What a Wet Happy Mabon!!

Good afternoon beautiful Queens!  What a dreary, rainy day!  Is it like this where you are???  It seems it has been like this since the Mabon Festival!  AND---it is supposed to be like this for another 4-5 days according to our weatherman.  Sure makes the post-festival let-down even more of a let-down...

HOW ARE YOU QUEENS DOING???

I am having ups and downs as I am weaning myself off Lyrica--which only worked well for THREE days--and Prozac--which I have been on about 10 years now and suddenly I am experiencing weird breakouts of my skin--all over--not just on my face--and more pains that I never had before which may be related.  I would like to see what it would be like to be med free, so I am working on weaning myself off a lot of things--not all at once--and really improving my diet and exercise--as in I am going to start one--LOL--regime.  Last pizza tonight and then a new way of eating starting this weekend--dairy free, gluten-free, sugar free, and mostly fresh fruits and veggies.  I try to stick to this all the time, but it has been lost over the last couple months, so it is time to buckle down again.

Has anyone had good results from any particular type of diet or eating and exercise regime?  Also--any good vitamin combinations for pain or depression or what have you?   I just ordered Zyflamend, Arnica ointment, more Arnica Monatana, Aquamin Sea Minerals, SAM-e and Tart Cherry Extract which are all supposed to be helpful for joint, fibromyalgia and arthritis pain along with the Turmeric and Vitamin D, Omega 3 Fish oils from cod liver oils and other good things I am already on. 

PLEASE feel free to post your experiences and inspiring articles and quotes as we go through the Wheel of the Year supporting each other on our journeys to Wholeness. 

Happy Mabon!
Paula

Branwenn's Crystal Visions: Energized after the wonderful Mountain Mysteries Mabon Festival

Branwenn's Crystal Visions: Energized after the wonderful Mountain Mysteries Mabon Festival

Energized after the wonderful Mountain Mysteries Mabon Festival

I always come back home after every festival energized and charged up to do so much more with my life.  This time, I am setting about cleaning my house--literally and figuratively--and de-junking in a big way.  Right now, I have two and one-half houses crammed into my already huge home filled with antiques and collectibles that resonate with who I am and my lifestyle.  I don't want to get rid of a single thing...but I must!  The overall weight of "stuff" is squashing my energy, my creativity and my inspiration in the same way that my body's overweight and less than ideal health is squashing my body, my health and my energy to create my life the way I want it to be.  Neither of these situations can continue.

I had the honor to teach a wonderful workshop this weekend at the Mountain Mysteries Mabon Festival about the idea of the new phase of the Goddess--the Queen--which slides into the big gap left between the Mother and the Crone.  These women were incredible!  They had been through it all and were still resilient, beautiful, intelligent, articulate, and just plain incredible.  I had the honor of working with them to educate them about the idea of the Queen and the idea that not all of us are ready to become Crones as soon as we hit menopause. We identified with one another on a Divine level and I saw a lot of head shaking of "YES!" when another sister mentioned something that was happening in her life.  

I made a commitment to transforming my poor health into PERFECT, VIBRANT HEALTH,  my "lack mentality" into PROSPERITY ENOUGH TO SHARE, and my chronic fatigue into ENERGY TO ACHIEVE MY WILDEST DREAMS.  We all made affirmations and raised up some incredible empowerment with our voices and my magick tambourine. I realized that the Goddess in me truly loved these beautiful Queens in all their beauty and even possibly more on the days that they aren't so beautiful. I chose a spiritual family to accompany me on my journey to Wholeness and offered an invitation to take the group which is about 20 wonderful women at this point along with me on this journey.  They can go with me and I will go with them.

It all reminds me of a wonderful song from the rock opera Godspell which I idolized in my youth called "By My Side?" It was one of my best friend's favorite songs and we sued to sing it going down the road together..good times..great memories..even though she and I are sadly no longer friends, why not make the good times happen again?

Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Can you take me with you?
For my hand is cold
And needs warmth
Where are you going?
Far beyond where the horizon lies

Where the horizon lies
And the land sinks into mellow blueness
Oh please, take me with you
Let me skip the road with you
I can dare myself
I can dare myself
I'll put a pebble in my shoe
And watch me walk (watch me walk)
I can walk

[CHORUS]
I can walk!

I shall call the pebble Dare
I shall call the pebble Dare
We will walk, we will talk together
We will talk

[CHORUS]
About walking Dare shall be carried

[CHORUS]
And when we both have had enough
I will take him from my shoe, singing

[CHORUS]
"Meet your new road!"

Then I'll take your hand
Finally glad

[CHORUS]
Finally glad
That I am here
By your side (By my side)
  By your side (by my side)
By your side (by my side)
By your side (by my side)
By your side (by my side)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jykLTu9rg1U

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