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July 19, 2013

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Apis & Urtica & boys and cats and stuff...
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This past week I put a honey super on my one hive that overwintered and withstood the great bear attack of 2017, which took down two hives. I love bee priestessing and being with the magical creatures. I started prepping my new top bar hive too. New colonies come next Sunday. -
Then I went to harvest a load of #nettle and I gotta tell you, I felt so empowered out there. I was singing and thinking to myself: I’m a badass, I can gather my own food, and sing songs of offering and gratitude, and #beepriestess and be well. It was a natural high and the sun was shining. It was just right. -
Then my baby turned 15. 15 you guys. 15. And he loves his cat. And he loves his brother. And I love them all. Love love love
#thisisjustmylifenow #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #feralambrosialstrange #cauldronandhivecroft #beehive #bee #apiary #apis #urtica #birthdayboy #love

Local Witches! 🧙🏼‍♀️
I’m hosting a Swept Away Broom Making Workshop at my house on Tuesday April 17, 6-9pm, with @ladyursus and @thewomanwhomarriedabear ! 🧙🏼‍♀️
We will make hand brooms and herbal smoke bundles, learn about cleaning magic, as well as ritual smoke and mist space-clearing, all while discussing the energetics of crafting and cleansing. Herbal tea will be involved. All supplies included. 🧙🏼‍♀️
DM me if you’re local enough to attend and I’ll give you payment details and directions. A handful of spots remain to be claimed! 🧙🏼‍♀️
Images also by @zohn_mandel and @giantgroundsloths , thank you!

Friends! Witches! Women! Artists! Makers! Creative Kindreds! *

I just added a new offering page on my website to share the news that there is ONE spot left for my France Makers Residency this summer (when the sunflower fields are in FULL bloom!)! *

It’s for those of us edge walkers who walk the both/and line: both freedom and devotion, both wild and reverent, both sacred and profane. *

You can get allllll the juicy details over there so check out the link in my bio and see the offerings tab on my site to claim the spot! *

There will be 12 of us total and 11 of us are already having a wicked good time, cackling in cahoots, over our giddy plan making and wanderlust adventure shenanigan exploration! We will spend time in the studio being tenacious and focused and time in far flung wild abandon being cosmic day tripper dreamers. Many of us are extending our time in the south of France to explore sanctuary and pilgrimage sights, ie, Lourdes, Mary Magdalene’s caves, also flea markets, artisans, hot springs and so much more. Come join us! * ( p.s. this first photo is me at a flea market on Friday night. My buddy @michellemcclinn had the goods! Another perfectly imperfect ship to join the other one I got from her 6 years ago, a men’s vintage silk tie scattered with roses, and a huge bark cloth curtain panel covered in blue florals and SPIDER WEBS!! Never seen anything quite like it and I’ve been hunting vintage for a looooooong time! I wonder what I’ll find in the south of France?! What will YOU find?!) #france #southoffrance #southfrance #durfort #toulouse #carcassone #makers #makersresidency #makersgonnamake #lavender #sunflower #castle #fleamarket #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #fuckyeah

blessed Ostara, friends. Yay, its Spring!

