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July 19, 2013

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Mary. Mary mary mary. You are a heart expanding mythic goddess to whom I belong, while learning, again and again, to belong to my own brazen self. I’ve sought you out in the southern French countryside, from hamlet, to village, to cliff side, to cave, and when I find you, I breathe deep deep deep, engorging my cellular memory with your honeyed mystery and rapturous peace. Thank you for revealing yourself to me, for dissolving my heart armor and amplifying my heart aura, for liquid stillness and proclivitous sensation, for cavernous love heavy as anchors, for earth air fire water, for your lifelong presence. I love you I love you I love you. Thank you.
#witchway #witchwork #witchcraft #mary #marymagdalene #mothermary #allthemarys #bothand #thankyou #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange #nettesmonthinfrance #brazen #goddess #witch #marie

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#france #collioure #mediterranean #mer #cotevermeille #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #vivelafrance🇫🇷 #witchway #plagesaintvincent #bougainvillea #candle #prayercandles #offering #beauty #friendship #key #keys #skeletonkey #rosary #straw #hay #hey #downspout #mail

The wonders of France...
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I’ve taken so many photos and videos! I could post 100 favorites! Everywhere I look there is beauty and awe and wonder galore. All of these captures are from my first week in France while I was skill building shamanic oracular wisdom at the incredible #apissophiaexstasis gathering where I met some incredible women. The nature and countryside around #Bordeaux is stunning and totally my speed. I can’t wait to go back next summer to host a make-to-mend, week long, mellow magic coven. Details forthcoming. Trust me. You’ll never want to leave either! -

Now I’m in Collioure, on the Côte de Vermeille, on the Mer Mediterranée, up against the Pyrenees foothills and at the end of my second week here with two more weeks to go. It’s gorgeous here too, of course. The colors and salt water and ruins and heat. I love it all. Oh, and the pastries! And the rosé! Vive la France!
#pinchme #france #cotevermeille #pyrenees #collioure #vivelafrance🇫🇷 #witchwork #witchway #witchcraft #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange

my salvation lies in MY self-love.

in my yoga class at home, sometimes this song plays with the line, “my salvation lies in your love,” and i always change the words in my head. because, no. my salvation lies in my self-love. not in your love of me. in my love. of myself. that’s where my salvation lies, lives, dwells, cocoons, and roots. i am all for me, every bit of me, for me, and only me. your love, or like, or disdain, or hate are yours to grapple with and don’t bend or break or delight or sustain me. what’s true is, my very own self-love and self-care and self-respect and self-worth are not dependent on you. my damnation or downfall is not tied to what or how you think of me. it is tied to what i think of me. and my salvation too.
i am coven’d in the heart of Acquitaine, the southern French countryside, in a gorgeous hamlet, doing deep healing shamanic work for a week in the gynocentric tradition of Path of Pollen, Melissae, and the bee priestesses of Delphi. i am here honing my feminine oracular wisdom by engaging in pythonic yonic/womb/first-brain/lower-mouth based teachings, experiences and practices, while taking timely breaks to swim outdoors and be full body sun kissed without the constraint of lycra and elastic. i am learning more about my/our beloved bees in the ancient sacred sense, as @beekeepinginskirts transmits, bees as they relate to the divine feminine, eros, honey, nectar and nektar, nymphs, prophetesses, serpents and chalices, and bees as they relate to feminism, reclaiming, reimagining and revivifying. as usual, my days are full of sweet grief and curious mystery, my nights of oracle dreams and regeneration, with lawts of writing writing writing in between. it’s epic. and this is just my life now.
next week i will move to the mediterranean coast of southern france where i will keep writing, ocean/sun bathing, rejuvenating, and stretching my wings. i’m dedicated to ascension @lizzyjeff. workin’ it.

