All Beginnings Are Hard

Mugwort

🌿Folk Names: wormwood, crone wort

🌿Planet: Moon

🌿Element: Air

🌿Deities: Artemis, Hecate/Hekate

🌿Health Benefits: supporting menstrual health, helps digestion, and helps reduce anxiety and depression. Mugwort also isn’t safe for pregnancies. Pregnant people will be fine, but it’s not safe for pregnancies. Take that as you will.

🌿Powers: sleep, health, protection, travel, psychic abilities, dream work, and lucid dreaming.

🌿Magical Uses: Mugwort can be used to create a protective perimeter around protective spaces.

If you want to promote lucid dreaming, make mugwort tea before bed or put a sachet of the herb under your pillow.

Carry a sachet of mugwort when you go on long trips to ensure safe travel.

Smudge yourself with mugwort to keep the doctor away.

(Psst, i really like mugwort tea but be sure to let it soak in a hot water bath before drying and steeping to get rid of the bitter taste.)

It would have been cool to see their reactions to Zuko's story and see how their perspective on Zuko changed. And I have no doubt that he tells them about it at some point. But this way, it doesn't come off as emotional blackmail, with him trying to paint his actions as 'Yes, I hunted you across the world, but I actually had a really good reason."

If he did, he might have had a better chance of joining the Gaang, but he doesn't. In traditional Zuko fashion, he takes the most challenging route possible.

Oh wow! what a beaut! Time to reel her in!