Roarin' through the Lion's Gate, 8-8-2017

Well I’m sure by now some of you are wondering what I’ve got my grundies in a bundle about, all this talk of anchoring frequencies and jumping time-lines.  Wondering what precipitated all that?  Some of you might know or may have guessed.  I’ve told very very few people, only those who can see beyond the matrix, know the power of prayer and calling upon Sananda (Jeshua, Jesus the Christ), and know the power of the Divine Plan.   

I didn’t tell anyone who was only going to see the AI Predator hive mind matrix program scheme I was supposed to swallow, thanks to one of it’s sleep walking minions.



Okay here’s the deal:  For anyone who hasn’t lived out here in the Sierras, this place can be very alive.  The land is very ... conscious?  responsive?  seems to have a will of it’s own?  Alive is really the best way to describe it.  And very wild.  Resists yuppification if you know what I mean.  And can really draw you in or spit you out, I’ve seen both. 

So on my road, in addition to yonder kooks, we also have G.P., who was a guy from the coast having a get away cabin in the neighborhood since the 80‘s.  Those aren’t his real initials by the way.  

ANWAY, when Aunt Judy the previous very distant, non-stewarding "owner" suddenly wanted to sell in 2013 and summarily dismissed any of my efforts to be first in line, G.P. and Aunt Judy made a deal in the shadows regarding the 85 acres on which I’ve lived and been the steward of for 22+ years, and G.P. “bought” “it”.

And well, he supposed I could continue to live here but immediately imposed this choker-chain-like lease on me.   It was like the Nazis had arrived.   And I had to sign or leave.  No longer was my lower garden area with green house ruins and fully functional garden shed and walk in cooler, mine to use.  

No longer were the 100 fruit trees that my 


former husband and I put in respected as an asset that I contributed, considered mine to care for. 

No.  He relegated me to a little postage sized stamp perimeter, literally mapped out to the foot.  No kidding.  With rules I better follow or else.

Then he wanted to tear down the old barn in 


front, and my lower shed.  He was appalled at the power lines we had put in by a qualified electrician, to run our shed that we used for a successful garden business in the day.  Everywhere he would look he'd see something irregular he didn't like or wanted to control.

King size untenable tyrant in my world.... 

He made some noise about tearing my house down too, sizing it up as not worth anything, he sez.  Well he is an all knowing contracter from the coast, after all.  With multiple properties, including one in France.  

Then Grandfather Fire came through in Sept. 2015 and utterly torched most of District 2 in Calaveras County, including the majority of my neighborhood. 

I will NEVER forget driving back in on my 


road, after 9 days out, evacuated, having heard my house was still there but seriously not knowing  what else, my cats, gardens, who else made it.  Lord Have Mercy it was a mess.  Thankfully I had the help of a ninja friend.

We got to the half way point on the road, coming in that day after evacuation was lifted, and I saw living trees by where the kooks live, I saw their buildings, more of their buildings..... and to my utter, jaw dropping, face slapping, arm pinching astonishment, I found out in short order, they stayed.  

Okay people, that is not right.  These folks are not right.   I don’t care what your head tells you, when faced with THAT much elemental force, you are going to run like hell, like it or not, if that were to come at you across my huge manzanita field.

Unless you have some bolt hole to go down.   That is what I and others think, because there is no way my house, surrounding vegetation and woods, and very large old dry manzanita grove --which I LOVE by the way  -- should still be there.  It should have gone up in one big ol' holy inferno taking THEIR place with it. No way should either of our places still be here.

The fire consumed all the dwellings in the hood but me and the kooks. I said “Is this some kind of cosmic joke!??”   G.P.’s cabin, gone.  All other neighbors, full or part time, gone. 

My garden shed, 20 years of garden tools, seeds, supplies, infrastructure, plus the old barn in front of my house, a mere 25 feet away and covered with dry blackberry bushes -- gone.

Krissy Lou’s house -- still there!!!

Well so apart from it being really difficult to recover from all that, it suited me just fine to have the G.P. further away and all his plans of destroying my house disrupted.  Let’s fast forward now to this March, after about a year of crappy interaction and always yucky and nasty when he shows up.  Thankfully not much.  He wasn’t clear at all about what to do or what he wants after the fire. Last fall he made noise about selling.

So this spring, he gets the bright idea to evict me and take over my place, after I’ve done a bunch of recovery and clean up work.  Plus my gardens, what is left of them, recovered brilliantly and were just like an altar to the Creator this spring.  Tended by a devotee I might add....  

