Our Apothecary is officially open!!
The Time Keeper’s Rare Apothecary is where we house our storytelling medicine bundles aka otherworldly giant gift baskets packed with love and full of good, small things.
Like other kinds of tinctures, elixirs, remedies, potions and sacred keepsakes that you might find in an apothecary, our storytelling medicine bundles are formulated in collaboration with the ancestral, celestial and elemental medicine of a moment in time.
We’re dropping the first gift basket in our apothecary and it’s called: “WORTHY OF MY TIME: a medicine bundle that prepares you to take flight”
It’s very fitting that our first gift basket is indeed a gift – it is complimentary, and free of charge.
This medicine bundle was formulated over the last 10 days or so, between March 16 to its release date today, March 26 2025.
Thus, it’s packed with incredibly potent magic of the Spring Equinox, Eclipse Season, and Venus Cazimi – ie the heated climax of this Venus Retrograde period which occurred on March 22.
The purpose of this bundle is to offer a blessing for the new chapter of life ahead of us, not just for the Spring Equinox/2025, but for the next 20 years of Pluto in Aquarius and beyond.
It’s also to lay down peace for the previous chapter, and continued assistance to close everything we’ve been through over the last 15 year period of Pluto in Capricorn (and beyond).
Let’s look at everything this bundle can accomplish and assist you with in your healing journey:
- bring forward what is and isn’t worth your time, now and in the new chapter
- discern what is and isn’t your responsibility moving forward
- make good choices every day that serve what you really care about and not the ghosts of your past
- make choices that gift yourself a deeper experience in life, and OF your life
Ultimately, this bundle serves as a strong re-orientation toward healing the Ancestors and Energetics of RESPONSIBILITY as they live and express through you.
It will help you prioritize your honest and sincere responsibilities to yourself, to your lineages and to the planet.
Why? Because prioritizing this will make you a better person. It will give you what your heart longs for (that we often do not pay attention to when we are caught up in past life drama). It’s what the world needs from you. It’s part of your leadership and an ability to live full-heartedly, that will offer you more experiences you want in life.
By journeying through this medicine bundle, you’ll be guided to retrieve a principle of ancestral artistry completely unique to you, that you can use as a guide, compass and anchor as you continue to navigate the road ahead of you.
It will help you name more honestly what you do and don’t actually care about.
This bundle is for you, first and foremost. But the medicine also very much supports the act of sharing your most sincere healing with your most sincere friends and loved ones.
This gives your friends the gift of witnessing your responsibility to yourself, so they can understand how to care for you more deeply.
HOW IT WORKS
Here’s where I get to show you how much of a super nerd I am.
The gift basket is a living altar made of the 5 directions, and you can choose how you want to experience it, ie choose your own adventure.
Here’s what the altar looks like:
IN THE SOUTH: treat yourself to a spiritual & creative luxury spa aka a glorious sound bath that gently works on your energetic body and stays within the bounds of your divine intentions and spiritual consent.
IN THE NORTH: treat yourself to a guided self-development or creative writing workshop* aka devoted time for deeper self-connection, or a creative activator which then feeds your most important projects & matters.
*Or an artistic genre of your choice.
IN THE WEST: treat yourself to a spirited treasure hunt through the 5 directions aka see your life as an altar and visit every direction. Enjoy the magic and mystery waiting to be unlocked in every corner.
IN THE EAST: treat yourself to the first ever, official SHAUNGA STAR 5 COURSE GOURMET MEAL aka we’ll take you through our delicious, mouth-watering menu of high quality spiritual/creative nourishment so you can end the day VERY WELL FED.
OR, PICK THE WILD CARD: and stay in the center aka enter this portal with a sacred intention/prayer for your life, or a question you have for your Ancestors, and just dive in. Your Greater Spirit will guide you and essentially you will “build your own bowl” throughout the process.
THE STORYTELLER’S SECRETS
I recommend setting aside ~3 hours to go through the bundle, and unlock the magic of each gift in the basket. This number can vary based on your learning style. You can go through it all at once, or take breaks like you do when you’re reading a good book.
A good chunk of this bundle is listening to audio – you are welcome to sit back and relax, or you might be inspired to do other things while you listen.
Pay attention to the PLAY TO WIN POP-UP CONTEST in the middle of the journey, aka “Guess the Secret Ingredient” Chef’s Surprise!
The first person to guess the correct answer will get a prize. (Guessing Level Difficulty is EASY – so get those answers in quick!)
The main feature of this bundle is a BRAND NEW PODCAST EPISODE that was recorded on March 19, my Dad’s birthday.
My Dad is an Ancestor (he transitioned in May of 2016) and he would have been 81 this year.
March 17 is also the anniversary of his cancer diagnosis that he received the same year.
