Lunarium Apothecaria

Lunarium Apothecaria Handcrafted witchery Faerie wear &Goddess swag facilitating moments of beauty, reclamation and power.

I am a Neurodivergent Q***r Altar Able Pagan, A Mother Wife Poetress Painter StoryTeller Folk Practitioner and Feral Creatrix. I am inspired into my craft by The earth and her endless array of Creatura, who leave my heart wonderstruck!🌕✨🌿
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Pronouns Sidhe/Fae🦊🌿

Offerings of Reclamation, and Healing...
Now is a time of blooming, of outward reaching and inward delving. For me this means

a time of integration, a weaving of my medicine and purpose into an offering for the people. I offer the medicinal practices of my ancestry as well as guidance and council from a place of empathy and love. It is my belief That with self reflection, focused Intention and active Integration we can heal wounds and overcome struggles. Allowing us to walk our highest path in beauty full and profound ways.🍂

🌕✨🌿 FaeCraft is a dance with color and light an active pursuit of beauty, a reflection of our deepest wilds. This is an alter where I bare to you now some offerings of my heart, my hearth, my soul 🌔🌕🌖🌿

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05/31/2024

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04/01/2023

The ‘Ana-Suromai,’ derived from the Greek word meaning ‘to lift the skirt’ is known to be one of the most powerful gestures to scare away the devil or stop an army in it's tracks. This painting is an outcry, a visual denouncement of the corrupt system that has brought our world to a state of chaos, based on greed, war profiteering, and the mindless consumption by the masses. It symbolizes the awakening of our personal power, shocking one into introspection as this system is in the process of crumbling.

I've censored the raw exposure of the va**na with a smiley face because I've gotten flagged and locked out of my account whenever I've posted the full piece... the confrontation with the ge****ls is meant to shock one out of unconsciousness and into re-membering that we all come from the mother.

I painted this life size self portrait as an ultimate moment of alignment.
Recognizing, identifying and standing up to what I do not support and calling in the forces that nullify the division and bring harmonics to full potential.
This is not a "feminist" image, this is raw and pure expression. This could be a man or a woman, but as I am a woman it felt most authentic to paint myself. This is not trying to push an agenda... it is a statement crying out, making a stand against the pillaging of the earth... we must wake up.
I lift my skirt to oppression and dishonesty, to lies and deceit.
On the left is war and on the right is slavery... slavery to ideals, to identities, to nations and manipulative systems.
The teddy bear leaning up against the chair symbolizes our lost innocence... The table of 13 individuals symbolizes the tip of the hierarchy of the current system sitting around a map of the civilized world... the faces undefined. Remnants of our consumer culture strewn around them.
The egg symbolizes a new perspective, new energy... and where ever it touches the earth new life is sprouting, and where it is connecting with the people around the table, it is connecting with them... in an individual way... in silence.
Metro's cube which is one of the most sacred symbols of sacred geometry is located over the heart offering a clear channel. The scarab, symbolizing re-birth rests at the throat... the full moon rises behind my head as the natural law of the celestial patterns are interwoven with life. The rainbow winged serpents appear as protectors and creators, weaving resounding support for this outcry, this call for justice.

Sometimes it takes great controversy to rattle the comfort levels... It's time to wake up folks and identify what you truly want. Get real with it. Not time to follow the insanity, but to go inside and find your truth.
Write it out, paint it out, talk it out, sing it out... And define the Good. What is it that you truly want to see happen in the world. Let's focus on that. Become the change you want to see.


'Ana Suromai'
53x79" oil and casein on canvas - 2005-11
painting by Amanda Sage

04/01/2023

''Medusa continues to be viewed as protective and apotropaic—warding off evil, warding off the enemy—and even healing in the Greek tradition, but she has also lost her power. It is thus important to pay attention to her beneficent aspects: the fact that half of her blood is healing, and that images of her head are used to protect buildings of multiple functions within the Greco-Roman sphere; so protective is she considered to be that her head was buried near the Argive market-place.

Medusa is magical. She reminds us that we must not take the female “monster” at face value; that we must weigh not only her beneficent against her maleficent attributes, but we must also take into consideration the world view and the sociopolitical stance of the cultures which create her, fashioning the demonic female as scapegoat for the benefit and comfort of the patriarchal members of their societies.''

~ Miriam Robbins Dexter, excerpt from “Re-Visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom” an anthology by Girl God Books
www.thegirlgod.com

Art by Red K Elders Art
www.redkelders.bigcartel.com

02/04/2023

"On the occasion of the first Public Holiday celebrating Brigit, goddess, saint, peaceweaver, poet, smith, healer, abbesse, Irish media have gone overboard with programmes on her. Here is one screened last night on Irish television, and available worldwide. "
from Dr. Mary Condren

https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/finding-brigid-e1/362119208110

02/01/2023

I am the dream of awakening.

I am the returning of the light.

