Brave Beetle Healing Arts

Brave Beetle Healing Arts Brave Beetle Healing Arts holds space in group workshops and personal, private sessions. Letโ€™s explore paths to healing together.

Just had my haircut short for the first time in a decade at  by .king.nurgle ๐Ÿ’‡โ€โ™€๏ธ Drinking a mindblowingly delicious cap...
06/17/2022

Just had my haircut short for the first time in a decade at by .king.nurgle ๐Ÿ’‡โ€โ™€๏ธ Drinking a mindblowingly delicious cappuccino made by my love๐Ÿ’•, while working on new offerings at ๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€๏ธโ˜•๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ Literally the best foam ever ๐ŸŒŠ Having a very magickal day and itโ€™s not even noon ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒธโœจ๐ŸŒปโ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ๐ŸŒฌ

New Moon Blessings to yโ€™all ๐ŸŒšIโ€™ve been dog sitting this cutie and feeling some major playful energy for this New Moon ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿถ...
05/30/2022

New Moon Blessings to yโ€™all ๐ŸŒš

Iโ€™ve been dog sitting this cutie and feeling some major playful energy for this New Moon ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ’• Play is how we learn, grow, try out new things โœจ Play is how we make it through the grief, hard stuff, the tedious tasks. Play is pleasure ๐ŸŒธ

Whatever your ritual is for this New Moon, try and make it fun and infuse it with some playful puppy energies ๐Ÿถโ™Š๏ธโœจ

Be like a dorky little puppy rolling around in the daisies because it feels good ๐ŸŒผ Do something just because itโ€™s funny and makes you laugh โœจ Let Magick be playful ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒŠ

Reminders to self โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน๐ŸŒˆYou will never be perfectly healed. You will never be perfectly anything. Let that liberate you ๐ŸŒผ...
05/21/2022

Reminders to self โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน

๐ŸŒˆYou will never be perfectly healed. You will never be perfectly anything. Let that liberate you ๐ŸŒผ

๐ŸŒˆYou will always be changing. Some of that change will be under your control and most of it wonโ€™t. Let that liberate you ๐ŸŒผ

๐ŸŒˆWe are all going to die. The speed doesnโ€™t matter because there is no way to get it all done in one lifetime. Let that liberate you ๐ŸŒผ

The Black FingerBY ANGELINA WELD GRIMKร‰I have just seen a most beautiful thingโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒSlim and stillAgainst a gold, gold s...
05/18/2022

The Black Finger
BY ANGELINA WELD GRIMKร‰

I have just seen a most beautiful thing
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒSlim and still
Against a gold, gold sky,
A straight black cypress,
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒSensitive,
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒExquisite,
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒA black finger
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒPointing upwards.
Why, beautiful still finger, are you black?
And why arc you pointing upwards?

{Born in Boston, poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimkรฉ was named after her great-aunt, the abolitionist and suffragist Angelina Grimkรฉ Weld. Grimkรฉ earned a degree from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in physical education. She is the author of important poems on love and race, including โ€œEl Beso,โ€ โ€œDawn,โ€ โ€œBeware Lest He Awakes,โ€ and โ€œThe Black Finger.โ€ Her poems have been anthologized in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), The Poetry of the Negro (1949, edited by Langston Hughes), and Caroling Dusk (1927, edited by Countee Cullen).

After graduation, Grimkรฉ taught physical education and English at high schools in Washington, DC. When her father died in 1930, she moved to New York City, where she lived until her death.} -author bio from Poetry Foundation

โœจ๐Ÿฅ€๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿฅ€โœจFull Moon Blessings to yโ€™all and a little extra tender love for this Lunar Eclipse ๐Ÿ’•๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ’•My focus this Eclipse window ...
05/16/2022

โœจ๐Ÿฅ€๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿฅ€โœจ
Full Moon Blessings to yโ€™all and a little extra tender love for this Lunar Eclipse ๐Ÿ’•๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ’•

My focus this Eclipse window has been letting go of material possessions that are linked with dead versions of myself ๐Ÿ„ Though I live in a small studio apartment with my partner and donโ€™t have much comparatively to some, I have the most physical โ€˜stuffโ€™ Iโ€™ve had in my life. Giving things away that I have loved and still love, but no longer fit the new path and person I am becoming is making space for me to grow ๐Ÿ„โœจ๐Ÿ› It is freeing and there is a lot of grief for my old life. Itโ€™s softened by seeing how much these things bring joy to the people I give them to ๐ŸŽถ

