Ruby (New Moon of Enthusiasm)

Ruby's New Moon of Enthusiasm

Our hearts ache with desires and longings for a connection to remain intact after our friends and loved ones have passed the veil. In those numb silent moments, when the voices of our heart and mind falls into stillness, faint whispers can be felt and heard, the reassuring messages of "I am still with you", penetrate to the core of our being where an old and ancient knowledge is sensed, that familiarity of knowing that you know without any words being needed. Like a renewed breath of fresh life, this air seems so different, something new has been added to its energies, something grand seems to explode sending new vibrations and frequencies soaring across our atmosphere, filling us with inspiration of new hopes and possibilities. It's in that split second of quickening that we know all the limitations and boundaries have been removed from our friend's or loved one's life and existence, we know without any doubt that every life experience counts and adds to the whole of All's existence and now everyone has access to that individual life experience, all the knowledge and aspirations, everything that inspired and fueled that individual life becomes available to tap into, it is our gift to each other that our stories are written in the open book among the stars where the energies of all our experiences rain down upon the Earth.  

I don't think I have ever met such an individual as Ruby, she was and is one of the most awe inspiring people I have been honored with knowing. She left me in a state of pure wonderment of pondering her enthusiasm and passion for every day life. She woke up every morning with a burning excitement of expectation toward life, but what she expected...only she can tell us. 

For Ruby, every morning was a hurried routine ritual performed with such child like eagerness, almost as if the first ray of light was sending her a message saying, "the Sun is on the way to pay you a personal visit today, get yourself ready!" And yet, after the showered, semi-formal dressed and polished routine, the breakfast eaten from fine china, the pure crystal juice glasses washed and neatly back in place, I would watch as she would take a deep breath, relax and transform into this elegant creature of grace and poise that faced the majority of her days with nothing more than common everyday occurrences and activities that we all go through...never once did that Royal elite visitor actual show up and walk over her threshold. And yet for eighty and some years, every morning was still met with this same burning hope and enthusiasm...

I was privileged to witness Ruby's last morning routine, performed only hours before the veil was raised and then slowly lowered between us, ritual performed with perfection as always. Once transformed and seated in her favorite spot, she smiled at me and said, "This is going to be an adventure!" 

On January 16th, the Lady of our first New Moon bowed down her own head to receive Miss Ruby's royal calling to usher her on in the journey past the veil.

A life well lived and a life well received.

Much love and many blessings Miss Ruby!

Sacred Seasons: The Whispers Of Autumn

Autumn, Water, Metal, Earth, Quicksilver

Farewells are always bitter sweet, the memory of pure joy and bliss of all the wondrous lush and beauty, the sweet smell of new born life as it unfolds and releases its fresh scent into the ever swirling streams of air, the baby soft down feathers fluttering about as the red and golden leafs slowly drop revealing the marvelously constructed, and yet now empty nests they had been sheltering...protection from the hot sun, winds and rains are no longer needed. Do as the trees do, as the birds take flight drop the dew of your breath upon theirs wings and send them off with blessings filled with the remembrance of the past sacred seasons happily spent together. Bid them to share the gentle touch of sweet fulfillment of longings and hopes everywhere they travel.

As the trees start to undress and prepare for a much needed rest, they drop the dew of their breath over us and whisper secret blessings upon us. The sweet fruits of red, blue and purple say, "take of me and remember the sacred waters and the sacred dust of earthy elements mixed within that course through out all our veins".  The golden fruits of yellow and orange say, "take of me and remember the sacred waters you were formed in." The Lord and Lady whisper, "remember all the ones before you, that brought you forward, remember you are the sacred fruit of the vine and the root that was fed and nourished with light from the Evergreen tree above, you were gifted by these and now carry within your own seed of light. Remember how you gently unfolded down into the living waters and was received and accepted as a most precious creation, these living waters gifted to you, your own ever filling chalice that runs over in abundance. Wherever the wings of the Morning takes you, you shall never lack or want for anything. Remember the sacred Evergreen, for he shall be with you always."

As the natural world around us pours out and gives of its last blessings for this season, we are being called into our own currents and rhythms urging us to finish our own libations and offerings of blessings to be added into the flow of sacredness toward All.  We are reminded by the Sacred Source of all rivers, that even though our side of the world is drawing within for its sacred sleep, the same life giving waters do flow eastward out of the temple, as it weaves its circuit and course in all directions rising above all elements and dropping below all elements, we have the wheel of the year that all seasons are occurring, that there is always those awakening toward the world to raise up the waters of life giving blessings. So, as you pour out your seasonal blessings, freely give back the best you have to give and know that it shall return to you within the sweet dew of the next morning season. 

