Sourdough, Carrots and Dragon’s Blood

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Even as we want change, there is no need to storm the Bastille. Instead we can choose a living response. We can take our pent-up frustration in our post-pandemic world and simply slough it off. We can take up making our own sourdough bread (a living thing) and gardening as a revolutionary response to the death, disease and destruction.

^{These are the self-care and soul-care acts of resilient magic and herbal healing that we can rely on to serve us in years and turnings to come. Come what may, they will feed us and nourish us with their harvest, from the bounty of the earth.}

^{We can channel Cerdwynn’s wisdom and bend a magical wellness brew (tea or incense or bath soak), we can tap into the medicinal secrets of Egypt or lunar energies of the White Goddess for pure healing. We can imagine we are with Pan the nature God of groves and woodlands and dig up an earthy bounty of root vegetables (carrots take just 21 days to germinate) or providence from animals of the lands. We can pickle jars of power; we can cleanse our sacred spaces and invoke energies to make our hearth and home happy and harmonious. We can astral travel in our mind’s eye via meditation, we can stimulate waking dreams and visions. We can learn and keep traditional recipes to hand-down. We can keep an apothecary’s shelf stacked with herbs, roots, oils, and resins. We can play with crystals, channel our inner nature diva, give, and receive therapeutic healings for mind, body, and soul. We can lift our spirits with candle magic, we can dress and anoint our beautiful bodies with scents and florals. We can devour books and offer blessings to those who need it. We can counsel our spirits; we can coach ourselves. We can develop our own psychic awareness with chakra work. We can practice aromatherapy and other practical botanical magic with perfume.} 

^{We can write as magic therapy. We can learn resilience skills from teachers in Positive Psychology and Resilience Coaching. We can embrace deep adaptation to new climate. We can buy bottled old hoodoo recipes on online botanicas (I like Van Van oil for the ridding of negative energies). We can better manage stress with our cleansed, blessed, and sacred spaces or attitude. We can practice divination, time travel via our own memory and intuition, picking up signals of tomorrow and yesterday to help us plant the present. We can read mythology, mysticism, psychology, fairy-tales, astrology, alchemy and herbology books and teachings. We can practice better eating and intermittent fasting for autophagy to help our immune response. We can practice better sleep habits and recognise the power of sleep as an analogue technology which allows us to interface nightly with the imaginal. We can mix up herbs like St. John’s Wort with sea salt and saffron for a healing bath ritual that helps us cleanse, centre and find peace of mind in the enriched water. And we can apply droplets of Dragon’s Blood to power-up any ritual and remedy for healing in a time of COVID.}