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It's not personal a poem an evocation a prayer a remedy reminder a gift  self portrait June 2022
not taking it personal its this radical act of staying self centered and recognizing that inside of my solar plexus is my own inner hearth and it's fueled by my heart and my warmth of re-membering myself as a joyful being, growing and balancing in the moment. not taking something personal means staying in the n o w presently engaged with what is r e a c h i n g for balance and a bridge of the moment with the heart open with the hearth lit with the inner will governed with the strength of center present wholeness of being fully illuminated Not taking it personal means re-membering in my sovereignty with my heart open from the wisdom of my being the key of compassion unlocks suffering the art of forgiveness reveals acceptance which b o u q u e t s into love and t h r o u g h the feeling state I can alchemize my sense of being into a created moment that is generated from my knowingness of what is now from whatever I choose from what I am present to where my consciousness is flowing how when where with reaching toward the edge of me finding that this is a universe and it's ever e x p a n s i v e not taking things personal dive deeperWith some astrology contemplation: Consider the 12 houses on the astrological wheel. The Sun/Leo in the 5th house as opposite to Uranus/Aquarius in the 11th house  Sun's house as a representation of your inner self will fire. As what illuminates your personal hearth, fed by the health of your heart, ruled by Leo. Your unique interpretation of radiance as reflected by you from the Sun. The Sun is light radiance, all of life on Earth consumes light. When you eat vegetables you eat their photosynthesis. Your body is made of Earth and you are what you eat. You are Earth illuminated by the light of our Sun. You are a kaleidoscope of light refracted by the wisdom of your accumulated Earthly life experience.!. Uranus' house as a representation of the higher octave of Mercury, sharing the frequency of communication. Mindful Mercury as a direct connection from source to humanity. Revelatory Uranus blows through collective weather as an inhale and exhale of the whole spectrum of y/our community. Collecting in its breath a voice of the planet. so the fire of the Sun and the wind of Uranus mirror each other from different perspectives– The Sun illuminates the self center and Uranus communicates the ideas of the center to the greater whole. To know the inner is to bring consciousness to the outer. The fifth house of self as witnessed by the eleventh house of the community. ////<•>\\\\ A remedy for this TREMENDOUS influx of digital information during this Aquarian Age is to tend to y/our inner hearth. Each one of us Earthlings are refractions of light, light is a spectrum of color as reflected by every Earthly being on the planet now. Every color is light. When you shine your authentic light you express the light wavelengths you hold. Your inner hearth, your inner fire are like flames at the center of your being. <•> The Aquarian age asks us to shine and witness the multitudes of unique expressions as refractions of light; a rainbow kaleidoscope of the whole. To paint an even more expansive picture; the hearth represents your unique individual inner fire, the center of yourself and You exist on Earth as Earth with a whole ecosystem of beings reflecting light, as their inner fire. Imagine the beauty of the rainbow, every color hugging the next as a spectrum of waves. With your acceptance and integration of each vibrant wave of color, your palette of awareness becomes more vivid. Let's call this vividness awareness, let's expand the awareness as consciousness. What then is possible? When it's not personal, but rather a vivid expression of unique light as held by fellow Earthlings? When consciousness grows, so does the spectrum of interbeing. We are all connected, like colors hugging on the rainbow.  Wash it offWash it off Living in an urban environment bombarded with all types of frequencies I live in berkeley off a busy main street, maybe you’ve heard of University Avenue in Berkeley, California? Berkeley is a place famous for its morphic resonance of radical activism and has been “my street” for the past 9+ years. Attracted to what the Ohlone people, still thriving here, call the meeting place ripe with the willingness to talk about the tough things. I choose to thrive here as an urban witch. Close to the density of humanity, learning the vivid spectrum of interbeing. I remember when I was in Herbalism school, walking down University Avenue to a burrito shop for lunch, walking really slow. Because legitimately I look for the plants, pushing through the cracks, noticing in them their tenacity to grow through, literal hard places. Learning about what isn't written in ‘wild foraging’ or cultivated herb books. It isn't glamorous to see milky oat tops growing besides this day-in-age tumbleweed– the disposable mask…But there they are blowing in the breeze a reminder that life is here, underneath the hard places. Whispering, their soothing nerve nourishing song. I found through a magickal veil the place I now live/work. Sometimes it's too loud here…I can hear, feel, see, smell, and in some cases touch the chaotic pulse of this urban wild west. Someone screaming down the street, talking to beings only they can see. It’s a lot to navigate. I do a lot to tithe back into the community, as my efforts to offer a community antidote, for this Ohlone land is a meeting place. Moonlodge is such an offering, open to any womb yin willing to sit in the darkness. And I remember to wash it off.  