Newsletter Wise Woman Mid-month Newsletter - January '08

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Wise

Woman Mid-Month Newsletter ~ January '08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wesak Celebration

Welcome to the 14th Annual Wesak Celebration

May 16-18, 2008 - Mount Shasta, CA 96067

 

This year's theme: Discovering our true natures.

 

This " spiritual family reunion " begun by the late Dr. Joshua

Stone in what some consider one of the holiest places on this earth,

continues this year under the direction of Dawn Fazende, editor of Mount Shasta

Magazine. Wesak is named for the legendary convergence of Buddha, Christ

and other Masters in the hallowed Wesak Valley in the Himalayas during the

Buddha full moon occurring in May each year.

 

Many feature speakers and musician including Susun Weed!

 

click here to learn more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Blessings

Be

Your Own Herbal Expert... Healing sweets: herbal honeys, syrups, and cough

drops

by Susun Weed

 

Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective,

and free. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use

- plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It's easy. You can do

it too, and you don't need a degree or any special training.

 

Ancient memories arise in you when you begin to use herbal medicine. These

lessons are designed to nourish and activate those memories and your inner

herbalist so you can be your own herbal expert.

 

In our first lesson, we learned how to " listen " to the plants by

focusing on how they taste. In lesson two, we explored simples and

water-based herbal remedies. In the third lesson, we learned how to tell

safe (nourishing and tonifying) herbs from more dangerous (stimulating and

sedating) herbs. Our fourth lesson dealt with poisons; we learned how to

make a tincture and we put together our Herbal Medicine Chest. The fifth

lesson found us making herbal vinegars, and the sixth, making herbal oils.

 

In our last lesson together, we looked at our thoughts about healing; we

discussed the Scientific goal of fixing the broken machine, the Heroic

intention to cleanse the toxins from our polluted bodies, and the Wise

Woman desire to nourish the wholeness of the unique individual.

 

In this, the eighth lesson, we return to the herbal pharmacy, to make healing

sweets: herbal honeys, syrups, and cough drops.

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the entire article here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breast Health

Worried

About Breast Cancer?

Things strongly implicated in the initiation, promotion, or growth of

breast cancer

 

Hormones, especially estradiol and progesterone

~ Sources: Your ovaries, commercial meat and milk, hormone pills,

progesterone creams, steroids, cortisone.

~ Reduced by: Strenuous physical activity, pregnancy and lactation,

menopause, wise lifestyle and food choices, high levels of phytoestrogens

in the diet..

 

Organochlorines, pesticides, herbicides, bleach, plastics

~ Sources: By-products of bleaching paper, drinking and bathing in

chlorinated water, use of bleached tampons, chemical farming practices,

water pollution.

~ Reduced by: Eating organically-grown food, filtering drinking and bathing

water, using unbleached paper, using less plastic, buying fresh (not canned)

food.

 

Radiation, especially when young

~ Sources: Mammograms, fallout, x-rays, cell-phones.

~ Reduced by: Avoidance. Doses are cumulative.

 

.....

 

Think

Breast Health!

Things that counter and reverse the initiation, promotion, and growth of

cancer

 

Consumption of phytoestrogens

~ Sources: Red clover infusion, lentils, miso, tamari, roots.

 

A diet rich in cabbage family plants, grains, and beans

~ Source: Semi-vegetarian diet.

 

High dietary intake of carotenes

~ Sources: Dark leafy greens, orange and yellow produce.

 

.....

Read

more from this excerpt from Susun Weed's Breast Cancer? Breast Health!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menopause Naturally

Weight

Gain

excerpted from Susun Weed's " New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman

Way "

 

" Pack your bags for the journey, " Grandmother Growth advises

softly. " Your Change may be rough in places, so cushion yourself. Your

Change may have some hard edges, so let your contours round. Your wise

blood is stirring and you are learning to let it move without attaching

fear to its meanderings. In the same way, you can gracefully allow your

natural weight gain. Struggling with your weight or dieting is bad medicine

for you now, resulting only in thin bones that break easily, extreme

hormone shifts that will keep you from sleeping and thinking, and an inner

fire reduced to ashes or burning out of control. Pack your bags, slowly,

dear one. There is no rush, " sighs Grandmother Growth, closing her

eyes and sinking into a nap.

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the complete article...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goddess Chants

Wise Woman Center 25th Anniversary Celebration CD

 

Scarlet

Poppies

words by Alice C. Henderson

 

I learned this song--which is sung before every meal at the Wise Woman

Center--from a German woman, leading me to the first of the two wrong

assumptions I made about it. One, that it is a German song; it is not. And

two, that it means what it seems to say; it does not. " Scarlet

poppies " are menstrual blood. This song honors women's menstrual blood

as being as important as the sun and the rain in helping the grain to grow

and in nourishing us all. ~ Green Blessings, Susun Weed

 

The silver rain, the shining sun,

 

the fields where scarlet poppies run,

 

and all the ripples of the wheat,

 

are in the bread that I do eat.

 

So when I sit for every meal,

 

with thankful heart I always feel,

 

that I am eating rain and sun,

 

and fields where scarlet poppies run.

 

~~Goddess Chants, Wise Woman Center 25th Anniversary

Celebration CD~~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short Stories by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy

The

Silver Fox (part 1)

by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy © 2007

 

A golden light fell on her black hair. Her long slender fingers moved

rapidly along the white and black keyboard. Yuri, bodyguard to the Russian

ambassador, stood near a large glass door, looking out at the frost covered

ground. The tune of the Moonlight Sonata filled the vast hall. A large

silvery moon rose slowly from behind the dark pine trees, shedding its pale

light over the gleaming ground.

