December 31, 2010

It was a mighty good year. We had a opportunity to get better, be better from the inside all through suffering a little. As Pluto makes a strong hold in Capricorn we are about to learn more.
Every hurt, every loss leaves you better. Yea, sure, the scar might be there. That is ok. You are supposed to feel all that and you must embrace the beauty of it and how you know more now about humans and yourself. Get yourself some good oils and put them on your face.
I love frankincense. Protective and healing he is. Put him together with some soft rose and you have yourself perfect companions. They fit nicely and comfort your skin.

As I write this, I am remembering some mighty fine soap I tried last year.
Soap like Justine Crane's Antique Rose. It was layers of goodness.
I made some mighty good bars myself.
Release the Kraken was a good one.
Some batches were better than others but they were all creamy and fragrant.


2011~yea

happy thanksgiving

Cranberries are my favorite things on the table during any feast. I will eat them with just about anything this time of year. I simply steep them with oranges and a bit of sugar and some cloves and they are good in a salad or as a side dish.
Bring it~

Wishing you all the best during this day and may all your dreams be as real as the feast you are already receiving.
OX
Anastasia

This Is The Hairy Fact

rough list
I am including everything, even off the shelf store stuff
here goes:

shampoo
Giovani~ makes my hair flat and oily, fake scent
Burts Bees Pomegranite~ Too expensive and make my hair dry, fake scent
Whole Foods Unscented 365~ Clean fluffy hair, a little drying and not in love with the lather
Alafia Shea butter shampoo~ hate the lather, leaves the residue, natural scent
John Master's Zinc shampoo~ Love it, makes my hair clean and shiny, not too oily, or frizzy, I think the scent is fake
Avalon Organics Shampoo~ eh, for like 5 dollars less I can get 365 shampoo with the same ingredients:) and twice as much shampoo. True! I like it ok, the lather is flat and it does leave a bit too much residue on my hair.

As one can see, shampoo is an issue if you are looking for a 100% natural hair washing. Most shampoos are created with sodium laurel sulfate and fake scent. The sls can cause cancer if there are allot of sores on your head and you find yourself scratching all the time, stop using that stuff as soon as possible, like now.
What to do?
I know, I know, you can rinse with vinegar and use baking soda..I am not always in the mood for apple cider vinegar. Clay, you say? Wonderful, fluffy hair, a bit drying and takes two weeks to finally rinse out of your hair. :)

People ask me why I do not make shampoo.
Well, for one thing, I am not a chemist. I can buy a pre-mixed "natural foaming agent for hair" and call it my own, which seems like a hassle.
The only benefit to that would be the scenting issue, which I am all for natural scenting in shampoo, that is for sure!
Back to what is real is that I am using right now, Natures Gate Tea Tree Shampoo. It has SLS and some sort of tea tree scent in it.
Next shampoo ready to be used will be Giovani's Body and Hair Shampoo with grapefruit oil. We will see, Giovani! We'll see!
Friday I will rinse all that crap out of my hair with vinegar and start fresh.

Next issue is all about face creams:
oox

Are you thinking what I am thinking?

Yes, time to rest your weary bones and stay home for a spell and make yourself some food and share it with your brood.
Now is the time to inhale of life's brilliance and withdraw from fear
withdraw from pain and shame, you hear!

It isn't just a bunch of hullabaloo. Just ask for it and it comes to you. From now on the words I speak with heal, prosper and adore you and myself.


I think as all the astro stuff goes direct in 2011 and takes us on a lovely journey filled with Uranus and Jupiter getting us all fired up in Aries. Yumm
Neptune going in to Pisces by April is really cool and of course Saturn in Libra for a spell.