Many Blessings

~Cizz

Ruth (Sacred Love)

Ruth Holcomb Powell

Aug. 10th 1941- Sept. 2nd 2017

I lift you up and cherish the gifts, lessons and message you brought to us and for us...
These most precious of all things, they can not be bought, nor can they be sold, for you brought them forward to all of us.

When I look at your hands and I search out the works of those most beautiful of hands, I can see your works, I can see that you brought forth all the ancestors of our past generations. Within the gathered assembly of your two hands, I can see my grandmother and I can sense my grandfather and I can hear all of the grands from our past. When I look at my own hands, I see you there in the midst of them. You bring to me a new sense and meaning of what it is to be a sacred speck within a grand and vast gathering, dancing, swirling and floating about within the ancient flow that brings life to all that will open to receive its flow.

You were planted under a great evergreen pine tree, a tree that never sleeps and yet it never awakens, through out all our seasons it has remained steadfast, an ever watchful, patient guardian that reminds us that there is within us a part that needs no sleep and needs no wakefulness, it lacks in no thing and therefore contains within it all things. This tree greets us with celebration at every season of our life. And its companion tree which you lay beneath is small and yet most beloved, it brings love in a sweet and simple spirit that reaches out to all that feel insufficient and insignificant. Our dogwood tree who's spirit has chosen to grow low and close to all that it holds precious and sacred...

But the sweetest things in life are always free
Like the songs the birds would sing
And the sweet new grass of spring
And the sacred blossoms on the dogwood tree

– Heartsong: Dolly Parton

It wasn't until I stood sheltered under these trees and had a sacred family secret revealed to me...

Your most beloved and favored conveyed it to me...

He said he couldn't withhold these hidden seeds, they come at no cost and they freely feed...

He proclaimed... "Aunt Ruth found favor in me!"

Then each little bird sang, "and in me", "and in me",  "and in me".... we are all favored under aunt Ruth's tree. We all received that sacred seed, by water and blood it will feed, ever flowing in the gentle touch she bestowed on me...and me..and me...

From the mouth of our smallest, sweetest little seed, she called out, "Aunt ROOF!"

She sheltered me...and me...and me...

A season well lived and a harvest well received, everyone and everything that enters under the wings of my tree, help me to remember the sacred seeds of the evergreen tree who saw it all and celebrated, one by one, the personal sacredness of "We".

  

DIY Anti-Aging Frankincense Face and Neck Cream

I recommend this cream as a night cream as it goes on wet and stages down into an oily feel, before it absorbs into a silky smooth hydrated feel. Apply to face (eye lids also!), neck and décolleté. If you want to amp up the toning anti-aging properties of this cream, put a little in the palm of your hand and mix in a few drops of rosehip seed oil.

*Please note that rosehip seed oil is a natural retinol (vitamin A) and should not be applied to the skin neat (undiluted) always buffer the essential oil into or on top of a cream before applying it to the skin.

What you will need:

*Electric hand mixer

 

• 1 tsp. cocoa butter
• 1 tsp. coconut oil
• 1tsp. bee's wax
• 1 tsp. aloe gel
• 1/2 tsp. DIY frankincense extract oil
• 1/2 tsp. vitamin E
• 1/4 cup DIY frankincense milk
• 1/4 cup carrier oil (sweet almond, safflower, grape seed, olive) 

 

Melt and stir together the bee's wax, cocoa butter, coconut oil and carrier oil in a double boiler or over low heat.

In a separate mixing bowl combine and mix the (water soluble ingredients) aloe gel and frankincense milk, once the oils and wax are melted, slowly pour the oil mixture into the milk and gel mixture as you blend on low with the hand mixer. As the cream begins to form you can up the speed of the mixer to get a creamer texture, when the cream has cooled down, use the hand mixer again to mix in the vitamin E and frankincense oil.

 

This cream does not need to be refrigerated but it is a refreshing treat when applied cold!

Beauty Witchery "Conjuring the Glam" with Frankincense

 

 

 

 Frankincense

 

We all know the most common magickal properties and uses for this wonder filled resin, from cleansing sacred items and ritual space to adding it into spell craft ingredients for raising positive energies within workings and yet this little gift from nature has many more practical and magickal uses especially when it comes to getting our natural beauty glamour witching going!

