The snake is the symbol of kundalini rising. Here is a cool video that illustrates it:
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Snake represents TRANSMUTATION in the Medicine Cards
Snake medicine people are very rare. Their initiation involves experiencing and living through multiple snake bites, which allows them to transmute all poisons, be they mental, physical, spiritual or emotional. The power of snake medicine is the power of creation, for it embodies sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction and ascension (or immortality).

The transmutation fo the life -death-rebirth cycle is exemplified by the shredding of Snake’s skin. It is the energy of wholeness, cosmic consciousness, and the ability toe experience anything willingly and wihtout resistance.

NO WONDER I SCREAM!
Enjoy Summer’s Surprises!

Wendy

Did you know if you drop just a few drops of Rose Geranium Essential Oil on your dogs collar, it will repel ticks all summer long? Keep re-applying every week or so if the scent becomes too faint. Ticks HATE Geranium.

Did you also know that FRONTLINE and other tick repellent medicines are PESTICIDES?!?!?!?! Don’t poison your doggie this summer, try this natural altenrative that is harmless to your dog and to the environment. (You may have noticed your dog become lethargic after applying these pesticide based medicines in past summers).

This oil is only $13.95 for 10ml - it will last years and years. Get it now >>

Wendy

Well I did the thing that you never think yourself careless enough to do.

I stepped on the rusty old nail. When it happened, it didn’t hurt at all, my brain just said “you just stepped on a nail”. I was carried over the threshold into the house, with blood gushing out, my sock quickly turning from white to red.

My shoe, still standing on the nail, was able to tell me that the nail went 2″ in. GOD! The plank was under leaves and the nail was maliciously sticking itself up just waiting and waiting… like a spindle on a wheel or a poison apple…

Cleared the kitchen counter and threw myself up there, hefting my foot over the sink - first reach was Goldenseal tincture right into the wound, then right into the mouth. Didn’t mind the taste at all when usually it makes me flail and flince like a flounder. Next I am furiously reading through
Matthew Wood’s Book of Herbal Wisdom - tetanus, tetanus, tetanus (I have not
had my tetanus shot) - and its in the index… Plantago Major. Good for blood poisons. OK! Plantain tincture, directly into the puncture, then down the hatch. The tincture burned into my foot, “JESUS!”, well at least I know I’m not in shock anymore and now I am beginning to feel the pain. The stinging told me it went all the way into the wound, sometimes the things that hurt the most are the best for us… After that, we couldn’t find the Hydrogen Peroxide, so straight vodka over the whole wound.

Next comes bandaging issues. I used Carolyn Kelley’s First Aid Powder to make that “herbal skin” in order to close the puncture wound as infection free as
possible. I know her powder has Goldenseal in it so used that each time I
changed the band-aid.

Now the hole is just a scab and the inside of my foot is still tender, I
have no red lines indicative of tetanus. I am definitely staying alkalized
with teas and green foods right along to ensure nothing starts inside.

I did confirm later that Michael Moore recommends Hydrastasis as a standard for puncture wounds (Goldenseal).

I am still watching it and nursing the foot. It slowed me down for sure
which may have been what I needed, something worse could have happened.

That’s the LONG version!

Adventures in Herbalism and Life… affirming my bodily existence in many ways!

New watercolors presented by Marilyn Wyzga. Marilyn is a teaching naturalist and works in our NH State Wildlife Department. She is a valued part of our environmentalist’s community and is involved in hands on wildlife and conservation efforts. Her other new images include Light in Fox Forest, Little Kiah Island Autumn, and Little Kiah Island Summer.
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A Psychic Vampire is a person who wants to interact with you to extract good energy. They envoke pity, sympathy, and understanding from you on a constant basis. Or it could be that they want to make you feel bad so that they can feel good, which could involve berating and belittling comments.

Some of us can slip into these behaviors as we are human, sometimes we do need our friends to help us feel better. A psychic vampire does this more than is normal, it is someone who chronically sings the same story every time you run into them. They can be toxic, and they will steal your good energy if you don’t recognize what they are doing.

In this mature new year 2008, we can spot these people easier and easier as we communicate and define what is really going on here. On some level, we recognize that they do not have our best interests in mind, that they do not make us feel good, and that they aren’t truly our friends. They simply use us to make themselves feel better. They are simply short on love and its up to you to decide how much “blood” you want to give them before you set a boundary.

Here’s a great article by Dr. Judith Orloff about the different kinds of vampires, and some great ways of stopping their negative drain on your positive energy. Instead of joining in the pity party, learn some techniques to turning the situations around.
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Hail 2008!
2008 is going to be great just as soon as I get through this.. pile of… shmoo…..

I want to share something I learned this past year about clutter - whether its unanswered emails, piles of to-do’s, laundry piled up in the basement, or an overstuffed closet - in most cases, these piles are a representation of INDECISION.

Before I ring the new year in, I am set to rigorously separate my Pile of Indecision into a various forms of action necessary to clear my clutter and clear my mind.

These piles are energetic distractions to getting to the things that matter (my blog for instance?). From a metaphysical standpoint, these piles of things waiting for my energy are blocking a flow of good energy, they are bad feng shui, and they’re simply depressing! At the root of this pile lies the culprit, indecision.

Keep smiling, keep laughing. And thanks for reading.