Blessings,
This was my first sacred plant ritual. I approached a baby pine, sat down, offered water and tobacco, and told the little guy my intentions to get to know him and learn. Sitting down listening: the pine was open to a relationship. Offering more water, I smudged myself and the area, cleared my mind, and shared my pipe with him. This is a record of my conversation with him.
How do you stay green in the winter?
My leaves are folded tightly together like a samurai sword. I conserve my energy, using it only when necessary. I do not flaunt my stuff, but humbly grow tall, strong, and live long.
Who do I call - who do I invite?
Where does sickness come from?
Relations
Joints Soak
Incense
Drink
Skin Oil
Deodorant
Crafts
A Few Experiences
This was my first sacred plant ritual. I approached a baby pine, sat down, offered water and tobacco, and told the little guy my intentions to get to know him and learn. Sitting down listening: the pine was open to a relationship. Offering more water, I smudged myself and the area, cleared my mind, and shared my pipe with him. This is a record of my conversation with him.
How do you stay green in the winter?
My leaves are folded tightly together like a samurai sword. I conserve my energy, using it only when necessary. I do not flaunt my stuff, but humbly grow tall, strong, and live long.
Who do I call - who do I invite?
Where does sickness come from?
Relations
Joints Soak
- Bark of Eastern White Pine (Soft Feather)
- Flowers from Arnica
- Leaves from Mint
- Root from Ginger
- Fruit of Cherry
Incense
- Sap on hot coals
- To make raw resin more like amber you have to heat it till the pure resin rises. The best way I have found to do this is to get a thin piece of metal and create an indention where the raw resin is placed. Then set it up so that you can have a candle burning under it. As it heats up the resin will start to melt, separating from the bark and other stuff. Decant melted resin on a plate or something else you do not mind being made sticky. Put plate in freezer for a few moments and then chip resin off the plate into some receptacle.
Drink
- Pine Needle Tea
Skin Oil
- Olive Oil
- Inner Bark
- Calendula
- Comfrey Root
Deodorant
- Put refined resin into a double boiler; add oil, preferably oil that does not have a strong smell itself. Melt resin into oil. Take little bit of mix on knife or spoon, place in freezer for a few moments to get the consistency you desire. You want it somewhere around the thickness of molasses.
Crafts
A Few Experiences