 

 

When it comes to skin care frankincense is one potent ingredient that helps to protect the skin cells, as an astringent it can aid in reducing acne blemishes, help reduce the appearance of large pores, fade scars and hyperpigmentation. It also aids in healing wounds, cystic acne, scraps and itchy inflamed skin. Frankincense oil has been used to remove skin tags, moles and warts.

 

Adding frankincense into your anti-aging creams, lotions, serums, balms and salves will give the brew a boost in tightening sagging skin, fading dark spots, smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles.   

 

 

If you're interested in learning more about this resin and its uses, here is great link:

 

Frankincense (乳香 Rǔ Xiāng; Boswellia Species): From the Selection of Traditional Applications to the Novel Phytotherapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Serious Diseases 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



DIY Frankincense Extract Oil

 

 

To make your own frankincense extract oil the resin tears need to be crushed and put through a heated water soak to dissolve the water soluble compounds (See our post on Frankincense Milk). Please note that a concentrated extract oil can not be achieved without first removing the water soluble compounds.

 

Once you have heat soaked and dried your left over resin it's time to re-crush and powder it, the easiest way to powder crush any resin is to freeze it first. If you read the frankincense milk post this post picks up from that procedure of using the left over, undissolved resin gum from two heaping table spoons of resin tears. I measure two table spoons out before I crush the resin for the milk procedure, normally the left over undissolved resin will measure about and close to half of what I started with. This resin gum is easily dissolvable in most carrier oils, as with the milk/water I warm the oil on my coffee mug warmer. I measure out 1/2 cup of the carrier oil I want to use and place the powdered resin in it, the heating time varies as I continue the warming until I can see and tell that no more residue will dissolve, usually 12 to 18 hours. The left over residue normally measures out to be about 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon. When I'm not planning on using the oil in a salve or cream I will not bother to strain out the residue. *Reminder: Use a disposable plastic spoon to stir the oil, the resin is very sticky!

 

 

 

Here is a link to Dan Riegler's blog and his post on making an extract, Dan is the go to man for resin knowledge! (and products!)

 

 

How to make an extract of Frankincense and other oleoresins

 

 

For Dan's Esty shop:

 

Apothecary's Garden

 

 

DIY Frankincense Milk (Beauty Witchery)

Frankincense milk (a.k.a. Frankincense Water) is easy to make, simply soak and/or heat the crushed resin tears in filtered (distilled or purified) water to dissolve the water soluble compounds from the resin, which leaves us with this milk white fluid and some very sticky gum resin. A quick google search (Frankincense Water) will bring up a vast source of articles on the benefits and uses of this substance.  It is said to lighten, tone, firm and tighten skin, also stimulates skin and tissue regeneration.
I use it in my face creams and body lotions. A two part milk to one part mixture with witch hazel works as a great skin brightener and toner.

 

 

The traditional way of making frankincense water is to soak 4 or 5 pieces of resin tears in water over night, but the way I make it is to add two heaping table spoons of the resin tears (crushed up after measuring) to 3/4 cup (6 oz) of water and then slowly heat on my coffee mug warmer. I warm the water and resin, stirring occasionally (with a disposable plastic spoon), for 12 hours the first day, refrigerate the water and resin mixture over night and then reheat for another 12 hours the second day (total of 24 hrs. heating).  

 

DIY Frankincense Extract Oil

 

Once the heating process is finished, while the water is warm, I spoon out all the sticky resin gum and place it on a non-stick cookie sheet to dry and harden. Then I strain the white milky water through cheese cloth or sterile gauze before I bottle it. Refrigerate the milk until ready to use, if you will not be using the milk within 7 days, it can be froze to maintain freshness.

 

 

 *Don't toss the gum resin as this can be used for making your own frankincense extract oil.







October Correspondence

October

retained its name from the Latin octō meaning "eight"

Moon Names: (Hunter's Moon/Falling Leaf Moon)

The moon of new goals, protection, resolution and spirituality. Time to reflect and evaluate the year's accomplishments. The beginning of shadow works.

