Pantry Profile: Chives {Allium schoenoprasum}

By Crooked Bear Creek Organics

With its bright green stalks and vibrant, lavender-pink and spiky blossoms, chives are a lovely ornamental plant and herb garden staple. Found fresh in the yard in summer and dried in cupboards in the cooler months of fall and winter, chives hold surprising medicinal and nutritional benefits. A member of the Amaryllidaceae family {Amaryllis}, which includes familiar alliums garlic and onions, chives have a mild and pleasant onion-garlic flavor.

Chives have played a role in medicine and protection for more than 5,000 years. The ancient Romans used chives to relieve sore throats, lower blood pressure, and increase urination, while Traditional Chinese Medicine turned to it for coughs, colds, and congestion. In the Middle Ages, it was a popular remedy for melancholy.

A traditional Romani custom was to use chives in fortune telling and to hang them in the home to ward off disease and evil influences. Planting chives in the…

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Crypto And Then Some … July 12th

By Paula Cas

KDCL Media, part of And Then Some Again Productions, presents Crypto and And Then Some … Thursday, July 12th at 9:00 pm EDT.

Catch the wave at Crypto And Then Some … as your hosts Oro and Paula Cas explore show about the brave new world of crypto, bitcoin, and the programs and technologies moving to the forefront of the financial world. Call in at 845-277-9146 with your thoughts, questions, stories, and experiences.

We’ll talk about the news of the week. Information about new coins, programs, exchanges, affiliate programs, and the technologies arising from cryptocurrencies and their uses in today’s world. Everything from ATM’s that accept Bitcoin to the Blockchain. Join us to talk about Bitcoin, cloud mining, charts and the markets, alt-coins, and where you believe the future is going with crypto currency.

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Friday The 13th Spell

Slavic Witch Friday The 13th Spell …

New Moon, Solar Eclipse, Pluto ~ Do I need to say more?

Dear all,

If your answer was “yes!” — here it is:

This New Moon and partial Solar Eclipse, happening in the sign of Cancer, with opposition from Pluto retrograde, may bring out some unresolved issues to the forefront.

Because Pluto is retrograde, this means it will be something you are already familiar with and because the Sun and the Moon are involved, it may affect your confidence, vitality, your emotions, or your subconscious. The exact field of life it will affect will depend on your natal chart.

The keywords for Pluto are control, power, and transformation, and in the order I’ve listed them, they indicate the rise from the lower to the higher energies. So if any issues of control or power-plays (or fears) arise, you will want to think of how they can be transformed and that will shift your personal energy.

Direct influence of this energy is on Thursday and Friday, and this would be a perfect time to have an energy session, as any change you want to make will be able to deeper than usual.

This is not a good time to begin anything new and it would be better to wait till Saturday, when a supportive Venus – Saturn connection makes it a good day for laying any foundations for whatever you want to have a long-term success with.

Crystals to work with: Dravite, multi-colored Tourmaline, Scepter Quartz

Till next time, stay happy and healthy!

Brana Mijatovic,Ph.D.

http://crystalcosmopolitan.com/

http://www.universalenergywaves.com/

Oro Expeditions After Dark ~ July 8th

By Paula Cas

Join us Sunday, July 8th at 9:00 pm EDT for the next edition of Oro Expeditions After Dark with Hosts Oro and Paula Cas.

The switchboard is open at 845-277-9146 for OPEN MIC Sunday to join Oro and Paula Cas in discussing news and current events centering around gold mining, and topics from the normal to the paranormal. Also your favorite place to prospect, metal detecting, suction dredge, and any other mining activity we missed. We’ll check in on the LDMA and GPAA to see what events they have scheduled for the summer.

We’re sure to get into a little news about the Expedition, Oro and Paula. Things that have happened or just struck that certain chord to make you want to share. It’s been a long week and it ain’t over yet.

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A Druid’s Guide to Connecting with Nature, Part I: A Framework

A Druid’s guide to connecting with Nature – Part I: A Framework

The Druid's Garden

A lot of people find druidry because they want to “connect” with nature. They want to attune to nature, feel part of it, gain knowledge and wisdom about it. But what does “connecting” to nature look like in practice? Going out in the woods and feeling good? Knowing the name of trees? Walking with sacred intent in a natural place? Spending time in nature? All above the above? And so, over the next few posts, I want to spend more time with the concept of “connecting to nature” and share some strategies for what people can do to connect with nature in a multitude of ways.

As I’ve written about earlier, part of what I see as the core of druidry as a spiritual tradition is the work of “connection.” In that post, I talked about connecting to nature, connecting to the spirit, and connecting to the creative practices as…

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Mahonia & Lavender Oat Bars: Berry Delicious! — Gather Victoria

Mahonia & Lavender Oat Bars …

You may not have heard of Mahonia berries but I know you’d love them – and they’re likely growing near you. Mahonia japonica and Mahonia bealei are both extremely common ornamental shrubs found in a wide variety of urban spaces – and in early July both are laden with deep blue dusky berries hanging in fat grape-like clusters.…

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Witchcraft Altar Water – Recipe Included

Witchcraft Altar Water …

Remembering Who We Are: Chinese Botanical Guides

Remembering Who We Are …

Ancestral Apothecary

Bekah gets to know the plants of her grandmother’s village in Guangdong, China.

As part of our studies in the Cecemmana program, we as students are encouraged to study our ancestral medicines. We are encouraged to ask questions like: who were the healers in our families? What plant medicine did they use? What healing foods did they eat? What healing songs did they sing? In the first two years of Cecemmana, we as students researched the answers to these and other questions and then presented our findings. In my first year of Cecemmana, I looked forward to learning more about the herbal medicine practices of my Chinese heritage.

I found that before I could get to know the plants, though, I had to better understand my family. Growing up in a mixed race household in a predominantly white community, my sister and I grew up feeling disconnected from our Chinese…

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Crypto And Then Some ~ July 5th

By Paula Cas

Thursday, July 5th at 9:00 EDT join us for the next edition of Crypto And Then Some …

Catch the wave as your hosts Oro and Paula Cas explore show about the brave new world of crypto, bitcoin, and the programs and technologies moving to the forefront of the financial world. Call in at 845-277-9146 with your thoughts, questions, stories, and experiences.

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