Healing All Day Every Day

That scent Lisa is talking about is Jasmine that's been infused in almond oil for a month. The recipe for the sugar scrub will be in the Faerie's Guide to Herbalism and Green Magick!

And Lisa, you should remember it was sugar not salt because you accidentally ate it since it smelled so good. But it's even better when you scrub that amazing scent all over your body, rinse, then follow up with Jasmine oil.

Yeah baby, that'll get your motor running....

Another herb to help in that loving feeling is Damiana, which I was introduced to in liquor form at the Northern California's Women Herbal Symposium in Laytonville. Imagine a group of a hundred women dancing under the stars around a bonfire to wild drumming and drinking the sweet syrupy liquor with a nice little bite. Lots of howling. Lots of happy men when we return.

Talk of Damiana brings me back around to my journey through the rebirth of my own sexuality and sensuality after the cord cutting process of a dissolved marriage. It's perfect timing really that I could be an inspiration to Lisa - post surgery - to feeling the innate beauty inside every woman. A reminder that our beauty is really in our confidence, the way we carry ourselves, the way we love ourselves.

I have been working with Aphrodite to help me find the sacred and divine in my version of the feminine sexuality, which is some combination of Mae West, Lady Godiva and a Wild Fae Chick I'm free to make choices for who I want to spend time with for the first time in 14 years. I'm no longer stuck with a contract or because I said I would until the day I died. Well, I did die in that marriage. And only through sheer courage and more love for myself than fear of the unknown did I make this stand for life again. It feels scary and exhilerating. Aphrodite is very gentle with me. My statue of her is open and beautiful (it's not exactly like the one above, but it's close).

Aphrodite embodies my guiding word for the year "available." Available to Life in all it's forms. Available to whatever. Available to what makes the Light Shine Bright. And every once in a while I pour a little Damiana into the shell at her feet and she seems pretty happy with that.