Okay there it is.  Do you see why I kept it quiet?  Who would think there would be any other outcome, right?

No, not right.  This of course was shocking


to me but being an earth keeping warrior of many years who certainly doesn’t take orders from any old Boobus Americanus, I took the matter up with the Creator for many weeks, which totally initiated QUITE the process.

So much guidance and direction and confirmation that I am on the right path has come through, and continues to come through.  If you want to see Divine Outcome for me and the land, pray for that.  I am not a victim here.

He is coming up against an earth keeping priestess who knows fully well she is a co-creator with the Divine.  I have years of experience in how to work the energies of times and place.  

Okay so in March he sends me this official eviction letter, giving me a 2 month notice.  I went into my process, etc, and 6 weeks into it when I was clear the thing to do was resist and not leave, the energy of the challenge seemed to peak on the inner plane, and I had the distinct impression it was behind me.  And I was like, HUH???  The challenge of it felt behind me.

Then, towards the end of May, I get another official letter, this time delivered by UPS -- and I was laughing before even getting to the door of the house. 

It’s from G.P.  Seems he messed up with the eviction process, if he needs to get the county involved.  He didn’t do it right for their purposes so now he needs to start the whole process over again, blah dee blah dee blah....

Warriors Laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Go God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah.  And at that point, I had just dared to go out and buy tomato and pepper transplants the day before, because what kind of statement would it be to the Universe if I declined to do that?  

That I was going to swallow the yucky pathway he wants me to create and not put a garden in?  No way.

Well when I heard about his setback, it was like a boost forward for me!  Wow, okay 2 more months of eviction notice starting in July, then at LEAST 2 months for it to get through the court system if it comes to that... Okay put the ganja in too!!!! 

Yippee!!!  I will get my lil crop.  For 


personal use and for seed breeding.  I sure didn’t want to lose a year’s worth of seed work knowledge because a sleepwalker in service to himself and the Matrix has bumbled across my path.

So I’ve got a splendid summer garden going on, and continue to work with the situation as energy.  I’ve done some gridwork the last few days, at the start of Lion’s Gate, then on 8-7 and 8-8, placing crystals and working with intention. And quite frankly, I’ve been marveling at how little it seems to be an issue.

Key to this process is staying very positive, working with Divine Will, white light and the violet flame, and being self /Self referencing.   It’s not about me against the G.P.     It’s between me and the Universe, the challenge is to not get caught in the victim/ victimizer web.   

I AM A DIVINE CO-CREATOR!!!  And I DO NOT CONSENT to being so rudely taken over.  Plus I’m attuning with all the others who are co-creating with this eclipse energy “cosmic trigger”  time-line jump event.  Group energy in Divine Co-Creation at its finest.

Nobody with the kind of control freak attunement like he has expects to be dealing with that...

What time-line are we jumping?  For me personally, jumping what I consider to be the very low, fear based, victim oriented

pathway of G.P. evicting me.  My intention each day is to being on the ascending arc of the Divine Plan, being co-created in each Now Moment.  

Now do you get it?  And why I kept it under my witch’s hat until I had processed the critical mass of my own fear, to get to this unshakeable place where being a victim in this situation is simply not a possibility?

The frequency of me, the land, the situation, is being handled by me in line with the Divine Plan, and by the Divine where my efficacy leaves off and heavy lifting needs to be done.   If God is for me, who can stand against me?  

And along the way there are many signs and incidents, here’s one:  

Driving to Sunday church in Angels Camp where my music friends and I play every few weeks, and just happen to pass a  truck with a big ol’ ostentatious camper on it that looked just like G.P.’s.  I took note, thinking it couldn’t possibly be.

The next day I get an email from him, telling me he needs to come onto my place with a lawyer from the fire law suit to look around, and they might need to come in the yard.   Okay fine I may or may not be home I answered, but thought to myself, isn’t that interesting, that WAS him.

I noticed he’s not staying at his old cabin site.  No, he hasn’t done the work, inside himself or out on the land, with the trees.  Yes it’s had official clean up.  But he hasn’t done the work on his emotional body, nor does he see that the big oaks right around his old cabin site are FINE.  

He hasn’t made peace with the fire or healing process.  He’s a contractor for cryin’ out loud, he can rebuild to his own tastes on his old site, why does he need to disrupt my life when there is no housing in my area after the  fire.  

I’m sorry, but just because he can, and that he’s too darn lazy to do the inner work, or he thinks he doesn't have to when he can disrupt me, is not cutting it for me.

