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STOCKISTS

California

Otherwild LA
The Sword and Rose
Scarlett Sage Herb Co.
Kitktidizzi
Dhyana Center
Five Pins Project
Plum Goods
Lily Ashwell
The End
Celery Space

Colorado

Kansas

Kentucky

Minnesota

New York

Catland Books
Clove and Creek
Otherwild NYC
SCOSHA

Pennsylvania

Moon & Arrow
Mama's Wellness Joint
Ritual Ritual

Washington

KV Apothecary
Sugarpill

UK

Little Red Tarot

Canada

The Good Spirit, Vancouver
Giving Gifts, Vancouver
Likely General, Toronto

On the Web

Narrow Bridge Candles

ART & RITUAL FOR EVERYBODY

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!
@canoejourneyherbalists is an incredible organization started by Rhonda Grantham, a Cowlitz midwife and herbalists after her time at Standing Rock, to support the annual Canoe Journey, a cultural healing event and annual meeting here on the Salish Sea. The GoFundMe is linked in my bio today (please support!). I’ve been volunteering regularly with them (you can too!) and see my work in the context of healing. I want to share some more about it because I have come to understand over the years that Indigenous solidarity is a Jewish value and essential for Jewish healing:

As an Ashkenazi Jew and person with Celtic heritage, I have white privilege and benefit from settler colonialism. Jews are a diasporic people, without land of our own. Where we make home is on others land. Unless you are a mixed Jewish and Indigenous person, or a Palestinian Jew.
By weaving our work for liberation up with Indigenous people of the land we make home, we heal our Jewish ancestors, an earth loving, land honoring people who have deeply abandoned our values by supporting zionism and colonialism in general.
I hope Jews will read this and feel relieved, to know that we can come back to our roots of loving care for the earth, by following the call of Indigenous leadership. I hope we can support each other in becoming more of who we are meant to be by building the world to come of our ancestors dreams, together. Jews have always lived on many different lands. We’ve always shared our culture with the original people of the land we lived on. We have thousands of years of being oppressed as part of our story, anti semitism is still alive and well. It’s possible to oppress and be oppressed at the same time, to occupy multiple identities. That’s part of why we are in a position to support healing. We are in a position (especially those of us with white privilege) to understand the joy in supporting others liberation. I dream of a time where all Jews can support each other in becoming more of who we are meant to be by building the world to come of our ancestors dreams, together. (Continues in comments)

The practice of making Soul Candles comes from the wisdom of our beloved ancestors. When we burn candles throughout the year we are a lighting their soul alive in our eyes and bodies. This is our soul work..
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“These women lived in 1906 Southern Russia and in this photograph are measuring the perimeter of a cemetery and the graves of their beloved dead with candle wick most likely at this time of year. Later in the day or in the week they will take this wick and combine it with wax to make Soul Candles to honor their dead and pray for their loved ones in the coming year. I spent half of last year trying to track down the highest quality reproduction of this photo in existence and working to improve the quality of those reproductions.
I consider these women my ancestors and am determined to learn everything I can about this tradition and share it with as many people as possible. Call it a calling.”
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-Jonah Aline Daniel
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I’m so honored to be teaching with Jonah in Seattle on October 5th, we will practice this fascinating ritual and build community. We would love for you to join us.
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To learn more and register visit @narrowbridgecandles .
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#soulcandles #daysofawe #beloveddead #seeyouinseattle #5780 #narrowbridgecandles #queerritual #everyonewelcome #benevolentancestors #daysofawe

