Healing Spice Mix

No I did not invent this..I am fortunate to have interesting friends with educations from all over the world!
This one is by Larisa, The Russian Chemist who likes to sew because now she is married to some engineer and lives in China for the next few years with her man..she is very interesting and has many awesome raw ingredients..she also has access to frozen sea buckthorn berries which she mixed in a drink  with this spice paste.
she sent me this recipe:
It gave me me so much energy, I thought I would jump out of my skin! She just keeps pushing this paste so i made a whole batch to eat once a day..one quarter teaspoon..
this is not a vitamin but it is so much more...anti  inflammatory
anti fungal
anti coldness and worry

Ingredients:
3 Table spoons black sesame 
1 Table spoon ginger powder
2 Table spoons turmeric
4 Table spoons milk thistle Seeds *
3 Table spoons grape seeds powder
5 Table spoons pollen
1 Table spoon Royal jelly (bee’s product) * I used raw organic chestnut blossom and mint honey from Italy..
1 tea spoon clove buds powder *
0.5 tea spoon coriander powder
0.5 tea spoon black pepper powder
1 tea spoon saffron
1 tea spoon anise seeds powder
0.5 tea spoon cinnamon
1 tea spoon cardamom powder
1 tea spoon white sesame seeds powder (I used tahini)
1 tea spoon coconut shaves ( I used coconut oil)
0.5 tea spoon  ground lemon peel
1.5 vanilla extract
honey up to 800 g

Recipe:
Using blender mix all dry ingredients. Then combine the mixture
with honey. Put in glass jars and store in the refrigerator.
Take 1 tea spoon twice a day before breakfast and before dinner.
If you would like to repeat the course have 10 days break
and then you can prepare the same mixture again.

anastasia's room and body sprays

I sell more room sprays than ever before these days.
Maybe it is because people want fresh smells without having to plug in a device or light a candle of take a bath for that matter..
To take a bath, one must clean the tub, and that takes at least twenty minutes.
Even my sons who are in their own space way back there in back of the house, will come and say, "uh, mom, we're out of room freshener and one of our female friends said our room smells like goats."
Well, what do you expect, what with three big lads in a smallish space and then you add their friends..goats..
fermones smell very animalistic and right now, (spring) in nature, animals breed..males smell a little more as to attract females..yesh yesh..nothing more than animals, we are:)
For the boys I make a lemon lime concoction..
for me, I love citrus and I love patchouli..as in
AGAPIMENI ROOM AND BODY SPRAY, which seems to be everyone's favorite..

https://www.etsy.com/listing/78779104/agapimeni-a-body-and-room-spray

I am so looking forward to making more sprays this year! I like citrus that is for sure, but why not a little clove and jasmine..spicy, hot, intense..
also by popular demand, I'll make a thieves blend..
you  know;

clove
lemon
rosemary
eucalyptus
cinnamon bark

In grape alcohol and not by Young Living..
by me, anastasia..

What? Does young living  think they invented essential oils? humph!!
 Europeans began producing essential oils in the 12th century! This blend is basically named thieves because of the 4 dudes that would steel goods from dead people who died from the plague..they were finally caught and not hanged after they divulged their secret as to why they weren't infected. They rubbed themselves with cinnamon, oregano and clove...

have a wonderful day..I am gonna go scheme some more about essential oils and good soap..

boring? I think not!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123516522/anastasias-four-thieves-room-and-body

Jungle Life 2

it was by now 2005 or something..not that it really mattered what year it was. When you live in the jungle, time is changed. Changed to reflect the sun's patterns there..sunrise by 5ish, sundown 5ish..
There are 6 months of glorious weather in the mountains where I lived. So many trees and vines..the vines will grow right in on you in weeks and it is creepy at first..that is when you learn to use the big knife, the machete..a sword really..
you are like wtf? Where did all these vines come from?
There was some sort of device the electric hippie put under the porch so it would sent to the university messages about the seismic activity with earth quakes and volcanoes..very cool..
The university came once to check it and they were polite and left.
By then my Spanish was passable.. Once I was to entertain an Indian (rich) guy, some sort of investor in the property..
He was nice but he told me to go home..
He takes my hand and looks me in the eyes and he he says to me, you have had a big event has separated you and torn you apart, I see the gap."
I was like yea, I know, what am I doing standing at a dirty beach town bus stop in the middle of nowhere?
  I do not drink or party at the bar, I do not sleep with strangers in the middle of nowhere and I do not sniff cocaine ( you can always tell the sniffers)