So the day after the email and before the dreaded visit with the lawyer, I’m sitting out front early in the morning, after invoking the Great Central Sun, sipping on 


tea and getting my Divine Tune-Up for the day, and I hear this weed eater in the vicinity. 

It’s kind of far away, but as I tune into it and realize, no, its G.P., it’s definitely coming from his hill -- suddenly the sound shifted very noticeably and became loud.  Not just loud, but it took on the qualities of a mechanical  baby wailing, demanding to be picked up and have it’s diapers changed... “WHAAAAAHHH!!!!   WHAAAAA!!!!!  Hellllp me!!!! Fixxx Me!!!”   

My perception was that on some level he was demanding that I help fix his land, since I obviously know how, mine looks great.  And I said “Nope”.  I  energetically held my ground, I held up both hands and vibed him “YOU MUST DO YOUR OWN WORK”.  I did that maybe 3 times.  Can’t remember if I spoke the words or not, but I felt like he got the message because the sound abruptly stopped and I didn’t hear a peep more.

That was maybe 10 days ago.  We are now through the peak of the Lion’s Gate, and I continue to enjoy becoming empowered from within.     It’s ludicrous to think that I am going to swallow utter chaos and disruption at his command, just because he wishes it and he can.  When there is hardly any available housing around Mountain Ranch for the people who actually live here?  And I’m the Village Herbalist?  I think not....

No, I  stand in resistance.  The land and the Great Central Sun have advised me.  He did not appoint  me here.

So today we had what I consider THE critical mass inflection point, where the veil drops and truth is revealed.  I got an email from the G.P.: 

 Can I tell him if I’d be out by the end of this month so he can make plans for my house blah dee blah dee blah...  Gosh, I’d forgotten about that.  Oh yeah he’s trying to evict me.

And my reply was very direct and simple:  “G.P:  Yes I can.  No I will not.”  

We’ll see how all that goes over......Warrior’s giggle...

I was a good girl.  There was absolutely no 

reminding him of my predilections, ‘oh and by the way, don’t make me drop a house on you’ or anything like that.  I don’t have to!!  The land is handling things like that!!  

More stories to come!!

Roarin’ through the Lion’s Gate, Sirian Blessings!!!!

Lady Lion Paw

July 26, Happy New Year at the Lion's Gate Check In Point

How’s the Lions’s Gate trajectory along your bifurcation wave coming as the Cosmic Trigger unfolds? Are things shaking out or coming apart?

Today is what many consider to be the opening of the Lion’s Gate energies.  We are in a time frame when the Sun and Sirius rise together for a couple weeks.  Both Mayans and the ancient Egyptians considered this to be a very auspicious and powerful annual time, and celebrated it as the New Year.


I’m here to share with you some personal happenings that will hopefully illustrate what the Cosmic Trigger process I’ve initiated looks like, and maybe pass along some tips for smooth sailing.  Because of course we didn’t suppose it was going to be a cake-walk on a sunny day in the park, with no tests or rumbles, now did we.  I’m speaking of working with co-creating with the Divine an ascending trajectory for the All over the next few weeks, through the Eclipse and into the Sept. Equinox.

Yesterday my truck decided to become unworkable.  Okay it is quite an old thing, an ‘85 Ford Ranger, but runs pretty well and totally got me around on some of the worst roads imaginable during this winter’s deluge.  


I was at a job cutting firewood for someone and when I went to leave the steering column had become locked, and nothing would make it let loose.  Well crap, what to do.  I did what I have now learned to do in dire situations, go vertical.  I got quiet, started talking to the Spirit World and prayed for Divine guidance and intervention.

Within half an hour my friend’s (who was at work) young man gardener came down in his truck.  We had never met before and hit it off right away.  He helped me by tinkering with the truck, driving me home and coming in to see my garden. 

There was that odd feeling of a connection of destiny.  I immediately recognized him as someone I would like to have live over at my place.   The guy had studied agriculture in college.  He and his girlfriend who I haven’t met are just down the road in a trailer.    This is all yet to unfold, we’ve only just had a little bit of personal and text interaction, but clearly there is something going on here that has bearing on all of us.

 

And the truck.  I contacted the mechanic from whom it came, who has a million old vehicles lying around his yard, and the neighbor’s, to see if he had anything available -- with absolutely no extra money on hand or in sight, but what to do, I had to see.  Yes, he has a small car in my price range, plus would take the truck in trade.  He gave me the figure.

