Newsletter Wise Woman Mid-month Newsletter - March '08

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Woman Mid-Month Newsletter ~ March '08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" Holy Book of Women's Mysteries "

with Zsuzsanna Budapest

May 2 -4, 2008

3 days: $500. $100 deposit

 

Wise Woman Center

Woodstock, NY

 

 

We are Gathering the Goddesses, a journey through shared experience and

discussions of philosophy and practice of the Goddess Path. Where did the

Women's Spirituality Movement begin? Rediscover The Holy Book of Women's

Mysteries ... the book that changed the minds and hearts of American women

.... applauded widely in historical accounts of the Feminist Movement. But

do you actually know what's in this book? Why is it so effective? How it

came to be birthed? And, behind the scenes personal stories that shaped

Feminist Spirituality and the world.

Mysterious

woman, you are magic. Come spin spells with me, learn the hidden passages

of your power, face your fears, make your dreams real, and reclaim yourself

as Goddess and Witch.

 

 

Zsuzsanna Budapest - " grandmother of the goddess movement " -

has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written

articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across

the country for many decades. She has powerfully influenced many of the

future teachers and writers about the Goddess.

REGISTER

NOW~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Blessings

The

Heroic Tradition & The Wise Woman Tradition

excerpts from Healing Wise by Susun Weed

 

Youthful long life, promises the heroic tradition, is given to those who

follow the rules, atone for their wrongs, and get clean.

 

It is especially important in the Heroic tradition to cleanse the body

inside and out: to purify the body with austerities and sweats, to clean

out toxins with fasts and purges, to clean the blood, clean the liver, and

above all, clean the colon.

 

A widespread belief in the Heroic traditions of health care, especially for

the past several hundred years in white-occupied North America, and for

several hundred more in Europe, is tht disease arises from filth in the

colon.

 

Many Heroic tradition practitioners recomment enemas and colonics as the

first line of defense against every problem from menstrual cramps to

cancer...

view

the entire article here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breast Health

Nutrition,

the Wise Woman Way

By Susun Weed

 

The biochemical and energetic nutrients which we digest, absorb, and

metabolize from foodstuffs are the foundation of all cellular activity in

the body, including growth, repair, reproduction, resistance to disease,

and maintenance. Good nutrition is critically important to every form of

life we know. Finding, growing, preparing, and storing food has been

women's work and women's genius since time out of mind.

 

The Spirit of the Food

Nutrition begins with milk from mother's breast, from the breast of the

Great Goddess. In earth-centered cultures, the harvesting and gathering of

food is interwound with sacred threads, and the consumption of the food is

a sacrament. This aspect of nutrition is invisible, unmeasurable,

undiscussed, but of utmost importance to the health of the individual and

the ecology.

 

Healthy Diets

When food choices are limited, women eat whatever is available. As long as

adequate carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals are consumed

and clean water is available, health is easily maintained.(1) Restricted

diets (vegan, vegetarian, impoverished) generally fail to provide

adequately for women, and the addition of milk products, eggs, or meat to

these diets optimizes health. When the food supply is abundant and foods

are highly refined, as is the case in most Western countries, food choices

may adversely affect health. This is due in part to an innate (healthy)

craving for sweet, salt, and fat (which are scarce in nature but

commercially abundant, leading to overconsumption) and in part to the

degradation of the foodstuffs themselves.

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more of this article...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menopause Naturally

The

Menopausal Years

from New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way by Susun Weed

 

Human females are unique from all other females on two counts (at least):

we menstruate; and we cease to be reproductively available after we've

lived only half our life span. (Estrus bleeding in dogs is not

menstruation.) The ancient women's mysteries tell us of the powers and

initiations of these unique events: menstruation and menopause. This book

focuses on the latter - the years of transformation from potential mother

to wise, whole crone - the menopausal years.

 

Meno (menstruation) pause (stops) is, technically, the last menstrual flow

of a woman's life. The years just before and just after the menopause

itself are referred to as the climacteric. For most women the climacteric

spans from early/mid 40s to late 50s/early 60s, including the premenopausal

years, the menopausal climax years, and the post-menopausal years,

popularly known as the Change of Life.

 

This Change is a metamorphosis (complete change at a cellular level). This

metamorphosis follows, and may even be the matrix for, the three classic

stages of initiation: isolation, death, and rebirth/reintegration. Each

woman's Change includes these three stages, as well as three phases (before

menopause, during menopause, and after menopause).

 

Each stage and phase of our metamorphic, menopausal Change is different;

each has special needs and offers special challenges....

