Living Love Revolution April 2015 Media Stream
Here is a short and compressed list of the things that happened on Oxytocin Acres or as Living Love Revolution/ Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi went around in Cascadia teaching and traveling in April 2015
Healing work with my Family of origin
I took my brother John Noel Ciacchi III on his first train trip ever, as we traveled from Olympia, Wa back to PDX. Well,sigh, and then my brother left Portland on April 13th. After a month long visit, where we were on the Olympic Penninsula for 2 1/2 weeks I really got to know him. Now I miss him a lot more than before, and I think of him every time I open the gate to my garden. It was so healing for us to get to know each other as adults and I hope he moves out here someday. I know my Mom and other family members need him but I think I need him a little bit too. It was also very special for me that he got to participate in the Class I taught at the NW Magic conference. No one in my family has ever seen me teach. It meant so much to me when he said he was proud of me.
Earth Day is in April, yes indeed
Oh we here at the Living Love Revolution have been busy little bees this spring, buzzing through Cascadia to honor our lover Gaia by attending Earth Day celebrations at Portland State University and Portland’s city wide event on the 25th as well.
Our new patches, stickers and notebooks were a big hit and brought in money for the Surrender scholarship fund. Here are Lindsay Hagamen, Teri Ciacchi & Kelsey Schaumberger (above) tending the Surrender & LLR booth at PSU Wed April 22.
EcoPsychology
For Earth Day my teacher Dr. Thomas Doherty , creator of the Lewis & Clark EcoPsychology program and the peer reviewed EcoPsychology Journal sent his students these links to the journals: Sustainability, Environmental Justice and EcoPsychology as well as several very useful videos of himself explaining Environmental Identity . Both of these resources are very helpful for people who have not yet been introduced to this groundbreaking new field of academia.
All of the complementary readings from Mary Ann Liebert below are excellent. The “In and Of the Wilderness: Ecological Connection Through Participation in Nature” paper by Britain A. Scott, Elise L. Amel, and Christina M. Manning in Ecopsychology is a key one (e.g., in relation to outdoor skills).
Also, if you have not yet seen his Psychology and Nature videos, I encourage you to take 10 mins. to do so: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRfHZ9wXKs6dptZx0YVwH0B-H0T4VOK57.
Bee Sanctuary at Windward breaks ground
The Work party at Windward on April 11th was a success and resulted in planting poles and gathering roofing materials for the “Polli-Nation Sanctuary” that will be completed and used at Surrender. Those who chose that path working at the event will be lead by Seven Root Stevens, “Tink” Sarah Mapelli and Benjamin Pixie in three days of song, dance, earth building and honey tasting.
And speaking of bees have you been following Paul Stamets new product Mycohoney?
Our Ecosexuality book is coming out soon!
The book: Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love co-edited by SerenaGaia and Lindsay Hagamen is ready to be printed and will be avaiable as a print on demand book in June as we debut it on Thurs. June 18th during the event with a panel discussion and book signing at Surrender: The EcoSex Convergence
Gardening Gardening, ReMembering our own inner & outer gardens
Our April Aphrodite Temple: ReMembering the Garden unofficially began with a garden work party on Tuesday the 14th when Orion, Howl, Tyrathect, Stephanie and I worked on our new garden deer fence and planted plants and sowed seeds at Oxytocin Acre.
I want to say a special thanks to my brother John for building the fence and a fabulous gate with $60 and found or repurposed objects from the property. Tyra was a huge help adding all the broken branches and windfalls to the fence to make it tall enough to keep any curious high leaping deer from intruding.
Orion was brilliant in helping us learn to gather “weeds” and make food and medicine. We ate miners lettuce, dandelion and cleaver salad.
We gathered the ivy for head wreaths and tinctures and kept the de-leaved vines for basket weaving. We gathered Solomon seal roots, comfrey roots and did our best to respectfully use all the green bloods that we decided we did not want to get bigger. We planted more kale, and other greens. We praised the peas and fava beans and garlic, beets, carrots that were rising from the soil. We sowed seeds of Fox glove, borage, Echinacea and several mints. It was glorious and tiring. The Monday after temple ended, we received a new picnic table from our neighbor Dave and put it in the garden too. I bought more shaded florals and medicinal herbs. Finally a real garden that will feed us and bring us healing in so many ways!
And then we went to Temple which looked like this some of the time:
Today is April 30th and the Hawthorne’s are blooming radiant white flowers all over Oxytocin Acre. I am about to gather a huge bunch to “Bring in the May” and make a tea to speak with the fae. For tommorow is May 1st Beltane the birthday of my beloveds Oakry and Mark Welch and a day to celebrate outdoor in an EcoSexy way. Join us at the Common Ground Wellness Center from 10:30-11:30 if you like to soak and we’ll have tea at Townshed’s after and eat cashew gluten free tarts from Back to Eden. Such a paradise we live in!