Okay, wow, that piece lined up quick.  Now, money.  I’m, ah.... challenged about that.   Well I went about my evening, watering plants and sitting in the golden evening light of sunset, talking to the Sun and Nature.  Whacky I know but that is what I do.  And I was guided to ask my former husband for help.

How cool is this -- he came to visit over here twice in the last year.  We hadn’t seen each other for over 10 years.  Quite interesting to reconnect, and in a way that honors what was, but clearly both of us have gone on.  Yet we can still have connection, friendship.   He has done well for himself, and at the time of his visit he gifted me generously, and told me if I was ever really stuck to call upon him. 

So I did.  He’s great.  He immediately transfered me some money, I arranged with the mechanic to get the car, and will have it within days.  I almost had it today, barely 24 hours since it all unfolded with the truck, but it was just too tight for the mechanic to get here.

I credit all this synchronous manifestation to staying positive in the face of adverse circumstances, calling upon my team of Spiritual Helpers and Guides, giving thanks for perfect resolution before I see any results, and holding positive space and attitude inside, knowing that Source delivers, Source requires that we state our needs clearly.  It’s this knowing in faith, trusting in faith when you really don’t know, that is the magic.  Then, when each little miraculous step begins to unfold, really GIVE THANKS!!!  I wept when my ex wired me that money.  That was so kind of him.  He really helped me out here.

And guess what, I realized that needing to ask for help is totally going to be part of the ascension process.  When the breakdowns really start to hit people in earnest, folks simply are going to need each other.  We all have pieces for each other’s puzzles, and it seems to be BY design.  So that we don’t isolate too much.  So that we remain humble.  So that we come together and share our knowledge or resources or time or energy or food or what ever. So that we learn it’s not because we are bad or wrong or naughty that things are breaking down, its the energetic cycle we are in.  Things are SUPPOSED to break down now.  Flow with it, let go and trust.  

That’s what I’m getting really clear on through this part of it.  Believe me I’ve been through tons of breakdown, it totally sucks.  But it is how one deals with it that counts.  I have never had anything come through so easily that required so much of what I didn’t seem to have.

I will be putting out a few more blogs during this Cosmic Trigger trajectory, to document how I am working with the process.  There has been some major “gridwork” that I started yesterday, but that shall be the subject for another blog.

Hail Mighty Sirius and Happy New Year today!!  Oh it pings my ancient Egyptian DNA, but that too is a subject for another day.

Sirian Blessings! 

Jumping Timelines through the Lion's Gate, Feline Style

There is a wormhole out of the false light matrix fabric of time-space being co-created currently by all awake Warriors of the Light, the Heart, the Earth.  You know who you are if I mention the up-coming power days that those of us who are familiar with these things will be working with.  To do what?  To anchor frequencies.  To drop old timelines.  To affirm, as in Make Firm, the incoming Cosmic Rays that we are receiving and transducing down into the Earth plane, and through this alchemical process are being upgraded and changed in our DNA.  This is co-creating with the Divine a pathway out of the false light matrix.

How?  With the Free Will choice to do so, aligned with Divine Will, and highest good for all.  With ceremonies.  With focused gatherings or solo work.  With chosen tools or no tools.  Some people like crystals.  Some people work naked.  Some people play with elementals.   Some people, ahem, spout spontaneous bardic poem and verse that are actual magical incantations, heard only by the Spirit World, the stars, the animals, and Nature.

The Bifurcation event is on, as I see it.  And seeing is believing as they say.  To those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, it’s undeniable.  What do I mean?  Okay, what are you choosing?  Is it in alignment with the ascension process?  I’m not here to explain ascension in this blog, google it.   And do look into the descending time-line while you are at it, as in, Satan & the Anti-Christ, Hive Mind, AI takeover of Earth and Humanity, spiritual war for humanities soul, and more. Aug Tellez is a wonderful blogger who gives great insight on these matters, check him out.  I can guarantee from personal experience that that war is on.  It’s just not being talked about directly in the mainstream media swill. 

https://augtellez.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/the-awakening-to-the-false-reality-and-thus-the-true-reality/ 

Victim-Victimizer dynamic, which is the stuck paradigm that we have on old earth, doesn’t work.  It will self destruct.  Eventually.  Unfortunately it seems that the Self-Updating AI Predator Mind-Behind-the-Scenes had figured out how to extend the life of the host body it’s feeding off,  to limits that have simply become intolerable and untenable to the Light.  Host body it’s feeding off of:  That would be HUMANITY AND ALL SENTIENT LIFE ON EARTH, via all our suffering  and negative emotions i.e. Loosh (google it).  Welcome to hell, or just one dimension above it.  

