ritual space for staying with the unknown.
Aster becomes The Threshold, inviting relationship with uncertainty and the unseen path ahead. Yarrow offers a boundary around the work—a container in which exploration can occur without losing oneself. Pearly everlasting carries The Remains, asking what travels forward with us and what belongs to the place we are leaving.
Use The Threshold during transitions, identity shifts, shadow work, periods of uncertainty, spiritual reflection, or whenever the next chapter can be felt before it can be understood.
Inside the kit
- The Threshold botanical anointing oil
- Hand-collected aster
- Hand-collected pearly everlasting
- Hand-collected yarrow
- Ritual candle
- Shadow-work prompts
- Written threshold working
Botanicals: Aster • Yarrow • Pearly Everlasting
Shadow question
Can I remain with uncertainty without forcing an answer?
Invocation
I do not require certainty before I enter.
Receiving is not indebtedness.
Golden Road explores abundance from a different direction.
Rather than asking How do I get more?, this working asks something quieter:
What happens when something good actually arrives?
Goldenrod carries The Gold—visibility, emergence and the willingness to occupy more space. Fireweed carries The Burned Ground, reminding us that new life can emerge from places profoundly changed by what came before. Sweet clover becomes The Receiving, inviting examination of our relationship with support, opportunity and having enough.
Use Golden Road when opening yourself to opportunity, beginning something new, celebrating growth, working with scarcity patterns, or exploring your capacity to receive without immediately believing you must earn, repay or justify what has arrived.
Inside the kit
- Golden Road botanical anointing oil
- Golden Road ritual sachet
- Hand-collected goldenrod flowering tops
- Ritual candle
- Written receiving ritual
- Botanical correspondence card
Botanicals: Goldenrod • Fireweed • Sweet Clover
Shadow question
What happens inside me when I am offered more?
Invocation
I permit myself to receive what I once believed I had to chase.
Love may remain even when something else must leave.
The Remains is a quiet working for grief, remembrance and the complicated things we continue to carry.
Not everything that remains is meant to be discarded. Memory can be sacred. Love can survive endings. Objects, stories, places and rituals can become vessels through which we honour what mattered.
But remembrance and carrying are not always the same thing.
Pearly everlasting becomes The Remains, asking us to look carefully at what we preserve. Wild rose carries The Open Heart, allowing love and grief to occupy the same space. Fireweed carries The Burned Ground—the life that continues after a landscape has been permanently changed.
Use The Remains for grief rituals, ancestor remembrance, anniversaries, endings, memorial work, releasing an object or chapter, or honouring something that deserves to be remembered without requiring yourself to carry all of it forever.
Inside the kit
- The Remains botanical anointing oil
- Remembrance ritual sachet
- Hand-collected pearly everlasting
- Hand-collected wild rose
- Ritual candle
- Written grief and ancestor working
- Botanical correspondence card
Botanicals: Pearly Everlasting • Wild Rose • Fireweed
Shadow question
What am I preserving because I love it, and what am I preserving because I cannot release it?
Invocation
I carry the love.
I release what no longer needs carrying.
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Each Amba Untamed ritual kit is created in small batches using botanicals personally gathered from the landscapes of Northern British Columbia.
These workings are not spells promising predetermined outcomes. They are ritual containers—places to slow down, mark a threshold, ask a difficult question, make a conscious choice, or give physical form to something occurring within you.
Every plant is chosen not simply from a correspondence list, but through its ecology, traditional symbolism, the place in which it was gathered, and the relationship developed with it.
The land provides the materia.
The relationship provides the meaning.
The ritual provides the container.
For ritual and personal reflection. Botanical and spiritual correspondences are symbolic and are not intended as medical or therapeutic claims.