Let's shine in all ways and explore new ideas in skin care.
I think I am going to compose my own list of favorites.
I think that within the last two years I have developed some structure and can honestly say I have a "line" of products focusing hand made soap.
Limited-edition, because oils change every year. Yea, sure, I can do peppermint with oats and Eucalyptus pretty consistently, but not patchouli or even vetiver. Here is where the true flavors, the auras of scent truly wake up our senses and change with each season. Undaunted, they develop in to crisp smells that warm you from your nose to your toes.:)
(never to underestimate the power of peppermint to sooth a headache)

Happy Thanksgiving to you, and may your companions be of cheery mind and and may all your feasting be merry.

the grapevines

The grapevines that I had pulled in the beginning of sumer and which I had made in to a pile of wreathes which my cucumbers could grown upon are naked now as I have pulled the last of my cucumber vine art, they are free and still quite lovely. Each one having its own character and size.
I have a thing about grapevines, you see. And to add to that, I always seem to live near them, close enough where I can go a ways and pull them to my hearts content and allow myself an indulgence and experience the thrill that makes me go beyond my threshold of fear and pain.
Yea I am a gnarly bitch, I will tell you that.
Last night it rained and they are moist enough to re-mold and make what ever they want to become this year. I am so blessed like that. I enter This Season (Autumn) with eyes wide open and ready for vibrant and energized time of it.
Om Shakti Om~
I call upon the creative forces within to emerge and flourish in our lives. That we may present beautiful things with our hands and say beautiful words to each other.
Om Shrim Sri Lakshmi Om Namaha

Happy Autumn Equinox
September 23, 2010

It is always all about what I am making this week. My ideas are many and patience always tested as I like to have things right now.
I loved this clove soap that I had once made with wild sweet orange from Dominican Republic. My beautiful Tonie loves it. She said it was delightful.
It is something I have been craving since she told me this.
The roughness of the rhassoul clay I had added made it gritty yet gentle. The freshness of the orange and depth of clove. So rejuvinatingly spectacular!

Rhassoul Clove and Clay Soap is on the list.

The Rustic Hazelnut Honey Soap is turning out to be something nice I must say, I hope you get to try some. It is sharp and has a smoky note, but don't ask me to analyze the flavor of the scent. I am a simple woman. You should tell me what it reminds you of.

But lets talk about distiled lime oil. I love it. Dare I make a soap with it? Dare I mix it with that cacao absolute I just got?
How about ylang ylang with neroli in soap with one drop cinnamon co2? Sigh!:)

I am very blessed this day to have such a rich life filled with creativity and love.
Thank You~

troglodyte cave dweller

What, has it been almost three weeks since I have ranted?
You know how August is, so I do not make excuses and besides that the sun in my 8th house always makes me a little introverted.
Now it's your turn to say, "no, you are not shy".
Ask me to speak in a microphone and I might cry or something.
I am better off shouting at you from across the room.

If you're a Virgo person, you should be feeling almost giddy if that is possible and you could at this time venture out of your cave to greet us all with your ideas and ways in which you can actually make things happen. Be honest and do not be afraid of your grody side.
Now that Saturn is leaving Virgo for good and just happens to be in Libra.
Oh, the foreboding and doldrums, Oh, the hard work and lack of spunk. Libra feels that already but yea, maybe Libra should do one thing at a time and with some love not because it has to be done.
Listen the thing with Saturn here is that Libra has a chance to be who Libra is. Fair, kind, beautiful, regal.. Can Libra do the right thing? Not what looks good either. The actual right thing?
Hey man, I am just the messenger and a fellow Libra. I do know that this also goes for Capricorn too.
With Pluto in Capricorn right now and for a long while, we are in a huge change over makeover and remember phase.
Talk about a powerful time in our collective consciousness and Capricorn is right there cutting through all the shit and telling it how it is and, looking mighty fine the whole time.
Yea!!
With Uranus in Aries right now, we are focused, and all about world peace and love. Watch out for the one who has a bit of Pisces mixed in the chart somewhere and you may have a true artist. One with skills beyond words and a vision to carry them through. Extremist, visionary, skills. Great stuff really, try not to tromp too hard while crossing a room even though some may enjoy that.
Cancer people, go shopping. Buy some new clothes, meet some new people like yourself and make yourself feel pretty. Not that it would hard for you. Your ethereal beauty is astounding. You are also in more control than you think. Stop nurturing all your fears and step forward.

