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southernmermaidsgrotto · 7 months

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There's levels to ancestral connection, and you shouldn't skip any of them.

Take this as your reminder to first of all, spend time with your spirits, without expecting anything in return. Heavy on that last part. You don't make and maintain a genuine connection with someone just by showing up to their doorstep every time you need something from them. Treat them as people because they are. Your people. You should care for them as much as they care for you.

Be it ancestors (specifically direct blood lineage or adoptive family, any deceased human relative) or ancestral spirits (in general, that is, all ancestral allies and hereditary connections not just your ancestors). Just make time to hang out. Walk up to their space, a cup of your favorite drink in hand, give them their preferred drink and just chat. Don't ask anything in return. If you have an altar for them, do that. But it can be just going to visit their graves and giving libations and flowers, and telling them how your life's going, sharing memories together, remembrance, or just to listen. It can also be going to the beach or a river, and same thing, pour a drink and talk to them, and listen back. It can be your plant allies, while you're watering them, or putting eggshells or honey or sugar water or other good nutrients and fertilizers on their soil. It can be visiting your ancestors in dreams, and spending time with them there. There's so many ways to do this.

The second level to this is letting them sit in your body too. Listen. Become familiar with how they make you feel. With the signs of their arrival and presence. With the signs they communicate with and what they mean to you. With how they let you know they have a message, or that they're in for a visit. And let them in. Dance to your grandma's favorite beats. Sing your grandpa's favorite songs. Make a family recipe and share a meal with them, enjoy it for them and with them.

Ancestral reverence isn't just the big rituals and they're not the most important aspect of it, it is the everyday coexistence, in your little but constant everyday ways.

Do as you do but also as they did. You're an extension of them and they're an extension of you. They not only walk with you, you carry them within you.

Honor that.

#there's more and I may expand on it later #but this is it for now #hoodoo #ancestral reverence #ancestor worship #brujería #curanderismo #conjure #black conjure #brujeria

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the-trans-folk-witch · 10 months

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Pretty, pink, and delicious. Till death do us part. A Venusian twist on fate. Patron saint of trans women.

#folk catholicism #folk witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #transgender witches #beginner witch #trad craft #witchblr #santa muerte #santisimamuerte #la Niña Rosa #Santisima Muerte #Santa Muerte pink robe #pink Santa Muerte #Brujeria #curanderismo #hecheceria

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missveryvery · 25 days

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It's Bunny!

She's covered in blood but she's not upset or anything, she just has a naturally blank face.

She's very practical and has no problem wading into viscera for her work, but the combo can look off-putting to others.

#art #blood #bunny de los angeles #bunny #original character #curandera #curanderismo #bruja #shaman #poc characters #latina #latin character

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misspjsuperior · 5 months

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Tonantzin Guadalupe 🌵🌹

The original \/u| \//\ goddess I created in 2013 is Maria Rosa. Her design was inspired in major part between the miracle of La Virgen de Guadalupe and the concept of Mary Queen of Heaven.

I was recently commissioned to create a new (\/) Goddess inspired similarly between Guadalupe and Tonantzin by my chingona hermana Janet Bella Rosa who also knew Mi padrino Antonio 🙏 I felt his spirit guiding me to connect our visions! 💞

Tonantzin is an enduring Nahuatl title for the maternal aspect of any Aztec goddess, much like “Our Lady”, rather than the name of a particular goddess. I chose a blue background to parallel Her starry mantle of heaven and also represent Lake Texcoco since the eagle, snake, and cactus from its story of the founding of ancient Mexico there are present. 💙🌵

Tonantzin in various forms is frequently depicted with eagle feet so I thought it appropriate to have the legendary golden eagle clutch the silvery moon below Her in place of Guadalupe’s cherub 🦅 🌙 Tonantzin is often known, by many names, to wear a skirt of snakes- the celestial Aztec earth mother Coatlicue’s particular name translates to “She of Snake Skirts”. So I couldn’t help but see the snake emerge from the opening in Her folds here. Frequently in Aztec art snakes emerging from or replacing body parts represents blood so I feel a menstrual element from how the snake manifested in this vision 🐍 🩸

Many believe that the apparition of La Virgen de Guadalupe on Tepeyac Hill unto St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous peasant originally named Cuauhtlatoatzin meaning “Talking Eagle”, was a vision of a new form of Tonantzin. Her local temple had formerly been on that very site, destroyed by conquistadors. When Cuauhtlatoatzin received these holy visions, the Goddess spoke to him not in Spanish but in his native Nahuatl language even though She identified Herself as The Virgin Mother of God. Even the Church documents testify that The Holy Mother assured him in his moment of doubt, in his Indigenous tongue, “Am I not here who am your Mother?” Indeed Tonantzin Coatlicue herself is said to have had her own divine conception via a feather 🪶

The miraculous vision of Guadalupe that appeared upon Juan Diego/Talking Eagle’s tilma is often seen as a self portrait by Her and there are many analyses of the visual element’s encoding of Aztec symbolism. I took these theories and insights into consideration while creating this vision.

