Healing Paths

09/13/2024

06/28/2023

Fresh Yarrow tincture

Look for yarrow growing in fields and meadows. Harvest only the wild white yarrow. And harvest on a sunny day, in the middle of the day if possible, so the yarrow is strongly scented. For tincture, the flowering tops are the best. (For salves, the larger, lower, basal leaves are preferred.)
I usually cut the top three or four inches of each yarrow plant, doing my best to allow the stalk to reflower by cutting just above a leaf node. I use the stalk, leaves, and flowers in my tincture.
Using scissors, I cut the yarrow stalks and flowers into pieces and fill a jar with them. Then I add 100 proof vodka right up to the top. Lid it tightly. Stick on a pretty label with at least the name of the plant and the date. And wait. The tincture is ready to use in six weeks.

I spray yarrow tincture on my ankles to repel ticks.
I spray it all over myself to repel mosquitoes.
I spray yarrow tincture on wounds and bug bites.
I spray it on my toothbrush and use it as a deodorant.

Yarrow tincture has many more uses. How will you use yours?

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05/15/2023

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story.
Because hers is where yours begin.

~ Mitch Albom

[Art: Garis Edelweiss]

04/06/2023

"The one who awakens shines with a radiance of spirit. Come out and shine like the moon, but first quiet yourself. Quiet the mind, tend the heart, and come back to yourself. Let what is beautiful in you have space to be heard and listened to, and blossom." – Jack Kornfield ✨🌕✨

01/23/2023

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07/10/2022

It is said that before entering the sea, a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has travelled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean, because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.

~ Khalil Gibran 💚

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04/05/2022

03/19/2022

JOURNEY OF THE SOUL

One of the qualities that you can develop, particularly in your older years, is a sense of great compassion for yourself. When you visit the wounds within the temple of memory, you should not blame yourself for making bad mistakes that you greatly regret. Sometimes you have grown unexpectedly through these mistakes. Frequently, in a journey of the soul, the most precious moments are the mistakes. They have brought you to a place that you would otherwise have always avoided. You should bring a compassionate mindfulness to your mistakes and wounds. Endeavor to inhabit the rhythm you were in at that time. If you visit this configuration of your soul with forgiveness in your heart, it will fall into place itself. When you forgive yourself, the inner wounds begin to heal. You come in out of the exile of hurt into the joy of inner belonging.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara
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County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

02/05/2022

Love it!

01/31/2022

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

~ John O'Donohue 💚

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01/02/2022

Just beautiful...

11/18/2021

“I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.”
Mary Oliver

Gaston Bussiere - The Celtic Princess, 1911.

10/09/2021

"The Universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related." ―Thomas Berry

Photo and leaf art: Deepak Joshi

09/08/2021

Once again Mary Oliver’s words strike a chord!

My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect?
Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
Which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.

~ Mary Oliver 💚

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08/31/2021

We should be so giddy!

Dawn-giddy birds chirp as if every morning is a special occasion. Wise, wise birds.
~ Terri Guillemets

~ Art by Karen Fields

07/22/2021

I love the ocean 🌊

07/08/2021

This rings true for me.

Strictly speaking, nobody has ever "healed" anyone, ever.

A true "healer" simply remains present. She provides a safe Field in which unfamiliar and intense energies can be felt and move to completion, bound-up and unconscious emotions can be released into the warm light of Awareness.

In such a Field, we can come out of time, together, out of the drama of thought and the chaos of My Life, and we can breathe into our aching bodies, taste the simplicity of a brand new moment on Earth, fall into our own cosmic power.

Healing is not a destination, then, nor a special ability in the hands of a gifted few, it is a surrender into That which is already healed, already whole, beyond the healer and the healed - our true nature, the Oneness of all life, the sheer rightness at the core of things.

Healing is never far away, for the Field is never far away; it has lived in your very own Heart, ever since you were a child.

~Jeff Foster

art: Jackie Morris

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06/27/2021

Join us at our virtual Symposium: “Wisdom Across the Ages ~Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas” July 16-18th. Register at symposium.womenandMyth.org. ASWM member discount $185, non-members $250.

06/23/2021

For my doctoral research I interviewed people from around the world who were doing dreamwork when confronting a life-threatening illness. What the results showed is that dreamwork is a spiritual practice and in that way it is healing. Dreamwork is soul work.

06/19/2021

This has been my lifelong philosophy.

03/27/2021

Artist, writer, performer, traveler, thriveologist, muse, and all 'round badass

03/17/2021

So very true!

02/15/2021

"The idea of planting trees as a ritual creates an opportunity for people to be in touch with the earth, while also being in touch with each other, to be more present in the moment while planting the living, breathing forest of the future. One of the functions of a ritual is to bring the mind and the heart together. And the planting of even a single tree can create the opportunity for that to happen for more than one person. And if the planting of each tree can be done in a prayerful way, if the sapling is placed in the earth with a gesture of unity, if the young and the old are involved together, if the ritual is open minded and open hearted, so that everyone is invited to participate, then rituals of tree planting can be a living language for saying that we are all in this together.

We may hold different views or different beliefs. But we are all in the same story together. And feeling that, and knowing it body and soul, can be a medicine, an antidote for the unavoidable sense of sometimes feeling overwhelmed or discouraged in the face of what can at times seem like impossible tasks. For the danger is not only that the ecosystems collapse, but also that before we reach the point of disaster, human imagination fails to function, and we all fall out of the living story of the world. The instinctive idea of planting trees is not simply a literal strategy for cleansing the atmosphere and reducing carbon. Rather, it can be a creative and healing way for people to connect to the sacredness of life and the ever-living story of the earth."

- Michael Meade