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Calling all Mother Hearts
There have been 948 school shootings in the United States of America since 2003. This amounts to 49.8 school shootings per year. Almost 50 mass shootings in schools every year in our country! More than four school shootings per month, every year, for the past 19 years, on average. I was stunned…I asked myself, what have I done about this? Continue reading
Woman Culture…as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.
We made/make…we twist and spin, we knit, crochet, sew and weave. We build. We concoct. We clean and sweep, we dust and shine. We carried/carry a magical staff, a stick, a wand, a broom, a stone and we knew/know how to use it. We have beloved animal familiars, totems and plant allies. We honored/honor the elders among us, we listened/listen deeply to their tales… Continue reading
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An official response to the Prevention and Materia Medica articles recently posted here
We received a WARNING LETTER from the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., dated April 16 and delivered by email. It was addressed to Blessed Maine Herb Farm regarding unsubstantiated claims for Coronavirus prevention. They took issue with the posting of … Continue reading
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PART 2 – MATERIA MEDICA FOR A GLOBAL PANDEMIC – Gail Faith Edwards
In Part 1 of The Pesky Coronavirus we discussed the virus in great detail. And, we discussed the herbs, vitamins and foods we could partner with in the present moment to help enhance immunity, build strength and vitality and protect … Continue reading
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The Pesky Enigmatic Coronavirus; Preventive Care
Viruses are enigmatic. They skirt the boundaries. They exist at the edges of life and are very much a part of the animate natural world, an intrinsic part of the web of life. The healer, herbalist, shaman, root doctor … Continue reading
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SACRED BEAR MOTHER
The cross-quarter day between winter solstice and spring equinox that we refer to as Imbolc, Candelmas or Candelora, was long referred to as Bear Day among our archaic European ancestors. “After you take a bear’s coat off, it looks just … Continue reading
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A Deep Winter Encounter with Dark Mother
Our Lady of the Dark Night invited me to take a walk with her. Well, to be honest, there was no invitation involved. It was more like an abduction! What really happened, is that she came at me like a Ninja from … Continue reading
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THE MEDICINAL USE, PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF BALTIC AMBER – Gail Faith Edwards
In my role as a Community Herbalist for the past thirty or more years and as Director of the Blessed Maine Herb Farm School of Herbal Medicine, I have occasion to consult with numerous people who are in search of … Continue reading
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Benedicaria – The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine – Part 2 – Gail Faith Edwards
These folk ways were practiced in every home and were neither strange nor unfamiliar; quite the contrary, they were, and still are, commonplace expressions of a unique and ancient culture, a comprehensive synthesis and evolution of spirituality, mysticism and folk healing that took place among an indigenous people across many centuries and is still quietly thriving in the rural mountains of Sud Italia. Continue reading
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Benedicaria – The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine, Part 1 – Gail Faith Edwards
In the remote mountain villages of Southern Italia, like ours, the old ways still thrive. We are a tribal culture, an indigenous people, descendants of the ancient Lucana Tribe; we are remembered as the People of the Sacred Wood, of … Continue reading
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Way of the Wild Heart 