What feeds YOU? Annual Influences for 2016

So I wasn't going to continue to do the AIG this year coming.
I've had a lot of complications with L I G (Life In General) this year but it has been rewarding. There have been immense challenges, and we as a family have figured out a fair few of them, even had some beautiful achievements because we have chosen to see these challenges from a perspective of intended growth, not obstacle.

My little side biz of Magic Earth Mumma (aromatherapy alchemy & wellness) has had me on my marketing and product development toes...but I yearn for the complex simplicity, the texture of duality and the total contradiction that occurs in my life when I am in the flow of my own feng shui!

It's like living a life and seeing it from a perspective that feels like Heaven (or Hell, as it would at times).

And so I begin to research and write up the AIG 2016 and I'm in Heaven again :)

A beautiful depiction of Monkey offering Buddha some honey to eat...

Here's a snippet of the opening paragraphs... enjoy.

"2016 brings with it the energy of Mother Earth. Star 2 is associated with the Mother personality and the Element of Earth. It is fecund, nourishing, nurturing, strict, relentless and deceptively unstable. If I take anything from feng shui studies and observations it is that the personalities and associations ought to be viewed as one side of two halves. Weakness or Yin is the flipside of flexibility and depth.  We have no need to hold one gender above another, as each is complimentary to the other, and without one the other does not exist.  So to begin with this is not going to be a year of feminism (however great that would be) or a year of misogyny (however appalling that would be), it IS going to be a year of understanding where your nourishment comes from.
 What feeds YOU?"

The new feng shui year begins on the 8th of February 2016 and goes all the way to the 27th January 2017. I will be as usual, collating ALL the relevant monthly charts and breakdowns for each month to alert you to all the fantastic energy to utilise, and all the stuff to block, deflect or dismantle (energetically). 

Here's to a great new year and some perfect gatherings!

Blessings

Jannette 

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How Green Is My....Smoothie

Very very green in fact...
In a new set of posts I'll be investigating my own lifestyle changes and choices related to 'Going Green'. Join me as I discuss my personal observations of the benefits and pitfalls of accessing this way of living.

So first up...the inspiration...my VERY Green Smoothie, just made, now...*sip* which looked so surprisingly irridescent GREEEEEEN, that it made me stare...

The Recipe for VERY Green Smoothie

Home-grown Organic Oregano, Parsley and Mint...about a handful of leaf of each
A stalk of Organic Celery chopped into 'bits'
A 'slosh' of Organic Cloudy Apple Juice
A 'slosh' of home-made fermented Raw Honey and grated Ginger drink (I'll put that recipe up soon...)
Pulse the mixture in a blender to break up the larger leaves and celery bits.
Whizz on high for 30seconds to really break up the celery strings, then down to low setting for about 20 seconds.
Voila! A VERY Green Smoothie.
(yes, you will find crunchy things to chew whilst you sip)

So I bet you're wondering why I do this. Perhaps you're not, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
Going Green has become a catch phrase for some companies to make money out of guilting the public into 'doing their bit for the environment', by purchasing some stuff in a plastic bottle that says it is 'green'. "Well yeah? Prove it...", I say. I need companies to explain the ingredients are produced with a conscience. I know I can't get all my modern conveniences with this integrity of manufacture, but I want the majority of what I consume to be ethically produced. If I, one person, makes this a priority, and help other people to see this as a priority, then it continues the swell in trend and in turn influences the manufacture of goods, propagation techniques of agriculture, and ingredients within consumables. Thats how I can get ethically produced and manufactured goods now of course ;) People demanded it and so it is available for purchase.

In that train of thought then, how is my VERY Green Smoothie so green? 50% of the ingredients were grown organically on my property, needing no transportation to my house at all. The soil to grow my herbs came from my worm farm compost, comprised of broken down green waste from my house, and again, no transportation needed. The juice is organically grown from SE Queensland (where I live), as was the celery, both obtained from a local shop which I walked to.

Here in my VERY Green Smoothie, I've been able to use a naturally sweet raw ferment, (more about ferments in an upcoming post) and it works well with the dash of apple juice and the celery to balance. The *Zzzzing* comes from the Ginger! The herbs are powerful anit-bacterial, anti-viral, digestive aides and packed with Chlorophyll to help it all get into the blood easily.

So, in honour of the recently passed St Patricks Day, "Slainte!" And in tune with Earth Hour Day...or whatever its called... Happy green moustaches to all... :)

Jannette
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