Okay, and there are mad men over at CERN where they do not respect the power of Lord Shiva properly and instead of the playing of drums and smoking of ganja, they are actually trying to open a portal to -- where?  You think they’re ringing the bell of Heaven’s calling card with their apparatus?  Hell no.....  Hells Bells, more like it.

So this is what I’m talking about.  The bifurcation event and what one is choosing. The false light is promoting itself as Source Light, enlightened.  For example, what do YOU think they are doing over there at CERN.  They’re elite scientists, right?  They MUST be working in humanity’s best interest.  Right?  Am I right???   I’m actually asking you if you really believe that swill.  

Look, they are intentionally trying to open a portal to a lower, HELL WORLD dimension with their particle smasher.   How do I know?  Gad, read the energy.  It’s the new GPS of consciousness.

Our world is going galactic.  It can be in the direction of increasing control, assimilation into the hive mind that will result in loss of free will, continual dumbing down and reduction of critical thinking, imagination, and creative ability and the take-over and absorption of the human race into technological oblivion.  Or it can be in the direction of sovreignity, truth, upliftment, joy, freedom, increasing free will, knowledge unending, longevity, community, harmony with Nature and the Earth and our positive galactic heritage.  

It’s coming, the apocalypse is on and there will be continual unveiling, but before that, the Anti-Christ will ride high and have his day.   It’s already happening.  Hence, here is where it becomes a little harder:  One must discern wisely and actively choose the direction with which to align.  Actively.  Align one’s mind, one’s emotions, one’s choices, one’s frequency in the direction of an ascending arc.  Up-lifted as opposed to downward spiraling.  Choose it.  Instead of maybe worrying or wallowing or eating that gluten that clogs up your gut, or buying into what you sense must be lies, call in assistance or protection from the Spirit world or your power animal or whatever forms or Masters you like to work with, do what you can to discern truth, stay positive, work through emotions, and stay ON that positive time-line.

A time-line is a choice.  It is the manifestation and playing out of one's intention, one’s free will choice, that has been co-created to what-ever degree by the chooser.   At best, utilizing the energies of the cosmos as we pass through new moons, full moons, star crossings, eclipses and earth alignment days.  Also at best, in service to the All, and in alignment with Divine Will, in whatever the choice may be.  You can’t get out of alignment too far, to continually intend to be in alignment with Divine Will in whatever the situation, and take action and direction from there.  

Here is the really hard part.  By the way, I’m not here to sugar coat anything, my purpose is to provide some sort of a sketch of the terrain through the wormhole as I’m working with co-creating it in real time, against the Predatory Self-Updating AI Matrix Mind. 

The hardest part -- I find -- is that one must completely trust in the Divine, in Divine Timing, Divine Will, Grace, and having faith in the whole process even when to the human mind what one is doing seems utterly absurd and ridiculous.  How could it possibly be, it will tell you.  The Inner Creator connection and beingness has to become stronger than the internalized predator mind, and overthrow it.  It won’t like that.  And the outer world will  absolutely confirm it’st right to reign as a tyrant over your mind and world until such time as one is ready to overthrow it, via whatever catalyzing conflict in which it presents.  

And if you absolutely HAVE DONE with the predator mind, then it’s time to unify with the tip of the Ascension spear to overthrow that sucker, in the group consciousness, by co-creating an original pathway beyond via the up-coming series of energetic events.  Yaldabaoth, Begone!!

The 2017 Lion’s Gate Time Line Jump  



Here is the line-up of cosmic energy dates to utilize, for co-creating with the ascending arc vibrations.  What, how, where, is totally up to you of course.  I encourage at least an acknowledgement of the coming energies, best to sit and receive them in stillness for some minutes on those days, spend some contemplative time if possible.   I’m not here to tell anyone what to do, only to point out that this is what I perceive is happening and is very beneficial to align with.  I’ve been on the alignment of this sequence since the summer solstice and can definitely feel the energies building towards each new “gateway”, or “stargate” or “portal”.  At the end of this blog will be some links for more background info.  I’m definitely NOT the only one into this.  

