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Archive for October, 2008

Be in the NOW, Not in the DOW

I’m passing along this article with permission from one of my favorite Authors Colin C. Tipping. I love that he professes that its OK to be angry – its ok to experience our darker emotions as they are part of our human anatomy. Here’s a great read:

Be in the NOW, Not in the DOW
by Colin Tipping

Understandably, people everywhere are feeling that the old paradigm has let them down. They worked hard for years and years in order to create some security for their senior years and for their children and now they see it melting away. They are losing their jobs, their homes, their pensions and savings. They feel angry and betrayed about the American Dream having been shown to be just that – a dream.

Is this how you are feeling? I don’t blame you. You are entitled to be angry and, as usual, I encourage you to feel it. There is no doubt that the future looks very bleak for many of us. That is, unless we begin to see it differently. How?

Well, how about putting a new paradigm to the test? After all, what better time than now to try embracing the possibility that you can attract money to you through the Law of Attraction using the technology of Radical Manifestation?

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In previous articles I have said that you can either stay transfixed by the apparent reality of the situation and remain a victim of it, or you can see it differently and rise above it using Radical Forgiveness. Well, now that it’s come down to issues of everyday financial survival, you have a similar choice. You can either struggle with whatever financial misfortune strikes, if it should happen, and do the best you can in the circumstances, or you can once again rise above it by shifting your belief system.

The easiest and most immediate way to do this is by using the tools of Radical Manifestation. If you spend some time using these tools you can either avert a financial crisis that might otherwise be in the making, or get yourself out of one if it has already happened. These tools are so powerful in themselves; you don’t even have to believe in the idea that you can attract abundance simply through activating the Law of Attraction. They work in spite of you.

I argued in my book, Radical Manifestation, The Fine Art of Creating the Life You Want, that money has no inherent value. It only has value if it represents something of actual worth that people can and want to buy. Banks around the world have just woken up to this fact and they have been utterly humbled by the experience. Investors who bought instruments of debt from these banks have also just realized that there was no real value attached to them, and they are livid about it. So much for the old paradigm!

I also argue that money is energy. Since energy doesn’t die, we could argue that there is just as much energy (money) in the system today as there was a few weeks ago. I mean real money, not the funny money the ‘too-clever by-half’ boys on Wall Street concocted with their computers in the giant Ponzi scheme that fooled the world and has just unraveled like a sweater made of overcooked spaghetti. No, I mean money that represents something of actual value.

That money is still there, in the system somewhere just sloshing around with nowhere to go. No one quite knows what to do with it at the moment, that’s all. So perhaps we don’t really have a crisis, except in our minds. The money just needs to be moved around the system in a different way now, that’s all. But not by conventional means, by which I mean taking us into recession and creating the necessary balance that way. No, my argument is that if money is just energy, then let’s use an energetically-based system like Radical Manifestation to move it where it needs to go. The best way to move money in your direction is to use the energy of mind to attract it to you. Like attracts like.

It’s like electricity running through a wire. It moves only when there is a difference in polarity between the two ends of the wire. One end is positive and the other is negative. Electrons are negatively charged so they are attracted to the negative pole and repelled from the positive pole. That immediately puts them in motion, moving in accordance with the Law of Attraction. Using that analogy we can say that if money is simply the manifestation of Universal Energy, it too will move towards that which attracts it. Why not let it be YOU?

My advice then, as far as surviving and prospering through what looks like being a major breakdown worldwide (perfect, of course, in the spiritual sense as explained last month) is to continue using the tools of Radical Forgiveness to stay out of the blame game and going to Victimland, PLUS making good use of the tools of Radical Manifestation to bring you all that you need. Remember the formula:

Radical Forgiveness + Radical Manifestation = Radical Empowerment.

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Colin Tipping, is the acknowledged authority on the application of this technology to the “healing” of individuals, families, races, corporations, and communities. Please go to www.radicalforgiveness.com to learn more about Colin and other Radical Forgiveness strategies.