So, this medicine is very much formulated in dedication to healing the father line / paternal lineage. And, very much contains the medicine of this NINE year (2025) aka my Dad’s age: 8+1 = 9.
It’s about making peace with the “Tough Love” of the previous chapter, Pluto in Capricorn – the sign of “self-responsibility.” I often associate Capricorn with the healing of the feminine within the masculine ie the grandmothers of the father line.
My Dad had a moon in Capricorn, and the astrological transit that brought him into the spirit realm was indeed Pluto crossing his moon.
READY TO REVEL
IN A GIFT BASKET?
Let’s Go.
First, let me take you through a tour of the Altar:
WEST: Your Treasure Map Instructions
- Enter through the East
- Land in the Center
- Travel the West
- Soar Across the North
- Indulge in the South
SOUTH: Your Creative & Spiritual Luxury Spa Retreat
- Cleanse the Crown
- Repair Your Wings (and Prepare for Flight)
- Hand Massage (For What You Hold Most Dear)*
- Sharpen Your Clarity of Vision
- Full Body Deluxe Service
*Choose your own pressure – light, medium, or JUST GIMME ALLADAT
EAST: Your Incredible SHAUNGA STAR Gourmet Meal
- Mouth-Watering, Bite-Sized Appetizer
- Main Course, Chef’s Special
- Choose Your Own Adventure Side Dish*
- Refreshing Drink
- Luscious, Delectable Dessert
*Choice of Side Dish aka Digestive Aid: Spring Salad, Light Soup, Hearty Soup
NORTH: Storyteller Guided Research Questions or Journal Prompts: to inspire your mad spiritual scientist research lab, or your gorgeous ancestral artist workshop
1 – “What do you care, Little Bird, if it was all worth it?” What do you care about right now? No. I mean…really?
2 – “Make Noise. Just don’t be Noisy.” What must you do to make noise? What are you doing when you’re just being noisy?
3 – “Three Roommates. One Bathroom.” If Tough Love and Reciprocity were Ancestors and the three of you were roommates who had to share one bathroom – what happened on the day that one of you said they were moving out?
4- “Reciprocity isn’t bound to an end result. It’s tied to what you really care about, no matter what phase of development you’re in.” What in you needs reciprocity right now, regardless of its phase of development?
5 – “I just want my life, like I always have. Like I’ve always chosen. Now I just want a deeper experience of my life.” What do you have, that has already been provided for you – that now you need a deeper experience with?
CENTER: Get to know us more – Otherworldly Giants (and the small things) aka parts of our world in development
- Temple of Parables (short stories & trailers)
- The People’s Public Quantum Library (magical reality TV for the revolution)
- The Ancestors Writers Room (self-study, global-study, multiverse-study)
- The Skating Rink (an ancestral artist grant generator)
- Luxury Spa Full Menu (private mentorship)
Note: Given that we are in process of developing our world, if you’re tuning in sometime in the future, some of these links may have changed. You can always check out our homepage and browse the website for what’s current.
ALRIGHT THAT’S OUR TOUR. NOW LET’S DIVE IN.
“MY ANCESTORS NAME ME WORTHY”
Direction: East
Menu Item: Mouth Watering Bite Sized Appetizer
Genre: 2-Minute Tincture from our Temple of Parables
Energy Healing: Cleanses Your Crown
Research Question: What do you really care about right now?
Instructions: Before you listen, feel free to clear your space, and set up your environment however feels most magical (light candles, state your name and intentions, call in guides, make tea, wear something you feel really good in, etc).
Take a deep breath and listen to the tincture. After it’s done, feel the medicine move through your body. It’ll reach the places that remind you of your inherent worth. It’ll start to touch parts of you that need to come forward.
You don’t need to “figure anything out” or come up with answers at this point. Just allow yourself to enter the portal. When you feel ready, move on to the next element.
“WHEN IT’S TIME TO FLEDGE”
what do you care, if it was all worth it?
Direction: Center
Menu Item: Chef’s Special
Genre: BRAND NEW EPISODE from our Public Library aka Magical Reality TV for the Revolution (~39 minute listen)
Energy Healing: Repairs your Wings, and Prepares You for Flight
Research Question: How must you make noise? Where and how must you stop being noisy?
EPISODE INTRO (click to read)
What does it mean for you to be in good relationship with your past?
“Fledging” is the moment in a bird’s life when their wings have grown large enough to take flight for the first time.
With the recent closing of Pluto in Capricorn, we as a species are learning to properly close the last chapter and “leave the nest.” We are learning how to be in good relationship to everything that held us, and raised us – underbelly and all.
Today’s episode is about what happens in our inner world when we’re learning how to fledge.
In the process, we have a complicated conversation about “Tough Love.” What is Tough Love, if not entangled with white supremacy, colonialism, ableism, patriarchy, casteism, capitalism and the like?