Learn

more about the stages of menopause the Wise Woman Way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goddess Chants

Wise Woman Center 25th

Anniversary Celebration CD

 

Tubs

In, Tubs Out

Apprentice Song - Wise Woman Center

by Marie Summerwood

 

 

Tubs in, tubs out, tubs in, tubs out,

Cook, eat, wash dishes.

Tubs in, tubs out, tubs in, tubs out,

Cook, eat, wash dishes.

 

Chant and dance and trance and so remember.

Chant and dance and trance and so remember.

 

~~Goddess Chants, Wise Woman Center 25th Anniversary

Celebration CD~~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short Stories by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy

An

Adventure (part 1)

by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy

© 2007

 

We decided to go away, just Talma and I. We had both had enough — her

children, my husband — everyone seemed to be getting on everyone else’s

nerves. It was the heat. It had become unbearable! One could no longer

sleep because of the heat. People everywhere were bad tempered because of

this. Everything was blamed on the heat!

 

So, we booked a small house for a week in a mountain village. Every winter

our chosen destination transforms into an extremely crowded ski-resort. Now

we hoped that we would find it deserted.

 

“What are you going to do there this time of year?†my sarcastic friends at

work inquired.

 

“Breathe,†I replied, “Breathe lots of cool fresh air.†Their envious faces

sneered at me.

 

Just as we were about to set off on our journey, I received a phone call.

My friends, with whom I was to leave my dog, phoned to say that they could

not manage it.

 

“. . . because of the heat. We are so sorry. . . .â€

 

So we ended up having to haul my large golden Afghan hound along. Poor

fellow, it would have been cruel to have left him behind in the oppressive

stuffy city while we were off to breathe clean invigorating mountain air.

 

We set off in my friend’s car. It was early on a hot breathless morning. We

were in high spirits. Even the dog seemed to appreciate the cool breeze

coming in through the open windows. With the suffocating city behind us, we

at first drove along the coastline, then after an hour or so, we branched

off to the right, towards the mountains of the north. As soon as we took

the turn I gave out a long sigh.

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the whole story here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q & A with Karen Joy

Creative Visualization as

" Medicine "

 

Q:

Hi Susun,

 

I must first say I'm so glad I stumbled across you on the internet

recently. Reading some of your articles has given more more peace than

anything I've found.

 

I just turned 44 and I thought I was beginning menopause because I had no

cycle for almost 2 months. I happened to find and read one of your articles

online and started drinking some of the infusions you recommended, like red

clover, stinging nettle, raspberry leaf, etc. My cycle came back and

everything has been going just fine.

 

Now, for my real problem. I've had a desire for a child for many many

years. However, I've never met anyone that I wanted to marry. And, I did

not want to choose to be a single mother and go it alone (if it turned out

that way, that's one thing, but I didn't want to start off that way),

because I feel I have no support.

 

Now I'm 44 and my doctors tell me I'd better hurry up. I didn't want to

just call up a friend, or go to a sperm bank, and I don't feel led to

adopt. My mother says I need spiritual counseling, but I know of no one. If

I could just get rid of the desire, I'd be fine. Unfortunately, I've had

the desire for my own child for the past 15 to 20 years or so. I can't find

any peace or answers in this situation. Got any advice for me?

 

Thanks a million

 

 

 

A:

It is so wonderful you took your health into your own hands and are doing

well!! I will share your note with Susun. She does not have internet to be

able to correspond through email.

 

I know you are asking for advice from Susun. So I will share my thoughts

and are happy with whether you choose to read them or not...

 

I know what it is like to want something SO much, yet it involves another

person, therefore seems impossible for us to have on our own. Or even just

wanting something that seems impossible looking at all the options we know

of for attaining it. For me, the best thing I have found is creative

visualization. Visualize what you wish to create, even the most intimate

details. The more detail we give the better we are able to bring it to

fruition, yet the more room we leave the more open we are to new possibly

as of yet unthought of avenues for creating. I know this sounds

contradictory, though it is not.

 

For you this might be you envisioning what you most want. It sounds like it

is a child of your own to care for. Picture the details of this, not so

much the sex or what the baby looks like, but the details of your wants,

your physical and emotional associations with this, with perhaps holding

the child or sharing life with a young person or being a role model or

loving so passionately another living being. Find the core of your physical

and emotional wants and envision them in detail.

 

As far as a partner I hear you speak more of the need for this relationship

with this child and the desire to not be alone in the work that goes into

this responsibility. Perhaps though there is need for adult companionship

you have that I did not hear. Stay focused on what is the details of what

is most important to you, focus on what you feel and desire, not on your

head thoughts of the only ways this can come about. It may feel essential

to you that the babe grow in and birth from you. It sounds you want to feel

surrounded by adult support. As a now single mom I can tell you that the

image of having a child once married so I would not be alone in my raising,

did not insure it.