 

The music stopped. The pianist stood up and gave a bow. Yuri watched her,

fascinated. He saw long black hair framing a pale Slavonic face, and large

grey metallic eyes staring vacantly out at the crowd. Something in those

eyes seemed strangely familiar to Yuri, but he could not place it.

 

People began to crowd around the pianist to compliment her. “Who is she?â€

Yuri thought, and those eyes. . . . He followed her discreetly as she moved

among the crowd.

 

 

“Lovely, isn’t she?†Yuri heard a deep husky voice beside him.

 

Nina, the embassy gossip, smiled at him keenly...

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Q & A with Karen Joy

Herbs for Adult Acne...

 

Q:

Dear Susun,

 

My 26 year old daughter has developed “adult acne†over the past year. She

never had any acne while during her teen years/early twentys. The acne is

on her cheeks of her face and very very painful….. so painful she squeezes

them….I know… terrible.

 

The last remedy I gave her was horsetail and lemongrass oils combined

applied to her cheeks…..hasn’t helped to date.

 

She doesn’t eat junk food; Is a good yoga student; Doesn’t smoke tobacco.

 

Any suggestions/thoughts are greatly appericated.

 

Thank you and wishing you all the best possible karma

 

 

A:

Hello, thank you for writing. Susun doesn't have internet to be able to

correspond through email. My ideas come largely from my years of learning

with her... and personal experience I do not know if this will work but

it is worth a try and can't hurt. Burdock root digs deep and nourishes

internally, therefore externally. The tincture of the root, a dropperful

taken 3-4 times a day can, in time, help clear up skin blemishes, and

nourish long term. I would try this faithfully for a few months before

determining yeah or nay. Also tincture of the fresh flowering tops of

Yarrow in a spray bottle spray on the skin just before bed is antibacterial

and can help clear up blemishes. As you guess squeezing them is not good. A

simple thing, that may or may not apply, is just rinsing well with water

and a towel morning and evening. If hormonal, if it seems to follow her

menstrual cycle, I have seen regular use of Vitex berry tincture, a

dropperful 2-3 times a day, show improvement in just a couple months.

 

Let me know if I can help further.

 

Love and Blessings,

Karen Joy

wisewoman

www.wisewomanweb.com

 

 

 

 

Q:

Hello There Karen and thank you for the speedy reply and all the wonderful

info. I just ordered two of Ms.

Weeds books, (can’t wait to get them!!!). I am so glad I found Wise

Woman – not sure what took so long. Again, thank you and Susun and I’ll

keep you posted on the results.

 

 

A:

That is wonderful! And we look forward to hearing how this works for you...

 

 

Blessings,

Karen Joy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In

This Issue:

 

 

 

 

Wesak Celebration

 

 

 

 

Green Blessings

 

 

 

 

Breast Health

 

 

 

 

Menopause Naturally

 

 

 

 

 

Goddess Chants

 

 

 

 

Short Stories by Luz Lancha

de Bairacli Levy

 

 

 

 

Q & A with Karen Joy

 

 

 

 

Women's Herbal Business

For Sale!

 

 

 

 

Susun Weed's Travel

Schedule 2008

 

 

 

 

Weed-Wise Recipes

 

 

 

 

In the Giftshop

 

 

 

 

Women's Circle in Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's

Herbal Business For Sale!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read More....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susun

Weed's Travel Schedule 2008

 

 

 

 

contact sponsors for further details and to register

 

February 14: Gainesville FL, 352-475-1258

 

March 14: Weekend at Pine Crone, Austin TX (Fern, 512-581-9939)

 

March 30:

" >Whole Life Expo in NYC (516-897-0900)

 

April 25: Menopause

at Earth Spirits, Sturbridge MA (508-347-1180)

 

May 16-18: Wesak

Gathering at Mt. Shasta CA (888-926-9255)

 

June 6-8: Midwest Herbal Conference in Winona MN (507-523-2447)

 

July 28- Aug 1: Goddess

Conference, Glastonbury England (011-44-1458-833-933)

 

August 5-8: Findhorn

Foundation, Scotland

 

September 5-7: Women’s

Mysteries with Z Budapest, Santa Cruz CA

 

September 19-21: Green

Nations Gathering (802-293-5996)

 

 

Wise

Woman Center 2008 Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weed-Wise

Recipes

 

 

 

 

Garlic Toast Country Style

Serves 1

 

2 slices organic whole wheat bread

4 cloves organic garlic, minced

2 tablespoons/30 ml olive oil

 

Put bread in a cast iron skillet and toast one side while you mix the oil

and minced garlic together. Turn the bread; spoon garlic and oil thickly

onto the toasted sides. Continue to cook until the second side is toasted.

Eat without delay. For city-style garlic toast, use a regular toaster and

spoon garlic mixed with oil on the toast; or spoon garlic and oil on your

bread and toast it in a toaster oven. Mama mia! Eat it for breakfast!

 

Recipe

from Susun Weed's book Breast

Cancer? Breast Health!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In

the Giftshop

 

 

 

 

Moon

Wall Chart 2008

 

On this calendar the months are in 28 day columns enabling you, over the

course of the year, to observe how closely your own cycle follows that of

the moon.

 

Silver and black on marbled paper

Size 42cm x 29.7cm (A3)

Moon phases and transits at a glance

 

See

a picture and order here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's

Circle in Mexico

 

 

 

 

March 29 to

April 5

2008

 

Portals to the Self: A Women's Circle by the Sea

 

Isla Mujeres, Mexico; an island sacred to Ixchel, the Mayan Moon Goddess

and historically a place for healing rituals among the Mayan people;

creating a sacred circle of support, compassion, abundance and replenishment

as we weave together our stories and wisdom, becoming midwives of our

dreams and visions.

 

kfrlisw

440.779.6727

 

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