How do we make peace with our past when we are survivors of trauma, we are always in process of healing, but we also know we do not have to remain chained to our suffering?
There are many answers I unpack in this episode, and many more questions that I don’t.
Ultimately, I’m asking us how we create the conditions in ourselves and on the planet where healing and freedom can grow easefully, with abundant support.
I am talking about the self-responsibility required to create easeful conditions for a Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, and everywhere suffering the conditions of genocide, including within, including under our feet and under our belly.
I know in my bones that Mama Palestine is already free. How do we create easeful conditions for her right now, even in the midst of everything she’s going through?
When having deeply nuanced conversations, it may be easy to misinterpret this conversation as one that “doesn’t care” about things that I actually do care about.
What I’m actually doing is asking us to look deeper within and reach for more honesty.
This is where we’ll find problems that aren’t really problems anymore. We’ll find concerns that truly need our attention and innovative solutions. We’ll find the parts of our leadership that require more nurturance and care.
Buckle In, Good Listeners. Let’s Prepare for Flight.
LISTEN NOW
click here if you don’t see the player
EASTER EGGS & SHOW NOTES (click to read)
There’s a blooper in the middle of the episode that I decided to keep. In the middle of recording, a pigeon landed on my balcony and I chased it away. I thought it was funny and very well timed.
Check out the episode from December 2023 where we first meet Mama Bird / Little Bird (and Earth’s Elders – Alexis and David): “the crazy planet“
Music and Sound Effects are shared courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Music: “Rise Beyond” by Megan Wofford
READ THE EPISODE SCRIPT
TOUGH LOVE. EASY FLIGHT.
Direction: West
Menu Item: Side Dish (Digestive Aid)
Genre: Workshop with our Ancestors Writers Room
Energy Healing: Hand Massage (choose light, medium, or rigorous pressure)
Research Question: What happened on the day they (you) said they (you) were moving out?
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure Side Dish.
Here in the West, you’ll allow your unique principle of ancestral artistry to come forward. This will become your anchor and your guide as you move through daily life.
SPRING SALAD (click to read more)
Go back into my script and look for a principle of ancestral artistry unique to you (the way I showed you how I did for myself in the episode.) Feel free to journal or meditate on any part of the story that speaks to you.
Look closely at what is speaking to you and see if you can find an underlying guiding principle.
This principle of ancestral artistry is a reflection of your responsibility to yourself, and an expression of what you really care about.
You can now keep this as a guide for your daily life, and for whatever matters are sitting on your heart.
LIGHT SOUP (click to read more)
After you listen to the episode, sit with yourself in the quiet. Or go into a meditative state, and simply allow something to emerge.
Whatever emerges, see if you can look at it as a guiding principle, or something that is carrying a guiding principle.
This principle of ancestral artistry is a reflection of your responsibility to yourself, and an expression of what you really care about.
You can now keep this as a guide for your daily life, and whatever matters are sitting on your heart.
HEARTY SOUP (click to read more)
THREE ROOMMATES, ONE BATHROOM
Have fun exploring a creative writing* exercise. (*Or, feel free to create in your artistic genre of choice with these prompts as a guide!)
Put three characters in a room: Tough Love, Reciprocity and You are all roommates in a cramped apartment and you have to share one bathroom.
Write a scene about what happened on the day that one of you said they were going to move out.
If you have a practise with ancestral channeling, you can invite those characters in as Ancestors. (If you wish, you can witness what happens with your 3rd/1st eye, or voice record, instead of writing.)
You may or may not want to work with a timer, if you’d like the goal of just writing down a short scene, instead of getting lost in a bigger story.
If channeling, set up energetic boundaries and intentions as you are guided. If you have an altar / energy healing practise, you may feel guided to release past lives or energies you don’t need. You can engage your regular practise, or simply send those energies back to the Universe.
After you write down the scene, go back and study it the way that I did. Find the gems, gifts, lessons and guidance. Allow your story to SHOW you what you really care about, even if you think you already know.
Look through what you wrote and see if you can discern a guiding principle emerging. This principle of ancestral artistry is reflection of your responsibility to yourself, and an expression of what you really care about.
You can now keep this as a guide for your daily life, and whatever matters are sitting on your heart.
PLAY TO WIN POP UP CONTEST!!
GUESS THE SECRET INGREDIENT
What is the Storyteller’s Secret Ingredient in this medicine bundle? We’re looking for two words.
HINT: These are the most important two words that Shaunga needed to say to her Dad in his end-of-life phase.
SUPER HINT: The correct answer may or may not be the name of an Alanis song.
The FIRST PERSON to submit the correct answer will win our prize: we’ll pull a tarot card for you as a blessing for this Spring Equinox period.
Contest Level Difficulty is EASY. Therefore, if you want to win, get your answer in quick!!
CONTEST IS CLOSED.