 

Instead of focusing on the particulars of what you think would give you the

feeling you want, focus on the feeling, the feeling of being surrounded

with love or intimate touch or emotional support, whatever it is that you

wish. Don't yet put a face to that image. This is what I mean about

imagining the details without getting too specific. When you take perhaps

regular time, like 5 minutes each day before bed, imagining what you are

wishing, really feel it as if it were real.

 

Let me know if I can help further.

 

Love and Blessings,

Karen Joy

wisewoman

www.wisewomanweb.com

 

 

 

 

Q: Karen,

 

God bless you!

 

Thank you for taking time to respond to my email and sharing your thoughts.

 

 

It was what I needed to hear. I get so caught up in my mind and my thoughts

sometimes, that it becomes difficult for me to follow my heart.

 

Thank you so much. I will practice creative visualization and I will keep

you posted on my manifestations, if you don't mind.

 

 

 

A:

I do look forward to hearing more as time goes, thank you. It is natural,

and healthy really, for us to think our way through how to create what we

desire. This can be incredibly productive and helpful as we rationalize

what we wish and the best steps to go about it. There are times, too, like

this perhaps, when we need to step away from that approach to better access

our inner desires.

 

All my best!

Karen Joy

 

~Read Susun Weed's Seven Medicines for more on

" Energy Medicine " ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In

This Issue:

 

 

 

 

" Holy Book of Women's

Mysteries "

with Zsuzsanna Budapest

 

 

 

 

Green Blessings

 

 

 

 

Breast Health

 

 

 

 

Menopause Naturally

 

 

 

 

 

Goddess Chants

 

 

 

 

Short Stories by Luz Lancha

de Bairacli Levy

 

 

 

 

Q & A with Karen Joy

 

 

 

 

EVENTS Calendar

 

 

 

 

Women's 7th Herbal and

Seaweed Gathering

 

 

 

 

Women's Herbal Business

for Sale!

 

 

 

 

In the Giftshop

 

 

 

 

14th Annual Wesak

Celebration

 

 

 

 

Weed-Wise Recipes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVENTS

Calendar

 

 

 

 

select events ~ visit the link below to see more

 

At the Wise Woman Center

Woodstock, NY

 

April 12: Spring

Tonics, At-Home Day with Weed

 

April 13: Hands-on

Herbal Medicine/Spring, At-Home Day with Weed

 

May 2-4: Z Budapest, Holy

Book of Women's Mysteries

 

May 30-June 1: Marie Summerwood, Chant-Making

Workshop

 

 

Susun Weed abroad

contact sponsors for more info

 

March 30: Whole

Life Expo in NYC (516-897-0900)

 

April 25: Menopause

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

 

 

 

 

Full 2008 Schedule for Susun Weed and the Wise Woman

Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's

7th Herbal and Seaweed Gathering

 

 

 

 

May 30-June 6, 2008

Lopez Island, WA

Herbal

Wisdom

Wild Edibles

Whole and Local Foods

Community

Transformation

....and More...

 

" I

can't tell you what a difference camping with you this year has made in my

life. It just keeps on coming! "

 

 

For more information contact Linda at 920-457-9290 or visit:

Moonwise

Herbs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's

Herbal Business for Sale!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read More...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In

the Giftshop

 

 

 

 

She

Walks with Snakes

Women's Sacred Chants CD

 

From Marie Summerwood:

 

" This is a sampling of a collection of chants I've been writing

since 1989. I have long wished to give some form to the music to share it

with other women. So Cherie and I gathered a group of friends and we've

been chanting together In Her Name to record She Walks With Snakes. We

called upon our own passion to infuse this music with beauty. We chanted in

sacred circle always.

 

" This music is sacred to women. I offer it for use in solitary work or

in a circle of women. Use it to weave a container of sound for work

together, and to create community as women gather all over the world to

sing and open to our own power, our own beauty, and our own wisdom. "

 

 

 

 

~see some samples here~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14th

Annual Wesak Celebration

 

 

 

 

May 16-18, 2008

Mount Shasta, CA

 

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

featured speakers and musicians including Susun Weed!

 

Learn

More~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weed-Wise

Recipes

 

 

 

 

Mother Earth Ocean Soup

 

3 onions, chopped

3 tablespoons olive oil

6 potatoes, cubed

2 carrots sliced

2 parsnips

1 cup sliced dried or fresh wild greens

1 cup dried seaweed of your choice

12 cups pure water

 

Sauté onions in oil until brown. Add all the remaining ingredients and cook

until vegetables are done. Adjust seasonings adding sea salt as needed and

let mellow overnight or serve immediately.

 

 

Recipe

from Susun Weed's book Healing

Wise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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