Thanks when I feel betta I’ll take a listen
UFO Visitation huh? I feel so confused sometimes
Not about the world but me. Who I am, really.(They left me here or I volunteered?)

That *book praised the IChing which I know little about. I started reading the Tao in my early 20s remember those Yin Yan earrings I’d wear all the time? The White Arab Muslims in Georgetown would make jokes asking me why I had my hair/head wrapped in African fabric! They couldn’t believe a “teenager” knew some of her own culture (in America).
In Dupont on Q the Korean vendors laughed at me, drilling me on my earring “do you know what that means?” When I responded with a breakdown of Taosist Yin Yan philosophy they looked confused smiles dissapearing from their lips eyes staring deeply meeting my bright almond shaped eyes melting into my carmel Latte complexion. A Hermetic Eye of Heru. An Eye made One by Yin Yang polarities. Gender. Rhythm.Frequency.Causation.Correspondence.Mentalism.There are some things I’ve always known even if on the surface I’ve lived in contradiction. There is nothing more powerful than the internal war of the soul. I have some Tao Cards I’ve had for some time I opened up lastnight that spoke of the Iching (and the artist’s/author’s experience w Osho). I got some questions on my Heart.

Modesty by Simplicity and Meditation. Meditation. The Way of the Warrior by Way of the Cat. Increase.Danger. Great Power.Retreat.

Sounds like a board game this life.
My Sun states “How do we know This isn’t the afterlife.” “That this isn’t Hell.”

The “Child” is right. Afterall, there are only half truths in any Truth, right?

(Smile) think I’ll order some Chinese food in a few.

(((Love You))) ~Ria
(12.14.10)
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* Ancient Future. Wayne B. Chandler.

Backpack, scissors, empty water bottle, and baggies in hand we set out in search of Wild Herbs, Wild Mushrooms, Wild Grass, and a Water supply. My Sun led me, my daughter,  and the neighborhood children through unpredictable terrain. We pushed past low branches and twigs, fallen trees, what looked like marsh grasses, sand, and various streams of water. I had flashbacks of when I was a kid playing endlessly in the back of my home in the creek and flushed with smiles as I urged the children to be safe and checked for their passage as we stayed in our group.

My Sun called himself the “Pack Leader” and informed us of the different variety of mushrooms he’d find as we made our way to the larger water area he said he had found just a few weeks before. He had informed me of how mushrooms thrive which was a lecture comparable to any science teacher or professor. This time he didn’t lecture, he seemed ‘alive’ in the wild running and bouncing in the midst of Earth’s unpredictable ground. I on the other hand, was overly cautious, making jokes, screaming, laughing yielding to the ‘unpredictable’ Earth. I wanted to get to a stream of what David Wolfe and Daniel Vitalis calls “Live Water.” At one point I found myself describing how fallen leaves provide the running water with tannis and how that effects the water and our Eco System.

I kept thinking ‘why my Sun had invited all these children and how I must look venturing in the woods with them in search of “Living Raw Foods and Water” that I had learned about in my Raw Food Nutrition Class just the day before. But to my surprise the kids were excited and they took turns looking after one another (me included) watching and paying close attention to the my descriptions and findings. There was this incredible sense of care and awareness that took place that seemed absent in normal surroundings. It makes me think that being in Nature produces a kind of empathetic inquisitive energy that stems from the Heart chakra. That Heart Chakra Energy is profound in Nature. Even for my Sun who has a wild hunter explorer character seemed balanced in this Natural World.

Jumping into and over streams of water and unpredictable terrain, we found Wild Grass, Living Water and Wild Mushrooms on our journey of our backyard Eco system. Unfortunately, I felt way too ‘new’ to distinguish what variety was edible and safe to consume so I only took samples to research. The children screamed when they saw me take a sip of the water. I waited to see if I would keel over with sickness, but nothing happened, and I wondered if in fact, “Living Water” was as easy to find as Daniel Vitalis and David Wolfe claim. In the meantime, I’m feeling closer to Nature, and my immediate environment and natural instincts. There truly is a treasure that unfolds in the Wild and I’m blessed to be aware of this incredible healing energy.