La Mona En Seda
monkey house to me and my family
http://www.flickr.com/photos/capt_richard_barone/8384439762/

I would go teach English in town (3 km) twice maybe three times a week..the rest of the time I would stay on the hill and water the flowers and make tortillas outside. I would love to roll dough in a shady spot and just cook it on a open fire..after three years living in Tilaran, we had adapted to Costa Rican life..put the beans on in the morn, make some rice, chop a cabbage with cilantro and lemon, make a dough to fry up later, and go work your area. there were hibiscus fences in beautiful  shades from yellow to red and purple..
the ylang ylang trees glowed their scent at night..sweet and heavenly..right before nightfall, the dragon fly came. it was incredible to see so many chomping on mosquitoes .they gobble them up..still, you'll want to hunker in for the night by 8..it gets buggy no matter what by then. the netting around beds in the tropics is there for a reason. by morning you might see some pretty big fellows resting on the outside of your mesh..mostly big moths, but still!
4:30 am the monkeys come..they had been so used to being fed, they banged on the big door in the back..
I got in to the rhythm of the monkeys..i gave them bananas and they ate and watched me work through the trees...they loved dough..on a few occasions they took my dough right out of my kitchen window!
 I knew I should have closed the window when I walked out of there..but they are quick as lightening!
In what Costa Ricans consider  winter, the rains came. You really do not want to be out too much when it is pouring rain..same as in winter here in Michigan, I suppose. The weather forces you in..driving is dangerous..
when it pours rain for days at a time, you are forced to stay in most of the time..
it was like this...
hotness, explosive down pour, rain steady..calm for a 30 minutes stretch  or not..hot, explosive downpour..rain..on on and on with the rain..the books literally disintegrating before your eyes! Once I was caught in the rain while  going to town, my sandal broke and I went to teach English with broken sandals .they thought low of me for that..I was appalled at their shallowness..people with money acted weird there..there is a much wider gap between the wealthy and what they perceive as poor..I was a neither their peasant not was I poor, but they must have thought so based on my broken sandal..
funny how some things just stay with you. I think that before I left CR, my student had regrets for his behavior towards me and my broken sandals..but all I remember about him is his arrogance and I can now see his fear..living well requires big money..developers money..millions really..a private beach is everything to them..having the suv and the pool and your child in private school..he wanted to learn English specifically to lure big investors in his beach front schemes with a couple of other big players..they wanted enough money to desalinize the ocean water so they could build their resorts for the rich..all with gates and guards..once I decided to walk the beach to another class just down a ways but they called to authorities and got me in trouble for trying to walk past a private estate..really?
My stomach hurts for those people..a little bit, it does!

gathering ingredients for the new blackberry sage soap

I do not know if I can do it..years ago, I made a soap which had a bunch of herbs in it and sage..it had been inspired by Republic Of Tea's Blackberry sage tea..
It has been 13 years since I made thing..I have forgotten what I put in there, beside the tea herbs..
yes, sage oil for sure..
lemon
some oakmoss
omg, that does sound good and magical.
I think I'll buy some white sage oil and more of that fruit raspberry leaf co2..maybe grind rose petals and then  add rose rose leaf absolute..if I want to!
I want it to be fruity and sweet and yet have that sage come through. I want it to be herbal and for some reason to be black purple in shade. I want to smell the earth, the grass, the flowers there...