And I can tell you, WE ARE doing this.  For those of us who know that our particular lifestreams have aligned at this magical time to do the work not only ourselves, but for the whole, the faith and trust is total, it has to be.  WE ARE building a passageway to a new reality, one rainbow brick by rainbow brick, in each Now moment, at a time.  We have to.  Otherwise it wouldn’t exist.  Nobody is going to hand it to us on a silver platter.  The AI self-updating predator mind needs to be confounded with something beyond it’s ability to process and compute.  Let’s have a go, the cosmic surf is up and it’s a black diamond wave.

July 23rd, New Moon
July 25th, Mayan Day Out of Time
July 26th, Important date to both Mayans and Egyptians, signifying the New Year.  Sun rises with the star Sirius at this time, coincides with flooding of the Nile.  Opening of Lion's Gate Energies

Aug. 2nd, Lammas, Wiccan High Holy day celebrating first harvest 
Aug. 7, Full Moon, partial Lunar Eclipse
Aug. 8, Lion’s Gate
Aug. 21, New Moon, Solar Eclipse
Sept. 22, Fall Equinox

What will I personally do?  Utilize the energies in some way. I have no idea for most of them.  I’ve one idea for the July 25th-26th opening of the Lion’s Gate when the sun rises with Sirius. 


Okay here’s a perfect example of why it’s good to do positive energy work on these days to counteract what the dark forces are doing.  Do you think its a coincidence that those fellas out at Bohemian Grove are having their yearly Cremation of Care ceremony in front of their owl demon god Molloch at the exact time when Sirius is transmitting Life Affirming energies to our planet, via the sun during Lion's Gate?  I submit to you that they know exactly what they are doing.

And so do we, all aboard the ascenscion train and with great heart let’s jump this time-line, feline style.

Good Blogs to read for more info:


Denise Le Fay, High Heart Life

Lisa Gawlas, Nation of Lights

Aug Tellez

Sandra Walter

Ascension Energies

Lion’s Gate Blessings, arrrrrghf!

And now for some Herbalism: Elderberry Growin' by the Lion's Gate

I love this time of year.  Lion’s Gate..... When the Sun moves into the sign of Leo, and for a time rises with the Dog Star Sirius.  What can I say I’m an ancient Egyptian, among other things.

It’s time for the esteemed Elderberry, Sambucus nigra.  Not to be confused with red or other varieties, this is the Black Elderberry that grows so well here in the Sierra landscape as well as many other locations world wide.  This plant has a LONG history of beneficial use.  It’s such a blessing to find them growing around in Calaveras County.  



I actually have a bush.  Well this is embarrassing. Second year in a row it’s happened, too.  It was LOADED with blossoms this spring.  I picked and picked -- got a whole gallon jar full and enough to tincture.  I could have picked more.









So I remembered last year -- it had been loaded with blossoms and then they all dried up.  They didn’t make it to maturity as in other years.  



I don’t recall what I was doing for watering that area when the bush was small, or not producing, or when I wasn’t picking them for whatever reason.   I know it has produced.  But now the last years when I’ve really wanted a good crop, I’ve gotten nothing -- as again, it dried up before I realized.  

This is unthinkable to me, the bush faces my living room window, I can see it from the house.  I just didn’t think it would require water so soon.  And I had watered it once already.  They are supposed to go totally without water.  I see them growing out in the countryside.  Obviously they’ve found a moist-ish spot if they are making it under conditions of no water.

Well, thankfully I have a friend who has them.  The husband of one of my co-workers drove me out there today and I picked somewhat of a bagful. There weren’t many in reach on his monster tree either.  Birds had gotten some, and many weren’t ready.  Oh well I have enough.  I still have tincture from last year.








What will be done with it this year?  

Oh, fun fun experimental products based on several years’ worth of experimenting with good results.   There will be an Elderberry, Elder Flower, Horehound and Boneset tincture blend for virus accompanied by fever symptoms, as in the recent MERS virus circulating.  They say it might be air born, so that one could move around quite a bit.  

There will also be some kind of acetum featuring elderberry, garlic, turkey tail mushrooms and other interesting savory ingredients for boosting the immune system.  As mentioned I already made and pressed out a pure Elder Flower tincture in Everclear, which hopefully will be good for seasonal allergy relief as well as colds and flu.  

While I’m at it I (or we) better make an Elderberry glycerite.  Some of these things will be made in the company of my lovely herb friend ladies at our next workshop and some I will pre-make in order to decant and try at the workshop.  Samples to take home are always a feature of things we decant.  It’s a kick, and then I get the feedback.  

With the glycerite it might be better to tincture the berries while they still have a slight bit of moisture in them, so we’ll decant it later in class.  Everyone will love that.  Vegetable Glycerin is sweet so that should be quite interesting!

