Wise Woman Herbal Ezine - May 2008 - Chickweed Is a Star

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Woman Herbal Ezine - May 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing Wise

Chickweed Is a Star

(Stellaria media)

by Susun Weed

Snowdrops and crocus flowers herald the

spring. And if you look in between them, with luck, you'll see a bright

green creeping plant low to the ground with little white starry flowers:

chickweed, a good friend of mine. I say she's a star, because her

botanical name -- Stellaria media -- means little stars. And

because she really stars at helping us when we need to gently dissolve

something or to cool off inflamed tissues. Chickweed not only effects

physical health, she is a psychic healer too. She opens us up to cosmic

energies and gives us the inner strength we need to handle those energies.

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Mother and Child

The

Cervix

by Susun Weed

I am the gateway; I am the door. I connect the

inside to the outside. I decide which outside comes in. I control the flux

and the flow. I hold the wise blood, or let it go. I protect the growing

babe, or thrust it unformed into a world unsuitable. None leave, none

enter, except by my grace, my decision. I am the passage of birth. I am the

mark of the sun. I am as near as the reach of your finger, yet mysterious

and hidden. Many women, most men, born through me, go their whole life

without gazing upon me. I offer blood to Mother Earth. I spin stretchy

strings of fertile mucus to Grandmother Moon.

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Empower Yourself

Seven Directions Movement

Meditation

by White Feather

 

 

It was a warm summer evening on the

Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in western New York when Grandmother Twylah,

(we called her " Twy " back then around 1985) asked me to join her

for a talk she would be giving at a place called Lilly Dale. I was happy to

be her driver as I would often do at that time. She invited me to sit up

front and before I knew it she was introducing me to the audience and

explaining to them I was going to teach them the Seven Directions Movement

Meditation.

 

 

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Wisdom Keeper

Dancing on the Web

by JoAnne Dodgson

 

As the sunset painted the clouds

purple and red, a spider crawled out from the shadows and began to weave a

web. I stepped toward her to get a closer look, curious yet cautiously

keeping my distance. The spider's close proximity evoked old habitual

fears, those lingering effects of the rampant propaganda about the

dangerous, repulsive, predatory nature of all things creepy-crawly. The

spider looked otherwordly with her sleek elliptical brown body encircled by

eight highly arched legs vividly marked with gold and cream stripes. She

was a skilled acrobat, moving about with great agility, free-falling from

the porch rafters on invisible fibers, swiftly dancing around on her many

legs. Intrigued, I spent much of the evening watching her.

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Wise Woman Wisdom

Poke

(Phytolacca americana)

by Susun

S. Weed

I am astride a horse, riding through Provence,

singing to the scotch broom, inhaling lavender, rosemary and thyme,

drinking teas of elder blossom or linden flowers, swigging St. Joan's wort

tincture, rubbing myself with Joan's wort oil, spraying myself with yarrow

tincture, and hoarding my osha root in case there's an emergency. What else

is in my herbal first-aid kit? With the abundance of herbs around me, what

else did I bring to France? What herbs do I carry with me whenever I leave

home? Of the herbs in my herbal first-aid kit, osha is the rarest one I

use. (See

last issue.) But poke is the

most dangerous, and comfrey the most controversial. Poke plants (Phytolacca

americana) are large, showy perennials. Living as they do year after

year, they accumulate a huge, spindle-shaped, root.

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Anti-Cancer Lifestyle

Dandelion – Teeth of the Lion

by Anita Sanchez

Massachusetts, About 1621

A woman kneels in the rich, dark soil of a

garden. Golden sunlight pours down on the freshly-turned earth, and the

comforting warmth helps her to forget the cold. After a winter filled with

hardship, death, and sorrow, it had seemed as if the sun would never shine

again. But now the grass is greening, and spring has come at last. She crumbles the soil

between her fingers, preparing it carefully for the seeds. It is vitally

important that these seeds grow: she is planting an herb garden, of plants

carefully chosen for their healing powers.

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Goddess Speaks

Nurturing Ourselves

by Anna Jarrett

It’s one of those very wet, very cold, dark

autumn nights. We wait, in the sea cave, perched just above the rising

tide, for the full moon to rise over the sea, and bring us her light. The small fire we’ve lit

provides a little warmth and a lot of smoke, a cleansing smoke which

welcomes us into the Moon Lodge Space. Ahh! Such a sacred space. I sit

quietly smiling in the cave, enjoying the cool, hard surface of the sea

cave floor, an earthy reminder of our ancient past when we gathered around

fires every night, to talk, to eat and to rest under the night sky. The

moon slips out from behind the dense grey clouds and her white glow

sparkles on the sea ripples below us. Mmmm, I’m in heaven. I love my

monthly Moon Lodges.

