Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā A Healthy Cup of Adventure Hunting Tea
More than often when I put my boots on and hit the ground for a day or weekend of adventure hunting, I will carry with me a small pouch, in which I carry tea bags. In some cases if I know where I am heading I will look for tea ingredients (herbs and flowers). Depending on the adventurous mind I am in, will depend the blend, which helps me take in the full experience of the adventure. While we all are effected and inspired by teas differently, here is my Adventure Hunting Tea influences:
Birch: An invoker of pretty much any adventure within autumn settings. I find it also invoke high desires for adventures that have some magickal element to them.
Mint Tea: Mint is my go to for many moods. Mostly fantasy and adventures dealing withĀ the air and wind. (Hilltops, windy days, canyons)
Black Tea: Pretty much all adventures but particularly when the adventure is home or office based like Gangsters and Noir settings. Very retro/vintageĀ Urban-ish feelings.Ā
Grapefruit: When I am looking to inspire adventures dealing with Magick, spells and other such themes, this is my go-to tea. Also any adventure that may take me into the wetlands and swamps.
Blueberry: Any adventure dealing with woodlands and forests
Raspberry: Any adventure in which I know there will be some sort of confrontation or battles
Elm: Elm tea takes me into wanting adventures into the winter season. Not sure why but it does.
Blackberry: Any adventure that takes me into a place like libraries or museums
Hawthorn: I have to be careful with this tea as it kicks in a lot of adventures with in the realms of love and passion. I mean HIGH love and passion adventures.
Rose petal/hips: Any adventure where love, passion and springtime take place
Linden Tea: This is myĀ āgo toā tea when I need to invoke summertime feelings and adventures. Its really powerful for me.
Chamomile: Any adventure that spans into times of rest and sleep. Often I will have Rose tea and Chamomile for a heightened experience
Lavender: Awesome tea for homebound adventures or adventures in farmers and gardens
Green Tea: Any adventure that takes place in fields. plains, meadows, gardens, valleys. Also I find most powerful when I am on summertime adventures.
Pumpkin Tea: Pretty much obvious, anything dealing with autumn as well as forest and farmlands.Ā Ā
Beech: This tea I find is a leader to high action adventures in rustic places. So I am sure to be well geared for everything and everything, including battle.
Maple Syrup Tea: Another one of the teas that invoke high adventure in the theme of Fantasy and Westerns.
Oolong Tea: Any adventure that takes place or around a social gathering, such as a tavern scene, a dinner or hanging out at a campsite with friendsĀ
Cherry: Any adventure that takes me into places like faires, carnivals, amusement parks and places of high wild entertainment
Chocolate Mint Tea: Any adventure dealing with the winter season and holidays.
Citrus Tea: (Orange/Peach/Apricot) This tea for me invoke pretty much any summer time adventures.
Lemon Tea:Ā Not only a Summer adventure invoker but specifically adventuresĀ centered around places like boats, beaches, harbors, ports and other shorelines.
Cucumber Tea:Ā This tea REALLY invokes summer theme adventures but also places like rivers, gorges, brooks, lakes and other fresh water areas.
Willow: This tea I find is best for slow day adventures often leading to just picnics, fishing and lazy days. DefiantlyĀ a summer adventure invoker.
Oak Tea: Not a fave of mine taste wise but its does help me dive into adventures set in old urban areas, like old book shops, alleys, antiqueĀ shops and so forth.Ā
Hibiscus:Ā Ā This tea invoke adventures in me when there is a lot of trekking, walking and running. Areas like forest and woodland borderlines,Ā Ā
Ginger Tea: A bit spicy for some but i takes me into adventures of Arabian and middle eastern delights. Deserts and exotic market places. (I lived 10 years in Two Suns Summerset so this tea was drunk a lot!)
Lemon Grass: Another tea which for me invokes a moreĀ āhome-bodyā adventures. Specially farms, villages, orchards, gardens, villas and cottages.
Ash: This tea I find drives my adventures to one particular place and that is to open fields and meadows. A veru spring and summer time vibe I find comes with it.
Apples: Pretty much an go all tea for all sorts of adventures. Specially if your adventures border around these like pioneering and āwesternsā
Pineapple: A great tea to help stimulate adventures in tropical places and summertime settings.Ā
Spearmint: (And Winter mint) Excellent to inspire and stimulate adventures set in the winter season. Spearmint I find is also a great inspirer of adventures dealing with wind (see MINT above)
Jasmine: Another tea for me that is bet taken to inspire adventures within the lines of love, passion and even just self love. I find when I by some new adventure gear, I will have a cup of Jasmine Tea to help me align my new clothes/gear to my āAHā self.Ā
Vanilla Tea: Hard to find but for me its an all around adventure invoker. It represents so much for me and invokes all sorts of adventures
Coconut Tea: Can be used to invoke and enhance tropical adventures as well as summertime and also adventures set in woodlands and forests, as it had a very earthy flavor
Walnut: This is one tea that for me I can not take without a weeks leave from work. Its powerful for me, invoking HIGH ADVENTURE feelings with lots of energy and want to go into battle. The smell alone gets my blood boiling to grab a sword or gun. The setting does not seen to matter; rustic or urban.
Cinnamon: (Spicy) Yeah, for me its invokes adventures in the autumn and winter seasons, but a very wild taste, so it will inspire adventures of power and action.Ā
Fig: A tea that, for me, inspires adventures in places like Italy, Greece, Egypt and other places along the Mediterranean, Earth and water feelings.
Pear: This is a rarity for me as I am not fond of tea BUT the tea invokes me to take off for areas like mountains, hills and cliffsides.
Corn Flowers: Another rarity for me but definitely invokes adventures within the realms of fields, farms and the old west.
Rosemary: For me, this tea is aĀ āstay at homeā tea or at the least inspires places and adventures in gardens, farms, fields and yards. I call it theĀ āWonderlandā tea
Pine: Pretty much an all around rustic forest adventure invoker. However at times I tend to want to adventure in places like cafes, taverns, inns, B&Bs and other places or rustic and calm settings.
Black Cherry: This tea invoke adventures in pretty much all high urban places. I will have this tea before I hope the rail into the city.
Almond: This is another tea that sends me to adventure in the woods and forests. Other times it will inspire adventures in places like tavern, inns and campsites.
Honey: This is another one of thoseĀ āHomebodyā cottage teas but I find at times it will take me to exploring woods and the fields.
Alder: A tea I find induces adventuresĀ leading me to places like rivers, springs and other fresh water sources.
Thyme: This tea is a killer and does me in. Not only does inspire high adventure but in dark places like basements, old houses, caverns, tunnels, swamps and wetlands. Or at the very least Rainy days. So for me I know I need to grab my sword or guns cause I know I will be dealing with some nasties.
Anyway thatās my list. Again these teas may inspire you differently and if you are an Adventure Hunter I encourage you to experiment. I would suggest NOT mixing and making blends at first but just let solo herbs spark and inspire. Start the day with a cup of tea and see where it takes you. Have a second cup for lunch or teatime to keep the inspiration going. I HIGHLY suggest you make a log of what sort of adventures the teas inspire in you. If you plan to carry teas with you on your adventure I highly suggest a air-tight baggy if you plan to be out in the rain or around water.Ā