I have also bought a whole bunch of rose buds.
rose patchouli soap
rose lemon soap
rosy frankincense soap
chamomile rose soap ( a red chamomile soap!)
and maybe I'll make an amulet to wear..I would like that, I think:)

xo

kale salad

super salad
detox salad
so many salads!
I like kale but not every day
I like the detox salad but not everyday

Detox salad by Karen at work.
This is a gal who will eat guacamole out of the thing with one sprouted tortilla and make you want some...
 I am like give me a hunk of french bread with that, would you Karen ?! Where is the cheese?
I like cheese, and olives and a boiled egg now and again, I am Greek!
I work (on a boat) with very advanced foodies..but in a healthy way..you know, a whole foods type place...
So... Karen makes this interesting salad with like everything in it!

chopped raw or broccoli
chopped cauliflowerr
chopped brusel sprouts
red cabbage
raisins
sprouted sunflower seeds or not, they will sprout anyhow in a few hours because of the moisture in the salad
a few chia seeds (why not)
lemon juice
I would add honey, or a bit of coconut oil..
I  like fat, thank you very much! a little bit..

at first I was like, meh..but I had some anyhow because I like food and I am willing to try something new..
not bad
the raisins add sweetness now again with a bite and the broccoli is very pleasant to me..plus I felt good all day from that one plate of food..
maybe you'll try it..eat some organic veg, why wouldn't you!

xoxoxo

the year of the snake

the snake represents a lot of things..fear, lonesomeness, death and power too.

I do believe that this year we will have an opportunity to simplify (yet again) and re group our thoughts.
Hide even, from bad things..hey man, if you are out there protesting or fighting, some bigger thing is going to step on you..that is the law of attraction as much as all the good stuff that the law is composed of..

the snake is all about observing
really taking in the smells, the taste from the air on any situation
be it work or your passion ( what is your passion anyhow)
let the people who exploded into leadership last year have their hurrah..that was the dragon..
the snake is all about knowing what's up..understanding every aspect and leading without words.
Quietly planning, observing  the movements of their prey or the thing which they want most.

I suggest basil, holy basil and chanting to hanuman for monkey vibes..
apparently monkeys (and honey badgers) are but a few animals that handle snakes with ease..I suppose humans do to..
still if you are going to make an amulet, a monkey is your most attractive choice..haha

snakes are also about saving, waiting and being reverent of the forest..reverent of your core values and certainly knowing truth from its base.

monkey man, Hanuman,
give me the glowing reverence of my core
show it to me in all sorts of ways
from knowledge of the divine
and all things which I can control
my kundalini quivering
and winding itself up my spine to my madula oblangta
my pineal gland softening, opening my mind to my infinite  potential lifetimes and chances

I am you, Hanuman, you are me, Hanuman...

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





2013 year of the snake..slow and steady wins the race...

you're fine it's my design

Monday morning gentle snow quietude...I am imagining that this will be lush by summer..

lush is what its about. what is coming and what you are creating..right now and  at this moment..

and don't be a pompous ass..be real, do not lie to me, or yourself, I'll know, do not be fake and do not spread bad gossip.get a job, go work it off, your gloom and lazy reviews which continually quell unrealism((;)) in your brain...

Pluto in Capricorn is going to make us all a little more realistic that is for sure and my reality is that I am safe, right now and I am fed and warm right now and I have everything I need right now..
So what is it that drives me to experience fear? An unrealistic number in space somewhere? Well I should think one can harness Pluto to say to themselves, "fuck that!"

It is just a number in space or it is just another fluctuating wave of emotion on a world level, a planet level..
some less evolved choose violence to quench their fears, and hatreds..I mean really, how can you even fathom a god who hates, how?? A god who needs a beggar there praying for more money or a lover? If he loves you so much and made you in his image, then you should be happy and quite content!
right babies?