Even within the suppression of Spanish colonization ancient indigenous Mexican Curanderismo healing practices were able to persevere and often in the name of La Virgen de Guadalupe, under the protection of Her image.

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“At home, on the evening of December 12th we may light a candle and place offerings of flowers, copal and chocolate in front of her statue or painting. In the public square, those who follow the Mexica spiritual tradition will join brothers and sisters for an all-night vigil of prayer, Danza, offerings, and songs to her, who is Tonantzin Tlalli Coatlicue, who was always honored at the hill of Tepeyac. As we salute the Four Winds and dance in the ceremonial circle, we honor those who have gone before us, the courageous people who kept traditions alive through the centuries despite the threat to their life if discovered. The feathers in the copilli, the ceremonial headdress worn by the dancers, will draw down the energy of the cosmos into Mother Earth, our beautiful Tonantzin Tlalli Coatlicue to help her heal from the many ways she is dishonored.

Nearby, children will play and laugh, faces smeared with the traces of candy and the cinnamon of churros, the delicious deep fried pastry covered with sugar and cinnamon while the sound of mariachi music adds to the feeling of a fusion of cultures and beliefs. If you wander the crowded street you will see a handful of Catholic pilgrims on their knees on the hard pavement slowly make their way to the entrance of the church in gratitude for answered prayers.

And, in spite of quiet official church disapproval, the local parish priest will invite Indigenous ceremonial dancers to participate during the special December 11-12 mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Inside the church, for a few moments, Mayan copal will blend with European frankincense, quetzal feathers will dance on the air, and elders with bundles of aromatic rosemary plants will cleanse the People’s spirit. The two cultures, reconciled at this moment, acknowledge their bond of love for the Woman Who is Cloaked with the Sun; a bridge of Light between peoples.”

Maestra Grace via Curanderismo.org

#curanderismo #tonantzin #virgen de guadalupe #holy mother of god #mother goddess #goddess art #brujeria #marian devotion #folk catholicism #folk traditions #ancient origins #Aztec

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hjltrails · 6 months

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Origins of Healing Justice - Conjuring the Roots of Healing Justice

The legacies of settler colonial dispossession from land, slavery, and colonization led assimilation makes it difficult to follow our lineages and learn about our inherited cultural ceremonies, knowledge, and resistance practices. Healing justice is conjured into our world through reconnection with our individual lineages to inform how our individual practices can help us heal or transmute intergenerational trauma into fuel to keep our movements strong and resilient. Healing intergenerational trauma and the unique traumas of our intersections of oppression require cultural techniques to fulfill the soul memory of our traditions that were passed down for generations. A quote from Mya Hunter of SpiritHouse NC states, “The theory of change for us is around Culture, Practice, and Ritual, and we call it ‘CPR’. And so everything has to be based in your personal culture,” pg 130. Part of my healing and reconnection journey has been reading The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing by Atava Garcia Swiecicki and other books about Curanderismo to inform my individual practice. I have been combining the knowledge I was able to pick up from my great grandmother who was a Curandera before dementia took over and she passed away, and the things I’ve learned in alignment with my core through exploration of related books. The Curanderx Toolkit is a very queer-inclusive and gentle approach to our traditions that acknowledges the roots of our practices that came from Indigenous, African, and Catholic traditions.

#curanderismo #liberation #healing justice lineages #reclamation

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trogo-auto-egocratico · 10 months

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Cúrate mijita, con la luz del sol y los rayos de la luna.

Con el sonido del río y la cascada.

Con el vaivén del mar y el aleteo de las aves.

Cúrate mijita, con las hojas de la menta y la hierbabuena, con el neem y el eucalipto.

Endúlzate con lavanda, romero y manzanilla.

Abrázate con el grano de cacao y un toque de canela.

Ponle amor al té en lugar de azúcar y tómalo mirando las estrellas.

Cúrate mijita, con los besos que te da el viento y los abrazos de la lluvia.

Hazte fuerte con los pies descalzos en la tierra y con todo lo que de ella nace.

Vuélvete cada día más lista haciendo caso a tu intuición, mirando el mundo con el ojito de tu frente.

Salta, baila, canta para que vivas más feliz.

María Sabina.