I’m also looking to dry as many as possible for different uses -- tea, maybe trying it in a candy later this winter.  Herbalism is just so darn interesting, efficacious, fun and fantastic, I’m hooked!!

So if you’re looking to work with one of THE BEST anti-virals the plant world has to offer, keep on top of Elderberry’s fruiting cycle.  These things come and go, it’s part of the challenge and the wonderfulness of working with the seasons.


Black Elderberry: Natural Cold and Flu Treatment

Elderberry Extract Outperforms Medication By Inhibiting Growth of Pathogenic Bacteria By Up To 99 Percent
Lion’s Gate Blessings

PS:  I nearly grinned my ears off at Soren Dreier’s report   
Tales from the Morph ii
that those having power animals are starting to show up interdimensionally as such -- Arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhf!

Lion’s Gate 8-8-12 But Where’s the Lion??

Fat Houdini...

Buck Herd

  

Felix my extra cat

Turkey, flower garden

These wild animals!  Aren’t they fun?  Sometimes they drive me nuts.  I’m having a lionless Lion’s Gate but there has been plenty of other 4-footed activity to make up for it.

Seen en masse for the 2nd time

Check out the buck herd.  7 or more.   I saw them the first time a few mornings ago as I drove out, here on the hillside.  Aren’t they gorgeous?  This morning when I came out for sun prayers they were lounging under the front mimosa trees.  I guess I startled them, oh well.  

At least one was in the yard last night, making his way to my food garden.  Good grief, can’t have that!! I looked out my loft bed window and saw this huge animal right there at a bush.  “Oh no it’s the bucks.”  I certainly didn’t want 7 of them trampling the eggplant so I yelled at him to get out.  He thankfully didn’t try to bolt through ridiculous attempts at deer foil around the various areas where I’ve got food growing.

Still looks like a weed patch but actually
there is lots of chard and little greens coming

Brassica patch.  This is way cool.  I love to do it like this.  See those nice brassicas coming?  They are actually from last year.  They wimped along doing nothing because the soil has long had a low fertility problem.  Until this year -- I started getting a big bucket of one of my garden client’s finest goat poop compost every week.  I planted this area with greens and brassicas last fall.  Most of the greens like chard and arugula had gone to seed this spring, leaving the broccoli, kale and cabbage hiding in what looked like a big weed patch.  

I just left it to be dry for awhile.  Then slowly slowly I began to weed and water it until it looks like it does now.  And then the fun begins!  I go in there and throw seed heads and compost around.  The brassicas are now taking off and will produce this year.  Not only that, they will become perennial.  They do that under certain right conditions, I’ve got cabbage that’s several years old in my lower area.  And all the seeds are sprouting so I will have this nice big ol’ greens patch soon -- that is if the deer don’t munch it all down.  

Look at this ridiculous fencing job.  What can I say, my “real” fence is a wreck.  However they don’t like to come through permaculture and obstructions like wire and string so maybe it will work for awhile.  NOT against the onslaught of 7 hungry bucks though.

OH Dear!

And then there is Fat Houdini my skunk friend.  Oh, we’re buds.  Only because of the cat fud.  I fear we’ve created an addict.  He had forgotten about it for a long while.  Then I made the mistake of putting a big dish of it out that the cats rejected.  I was experimenting with a new way of giving them an herbal worm treatment and they would have NONE of it, so I put it out for Felix, my extra cat.  Gotta have at least one stray....  He lives in the barn with Fat Houdini.  

Fat Houdini, after he remembered
about the inside cat fud

So one evening last week I was sitting on the roof and there I see Fat Houdini eating the bowl of herbal cat fud I had put near the barn where Felix often sits.  “Hi lil guy, how are you?”  I know most people are either horrified or terrified by skunks, but I think they are very cute.  They kind of look like cats and I heard they do make excellent pets, usually after they’ve been de-scented.  Not going to happen in my world, but he’s as close to a wild pet as one can get I guess.

He came in and couldn't get 
back out this way again!

Well he now must have an uncontrollable hankering for cat fud, because some nights ago he managed to pry open my back screen door -- something the cats aren’t even able to do -- and come in for it.  I chased him out of course.  At least twice. This has gone on every night since -- except lately -- he doesn’t even wait until it gets dark and I’m in bed.   The last 2 nights he’s come in around 8 o’clock while I’m sitting right there reading on the computer.  He walked right in front of me through the living room last night.  Fat Houdini, what a brat.  