*unrealism; a thing which you do where you allow some thought to become a wave of pain and emotion to the point of creating more hurtful attributes than what  was the original reason for the situation..
you know letting something fester in your mind..seething festering..((;))


I just watched the first season of Downton Abby! I loved it..love love loved it!!
love you too
thanks for letting me rant i am now gonna go work it off..to music:)
xo

jungle life

the view from the porch of the house in the morning

the house as you walked the long hill up..those are ylang ylang trees in the back part



Has it been 9 years since I met up  with two very eccentric hippies in Costa Rica?
I met Harry and Bertha when I was cooking at hotel Tilawa in Tilaran, CR..
They came and stayed with me for a week. It was a very small hotel, where folks would stay  and enjoy the rain forest  They were buddhist, christian, hindu, everything..he was so full of energy that he made you excited just standing next to him! ( it happens) A rare and drugged up genius, they would say... they would smoke ounces of weed in a day and I heard rumors that they would smoke crack and fight for days...people say things you know, when you are not there to defend yourself...they wanted to save the monkeys, the water (which there never seemed to be enough for everyone), the land, the bananas..
but that was later..
meanwhile I was loving cooking for Jon Paul at Tilawa..I had built up my clients we were making money all day everyday..my menus were stellar! I made fresh rolls every day and would make some fine salads. the likes of which they had never seen, I can tell ya!
So when Harry and Bertha came, I waozed them with my cuisine..naan, curries, freshest avocado sandwiches ever! My sandwiches were my specialty..I would roast peppers and stuff them and bake them with a crusty bready thing..man I could cook in those days!
He freaked out when I roasted a pig..I am cook we cook for everyone..they were vegetarian, so I made everything separately for them..
He wanted some  so bad..all day he  would come down and talk to me and inhale the roasting smells of cumin and pineapples and garlic and mangoes which I roasted the thing with:)
(the pigs feast on green bananas in that region, it changes the meat somehow)
They loved me. They were elegant and she had the biggest rack I had ever seen in real life..I wondered if they were real? Maybe not..who knows..
He finally conceded and ate some pig..he chowed on it..I presented it to him with all the trimmings..my mango relish, the chili relish and of course lots of good beer..he ate and ate and ate and then cried and cried and cried..it was super dramatic and left me with an impression. I liked him very much in a crazy way. Bertha, had a way of taking you in and keeping you for life. Scorpio women will do that with me. Her flair for presentation and love of fine things..was really something..
A year later Jon Paul in a drunken rage, fired me! ( another long one, I'll tell it  one day)
 I moved to the beach to a town called Cobano..pronounced "covah no"..
I am standing at the bus ready to go to cook for some rich Spaniards in a neighboring town and there those two are!
I had forgotten their names..they were delighted to see me..I am like why do all these people here look so rough..is it the red dust and no rain that always seems to make you look so dirty? Yes!
In the rain forest  you deal with the moisture..dampness, mold..at the beach, there is salty sand and red dust and people mist everywhere..when it finally rains, it is such a relief, people start dancing...

They invited me to their place. I didn't go until 6 months later. She made sure to keep me in touch and was always kind to me. I finally took her up on her offer one day. It felt like we were driving to the end of the world. All the twists and turns in the road and it all seemed like uphill..it was..by the time we got up to their place, I could feel the cool air, it was 20 degrees cooler up there! Monkeys looking at me eating and holding their babies while eating..I was enchanted..
they told me I could live here, for free.
All I had to do is never cook meat in the house and always go to town and get bananas for the monkeys..
I am like, "really, ok!"

pregnant thoughts

bursting with ideas
edgy
clean cuts which illuminate brilliantly
precisely showing me what needs done
instinctively knowing the outcome
continually growing
and casting my ideas into my brains mysterious vastness
their voyage so intensely long and each step met with enriched mind heat
and each moment like a universe of time and with it, all its gloriousness

thank you for this day

Imbolg

light your candle by the fire

stand beside the blaze and

remember that  you are fed by our star

who's blazing life force

gives you energy breath thought

you are

creative

unique

talented

rich

thankful

and reverent that each molecule each atom that makes you is only for you:)

may the coming warmth of the sun feed each of your cells till they are charged with so much energy there is an explosion and woa..what did you do, dude? You made something  your seeds have spread to millions of minds and will make contact with millions more:)

