This week has been full of appreciation and love for mothers here at Milk & Honey.  Every day this week, customers have been buying lots ofjewelry for their mothers (quite a few people have 2:  a mother and a step-mother).  Our most popular item this year is Shimmerwings, jewelry made from butterfly wings collected from the Peruvian Amazon after they naturally die.  Shimmerwings are fair-trade and sustainable.

My partner, Candra, and I have been doing tantra together for 7 years.  We both feel so lucky to have learned these spiritual breath and presence processes young in life (we are in our 30s). Tantra has brought us so much bliss and ecstasty I think life without it would be dismal. 

If you haven’t yet tapped into your body’s wisdom through tantra, check out this beautiful video, ‘Hearts Cracked Open.’ The video shows tantra for women and a few different teachers, including ours, Evalena Rose.  Evalena is an amazing spiritual teacher who creates extraordinarily safe workshop spaces for women only and also for men and women to do tantra together. 

Seriously, if you haven’t done tantra yet, it’s better than your favorite food, better than drugs, even better than sex!  Check it out!

Love,

Alyssa
www.milk-and-honey.com

 Over the past few months, I’ve drawn the Bast card from my favorite tarot deck (Daughters of the Moon) many times. This card talks about Bast, the Egyptian cat goddess, and how she is the goddess of play.  People who work too hard need her medicine to relax and have a balanced life, which includes play and fun.  Apparently, I’m one of the millions of Americans who work too hard. (Are you?)

Bast is an Egyptian Goddess and protector of cats, women, and children. She is the goddess of the sunrise and play, reminding us to play more and have fun. Her goddess duty has changed over the years, but she is also known as a goddess of love, fertility, birth, music and dance. Bast is the goddess of the moon. She has a twin sister named Sekhmet. Together the twin sisters formed the “yin-yang”of Egyptian religion, Bastet being the positive force and Sekhmet being the destructive force.

Bast is depicted in art in many ways, often with the head of a cat and the body of a woman. (Her sister, Sekhmet is shown with the head of a lionness.) Another popular form of Bast, in her earthly form, is a seated cat, and in this form her name changes to Bastet.

With this blog posting, I invoke the play energy of Bast for myself and anyone who is reading this.  Welcome, Bast!

-Alyssa
www.milk-and-honey.com

Drops of Nectar from Milk & Honey

We, the goddesses who run Milk & Honey, practiced the mantra below for 10 minutes every morning and 10 minutes every evening for 40 days. In addition to chanting the mantra, we wrote down a specific, 2 sentence intention for prosperity which we read before each chanting session throughout the 40 days. We began it on the new moon in January and upon finishing the 40 days, burned the paper with the intention and offered it up to Lakshmi with a prayer and gratitude.

It really worked! There were so many benefits to this chanting. First of all, the act of chanting was quickly ecstatic. The first few minutes of the chanting would feel long and boring, but the chant would always open up blissful, happy energy. The actual energy of abundance and joy.

Because there is no tune offered to which to sing the mantra, we invented our own. And re-invented it. And re-invented it again. Actually, I found it most fun to sing the mantra different ways throughout the 10-minute period to keep it from being monotonous (Twice to one tune, then twice to a different tune, and back and forth). I created many different tunes for the mantra, most of which sounded like beautiful Indian mantra tunes that might have been offered by a guru. If you do this chant, I encourage you to have fun coming up with your own tunes. You are the guru.

And the prosperity did flow. Milk & Honey made more money than last year during the time when were doing the chant, even though we’re supposed to be in a recession. I personally had money come to me unexpectedly twice during the 40 days. And I had a new career inspiration. Try it and see what abundance graces your path!

Om Shrim Maha Lakshmiyei Swaha
[Om Shreem Mah-hah Lahk-shmee-yea Swah-ha]
“Om and salutations to She who provides abundance.”

To Invoke Financial Prosperity

“All of us have encountered circumstances where more money could have alleviated problems. Maybe it was some unexpected illness that created huge medical bills that could not be paid right away. Perhaps a family member experienced a sudden job reversal or other predicament that would have been easily solved by an infusion of cash. Sometimes there are friends or family members who are struggling to begin a new career. A loan or gift could help them over a rough spot or even make the whole enterprise doable and not just a dream. These kinds of situations appear all the time. Now you have powerful spiritual tools, in the form of these mantras, to help in situations like these that suddenly require more money.

To produce abundance, the mantra above should be practiced intensely for a minimum of forty days. During that time, you may find your mind directed to embark upon some new activities or to abandon others that you had planned on doing. Allow your intuition to guide you. Consider that you are actually changing your karma by your efforts, so things will be changing in your life. Be open and willing to discard some activities and welcome new ones. This powerful mantra has already helped many (including me) to attain new levels of prosperity.

Please remember that benefits of endowment with other of the ten regal qualities (food, royal power, mystic power, universal sovereignty, noble rank, holy luster, kingdom, fortune, bounteousness, and beauty) may also accrue from your practice of this mantra. So if new authority comes your way through work or in a service organization, be grateful and pray to use your new authority wisely. ” -excerpted from Shakti Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand

That’s all for today….

Take Care,
Alyssa
www.milk-and-honey.com