With Mercury retro, we can fix, review, repair, and redo.
read what Mystic has to say about it;
http://mysticmedusa.com/2010/08/21/fuq-yeah-mercury-is-retro-again/



Crazy Annie's Review of her own soap~ The Red Dragon

It takes me a while to grasp the full bloom of a scent combination. I need to go to it in the beginning and sniff and then later, go again and see what has changed.
When I work with labdanum, this becomes more acute.
It changes things. It transforms into sweet, or tangy and always adds some thing. Something not always pleasant I might say.
Remember when I made that patchouli soap with so much labdanum that it made your eyes water? Yea, well, a year later, that one still reeks. You can use it and 12 hours later, it still lingers on your skin.
I must be crazy!
And speaking of crazy Sagittarius. How are we ever to understand them?
If you know the answer to that, write me.
I mention Sag, because The Red Dragon is all Sag if you ask me. Very Jupiter and big and bold. When you get in the middle of the bar ( which at my house is about a day), you get the damiana and the labdanum and of course you get all the frankincense that you want.



Justine Crane
(crazy Sag)

She sent me a box with like this dark almost maroon soap and some perfumes she had made.
Now mind you I am not one for alcohol perfumes but I always dab some of hers on because it evaporates so nicely off of my skin leaving me with a faint whisper of scent from some flower. I always ask myself how she blends like that? I feel like a troglodyte among her things. :)
She sends me this bar of soap with so much old rose oil in it I almost fainted. You know I went directly in the bath tub with it. 30 minutes later, I was still lingering in the rosy water. It has been one of the most exquisite bathing experiences I have ever had. How do you do that? How do you put so much rose oil in something you are going to rinse off?
This is how I see it; You can hoard things or enjoy them if only the one time, OK, one more time, and then you savor the memory.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/sapobubbles


Om Namah Shivaya
Sham Bo Sham Bo Shiva
Shiva Shiva Shiva Sham Bo
for grounding and confidence

Pluto Vibes

Pluto Vibes Soap

Pluto's symbol, combines the circle (spirit) over the crescent (receptivity) and the cross (matter). The glyph suggests spiritual receptivity to "superworlds" or the superconscious, placed above the physical world.

Pluto is associated with renewal and rebirth. It represents endings and new beginnings, as well as spiritual growth and rebirth.
That all sounds nice but it isn't always. Sometimes tragic things happen, especially when you have been clinging to something far too long.
A dirty little secret just crops up and bites you in the ass.
Don't get all freaked out, take a minute to know what is real and for Shakti's sake wash with some thing good. Preferably some ylang vanilla jasmine pluto power soap...:)
Take that creative force, that regenerative power inside you and make your desires real.


Shea butter, extra virgin stone ground olive oil (unfiltered, organic coconut oil, avocado oil, essential oils.
How about some vanilla, and organic ylang ylang extra to start with.
Here you can experience the comfort of vanilla, the sweetness and joy of it only after you have realized the deep anguished gut feeling of the truth which ylang ylang brings.
There are a few drops of bergamot to brighten this blend but let me tell you that there is also jasmine sambac to bring a little goddess wisdom.

Clear the air, will you. Get rid of old useless feelings and behavior. You must say what is on your mind and best done when you use kind words, even if they are a bit too loud. Most likely with Pluto, the truth stings a little and may come to you in an unconventional way. Focus on what you want and ask The Source not people.



The real vanilla is traditionally part of a fast-money fix along with the essential oil of cinnamon & you burn and/or wear them both in a blend. I add vanilla to rose, patchouli, grapefruit and ylang-ylang to make a mix I call Venusian 9. It is awesome but you have to watch that one doesn’t tip in too much vanilla – it wants to dominate & it is a plant of Pluto.
http://mysticmedusa.com/2009/06/11/astro-housewitchery-vanilla/

The Dark Dragon (Soap)

I have been making soap all week and formulating new potions. Today I brewed up some really lovely black copal and dragon's blood like I have never brewed before. I remembered something.
As I was melting my resins and their vapors slowly enticed my brain I was able to dive in deep to this blend and come out with perhaps a "Come To Me" Soap

You heard me. I said, come to me. Come with all your honest dirty truths and I'll wash them clean away. But never think of me as a dirty whore or the magic will delay.