Happy birthday to the world! It happened! The Moons 5780 (2019-2020) Calendar is here. You can buy it on my website (link in bio) or Venmo (@Rebekah Erev) me $18 with your address and I will send it through the post! . 11x17 comes in a plastic cover. Full image on my website and in stories.
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Thank you to everyone who supported and watched the manifestation of this baby into the world.
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Imagery: The eagle dives into the lake of the heart to join intuition and intellect in a year of fertility and joy.
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Image: a colorful glimpse of a moon calendar for the Jewish year, 5780, with an eagle head in the middle and snakes with eggs in their mouths surrounding it. Phases of the moon in a circle and Hebrew and gregorian dates for full, new and Rosh Chodesh. .
#shanatova #happynewyear #5780 #moons #phasesofthemoon #mooncalendar #hebrew #hebrewmooncalendar .
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Soul Candles for the Days of Awe
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There is a Central and Eastern European tradition of tkhines (Yiddish, derived from the Hebrew word tehinnot, “supplications”), prayers and devotional practices created and done by women (and I like to believe gender queers) who weren’t allowed to practice many of the rituals of the synagogues. One I have practiced is to make soul candles during the days of awe (the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). The practice is to wrap (lay) a wick around the graves of your ancestors, praying for the dry bones to rise. The wick is then cut and used to dip candles you will use for the rest of the year. Each time you light a candle for Shabbat or another holiday, you are alighting the soul of an ancestor. .

I first learned about the soul candles practice from my teacher Rav Kohenet Jill Hammer almost a decade ago. I was completely taken by the mystery and resonance of this tradition. Four years ago, Jonah Aline Daniel and I joined forces to offer a workshop where we practiced the tradition together with a group of others. We planned the workshop sitting in a cemetery. Since then Jonah has been offering a kit that introduces this tradition. It’s a wonderful way to learn about and practice the tradition.
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This year we are once again teaming up to offer the Soul Candles Workshop during Shabbat Shuva (the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippor). This time in Seattle, WA., the ancestral land of the Duwamish and Coast Salish people. It will be a full weekend! Including a Queer Mikveh. Check out the schedule and register @narrowbridgecandles .
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I hope you can join us.
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October 5th 2pm-8pm Soul Candles Workshop, catered dinner, havdallah
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Location: Seattle, WA .
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Date: October 5th 2019 .
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Cost: $150- $250 sliding scale, with partial scholarships available for low income, people with disabilities and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). No BIPOC will be turned away for lack of funds.
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October 4th there will be a Queer Mikveh hosted by Zoh Lev Cunningham and I, 5pm, Madrona Beach, Seattle

Almost eight years ago here on the Salish Sea, I began the Moon Angels / Malakh Halevanah Oracle Deck and over five years ago, birthed this baby into the world. It's been quite a journey, it's led me to places and people I could have never predicted. When you make something from your soul, from your heart, channeling the creativity of the universe, you let go of control. You can't predict where it will take you. My friend @gracerosarioo said to me once, "Making the art is just 25% of the process." It's so true, (she is so wise!) there's everything leading up to the moment of creating and there's everything that happens when you share it publicly. If you never share it, you're missing out on a huge part of the process. If you never make it, you deprive the world of your "you ness," your gift back to the universe that created you.
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Now I'm coming to the end of my run. I'm not sure if I'll do another printing, so if you've always wanted one, nows the time to order.
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I'm working on a new deck that's much different. I still use the Moon Angels everyday, they are always with me.
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Thank you to everyone who has supported this project and supported this angelic journey through the cosmos.
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I love you.
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Image: #1 Rebekah holding a spread of the Moon Angels Oracle Deck #2 lace and the navy and gold cover of the deck and booklet #3 Rebekah sitting back in Olympia
In a dimly lit room with sunlight on their face.
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#moonangels #divination #guide #oracle #queerart #queerangels .
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Photos by @cartermurdoch

#NeverAgainIsNow action today in Seattle, shutting down the ICE office.
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On the eve of Tisha b’Av, the Jewish holiday of grieving, it was so powerful to be framing this work in the context of concentration camps that have existed before, for Japanese, for Indigenous folks and currently for immigrants.
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We all belted out “NO!” Together, feeling the somatic reverberations ripple through us, igniting a grief that will continue to fuel us, to keep us from despair and keep us in action.
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#refugeesbelonghere #neveragainisnow #laresistencia #jewsagainstICE #nuncamásparanadie