Algonquian - Pepewarr (white frost one grass)

Appalachian - Blood Moon

Celtic - Harvest Moon

Colonial American - Hunter's Moon

Chinese - Kindly Moon

Cherokee - Duninhdi ( harvest moon)

Choctaw - Hash Koinchush (moon of the wildcat)

Comanche - yuba mua (fall moon)

Druid - Reed Moon 

English Medieval - Blood Moon

Hopi - Angaqmuyaw (moon of long hair)

Astrological Signs:

The Zodiac Sign Libra | Sep 24 - Oct 23

The Zodiac Sign Scorpio | Oct 24 - Nov 22

Plants, Trees, Herbs and Resins:

Allspice, Apple, Ash, Basil, Benzoin, Chrysanthemum, Cloves, Cypress, Dandelion, Dill, Dittany, Elder, Elderberries Galangal, Gardenia, Ginger, Heather, Horehound, Ivy, Mapple, Marigold, Mugwort, Mullein, Myrrh, Nettle, Oak, Opoponax, Patchouli, Pennyroyal, Pine, Pumpkin, Reed, Saffron, Sarsaparilla, Thistle, Vanilla, 

Colors:

Black, Brown, Dark Green, Grey, Gold, Maroon, Orange, Red, Dark Red

Stones and Crystals:

Agate, Aquamarine, Beryl, Bloodstone, Citrine, Coral, Garnet, Malachite, Obsidian, Opal, Rutilated Quartz, Ruby, Topaz

Animals:

Bats, Cats, Crow, Dog, Eagle, Hawk, Owl, Raven, Scorpion, Snake, Vulture 

Spell Works: Legal Matters and Court Cases

Candle Colors:

• Orange: Justice and legal matters
• Brown: Special favor
• Purple: Influence people in high positions
• Grey: Erasing, balance, neutrality, canceling, confusion

Stones and Crystals:

• Bloodstone: Legal matters
• Hematite: "Lawyer Stone", positive judgement
• Citrine: Successful outcome
• Lodestone: To draw the works/energy toward you

Oils: (For making your own oil)

• Olive oil as the carrier for peace and victory
• Sunflower oil as the carrier for protection and success
• Sweet Almond as the carrier for overcoming obstacles

Herbs:

Barberry: For atonement, cleansing, freeing oneself from the powers or control of another

Basil: To move forward in positive manner despite perilous danger.

Bay Leaf: Protection against dark/black magic

Black Pepper: Aids in courage for difficult situations

Calendula Flowers: Protection, legal matters, helps and aids justice in your favor.

Cascara Bark (Bearberry): Legal matters and to win court cases.

Celandine: Brings victory and assist in legal matters, also wards against negative energies.

Devil's Shoestring: Protection, luck and invisibility

Dill:  Wards off dark energies.

Dogwood: Grants wishes, seals, silences and hides what needs to be kept secret.

Galangal Root: Winning court cases and breaking hexes

Gardenia:  Promotes peace and repels strife

Hickory: Protection and legal matters

Hyssop: Purging negative energies, protection (Granddaddy herb for getting rid of negative workings and energies!)

Little John: Good luck in all endeavors

Marigold Flowers: Luck in court cases and legal matters.

Mimosa: Break hexes and prevent future problems

Mullein: Protection

Myrrh: Add to enhance and boost workings

Dead Nettle: To overcome obstacles, archangel Micheal protection.

Palo Santo:  Remove curses

Pennyroyal: To remove negative thoughts against you.

Periwinkle: To obtain grace

Pine: Clean breaks for new beginnings

Plantain: To remove vengeful negative energies and healing

Poppy Seeds: Invisibility 

Rose Geranium: Averts negativity, gossip and false accusations.

Slippery Elm: Halts gossip

St. John Wort: Strengthens courage and conviction when confronting nasty situations. 

Strawberry leaf: For favorable situations.

Thyme: Attracts good opinions of others.

Violet Flowers: Calm nerves and promote peace

Wormwood: To remove anger, stop war, protection against evil eye.


Products:

Just Judge Oil

Win Court Case Spell Kit

Helping Hand Oil

Law Away Oil (Conjured Cardea)

Danda Oil (Conjured Cardea)

The First Sun (Saturn) Energy

Oracle of Visions

As the energies of our ancient Star and Sun rises and builds in Sagittarius, the message of "Faith and Patience" is calling us into a time for "High Magick". 

Holding faith in one hand and patience in the other, be the alchemist that combines the two through the next few years to come as these will help guide you through the process of awakening the creative forces within you.

When you feel pressured to jump ahead and rush the process, use faith in knowing if you are ready for the next step or not, stand in that silent strength confidently trusting what you know, your patience, perseverance and focus in this process of high magick will serve you well. 