FUND THE PLANETARY ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
Direction: North
Menu Item: Refreshing Drink
Genre: Poster / Call Out for our Skating Rink
Energy Healing: Sharpen Your Clarity of Vision
Research Question: What part of your creative process needs support & reciprocity, regardless of its phase of development?
In the main episode, I mention that it would be really nice if we could live in an economy that functions on principles and practices of Sacred Reciprocity.
Take a moment and feel yourself landing in a healthy, thriving economy where our entire life path is deeply supported on all angles. Open your 3rd Eye / 1st Eye or Revolutionary Vision.
Now, turn up the knob a couple notches (the way the Optometrist does when they’re adjusting someone’s clarity of vision).
What happens when you find yourself in this thriving economy AND you can see clearly how the entire ecosystem functions?
Ask this ecosystem to collaborate with y/our current reality. What options are available to you here? What problems are not problems? What are the actual concerns? What are innovative solutions?
This is our big vision and commitment at Otherworldly Giants. Check out THE SPIDERWOMAN NETWORK to learn more.
Welcome to the Skating Rink by Shaunga TagoreADVENTURE THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM
BROWSE OUR FULL LUXURY SPA MENU
Direction: South
Menu Item: Luscious, Delectable Dessert
Genre: Private Mentorship at our Luxury Spa (flip through our brochure)
Energy Healing: Full Body Deluxe Massage aka book a personalized service
Research Question: What has already been provided for you, that you need a deeper experience with now?
In the main episode, I re-mind us that it’s not selfish to choose to have a deeper, better and bigger experience of something that has already been provided for you.
In fact, the story shows us that it would be detrimental for a bird to stay in the nest when its true responsibility is to prepare to fledge.
Likewise, it would be detrimental to yourself and the world if you ignored the deeper experiences you need in life.
While this medicine bundle is about self connection, the heart of the story is about sincere friendship. Take this opportunity to share what you’re learning about yourself with a friend.
Tell your friend(s) what you really care about. It’s a gift for our loved ones to witness our evolving “self responsibility.” It gives us the chance to have more honest conversations, strengthen our intimacy, and learn to care for one another more deeply.
RE-MEMBER: Friends come in all forms, human or non-human. In spirit or in body.
Many of you are at a point where you need deeper support for your leadership, creative pursuits, and everything that is yours to hold and steward.
Shaunga is here to support your depth and mastery. We have high quality private mentorship packages available for individuals and 2-person teams. If you’re looking to invest in support for your ongoing spiritual and creative development, this is for you.
Enjoy an Adventure Through the Solar System, as you flip through our Full Private Luxury Spa Menu.
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PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS
CLOSING TIME
There are many options to close this portal, and first and foremost we always recommend listening to your own guidance.
That said, it’s a good idea to do a simple closure and thank you to let your Ancestors, guides (and parts of yourself) know that you’ve completed a journey. Some suggestions:
- Blow out your candles and say a thank you prayer
- Clap your hands together to indicate closure, then rub your hands over your body (so your body can integrate the medicine)
- Blow the medicine you just created into your water bottle (now you have a medicine bottle you can drink and continue to integrate)
- Keep a bowl of water for the Ancestors during your journey then blow into the bowl when you’re done. Then pour it into the roots of a tree or another sacred place in nature, with gratitude.
- You can keep that bowl near your bed while you sleep if you want to continue connecting with this medicine in the dream time realm. In the morning, take it to a tree or another special place to pour it out, with gratitude.
AFTER FLOW / AFTER CARE
The medicine, insights, revelations and guidance will continue to unfold and collaborate with your life as you move forward.
If you’re on a deep healing journey, you may receive big downloads or unfoldings in the “After Flow.”
If you need support, reach out to a friend, your networks/circles, or you can book private mentorship with us if it’s a good fit.
PRO-TIP: If you have a lot of coming up that you want witnessed, and you have a public platform, think about if you want to share your learnings on your newsletter, blog, social media, etc. This is a great way for others to witness and care for your self-responsibility. Fee free to tag us @otherworldlygiants and give us a shout out – we’d love to hear about your unfoldings!
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BOOK US FOR A GROUP EXPERIENCE
We can curate a storytelling medicine bundle purrfectly catered to your group, platform, sacred space or friends circle.
You let us know what excites you the most: Want a spiritual/creative Luxury Spa experience? Want a workshop with the Ancestors Writers Room? Need a Private Storytelling Chef for your retreat? Something unique to you?
Our stories contain so much medicine, sometimes it’s most lucrative to unlock the medicine together as a group.
If you’d like to book us, let us know and we can talk rates and packages.
PSST: We love to travel. If you want to bring us to your space, let’s talk.
Email us at mercury@shaungatagore.com to inquire.
HOW WAS IT?
Feel free to let us know how you enjoyed this gift basket, or leave us a review!
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