Learn to Become a Spiritual Caretaker of Your Community and the Earth
Divination is about so much more than one on one interpersonal dialogue. Divination is community medicine. Divination has a much larger role it wishes to play within communities and with the earth. Divination has a public component that is wanting to be explored. It’s time to take it to the community.
There is a wholeness to the medicine that wishes to be articulated.
The Strega Tree Collective has for many years been working on the land with the local spirits and sacred spaces that need tending for the good of the whole. Now we are offering a class to teach others to learn these methods and techniques. The class, taught by Theresa C. Dintino, is based on her newest book: Membranes of Hope.
A New School with a Class about Lilith by Vivien Monroe
Congratulations to Strega Tree Diviner Vivien Monroe and Priestess extraordinare on the launching of her new Mystery School. Vivien is offering a 10% discount on her new class about Lilith to friends of Strega Tree. Use code STREGATREEVIP to access this discount here. More about mystery school and class below.
Vivien Monroe, Ph.D. is an author, educator, and priestess of the Divine Feminine. She integrates her training as a priestess and gifts as an intuitive and channel with decades of study of spirituality, mysticism, and personal growth. She is passionate about helping women to tap into greater reservoirs of inner power, honor their intuitive wisdom, and unapologetically live life on their own terms.
Introducing Eleni Nicholas
Strega Tree is proud and honored to introduce the most recent addition to our team of diviners: Eleni Nicholas.
Eleni is a joyful, compassionate and wise woman who brings years of immersion and training in spiritual work to her role as a diviner. Read more about Eleni below and if you are local and you want to meet her sooner rather than later, come to the Winter Witches’ Market in Santa Rosa this Saturday December 18 where she will be offering 20 minute divinations for $30. Find the Strega Tree Apothecary Booth and we will direct you to her. Read more about the market at the bottom of this post. To contact Eleni go here.
Season of the Stars
There are lots of stories told about the planet Venus but how about trying to form an authentic relationship with Venus on your own? How about doing that in the same way you would get to know a new friend. Hopefully you would not only listen to the rumors and the stories told about that person, but find out who they are based on your experience of them and your relationship to them.
In this time where Venus is bright in the night sky and early enough so you don’t have to rearrange your sleep habits to see it, perhaps take some time to sit and look at it and notice what it evokes. How about trying to get to know the planet from your own experience? Sounds fun to me.
Overwhelm and the Art of Procrastination
How are you holding up lately? With sincerity, I hope that you are healthy, occasionally seeing friends and family in person, and able to pull off most of the tasks at work and home that are required of you. I (Sarah here) feel like I am riding the wave of stop and go with some finesse. I can never know when my child might be home for a surprise week off of school which can cause me to cancel all of my work. When we drop back into the rhythm of school, I witness a lack of “get ‘er done abilities” and make poor use of the window of “free” time. I am full of good intentions to accomplish my long list of tasks, but overwhelm and ADD kick in and I basically walk in circles. I feel like I might not be alone in this, so I will share what helps me to not feel like I am letting down my team in the other realms.
Welcoming the Dark with Dark
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the U.S. where we just “turned our clocks back” then you cannot but notice that we have entered the time of darkness. Though the shortest day of the year is December 21, November often feels like the darkest month. Time to slow down and welcome the dark. Traditionally this is done by bringing in the light: lighting candles, putting up twinkly lights, but how about sitting with the dark in the dark and letting it greet your own dark? How about acknowledging the dark with dark instead of light?
Ancestral Clearing
There are many gifts that come through a Dagara stick divination, but for the majority of my clients, I would say that the most important part is finding a connection to one’s ancestors. The majority of us are of mixed heritages. We barely know the stories of those who came before us, their triumphs, their hardships. What remains even more hidden, are the medicine or craft traditions. These gifts either went underground due to persecution, or were completely shut down so that the ancestors could fit in to new lands and new communities.
This is the season for the Remembering. Samhain time. The Day of the Dead. Why, you may ask, do we need to honor the ancestors? To live this life in balance in this world, we must be in gratitude. We would not be here if it were not for our parents, grandparents and the greats before them. Many people are challenged with this concept of gratitude when there is a history of abuse or negative patterns in the lineage. Rightly so. It is a difficult journey to find gratitude towards an oppressive character. But much healing can come from the clearing work involved in discovering gratitude. If we do the work of healing a lineage, we can clear it forwards for our children, laterally for our siblings and cousins, and even backwards for the ancestors themselves. We hold the energetics in our bodies of the traumas that affected our ancestors or were afflicted by our ancestors. The memory persists until it is acknowledged and transmuted. So how do we transmute ancestral trauma? With offerings.