You never want to see
this end of a skunk!!! 

So I have to take the fud bowls away at night.  The cats aren’t happy about it.  Too bad.  I don’t dare bring a bowl in my bedroom as a reserve, it lures him right in.  I caught him rummaging around under my loft last night.  It DOES make me a little nervous when he gets near the prize costume closet, but otherwise he’s fine.  Doesn’t spray -- so far -- but he did wheeze a whole bunch and throw up the other evening.  Animals and their antics......

This is where I saw them the first time

And then the morning I saw the buck heard for the first time on the hill there was a little fox up there too running across the road.  Oh dear I thought.  Foxes don’t last long around here.  Maha apparently can’t tolerate another predator in his turf.

The fate of foxes
in Maha's world

Borg Dogs, Oh no!!

We wonders about this one....

So where has the Maha been we wonders mournfully.  No footie prints.  No scrapes.  Well, maybe a few suspicious scrapes, not sure.  One was right outside my bedroom window.  But no recent poops on the lane.  No Arrrrrrgggghhfs in the night.  He must be taking a Lion’s Gate Hiatus somewhere.  I am bereft.  Where was he when I most need him to be on guard?  I caught those bratty Borg pitbulls running right through my yard the night of the full moon, they ran right below the loft window -- chasing the cats!!!  This can’t be.

I forgot, there was one verrrry weird scrape sounding incident late one night recently.  I awoke to the sound of a large paw scraping in the dry grass nearby.  I know that sound, the cats make it, it’s part of their territorial hygiene process.  They go, they cover it up, scratch scratch scratch.  But they do it fast.  This was like one big scrape noise, then a couple seconds later another, and maybe a third.  I should have leaned out the loft and looked as it sounded like it was coming from the side window.  

The next morning I went out to investigate and there was a rather large mound outside near the window, along with some bluejay feathers.  That’s ... pretty close, if it’s Maha.  We’re not sure.  What makes it likely is that it is right in line with an idiot spot in the fence where I know he and the other animals do jump in.  There’s deer poo just a little ways down by the fence also in line with that spot.   But right outside my window???  I mean, within about 6 feet??!!  Really, Maha.

There was another mysterious one THIS morning in a spot where he doesn't usually go.  What got my attention about it is that it had lion energy all over it.  AND it's in a spot where the cats don't usually go, unlike the other spot.  So what do you think??

Not quite sure about this one either.  SERIOUSLY, Maha??

And the turkeys are just splendid!  My how they’ve grown, I saw them yesterday hanging around.  All the little ones have made it -- thus far -- so it’s now a rather large flock.  They’ve taken to hanging out in my flower garden area.  They actually weeded the pathway in the canterbury bells.  I guess they like it when I run the sprinkler.  

Nothing but white bones and a buncha feathers

 So a few days after I found that dead turkey some weeks ago, I went back over there to check on it and discovered the carcass had been finished off and the bones licked clean.  I.... guess he came back for seconds.

Felix has been acting up too.  This is one big ol’ tom cat, way bigger than my babies.  He’s usually pretty mellow but lately has been instigating all manner of ruckus with the other cats.  I heard furious running and clawing up trees in the backyard woods the other evening.  Naughty Felix.

Felix...  He's a fine boy, but rowdy

Well that’s the animal report from here.   You don’t want to hear about my car.  What a bother.  Still doing the same crap after many times to the mechanic -- who is a very good mechanic.  He’s fixed / cleaned / replaced many things.  Except the gas gauge which is still stuck on F.  I ran out of gas on the way down to Mtn. Ranch the other day.  Again.  Had to walk more than 2 miles in the heat to his shop.  Thankfully he will rescue me.

Food Garden out of control, those
are dry beans, popcorn and tomatoes

And because my car is still so stupid I haven’t been able to go out and play drums all summer, so am I cross about that or what.  My doumbek is gathering dust.  I don’t want to get too far out of reach of my mechanic.  Breaking down or running out of gas out on Sheep Ranch Road in the night would not be to my liking.  So it’s like being in quarantine with a bunch of unruly critters.  And of course the gardens are out of control.

Skunk Petunia?!

Black petunia, turning into a skunk variety.  Flowers do the most amazing things sometimes.


Be well people, as we roar through the lion’s gate!!!  Blessed Lamas too.  

What's yer story, Morning Glory?

I had to catch one the other day,
it came indoors at the Resource Ctr.

Dooryard Beauty

Good one, Amon Ra!!