by Strega Tree Apothecary | Jul 27, 2022 | Apothecary, Community rituals, Divination, Kontomble, Meditation, Rituals to do on your own, Strega Tree, Trees, Wedeme
Many people expressed that they wished to be at the Alchemy of Pain ritual held by the Strega Tree Collective last week but had conflicting events on their schedule or they were not well enough to come out to the park. Therefore, we are offering a version of it here for you to do yourself or with others.
A note from Theresa on her experience at the ritual:
Strega Tree diviners often say that the style of divination we do is “prescriptive.” This means that rituals are given for the client to carry out on their own based on issues that are diagnosed by the wedeme and kontomble.
I cannot emphasize enough how this is the magic of this style of divination that the Dagara people of Burkina Faso are so generous to share with us. These “hand-crafted” and personalized rituals are the unique signature of this style of divination. While there is so much that comes through in the divinations themselves, you only feel the full power when you carry out the ritual prescriptions.
After being engaged with this work for 13 years, it still surprises, delights and impresses me.
by Strega Tree Apothecary | Jul 18, 2022 | Community rituals, Strega Tree
The Alchemy of Pain: A Community Ritual For Healing
Saturday, July 23, 3-5 pm
Ragle Ranch Park
Sebastopol, CA
**This is a free event
Come to a ritual to transform pain. In these difficult and challenging times many of us are left holding pain in our bodies, minds and psyches. Take the opportunity to alchemize your pain in this community ritual.
by Strega Tree Apothecary | May 11, 2022 | Community rituals, Path to Peace, Rituals to do on your own, Strega Tree, Water
If there is “turbulence” in the “waters” of your immediate or extended family or community, meaning conflict, toxicity, disagreement or worry— anything that is stirring the waters and creating unrest—you can restore calm with this ritual. This is one way to work with...
by Strega Tree Apothecary | Jan 21, 2022 | Books, classes, Community rituals, Strega Tree, Theresa C. Dintino
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.
by Sarah Wieland | Jun 28, 2021 | Community rituals, Kontomble, Rituals to do on your own, Sarah Wieland, Strega Tree
This is a ceremony to honor a woman who has moved beyond the years of menstruation.
What you will need:
Candle
½ cup of olive oil
Paper and pens for each guest
2 or 3 large Leaves ex. Banana leaf, or flax- and either plant cordage or string
Red rose
Sun tea- women- white sage, elderberry fresh (when gathering ask the ancestors to reweave their web of support.) dried elderberry, dandelion, red rose, mint.
Sun tea if men are present (just for men)- white sage, oregano, thyme, mint, fresh fennel, dried and fresh elderberry.
Bucket or tub for a foot bath
Sesame oil
by Jerry Allen | Nov 4, 2017 | Community rituals, Jerry Allen, Rituals to do on your own, Strega Tree
Many people have asked, “what is the Gratitude Way?” It is an attitude and daily practice that I learned from native ancestors and that is practiced in many indigenous cultures. It is often called the 5 to 1 practice, five statements of gratitude, praise, thanks, blessing for every one of constructive feedback.
