December Events

With expansive and adventurous Sagittarius in full swing and the legacy-and-foundations-centric Capricorn Winter just around the corner, we have some wonderful opportunities to step into your power, inner awareness and psychic development before the New Year of Enchantment is born.

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The Movement and Guided Meditation series held on Oasis Wednesdays will continue with a new series aimed at helping those focused on physical healing goals, weight loss and connecting with their spirit. Wednesdays at 7pm at the Masjah Center in Harwich. Organic Warming Tea served every class. $15 drop in

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Inner Awareness Thursdays at 7pm at the Masjah Center in Harwich starting December 5th
Clients have been asking for a class to help develop intuition, so here it is. A new class series called Inner Awareness focuses on connecting with your deep self and clarifying the wisdom of your gut instinct and psychic intuition to increase your Law of Attraction capabilities and increase synchronicity and set you in alignment with divine timing. Thursday nights at 7pm. Attendance for all classes is not required. Drop-ins are welcome. $20 per class. There will be fun goodies and tools each class to bring home.

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There will be a Food For the Soul holiday event coming up from Pandora's Garden, so stay tuned for more information! You can contact me at info@pandorapeoples.com or text me at 310-591-6996

Gratitude for the Angels

Feeling grateful for many blessings in my life including the qualities of patience, dedication, perseverance, kindness, being intuitive, striving for improvements and loving joy I see in my clients, friends and family. People are waking up to their multi-dimensionality. They are seeing that they themselves cannot be defined by limiting labels and that the soul cannot be compartmentalized into little boxes. It is inauthentic when we try to fit into rigid definitions of who we think we should be for convenience sake, and we cannot expect others to adhere to rigid and narrow definitions of themselves, to make us feel safer or more in control. Being conventionally grown, doesn't fertilize the valleys and peaks of your soul or its purpose. Aiming to be organic nurtures the whole self and supports good health. If we're worrying about who will accept us as we naturally are, then we are concerned about the wrong people. By adapting to inauthentic behaviors and expectations, we're enabling other people to continue to remain set in limited ways of thinking, instead of challenging their presumptions, preconceived ideas, or biases. The shoudla-woulda-couldas will drive you batty, so stay fresh and be yourself.

The Eight Nights of Thanukah Left Overs*

What's better than turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy, green bean casserole, yams and pumpkin pie ala mode? All of that with latkes, matzo ball soup, and kugel for appetizers! But, of course Thanksgiving is about more than just cooking and cleaning all day sipping hard cider and slugging down eggnog...

...It's about watching your brother-in-law read the Hebrew prayers off a paper, before ignoring your request to for the family to participate in a round of Shalom Chaverim. I may be a shiksa, but even the rabbi at the Chabad let me shake the lulav. Hey, anyone can misplace their yarmulke three Thanukahs in a row. No matter. At our crib there's pickles and olives to load up on before heart-attack-inducing cornbread rolls break into song, as the hypertension gravy train rattles through town bestowing oodles of stress and gravy across the plates of generations of Feingolds.



Not only did Stop and Shop cease carrying Chanukah candles, (although they carry shabbos candles so clearly there are in fact people who celebrate shabbat in Dennis), but Christmas Tree Shop banished their half a dozen menorahs to the Jewish part of the Cape, Hyann-witz. No dreidels within 30 miles of here, but Tedesci's made sure to stock up on Jewish gelt, which I think tastes a lot better than Catholic guilt, which my family always made sure to have plenty of. (They were Roman Catholic on the Jewish side, my grandmother spoke to me in Yiddish when no one was around.) I do love my Jewish family by marriage, despite them hiding out in the kitchen confessing to me that my son is the perfect example of why they don't like children. Everyone's a comedian.

I cooked, cleaned the walls and all the molding over the house, and almost pulled off a Donna Reed, until an abandoned upstairs bedroom was discovered accidentally during a game of Walkie Talkie hide and seek When the room was seen in all its glory, across between an exploded laundromat and an episode of Hoarders, but without the petrified cats. Ah, the shame. The shame. On the bright side, I discovered that my husband makes a mean matzo ball soup, which will come in handy the day I can't swallow anything that my gums can't smack together.

