Kore Changes

12/11/2023

Hello friends!

Looking for a meaningful holiday gift for that special someone in your life? Consider giving the gift of perspective, inspiration, and support with a $20, $40, or $60 gift certificate towards a reading, workshop, or ceremony at our upcoming Signs & Seers: Mystic Arts Fair, happening on Jan 13 & 14 from 11-7pm!

This is the perfect opportunity to give the gift of guidance and self-discovery as we move into 2024. Whether it's a tarot card reading, palmistry workshop, or a healing ceremony to honour the season, our Mystic Arts Fair has something for everyone seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.

To purchase a gift certificate, email me at theplantmystic@gmail.com and we will get you sorted 🙂 Give the gift of transformation and insight this holiday season!



For more information about the event and our great lineup of readers, join our (free) online circle here on the Inner Arts Hive:

https://inner-arts-hive.mn.co/events/signs-seers-mystic-arts-fair

07/17/2023

So grateful the fire ban was lifted the evening of our stay at Sleeping Giant on Friday. In the contemplative moments with her flames, I just couldn’t resist taking pictures of the coals…

Your turn…Ask a question, still your mind and “eyes”…what do you see in the flames?

02/14/2022

Our purpose and goal…

02/02/2022

Today, we celebrate and honor Brigid—the ancient Celtic Goddess of water and fire, the holy well and sacred flame. In ancient times, nineteen priestesses kept her eternal flame burning in Kildare. When Christianity took over, she became a saint, and her priestesses were replaced by nuns. In recent years, the Brigadine nuns have relit her sacred flame.

Once again, in her honor, women of spirit lead pilgrimages and ceremonies in Ireland and around the world. And this year, Ireland has declared her festival time to be a national holiday.

If you want to learn more about Brigid, I highly reccommend Mary Condren’s book, The Serpent and the Goddess!

Brigid presides over the arts of smithcraft, poetry, and healing. In this time of so much sickness, of body and soul, I offer this poem to her and all of us:

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

For Brigid in the Second Year of the Pandemic

Brigid, the Healer

We know the body’s miracle capacity
To mobilize
To guard its borders
To fight off intruders
To repair the damage once the battle is done

Not all battles can be won
And sometimes the damage is too great to mend
And sometimes the weapons are lies

Brigid of the Forge

It takes fire to make disparate metals blend
To an alloy stronger than either alone
And blow after blow
Of the hammer
To forge a keen edge you can hone
A sword to cut through flesh and splinter bone
Or a scalpel, sharp to excise
The cancer

How do we discern what we must know
From desire in disguise?
Not every question has an answer

Brigid the Poet

Truth sets the tongue on fire
Truth can cauterize
The suppurating sore
Truth can forge and anneal
But we need more
Hammer on anvil rings like a bell

May we drink from your clear well
And heal

01/30/2022

Feb 1st this year is the Lunar New Year as well as the Celtic holiday Imbolc. Gather your candles, clean your home, order your seed calendar, take a reflective walk, gather your wood for a bonfire…

A halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, it is a time to celebrate the thaw of winter and the pregnant bellies out there with fire, seeds, and blessings for the hearth & home for a fresh cycle.

May you enjoy this time with your loved ones, with gratitude to the wisdom that came from winter’s reflective, inward time. Turn your minds eye to the seeds you will be planting in the earth this growing season, as well as those seeds you will be planting in your life. What tending needs to happen to your “container” for those new seeds to grow? What fire needs to be lit to ignite your will to manifest?

However you choose to celebrate, Happy Lunar New year and a blessed Imbolc to you!

01/30/2022

01/26/2022

01/26/2022

I Am Not in Here
By Thich Nhat Hanh

I have a disciple in Vietnam who wants to build a stupa for my ashes when I die. He and others want to put a plaque with the words, “Here lies my beloved teacher.” I told them not to waste the temple land.

“Do not put me in a small pot and put me in there” I said. “I don’t want to continue like that. It would be better to scatter the ashes outside to help the trees to grow.”