Hi Monday friends!
I loaded the shop with what was left from my trade blanket efforts at @spiritweavers and I gave my newsletter subscribers a deep gratitude first dibs on the update like I always do (link in bio!), but there are still many sweet pieces left if you find yourself needing a new honeybee, Mary, yoni folx, or bear rattle, or a boobs butts and belly goddess mug, or a Mother Mary Holy Smokes pipe! The shop is open for about another week then it will close for a month while I galavant and frolic across southern France. Nows your chance, love lights. Come one, come all. Shop’s open!
JennetteNielsen.com/shop/

#spiritweaversgathering #spiritweavers #yoni #yonirattle #mothermary #mothermarypipe #bear #bearrattle #honeybee #honeybeerattle #goddess #goddessmug #boobsbuttsbellies #ritualtools #shamanictools #witchcraft #witchwork #makersgonnamake #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #cauldronandhive #isaidfrolic

The language of honey, bumble bees in comfrey, rose buds for stringing, the first salmon berry of the season, every type of peony from my gardens and sheep skin curing by smoke. I speak in these tongues, wayward and wild, ancestral skill building, the poetry of humble and heart struck. #awe 💜

Friends, last week was a humdinger! It began at the honey house (also a cider shack-all those boxes and the entire space is full of Jim’s insanely delicious homemade hard cider!) where I spun out all of last years honey which I had overwintered on the frames. I need those frames freed up for this years abundant bee honey magic, as the beauties I #beepriestess are gracious and giving. The bumblebees love the comfrey and I go out to watch them dance in the evenings when I gather rosebuds for stringing. The salmon berries and peonies are on, have you heard the news?!! Yep, it’s true. Favorites. And I got to smoke and cure the sheep skin I brought back from Orphan Wisdom School a couple weeks ago, one of the many from/on the farm we processed and tanned as a class of scholars and misfits, together, after every other part of the harvested animals were appreciated, consumed and employed. Beautiful perfect alchemy. Everywhere.
How was your week? Tell me something true. I love you.
#feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #hashtagblessed

our sweet friend Bella, aka @intentionblendsbybella made a gorgeously packaged bespoke oil based scent for our Fever Dreams Collective participants and it is the scent memory of that potent elixir that deliciously enraptures me and whisks me right back to the Round House on Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, to our lush and moody gathering of beautiful women, amidst blooming jasmine and bird song, and grape vines and tall grasses, to a labyrinth and laughter and delicious nourishing meals and too much decadent dessert.
Bella also sent me one of her hand blended sacred anointing oils that she had intuited would be useful and welcomed by me, and she was spot on. its called Repair Intention Blend and is shown above.
friends, i took the Repair roll-on oil blend with me to Orphan Wisdom School last week and wore it every day while soaking in the shared wisdom, glorious nature, and wild beloveds from hither and yon, on the farm and in the exquisite lecture hall. as i leaned into being there to feel more, and not (feel) better, i was grateful to be establishing a scent memory that would pivot me forever more toward my mythic ancestral work, my elderhood tutelage, my commitment to being wrecked on schedule, and to learn the art of suffering, which is a skill. this scent for me is for mending, and longing, and being alive, and grief. it's earth, air, fire and water. it's me.
Bella is for hire, y'all. she has a shop full of lovely and epic potions, as well she creates custom blends to suit your desires. reach out to her. you'll love it. i promise.
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#feverdreamscollective #repair #intentionblend #sacredanointingoils #bellacirovic #intentionblendsbybella #scentmemory #earthairfirewater

I was interviewed for The Creativity Habit Podcast!
I had the honor of speaking with Daphne @thecreativityhabit a few months ago, about my life, my creative make-to-mend process, my how and why.
I’ll admit, I cried when I listened to myself, as I reflected on how incredibly fortunate and privileged I am to be where I am in my spiral process healing making mending journey today.
Hot damn, I’ve come a long way, baby!
I’d love for you to take a listen and I’d love to hear your thoughts upon listening.
Why do you Make? What’s your Why? Do you Make to Mend? Does hand making heal you? Tell me everything.... I want to know!
Copy and past this link into your browser http://thecreativityhabit.com/project/jennette-nielsen/

Or follow the link in Daphne’s bio @thecreativityhabit , where you will find many other beautiful interviews with artists, makers, writers and more.
Thanks for listening, friends!
#maketomend #makersgonnamake #slowmaking #potter #sewing #makeallthethings #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange #thecreativityhabit #smashingrubbish

