Haiku for the Wild by Roya Candia
Roots across the path The magic entry beckons Leaves sing in the wind ~Roya Candia Roya Candia is a dreamer, an artist, a tender of the trees, a stick and voice diviner, a folk herbalist, and a somatic counselor and practitioner. Roya cherishes the gift of...
Haikus to the Wild: love letters to the Earth
In a divination, me (Theresa) and Amy Tanzman were asked to write twenty-five Haikus or short statements expressing something that one could only experience while alive in a body on planet earth. In this divination and assignment, wedeme reminded us that everything...
Enliven the Earth with Dance
Time and time again, our diviners are told to dance in the wild places. The Earth is marked by energetic ley lines that run like the rivers across the planet. We are shown that the energetics of the ley lines are broken and that one way to reactivate them is to dance...
What if the Darkness Needs Us? An invitation to access your deep soul this weekend
In reflecting on this dark time of year and creating a ritual to encounter the darkness as nourishing, something unexpected arose. The darkness said it misses us, it misses humans, and asked for an offering. The darkness itself told us it wishes to be nourished by...
In Case You Missed It: Alchemy of Pain Ritual to Carry Out On Your Own
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.