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Wise Woman Herbal Ezine - May 2009

Healing Wise

Brassicaceae family 'aka' Cruciferae (crucifix) familyby Susun S. WeedThe cabbage family always makes me smile. It is easy to recognize and most of its members are delicious to eat. That's reason enough to be delighted, but it gets even better. Some cabbage family plants are strongly medicinal, and all of them can prevent cancer. The cabbage/mustard family used to be known as the Cruciferae (crucifix) family, because their flowers have four petals arranged in the shape of a cross. But now we call it the Brassicaceae family, in honor of its most edible genus: Brassica.read more Healing Wise - click

here

Breast Health

Herbal Oils for Breast Self-Massageby Susun S. WeedExcerpt from: Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman WayUsing infused herbal oils is an easy and pleasurable way to keep your breasts healthy, prevent and reverse cysts, dissolve troublesome lumps, and repair abnormal cells. Breast skin is thin and absorbent, and breast tissue contains a great deal of fat, which readily absorbs infused herbal oils. The healing and cancer-preventing actions of herbs easily migrate into olive oil—creating a simple, effective product for maintaining breast health. Add beeswax to any herbal oil and you have an ointment. The antiseptic, softening, moisturizing, and healing properties of beeswax intensify the healing

actions of the herbs and carry them deeper into the breast tissues. Whether you want to maintain breast health—or have had a diagnosis of cancer—infused herbal oils and ointments are soothing, safe, and effective allies. read the rest of Breast Health - click here

Empower Yourself

For Lightworkers: How To Release Emotional Baggage by Robina Hearle and Sue Stothard Releasing your emotional baggage, behavior patterns and belief systems leads to emotional maturity. Emotional maturity leads to Enlightenment and Ascension. So where does your emotional baggage come from? Your emotional patterns for this life are set from your perceptions or misperceptions about reality or what was happening from in the womb to the age of six years of age. These are the emotional experiences of the Inner Child. These patterns will repeat themselves throughout your life, be added to with each repeat scenario until you have a many-faceted, complex emotional make-up. Releasing your Inner Child emotions is very painful and takes courage. People, on the whole, prefer to ignore and bury them. However, unless you face them and let them go, you will not progress.

Also stored emotional baggage causes dis-ease.read more Empower Yourself - click here

Wisdom Keeper

Mugwort- Magical Herb of the Moon Goddess by Corinna Wood

Each spring, I like to visit a gardener friend of mine whose neatly tended beds are her pride and joy. She's rather traditional and prefers a very structured, mannered approach while I tend to be more of a wild child, but anyone who loves green, growing things is a kindred spirit. We've spent many a pleasant afternoon together amid the flora. As we wandered about her land enjoying the early blooms recently, she lamented over a rather ubiquitous weed that was peeking up at the edges of her footpaths and all around her greenhouse. Now, I have long believed that most "weeds" are simply misunderstood herbal allies so I asked her to point out the culprit. Sure enough, it was mugwort. I had to smile. "This," I told her, "is not just a weed. This is the stuff that dreams are made of!"read more Wisdom Keeper - click here

Wise Woman Wisdom

Enlightened Menopauseby Roslyne Sophia Breillat

Menopause is a burning fire of transformation bequeathing infinite gifts of change. And for many women this powerful initiation creates much upheaval as the female spirit prepares to birth her deepening wisdom and maturity. Uncomfortable disharmony frequently erupts during this transitional journey into peaceful detachment and powerful wisdom. Each woman’s experience is uniquely individual when she crosses this threshold into the unknown. She may feel as if she is losing all sense of familiarity with her body as it suddenly manifests tumultuous physical, psychological and emotional symptoms. The powerful intensity of this important pilgrimage requires courageous openness and sensitive honouring, for its awesome power cannot be ignored without living a life of compromise.read more Wise Woman Wisdom - click here

Cooking For Love

Natural Flavors of Life by Anne-Marie Fryer WibolttExcerpt from: Cooking for the Love of the WorldAwakening Our Spirituality through CookingWe season and garnish foods to bring out different qualities in the meal. We add specific calming or stimulating herbs, warming or cooling spice, oils and vinegars, roasted seeds and nuts, natural sweeteners or mineral rich sea salt in a subtle way so the foods are not over-powered but retain their natural, distinctive zests and essence. Seasoning is an art and must complement the foods and cooking styles in a harmonious way. When I season dishes I try first to ‘taste’ with my eyes, ears and nose instead of with my tongue.