Ancestral Healing (The Voice of Dust)

"Thy story shall whisper out of the dust" 

Isa. 29:4

My name is Cizz, I have been called by many names but the one I choose for myself is Cizz, which means sister of fire. I have been so long in the flames of this old age, I have finally reached the ashes and can clearly hear the voices of my ancestors speaking their stories out of the dusty mortar that our physical existence is held together by. I have willingly walked into these flames and traveled to the lowest bowels and pits of suffering and pain to hear the cries for release and forgiveness. I will sit down with you in this dust but we will no longer wail with suffering the lost of hopes and dreams, we will no longer bemoan and blame each other for our self made prisons of stifled and un-lived passions. I will sit down with you in this dust and we will write a new book in this ground, we will each place our finger into this dirt and dusty mortar to write the true story of unconditional love, we will pass that key of release through out all of our generations from the first to the last and then back to the first. We will forgive and allow ourselves to be forgiven, no longer will our ground cry out with bitter blood and shaking voices of shame and revenge. We will allow the salty ocean of our tears and sweat to wash and purify this sacred earth, our mothers, daughters and sisters will know their true worth and receive their full sustains without price and bargain. Our fathers, sons and brothers will be weaned and unshackled, no longer will flesh and gender rule our Day, no longer will terror and quake rule our Night. No longer will we be moved to give ourselves away to prove our love, no longer will we contract for imprisonment and ownership of each other, let our yes be yes and our no be no.

May our First and True Mother be restored and honored in her full strength and beauty without ownership
May our First and True Father know and feel more than respect from us, may He know our real love for him always. I call forth the healers in my family's book of blood, I call forth all the healers of the body, I call forth the healers of the soul, I call forth all the healers of the mind,  I transcend all barriers of cultures, religions, faiths and race, I cry out to all times and all space. I honor you, I cherish you, I lift you up and bear you, my heart will stand and dance with you, I hear your heart's desire, I feel your heart's desire, we will know our heart's desire.

Let the free bonds of trust and honor be restored, let true unconditional love abound, pass this seed of release through out all generations, through out all our lands.


Art/Photo: When You Wishpered by Jenn Violetta

Sharing the Harvest

I felt a tug.

You must be at the end of your rope.

In today's world it is hard for most of us to feel and know the rhythm of the seasons, especially during the harvest seasons as there are so many of us living in cities where we are not afforded too much opportunity to actually garden. So, when the trumpets of the seasons sound, we are looking around feeling and wondering to ourselves, "What's all the hoopla about?"

Well my pretties and beloveds, I am about to tell you something awesomely, absolutely, wickedly, deliciously...evil! 

In today's world we work in the work field (force) and our fruits come in the form of numbers (symbols) that we store in storehouses called "bank accounts" and even now those storage buildings are stored in something we call the ether of the web!  We don't actually have to ever put our hands on the money and fruit, just know your password and use your fingers (wands!) to pull up the numbers where you can see them. 

As the evening and night of gathering draws near, listen to what your own heart is saying! Some that just read this will be so offended with me for implying such things as they should have to share their money when they have worked soooo hard to get it! GREEDY! sister cizz (my sister of fire), she just wants my money or else she would not have told me such things...
Then some will be sad and feel dejected and rejected as they say, but I don't have any money, I forfeited my money making career to work a job that does not pay me anything and in a truth some of these will be saying "I don't work, so I don't get paid, I don't have the right to gather nothing"... 

The harvest season is when we come out and gather to together, husband and wife, children, friends, family and partners, we each stoke the flames and fire within our own hearts as the Moon starts to direct the never ending, abundant flowing source of light from the Sun. Our lesser great Light comes to the throne and calls all the stars out. What star energy and what play will you entertain the Moon with? What have you reaped in this harvest my precious ones?  

One says I am blessed in the lesser and the greater!
One says a thief met me along the way and I am empty handed! 
Another says I can't come out and play because it may cost me all I have left! 

Our harvesting does not have anything to do with money and fruits of the ground, it does have everything to do with the treasure of our heart, how well did your mind and heart serve you? What light can you see coming out of your own bosom? 

Our card and message for this energy rising, "The Minister" that brings assistance, help, and support.

It is better to give than receive, yet sometimes the greatest gift you can give to another is to allow them to give to you and not lose sight of knowing you are the one allowing it...the greatest is always shining the brightest in the lesser light.

"We have trained and we have studied. We have fallen and picked ourselves up to try yet again. Certainly, progress has been made with each effort and each attempt. But sometimes despite it all, we have to acknowledge the reality that we can't do it entirely on our own. 

"The challenge now is to achieve a balance, to offer help but not reliance"

Harvest Moon with Lunar Eclipse (Super Blood Moon)

Oracle of Visions

Just when we thought the Spirit of Mabon and Ostara (September) would ease the flow of the reaping energies, some harvests have brought us up lacking and some has afforded us the abundance of gifts, give thanks in the lesser and the greater for it is all a wondrous work moving us toward much brighter blessings. We will be entering into the Blood of our ancestors with this coming Full Harvest Moon as the earth will be passing between our beloveds in the moon and our beloveds in the sun, this will start our journey into the thinning veil of hearing the voices of those before us, the fae dust is already laid to the wings of the wind!