Oh, sorry, I got carried away.

To these two resins, I added a bit of cedar and fir and a touch of benzoin, some juniper berries and steeped saffron black pepper and a touch and I mean a smidge of bergamot.
Just enough brightness bergamot opens your heart closed by grief to receive and give joy. You have to clear the way and make room right?

ooooxxxx

review on diatomaceous earth and black salt soap

It looks vicious really. I mean some of the salt went in to to a leaky phase at first and now it has dried in to little salt hills all over it. When you first wash with it it feels like it might be rough on the bod babe, but it isn't. It is slick at first and then gives you some lather. Some lather because olive oil, isn't quick to give much to begin with. I only added a little bit of coconut oil (cold pressed organic) and the rest is all fossil powder. I never planned it to be a charcoal based soap but it turns out the salt I put in it is loaded with it.
Diatomaceous Earth is really rich in silica and it turns out that our bodies are too. Our hair and teeth and nails all are silica based and life cannot exist without it.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/38322973/diatomaceous-earth-soap-with-charcoal


Typical Chemical Analysis % by weight
Silicon Dioxide 89.0% Sodium Oxide 1.2%
Aluminum Oxide 4.0% Magnesium Oxide 0.6%
Iron Oxide 1.7% Potassium Oxide 0.5%
Calcium Oxide 1.4% Other Oxides (Trace Quantities) 1.6%
Moisture 3.0%


Typical Trace Element Analysis
Aluminum (Al) 0.65% Phosphorus 0.037%
Boron (B) 0.0023% Potassium (K) 0.16%
Calcium (Ca) 0.40% Sodium (Na) 0.26%
CaO (calc. From % CA) 0.55% Strontium (Sr) 59.9 ppm
Copper (Cu) 0.0019% Sulfate Sulphur (S) 0.062%
Iron (Fe) 0.72% Titanium (T) 420 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) 0.21% Vanadium (V) 43.8 ppm
MgO (calc. From % Mg) 0.34% Zinc (Zn) 0.074%, 740 ppm
Manganese (Mn) 0.0052%
http://heavenandearthpowder.info/Human_Use.html

TLLE~The Last Lunar Eclipse 06/30/10

It rocked my world a little and of course if you know anything about me, it is that I will mull something over and over till it is so old I do not care anymore..it is my Capricorn moon, I think and my ability to be critical. Forgive myself? Trying, OK..
The amazing thing is that all the treasures that come with relaxing and remembering my will and how I control that.

Om namah shivaya~for grounding

During these highly emotional times a person like me can create some mighty fine art, clean up, tidy up and organize just about everything. Libra is caught up in a strange and very hospitable environment sort of. Saturn in Libra 90 degrees with Pluto square Uranus in Aries. This aspect so intense that the turmoil you may have been going through is out of your hands and things have already crumbled.
Om Mata Durga Om Mata Kali~ for letting go

Don't worry because if you look closely at your inner you, you will know more and be better. You will understand your rashness and perhaps your rigidity has brought here so forgive yourself all day and I say let's all make cake and relax and be kind to one another.

Speaking of cake, I made a soap cake extraordinare. The essential oil blend was Tonie all the way. We were discussing the next thing I was going to make and she started naming oils. Lets see, I have blood orange, I have cocoa absolute, vanilla bourbon, and petitgrain sur fluer and three drops of coffee essential oil from Sunrose.
It sounds like a perfect Italian Afternoon to me. You know, dry, flowers everywhere, coffee, aromatic butter cookies, a little smoke from a fire, citrus groves near by...fresh, clean breezes, great talks with your extraordinary aromatic friends.