Somehow the dishes become more complete that way. When I want to taste the food in my mouth I ladle a little on to a separate spoon and wash the spoon in between tasting the different dishes. Some people are used to hot, spicy or salty, oily foods and might not be able to taste all the fine natural flavors of a well prepared meal at first. Avoid being tempted to drench the foods in over-powering sauces, fats, salt and sweeteners. It will not be long before the taste buds will adjust and indulge in the manifold subtle flavors of well-cooked natural whole foods.read more Cooking for Love - click here

Goddess Speaks

Plant Medicine: Plants as Spiritual Teachers & Alliesby Jane Sherry

Plants have been our allies, our protectors, our food and medicine as long as there has been life on earth. The physical and spiritual presence of plants is deeply interconnected with our earthly existence throughout our lives. Photosynthesis helps create a breathable atmosphere. Plant life nourishes all animal existence. Plant mysteries and histories are interwoven into our psyches and our mythology, present in our relations with one another, with all spiritual beings, and with our dear home, Planet Earth. Flowers and seeds, stems and leaves, roots and fruits feed us and clothe us, house and protect us, soothe our fevers and our fears and form the basis of our rituals and celebrations. Plant medicine has helped women and men to conceive life, to nurture life, and to die with grace and dignity. read more Goddess Speaks - click here

Grandmother Gaia

Reconnecting with the Earthby Robin Rose Excerpt from Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious LivingHEALING MAGIC IS rooted in the earth. Its basis and foundation is the realization of immanence, which is the recognition that the Great Mystery that gives life to the earth and universe is within the earth, as well as transcendent. It (God-Goddess-All-That-Is) exists within us and within the land and is expressed through everything—every tree, every animal, every pebble, and every so-called “inanimate†object. We tend to think of the “everyday†as all that is commonplace, un-remarkable, and even boring. Yet, the most seemingly ordinary aspects of daily life on

the earth are alive with Healing Magic. To call something unremarkable simply because it happens every day and is commonly available, is harmful to the enthusiasm and depth with which we can live. read more Healing Magic - click here

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In This Issue:

Healing Wise

Breast Health

Empower Yourself

Wisdom Keeper

Wise Woman Wisdom

Cooking For Love

Goddess Speaks

Grandmother Gaia

Red Moon Herbs

Featured Artist

Wise Woman Workshops in Woodstock NY

NEW - AUDIO CD'S

Seven Rivers of Healing Self-Study Course

Green Witch Intensive

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Wise Woman Workshops in Woodstock NY

WHITE FEATHERMay 23: Wolf Clan TeachingsMay 24: Honor Your UniquenessSUSUN WEEDJune 5: MoonlodgeJune 6: Talking with PlantsJune 7: Hands-on Herbal MedicineASTRID GROVEJune 27: The Red TempleJune 28: Womb SpeakWise Woman Workshops in Woodstock NY

NEW - AUDIO CD'S

SUSUN WEEDFocus on Fertility - 2 CD Set Seven Medicines - 2 CD Set The Spirit of Simples - 1 CDMenopause, Phytoestrogens and Breast Health - 2 CD SetAmazing Artemisia's - 2 CD Set From Baba Yaga's Bag - 2 CD Set Nutritive and Tonic Herbs - 2 CD Set Phytoestrogens: Friend or Foes? - 2 CD Set Weeds in Your Garden? Bite Back! - 1 CD Using Herbs Simply and Safely - 2 CD Set ROSEMARY GLADSTARHerbs for Longevity and Radiant Well Being - 2 CD Set Body and Soul ~ Natural Cosmetics - 2 CD Set

Know Your Herbs Intimately - 1 CD Spend Time with Plants in the Divine Territory of the Senses - 2 CD SetAmerica's Most Vital Healing Herbs - 2 CD

SetSTEPHEN BUHNERSecret Teachings of Plants: Medicinal Plants & Diagnosis of Disease - 3 CD Set Healing Lyme - 2 CD SetGaia, Plant Intelligence and

the Ecstatic Path - 2 CD Set The End of Antibiotics and Herbal Medicines to Replace Them - 2 CD Set Sacred Plant Medicine - 2 CD Set Audio CD descriptions - click here

Seven Rivers of Healing Self-Study Course

Rediscover your inner wisdom with this 46 week self-study course brought right to your email inbox each week once you join. Susun Weed's newest work makes sense of the many differing approach to healing available to you. Visionary Art by phine WallLearn more about the Seven Rivers of Healing

Green Witch Intensive

Green Witch Intensive Susun WeedJuly 9-12, 2009I am Lady Iona, High Priestess and green witch. For a witch, spirituality is life, and life is art. My art is the wise use of the green. Who were the witches? Could you be one? We’ll walk in the woods, find green allies, sing with the devas, make medicines, learn some botany, and touch the wild earth. We’ll honor ourselves as green witches and wise women in a high magic ritual, with optional green witch initiation.Healing Intensives

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