Our reaping and purging through the partial solar eclipse did not require drastic changes in our personal lives but gave us a gentle ease and pull to prepare us for the total immersion of entering into the menstrual purge of our sisters and mothers in the day and in the night, three generations will align and flow together. The very dust and life force within your own veins will be dancing and speaking with the voices of those before and around us. Some will cry out with bitter and anguished blood and others will sing words of comfort and praise. This will be an emotional experience for all of us, this is the time of all times to bring healing and reconciliation to our Fathers and our Mothers. This is a time for throwing open all the family books of blood and a time to repair and rewrite all of our DNA for all future and past generations!   
  
Our personal card and message for this coming event is, "Inner Peace" an instant in time where all time and reality falls away, all recording of passing time is put on hold, remember the dragonfly, as the dragon that soars and transcends all the veils of time and space that separate us, this flying dragon brings us change in the perspective of self realization that moves us into mental clarity and emotional maturity that fills us with a new understanding of the mysteries and purpose of life, it rest upon a white lily that brings the healing breath from the ground below up through the still and calm waters as a gift of unity in this healing for our times and personal lives here and now. Our ancestors and all future generations are beckoning and calling out to us, from the beginning and from the end of all creations, "put thy heart and mind into the dusty mortar and rewrite our stories, add your voice of healing, joy and love, let all our heart's seed burst forth from the richness below the waters into a New person, a New family, a New humanity and a New creation, let there be a moment of stillness, calm and peace as we reach beyond the veils and embrace each other."

Mabon (Shifting with the flow of Light) Solar Eclipse

During this approaching seasonal shift and turning of the wheel, the Spirit of Mabon comes out to meet Ostara  with a partial solar eclipse. The moon cradles the sun and shares in her abilities to give NEW light, she allows him to rest as she covers him in her own bosom.  The moon gives the sun a chance to feel the darkness. 

You may find your own self feeling as if everything in your life has become a struggle and sacrifice, the wise and the foolish are fowling during this energy flow as we ride the tide back to full. The kings and the queens are stirring and buzzing with the bees casting storm and shadows on the ants and the life giving pollen and dust are the faes spreading!

This energy is calling out the shadows from your own depths, life partners, husbands and wives, parent and child are in a tizzy with some taking the high road to an unsavory throne and some being crucified and thrown back into ruin of the past, fear abounds making both all the more lost in their own pains and pangs to get back into the nature flow of creation.  Both lack in their dealings with each other, tears, sweat and blood do cry out with injustice as the wise and foolish howl at the moon and the sun, at Mabon and Ostara in their mysterious way of being filled with faith and ease in giving and allowing.

For all my people pleasing wise and foolish, look at the sun and the moon, remember their own ease and feel the message they have for you, be comforted to know you have the LIGHT always in day and night. If you helped another by crucifying your own time, life and opportunities, by forfeiting your chances to have what is meaningful to you, when you stand in that dark energy screaming out, "Foolish, Foolish self!" you have been so foolish to trust that wise one that you handed everything over to in believing when your time of want and need came they would do the same for you and would share all that you thought you had helped them to gain. Here is your reward in the darkest night, "YES" you did help them and "YES" the wise one has served you back in all the ways you taught them to." The Sun says to you dear one, you may have been last, but you lead the whole way from the there, where is your faith! Teach and lead in a NEW light that shines always in the night, tell you wise child, "Silly, Silly child of mine, there is nothing to fear in the dark. If they have cast you off in their own fear of lack and refused you, leave them be and worry not, they have their reward, the unsavory throne of fear, blind and burning always in the light."

For all those afraid to upset and disturb another's feelings, to you that need to cater to other's feelings, know this, it is true, you do not have the right to take someone else's ease from them...AND remember, some find the most ease and pleasure in being miserable and afraid, do not refuse them this pleasure, allow all others to be in whatever LIGHT they chose, for you, have the light in the day and the night. Never ending abundance of whatever your heart choices. Learn the tides of your heart!

As a partial solar exchange, the changes need not be in total and drastic ways.