Buon Pomeriggio!
When I mixed the oils in the creamy mixture I kind of panicked because the vanilla never smells good when you first mix it in. I knew from experience that it would be alright and mixed it up and then poured it in the mold which I had drizzled a layer of the vanilla bourbon. Then I grated a fine orange infused dark chocolate over the whole thing. This nugget is like cake indeed. Like love cake. Like oh man, look what I made for you so that you can wash with the highest vibes. You get the orange right away and then you begin to detect the others standing by to give you a lift. I think I even smell the coffee. It is spectacular to me.
I read something one of my favorite astrologers (Kim Falconer)said and it made perfect sense.
Relax and sunken treasures appear.

livin' on the cheap

"The limitless riches of God are flowing to me as fast as I can receive and use them and as I prosper, other people prosper as well"


I am starting with this quote because we all need to remember what is important. That is why I have decided to put my family on a reality diet.
Yes, reality. Why do you expect the Universe, God, The Angels to do all the work for you? Because you have sacrificed time and faith and hope , that you now have a "blessing" and God will take good care of you?
Don't hold your breath OK, The Universe doesn't really care at all about your feelings. Ask your self what you are before you ask who you are.
You are already God !

As I see it from an astrological point of view, man has always struggled for survival and even through what we consider these times 'modern times" man has made sacrifices, frozen to death, died of starvation, survived wars with missing limbs and died over and over again.

So here we are at a new beginning with Uranus leading the way. Yikes, if we are to take history as an example, look at the 1930's and 40's. There were so many revolutionary new ideas and some of the ones that took hold were the most extreme ones. Like Fascism and of course Hitler's notion of what was good for his country. Could it be that the German people were starving and were willing to fall in line for food and safety? Did they suffer anyhow? Yes. Everyone was scared I know that!

The new beginnings astrologers talk about lately are about understanding that simple is better, that forgiveness is essential and moving on is important.

"I love you, I bless you, I am free and you are fee to move into new glorious situations"

Living on the cheap~

eat lentil dishes twice a week
eat less meat
less carry out
more grains
get some rice and have that instead of pasta
eat more salad ( lettuce is cheap)
eat more kale (cheap)

avoid pre mixed or frozen foods
avoid anything that comes in a box and then a plastic packet of melty cheese looking sauce ( I mean how hard is it to make a rough and cheese and milk?)



Awesome Lentil Soup


big pot filled with water
add one bag of lentils
1 onion whole and peeled and intact
1 whole head of garlic
bay leaves ( I use 3)
peppercorns
whole allspice (optional)
1 tbsp salt
1/4 c olive oil
oregano leaves
paperica

cook for about 2 hours on medium

in a separate pan, heat up some olive oil, take out the onion and garlic with a slotted spoon and fry it up in the pan, smash it good and make sure you take the garlic peels out. Add more paparica and 1 tbsp flour and make a loose paste like mixture. Now add some of the broth from the soup to loosen it and put the whole thing back with the soup. Add salt pepper to taste and feast with some good bread and soup!

If you still feel hungry, have some more. May it nourish your soul:)

aries aries aries

Today June 6th, Moon Jupiter Uranus conjunction, wow!
I have always thought of Jupiter as a male rather than a female deity in astrology but lately I can really see the women in my life getting feisty and leading just fine thank you very much.
Today with the moon shedding some well needed compassion and valor our way, we can realize to nurture our families and our loved ones. During this time we have brought understanding with us. We have with us Jupiter's year long trip through Pisces (deep, emotional, water,sacrificing, over indulgent, good with money, facing the truth about money)
Jupiter brings big things, abundance and big fallouts, or should I say giant ass crap killing our coast lines and seriously causing a disaster of grand proportion on Earth. Hey how about this, no off shore drilling and all you big fat cat, arrogant oil investors out there accept the new way and start living more simply before we all perish in an abominable long torturous death all because you don't want to quit wasting our planet!
Oh, and how about the all poison that gets sprayed on the lawns ( just for show, dude) and freaking gets dumped right in to the water system? Do you even realize that the water that is on our planet has been here all these billion years? Water is life. If earth is to exist another few billion years, the salt that we eat that has been a part of us on this planet in the future is not only going to have trace minerals but also heavy metal and toxic residue from plastic, mercury, dioxin, prosac and maybe people will change! We will have evolved in to leather faced sick people who only live till 30 and babies are made in a lab.

Give me a bit of dirt and a goat or two or a nice healthy cow and some damm good patchouli! Give me cold pressed olive oil and give me courage to face the day.

