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I love your blog. Your life seems incredible. How old are you ?
thanks! Like all lives mine has it's ups and downs. I do agree though my life is pretty incredible. I am a firm believer in following your dreams and making your own reality. I feel pretty blessed that I learned this in my early twenties and not getting caught in the passive floating along thing.I'm 26.
Congratulations! Your daughter is adorable and it sounds like things went really well. I am curious though about how you cut/burned the cord. I hadn't ever heard of that before. I take it there are no nerve endings in the cord? Where did you learn about this practice? I don't know much about pregnancy things at all, and I'm just super curious. Sorry if it's really ignorant! I hope all is going well with you and your daughter. :)
thank you! I tend to think so as well! :PThere are no nerve endings in the umbilical cord. However if you kind of think about it the placenta is the only other thing in the womb. So the placenta is kind of a cushy thing that the babe might have had for it's play thing, comfort etc. So in many cultures there's beliefs surrounding the placenta (I know in Bali they consider the placenta to be the person's twin, they bury the placenta at their home and the person regularly visits their "twin"--at least that is what I was told by people who visited bali and were into birth culture). My husband and I are are weird pagan-y atheists (basically romantic atheists)--and we're both fire signs. Coincidentally our daughter is a fire sign as well so we thought it was appropriate to have the fire element present at her birth. Along those same lines it's believed that in chinese medicine a cord burning warms the babe's qi through the umbilical cord.I learned about it from my roomate who had spent some time in Bali--and also was pregnant at the same time as I and shared the practice with me. It's not really a western practice in recent history but is fairly common in third world countries where they might not have access to sterile equipment for a cord cutting.Overall I think it was more for my husband. I asked him to make a burn box (a box with notches for the candle and cord, basically to catch the wax), which was a nice project for him to do to prepare for labour and birth. Then of course him burning the cord--which I had my doula and him do while I held our daughter. The whole time while the cord was being burned my daughter was quietly looking around and super alert.here's more info on it!http://www.cordburning.com/http://crunchymomconfessional.blogspot.ca/2012/12/umbilical-cord-burningwhy.html
We burnt the cord instead of cutting it. We felt this was a more gentle separation from the inside world to earthside.
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what a ride.
my daughter was born on august 6th--a leo with a leo moon and libra rising.... i have a butt ton of pictures from the last couple weeks of my pregnancy and then some of the birth annnd finally I'll spam the hell out of you with cute baby pictures. And then I shall go back to your regularly programmed hippie/pagan prettiness....
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At a protest last friday this was taken of me. I find this picture so moving because my daughter is to be a Leo (if she doesn't come too early!) and there's so much magic with the orbs and the heart in the clouds. It's not a particularly flattering picture--but it's god damn moving!
Sorry followers! I've been locked away in my studio all week slaving away for a festival that's tomorrow! Have no fear LOTS of new photo's will be up in a jiffy! <3 <3 <3
Working on my labor music today!
Hi! Your tumblr is beautiful! May I ask where you are from? You see, I am a Pagan, and for a while now I've wanted to join a women's group of some kind, but I have no idea where to look (I live in western Ma). I have thought about creating my own group, but I have a lot to learn and would love the benefits of someone wiser. Any ideas/advice you could give me? I would be very grateful!
Thank you for your kind words! Right now I live on Vancouver Island--this gigantic island on the west coast of Canada--it's beautiful here I suggest everyone come check this place out--but I'm originally from right outside Philly. :) quite the trek.Its funny you would ask me about that whole starting a Women's community group as when I lived on the east coast a bunch of my friends and I started a womyn's collective/womyn's community. It wasn't as hard as you might think. We made it such that any female bodied person would be able to come to our meetings/events. This was because we believed strongly that there was no mainstream women only spaces in our society and that is was important to create and hold that space--because women behave differently amongst themselves versus with with mixed. (I know I'm probably going to catch some flack for saying that...but it's just our truth, not saying it's everyone's truth).We invited all ages of female bodied as we believed we had much to learn from each other.We had a rotating facilitator, a time keeper, and a checker. All pretty much self explanatory. The Checker person basically would make sure that everyone who wanted to speak was given the opportunity to do so and play and unbiased mediator role allow with the facilitator.
How we did it was invited all our friends over and then their friends and we did stuff together. We would share zines, plant permaculture gardens, go swimming, do yoga, discuss politics, herbal remedies--we even threw a benefit for our local chapter of planned parenthood.We weren't all necessarily pagan. But we did hold spaces on full moons and new moons for ritual for those who wanted to participate.It was all very organic in a way. Here on VI it's even more organic. There just *is* a community of women who happen to get together. It's much more loose--no facilitators, no time keepers, no checkers--we just kind of get together.I hope that was helpful!
My basket of goodies all charged up under the saggitarius full moon! Image by Brianna Bug
Image by Brianna Bug