The Sacred Wilde

05/07/2024

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"The God in You" is an inspirational work written by Prentice Mulford, taken from his celebrated work "Thoughts Are Things". In this book, Mulford invites re...

07/27/2023

08/25/2019

Cedar 💫

Earth Medicine for Recovery ❤️

Cedar is a one of our Sacred Medicines, used to purify. Cedar baths and washing with cedar water is healing for the body and the Spirit. Cedar smudge is used to purify the home and create sacred space. When the cedar crackles, it is calling the attention of the Spirits to the offering being made. Cedar is also used in fasting and sweat lodge ceremonies as protection.

Essence of Cedar encourages healthy energy flow throughout the subtle bodies. It is gently balancing. and relaxes and harmonizes the body. Cedar cleanses the mind of angry and aggressive thoughts. Cedar will "root" you, providing connection to the Wisdom of our Ancestors. Cedar's gift is strength and courage for your healing journey.

07/21/2019

The world needs more healers and the world needs YOU!

09/15/2018

Plants are amazing gifts in many ways. 🍃🍂🔥

Smudging has long been recognized as an effective way of removing negative energy and evil spirits, but does this spiritual practice have more to offer? New data reveals a reason that everyone, regardless of their spiritual beliefs, should give this ancient cleansing technique a try. Despite the fac...

09/10/2018

08/30/2018

Of all the African tribes still alive today, the Himba tribe is one of the few that counts the birth date of the children not from the day they are born nor conceived but the day the mother decides to have the child.
When a Himba woman decides to have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child who wants to come. And after she's heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child's father, and teaches him the song. When they make love to physically conceive the child, they sing the song of the child as a way of inviting the child.
When she becomes pregnant, the mother teaches that child's song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people gather around him/her and sing the child's song to welcome him/her. As the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child's song. If the child falls, or gets hurt, someone picks him/her up and sings to him/her his/her song. Or maybe when the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.
In the Himba tribe there is one other occasion when the "child song" is sang to the Himba tribesperson. If a Himba tribesman or tribeswoman commits a crime or something that is against the Himba social norms, the villagers call him or her into the center of the village and the community forms a circle around him/her. Then they sing his/her birth song to him/her.
The Himba views correction not as a punishment, but as love and remembrance of identity. For when you recognise your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when the Himba tribesman/tribeswoman is lying in his/her bed, ready to die, all the villagers that know his or her song come and sing - for the last time that person's song.

07/20/2018

It's not your back that hurts, but the burden.
It's not your eyes that hurt, but injustice.
It's not your head that hurts, it's your thoughts.

Not the throat, but what you don't express or say with anger.
Not the stomach hurts, but what the soul does not digest.
It's not the liver that hurts, it's the anger.

It's not your heart that hurts, but love.
And it is love itself that contains the most powerful medicine.

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Art Eva Ruiz