Mercury
Retrograde has been finally
kicked out on its arse.
What a long three weeks that was. And
it did not go quietly at all.
She hung on for dear life with her gnarled toenails hooked into all drama around me and my car.
It was nearly enough to send me to the drink.
Only I don't drink.
Going way beyond “trusting that
everything happens for a reason” I am now practicing radical self
love in the form of just damn well loving the shit out of every
moment.
The sun rises over the escarpment to
the monkeys and toucans calling out to their loved ones.
Love
it.
The rain fills my favourite water hole
and I sit under the waterfall massaging my neck.
Love
it.
My car breaks down AGAIN, my phone runs
out of minutes so I cant call anyone and my son is at someones house
whom I cant contact.
Love
it.
I cant get home for two days and end up
sleeping on a couch and find myself doing naked yoga in the forest.
Love
it.
My son comes home dosed up on flu like
symptoms and is grumpy and feeling sorry for himself. Love
it.
Love it all.
Why the hell not.
Not loving it only causes me to feel
upset, angry and confused. I have spent way too much of my life
feeling that way..so now it is time to feel this way. In Love With It
All. No need to trust, no need to hope, just pure LOVE baby!!!
As soon as Mercury left its retrograde
chaos where we all had the chance to renew, revisit and recharge I
personally went into re wild mode under the full moon of May that
reached from Libra to Taurus. An auspicious full moon, known as the
Wesak full moon, it celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of
Lord Buddha, formally known as Siddhartha.
We are certainly in for some changes
on the planet as it is time to shift our attention onto new role
models.
As the paradigm shifts we shall see
trends in the world where men are daring to live their femininity
and are not held back by the social dictation anymore and do what
they feel and not just what they think is right for them.
Aho
to that
!! I am so ready for that one and will be celebrating any man I find
along my path that dances and eats fruit naked !!
Speaking of fruit, I want to talk about
Jack Fruit.
My new love.
Not only is it a taste sensation to
rock your world with the flesh being used for ice creams, smoothies and
curries whilst the seeds are used for flour and hummus, it is being
hailed as the miracle crop and could be the solution to worldwide
food insecurity saving the world from hunger.
No wonder I am in love with Jack !!!
Consuming 10 to 12 bulbs of the fruit
you don't actually need to eat for half a day.
It is the largest tree borne fruit on
the planet and grows up to 35 kg in Asia...
that is a lot of fruit!! A good source
of dietary fiber, protein calcium and iron it could possibly replace
crops such as wheat and corn due to its high calorie content.
I generally make ice cream from it but
whilst I was cooking for an awesome group of people during the
“Secret Energy' retreat with “Sevan Bomar” I branched out and
made a rocking curry and a “to die for” birthday cake.
One person went as far as to say it was
the best cake they have ever eaten !!!
Oh my love for Jack only deepens.
With all of this going for it I have
added hugging jack fruit to my loving routine along side of hugging
trees, my son and myself.
Generally eating a truck load of fruit is not entirely a bad thing.
In fact peoples lives are devoted to it with retreats designed solely around eating fruit and entire festivals where you can go and eat a truck load of fruit !! Woodstock has one and so does Costa Rica. In fact I am going to the one in Costa Rica to massage and cover people in the fruit of chocolate !!
The rainy season is upon us.
Filling up
my favourite water hole, greening all that is around us, making soil
into mud and putting a stop to afternoon activities.
With the rainy season comes damp
conditions both inside and outside of the body.
Neighbours are dropping like flies with
the Flu including my son, who is normally climbing trees like a
monkey.
So I went into the forest to find us
some medicine.
Food foraging is one of my new
favourite things to do.
This morning I found a small and sweet
pineapple, I dug up turmeric and ginger, collected katuk greens and
picked up the pipa ( coconut ) that fell out of the tree last night
by our kitchen window.
With all of these ingredients I blended
them up to make juices, one green with the katuk and one without it
to make some super powerful flu fighting drinks.
Combined, turmeric, ginger and black
pepper provides a great immune boosting injection of goodness.
And so
does more hugging. Always hug more. Laugh more and love more.