Now as Jupiter leaps into Aries, someone has got to take the reins.
Toss the uncanny Uranus in the group and you may get yourself some chaos. You may say things out of the blue and shock people.
Yesterday at work, as we were all standing there, a coworker came up to me and asked, "what is the best thing for stress?"
I took a second and could not for the life of me say, be complex, or passionflower, or vitamin c, or the glorious red clover tea. I said SEX a bit too loudly and my manager looks at me like, "watch your mouth" I may have used the word "f_ck" somewhere in that encounter too. What do you expect from a Virgo woman? I forgave myself right quick and decided that she is right, it is better to be dignified, just don't get all crazy about it and get so caught up in doing a good correct job that you forget what is important at the end of the day. Smile, laugh even, dance, sing something nice, be kind.



" I say words that delight, love, respect and prosper others and myself"

Harnesing Saturn in Libra

My friend Star is one of the most unique women I am blessed to have met in Costa Rica. She is a retired ex stripper/dancer extrordinare' (Scorpio) who seems to enjoy investing and spending money while always scheming and buying..It is crazy I tell you! She has closets of clothing from the day and fur coats galore in shades of deep purple and fuchsia!
During one one of our many talks about her life and mine she told me of the kind of women who she had worked with in "the business". She said you had to be pretty and have talent to make big money and of course Star being a lover of astrology had remembered everyone's sign that she had worked with.
She said that there were putanas, women who would steel and do drugs, and there were women who were so cunning that they would pretty much wipe out a guys wallet without any remorse.
So focused and cold at the same time.
The most notorious in that dance hall was a Libra lady. She would lure them with her rare beauty and quick wit. They wanted to spend all their money with her.

Saturn in Libra will give us an ability to harness this type of energy.
I am not saying you should start dancing for men or anything. I am thinking that Libra energy attracts some mighty fine situations where she must use her wit to get what she wants.

One could apply this to every aspect of their daily life.

How much is something worth?
As much a people are willing to pay for it.

Master the psychology of people want and give it to them. All work is like that.

Maybe I am just an old putana


for soap hahaaa

Andreas at Hotel Tilawa

After a month in Costa Rica, I mustered up enough courage to go to the big hotel and have the interview with Jean Paul the owner of one of the finest works of art in architecture like ever! Beautiful really!
During our interview, I presented my ideas and he loved everything I had so we ventured into "high season" with me planning and cooking and Andreas running the whole place.
Andreas was an excellent manager of restaurant service having gone to study in Switzerland to become a chef. We made tons of money together for three months and after that, the tourists went home and we would wait till next "high season".
That guy could lure a customer in to complete contentment. He made treats and drinks showed me true customer service skills in so many ways and we would talk the whole time as he was also well read. I brought all my books and he brought all of his.
The rhythm in that kitchen was sweet I must say. I made bread every day and he planned exotic heavenly meals for the guests and we made these amazing feasts together. People loved our food. That guy is probably still classy somehow like me:)
He was a Taurus, good men really.
A good working relationship is like a dance.

Ode To The Past

Even though it is behind us, it colors us, makes us strong, makes us recognize more of the truth and makes us realize our divinity.
Don't be afraid, it is not wrong to think of yourself as divine.
This concept may not be so acceptable with the religious organizers but it is true all the way!
Libra Capricorn Moon Sag rising, Aries, Capricorn Moon Taurus rising Mars in the first, You go all the way!
Hey there, one of a kind Capricorn lady with that Scorpio Moon, I love the way you can lead with out following, love that. I could go on and on. My lovely Cancer friend, you are so pretty and graceful... and my sharp witted Scorpio, well, there is allot I could say, just know that all is well!

When did you realize, that you are God within you?
For me it was in Costa Rica, nice, right? Well one would think. It was grueling and laden with heaviness. I had gotten to a point where I had to work for every grain of rice and bread that we ate, (always with the starches, I am ) and to have something like feta cheese was not unheard of but it was expensive. I asked God to help me. Where was he all this time? Was I communicating with the wrong guy? Seriously?

