Hippie Witch

Healing List

Each week here at Hippie Witch, I post a list of people who are in need of healing and prayers. I place each name into my own Reiki Healing Grid, and ask that you also acknowledge those on this list with your own form of prayer or healing energy. Names roll over weekly as space allows, but remain on my Reiki Grid indefinitely. To place a name on our list, please contact me by email, or through Facebook or Twitter

Patty and Family
April
Rose K
Todd and family
Hannah and family
Rebel
Family and friends of David Menges
Cory G.
Paul Hobbs
Toni Potts

Miranda Baker

Dawn Coryea

April Hinton

Laurie Jagielo
Lorelei Redmond
Lilla DeLuca
Jerri Lynn Smith
Katrina Miller

Monday Message 7/31/17

Monday Message
July 31st 2017

Walls and defenses have their place. They have protected your tender heart and battered soul while you healed from your wounds. Protection and isolation are two different things. Stay behind your walls and find stillness, find peace, and find your center. Then you are ready to open the door and let yourself be filled. Remember, you are the bouncer to your inner self. Only let in what is bright and shining and helpful. Do not, however, languish in an ivory tower and let your stillness deafen you to the song of the Universe.

7/27/17 Healing List

Hippie Witch

Healing List

Each week here at Hippie Witch, I post a list of people who are in need of healing and prayers. I place each name into my own Reiki Healing Grid, and ask that you also acknowledge those on this list with your own form of prayer or healing energy. Names roll over weekly as space allows, but remain on my Reiki Grid indefinitely. To place a name on our list, please contact me by email, or through Facebook or Twitter

Toni Potts

Miranda Baker

Dawn Coryea

April Hinton

Laurie Jagielo
Lorelei Redmond
Lilla DeLuca
Jerri Lynn Smith
Katrina Miller

Monday Message- 7/24/17

The Dark Lady

Myk the Myomancer

The Faery Who Was Kissed by the Pixies-Reversed

Deep within you, there are seeds of such unimaginable wonder. They remain there, untouched by the light of the Sun or the nourishment of the loamy Earth. The strange fruit they would become remains a mystery, because you leave them closed up tightly, hermetically sealed within your darkest self. Are you afraid to know, or are you afraid because you know the cost of letting such seeds be sown?

 I feel it is the latter. The hints are all around you, but you lack the tools of the gardener. These tools are the courage to begin, knowing failure and blight are just as likely as lush success, and the patience to be a good and faithful steward to your growth.

Love yourself enough to let the Sun shine into your soul. Spread love around like fertilizer, and watch what springs forth with abandon. That love and light will be returned to you in spades.

Blessings Altar

Bright Blessings!

I am reviving my Thursday Healing List, and hopefully many other aspects of this blog. As I was assembling my new Reiki Grid, I decided to make an outdoor space for the Grid, along with a place to meditate, make offerings, and general gratitude and blessings.

Luckily, I have a lovely little space on the West side of our property. 

It is currently the site of another failed attempt to grow veggies in the High Desert climate of Southern Arizona. The small herb garden, however, is thriving and I will concentrate on growing that area. since they seem to resist the critters and the heat.

Sweet mint, chocolate mint, sage, rosemary, and thyme have so far survived. Because I am obsessed with putting rocks around everything in my garden, that is in process, now that I have decided to shrink the garden down to just the herb patch. I took the cinder blocks from around the veggie bed (aka the Pack Rat Buffet) and made a little altar area.

Then I made my Reiki Grid, and added in some offering bowls and my little oil lamp. I added a chair to sit and do my energy work and meditation. I also plan to add some pavers to the area in front of the shrine to put a yoga mat when I go outside. You can see I can store stuff like lamp oil under and smaller items in the cells of the blocks. I have a Mason jar with the Healing List names tucked in under the grid so they don't get wt in the rain or blow away.

It's a work in progress, but it's a start! I'm pretty pleased with it after just an hour of work, so who knows what it will become as I spend time out there and continue to add to it. Also, since it's right under my window I will see the grid even when I'm not outside in the space, and my intention will direct energy into the grid when I catch a glimpse of it.

If you want a name on the Healing List, please comment below or email me at pheonixfae@gmail.com. You can also comment on Facebook or Twitter

Homestead Update 08/11/13

We are finally in a hopeful place. Our landlord has been working with us to get through yet another rough patch financially, and has mentioned us buying the property on contract when our lease is up. I feel more inclined to work on improving the land knowing it may be permanent. 

I finished one keyhole garden, but it is being attacked by ground squirrels at every turn. They dug the pea seeds right up and killed one of the pumpkins already. That and the heat killing the cucumber, which I knew was a strong possibility, are discouraging. When I can get a few extra bucks, I am going to plant bush beans, potatoes, and maybe try cukes again when the weather breaks.

We also have been working on plans for a chicken coop. We learned from past mistakes and checked the local ordinance, even though we live well out of town. We are good to go for livestock, and are hoping to have the coop done, made for nearly free with pallets, (we just need to buy hardware cloth) and populated with 8-10 hens and a rooster in the next month. The next phase will be a 2nd coop for meat birds, then a few goats.

I started the garden way late in the year, and although I did not expect much production, I am worried I will have nothing to show for those efforts this year. That's ok, the foundation is laid for future seasons. Good news, though! My Mom and Stepdad sent us home from our last visit with a bucket of peaches from their tree. I am not up to canning at the moment, so I just sliced them up and tossed them with some pectin and bagged them up to freeze.

I got about 2 quarts. We are set for peach cobbler and pie this winter! 

Beyond that I have been crafting and trying to write. Etsy and Amazon have kept us above water the past month. I hope now that The Hubs is back to work that money can go straight into improving the property and toward homesteading projects like rain barrels and getting some fruit and nut trees!

Gratitude Prayer 6/14/13

Divine, I call to thee.

I look upon your many faces, I call your many names.

I thank you for the blessings that fill my life, and I thank you for the failures and hardships, which have changed my course on this journey.

I thank you for the gentle days, when my faith and blessings sprouted around my feet, and I thank you for the storms which cleared a space for new growth.

As I walk the Path before me, I know that in the darkest times, you tend the ember within me, the spark which ignites my passion, the lick of flame which feeds the beacon torch.

I send up blessings, I praise your names, I live to honor you, and the ways of the Wise.

Brightest Blessings