The process of giving nearly everything away feels in a way like Iโ€™m dying and leaving my possessions to my loved ones ๐Ÿ’• It has left me feeling very present with physical death and thinking about when I leave my body to the Earth ๐Ÿ‚

Journaling is definitely a way to release and I think particularly apt for this Full Moon to incorporate into whatever ritual, simple or complex, you do to honor the death and rebirth that is present with this Eclipse โœจ Here is a journaling spell for people feeling the call to connect to death and new beginnings through purging belongings as a magick ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐ŸŒ€A Spell for New Beginnings ๐ŸŒ€
โœจ Find an object in your home you have sentimental attachment to, that doesnโ€™t fit your life anymore, one that you may be having a hard time letting go and journal about it.
๐Ÿ“– Start with observations, move onto feelings, memories, let yourself grieve and be with this thing for a little longer. Write until you feel complete.
๐Ÿฅ€ Then write about how you are going to let it go {gift to a loved one, stranger, burn it, etc.} and make a plan to move it along before the next New Moon ๐ŸŒš
๐ŸŒ€ On a small piece of paper, write out gratitudes for how that object has served you and put it on your altar.
๐ŸŒš On the next New Moon burn or bury the paper ๐Ÿ”ฅ

I embrace Death๐Ÿ”ฅ I embrace new beginnings ๐ŸŒ€ I love myself ๐Ÿ’•

Art is Magick โœจ Daily ritual is Magick โœจ Watching the grass blow in the breeze is Magick โœจCrying is Magick โœจIโ€™ve had my ...
05/14/2022

Art is Magick โœจ Daily ritual is Magick โœจ Watching the grass blow in the breeze is Magick โœจCrying is Magick โœจ

Iโ€™ve had my books closed for a few weeks since Iโ€™ve been recovering from being sick and allergies have made it difficult to talk at length ๐Ÿ’ซ Hoping to open them again soon and in the meantime working on some offerings for when my voice is in rough shape ๐Ÿ’•

Sending out soothing green healing energies to yโ€™all ๐Ÿ›โœจ๐Ÿ’šโœจ๐Ÿ›

Making soup tonight from this delicious & beautiful common w**d, Purple Dead Nettle ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒธ I urban foraging โœจ This plant fr...
05/06/2022

Making soup tonight from this delicious & beautiful common w**d, Purple Dead Nettle ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒธ I urban foraging โœจ This plant friend makes me feel bright and energetic ๐ŸŒฟ

So grateful to live in a place with so much rain that creates abundance of edible w**ds I can pick on my walk everyday ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒˆ

๐Ÿ’Say GraceBY EMILY JUNGMIN YOONIn my country our shamans were womenand our gods multiple until white people broughtan ec...
05/05/2022

๐Ÿ’
Say Grace
BY EMILY JUNGMIN YOON

In my country our shamans were women
and our gods multiple until white people brought
an ecstasy of rosaries and our cities today
glow with crosses like graveyards. As a child
in Sunday school I was told Iโ€™d go to hell
if I didnโ€™t believe in God. Our teacher was a woman
whose daughters wanted to be nuns and I asked
What about babies and what about Buddha, and she said
Theyโ€™re in hell too and so I memorized prayers
and recited them in front of women
I did not believe in. Deliver us from evil.
O sweet Virgin Mary, amen. O sweet. O sweet.
In this country, which calls itself Christian,
what is sweeter than hearing Have mercy
on us. From those who serve different gods. O
clement, O loving, O God, O God, amidst ruins,
amidst waters, fleeing, fleeing. Deliver us from evil.
O sweet, O sweet. In this country,
point at the moon, at the stars, point at the way the lake lies,
with a hand full of feathers,
and they will look at the feathers. And kill you for it.
If a word for religion they donโ€™t believe in is magic
so be it, let us have magic. Let us have
our own mothers and scarves, our spirits,
our shamans and our sacred books. Let us keep
our stars to ourselves and we shall pray
to no one. Let us eat
what makes us holy.