Ok, that reads callus, let me explain my growing relationship with water. Water is everywhere, in three famous forms; solid, liquid and vapor (I’m a mother of a seven year old, we homeschool, and science is fun;). Not only does water take on form like a chameleon, water stretches. It always reaches for the union of the whole and the incredible nature of water is in yo/u/s (yo- I, you, us). Whoa. Let’s deepen the current, as it were, and dive into the spirit of water. Water holds resonance, be cold, dry, hot, moist, sad, angry, maybe even splashing with joy. Quantum physics reminds us that the witness influences matter. Yeah, your thoughts, words, feelings, ideas, have influence over/with water. We humans are, on a healthy well hydrated day, about 70% water. Ok, so footnote that, and water stretches it never breaks, that's even through time! So the water in you is ANCIENT, as in it has been on the planet longer than humans. Yeah, soak that in. If water has memory you hold lifetimes, and have access to the memory of lifetimes of multiple earth dwelling (not limited because shooting stars are real) species. Ok yes, I am a mystic and I am looking to blow your socks off. Mostly to call forth a reckoning of response-ability. You as a conscious witness have a choice to be influenced by your inner waters or to influence your inner waters, mostly both. Believe me I know trauma is real. All of us humans on this planet can feel the spectrum of emotion. And in the deep feeling current of emotions is an ancient language that connects to our interbeing. We are all connected from the inner well(ness) of our waters. Every moment we make a choice to focus on what was happening or what is happening. There was this cafe I worked at here in Berkeley, during my Saturn return, where we served water in pitchers featuring affirmations; love, trust, peace, joy, abundance, and breathe. It was a potent gesture to add ritual to an otherwise unconscious routine. Today I deepen my water ritual routines, with awareness of not only what I put into my body but what I wash off.  35 weeks pregnant, henna ritual by design Glamour Magick is something I developed out of being fully pregnant with, my vote for humanity, a baby, our future and during such “interesting times.” It started out with lipstick and not wanting to eat synetic anything (have that enter into the future) or buy too much plastic when the ocean is filled with the stuff. Now years later, it is a lifestyle and a ritual routine. The other day a friend wanted to talk to me about this new curly hair supportive shampoo and I was beside myself…I became awkward. Yes, locking in moisture in my curly locks is important to me, But at what cost to the environment (my/our macrocosm?) And by the way do you see my gorgeous hair, I don’t need it…but I get it humans just wanna connect and share. Here let me share with you.
I have been soap free for over ten years. That's on my head and my body, except for washing my hands with Dr Bronners (did you know they tithe 40% of their profits!) singing the birthday song, obviously, i'm not gonna spread a virus, calm the worry. But on my body I use a rock. I told a friend this recently, and she asked where to buy this kind of rock. I had the hugest chuckle…I found my bathing rock next to moving water, because of the quality of texture of friction worn rock. Water like, ocean and river. Not pumice stone, which is far too gritty. Then when I have worn my rocks medium to fine grit too smooth to exfoliate with, I give it back to the Earth, sometimes I get very ritualistic with the gesture and sometimes quietly. When I bathe with a rock I remember what matters in me and realize to transmute the living trauma through my body. So the next being who comes into contact with the waters that have touched through me resounds in prayer. Sometimes my prayer is simple, sometimes it's epic… I forgive this moment and let go, in this moment I reach to accept we are all trying our best, Buddha says we’re all suffering through our humanity Needing, wanting, reaching, Compassion is the ultimate wisdom. Christ asks us to remember forgiveness and this act of acceptance is the ultimate form of Love. In these gestures Thoth speaks to the alchemy of sovereignty I am the collections of my actions Interconnected in our uniqueness by the choices we individually Choose to harmonize of our own free will. So I present to you this living question: How are you resonating with y/our water?  a story/poem for all potential and current Osha root lovers. the wintering Bear climbs out of the deep dark slumbering cave led by a powerful snout Bear saunters along mimicking a crocodile wagging a heavy width of a tail in the direction of a lacy leafed spring green with a strong vivid stalk cousin to the head of a carrot or parsley bright in aromatics the dreamy Bear digs into moist earth in reach for the invigorating, clarifying OSHA root after enjoying Bears fill, gripping the trunk of the strongest nearby tree Bear voices out a Bear aaahhhOOOOoooooommmmm and hacks the sludge of winter OUT quenched by crystal clear spring melt from the nearby summit under which Bear dreamt what now awakens in Spring Ligusticum porteri, OSHA root
lmk about the reception of Osha and your intuitive insight this is all an invitation-- re-membered remedy to help Bear lungs: cooling moistening immune modulating great for softening thick hot sticky phlegm! must be paired with a higher intake of liquids; Plain water, Mucilaginous tea; marshmallow root, slippery elm, licorice (though this herb raises blood pressure, take aware), Warm soothing nervine teas; blue vervain (quiets a talkative mind), skullcap (neck head and shoulder tension releaser, chamomile (cools a moody gut), motherwort (bitter af, quiets heart palpitations) Ease off of foods that thicken the phlegm; dairy (of all animals) gluten and sugar, save for fresh berries on occasion.  Location:
Myth and Scissors 2991 College Avenue Berkeley, CA 94705 Date: May 15, 2022 1pm - 4pm Supplies $16 + class $111 =$127 per student suggested—Notebook + multicolor pens Less the cost of supplies proceeds: Tatiana 50% Myth & Scissors 50% *Organic Supplies; *Chocolate + *Herbs + *Flowers *Mezcal Glass Bottles/jars metal lids per Paper Labels per Pens to share ~Ritual Gear on borrow //// Queen Estrogen & her Court A WORKSHOP \\\\ •medicine making •language of emotions •arc of hormones •wheel of phenology Taught by Witch Practitioner Rites of Passages Reverend Tatiana of Florentina Craft Facilitator of Moonlodge for 19 years Experiential learning; conversational contemplation, medicine making (potion and gem elixir), personal map making, elements of magick and more! Support for the cultural stir of our occurrent years of internal spelunking. A new path illuminated. Further reading, offered and next steps to continue forward in action towards embodied change. |
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