Category: Nature + Moon + Tea

A Note from My Wild Blessings Box

On Saturday, I had a new note to place in my Wild Blessings Box:

Today, I am grateful for the opportunity to celebrate my Wild Essence book with a group of incredibly cherished wild women. I’m not good at celebrating myself or my achievements. I hate drawing attention to myself. But thank you Goddess, Angels, Divine Spirit for the blessings that came with today. To sit in a room of such wonderful women and guide them through a wild essence meditation was such a precious moment, especially to see how much it moved some of them. It reminded me of two things – 1) I’ve always strived to touch people in meaningful ways and my heart is so full of joy because this opportunity allowed me to do so, and 2) Celebrating myself and my achievements allows me to nourish myself and allows abundance to flow to me, so I must always remember to give myself more of that. I think that slowly, but surely I am getting better at it with time.

Thank you to all the lovely ladies who celebrated with me. (Photos by Razia Van der Schuur & Cyrus Rogers)

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Beautiful young wild women
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Reading a passage from my book
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Angel Card Corner

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The most beautiful and divine double chocolate cake from Luscious Cuisine
The most beautiful and divine double chocolate cake from Luscious Cuisine

The Mysterious Petals

I noticed some mysterious flower petals, pale-yellow ones scattered like tiny stars on the stone path next to my little herb patch in the early morning. Looking up at the Cypress tree above the path, I was confused was to where they’d come from. I inspected the herbs to see who their possible owner could be, but found no clues. Perhaps they were a gift from the faeries?

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Later on, after lunch I sat in the garden for stillness with a cup of tea and some poetry. I heard the sound of buzzing bees and looked up. What I didn’t see earlier was the tall palm tree towering over the cypress, so still and silent that I’d forgotten it was there. It wore a brilliant bunch of pale-yellow flowers just below its leaves. Mystery solved. Bees waltzed around them, dizzy from sweet scents and nectar.

All autumn, those tiny flowers will drop their petals and grow into stone-like palm fruit. All winter, I will hear the palm fruit fall from their heights, in the dead of the icy night, blending the story of their journey back down to the Earth with the music of the wintry darkness.

And so signs of the shifting seasons are beginning to set in.

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Mermaids, stars and the Wild Unknown

Last night, I felt like I was drifting amongst the stars.

I laid on my back, floating in the cool water, while looking up at the stars sparkling against the indigo night sky. The moon was a bright sickle on the horizon. Small dark patches of clouds drifted here and there. The only sound I could hear was the rhythm of my breath and at some point it was as if the water and sky became one.

I wondered if this is what mermaids feel like, watching the diamond stars and the crescent moonrise. I imagined them buoyed in the calm and silent sea, the womb waters of the Goddess, when the ocean depths are dark and its intricate sea gardens hidden, looking up to the light that the night skies offer.

Swimming at night is a whole different world. There is always the fear of what may be there in the water, but cannot be seen in the darkness. We learn to fear the unknown. I remember the sensation of unseen fish brushing against my skin a few times when I swam in the ocean. It’s so eerie because you are never sure what it actually is. But as I’ve written in my book, Wild Essence, there is value in venturing beyond the fear and into the wild unknown, because that is where the magic lies – in the unknown wilderness of life and of our souls. That is how we grow. That is how we discover who we are. That is how we set ourselves free.

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