Doing All the things, Tuesday... Harvesting comfrey today using the wicker pack basket I wove with snot and tears and invoking grace at the end of my long marriage. Interesting timing, weaving a leaving vessel.
Also communed with beloved Hawthorn this past week. oh my heart, she never fails me. I harvest full branches from overgrown and untended hedgerows and the bare branches will burn in a summer solstice bon fire with other magical woods. The flowers and leaves are infused in honey once wilted and dried for tea. My baby boy is middle named after this tree and we will harvest the haws from his trees on the croft this fall.
Making more boobs and butts and bellies goddess mugs, and bee rattles and Mother Mary rattles so I have lots of items for my trade blanket at @spiritweavers in a few weeks. Whatever’s left will go in my shop right when I return and before I leave for southern France and my newsletter subscribers will be the first to know!
Our woodshed is now stocked with our winter firewood. I think this is the earliest I’ve had it situated and with my rad boys help (and then me finishing in my bikini #bikinicroft ! 🤩) it’s all done and I feel like a realdeal straightup #gentlespiritbadassmotherfucker !

I’ve been visiting my favorite devils club plants in the mossy forest and whispering loving kindness to them for the good medicine they share with me. The woods and fields and flora and fauna are just breathtaking right now in the PNW. I love it.
Leaving on a red eye tonight for my third of four sessions at Orphan Wisdom School with #stephenjenkinson as a People Come Through Rain and Rune scholar. I’m going for the deep dive, sublime and saturated. See you on the other side good people. So mote it be ✨🐝✨ #survivalplan #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #orphanwisdomschool #hawthorn #devilsclub #wicker #willow #packbasket #comfrey #honeybee #honeybeerattle #mothermary #goddessmug #cauldronandhive #cauldronandhivecroft #firewood #summersolstice #spiritweaversgathering #spiritbeavers

I returned home from our Fever Dreams Collective gathering in Sonoma almost a week ago and I’ve been quietly marinating in the magic of the exquisite experience as I re-entered the daily hustle and grind. Words won’t suffice but I’m compelled to try framing what’s been distilled and humbled and heart struck in me. -
This woman. We met online many moons ago and just met irl after two years of planning our Fever Dreams Collective gathering. Seriously, no joke. I had the audacity to reach out to her, at the beginning of my divorce, having no idea where I’d be in my life now, but didn’t let that stop me. I took the risk, figured the worst she could say is no way, and asked for creative partnership. {Always ask, friends! a wise witch taught me: when you know what you need, ask for what you want!} Alisha, I love you. Our friendship and work together heals and nourishes me. Your professionalism and old soul ways make it so super easy to collaborate. After so many google chats, to be with you in real time, was the cherry on top. I’m pleased our “conference” was/wasn’t a vortex! 😂🤩😍Thank you friend. -
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Happy Beltane, Beautiful Humans! -

I hope you get to spend some time in nature with your own wild animal self. I find it healing and necessary for my own good and well lived life. Maybe you’d like it too! ✨🌾✨ #beltane #beltaine #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #seasonalfestival #mayday #may1 #may1st #seasonalholiday #beltane2018 #spring #goddess #wheeloftheyear #magic #witchcraft #ritual #pagan #heathen #birthdaysuit #elemental #witch #thisisjustmylifenow
Images captured by my beautiful friend @hildelion 🤩

Five things Friday:
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1. When people i have care and concern for go missing or people i love get really sick, the best thing for me to do for myself, to manage my emotions and fears, is take my salty tears and terrors to the #altar of #Earth, on my hands and knees in my wild and savage gardens, and rip bind weed and shot weed out while singing good medicine songs, at the top of my lungs. -
2. A group of pnw #witches gathered at Cauldron & Hive Croft this week to make brooms with @ladyursus and @thewomanwhomarriedabear, who, btw, are rad babes and easy to love. I get off on gathering with folx to engage in healing #handwork. It’s my jam. -
3. I pressed the last of the blooming #hellebores to take to #Sonoma next week for a #FeverDreamsCollective project. Two years in the making and @alisha_sommer and @addyeb_art and I are ready to pounce. And soak up the sun #sun sun. - (cont. in comments )

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

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