 Many, Many blessings ~cizz

Mabon (The abundance of light)

In this season with the approaching change and turning of the wheel, I look, reflect upon and consider all that has been brought to me, I give thanks in the lesser and the greater harvest, I have been and will continue in being served well in all these gifts, I accept these blessings. It is with a pure joy filled heart that I gently place my feet and hands upon your beautiful and sacred ground, my beloved Mothers, my cherished Sisters, my sweet and pure Daughters. Our sacred tears are tears of sorrow touched and dried by the caress of the Sun of the Day turning them into healing salt that courses through the veins of all creation. I give thanks to my grandmother and my grandfather in the Sun that turned their Light and reflected that to my mother and my father in the Moon, I give praise to my mother and my father that turned and reflected that Light into the kings and queens (children) of the heavens. It is with tears of joy that I embrace the handmaiden and wondrous keeper of all this inspiration.

I give thanks in the Day and the Night, I give thanks to the stars above and the stars below, I give thanks to the stars to the left and the stars to the right. I give thanks as above so below, as within so without. I send out my heart's voice and breath of love in the Day and the Night.  

Let the cauldron of oil represent the safety, love, nourishment and the abundance of having the light in the Day and the Night, that lights all paths of the glorious stars. Let the cauldron remind you that in the darkest of the dark night when it appears you have been rejected and abandoned, it is only for a moment that the Moon turned the light away so that you can see the wick of your own cord and twain has been lit.

Many blessings ~cizz 

"Flow to Me"

Flowing to Me (Spell and Ritual)

This is not a spell where I spoon feed anyone a step-by-step of how-to's, nor will I offer any list of things and items needed. I am opening a window so you can peer into and follow me along in my own workings in hope that it will inspire you and open a flood gate of understanding to your own possibilities and give you confidence in knowing that you can do your own workings, creating and manifesting.

The intent of this spell and ritual is to remove obstacles and start the continuous flow, building momentum of manifesting the energies set (established) during the workings. To be more specific, I want to remove any obstacles that get in my way of having all the necessities of "well being" manifested. 

(In order to achieve this, I need to bring to recall, mind and heart, a moment when I felt myself to be in the "Well Being" state that I want to manifest.)   

I have chose a platter large enough to hold all the items I am gathering that lend to my focus of helping me to recall the energies I want to set in motion and have them dominantly recorded into auto-pilot, continuously flowing toward and through me without my having to spoon feed and give constant attention them. So, I have chosen spheres and circles that remind me of continuance, ever flowing energy being directed along a never ending path, I have gathered a variety of different spheres to represent all aspects and all areas of manifested life. 

I have a green candle that represents Earth and the physical manifestations coming forth from the unseen and hidden realms. I've used a blue (color of peace and comfort to me) five pointed star candle holder as the points remind me of all the elements guided by spirit. I have only one sharp pointer (sword) on my plate to represent that I will not be spoon feeding to the universe and powers in what specific way these energies are to flow in, I will not set obstacles of standards that limit and beg to be met before 'well being' flows to me. 

 
I have included my "sweet eye" (natural wood eye that a sweet gum tree gifted to me) and a small downy feather to remind me that all of nature and creation stand watch and give ear to my mind and heart's desires. I've also chosen natural vine spheres to remind me that nature surrounds and nourishes me. I have placed my bottle of peace water on the plate to remind me of the peace, comfort and security I am bathed and nourished in. 

I used a collection of old family coins and a piece of smoothed, almost shaped amber to remind me of all those that have and do desire 'well being' for me. I chose three smooth yet misshaped stones to represent the continuous seeds taking shape and life toward manifestation within my heart and mind, I chose a pink one for the things I love and a dark one for the things I fear as a reminder that both will manifest unbounded when my confidence of directing wanes.   

I used road opener oil to anoint and charge my candle as I focused on the feelings of strength and full confidence I had achieved when I made the oil, I recalled that moment completely as the feelings washed over me. I then added one of my "come to me" mojo/jomo's.

Now I sit back and relax, (put some music on!) freeing my heart and mind to bring to me moments that were filled with "well being". I recalled completely standing on the shore, I felt my feet sinking into the embrace of the sand and earth, the absolute fun and joy of gentle waves rushing in to wash and caress me with a chill of excitement and awe. I recalled the complete ease of laying in the grass and watching the clouds attempt to entertain me, and they did on such a grand scale! I grabbed and suspended myself in that plasma of well being, the moments where there were no thoughts to concerns and worries of how? how? how? When the energy had overwhelmed me to tears, I anointed my hands with the tears, grabbed the flame, light the candle and held the edges of the plate as I whispered over and over, this, this, this, almost a hiss as I set, charged and programmed the vibration and flow to "constantly", even when I am at rest and unaware. 