Last night the royal Toni Morrison passed. What a gift her life has been to our universe and society. Her art, her voice, her writing had more power than any politician. There is no other author I’ve been so influenced and formed by. I read The Bluest Eye at sixteen and Song of Solomon at seventeen. As a teenager these books formed my understanding of the resiliency of Black Americans and the centrality of it to our culture.
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As a white person, I experienced the centralizing of Black experience Toni Morrison did as an essential and generous tool for dismantling racism and for loving ourselves by working for racial justice.
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Toni Morrison’s work and life have formed my personal prayer: that Black and Indigenous people will be in leadership positions that continue to influence the tide of cultural healing. And that us white people will do everything to support this happening.
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May your family and all who mourn your loss find comfort and peace. Thank you Toni Morrison. May you rest well and have a great time dancing with the ancestors.
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Image: from the documentary: The Pieces I Am, Toni Morrison with a glowing smile, arms raised surrounded by Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey and others.
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#tonimorrison #belovedancestor

To smell her is to know heaven people! Stick your face in her hairy pussy. Even the sound of her name is orgasmic, MIMOSA. I love this happy plant! With her blooms lifting up and tickling my nose when you smell her, she just makes me want to laugh. And for this Leo rising, to laugh is to swoon. And to swoon is everything. What’s the deepest dive into joy your heart can muster? What’s the kid inside you need to express? That’s what mimosa is asking, the energy of our current Venus transiting Leo is asking and the bright shine of summer is begging us to uncover.
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My collaborator, @nomyteaches made an elixir of mimosa blossoms, honey and brandy many years ago and called it: Malakh Maisa, Yiddish for: Angel Pussy. It literally turned me on when I took it. Joy turns me on more than anything else.
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This time of summer is also the Jewish month of Av, a time of love and also a time of grief. If you are feeling grief, seek out these blooms. Smell them, lick them, talk to them and tell them your woes, listen to their loving message.
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I really believe invasive plants (the Albizia Mimosa is native to China, Persia, Korea and Japan) have particular healing to offer us, around colonialism. I remember as a child loving this plant and being so drawn to especially her leaves. She has softness and innocence.
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Yesterday the brilliant @lauramaenorthrup launched an incredible new podcast series called, Inside Eyes, about how entheogens and plant medicine can help heal us from sexual abuse (check it out and follow!), the connections between sexual abuse, colonialism and spirituality. Mimosa is a plant whose unbridled joy brings me back to the innocence of childhood and therefore, a healer for me around sexual trauma.
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Happy Leo season! Wishing you encounters with this beauty!
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.I’m sending out my newsletter tomorrow, read more about Av and find out about upcoming workshops and events - link in my bio! .
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#mimosa #planthealing sexualhealing #plantsex #roshchodesh #av

Ways to heal .
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(especially if you work with plants and your people are not Indigenous to Turtle Island and, if your people and you have white privilege) :.
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I invite you to check out and donate to @canoejourneyherbalists ! Link in bio.
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I love the plants of this land I live on here on the Salish Sea. I pray with them and make medicine with them. I try to do this in an honoring way, listening to when the plants say no, listening to the people Indigenous to this land and what they are asking for.
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Rhonda Grantham started @canoejourneyherbalists from her work at Standing Rock. Together with Sophie Geist they have grown this incredible organization that honors the milenia of Indigenous plant knowledge and makes these medicines available for one of the biggest convergences of Native people in the NW, Canoe Journey. .

This project is a way I have found to give back thanks to the keepers of this land, those Indigenous to this part of Turtle Island. .
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There are lots of ways to be involved throughout the year: volunteering at the many gardens in the area, growing and processing plants for Journey, wild crafting requested plants and making medicine. .
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Right now Journey is coming up and the big request is: Cash! So we created a GoFundMe, to bring elders on Journey, pay for travel costs for Indigenous folks to volunteer and an assortment of other costs. .
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! .
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Link to learn more and donate in bio. .
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Image by @canoejourneyherbalists

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