i'm still working on making these Mary rattles rattly enough for us to party down with as we do our shamanic witchcraft work. someone said my favorite one, with the spiral face, was scary and then i promptly accidentally dropped her while i was glazing her and her head clean busted off. poor Mary. i'm making more and newsletter subscribers will be the first to claim them. link in bio. also, i keep dropping all the things and i am now blaming it on perimenopause. and my eyesight is rapidly degrading. perimenopause, thanks a lot.
my nettles are so delicious and i am so grateful it's nettle season. and this year they are surrounded by a field of chickweed, so its a total feast. if you didn't catch it in my stories, here is the best thing i ate all week: a layer of salt and pepper potato kettle chips, layered with pepperoncini juice sautéed nettles, layered with two perfectly fried eggs, layered with diced avocado, topped with kimchi. fucking rad dinner, dude. try it. you're welcome.
i hung some of the lorry truck decorations i brought home from India on my front porch since i don't have a truck to attach these to the outside of, like they do in India, where they have the best damn decorated, embellished, accoutremented, paraphernalia'd, brightened and adorned trucks of all time. wouldn't we all be happier if everywhere we went, rainbow colored pompoms and tassels were flying in the wind, attached to the fronts and backs of all the big trucks on the roads? i think so. yes, yes we would be happier. stale amerikans. lively up yourselves.
my one remaining beehive, after the great winter bear debacle of 2017, in which two of my hives were torn apart by non-goldilocks-like bears, is alive and well! makes me so happy. i have enough pieces left over from the fiasco to recreate another langstroth hive but i just ordered a new top bar hive, which i'm so super stoked about, and two 3lb packages of carniolan bees with queens. even after 10 years of bee priestessing, its still a thrill and wonder to befriend and tend these little creatures. yay Spring!
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Sister witches... woo wee.... once in a tropical moon it just gushes out of me. #sorrynotsorry
This is going to be a tangly rambly all-over-the-place in-all-the-right-places kinda post.
I’m so emo today and I’m totally ok with it. I just can’t hide it. And I think I like it.
I’ve been living in my bikini the last two weeks in Costa Rica while my saltwater soul and honeycomb heart have been humping the sultry earth and ✨healing✨ my autonomic nervous system.
Today I bawled my eyes out on the beach while reading Vagina by Naomi Wolf when I got to the section that explained the unique developmental trauma that many years of childhood sexual abuse experience does to the brain of a child and I could see my adult self so clearly deep in it, still, and holy shit it packed a wallop. Wtf?! I’m floored and aghast on sooooo MANY levels but for starters: a.) how in THE FUCK am I only now reading this book?!?! (wading into the deep end of divine timing), b.) how is this not required reading for every single PERSON on the planet, like, can’t kids in sex ed classes be required to read this, and their parents, and their parents therapists too?! Or how about the fucking predatory fake president?! Can he read it? Cuz he need to!, c.) I might now need to become a scientist, or a doctor, or a whatever you have to be to make a spectacular career out of just one of the multiplicitous trails of nashing curiosity that arise as you read and formulate chapters of hypothesis and experience cavernous wonder about the health of a holy vagina and how it effects ones developing and maturing mental health and how the amazing brain is effected or defected and what that indicates for one creatively, emotionally, spiritually, socially, SEXUALLY, and, well, what that indicates about...everything, [continued in comments.]

Ahhhhh Costa Rica YES Please and Thank You
#costarica #santateresa #malpais #puravida #bueno

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i’ve got India on my mind while i’m over here busy bein’ free. *
which means packing a suitcase to travel again because when everything’s beautifully burned to ashes over the last two years, what’s left for one to do?
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#india #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia #feralambrosialstrange #natureofmygame #loveswhatigot #varanasi #deogarh #squad #amberfort #cottoncandy #pomegranate #jagatshiromanitemple #hindu #hindutemple #temple #lofi #pleasebevegetarian #avoidalcohol #portal #sunrise #stationmaster #rotaryphone #railway #broom #sweep

It’s Imbolc, it’s Brigit, it’s Candlemas!
Hurray!
It’s a day to “throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” (Anaïs Nin)

While I was in Varanasi and Jaipur, the ancient and traditional Hindu seasonal celebration of Makar Sankranti was occurring. This gorgeous kite festival occurs every January, marking the first day of the transit of the sun (Surya) moving northward from Makara (Capricorn, The Goat), into Winter Solstice in its solar cycle. Commemorating the beginning of the harvest season, tribute is paid to the sun by flying these bright and colorful kites all over the skyline from rooftops and ghats. It’s an incredible site to behold and one I will never forget.
Both Imbolc and Makar Sankranti mark the suns growing strength. The days are growing longer and I see signs of spring in my blooming hellebores. This makes me giddy even while I’m still regaining strength from being so ill. Spring is coming and I’m throwing my dreams into space like a kite. Yes. (Last photo by @kolleenharrison_ )
#india #varanasi #jaipur #makarsankranti #kite #kiteflying #goflyakite #wintersolstice #capricorn #makar #makara #imbolc #brigit #candlemas #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #feralambrosialstrange #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia

We are so fucking lucky!
Friends, I’m about to pee my pants with excitement that @addyeb_art will be joining @alisha_sommer and I at our Fever Dreams Collective gathering in Sonoma in April. A’Driane will be guiding a session, helping us hold down the fort, and giggle-snorting and dance partying with us all along the way. I’m so stoked, and guess what, there are still 4 spots left so if you need a spring time fling with other dreamers and creative kindreds, reach out.
At our lush and moody gathering we will explore, study and investigate the constellations of, and intersections among: writing, aesthetics, handcrafting, ideologies, mythologies, photography, poetry and nature. We will examine and unravel the obscure and ordinary dialects of Makers, Dreamers, Writers, Activists, Poets, Naturalists, and Photographers while honing our literacy for vivid magic and unhurried mystery. Come be with us.
Link in bio!
#feverdreamscollective #magic #mystery #lush #moody #sonoma #california #westerbekeranch #thevalleyofthemoon #valleyofthemoon #gigglesnort #danceparty #makers #dreamers #writers #activists #poets #naturalists #photographers #constellations #intersections #maketomend #makersgonnamake #feralambrosialstrange

Me, myself, and I ... plus Her.
India.
She took me downtownCharlieBrown, with not one, but two, hotel room visits from helpful Indian doctors who prescribed everything from life saving western allopathic meds to IV hydration and chest X-rays. I made it back to the PNW by the skin of my teeth and never before had I both wanted to get home so fucking bad and never leave my friends.
Speaking of friends, life ain’t no good without em, folks. Unbearable, in fact. I love mine so damn hard it hurts. I’m alive because of them.
And I’m home recuperating now. About to go see one of my local healers for a two hour massage and body work appointment. I’m coming back into the land of the living from fever delirium, hallowed hallucinations, shallow crackle breathing and extreme dehydration. I’ve much more to share about ma India. She brought me to my knees so I could count my cavernous blessings and I’ve lived to tell about so I’m going to. You betchya.
#india #varanasi #jaipur #deogarh #samode #delhi #deathsdoor #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia #sandalwooddreams #indiarail #indiatrain #indiarailway #agra #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #bringit

Women are my very favorite. Anytime. Anywhere. All of them. Everywhere. And especially in India, where they are generally so open hearted, raging with love, oozing kindness, generously gracious, naturally majestic, and stunning, simply stunning.
Thank you, inspiring beauties. You’re warm smiles, compassionate tenacity and soul melting eyes, heal me. Namaste.
#india #delhi #varanasi #samode #deogarh #indialove #loveindia #womenofindia #majestic #stunning #gracious #tenacious #women #woman #ilovewomen #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow

You’re killin me softly, Varanasi. You brought me to my knees and took my breath away, literally. What a gloriously life affirming and death affirming, mystical magical place on earth, you are. I love you. I miss you. Until we meet again, Namaste.
#india #indialove #loveindia #varanasi #varanasilove #lovevaranasi #yogi #holymen #holyman #ascetic #guru #mystic #fakir #sage #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia #sandalwooddreams

Oh, Delhi. Dehli Dehli Dehli. You captured me and enraptured me, you sweet and salty and sour old gal. Thank you, beloved. We’ll meet again soon. I promise.
#india #loveIndia #Indialove #belovedindia #dehli #lovedehli #dehlilove #beloveddelhi #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #natureofmygame #feralambrosialstrange #weeksofgriefandmystery #jansgotoindia #smileexercise #tenyearvisa #pigeoninabag #dirtyspicenose

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