Herbs @ MindSay

 

I am not what one would say a 'magickal' witch, I am just a simple country witch that utilizes the gifts of Mother "Earth for my healing and well being. As a  practical country witch that is on the road more times than not, the use of stones, and crystals, herbs, and tarot ,is pretty much the extent of my 'workings'. Because these items are not big I can take them along for the ride, so that I will have them when I have a need for them, and now a days it seems I need them everyday. The gentle healing energy I get from my stones have been a constant help for me. I have many types of stones and crystals that I can wear as jewelry that makes it easier for me to have access to their gentle healing energies through out my day. The articles that I have posted from Over the Rainbow website, is a fantastic sight to learn many of the things you need to know in order to help in many areas of ones life, and I hope they can be of use to you all. I know that in order to really find out what kind of energy a stone or crystal has, it is my experience that by keeping that particular stone on ones person and being aware of whats going on , inside of self while you do, that sooner or later you will know what a stones energy is for you personally. I have found for instance when I wear my malachite jewelry that it is best for me not  to do so prior to my period/moon time, because it wants to help me bring up areas of my life that I need to work on, and at that time of the month their power is overwhelming for me and I wind up depressed over what issues come bubbling up, so I have learned that there is about a week period during the month that I do not want to wear that particular stone, any other time I have no problems with it and I am more able to work through those issues , and I am very thankful for their assistance at those times. I have some crystals that are excellent pain relievers and I use their assistance when my arthritis and Fibromyalgia flare up, and from experience they really do take the pain away when placed on the spot that hurts, I dearly love those healers and I am thankful to Mother Earth and Father Great Spirit for the gifts that they have given us to help us on our journeys.

I have found a wonderful way to clear, and balancing my chakras since doing it on my self the way most books tell you to do is a bit difficult for me, what I do is this and find it works wonderfully, I hold the appropriate chakra stone  in my left hand starting from the base chakra first, then I move  upwards when I am through with each chakra, and with my right hand I use my pendulum and I first see if it needs anything done by asking 'is this chakra ok? and then wait for my yes or no, if not I then balance it by saying ' I am now balancing it' and my pendulum will go in a circle, when it stops I then ask that chakra 'spend' in the direction that is best for me. My pendulum will either spin to right or the left.  and I wait until it quits spinning in that direction .and each chakra will then spend opposite of the last chakra that was done there after.This method has always worked for me and I find I do indeed feel better after I am through.

With herbs , i just grow alot of them and when I am home I just water and care for them and touch their leaves and take a deep breath in of there aroma and essence, I have been healed many times by just doing that. One time my back was out so bad, I was in so much pain, I could barely walk and straighten my back, when I got home my hubby helped me to where my herbs were, (in containers and pots) and I just started tending to them, clipping dead leaves off, transplanting some , watering and feeding them,  and oh what an aroma they were releasing , they all smelled so wonderful and strong that day! and by the time I was done, I was healed, no pain and I could straighten up, I was so overwhelmed by the loving healing they gave me and this was all done with out any magickal mumbo jumbo, I just cried with tears of gratitude and Thanksgiving for the gift I had been given that day.

I usually go to my health food store and purchase herbs already in capsule and pill form for what I need since I don't have the time to do that. And I buy what vitamins I am needing and these I take with me in my 'medicine bag' I carry an assortment so I won't be caught off guard on the road. I usually take, garlic, turmeric, echinacea and golden-seal, vitamin. C, tea tree oil, cranberry,oil of oregano, olive leaf oil,  vinegar capsules, these are for infections and viruses and the like, plus what other vitamins I take for my health issues at the time.

Tarot cards , I have 2 main decks I take with me, Universal Rider Waite, and a combination of 2 decks that I have picked out   of Cosmic tarot, and Gypsy deck, I picked each card that was the best for what the card meant, and it has turned out to be a wonderful deck to use. I use tarot mainly for spiritual purposes and meditations and sometimes affirmations.

So you see I am a practical practising witch, and I leave the magick for those that can do that , I just don't go for to much ceremony and ritual and keeping track of the time of day and week, and all the special words needed.  I just use what I need, with intent and purpose with gratitude and Thanksgiving. I follow the seasons and the moons which guide my thinking and meditation focus for those times, I decorate house and altar accordingly, and I like to keep my other blog theme to look like each turn of the wheel that I am in. It is just the way I live and think , it is a part of me , it is who I am. As a double Taurus, everything must be practical . Any thing I have even decorations must have a practical  use for, other than just taking up valuable space, my drums I put on wall, but I also bang on them, my turtle bag hangs on wall but I also wear it, some of my large stones are on display but I also use them when I need their help, my besoms are out in open and stand guard by my fireplace but I also use them to cleanse the aura of the house.. my snapping turtle shell/shield is on my outter door  of my office ,it is nice to look at but it guards my sacred space as well....etc..

So there you have in a nut or turtle shell a little peek into the world of  a practical country witch.

blessings to all

A fast update of a bit of everything. 

 

1.  I have started getting my mail on an every other day biases!  My moms is sooo proud of me!  I started because I was waiting for checks to come in for the kids and various First Communion presents from all the family and "pagany" friends that sent to them.  Now I am waiting on my checks to come in.  So now that I have gotten in the habit we can start actually "writting".  Craftywench dear, I need you to email us full addy and your mini me's name and your name again.  DeLaney said she won't promise any decent letters (they just got done with proper letter writing at school so she is burnt out) but she will write!