*According to Chabad.org, you won't have the first evening of Chanukah and Thanksgiving fall on the same night until 2070, provided the Hebrew calendar continues on its 19-year cycle, the US continues to go by the Gregorian calendar, and folks continue to celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.

Heartfelt Holidays on Healing Wisdom

Law of Attraction Magazine creator and editor Sue Elliot discusses holiday stress with me on my radio show this morning. 9am Eastern Daylight Time on http://womr.org, 92.1 WOMR-FM Provincetown, and 91.3 WFMR-FM Orleans.

Medicine Woman

I love channeling messages from angels, spirit guides and people who have passed over, but every now and then, I feel compelled to go all shamanic on my clients. I even broke out the massage table the other night. Clearing energy that has grown or latched onto the soul, or what shamans often see as spirits/entities/parasites, is very often the best antidote to many ailments: malaise, melancholy, depression, indecision, or confusion. Every now and then my departed mentor encourages me to go all Feudal Japan/Cherokee Warrior Princess on the yucky stuff that can linger in the energy field, and lurk about town. One must be deadly serious about sucking out or shaking loose energetic vampires from the body, or they have run of the town. A note to the nefarious: No screwing around with my ancient spirit, thou art powerless against me. Thy dark shadows cast no sweat upon mine brow, ne'er, nor fear within mine eyes. Someone needs to christen with a Buffy Slay It/Don't Spray It inspired moniker. Hook me up with a costume, preferably fleece with gogo boots. You can pay me in gogo boots or barrels of potatoes, I'm like Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman that way. Kind of.

Future Labiacentric Restauranteer or the Owner of a Holistic Fertility Clinic Masquerading as a Trendy Cantina?

I may be suffering from a kind of fertility awareness syndrome, but I won't run off to join a traveling free-love raw vegan hipster lunch wagon or The Midnight Mavericks Emergency Medicinal Food Circus Mobile Fertility Unit before I complete my book proposal.

My son's bestie slept over last night. She danced to Django Reinhardt, while my son played with her Lego kitchen set. According to her she's half cat and my son really needs cartoons. Even though she won't eat anything but chicken fingers, I see marriage material. They drew out their bedtime a couple extra hours, and woke up too early with smiley sleep deprived faces. Did the "Jewel Train" theme from LeapPad rip-off Nico's All Tomorrow's Parties, or do I just need to go back to bed?

Really wanting a baby girl. To the left, is one of many such meals I cook for my family. Further evidence of my biological clock ticking. Note the step-3-baby-food-like texture, and the labia-shaped presentation of the avocados. My epicurean muff-centric and vulva-focal creations would be most unwelcome in existing P-town eateries. Perhaps I should open up a restaurant which caters predominantly to lesbians and Code-Pink/Riot-Grrrl-gen-x-er-breeders. We can call it Little Italy's Muffia Trattoria, To Be Cuntinued Cafe, The Pussycat Eatery, The Twativerse Tavern, The Clit Cat Club, Big Mama's Hoochie Coochie Cucina, The Rosebud Roadhouse, The Poontang Pâtisserie, or of course there's always, Pandora's Box. I think for a woman with an incredible desire to reproduce, I am holding myself together remarkably well.

Anyone who knows how to pronounce Sleater Kinney will love my retro restaurant chain, which will dress all its waitstaff in grunge flannel over My Little Pony baby tees and wide-wale overalls. There will be a special room for dayglo Bugaboo baby strollers and heavy laptops will replace flowers as table centerpieces. Complimentary BPA-free reverse osmosis water bottles will be given to every diner. Sustainable, cruelty-free locations will include Portland, Williamsburg, Berkeley, and Jamaica Plain. Permanently placed scratch-n'-sniff cupcake-shaped highchairs will accommodate both dogs and babies.