When Your Body Thinks Its Christmas… An Internal Party!


I was finishing up breakfast this morning when I heard my body talking. Apparently I had a little party going on inside…

First, let me set the stage that prompted this outrageously chatterish outburst:
For breakfast, I ran out into the yard and picked some late fall chives, they were nice and wet with morning dew. I added it to two free range eggs, a little cheese, ghee, and added whole wheat toast with raspberry jelly. Raw milk on the side. I do this every morning as part of a healthy dedication to my body and all that it does for me.

After I was finished with my breakfast I wondered if I should take some turmeric. And all of the sudden, my body just started talking… here is the dialogue… in a high pitched little girl in glee voice…

“Oh its just like Christmas morning! I got these eggs full of lecithin and omega 3 and I can send that to the heart for healthy lubrication, I’ll send the protein down middle for sustained energy… I think I’ll save some of that nourishing protein for the thyroid which can set my hormones a little straighter. Jelly with toast…OK some simple sugars, I’ll burn those off this morning and send whatever fiber is left downstairs. Whats this? Green chives I thought the season was over for that? OK we can sweat a little today and get rid of some toxins. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Wait till she sees what I do to her organs today!

Oh all the things I will give her today its like Christmas morning in here!

And whats this you want to give me some TURMERIC?!??!?! Oh my stars! That will just top me off today with those achey shoulders… it will turn my blood a rich brown yellow and cleanse my blood – I can do so much organ repair with that! What on earth did I do to deserve this? I am so loved! I am love! I am vibrating love!”

In seeing clients, so many people throw “whatever” down the hatch, whether its a drunkin’ donuts iced coffee, a white bagel with butter, a Nutri-grain bar. In making this rather risky post of an honest body conversation between an herbalist and her body, I’m hoping to exhibit that what we put in does directly relate to our physical health. If we expect command performance of our bodies, we should want to put the right fuel into it. Of course I cheat sometimes, its not an altruistic preaching kind of thing. Anyway – I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my body. I’m happy to share this little dialogue with you…

Then there was that time I ate at a Japenese restaurant with curry and cayenne spiced chicken… ahem…crackle pop… now thats a conversation I’ll spare you from!

Are You Sick of the Media Creating Widespread Panic? Bailouts, Villains, E-coli, OH MY!

red clover

OK I think we can all agree that the media is negative. TV News is always going to tell us about “the plane crash with a gleam in their eye.” With the upcoming election, the economic issues, and the “mortgage crisis” as they call it, the media is having an emotional field day with our sense of security, optimism and general well being.

Most of the time we choose to ignore this negativity. However, at the mention of a $700 billion dollar buyout, I will admit, it caught my attention and I decided I had better see what was going on “out there.”

Red Clover Flower Essence is designed to allow us to understand what is going on in the world, but not get caught up in the fear and drama that others like to spin into it.

A classic example was on September 11th. The news spun this as “we are under attack!” We were startled as a whole community, spurred to fear, and acted out in anger. We fought to get our control back of our security by going to war. And each politician voted the war in. It was a matter of national security! Our entire country was rocked with fear as the media spun and spun and spun until we were all convinced that there were evil lurkers out there. Now matter how you look at September 11th and the war, Red Clover is an effective tool to keep other’s influence out of your psyche so that you can perceive situations in your own way. It prevents social psychic infection.

If you are reeling from the recent events in the news, or your bank accounts have been affected, or your savings are dropping – use Red Clover Flower Essence so that your Spirit can STOP buying into the fear. The more you watch these news stories and feel fear, the more that reality will effect you. It helps you to stand in YOUR center of truth. Please email me with any questions you may have.

Bee Medicine – It Takes a Village


I was having some energy work done yesterday when a big ol’ bee buzzed by my ear and through the kitchen. He was humungous, and out in October no less?! I thanked him for haulng his cold body up by my head in the cold kitchen to bring me a message not unnoticed.