 

2.  I was very upset with my TKD Academy instructor Monday and ran into Aj's wife yesterday and told her why.  It looks like my cousin's wife has been talking and the owner/instructor is beleiving every word she has to say about me.  Which is funny as hell cause the stuck up bitch doesn't KNOW me, doesn't talk to me outside of saying hi, and thinks I am "white trash" cause I don't dress in brand name clothes.  Carrie is upset over this cause she had to deal with my cousin's wife talking shit about her last year.  AJ is going to talk to me Friday cause he is worried that after we get our black belt at the end of this year beginning of next year instead of stickign around that we will leave the Academy.  AJ knows that I don't put up with this type of shit but I am also not going to play highschool bull shit games, I'll call the instructor and cousin's wife out and be dayumed any family fall out.

 

3.  After 7 years (i though it was 5 until my moms counted back) I actually took myself to my hair stylist and got my hair colored.  The kdis and I got our hair cut Wensday or Thrusday last week and I splurged on hair color yesterday.  I think I look kick ass hot with my new do.  The bottom half of my hair is a purply reddish brown and the upper layers are reddish brown.  So when I put my sides up you can see the purple and when I actually blow dry curl my bangs you can see it also!  My hair stylist instead of charging me for my length which at the moment is short and thickness of my hair (usually takes a lot of dye for my hair even when short) she charged me just for shortness for two different dyes even though the bottom dye she used a full bottle of it she said!  I was very happy over not paying close to 100 for my dye like normal!  It was closer to 50!

 

4.  I don't know if I told you all about the plan I had in plotting progress but I started it.  At the end of May when my kdis get out of school, instead of taking them on their first camping trip, they will be staying with Pappo and Mammo (Unless daddy is home those two days) while Mommy is bettering herself.  I registered for 1 of 6 classes to start my certificate/licensing process to become a Certified and eventually Licensed Drug/Alchohal (sp?  can't ever spell that word) Counselor!  The total amoutn of classes is $1300.00 but you only pay for the class your taking.  And if the class that is scheduled doesn't fit in your schedule you just wait for the next one to be listed, it doesn't hurt you!  It is through the Lincoln Medical Center and a program called TAP out of Lincoln.  The series of classes are held every 6 months.  Sometimes on the Western/Central parts of the state and the other times on the Eastern/Central part of the state.  Right now they are in the Western/Central parts of the state but I am going down to a weekend class in Lincoln the day my kdis get out of school for the first class.  I have NOT told Randy yet, because Randy told NOW would come up with a way to sabatoge my plans and he wouldn't even realize it.  Once it comes closer I will inform him and he will get over it.  My parents and my sister (and one friend) are stepping to the plate to help with the kids especially when it comes to the week long classes coming up.  After I do the classes I have to intern at 1 of 4 places near me or try to get on at the IHS out paitent clinic.  Once I get that over with I can get licensed and work anyplace in NE as a counselor.  I am going to hold out for the IHS Drug/Booze Dependency Unit to be up and operational to get on with the Tribe/Gov't.  They are in the process of building it now right next to the new IHS hospital my moms works at!

 

5.  My garden is tilled and my onions planted.  I have to find my other seed to get the other cold weather seeds in, my herb garden needs one more tillign and then I can plant that, and Coltin's room is about done with the fixing of cracks so I can paint!

 

6.  Randy has been an ass lately so when he is home this week we will hash that out.

 

Over all life has been good.  I even wrote gwydionjim a letter while he is at boot camp.  He might even get another one here when I mail out the last of the kids' thank you cards for all their First Communion Presents!  Yes I make my kids do snail mail thank yous!

Blame it on the weather and the face that the garden is,responding to the rain,is beginning to look like Burn-Jones' pictures of Sleeping Beauty's castel!

  Then again,a garden filled with herbs smells wonderful after heavy rain.The mulberrt tree still hasn't flowered.I keep reading about these descriptions of mulberry flowers being spectacular and I'm growing old waiting!!!

So I'll just have to content myself with dandelions and forget-me-nots! I know dandelinos count as herbs but I'm not sure the rest of the family appreciates that.

   The Lily-of-the-valley have multiplied and have put up promising green spears.I wonder how many shades of green there are?

In the garden it ranges from the (currently)pale green of the lilies across the mud-green of thehazel trees to the deep glossy green of the holly.A green thought in a green shade indeed.

Dr. Gilbert Ng talks about the King of Health Foods

Ganoderma Lucidum called Reishi in Japan is a unique health food with a wide range of medicinal properties which collectively strengthens the immune system and gives the user longevity: It has the rare and valuable properties of an Adaptogen, which means that it is non-toxic, non-specific, and has a normalizing effect on the body. It is classified as Top of the Superior Quality of all herbs by the pharmacopoeia used by Chinese doctors for thousands of years. Emperors have considered Reishi an herb for the immortals. Its stature is higher than Ginseng. It has a long history of safe use (5,000 years). No toxicity or side-effect has been reported. There are 30 years of ample modern scientific evidences in the laboratory and in the clinic for its effectiveness. It has extremely wide applications, bringing benefits to the entire body, preventing almost all the common diseases. Its potency as a medicine even exceeds many modern drugs. For example, it is more effective than Melatonin and certainly much safer and free from side-effects. It is effective even for "terminal" illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, and coronary heart disease. It is effective for both prevention and cure, suitable for daily use as a health supplement. It is very easy to gain acceptance by new users because of Reishi's stature, publicity, and complete safety.

This amazing Chinese herb “Reishi” has even been recognized and endorsed by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia Society.

Note:  In no way are we saying this herb cures, treats or mitigates any disease, but the body by design wants to heal itself and can when given fuel it needs to operate optimally.