We will cater to raw vegan baby-makers, serving horny-goat-weed-and-kale lasagna, vitex-berry-ovulation-orzo, carob chip vulva halvah and sesame seed Soomsoom for sperm modality, and hibiscus-infused maca-lattes for male vitality. Saw-palmetto-and-celery-root-pâté for libido. Ginseng pad Thai with freeze-dried lychee berry shavings and blanched fennel bulb for premature ejaculation. "86 the 'PreJac'!! Sorry Fellas, we're outta the house special." Wild yam polenta with pea tendril sauce for estrogen precursors. Creamy-hazelnut-and-red-raspberry Lactation Bisque sprinkled with roasted aniseed. Damiana Medjool Date Dykeries? Invitro-fertilization ashwagandha ale? Sperm-donor Scorpion Bowl? Muira Puama Mezcal jello shots?

Newcomer of the Year Award!

Hey, look what I won. I am honored to have received Newcomer of the Year Award at my beloved station WOMR. I'm so pleased to be part of Outermost Radio.

Fundrive on the Fiddle and the Harp.

WOMR-FM Pledge Drive

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Make us scream in delight.

Upcoming Guest on Healing Wisdom

My guest next week on Healing Wisdom is author Dr. Roger Walsh, professor of psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine. His book, "The World of Shamanism" is enlightening. Tune in December 4th at 9am ET to hear us discuss his work. Find out what happens when you get two loquacious writers together to discuss shamanistic principles, psychology and pharmaceuticals.

Women's Night This Thursday Night

Dia De Los Muertos Night #2

In the tradition of Dia De Los Muertos, tonight is the second night to make offerings of gratitude, thanks and acknowledgment for those who have passed on. For family, friends, lovers, ancestors and people who touched our lives. Tonight, my son is making a piece of art for his grandmother Charlotte who passed on before he was born. I've noticed candy these days smells like perfume and cologne, that's probably because they are made with some of the same chemicals. Creating an ancestral offering is a nice art project to do with Halloween candy which is chalk full of artificial flavors, colors and corn syrup. Make sure to use hard candy, because we found that lollipops melt in the glue.

Offerings for a departed loved one could be:

A stiff drink
His or her favorite food
A poem
A song
Flowers
Shells
Rocks
A letter

Departed friends and family members always have messages for those living on this side of the veil, on this lovely earthly plane. Dia De Los Muertos, (All Souls Day), is an ideal time to receive messages from them, to trust your intuition and to open up communication between you and those beloved ones who have passed on. Simple gestures such as the offerings above are a wonderful ways to begin a dialogue, and to honor your feelings, to help move old or new feelings of grief, and to allow them to give you assurances and open you up to signs.

My own grandfather is 'chomping at the bit' for me to finish the writing project I needed to complete months ago. I feel lucky to be under the tutelage of everyone's spirit guides and guardian angels, learning new things every day. The messages coming through have been so enriching, that I cannot imagine having completed the manuscript without the new wisdom imparted to me and my clients through the work.

Dried plants can be offered into a fire, such as tobacco, coffee or cedar, which may be accompanied by a letter which you may choose to read aloud. Or you can simply put a drink or plate of food upon your mantel, coffee table, or bureau, in a loved one's honor. Your altar could have a photograph of your ancestors, a book by your favorite author, a hand-carved whale from your trip abroad, and a candle you light for your favorite aunt or uncle.

Often you will know your loved ones are around because of a sense of peace they bring, a fragrance in the room, or something curious or unusual occurs. For example, twenty minutes after master Hero made his grandmother Charlotte the art piece, he decided he was going to wash dishes, and he did so cheerily, laughing. This is how he behaves on the rare occasion that his Nana visits us from out of state. I can easily picture her whispering lovingly into his ear, happy to be in the kitchen with her grandson.

Samhain Interview with Eclectic Wiccan Healer Adriadne

http://www.womr.org/podcast/musician-and-healer-ariadne/