I did not use chants to help me with this working as I needed to feel and morph into the energies without distracting myself with outer speech, the only words spoke out aloud was my last say, "It is So" and "Thank you". I didn't sit with my workings as the candle continued to burn, I got up and went about my normal stuff-doing as this represents to me and all the powers that help and assist, that I will not place myself into the worry of how this is achieved and brought about, I will stay out of the way and trust fully.   

Inspire Me!

"It's not so much about finding what you love to do as it is finding the love in all that you do"

Closing the Shop but not the Heart!

Seek Your Destiny

It is with heart felt sadness and profound gratitude that I will be closing  the doors to Ritual Scentz' shop today, the sadness of having to let go has been almost unbearable at times, as the universe and ruling fate have been slowly conspiring and easing me into to this process of letting go during this past year. My heart has been heavy and torn as I do not seem to know how to approach any endeavor that I don't pour one hundred percent of my heart into and yet as much as it hurts me to close this shop I am also overwhelmed with gratitude for being blessed with the experience and all the beautiful souls that befriended me, words can not express how thankful I am to all of you that supported, inspired and encouraged me. The social media sites (blogger, twitter, facebook, pinterest) will remain up and running in support of all those that have come to follow and know me through Ritual Scentz. 

The one thing that I cherish from this experience - the thing that tugs at my heart and kept me holding on to the shop longer than I should have - is not the unexpected success in sells that Ritual Scentz achieved, it was the unexpected responses to the personal letters of blessings that was sent out with each order. I can not count the numerous times that tearfully choked customers returned to the shop and expressed how much that personal letter of blessing meant to them. Every letter I addressed, my whole intent while writing it was to capture and slow one moment of time in this fast paced and impersonal world where my heart felt wishes and blessings could reach out and touch another's heart wrapping them in the warmth of a personalized and focused moment.  The last two years have shown me that there are way too many people in need of an unexpected, slowed down, personalized, blessing filled moment that can touch them deeply with the expression and acknowledgement of "You are not lost nor forgotten in the crowd of today's Oneness."

"May you be protected, guided and blessed in all that you do" 

Many blessings ~ Cizz

Making "Dream Fluff" pillow stuffing with Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

  

Ground Mugwort (a.k.a. "Dream Fluff")  compared to Dried Leaf Mugwort

For those that are not familiar with this herb, Artemisia vulgaris, also known as Mugwort, Common Wormwood, and Moxa, it is a sacred herb to the Druids, Diana and Artemis. In ancient China and Japan, Mugwort was hung in open doorways to exorcise the spirits of disease. In ancient times it was believed that Mermaids came from the sea and gave humans the knowledge of Mugwort's supernatural powers. Roman soldiers placed the herb inside their shoes as a protection aid for traveling long distances away from their homes. One Roman general recorded that his men marched ten miles further, as well as faster, when on Mugwort. Native Americans also burned Mugwort as a smudge to purify the spiritual and physical environment.

In ancient China and Japan, Mugwort was hung in open doorways to exorcise the spirits of disease. - See more at: http://happyherbcompany.com/mugwort#sthash.WWRUvRsf.dpuf

In ancient China and Japan, Mugwort was hung in open doorways to exorcise the spirits of disease. - See more at: http://happyherbcompany.com/mugwort#sthash.WWRUvRsf.dpuf

Mugwort tea was usually drunk before divination rituals and also burnt as a ‘transporting’ incense. Store a small bag of Mugwort with any scrying tools and use an infusion of Mugwort to clean crystal balls and magick mirrors.

Mugwort is also used to enhance dreams, especially the prophetic sort and lucid dreaming, helps with remembering your dreams once you are awake. 

To use in a sleep pillow or in a sachet under your pillowcase, grind the dried leaves and stalks into a soft fluff (see above picture on the left) as this helps to release the essential oils. Mugwort will puff like cotton fiber fill once it is ground making it easier to add other herbs as it captures and holds particles just like fiber fills do. If your sachet were to come open during the night it is less likely the herbs would end up scattered.

The best materials to use for sleep pillows and sachets are muslin, cotton or flannel, the thinner the material the better. Before you lay down to sleep, squeeze and gentle rub the herbs in the pillow or sachet, place to your nose and breath in a few times.

Dreaming herbal blends:

* Catnip for relaxing and deeper sleep

* Lavender for relaxing and stress release

* Rosemary for warding off bad dreams

* Chamomile for calming and relaxing, deeper sleep

* Mugwort for enhanced lucid dreaming and remembering dreams

* White Clover for lifting your spirit and calming fears