Medicinal & Culinary Use

Internal Use- Bronchitis, catarrh, laryngitis, flatulent indigestion, painful menstruation, colic and hangovers
External Use- Applied to minor injuries, mastitis, mouth, throat and gum infections; burned or sprayed in sick rooms; as a perrenial ground cover in your garden.

Culinary Use: Meats, cheeses, and fats were preserved with thyme adding its distinct flavour. It is used for flavouring cheeses, soups, stews, stuffings, meats, fishes, dressings, sauces, and honey.

Essential oil and oleoresin of thyme are also used in the flavour and food industries. The oil is used in the flavouring of toothpaste & mouthwashes (to prevent gingivitis), cough medicines and the manufacture of perfumes & cosmetics.

RECIPE: Thyme added to a bath gives off a lovely scent and warms the body when overtaken by chills or cold weather. Six drops of the essential oil in the bath will bring on relaxation in about 15 minutes, rejuvenating the spirits. Or you can make up an herbal bag and leave dangling under the faucet as you fill the tub. If the scent isn't enough when you have the tub full, simply drop the bag into the water and let it "steep" until you reach the desired scent.

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The decreasing light of the waning Moon is best to plant crops below the Earth, such as root vegetables, i.e. carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc., or bulbs, ie. onions, garlic, ginger root, etc.
Planting Days: 22, 23 & 26
Harvest Days: none after the 16th

SMUDGING
Fumitory

In ancient Roman medicine, fumitory was used to treat problems of the eyes. It got its name because the juice of the plant brings on such a flow of tears that the sight becomes dim as with smoke. Legend has it that the plant was produced, not from seed, but from vapors arising out of the earth, hence the name Earth Smoke. Fumitory or Earth Smoke was also used in smudging to exorcise demons or evil spirits, poltergeists and other evil entities. Also used in purification baths preceding rituals.

Flowers and stems are used. The flowers are used as a yelllow dye in wool. When using a little fumitory is stimulant, while a lot of fumitory is sedative.

Associated with the planets of Jupiter and Saturn.

Smudging for Earth healing is an important rite that helps Mother heal her miasms. Gather forth your circle and reconnect with the sentient life-force that offers us her foundation and sustenance for our lives. Earth Mother is the path to healing, connectivity and ascension.

IN THE KNOW

Using Antibacterial Soap May Disrupt Your Hormones - Triclosan, already implicated in increasing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, could also damage the delicate balance of your endocrine system.

Report: 83 percent of grocery store chicken meat found infected with
bacteria

Soy Milk is Unhealthy- soybeans are "milked" to make soy milk, and transmogrified into health-harming products nobody needs.

Women Beware! Your Purses May be Making You Sick- Your purse is likely carrying much more than your wallet, keys and lipstick. Discover what researchers have recently discovered about women's purses, and how to best protect yourself against the potential health issues.

Wines made with GMO yeast hit the market this year: The yeast is available only in North America where GMOs are unregulated. A few wineries decision to use the yeast could affect the entire North American market. Since these wines are unlabeled, the only way people can avoid them is to avoid all wines from North America, except those labeled organic.

Beware of the Fungi! -A shocking BBC video of how a fungus uses ants to reporduce itself.

Beyond Ridiculous -- Coke Plus With Vitamins! Diet Coke Plus would be fortified with vitamins and minerals, making it the first nutrient-enhanced carbonated soda offered by a major brand to launch in Spring '07.

Genetically Engineered Cannibal Cows- Instead of discontinuing the practice of force-feeding bovine herbivores blood, manure, and slaughterhouse waste, scientists have genetically engineered a new cow that will not contract Mad Cow Disease, even when fed infected meat from Mad cows. These cows are born without normal nervous system prions, which go awry when an animal catches the disease.

Cloned Meat: The Agenda behind the Agenda

Researchers seek to insert caffeine into baked goods-Robert Bohannon, invented a patent-pending method to encapsulate caffeine into baked goods.

High levels of DDT still present in fish.

VITAMIN MYTH EXPOSED by Dr.Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute. Did you know the majority of topical Vitamin E comes from an industrial chemical factory? Did you know the body's immune system treats some synthetic ingredients in vitamins like poisons?
To read the first installament of the book click here.