So I’ve been studying up on Bee Medicine & Bee Totems and will draw bee on one of my blank medicine cards to add to my hand-drawn, hand-intuited cards as part of my Medicine Cards deck by Jamie Sams.

BEE MEDICINE
In Cherokee: (wadulisi nvwati)

MEANING: Hard Work, Community, Communication

Bee People are learning to be diligent, industrious and to work cooperatively within their own community. Bee may have come to you regarding the community of your family, co-workers or humanity.

Bee serves a very important purpose for the environment as a whole by pollinating flowering plants; therefore they are called pollinators, which means they transfer pollen from the stamen of a flower to the tip of the flower. Their treat is the nectar within the plant. Their role is vital to the environment. There are some types of bees that may be solitary, although most bees live in various sorts of communities (families). The most advanced colonies are found among the honeybees and stingless bees.

When Bee medicine grabs your attention it is reminding you to work within your community or family and to do your part. Bee is a hard-worker and each Bee is dependent on the next to support the entire hive community. Bee is mostly concerned with the needs of her intricate hive family. The bee community runs easily and effortlessly due to the perfected communication between all of its members by way of the “waggle dance” or “dance language.” Bee will communicate what she has found in the flowering plants to other bees in order to recruit worker bees of the hive to forage in the same area.

Bee’s message is about communication, working hard and doing your part to aid the community in which you are a part. There is reward for such hard work, which is enjoying the fruits of your labor . . . Nectar!
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THE BEES DISAPPEARED TO MAKE US LOOK CLOSER
The bee energy totally makes sense as I’m in my numerological Year #3 (year of the social butterfly) and just moved into farm country where you can’t go 100 feet without borrowing a tractor or swapping eggs for salsa.

The bee energy reminds me of the recent government bailout. Working as a community is the way things used to work before the wars and the industrial revolution. Since then, wee have moved to a more commercial Wall St. scenario, where the people paying the money for work, are not associated with the beeworkers at all. The bees are merely slaves to the people paying the money. Is it any wonder that the bees have disappeared, died, fallen victim to virus… just as the people have in this modern economy? Was the phenomenom of the bee villages dying off in large amounts, disappearing, and disbanding – a foretelling of what was to happen to the village of the people?

I’m watching how the world evolves through the bailout and the falling out of money… it was depicted in the Mayan Calendar that the Modern Banking System would collapse by the year 2012. Were the bees trying to send us this message?

I think communal living will be a large part of the transition our economy is undergoing, and am planning the gardens next year accordingly – half herbs, half food. I have already planned to swap the food for eggs from my friend Dianne (Goat Mommy) who I met last week.

I feel strongly, as many other women I have talked to recently, that it is time to open back up to each other, for the sake of survival. When I make a neighbor a friend, you can’t believe the joy they feel in that, like they have been sequestered to silence for a thousand years. Whether its a virtual neighbor, an email buddy, or a physical neighbor – it is time to reach out.

A Vote of Confidence from AA Radzekiel

“Don’t take anyone else’s definition of success as your own” ~ Jaqueline Briskine

Here is Angelyn’s channeling today from ArchAngel Radzekiel:

“My dear ones, you are the greatest success story ever written and we are so proud of you. Every moment is a moment to cherish for you have succeeded. It is pure wonder that you reach for more. You want more; you are more. Look within that which is you and see that your success comes from being who YOU are; and accomplishing that which makes you happy; not what someone sets out for you, says that you can do. You are perfect in everyway; everyday. Look to the success that you already are. Achieve all that is in your heart to do. You can never fail.”
~ Blessings, AA Radzekiel

This message was channeled by my dear friend Angelyn, the Mystic Angel, and yes I DO believe in angels.

What Did I Harvest? Medicine, Food & Friends

Each year the harvest is different. Isn’t it amazing? Every year I load my shovel into the trunk like the stealth hunter, put on my hunter’s cap and scan roadsides and forests as I drive everywhere. I shout out what I see just the way my grandmother used to, and anyone who happens to be with me may flinch a time or two! Hey, harvesting is what I live for!


