Pine, Apricots & Thistle

Last week I gathered some pine and cones for incense making...

Some apricots to eat, dry for snacks later, and cook for pancake sauce & jam making, whole dried pits as ingredients for love charms, healing poppets, abundance spells, and dried kernels for soap making, moisturizer and sugar scrubs. 

And thistles and their flowers to dry for secret magickal constituents.

The Return: A Guest Post by Lunazul Rosa

Thank you Lunazul Rosa for sharing this beautiful poem and song here.

The Return

It is true when they say

I’m a child of the Sun.

Mother Olmec Father Toltec Sister Aztec,

Mexica sings you a song:

Look at me front and center

Look at me feathers and all

Look at our corn that is Blue

Look at our blood that is strong.

It is true when they said that they killed us

It is true when we couldn’t hold on

But look at me now when I sing here

Look at me dance to this song.

It is true when they said that they killed us

Now it’s true that I’m singing this song.

This heart that is here is eternal

This heart that is here has Returned.

It is true when they say

I’m a child of the Sun

It is true when they say we are strong.

Here’s a verse from the sea that’s forever

Here’s a dance from the peaks that is Tlaloc

Here’s the tears that were shed in the fire

Here’s the love from the skies that we honor…

To the Sun and the Moon that sustain us

To the ancients that never forgot us

It is true when they say that they killed us

It is true, now you see, we’ve Returned

With a song that belongs to the rivers

With this blood that belongs to the world.

It is true that you see I am here now

It is true, now you know,

I’ve Returned.

Lunazul Rosa

Lunazul Rosa follows a Shamanic path, has a BA in English Literature and lives in Seattle, WA.

Spiritually Correct- Guest Post by Annelise Bjørka Gede

Thank you Annelise for sharing here. I now have a new word for my vocabulary. ~SRW

Spiritually Correct. 

A concept I made up because I`m knee deep in it. 

It`s everywhere. 

That arrogant and brutal "be positive and grateful"-ideology of our time, made by the well-
adjusted to serve the well-adjusted. 

Who, in their relatively good lives, can rest assured that they must be "thinking the right way" and on good standing with the Universe, which "wishes them well".


The perfect way for the well-adjusted to shut up those in hell talking "negative". 

Not allowed! 

Taboo! 

Be positive, damn it!!

This strange mix of kvantum (quantum) mechanics and fairy tales. 

"We are what we think." 

"We create our own reality." 

"Life is a fairy tale, a "process." 

"All ends well." 

We live happy and enlightened ever after once we`ve slain the dragon.

Likewise all of us losers with rotten lives can kick ourselves further into hell knowing our bad lives are simply our own fault because our thoughts are "wrong". 

Nothing to do with our lives, traumas, experiences. 

Oh no, we simply think wrong.

In grateful land you see bloody but always positive and smiling traffic victims, laughing bereaved, eternally grateful beggars. 

Life is good in grateful land.

Annelise Bjørka Gede is a former journalist and follows a Shamanic path. She lives in Denmark.