Pressuring the FDA to Mandate More Safety Testing on Nanotech Products
Supporting Farming Legislation that promotes Organic, Local Production, and Sustainability
Kicking Fluoride Pesticides Out of Foods
Supporting Sweatfree Procurement and Worker Rights
Stopping the Commercial Release of Genetically Engineered Plums
Getting Toxic Chemicals out of Consumer Products and our Bodies
Stopping EPA Approval of Pesticides Toxic to Children, Infants and Fetuses

Ratios
Essential oils can be used in diffusers (1-6 drops of essence), inhaled via tissue (1 drop) or steam vapor (2-3 drops), direct from the bottle singly or in blends. Do not use the essence directly on the skin. Always dilute using one drop of essential oil per ml of oil or 6-30 drops (depending on potency) per 1 oz=30ml or 2 tablespoons of base oil in a sterilized brown glass bottle. Store essential oils away from sunlight and homeopathic remedies.

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The cardinal principle of life is to make contact with the Divine spark that sustains us and align it with Universal rhythm or Divine circuit of energy, which activates our psyche to move towards its inherent possibility. No healing is complete or balanced when it dismisses the vital connection between the body and the Earth plane. Our physical connection to the Earth is the ground that roots us in our consciousness and biological inheritance through the first chakra. While it is the playground on which our experiences take place, Earth is the very base that we must connect and build, from bottom upwards. Sometimes the ground beneath our feet feels shaky and all that is built upon it crumbles for lack of a strong foundation. Where we place our attention and what we connect with gives us vital clues as to where and why we feel unsupported, despite that Universal energy is essentially supportive.

A deeper investigation into the Patrix reveals that the assimilation of syncopated rhythms of our manufactured and manipulated surroundings has produced great effects on the etheric and cellular levels of the physical body cutting us off from the rhythmic circuit with nature and the Kosmos. Nature is the closest reservoir of natural energy available to us and yet, it is continually forsaken for new land developments and mining of natural resources that usurps Earth’s vital eco-system rather than sustain it. The Indigenous tribes have great reverence for land. They understood that earth is the meeting ground for all dimensions and is the very foundation that we walk and build our lives upon. Communing with nature they found that it has the capability of restoring the body-mind to natural balance. When we are in need of healing we may attune with Earth’s higher vibrational frequency by tapping into its energy current that flows through us. Here we have the potential to replace disorder and bring our body back to rhythm and balance.

For example, walking through nature is a calming and centering experience as earth absorbs our energies neutralizing us from the disruptive energy signature of our cities. Natures’ eloquence can instill in us a wonder for all of life bringing on a contemplative mode. Birds express a most exquisite sense of being as they live their song, and so too, must we live our song in tandem with the Universal rhythm. This refined frequency field found within nature reminds our bodies of our original life print and brings us back into harmony. Daily meditation or contemplation, seasonal and conscious eating, toning, full moon drumming ceremonies also bring us into alignment with the vibration of Earth’s healing energies as we look to the example of the divine manifest in nature to understand and connect with the greater wisdoms of our universe.

1. In a quiet place sit in a comfortable position with your buttocks (sit bones) touching the floor with your spine straight or stand tall without shoes with your feet flat on the ground hip distance apart. Place your awareness there, either on your sit bones or feet. Feel the strength and suppleness of your spinal column, your central channel and how it supports your body.

2. Gently breathe in and out allowing your breath to flow freely letting relaxation pervade your entire being. Notice all the places in your body where you contract and hold your energy and in the areas where you try to remain in control.

3. Breathe into the areas of tension and resistance. Assist release by exhaling with a sound (uggh, aah, ooh) that coordinates with the tension held in your body.

4. Gently release your energy into the wellspring of Universal energy, the ever-present current of life. This electrical circuit moves in a circular cycle, rising upward (liberation current) and downward (manifesting current) as one continuous flow. Breathe deeply into this energy matrix moving more deeply into the current until you feel your own energy circulating in tandem.

5. With every breath feel yourself more rooted into the Earth beneath you filling you with her nourishment as you synchronize with the rhythmic ebb and flow of life itself. Let yourself expand freely, open and easy to receive the fullness of nourishing energies. Allow yourself to harmonize with this current and let it energize and align you with the beauty and power of its primordial essence.

6. Let the wellspring of life’s current fill you deeply within and enter your consciousness without force. Allow a literal or abstract image to form of being rooted and connected to this life force. This is the gift from your inner wisdom that reminds you to connect and receive the abundant and sustaining force of Universal energy.

7. Keep this image alive and know that you can return to it at anytime to remind yourself of the reality of the life current and its pervading force.

Excerpted from Part One of The Essential Self, Cultivating the Sacred Feminine through Polarity Integration ©