I was gifted Evening Primrose in profusion! Just what my breasts need! Yummy breast health! I dried some to make tea. This year, I had planned to find elderberry, joe pye weed and boneset – but as usual, Mama had different gifts in mind for me. This is what makes every year so exciting!


Quite often, I won’t find the herbs that I had in my mind. The herbs that my body needs will just appear. They do not disciminate where they appear either!!! See my “Hands on hips” at this gigantic burdock growing in a place where I won’t harvest as there are automobiles and shed runoff. What a queen burdock that is! I will look for her babies next year to harvest… which will probably be in the middle of the swamp about 10 feet away.

sheep sorrel
I once had a woman call me looking for Sheep Sorrel. She wanted me to pull it out of the apothecary and tell her what color it is. I said – its a lighter green. She didn’t want it, she wanted it to be red – red with flowering tops! So this year I harvested both the leaf and the flower… but I don’t think there is any such thing as red sheep sorrel, unless you freeze dry it still on the root. Sheesh. The flowers dried to a color as pictured. Its funny how much pungent a person needs to be pungent! Its kind of like my son’s quest to find the sourest candy – how sour do you need it to do the trick? In nature, a little sour goes a long way, and sheep sorrel is very sour (pungent!)

NOW THINGS GET FUN – The Friends Part!

My friend Carla sent me black walnuts in fresh green state from South Dakota, so I gained some major medicine there! When I placed the hulls into the vodka, the mixture turned almost black in a matter of five minutes. THAT is medicine! My fingernails were stained brown and each day they became darker, until I had to trim them down as the oils clearly were in the nailbed. Incidentally, while working with this tincture, which is an extremely potent anti-fungal, my toenail (infected with fungus) fell off the next day. Isn’t that amazing? Scientifically impossible some would say! And yet it happened. My Mom witnessed the whole thing in case “leading experts” want to inquire!


Another friend Bert let me dig Valerian from her garden. Bert is a very good gardener, and she could lick you in a game of herbal folk names, she knows her stuff! She will tongue tie, or even hog tie any herbalist who tries to tell her different. Wooh!

She was very upset that Valerian had taken over her garden. I asked her if she slept well, and she said ‘yes, of course, why would I have any trouble sleeping?!’ (hahaha). Look at that big coffee in her hand in late afternoon – go Valerian! Bert is one of my most favorite friends, full of wisdom. Full of P&V too!


I was on my way to a greenhouse 1/2 off perennial sale one day and stopped by my friend Annies over in Henniker, and she gifted me a huge bough of Comfrey as well as Oregano, Catnip, and my old tangy friend Hyssop. Thanks Annie! Annie is an awesome gardener and is one of my most wild friends! I swear I can hear her howling in her pine grove from here sometimes. She is a kindred spirit. ;)

So this year I was able to harvest some very good medicine. But I also tended my garden of life with good friends and spirit. Swapping plants and sharing bounty is the way she wanted it, don’t you think? I’ll be sending my friend Carla some Poke tinc back in South Dakota in exchange for her magical black walnuts.


Next Year? Bwa ha ha and Voila! My DH just tilled a 30 x 16″ plot, and I will spend this winter dreaming and planning and drawing what jewels I will envision in this space! Last year this space produced yellow dock, celandine, evening primrose, red clover… which mostly housed birds for the summer. Can I order that in rows please Mamma? I got them all ready for you!

Please Welcome New Artist Michelle Johnson

full to bursting
I love the way Michelle captures the moon and female energy on the canvas. She experiments with lots of different media and shares the joy she finds in doing so along the way. She is a treasure to be cherished with her wit, wisdom and charm. If you visit her blog, you will see what I mean – She is NOT JUST a Housewife! She is hilarious and fun, and she tells it like it is. An opinionated Wise Woman of many accomplishments!

Enjoy perusing her gallery.