In a time when the phrase “No peace on stolen land” echoes across the world, this essay explores how four visionary thinkers Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Joanna Macy illuminate a pathway toward true reconciliation.

Drawing on depth psychology, spiritual ecology, Indigenous pattern thinking, and collective activism, Emily Samuels-Ballantyne (Dr Demeter) reveals that peace cannot be legislated or imposed; it must be grown from within, through the healing of psyche, spirit, culture, and community.

From Jung’s call to integrate the shadow, to Steiner’s vision of sacred balance, to Yunkaporta’s custodial worldview and Macy’s Work That Reconnects, the essay weaves a tapestry of wisdom that transforms the pain of history into a praxis of renewal.

Rooted in the living work of Magical Farm Tasmania and the embodied practice of YoFence, Emily offers a model of regenerative reconciliation, where healing is not an idea but a way of life: a daily tending of relationship between people, place, and planet.

“Peace is not achieved by avoiding the wound, but by tending it.” Dr Demeter

Tasmania’s debates over aquaculture, forestry, and energy are framed in binaries: jobs versus environment, growth versus preservation. These divisions fracture not only politics but also communities and inner life.

Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s idea of the hardening of the soul and Carl Jung’s call for the Third, this article argues for a new orientation beyond opposites. The Third space is not neutral but generative, where ideas compost into gardens, strategies translate into action, and governance is rooted in transparency and practice.

Through threefold social theory, cultural freedom, political equity, and economic mutuality the piece highlights how projects like food hubs, biodynamic farms, and cooperatives act as acupuncture points in the social body. Supported by eco-feminist perspectives and the symbolic guidance of yarrow, rosemary, and nettle, these initiatives show how imagination can become infrastructure.

This is not a time for mediocrity, so Tasmania has the scale and creativity to pioneer a regenerative future, reweaving narrative, soul, and community into politics, economics, and culture.

This reflective essay explores the middle east conflict, through a Jungian and symbolic lens, guided by the Virgo New Moon and the healing presence of Archangel Raphael. Rather than offering political solutions, it invites a deeper psycho-spiritual engagement recognising that much of the global discourse is shaped by projection, ancestral trauma, and collective shadow. Drawing on Carl Jung’s concepts of the Third, the Anima, and Chiron, the piece suggests that while the path to geopolitical reconciliation may be blocked, a healing space must first be cultivated within the individual and collective psyche.

It calls for discernment, humility, and the courage to hold paradox, to grieve both sides of the story, and to recognise how personal pain and moral injury are entangled in global reactions. The Virgo archetype, as a guardian of ritual, earth, and care, offers a path of slow healing through tending, presence, and sacred attention. The piece closes with plant allies Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) as symbolic and energetic supports for this inner work, yarrow for integration and boundary, rosemary for clarity and remembrance suggesting that healing begins not in resolution, but in the quiet act of soulful witnessing.