Blessed Bealtaine ๐Ÿ’ซ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’I celebrated creativity and eroticism at  where I was a juried literary artist and had my poetry p...
05/02/2022

Blessed Bealtaine ๐Ÿ’ซ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’

I celebrated creativity and eroticism at where I was a juried literary artist and had my poetry published for my second time ๐ŸŒฟ

Revel in the eroticism of creativity ๐Ÿ’

Take a moment to really be with the flowers in your neighborhood ๐ŸŒธ They are your neighbors too and are sometimes easier ...
04/29/2022

Take a moment to really be with the flowers in your neighborhood ๐ŸŒธ They are your neighbors too and are sometimes easier to talk to then our human neighbors ๐Ÿ˜‰

Ask them how they are doing, if they need anything, sing them a little song ๐ŸŽถ I offer song to the flowers and let them know how much joy their beauty brings to my life ๐ŸŒธ

Create relationships with the plant spirits in your daily life and the land you live on ๐ŸŒฟ This is how you cultivate presence and magick in the small everyday moments of life ๐Ÿ’ซ By recognizing the Magick in all the living beings around us, that we are truly blessed by communing with the nature spirits around us~ flowers, plants, fungi, all living beings ~ and able to feel our own Magick as we are nature too ๐Ÿฆ‹

Most of us are guests on the land we live so do your best to respect the land by supporting indigenous peoples who are the original caretakers and children of the land you dwell on โœจ P.S. to Seattlites, Real Rent is due ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿ’ธ๐ŸŒท ๐Ÿ’•

โ˜๏ธHeartbeatsBY MELVIN DIXONWork out. Ten laps.Chin ups. Look good. Steam room. Dress warm.Call home. Fresh air. Eat righ...
04/26/2022

โ˜๏ธ
Heartbeats
BY MELVIN DIXON

Work out. Ten laps.
Chin ups. Look good.

Steam room. Dress warm.
Call home. Fresh air.

Eat right. Rest well.
Sweetheart. Safe s*x.

Sore throat. Long flu.
Hard nodes. Beware.

Test blood. Count cells.
Reds thin. Whites low.

Dress warm. Eat well.
Short breath. Fatigue.

Night sweats. Dry cough.
Loose stools. Weight loss.

Get mad. Fight back.
Call home. Rest well.

Don't cry. Take charge.
No s*x. Eat right.

Call home. Talk slow.
Chin up. No air.

Arms wide. Nodes hard.
Cough dry. Hold on.

Mouth wide. Drink this.
Breathe in. Breathe out.

No air. Breathe in.
Breathe in. No air.

Black out. White rooms.
Head hot. Feet cold.

No work. Eat right.
CAT scan. Chin up.

Breathe in. Breathe out.
No air. No air.

Thin blood. Sore lungs.
Mouth dry. Mind gone.

Six months? Three weeks?
Can't eat. No air.

Today? Tonight?
It waits. For me.

Sweet heart. Don't stop.
Breathe in. Breathe out.

{Scholar, novelist, and poet Melvin Dixon was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA and a PhD from Brown University. Dixon wrote the poetry collections Change of Territory (1983) and Loveโ€™s Instruments (1995, published posthumously) and two novels, Trouble the Water (1989), winner of a Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction, and Vanishing Rooms (1991). Influenced by James Baldwin, Dixon wrote extensively about the complexities of being a gay black man. Speaking on this topic at a speech to the Third National Le***an and Gay Writers Conference, Dixon said, โ€œAs white g**s deny multiculturalism among g**s, so too do black communities deny multis*xualism among their members. Against this double cremation, we must leave the legacy of our writing and our perspectives on gay and straight experiences.โ€} - excerpt from author bio on Poetry Foundation

Full Pink Moon Blessings to yโ€™all ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒ•๐ŸŒธMy focus on this Full Moon is to release myself from a negative thought spiral Iโ€™ve...
04/17/2022

Full Pink Moon Blessings to yโ€™all ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒ•๐ŸŒธ

My focus on this Full Moon is to release myself from a negative thought spiral Iโ€™ve been stuck in around failure to clear space for self-compassion ๐Ÿ’Œ Hereโ€™s a spell for everyone who is in need of the same ๐Ÿฅฐ

๐Ÿ’•A Spell for Self-Compassion๐Ÿ’•
๐ŸŒธ Get cozy in your favorite, most comfortable clothes that you feel cute in.
๐ŸŒธ Take some deep breaths and look around the space you are in, notice the sights, sounds, smells, notice how your body feels or if you are feeling disconnected from your body, just observing.
๐ŸŒธ Get a piece of paper and write out any lingering harsh thoughts you are directing towards yourself.
๐ŸŒธ Now rip that paper into the tiniest bits you possibly can while repeating aloud {singing or speaking} โ€˜I love nature. I am nature. I love myself.โ€™
๐ŸŒธ Now wet the paper bits and wad them together, forming them into a shape that pleases you.
๐ŸŒธ Place the transformed paper on your altar to dry until the New Moon. Reciting โ€˜I love nature. I am nature. I love myself.โ€™ daily till the next New Moon.
๐ŸŒธ On the New Moon bury the paper, seeding the next cycle with trust that you can transform, release and grow with compassion towards yourself ๐Ÿ’•