As usual my daughter took live video and pictures of our Eco exploration. She seems to always capture me on film. (if I can find the usb chords to this phone I no longer use; I think I may have packed it away as a gift to the Pine Ridge Reservation over the summer) but I’m hoping I kept an extra chord somewhere and provide a video journal She loved it so much she begged me to return this morning! The teachings continue…

Red Clover (Blossoms): Trifolium Pratense.

FINDING RED CLOVER::

I just picked wild Red Clover and showed my daughter how it looks dried and in full flower. The hot pink flowers are completely gorgeous hues of soft pink and vibrant cyans bouncing off its green leaves. I’m excited and I wont stop talking about “super herbs”.  My kids are growing numb to my extreme enthusiasm. I am moving from herbalist in theory, to wild herbalist. The idea of moving out from under books into the wild earth around me is both fascinating and riveting. “This is how it was meant to be,” I think, “living in harmony with Earth.” Taking this herbal knowledge to the next level into the world outside is amazing; I cant wait to dive in tomorrow.

Funny this thing called synchronicity. I’m in the midst of transitions (breathing) and all I can do or want to do is practice drumming, yoga (embracing Kemetic Yoga with renowned Yoga Master and Founder of YogaSkills, Yirser Ra Hotep), and burrow into my Raw Food Nutrition Certification course. Today, I awaken and grabbed my Prescription for Nutritional Healing, remembering the herbs I grew to love and depend upon. I took a yellow highlighter, spotting the ones, used for an array of illness and remedies; those I had in my own cupboard.

In fact this nutritive herb acts as a vital healing tonic to the Heart, Nerves and Thymus Gland. Wild Oats are said to increase sexual drive acting as an Aphrodisiac as well as stimulating motor ganglia (muscle strength).

Oatstraw is created from the harvested natural oat grain that is dried and chopped often used as herbal remedies to facilitate healing. I had often read that if oatmeal was used or prepared “correctly” where the boiled water was ingested as a tonic it would increase healing far more beneficial than as used as our tasty oatmeal snacks. When I was pregnant with my twins, oatmeal was my ‘treat’. I would snack on oatmeal and drench it in Blackstrap molasses (iron, copper, magnesium, potassium, manganese)  anytime of the day or night! lol. Oatstraw tonic, however, can be used to treat nervous and physical exhaustion, relieve stress, depression, menopause, balance thyroid, cold symptoms, estrogen deficiencies,boosts immune systems, lowers cholesterol, hyperactivity disorders,  insomnia, headaches, and degenerative diseases.

Oatstraw Vitamins+Minerals:

• B Vitamins
• Potasium
• Magnesium
• Calcium
• Chronium
• Iron
• Folate
• Selenium

External uses:

Medical and Cosmetic for skin and hair; sedative, moisturizer
–Exzema, Dry Skin, Acne, Inflamatory skin diseases
–Weak Hair follicles; moisturizing  and stimulating

Mmmmmm! My new night tonic!

~Ria SweetRaw, Returning to Mother Earth!

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Organic never felt so gooood! In the mid and late 90s,  I started creating my own body recipes! Before the  ‘organic’ became the chic green designer trend you see today, I was rocking natural remedies and sprinkling in  my own organic flava favorites.
Unfortunately, in the midst of single parenting and busy work and family schedules, I later opted for store bought brands and left my creative holistic recipes to  pages of my journals which became mere memories on a dusty shelf. Nevertheless, with a tween daughter standing at 5 foot 3; digging in the crates, on shelves, in old journals for organic herbal remedies to maintain beauty comes in handy. In fact, this information (in my family) becomes priceless!  After all, information especially of the natural kind is golden and one you can pass down from generation to generation as tradition, culture and a deep expression of love.

Our home Beauty Sessions, or what I call “Goddess “I Feel Good”  Pamper Sessions”, are invaluable to my daughter and I. It is a time for soft Sound Healing music, peaceful, tranquil hand and earlobe massages using Reflexology, and  organic herbal body treatments comparable to any spa or salon that’s simple and inexpensive to create in the luxury of your own home.

Sharing a few recipes! Love You Family!! ~Ria, the SoulFlyHoney Goddess Diva

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Organic Sugar Ginger Mint Scrub

Blend Organic Fresh Mint Leaves with ingredients below.  Should be used right away.

