Mary B. Kelly’s book Goddess Embroideries Of Eastern Europe explores images of the horned deer mother in the sacred textiles of women.  Then, the almost always unseen, unknown perfumer got… Continue Reading →... Serge Lutens perfume has long been one of my favorite niche house perfumes. ð Reblogged on https://thedesertpath.com/. FREE Shipping on orders over $80.00! Technology which will enhance our planet’s abilities to recover, and the fact half our species are female! Make a movie date with 3 of Hollywood’s best men. February is finally here – it’s both my least and most favorite Winter month because, short of the Zombie Apocalypse, nothing Feb throws at me can last for very long. It’s not the Bataan Death March, it’s just February – I can do 28 days of sub-zero irritation, sorting seeds, eating mandarins… dreaming of Estate‘, which is just that much closer. I having been wondering about mindful women during Christmastime. And across the northern world, it was the Deer Mother who took flight from the dark of the old year to bring light and life to the new. As I honor Goddess/Women’s Mysteries, this makes deep intuitive sense to me. This year I finally my own version of these traditional cookies, a simple shortbread made with dried cranberry powder. These buns are tossed into the air while calling for the birds to fly back to their lands, bringing health, prosperity, good harvest and luck. Dried apples, pears, prunes, apricots, raisins, currants are often used as are wild fruits such as rosehips, hawthorn berries, bilberries (cranberry) and blackthorn. Her book The Deer Goddess Of Ancient Siberia: A Study In The Ecology Of Belief traces the image of the deer from rock carvings, paintings, and monolithic stelae from the Neolithic period down through the early Iron Age. That Month is typically January and by the middle of February I’m ready for spring. ð I just arrived here via Running Elk’s (Shamanic Paths) reblog … I;m going to spend the next few days just wallow … erm … reading your old posts. Blessings. xoxoxo. Her image was etched in standing stones, woven into ceremonial cloth and clothing, cast in jewellery, painted on drums, and tattooed onto skin. #happyvalentinesday #violet #cookies #cookiesofinstagram #romantic #love #wildfood #foraging #edibleflowers #valentinescookies #wildviolets #kitchenwitch #wildfoodlove, In a culinary fusion of western and eastern goddess traditions, this Golden Rice Pudding is made with primrose infused cream and spiced with saffron, cardamom, orange zest and a touch of candied ginger. The Deer are Sacred to me as they are to my Matron Goddess. Foraging & Cooking with Plum Blossom: Spring Floral Confections! You can find the recipe on the Gather Victoria website (link in bio). It’s zero (our zero, not US zero, so around 32 F) here and going outside is actually sort of painful. Iâve been capturing their heady sweet scent for years in all kinds of sweet treats, syrups, cordials and vinegar and in the upcoming Spring Edition of the Gather Victoria E-Cookbook Iâll be sharing some of my new and old favourite recipes like this Plum Blossom sweet treat inspired by Indian Peda (think delicately floral flavoured milk fudge!) Look out from your warm cosy home into the cold of the darkening eve. This is an excellent post on the relationship between shamanism, reindeer and modern day Christmas iconography. They take on a very sparkly vibe, much like aldehydes. The period when we move towards the winter solstice makes me hugely twitchy. The Ancient Magical Language of Eggs, Wild Spring Green Tabouli: Super Nutritious & Super Delicious, Cookbook Preview: Plum Blossom Honey Panna Cotta, Wild Spring Dumplings & Staghorn Sumac Jellie…. While many historical explorations of the pagan origins of Christmas observe the link between Santaâs garb and the red and white amanita mushroom ingesting shaman, few mention that it was the female shamans who originally wore red and white costumes trimmed with fur, horned headdresses or felt red hats! It was when we âChristianizedâ the pagan traditions of winter, that the white-bearded man i.e. it seems quite certain that there once an ancient deer mother goddess associated with the sun at Winter Solstice. Always lush and plentiful in this paradise. These priestesses-of-the-antlered-ones who flew through the night to gather blessings and healing and then distributed these gifts to their tribe members must surely be considered as proto-typical Fore-Mothers of Santa.”. We leave the scalding 100C+ Sydney temps for as cold as we can get. Another summer lover here!  That thing on the left, Cora, has had me a little busy the last week. Autumn is ok as long as it’s not too cold and it’s not flooding. But just because I can't make my favourite Wild Violet Sugar Sweethearts - doesn't mean you can't! They give me strength to survive dark times, so that I can continue my path of compassion and community connection and maternal care and helping bring light to those around me.