winds

the winds are brewing outside. they are making the eeriest noise. we don't get winds very much down here on the beach.

i've been researching a lot about air the past few days in anticipation of beginning to study with an amazing woman. i am starting to build a real spiritual practice.

i have also been reading a lot about oya. she is the mother of the winds. the swirling chaos of storms and lightning. oya is the destruction and rebirth. change from chaos.

oya protects her children but doesn't baby them. she shows you that you need to be able to stand up to some serious shit. she can teach you how to protect yourself. that you are a priestess of your home.

i realized that i am a little bit afraid of this. i pondered this and asked myself why this would be. i was afraid to be torn down with nothing left. it is then that i realized that i am a strong woman with a strong foundation. i can do this. i want to do this. my foundation is strong if i pay attention and work hard. i will study and do things right.

the fire inside is burning so strongly.

too many wells

I picked up T. Thorn Coyle's book "Evolutionary Witchcraft" a few days ago. I have started to read it and am really enjoying it.

Something she wrote was really striking to me.
"As a Muslim friend told me, I needed to dig one deep well, not twenty shallow ones. Only then would there be a possibility of finding clean water." - T. Thorn Coyle, "Evolutionary Witchcraft"

I feel like I have my hands dipped in so many wells but not reaching the water. I have so many spiritual interests I don't get to the heart of just one and do it well. I feel like I am skimming so many surfaces, I need to let go and jump in to one.

I am going to start to study with a very awesome woman and I hope this work goes deep and finds the water.

Holy Mother, in whom we live, move, and have our being, from you all things emerge and unto you all things return...
Open my heart this blessed day. Touch my body and my mind.
Walk with me through the gates of power, in shadow and starlight, in fire meeting earth, in wind on the ocean and the sweet kiss of life.
Blessed be my journey.

By T. Thorn Coyle

Keep the wheel turning...

I want to keep the wheel turning on this blog. I want to continue to explore and experiment. I want to try and share. I want to seek.

I would like this blog to contain recipes, magical essays, sharing of links and articles, discussion questions, herb and stone essays, spiritual musings and other things that I find that move me.

And so, here is a GREAT article in Yoga Journal magazine with Luisah Teish. She is a Yoruba Priestess and wrote the amazing book "Jambalaya." There is a really great section where the interviewer asks her about the Orishas. She tells of Yemaya and Obatala and its one of the most beautiful things I've read in a long time.




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