This is a month where sunflowers are growing in abundance as they slant their golden visages up to the shining sun. Ancient lore tells that if you take one seed from the center of a sunflower, make a wish upon it and then eat it, your wish will come true. Now you can grow your dreams and make them shine too.
By Ellen Whitehurst for Astrology.com
Items needed:
A lump of Yellow Ochre
Gum from the Pinyon pine
3 cups of black Sunflower seeds. (The little ones)
3 Tablespoons ground Native Alum
Start by burning the lump of yellow ochre with an equal amount of the pinyon
gum. This will make a nice black soot. (Catch the soot on a cool ironstone plate
that is held over the burning mixture.)
Save the soot.
Next, take the sunflower seeds, still in their shells, and boil them for twenty
to thirty minutes in 8 cups of water. Remove the seeds just after splitting
open. (Do not allow them to soak in it.)
Add the native Alum after toasting it in an iron pan. Stir and simmer so that
the Alum is completely dissolved.
Simmer the liquid until it is reduced to six cups of liquid.
Dip out a cup of the liquid and scrape the soot into it. Stir until it is
dissolved.
Add the soot-dye mixture back into the greater dye.
Gently simmer until it is reduced to a desired consistency.
Use with a ‘quill’ pen or fine lined paint brush.
1. Place a GINGER ROOT and some SUNFLOWER SEEDS in JOJOBA OIL.
2. Let the HERBS soak for 3 DAYS.
3. Strain the OIL.
4. Bottle the OIL in a dark glass bottle w/lid.
5. Before you leave the house, apply the OIL behind your knees, elbows, ears and wrists.
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