4 cups Turbinado Sugar
1 cup oil: Avocado Oil, Sunflower, Jojoba Oil
1/2 cup apricot or peach oil
2 to 3 drops Essential Oils: (Ginger, Myrrh, Spearmint, *Peppermint, your favorite)
1-2 Tspns Really Raw Honey

Ria’s favorite:
(in a separate blend I added spirulina; chlorophyll is absolutely healing and absorbs right into the skin. Great to treat bruises, blemishes, acne, skin disorders. Please consult Physician for dermatology related ailments!

Hair Conditioning Treatment
Mayo, Egg, Olive Oil Treatment

Lavender Oatmeal Facials

Finished with Cold and Hot Fresh Garden Lavender and Essential Oil Towel Wrap

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You wouldn’t believe me if I told you for years, after chopping garlic for lunches and dinner’s I’d rub the leftovers on my fingertips and face! Today after creating dinner for my family, the leftover raw organic garlic oils and pieces got a flashback massage to my fingertips and skin. How soothing it felt leaving  my face with a kind a natural glow. For a second the thought of smelling like garlic crossed my mind, but that quickly subsided with memories of healthy glowing flawless skin. The lost unused practice of my own Natural Guidance System leaving my skin with blemishes and impurities.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that eating garlic appears to boost our natural supply of hydrogen sulfide (The New York Times). So what is hydrogen sulfide exactly; sulphur H2S (gaseous) compositions acts as a ‘signalling molecule’ or neurotransmitter. It speaks to and relaxes the Central Nervous System (CNS) and other activates other proteins. This gas or sulfide (H2S) is naturally produced in the CNS along with Nitric Oxide and Carbon Monoxide. Furthermore, H2S acts as a transmembrane conductance regulator, a kind of “mediator” and intracellular signalling molecule of other proteins. It acts as a Neuroprotection  stress inhibitor releasing neurotransmitters into the bloodstream. Sounds like activation to me! ((smile))

Raw Organic Garlic

Garlic of the raw organic variety, that is, with its full strength and chemistry intact, feeds the body as an antibiotic, antioxidant, .

Foods that are manipulated aka Genetically Modiefied, may look or appear to be the same foods we all grew up knowing, but are chemically different under the skin, well, even the skin itself.  Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) foods are significantlly, radically and traumatically possess distorted ‘inorganic chemistry’ and damage not only our body on a cellular level, producing cancer and cancer forming agents, they damage, shut down and inhibit DNA from activating or awakening. These foods promote death and non life paradigms such as scarcity, global poverty, world domination, debt, toxic eco systems, polluted minds, bodies and spiritual decay and immorality. This food control phenomena is a no brainer as one begins to put the pieces to the Cosmic Earth puzzle in a state of balance. Balance being the Key word of this Millennium and hope to solve our most current man-made disasters and crisis. As the World shifts and transforms, so too, we are transforming, shifting perspectives and awakening dormant parts of our selves to reveal a new evolved consciousness and greater awareness of ourselves.  Everything in our world and out of our world transforms to our ‘Inner ‘Tune’ or Frequency Organic, Raw, Natural food is one that is in a Harmonic Frequency to our Earth, Our Selves, Our Cosmos.

Glad to be ‘listening’ to my Natural Beauty Guidance System leading me on the path to wholeness; Heart/Mind, Body/Astral, Soul/Spirit.

((♥)) AWAKEn + LIVE ((♥)) Ria “Sweet Raw”. (2010. ria takharu. www.evolutionarygoddess.com. a HoneyGoddess LLC  Honeycomb)

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Sources::

ScienceDiret.com. Boon Hian Tan, Peter T.-H. Wong and Jin-Song Bian. ^a Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597, Singapore. Received 28 May 2009.

Health: New York Times, Tara Parker-Hope:: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/unlocking-the-benefits-of-garlic/

Beautiful Shiitake Mushrooms on a Tree (Photo: shizuokagourmet.files)

Ahhh, something so soothing about “Melanin Rich Foods.” I guess if one speaks of “grounding energy” I’d have to say Green Foods and Dark Melenin Foods win hands down (for me). The deeper truth is that these foods also provide tranformative properties aiding and cleaning the blood, neutralizing  and activting cells, and create optimal health and wellness to the mind, body and soul. Food truly is our Medicine!