Om to success for the coming spring..om shreem om hrim om gleem om

om to glory

om to loving for real

om to honesty 

om to sharing the glory

om to there is enough for all of us

om to earth  3 billion something something,  2013

Imbolg

goldie hawn, stress and her face

she a is a Capricorn btw..
I understand a cappy man much easier than a cappy woman as they are all uniquely different...
goldie goldie goldie

ok, so I am cleaning up my place and sit down to find a movie for later but during the in between time before netflix on my telly, I have to endure a few seconds of cable..it was three in the afternoon, there were the usual tv talk clappy shows..clappy, they all clap all day..
so goldie was on Rachel Ray..
dang man..how much work has she had?
she could barely move her mouth and her hair was like a 20 year old all blond and sexy...
look, i just don't think botox is pretty.
and anytime time you have work done,  it makes you a little more doll like..yes? and that is creepy...

in 100 years (;))
we will not have too much difference between old and young on the street..what happens with the stuff you cannot tuck, because your face is too bloated from sleeping drugs and alcohol? ah yes..you see that among the elite..look at that lohan girl..awe!!

but goldie, she was talking about happiness, my most ever favorite subject. happiness..
that  if you can train your brain to always be happy, you can go through this life, happily.
that is the trick, isn't it? Mind control. We now know we can train our brain with drugs? yes we can feel better with the simplest drugs out there and in most cases we feel better way before they actually get in our system. We know we will so we get on with already doing it..

ah the brain and its sparking neurons. that we can control where our brain sparks is lovely to me...

goldie, i love you honey, but are you  saying that money can solve everything and stress?

I wonder how the Syrian woman feel right about now..if they are stressed because their sons are slaughtered in the street because their men are fucking ass holes afraid of god? can you imagine them sitting there and thanking god for this day?
what about the afgani boys who are dancing boys for men..yea, their mom is pretty zen about that..
happiness is you being calm and changing your mind though.
lets say you want to break it off with someone..for what ever reason...happiness, sadness, the brain scrambling to put into words  reasons for the break??
maybe you need to be also be sad..need, no, will be..will be sad, angry, mad,  goldie!
Now I know that she is talking to young Americans who are stressed. about school, boyfriends, money, having enough time..their fat ass bodies..because their mom just buys everything she sees on the telly..
lol
and she did make total sense! Decide what you want. Do you want a happy home? Do you want to stay with that person? Do what you want and you'll be happy.

Accepting the truth and being detached is the best we can do..or we'll be like those assholes out there who just blow each other up, every time things do not go their way and something changes..
it is gonna change
but mostly they can't master their human sexual nature so they make it so godly and impossible that they themselves need an outlet..so they sneak around on line, or text some woman or man and lie about their ten inch penis and write to some stranger, their dirtiest thoughts by night and by day they act "normal"..or worse they have little boy slaves to dance for them because since they are not women, god says it is ok..
ah the human..how complex and dumb at the same time..

sigh
thank you for this day

Libra Moon Aquarius Sun Facial

You will need the following ingredients;

rahssoul clay 1/2 cup
ground quinoa 1/2 cup
ground rose pettals 2 tbspoons
ground st, john's wort 1 teapoon
ground holy basil 1/2 teaspoon
(organic all)
now you can use water to wet this or you can use what I used, organic jojoba (my fav) about 1/4 cup..(mas o menos)
Roman chamomile 20 drops
Rose otto 4 drops
I also because I have them, added jojoba beads to this..you can if you have them..

I have about 4 ounces in stock and will give a little sample ( about enough for a week's worth of everyday scrubber)) to every order in February..I will:)

type one society

Just to get to  be type one society is going to be another what 100 years? Unless of course they all blow each other up and there is nothing left but a few stranglers in the dessert now knowing that god loves them most? And when the rest of us finally show them that this behavior is no longer needed because we are traveling the galaxy and your little piece of god's fucking earth means nothing in the whole scheme of things.
the whole scheme is that this is creation..this is how it works..there is no savior but your own mind.
Michio Kaku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0

I gotta stop reading the news first thing in the morn!!

:)