One morning as I was walking down the mountain to catch the bus, I started singing. It was 4:30 in the morning, the bats were flying all around me, no one was anywhere, it was just about daylight and certainly daylight in my mind!
I sang. I sang it all out lout. Everything I had been thinking but was afraid to say. I was afraid to say what I wanted, what I needed and that my concept of who God is.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rame
Rama Rama Hare Hare


I realized that I was not "actually" worshiping a blue skinned deity, but my own blue skinned divinity.
I started singing about the things I wanted to change.

"Let me tell you a little story about a gal name Ann, she worked hard and she took care of her lair. Then one day as she was working for their food, out through her mind cam a bubbling crude...of ideas that is, of nurturing thoughts and golden dreams which are real.
Well the next thing you know is Annie's a millionaire, she packed up them kids and got them out of there. They are learning Japanese and washing their hair..with nice soap and warm water."
I found a Buddhist girl there who printed a copy of the seed sounds for me and I sang them. I sang them to the bats going home in the morning as I descended from the mountain.
I sang about Lakshmi and how she is always shown to be on golden wings and provided for. I chanted "shrim" the seed sound for Lakshmi. It worked. Within three months of my cosmic creation I was home. My mother, my father, all my children around me, hot water again and no bugs eating me..I do like that:)

Om Gum, Dum, Srim, Kleem, Hrim, Om

New Moon Merc goes Direct

A Jupiter inspired new moon in Taurus and the fact that Uranus is about to go into Aries seems big to me, I can tell you that right now.
If you are already feeling hot under the collar and at times ready to burst into tears, you may be under the influence.
Do one thing at a time and make sure you are thorough.
"I intuitively do the right thing always"
Things are fast paced right now. Focus and everything is going to be fine. Aries is about loyalty, valor, righteousness even when actually being in wrongness. Make sure you understand your motives well.
I mean, who am I to say but a geeky dame in Livonia,lol.

This new moon in Taurus may bring some rare beauty your way so make some good wishes of what you want. You might want to write it down. Put it up on a wall. Take a look at it now and again and the after a while you'll see a beautiful thing happening. I call it my wall of wishes even though it is on my bedroom door.


I want to tell you right now that I am so excited about the future, the past and the here and now isn't bad either. It is all in the way you look at it. Bathing will help you appreciate this.
Listen to me, clean the tub, fill it up with water and sink in there. ( please note that a bath such as this starts with an already clean bod)
Take your precious bar of whatever you love and make a cream in your hands.
You might want to do a little mask of vinegar and rhassoul on your face and as the steam rises and the rhassoul dries, you have had an opportunity to think, intend, motivate and charm your self.

Rhassoul Soap with Myrrh and Tamanu would be nice for such a bath~
eleneetha.etsy.com

the burn

I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the last thought I had prior to the sequence of events too. And it is still as shocking today as it was then.
It was big I tell you!
While working as a prep cook for George the Greek, I managed to master the job, help on the line now and again and chop and beat eggs for him. So why did I hate it so bad that I would get my self so hurt there? Who knows! It is too long to even try to dissect the spiritual reasons why. All I can say is I was not content to work with those boys. They were condescending and not that well read..so we had no point of reference for good conversation or any kind of respectful relationship at work.
That particular day, I had prepped 4 cases of lettuce, tomatoes, onion slices, and chop for the coney, ham, made burger patties and got all the carry out prep done so that I almost kind of liked the job..almost! JJ the Albanian asked me to carry a giant ass pot to the prep area and so I helped him. Grease and I slipped! Soup all over me! Realization of death and succumbing, inevitable. I lived.
Today I met a girl who was burned on over 80% of her body instead of a mere 5%..wow!
I told her about Tamanu oil. I showed her my arm where the scar has diminished to about a third of what it was. I told her that maybe it would help.
It is a good choice if you have an extreme issue for sure. Tamanu is good for just about any first aid you can think of and I love that at first it is a hard green nut and only becomes healing after a period of time where as it dries, it also ferments and produces its healing oil. During this time Tamanu brings forth its magic.