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Grandmother Gaia

Interstitial Cystitis

by Susun Weed

Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic inflammation of the space between

lining of the urinary bladder and its muscle. Please allow me to offer you

some ways to deal with your interstitial cystitis. I agree that antibiotics

are not the best choice. Women with cystitis have bacteria in their urine;

antibacterial drugs or herbs (such as uva ursi, yarrow, cranberry, or

echinacea) usually restore health quickly. Women with IC, however, have no

bacteria in their urine, so antibacterial agents fail to relieve the

distress.

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Calendar of Events Spring 2008

 

At the Wise Woman Center...

 

MAY

work learn days

May 2-4: Z

Budapest, Holy Book of Women's Mysteries

May 6: Shamanic

Herbal Apprenticeship, Early Summer Group begins

May 9: Moonlodge

May 10: Herbal

Medicine Chest, At-Home Day with Weed

May 11: Maidenwort,

Motherwort, Cronewort, At-Home Day with Weed

May 16-18: Wesak Gathering at Mt. Shasta CA

(888-926-9255)

May 30-June 1: Marie

Summerwood, Chant-Making Workshop

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Meet the 2008 Wise Woman Center Guest Teachers:

ZBudapest, Astrid Grove, White Feather, Marie Summerwood & Carol Herzer

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Chant-Making Workshop

Marie Summerwood

May 30-June 1 2008

Chant-Making Workshop

Woodstock, NY

Marie Summerwood, for 25 years, has

been a voice for the Earth. Marie teaches chanting in the Wise Woman

Tradition - It is her sacred work to write and sing chants to honor

all women. . Her second CD—Step into the River—joins her

first—She Walks With Snakes—in praise of Her.

 

From

the heart of the great Mother to you, chants come, even if you have no

musical ability, training, or experience. It ’s easy and fun. Your chant

will be recorded for you to take home.

 

Register on-line for Chant-Making

Workshop

Read some writings of Marie Summerwood:

THE RISING

OF SPRING

Women's

Sacred Chants

We All Need

Weeds: Strengthening the Immune System

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This Issue:

 

 

 

 

Healing Wise

 

 

 

 

Mother and Child

 

 

 

 

Empower Yourself

 

 

 

 

Wisdom Keeper

 

 

 

 

Wise Woman Wisdom

 

 

 

 

Anti-Cancer Lifestyle

 

 

 

 

Goddess Speaks

 

 

 

 

Grandmother Gaia

 

 

 

 

Calendar of Events Spring

2008

 

 

 

 

Chant-Making Workshop

 

 

 

 

BIRD VIBES CARDS

 

 

 

 

DISTANCE LEARNING

 

 

 

 

HONORING YOUR BELLY -

NOW ON DVD

 

 

 

 

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BIRD

VIBES CARDS

 

 

 

 

Bird Vibes - a deck of 54 beautiful meditation cards by

Catherine Bastedo Bird Vibes is based on 50 birds that may be seen in

various parts of North America, grouped by eight chakras according to the

bird's colour, habitat or other characteristics. Each card shows a

different bird through paintings commissioned from Ottawa nature painter,

Heather Bale. Use this deck to gain insight into current life situations,

to connect with Nature, and the Universal Life Energy around us and within

us. Retails for $29.95 plus shipping

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DISTANCE

LEARNING

 

 

 

 

Susun Weed, Wise Woman Herbalist, offer four different courses,

each of which explores a different aspect of herbal medicine. Each course

includes a project booklet of 26 assignments, audio/video tapes/DVDs,

books, a discount on classes with me, time to deal with your personal

needs, erratic mailings of fun stuff, and special gifts. You are free to

complete your course as your time and life allow; there is no time limit.

There is no requirement to send in lessons or to report to me, except as

you desire. Upon completion of your course you receive a beautiful certificate

suitable for framing.

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HONORING

YOUR BELLY - NOW ON DVD

 

 

 

 

Honoring Your Belly DVD Video This fun and instructional video

with Lisa Sarasohn is much more than a set of conventional stomach

exercises. This dynamic sequence of belly-energizing moves draws from the

wisdom of yoga and other healing arts. Use this 35-minute DVD video to

learn these moves, enacting a rite for reconsecrating our womanhood and

animating ancient symbols of the Sacred Feminine. Yours for $19.95 plus

shipping

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