I am the tough green shoot pushing up through the pavestones, I am the first kiss of sunlight on the unfurling petals of the snowdrop. I am the wind which whispers the gentle pull of home to the migratory bird.

I am the drop of ice melting on the mountainside with its great dream of the ocean.

I am the sap rising in the blossom tree just before it reveals its sticky buds to the sky; I am the riotous celebration humming away beneath the earth’s mantle of frozen sleep.

I am the rousing of the bee from its winter slumber, and the soft pad of the mother-wolf’s paw on the snow as she prepares to birth her pups.

I am hope, potential, rebirth and promise. I am the kindling breath which transforms a spark of inspiration into a blazing torch.

Give me the silent crescent moon rising over the sea and I will build you a bridge of silver light so you can walk across and lie down in it.

Give me the frost-hardened wilderness and I will lay my cloak of radiant green life over it.

Give me the healer, the poet, the midwife, the craft smith and the prophet, and I will replenish her essence and make her new again.

I am Brigid, Bast, Inanna and Hestia. I am the fierce protectress of the sacred fire.

Tonight I bestow my gifts of power and courage at the hearth of your soul. Power to shed all that which no longer serves you, and courage to clear your heart and mind for the dawn that awaits you. For I am the longing of the spirit which refuses to be consumed by a narrative of fear and chooses instead to place itself vivaciously on the side of love.

I am the song which cannot be silenced, for it is carried deep in the bones of the land. I am the flame which cannot be doused, for it is kept aglow in the hearts of the free. I am the wellspring of knowledge and the milk of the life-force. From the darkness of the earth I give light to the flame which will forge the new world.

I am the stirring in your belly that knows what you are capable of, and just how much your gifts are needed now. For you are as much a part of this world as the rivers and the forests, the creatures and the stars in the night sky. All are sacred to me.

For I am the Exalted, Goddess of land, sea and sky.
I am the fire within which will not be contained any longer.

I am the quickening, I am the serpent uncoiling, I am Imbolc.

I am the dream of awakening.

~ Caroline Mellor
www.carolinemellorwriter.com

Art by Laura Tempest Zakroff
Owlkeyme Arts
www.linktr.ee/owlkeyme

02/01/2023

First Friday is in a couple days! Join us for live music (mystical sounds) with Mitchell Holman and Tarot Readings with Pam Williams Moonwind Fairy Tales . Prepare to be transported to another realm! As someone mentioned recently during one of Mitchell's sessions here, "I think a portal is opening up!" We're doing First Friday an hour earlier this month starting at 4pm and ending at 7pm so you can get your Tarot on before any dinner and dance plans. See you at K**a Loka, realm of mystics.

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as th...
01/18/2023

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
L.R. knost

01/17/2023

It is interesting, synchronous even, how at the times of working on this, there have been some of the worst storms to ever hit the US historically. It was unintentional, but I literally could not have created a more perfect backdrop in which to create this Goddess, Tiamat, the Great Mother.

Tiamat is of the “Old Gods”. Her lineage begins in ancient Mesopotamia, where she is known as the goddess of chaos and creation, the original and literal “Mother of Dragons”. She is fierce and untamed, her energies beyond words like “power” and “All-consuming”.

(Before all things, there was only salt water
and Tiamat, the strength of all elements and chaos, dwelt in it.
Some legends describe her as a serpent
and some as a mixture of Dragon and Woman
but all converge on a truth:

She is the mother of everything that exists, even of the Gods themselves.)

It is said that at one point Apsu, the personification of fresh water, took Tiamat as consort, and the first Gods were born. They were wild, unruly children who displeased their father, who tried to persuade Tiamat to kill them and thus create heaven and earth.

Tiamat was having none of that, as she loved her children too much. It was Marduk, one of the younger Gods, who shot an *arrow of wind* against her belly, killing her. Marduk cut her body in two: The upper half becoming the heavens and the lower half the earth. Her saliva turned into clouds and her tears shed during her ex*****on gave rise to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Even so, Tiamat remained alive as the great circle that contains everything, representing nature and life itself.

She is the living symbol of the chaos of creation, and of the order that is formed from it.

Chaos is necessary for creation. We gaze around us at this world which seems a tempest of uncertainty, people flailing hither and yon and a pervasive darkness which serves no purpose. How we forget the great beingness that exists which is always perpetual change and changing.

How do we re-remember then
our Great Mother who is within all things
and loves us beyond
our own understanding?

Reframing the ways in which we see chaos and disorder, as in not stumbling looking for reasons, but rather accepting in wisdom the Nature of creation.

We must look with different eyes to see the beauty within the storm. To know that everything is purposed, and trusting that wholly, surrender to be the light within.

And so, I give you Tiamat, who gave me so many blessings and signs while creating her. Spending the morning once again tracking storms, I had just finished her and gotten the mail, and found within it a butterfly. The symbol of regeneration. But along with the butterfly, the sender had been urged inexplicably to send me a gift: A teeny tiny pine cone in a small glass vial.

