Honouring Our Moon Cycles

♥ ~  Something happened and it was wonderful. I woke up one morning to find myself on my period and for once, I was happy about it (quite literally over the moon). A rarity!? There was no longer a sense of  ‘this darn thing again’; I realised for the first time, that here I was welcoming itContinue

KAMBO – Medicine of the Frog Spirit

~ Kambo frog, Phyllomedusa bicolor, lives in the Amazon basin ~ KAMBO – the secretion of a poisonous frog, applied these days to burn wounds on the body in ceremony for medicinal reasons (namely detoxification, purification and clarification). Madness, I hear you say! Upon my first hearing about this wacky ritual, my thoughts were similar.Continue

Magic of Cacao Medicina

AWAKENED SPIRIT ~ GUEST POST

Kiss of IXCacao

~ IX Cacao Stage, Cosmic Convergence Festival, photo by Selva ~ Meeting Cacao for the first time in Portugal had me melted. A heartwarming, albeit unusual experience – being used to the sugary descendant Cocoa we have around home *recovering chocoholic here*, she tasted bitter and left me glowing, as true medicine should… Two monthsContinue

Beltane Fire Festival

~ Image by ANDRZEJ SUCHODOLSKI / OSADA photography ~  BELTANE is an ancient Celtic tradition that arrives at the peak of Spring, welcoming the Summertime  glory and all the thriving life it brings along with it. A time of celebration for the abundance of nature, it welcomes the fertility of the harvest, alongside our ownContinue