Lena Rocks

I have had the most magical couple of days and wanted to share what some of my magic is like – some call it magic – some boosting – some praying and some would call it using your intent…  I tend to call it all of the above depending who I speak with…

We live in Western North Carolina, old Native American Indian country for thousands of years and there is a lot of history and amazing places around here.  Since the farmer plowed the field the other day I figured it might be a good time to go out digging for artifacts  - I had previously asked if it was possible and he told me that he had found some arrowheads down there and that I was welcome to dig all I wanted.

After spending about an hour out there in the field I realized that I really had no clue as to what I was looking for – maybe arrowheads but I really didn’t know what they looked like… so I went home, grabbed my pouch of tobacco and went down to gift whoever hangs out down there with some.

The whole area is very well gifted with orgonite but I like to gift tobacco as well in certain places and this felt like a good time.  I really did connect with whoever looks after that area and had a nice little chat where I told them that I would be back tomorrow and that I needed help finding something interesting – I just did not seem to be able to do it on my own…

I think you understand that feeling when I say that I could barely go to sleep cause I just knew that I had been heard and that it was good…

This morning I went down and started digging.  It seemed like there was an artifact in almost every piece of dirt I picked up and I had an incredible time with some interesting insights…

When I was wearing my glasses I could not find them… but when I took my glasses off and fumbled around in the dirt with my hands they were everywhere – it was truly incredible and I completely lost sense of space and time.  I felt like I had company and that they were having as much fun as I was – there was an incredible sense of joy in the whole event.

Of course I had put out there that I was only willing to find objects that wanted to be found that that would not disturb anyone…

Somehow I lost five hours of time digging when Dennis finally came down to give me a drink and told me that the day had pretty much passed…  and had a good laugh at me barefoot in the field covered in mud.   Our dog kept going back and forth between me and home and tried to help me dig, not knowing what we were looking for

I had found this amazing space that one is always yearning to connect with but it gets harder as one gets older – that complete sense of joy and play.  Us orgonite makers often find that creative space while pouring and I have several other outlets but today was truly special…

I have all my life had this dream of finding an untouched artifact somewhere and was all excited when I came home cause I really felt like I had connected with something new (or old, rather…) down there – right in my own neighborhood.

Now we are going to be practicing some psychometry on some of the pieces I found…  

Here are a couple of amazing arrowheads that I found – the top one is made out of quartz!

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Came out on the porch today and got a good chuckle out of how my dog likes to arrange things… in literal patterns…  and today she had put three different toys by the orgonite charging plates – probably in the hopes of charging them to where I want to play…  She usually likes to use them as a pillow when laying outside but this was the first time I have seen her actually arrange them on the plates.  I must say she has a sense of style

We have been taking some drives out in the country here in North Carolina recently since it’s such a mild winter and there are so many places to go and so much to see (not to mention gift…)  The amounts of waterfalls is astounding and there are some places that are just an honor to visit – natural beauty at its’ best.

Here are some pictures of this one beautiful place called Nantahala where we gifted both the river and the lake.  It’s old Cherokee Indian country and the energies are very interesting – one side of the mountain feels very different from the other.  There were places where we got those amazing giddy feelings where the local spirits were happy to see us and we felt compelled to gift tobacco as well as orgonite…

Then we came upon this sign by the lake, it says “PRAY” – what a wonderful location to do just that

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Today I got to do something really fun and precious… went to pick up some crystals from the warehouse and they had a new shipment from Madagascar that just arrived… Knowing my excitement with these beautiful crystals they let me unwrap one box to have first choice  One thing that struck me was that they were wrapped in newspapers with crosswords puzzles that were all done – that made me chuckle and they said that they always laugh about that in the warehouse cause we could not understand the words… but someone obviously had a lot of time on their hands…

I came across this one crystal that was unlike any I’d seen before so I snapped it up – it has a nice point on one end and lots of little terminations on the other with a perfect little chlorite point in the middle.

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Living in the mountains the way we do it seems like we attract animals quite a bit…  This is the third dog that has showed up here within the past year that we made sure had a happy story.  He showed up one night and as you can see on the pictures he is much thinner than he should be… along with various cuts and sores.  He was absolutely starving… so of course I had to feed him and he stayed on our porch for a couple of days before he got picked up to move into his forever home – he is a treeing walker and they need to hunt…  It was funny when this hunter picked him up cause the dog immediately slipped into his comfort zone and jumped into the dog box on the back of the guys truck – knowing what to do and excited about where they were going

Poor sore feet…

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Our dog loves taking vacations as much as we do and this time we went to Folly Beach in South Carolina to do some work along with getting some sunshine.  Obviously she enjoyed herself…

This sign found at a Shell gas station made me laugh…

We were playing with putting together little sets of crystals and I took some photos here:

Individual sets, each set containing (clockwise) one Madagascar Quartz, three Lemurian seed crystals (one skinny, one DT and one sparkly), one Recordkeeper Ruby, one polished piece of Scolecite, one Apophyllite point, one small piece of Bismuth metal, one large Tibetan DT Herkimer:

I dug out some various forms of quartz so I could photograph an easy comparison sheet for those who are curious:

As you can see they all have pretty distinctive characteristics when you place them side by side  If you click on the image you will get up a larger version of the photo.

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For some reason it seems like January is the month where body craves grounding foods and each year I seem to get inspired to make something fermented during that month.  One of this years big adventures was making beet kvass since I had heard much about the benefits of taking it and figured getting more beets into the diet must only be a good thing.  Now that I have been taking it for a while it is the first thing my body craves in the morning and I mix about 1/4 cup with some apple juice and then vortex it really well (the kvass tends to float on top of the juice…).  It gives an amazing boost first thing in the morning and this week hubby got into it as well – I have to make more and so took pictures along the way, hoping that someone else might get inspired to try it.

First start out with three good quality organic beets:

Scrub them clean really well, cut off tops and bottoms and chop into pieces:

Put into a glass container:

and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of good salt (I use Himalayan) on the beets and stir it up:

If you happen to have a couple of tablespoons of raw milk whey you can add this now, otherwise you can use 1/4 cup of previously made kvass you have OR another tablespoon of salt.

Add two quarts of water and stir it up:

Now you can leave this in the kitchen for about three days and then strain out the beets.  The liquid will be thick and slimy to start out with but will get fizzier and thinner the longer it stays in the fridge.  You can also use the same beets for a second fermentation if you wish.  If you decide to do that you will need to wash them really well after straining them and then cut them into halves again and start the process over, with salt and water and a little bit of liquid from the last batch.  You can either drink the kvass as it is (salty, beety and earthy tasting) but it also makes a wonderful substitute for vinegar in a salad dressing.  I like to mix it with apple juice

There is this magical alchemical transformation that happens when you make this and every time you make it will taste a little different.  The taste matures and changes and it’s incredible how it becomes this living thing that nurtures you – one of those things that cannot be explained but has to be experienced…  Here is what I have left from my last batch – doesn’t it look alive?

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