In Pacific island folk medicine, tamanu oil is applied liberally to cuts, scrapes, burns, insect bites and stings, abrasions, acne and acne scars, psoriasis, diabetic sores, sunburn, dry or scaly skin, blisters, eczema, herpes sores.


Let me leave you with a few words to reflect Uranus in Aries~

Uranus is the bringer of change, usually suddenly, unexpectedly, and with an element of shock. It is a catalyst of upheaval, and it is often disruptive and with little to no warning. It's about moving on. Uranus is referred to as the lord of lightening, thunder, electricity, and called the Great Awakener. With Uranus, you may expect the unexpected, and events happen sooner rather than later.

full moon in (libra) scorpio and why patchouli?

Do you even wonder anymore why you keep coming back to patchouli? And yes, I know you love sandalwood and one can't forget the highly beloved neroli, but why do we keep coming back to patchouli?
It holds its own very well that is why!
El senior is thick rich and stinky..sounds like a good man to have arround if you ask me but I am just a messenger for the truth.
The truth is that patchouli, pogostemon for short, is in the mint family. It is mostly cultivated for its oil and has been used in perfumery for ages!
It s crushed, steamed and the fermented before they distill it. I believe that this fermentation period gives patchouli so many varieties of scent, from downright intolerable to omg, this is sweet to the core! Of course, you know how your man smells pretty good after he washes with a patchouli infused bar, maybe a little citrus added or what ever you like.
Even as a young budding seedling this plant is smelly. Like thick summer night air, and the sword and how it comes out all bloody, and how it shines for the truth and how acceptance is better and how your own deepest heart's desire is as real as what you are perceiving right now. I have everything, I have everything~

My friend Tonie makes a scrub with ground patchouli leaves and some other botanicals that is wonderful. I strongly suggest you go to mountain Rose Herbs and by a little dried patchouli. Mix it with a little ground lentil and wash...it is wonderful.

Patchouli is Aquarian, maybe. Some astrologers say it is Sagittarius, and one says Pisces... it is watery and it is weird,, earthy, healing and blends well with just about anything you throw at it. I have even seen it mixed with peppermint and why not, they are related.
I love it with neroli of course.


Try a little something with patchouli. Try it with sweet orange or mix it with rose and clove and maybe a drop of nutmeg.
Patchouli is Earth which is connected to or rules money, property and the more sensual side of humane existence, All wealth originally was connected to the earth be it crops from the ground or minerals mined or extracted from the land. Earth plants are of a nourishing nature and or have a connection with the earth or field like root crops, or they may have an earthy smell like the mosses or mushrooms and vetiver.


I hope you all fare well during this full moon in Scorpio. May all the wealth of Earth and Universe unfold before you~

I can't hardly contain my excitement for Uranus in Aries, he,he, and as we all might already know that this is exactly what Uranus brings. Anticipation, excitement and a sense of courage where once it may have been hidden by a back drop of fear, or grieving.
Look, put the past behind you and stick to what is right and man oh man don't be having sex with whoever" Mr. cavalier" may stride in to your life. How he is colored is up to your manifestation. Is he charming? Yes with Aries energies you get charm and poise a sense of fashion and all around fun like that. Watch for rage coming from jealousy. I feel the Aries element wants stuff like cars and stuff.
Write down what you want and tape it on the wall. It works and it is indeed amazing. last year I posted on my wall what I wanted for me and my family. Guess what?? Everything became real. The nice bedding , the electronics we need in our daily world and the style of our clothes. I put those pictures up on my wall. I look at the pictures now and am so pleased to say "thank you" for the wooden table I pictured and the is is with the window in the exact order as the pic.

This year I am dreaming bigger things though. I have been dreaming bigger things since before.
I want quietude, grace and poise oh and I want some damn fine myrrh. I just used the last of my precious paste. I saved the bottle so that maybe I can infuse some olive oil and use it as a healing oil.

The first of many blogs

I have decided to share some ideas with you. I think that highly of myslef (LOL) and I hope you think highly of yourself in the same way.
So sit back and wait for the ideas to flow. It could be about astrology, soapmaking, aromatherapy or spirituality.
Who knows what adventures there will be..ah life is good!