I immediately googled “pine cone Tiamat”, and discovered several ancient bas-relief relics from Mesopotamia, one of which featured one of the Old Gods, winged and majestic, and holding

A pine cone.

Also a symbol of regeneration, and representative of the pineal gland.

Nothing is happenstance.
All is magic. Even in the midst of chaos.

And especially then.

StellariaChickweed, also known as Stellaria media, is a versatile and powerful herb that has been used for centuries in ...
01/16/2023

Stellaria
Chickweed, also known as Stellaria media, is a versatile and powerful herb that has been used for centuries in both herbalist and spiritual healing practices. Its small white flowers and delicate leaves make it a common sight in gardens and wild areas, but its medicinal properties make it a valuable addition to any healing apothecary. In traditional herbalism, chickweed is renowned for its ability to soothe and heal irritated skin. It is often used in creams and ointments to relieve itching, rashes, and other skin conditions. Its anti-inflammatory properties make it an excellent choice for conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. Additionally, chickweed has been used to alleviate respiratory issues such as asthma and bronchitis, as well as to aid in digestion and weight loss.In spiritual healing, chickweed is often used in ritual and ceremonial practices. Its delicate beauty and ability to thrive in difficult conditions make it a symbol of resilience and determination. When used in spellwork or divination, chickweed is believed to bring strength and determination to those who use it. It is also said to bring good luck and prosperity, making it a popular choice for spells and charms related to money and abundance. To harvest chickweed in the wild, it is important to identify the plant correctly. Chickweed is a small, delicate plant with small white flowers and leaves that resemble a star. It is often found in gardens and wild areas, growing in dense clusters. When harvesting chickweed, it is important to take only what you need and to leave some behind to ensure that the plant will continue to thrive. To dry chickweed, simply place it in a dry, shaded area and allow it to dry completely before storing it in an airtight container. Its medicinal properties make it an excellent choice for treating skin conditions and respiratory issues, while its spiritual properties make it a powerful tool in spellwork and divination. Chickweed is a great firs plant ally for those who are new to folk practices get out there and build a relationship with the plants around you the earth is brimming with magik and medicine just waiting to connect. with you!

Community building In a world where our bodies, minds, and spirits have been colonized by oppressive systems, it is cruc...
01/16/2023

Community building
In a world where our bodies, minds, and spirits have been colonized by oppressive systems, it is crucial that we come together as a community to reclaim our autonomy and healing. Through collective action and mutual support, we can begin the process of decolonization, which involves unlearning harmful beliefs and behaviors, and reclaiming our cultural heritage and traditions. Through herbalism and farming and the cultivation of our own food and medicine, we become self-sufficient and break free from the systems of oppression that control our access to basic needs. We also reconnect with the natural world and the wisdom of our ancestors, who knew how to live in harmony with the land. By tending to the earth and the plants, we deepen our connection to the divine and the sacred. We learn to listen to the wisdom of the plants, and to honor the cycles of life and death. Through this work, we learn to honor ourselves, our community, and the earth. Decolonization is a journey of healing and reclamation that cannot be done alone. It requires the support and guidance of a deep and loving community. By coming together to reclaim our autonomy and healing, we can create a world where we all have the freedom to live in a way that is true to ourselves and our culture. Through traditional folk practices, we can begin to build a more just and sustainable future for ourselves and incoming generations.

Songs and SidheAncient Ireland a realm where the forces of nature were revered and respected. The people of Ireland had ...
01/16/2023

Songs and Sidhe
Ancient Ireland a realm where the forces of nature were revered and respected. The people of Ireland had a deep connection to the land and its inhabitants, which included the faery folk, who were believed to be powerful and mischievous beings that lived in the Otherworld. One of the most power full aspects of ancient Irish spirituality was the use of song and story-telling. These forms of oral tradition were used to pass on knowledge and wisdom from generation to generation. The stories and songs were often steeped in magic and mysticism, and they were believed to have the power to heal, protect and bring good fortune. The sidhe culture of ancient Ireland was also deeply intertwined with the spirituality of the people. The sidhe were believed to be powerful and mysterious beings that lived in the Otherworld, and they were often invoked in rituals and ceremonies. The faeries were also believed to be protectors of the land and its inhabitants, and they were often invoked to bring good luck and prosperity.In ancient Ireland, magic and spirituality were not seen as separate entities, but rather as two sides of the same coin. The people of Ireland believed that the natural world was alive with magic, and that it was their duty to honor and respect the forces of nature. This belief was reflected in the way they lived their lives, and it was reflected in the stories and songs that they passed on from generation to generation. These ancient traditions continue to inspire and guide us today, reminding us of the deep connection we have to the land and its inhabitants, and the power of magic and mysticism in our lives.

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