๐Ÿ’Œ๐ŸŒ•I love nature ๐ŸŒ• I am nature ๐ŸŒ• I love myself ๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿ’Œ

The Dictatorsby Pablo NerudaAn odor stayed on in the canefields:Carrion, blood, and a nauseaOf harrowing petals.Between ...
04/04/2022

The Dictators
by Pablo Neruda

An odor stayed on in the canefields:
Carrion, blood, and a nausea
Of harrowing petals.
Between coconut palms lay the graves, in their stilled
Strangulation, their festering surfeit of bones.
A finical satrap conversed
With wineglasses, collars, and piping.
In the palace, all flashed like a clockdial.
The gloved laugh redoubled, a moment
Spanning the passageways, meeting
The newly-killed voices and the buried blue mouths. Out of
sight,
Lament was perpetual, and fell, like the plant and its pollen,
Forcing a lightless increase in the blinded, big leaves.
And bludgeon by bludgeon on the terrible waters,
Scale over scale in the bog,
The snout filled with silence and slime
And vendetta was born.

โ€œPablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. โ€œNo writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda,โ€ observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman. Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime. John Leonard in the New York Times declared that Neruda โ€œwas, I think, one of the great ones, a Whitman of the South.โ€ Among contemporary readers in the United States, he is largely remembered for his odes and love poems.โ€ - Author Bio excerpt from Poetry Foundation

I am a Dirt Witch.Mushrooms hold a powerful energy to compost and transform what is dead, what is hidden, to grow in new...
04/03/2022

I am a Dirt Witch.

Mushrooms hold a powerful energy to compost and transform what is dead, what is hidden, to grow in new beautiful ways. That dark, earthy energy is one that I have called on in my own healing journey to embrace the deaths of aspects of myself and reform myself anew.

Deep in the forest is where I learned about mushroom essences and how to make them in 2017 in a workshop taught by Robert Rodgers, author of the book โ€˜Mushroom Essencesโ€™. Since then, Iโ€™ve used the energy of fungi to support releasing and reforming behaviors, thoughtforms and beliefs within myself. Making friends with mushrooms has After crafting a personal relationship with many kinds of fungi, I want to share this way of healing through creating spiritual relationships with mushrooms.

Iโ€™m excited to announce that Iโ€™m now offering hand-crafted Mushroom Essences as part of my healing practice. With every essence I create will be a video that has affirmations which will create a deep connection between you and the mushroom energy as well as a ritual guide and journal prompts to guide your journey in creating relationship with the energy of the fungi. My hope is that through creating relationship with mushroom energies you will grow to accept and cherish death as a beautiful part of the growth process.

Every mushroom is unique in what it wants to use itโ€™s energy for. Iโ€™ve got a handful essences already created from a variety of fungi friends. I released my first mushroom essence, Splitgill essence, on the Spring Equinox and itโ€™s available now ๐Ÿ„ Check out my website to learn more about how creating a relationship with Splitgill energy can transform your life ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒธ

Spring Blessings to yโ€™all ๐Ÿ’•โœจ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ„I am so excited to finally release my first Mushroom essence ๐Ÿ„ Splitgill mushroom essence ...
03/22/2022

Spring Blessings to yโ€™all ๐Ÿ’•โœจ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ„

I am so excited to finally release my first Mushroom essence ๐Ÿ„ Splitgill mushroom essence that has been so important to my own healing journey ๐Ÿ’•๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒˆ Iโ€™ve worked with mushroom essences for years now and am so looking forward to helping you connect with mushroom energy ๐ŸŒš๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒธ To celebrate Spring and the Splitgill essence release Iโ€™m offering as an additional support the option to add a 30 minute One-on-One energy healing session to integrate the mushroom energy in a supportive sacred container โœจ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ„ This additional offering will be for an investment of $75 ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ

Splitgill energy is a portal into our s e x u a l and s e n s u a l selves โœจ๐Ÿ„โœจ The Splitgill essence is for people looking to embrace the spectrum of what s e x means and your relationship to s e n s u a l i y y ๐ŸŒธ Through creating relationship with the Splitgill mushroom it invites you to explore and embrace parts of your s e x u a l self that may have been repressed ๐ŸŒš

Visit my website to learn more about Splitgill and order the Splitgill essence ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒˆโœจ๐Ÿ„

Spring is coming ๐ŸŒธ And with it the blooming in our hearts and bodies that feel the s*xuality of the season rise. For man...
03/16/2022

Spring is coming ๐ŸŒธ And with it the blooming in our hearts and bodies that feel the s*xuality of the season rise. For many of us, s*x is an integral part of the way we connect, to ourselves, to others, to Spring, the Earth. I think too that in the soft season of Spring, with all its new growth energy, s*x invites rest into days and nights. S*x is a spell. S*x can infuse what we are choosing to nurture and bloom. I can help but look at Cherry Blossoms in full bloom and not see the or****ic energy of nature. Through sensual movement our minds relax to let our bodies feel pleasure. The little death that comes after sensual and s*xual adventures where you are in a place of total rest.

Splitgill energy is a portal into our s*xual and sensual selves โœจ๐Ÿ„โœจ The Splitgill essence is for people looking to embrace the spectrum of what s*x means and your relationship to sensuality ๐ŸŒธ Through creating relationship with the Splitgill mushroom it invites you to explore and embrace parts of your s*xual self that may have been repressed ๐ŸŒš

I am so excited to finally release this incredible Splitgill mushroom essence that has been so important to my own healing journey ๐Ÿ„ Iโ€™ve worked with mushroom essences for years now and am so looking forward to helping you connect with mushroom energy ๐ŸŒš๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒธ To celebrate Spring and the Splitgill essence release Iโ€™m offering as an additional support for anyone who pre-orders the option to add a 30 minute One-on-One energy healing session to integrate the mushroom energy in a supportive sacred container โœจ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ„ This additional offering will be for an investment of $75 ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ

Visit my website to learn more and pre-order the Splitgill essence and keep an eye out for more on this powerful energetic medicine this week building up to the Spring Equinox ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒˆโœจ๐Ÿ„

The petals floating through the winds that tell me Spring is indeed coming have me inspired to finally release my first ...
03/15/2022

The petals floating through the winds that tell me Spring is indeed coming have me inspired to finally release my first Mushroom Essence ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒธ And itโ€™s all about s*x and sensuality โœจ Because, to me, that is a big energy of Spring โœจ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’ The climax blooms within us to move together and create pleasure ๐ŸŒธ S*x is expression, creation, and connection ๐Ÿ’ซ

S*xuality is a way to express ourselves and be comfortable in who we are ๐Ÿ’– The Splitgill essence can call out the parts of you that have been hiding and help you feel more confident in stepping into your s*xual identity ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ They help connection to sensuality and our bodies desire ๐Ÿ„ S*x can mean so many things. The literally 28,000 ways Splitgill mushrooms can have s*x infuse us with expansion of our expression of s*x that suits our authentic, whole selves โœจThis offering is for people looking for a self-guided journey in creating relationship with the Splitgill to expand your sensual & s*xual life โœจ

Mushroom Essences are essentially the energy of a mushroom captured in water ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ’งThey are energetic remedies aimed at supporting your healing from a spiritual perspective. The nature of Fungi energies is dark, deep, and thrives in subconscious realms. Naturally, Mushroom essences support healing through Shadow Work ๐ŸŒš The energy of mushrooms helps us learn to accept the parts of ourselves that we have buried so we can live more authentically, in full expression of our true selves ๐Ÿ„

The Splitgill Mushroom essence is available now for pre-order on my website and will be released on the Spring Equinox ๐ŸŒธโœจ๐ŸŒˆ The investment for the essence, ritual guide, prompts, and affirmation recording is $75 ๐Ÿ’• If you pre-order by March 20th the essence will arrive on time to begin working with it on first New Moon of Spring on March 31st ๐ŸŒš

May the energy of this beautiful Magnolia budding fill you with soothing pink energy ๐Ÿ’•๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’• Imagine yourself cocooned withi...
03/14/2022

May the energy of this beautiful Magnolia budding fill you with soothing pink energy ๐Ÿ’•๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’• Imagine yourself cocooned within its petals โœจ Softness surrounding you as we all prepare to emerge into Spring ๐Ÿ’

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