by Rebecca Cavender | sacred self-expression, Snake medicine, writing
My heart has been aching to share deeply, intimately with you about our global crises and what this has to do with snake medicine, snake priestessing. I know that many of us are brokenhearted and distraught about the state of the world. We cry for the innocent lives...
by Rebecca Cavender | poetry, Snake medicine
FERAL LIGHT DARK WILD In the dark of the moon Caillech sits with me by the low fire slowly stirring the cauldron of love, my heart the main course to sip the red blessing of devotion after all that has been laid at the lips of the sacred cleft— an opening to truth a...
by Rebecca Cavender | Snake medicine, writing
Primal wisdom is the native intelligence that lives inside you, sniffing out the truth. It occupies the belly of your ancestors, passed down, generation after generation into your bones. It’s the part of you that digs your nails deep into the fecund soil of your...
by Rebecca Cavender | writing
The most wild, primal thing is to open your heart so wide, it can be swallowed whole… only to be regenerated in the fires of life
by Rebecca Cavender | Snake medicine, writing
Honoring beauty requires honoring not only life, but death and dissolution. It means trusting that when something as tender as a peony slips away back into the thrumming dirt, something new grows. I know it’s not always easy to trust this … and I understand that...
