Alternative Modes of Moon Journeys [winter travel/inclement weather]
In a thoroughly cleaned bathroom leave the window open to the cool midnight air, burn magnolia incense, preferably, but cinnamon will do. In a handkerchief handled by some other woman in your family [the further back the better], put chamomile, an undamaged birthwort leaf, and Lady's Fern. Tie this with a satin ribbon from your hair [in this case the longer the better]. Kiss the sachet three times. Drop it gently into a tub of steaming hot water that will cover all of your body. Float one fully opened flower in the water [something deep like lilacs or lilies] Get in to the tub while tickling the water in circles with the petals of the flower. Lie in the tub, with the flower over your heart. Close your eyes. Breathe deep, all the way from your toes and through the smooth of your belly. Inhale the steam, the flower, the dark, and cool breeze, and release...do this until you cannot differentiate between the water and your body... when you get there you will know that you are on your way.
Seeking Nothing/ Giving Thanks for Lunar Gifts [full moon required]
Bathe casually in a bath scented with cinnamon and vanilla. Make sure to wash your hair with freshly brewed raspberry tea. Rinse thoroughly, being sure that your hands thank every part of your body for its tireless labour and unyeilding gifts. You must do this without adornments of any kind, no jewerly, no makeup, nothing must block the connection of bare skin and water. If you want to do this right... go outside. Lie fully open to the sky, freezing and beautiful. Think of yourself. Smell the world from the inside out. Allow the Moon to share with vastness of Night. Hold back nothing. Do this right and your thanks will be mightily received....
[disclaimer: not responsible for any arrests as a result of lewd behavior]
"Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs adn tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits." -Ntozake Shange
In a thoroughly cleaned bathroom leave the window open to the cool midnight air, burn magnolia incense, preferably, but cinnamon will do. In a handkerchief handled by some other woman in your family [the further back the better], put chamomile, an undamaged birthwort leaf, and Lady's Fern. Tie this with a satin ribbon from your hair [in this case the longer the better]. Kiss the sachet three times. Drop it gently into a tub of steaming hot water that will cover all of your body. Float one fully opened flower in the water [something deep like lilacs or lilies] Get in to the tub while tickling the water in circles with the petals of the flower. Lie in the tub, with the flower over your heart. Close your eyes. Breathe deep, all the way from your toes and through the smooth of your belly. Inhale the steam, the flower, the dark, and cool breeze, and release...do this until you cannot differentiate between the water and your body... when you get there you will know that you are on your way.
Seeking Nothing/ Giving Thanks for Lunar Gifts [full moon required]
Bathe casually in a bath scented with cinnamon and vanilla. Make sure to wash your hair with freshly brewed raspberry tea. Rinse thoroughly, being sure that your hands thank every part of your body for its tireless labour and unyeilding gifts. You must do this without adornments of any kind, no jewerly, no makeup, nothing must block the connection of bare skin and water. If you want to do this right... go outside. Lie fully open to the sky, freezing and beautiful. Think of yourself. Smell the world from the inside out. Allow the Moon to share with vastness of Night. Hold back nothing. Do this right and your thanks will be mightily received....
[disclaimer: not responsible for any arrests as a result of lewd behavior]
"Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs adn tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits." -Ntozake Shange
posted by HindiK at 1:23 AM
8 Comments:
you know that you always possessed a whole lot of misplaced gypsy blood [your more sephardic than me].
reading palms
reading horoscopes
reading stars
reading handwriting
reading faces and eyes
don't you ever get tired of reading books, and books and the world and the people in it???
still what would we do without our local herbalist, palmist, and wise witch who takes pilgrimage to remote Gaelic towns in Ireland, moon bathes on her roof, and demands we celebrate the first snow with ice numbing picnics.
You know Hin-
You're actually sick. Be normal. Go see a doctor [like a real one who dispenses medications] I don't want to see you later on campus... [if i do i am calling for a witch hunt]
your fellow Conspirator-
e. handwerker
p.s. and hahahahah i read the girls-only part, i figured i was an exception ;)
dont peek implores please read and shock yourselves at my ever fascinating multi-faceted dynamic persona. didnt work. but what i did notice were some out of character spelling errors. perhaps its the new way to spell, for u couldnt possibly have missed those. what have u put in your bath hindy dear? mysterious stuffs that mess with coherent brain function it seems. can you really have "striked up a conversation"? interesting to have met a ghost of your future. if that were me catching that particular glimpse id scurry off to make some monumental and life altering changes.
anon
TO RID ONESELF OF THE SCENT OF EVIL
[traditional method]
Though it may cause some emotional disruptions, stand absolutely still & repeat the offender's name till you are overwhelmed with the memory of your encounter. Take two deep slow breaths, on a 7 count. Then, waving your arms & hands all about you, so your atmosphere may be again be clean, say the name of the offender softly. Each time blowing your own breath into the world that we may all benefit from your renewal. Then in a hot place [your kitchen or out doors] cover yourself in warm clay poultices. Let them dry on you, taking the poisons of the offender out of your body, allowing all the grime adn other to fall from you without using your hands or a cloth. Then, run yourself a new tub full of warm water filled with angelica & chamomile. Bring to your bath a tall clear glass of spring water wherein floats one closed white rose. Lying in your fragrant bath, sip the rose's water, for you are again among nature's flowers.
[anon- let me know how it goes]
you gettin any?
im quite convinced that youve got magic leaking from the moon thats stuck in your mouth but why delete the beginning segment of your original post?
and that is how beautiful things get repulsive.
anon you're disgusting.
a beautiful thing cannot possibly become repulsive. reconsider what you find beautiful. personally i find it funny.
what is going on?
anon there's nothing in my mouth right now besides the cookie dough i just made.
and if you have issues with the imagery take it up with ms. shange, its pretty much conceptualized from her book sassfras, cypress, and indigo.
as you know in art, what is repulsive to one person, may be beautiful to another.
unfortunately, a major part of our cultural decay is the illusion that there is such a thing as Absolute Beauty. Beauty is relative... we fail when we attempt to judge what and who is Beautiful and what is not... everyone and everything contains an element of Beauty. It's a perspective not a judgment.
[i don't believe in Absolute anything [removed from Gd] which is precisely why i don't give an iota that i change my mind, contradict myself, or recycle creativity]
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