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seekdestr0y · 8 months

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Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing by Robert T. Trotter II & Juan Antonio Chavira

“At least six major historical influences have shaped thebeliefs and practices of curanderismo by Mexican Americans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, symbols, and rituals; early Arabic medicine and health practices (combined with Greek humoral medicine, revived during the Spanish Renaissance); medieval and later European witchcraft; Native American herbal lore and health practices; modern beliefs about spiritualism and psychic phenomena; and scientific medicine. None of these influences dominates curanderismo, but each has had someimpact on its historical development.”

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carolinayourspiritmaster · 3 months

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The easiest way to propagate garlic: peel the cloves from a whole bulb (or as many as you want to plant), and place them point up inside a clean food container with a little soil and just a little water, in a sunny and warm place. Leave the lid of the container on, to create a greenhouse-like environment.

They will begin sprouting very quickly; once the have begun to grow roots, you should separate them carefully, and plant them. In about six months, you'll have a wonderful garlic harvest, and the living plants are a very powerful protection talisman.

Oh, and save and dry the peels – they make the cheapest hex-breaking / anti evil eye sahumerio, which has been used by the islands' curanderas for centuries.

#carolinagonzalez #herbalism #herbal magic #spiritual work #curanderismo #canary islands #garlic #evil eye #hex breaking magic

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knightress · 1 year

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Hey im looking for people to follow! Lmk if you post about

🕷 trans stuff (esp Black, Brown and Indigenous trans folk)

🕷 alt fashion

🕷 brujería/curanderismo

🕷 witchcraft theory

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tejanaculturalstudiestshiteya · 5 months

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Different Mayan Artist's rendition of

~ 𝒞𝒰𝑅𝒜𝒩𝒟𝐸𝑅𝒮𝐼𝑀𝒪 ~

In each photo, one could identify aspects of spirituality, healing, or medical aid depicted in each artists specific style. Their perspective on the different rituals, practice, and healing styles of curandera/os varies by artist, a testament to the longevity and multifaceted nature of Curanderismo.

Both pieces are titled, Comadrona, meaning, midwife.

Each of these pieces shows a ritual, cleansing or spiritual affair.

Here we have a patient and their Curandero, a relatable experience by many standards.

All pieces courtesy of artemaya.com

PICTURED

1.Art/Imagen: Comadrona © Mario Gonzalez Mendoza (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

2.Art/Imagen: Comadrona © Julian Coche Mendoza (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

3.Art/Imagen: Curacion Maya © Mario Gonzalez Chavajay (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

4.Art/Imagen: Baños Medicinales © Diego Isaias Hernandez (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

5.Art/Imagen: Zanacion Maya © Mario Gonzalez Chavajay (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

6.Art/Imagen: Curandero © Domingo Garcia Criado (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

7.Art/Imagen: Curandero de Hueso © Mario Gonzalez Chavajay (Maya; Guatemala), courtesy of ArteMaya.com

#guatemala #mayan #maya #ancienthealing #healer #curandero #curanderismo #indigenous

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southernmermaidsgrotto · 1 year

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Herbalism book reccomendations 📚🌿

General herbalism:

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook by Green J. (2011)

20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs by Zak V. (1999)

The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guid by Easly T. (2016)

A-Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions by Gaby A.R.

American Herbal Products Association's Botanical Safety Handbook (2013)

Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine by Hoffman D. (2003)

Herbal Medicine for Beginners: Your Guide to Healing Common Ailments with 35 Medicinal Herbs by Swift K & Midura R (2018)

Today's Herbal Health: The Essential Reference Guide by Tenney L. (1983)

Today's Herbal Health for Women: The Modern Woman's Natural Health Guide by Tenney L (1996)

Today's Herbal Health for Children: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Nutrition and Herbal Medicine for Children by Tenney L. (1996)

For my black folks!!!

African Medicine: A Complete Guide to Yoruba Healing Science and African Herbal Remedies by Sawandi T.M. (2017)

Handbook of African Medicinal Plants by Iwu M.M. (1993)

Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Lee M.E. (2017)

Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Mitchell F. (2011)

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments by Covey H.C. (2008)

The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism: Transform, Heal, and Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine by Rose K.M. (2022)

Indigenous authors & perspectives!!

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Kimmerer R.W. (2015)

Gathering moss by Kimmerer R.W. (2003)

The Plants Have So Much To Give All We Have To Do Is Ask by Siisip Geniusz M. (2005)

Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings by Djinn Geniusz W. (2009)

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: ethnobotany and ecological wisdom of indigenous peoples of northwestern North America by Turner N. (2014)

A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines by Hogan Snell A. (2006)

Medicines to Help Us by Belcourt C. (2007)

After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder by Grant Peters J. (2010)

Latin american herbalism works!!

Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera by Cocotzin Ruiz F. (2021)

Hierbas y plantas curativas by Chiti J.F. (2015)

Del cuerpo a las raíces by San Martín P.P., Cheuquelaf I. & Cerpa C. (2011)

Manual introductorio a la Ginecología Natural by San Martín P.P.

🌿This is what I have for now but I’ll update the post as I find and read new works, so keep coming if you wanna check for updates. Thank you for reading 🌿

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bendiciones444 · 6 months

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beginning an altar for San Miguel to show my appreciation for his recent communication to me, un oración is written on the back to help guide me as well

hoping to put more blue and the colors of méxico, and a silver cup ♡ i would love to hear any suggestions or guidance for offerings or altar items

♡ San Miguel protégeme ♡

#me #religion #dear diary #curacionesespirituales #san miguel #altar #ofrenda #curanderismo #folk magic #folk catholicism #san miguel offerings #san miguel altar

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itztlislost · 2 years

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On my two weeks off of work I just rested and did whatever I wanted. I wasn’t very productive, but that’s okay because productivity should never make you more or less valuable.

That being said, I did get around to skimming through Day Signs: Native American astrology from ancient Mexico and Mayan Calendar Astrology: Mapping Your Inner Cosmos. Even though I only flipped through these books, they actually did clear up some of my confusion I had on my tonalli. I knew bits and pieces of information but I didn’t have context to help me understand what any of the information meant or the impact it really had.

I’m going to make an effort to really read through and take notes of these books as I think they may provide me with more clarity. The more I research I do and more I learn, I am feeling a pull towards curanderismo and tonalli reading to add along side divination. I’m finally finding a path I can see a future in.

If there’s curanderos/as that are willing to help guide me, I’d really appreciate it! I want to hear from y’all what you think. Is there anything I should know before pursuing this? Do you think it’s a good idea? Why or why not? I want to hear the good and bad, I want to make a educated decision.

For now I will continue my research on my culture in general and where that takes me.

#nahua #mixteca #mixtec #indigenous mexican #indigenous #native american #mesoamerica #mesoamerican #tonalli #astrology #mesoamerican astrology #indigenous astrology #curanderismo #curandera #curandero #divination

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iamwinklebottom · 1 year

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Santa Muerte La Rosada Rose Quartz Glass Seed Bead Necklace: Love, Self Love, Self Worth & More

This beautiful handmade piece will be charged with the pink aspect of Santa Muerte on my personal Santa Muerte altar until purchased. Santa Muerte La Rosada has assisted me with self love extremely without causing negativity to sprout from loving myself so much.

THESE SEED BEADS ARE OPAQUE PEARL COLORED… NOT OPAQUE WHITE… WITH GENUINE ROSE QUARTZ AND WOOD!

This stone is a gentle usherer into truth. Rose Quartz are beautiful and power crystals. I personally believe that it is now overlooked because of how easily available it is.

Rose Quartz is very beneficial; when worked with closely is will improve your self worth and self love. It will add love in all areas of your life high vibrationally and open your eyes to see where your love is being misdirected. These pink stones also help you heal your heart chakra and inner child.

It is very good for the energetic heart space, but also works well in healing and maintaining physical heart and overall chest health. Rose Quartz also purifies the fluids in the body and assists with the circulatory systems. Please be sure to do your own research; I find new things all the time.

Channeled Message For Buyer: “In order to be blessed with unwavering divine love,

… you must master divinely loving yourself,” - Santa Muerte La Rosado

Length: 12”

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themysticgarden · 1 year

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As part of my spiritual practice, I frequently journey. I'm still working on how to explain the various levels of consciousness I experience, and how I get there. In the meantime, if you have a path to journeying but are looking for assistance - I have a playlist for that! Entering a trance state may take patience. Using specific music or drumming, combined with breath and body work can aid in shifting consciousness. Your own ancestral roots may also provide a specific vehicle. For example, in Curanderismo a Curandera may embark on a Soul Retrieval Journey with a client in an effort to heal unresolved illness or trauma.

I have utilized journeying to meet my ancestors and spirit guides, through a soul retrieval process, and to connect to my higher self. All have been incredibly beneficial to my spiritual growth.

#journey #spiritual growth #curanderismo #soul retrieval #spirit guides #astrology #channelling #music video #playlist #altered consciousness #trance #Spotify

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fokikowest · 1 year

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Some Latinos don’t trust Western mental health. That’s where curanderos come in

#spirituality #mental health #holistic #curandera #curandero #curanderismo

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