I suggested that, if they still insist on building a stupa, they have the plaque say, “I am not in here.” But in case people don’t get it, they could add a second plaque, “I am not out there either.” If still people don’t understand, then you can write on the third and last plaque, “I may be found in your way of breathing and walking.”

This body of mine will disintegrate, but my actions will continue me. In my daily life I always practice to see my continuation all around me. We don’t need to wait until the total dissolution of this body to continue—we continue in every moment.

If you think that I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you look at my friends, you see my continuation. When you see someone walking with compassion, you know he is my continuation.

I don’t see why we have to say “I will die,” because I can already see myself in you, in other people, and in future generations.

Even when the cloud is not there, it continues as snow or rain. It is impossible for a cloud to die. It can become rain or ice, but it cannot become nothing. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no end. I will never die. There will be a dissolution of this body, but that does not mean my death.

I will continue, always.

Excerpted from Thich Nhat Hanh “At Home in the World: Stories & Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life” (2015)

05/25/2021

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03/04/2021

The body is full of examples, showing us how “of” nature we truly are. For palm readers, the hand is a rich language. The lines as rivers, moving in and out of our landscape from its own source, to a destination, along a journey described by its flow. All aspects of the self in relation to others, yet definable by language and symbolism...and the essence of the being imprinted on the shape, texture, and derma. An exquisite map, a guide to joy and purpose. And all so within reach.

12/24/2020

A gorgeous story to share here, of Santa’s fore-Mother and yet another story of feminine mysteries being hidden in “His”Story.

Blessings to the Deer Mother!

In our wildcrafting, plant medicines, kitchen ways and seasonal celebrations, may we bring joy, nourishment and regeneration into the hearts and minds of our families and communities as we light the path forward through this shift ❤️

xo
Melanie-Dawn

Long before Santa charioted his flying steeds across our mythical skies, it was the female reindeer who drew the sleigh of the sun goddess at Winter Solstice. It was when we “Christianized” the pag…

10/29/2020

Coming up starting next Wednesday morning, is a weekly meditation series from 9:30-10am on Zoom! This is open to everybody - whether you have taken Reiki or not, and is made available exclusively through the Inner Arts Hive.

The Inner Art Hive is an online community of people committed to helping one another thrive. Funds raised from monthly or annual subscriptions go directly to "saving our space" at the Inner Arts Collective - helping us stay open and cover our base expenses while we ride this COVID storm together.

At less than $15 / month, the Hive gives its Members exclusive access to discussions, courses, practices and interest groups across a wide range of topics, and exclusive access to over a dozen healing arts and divination experts across a number of disciplines.

I hope to see you there!

To sign up, see our full story for the Inner Arts Hive and sign up links here: http://www.innerartscollective.com

05/17/2020

Last call on registering for tomorrow's pwyc palmistry workshop on Stress! Register by 9am :) https://rbt-stress.eventbrite.ca

03/05/2020

Wonderful reading hands at the Wizard Beer Fest on Sunday next to Lori Lytle reading tarot! What a whirlwind of Harry Potter inspired costumes, craft brews, and dozens of hands!!!

Thanks Lori Lytle for a great evening- always such a pleasure to read with you!

02/17/2020

Announcing! “Reading Between the Lines”: monthly palmistry workshops, bringing one-day deep dives into key themes.

Taught independently from one another, each workshop can stand alone, meaning no pre-requisites required. Choose the themes that call out to you the most, or take them all, it’s your choice!

Coming up March 15th: A palmistry workshop to understand the elements in the palm: Earth, Air, Water, Fire. Which element are you and your loved ones, and what does this say about your personality, how you communicate, and how you make decisions?

http://www.innerartscollective.com/reading-between-the-lines.html

Monthly on Sundays from 1-4pm, excluding July, August, and December: March 15, April 19, May 17, June 14, Sept 13, Oct 11, and Nov 15