A recent trip to our local Asian Market left my cabinets and fridge abundant in a wealth of healing recipes to activate an awakened body. Being a single Mother of three teenagers (twin 16 year old boys and a pre tween daughter) can be taxing on the budget, so when our not so healthy alternative snacks ran out one of my twin Sun’s reminded me in his serious manly voice to make “something we all like, something really tasty for him after waking from his nap.” I laughed (what can I say, Taurus Twins –Food is their lifeline). Reassuringly I comforted him, and got to thinking. Then I rummeged through our cabinents to find the organic and natural goodies waiting to be transformed; Dried Black Fungus, Dried Shiitake mushrooms, loads of Coconut water and coconut cream, Peanuts, Organic Raw Cashew Butter, a variety of noodles, Fresh Thai Basil, Fish, Organic Raw Garden Garlic, Sesame Oil, the list continued. My creative juices started pumping as my taste buds grew curious.”Hhhmmm, I thought, how do I choose?” became the question. So I tuned in to what I coin my “Natural Guidance System” that Eternal Voice connected to the Higher Realms or Higher Mind connecting me to my Higher Essence Self guiding me to my Evolutionary State or New Being. ((smile))

DRIED BLACK FUNGUS AND SHIITAKE:: These varieties once boiled or soaked in water: I sauteed in Sesame Oil/Olive Oil, Himalyan Sea Salt (Trace Minerals) and Raw Organic Garlic (you can add apple cider vinegar).

Nutritional Value:: Rich in Iron, Protein, Vitamins D, B1 and Calcium (black mushroom) and Lentinan (used to treat Cancer), Selenium, Protein (potassium, niacin and B vitamins, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus), Fiber, Vitamin C (Shiitake). They taste amazing with a meatlike texture, so yummy!

I chopped the Black Mushroom Fungus into tiny pieces so that my children wouldn’t ‘trip’ and make a huge fuss about the rubbery taste. I have at least one Sun who, like myself, adores anything Asian and had pressed me out just the few weeks before, to purchase a variety of Asian noodles for soups. What a surprise he’ll enjoy when he discovers I’m making raw, orgnic cashew and peanut sauce for the noodles to go compliment our fish.

FASTING: DAY 6:: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Higher Frequencies

I am the BrownSuga, who “just wants to have fun“…thru ♥♥buttafly transformations♥…

A Smile  is healing? Laughter is golden? How about raising your vibration with these simple rules that make you feel good? According to  Patch Adams, Magic Documentary, the American Association of Therapeutic Humor states that a smile and laughter “decreases blood pressure, stress levels, and depression while increasing oxygen, endorphin activity and immunity.”  This translates into a healthier, happier, more vibrant you!!

I had the most revealing dream this morning as I slept through the afternoon. I’ve been like a little Gundt Bear chilling inside from the 17-degree cold winds. My soul brother sent me a video with the very same message that came to me while sleeping. Boy do I appreciate the Messages! They resonate in high vibe frequencies “HAVE FUN QUEEN!!” So I’m submitting with ease, with smiles and love.

Your Higher Self has a way of communicating with you, if you allow these messages, insight, dreams, and events that appear to be coincidences to resonate on a Higher Level.  You receive the information your heart seeks to find rather quickly by simply listening. Awareness happens naturally as your body, and mind unfolds to the Higher Frequency.

On Day 5, I increased my liquids and added Aloe Vera and Kelp to my diet. By the 6th day, I was releasing or eliminating toxins naturally and easily.  By the 6th day, I was releasing or eliminating toxins naturally and easily. Since the New Year’s Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse in Cancer, the Moon sign, that water element and this Winter season is so powerfully felt that it can’t be ignored, at least not by me. It rings, “Liquids, liquids, liquids” and  can not be stressed enough. In the  Winter season the body needs to be warmed internally, with  root herbs, veggies, seeds, nuts, hot soups, miso, and seaweeds these foods  need to be added to the diet to ensure proper function and assimilation of nutrients. I wondered why my body was naturally “craving” seeds, nuts, seaweed, and roots like ginger and found the link online about Traditional Chinese Medicine winter season healing and got that “Aahh!”  Obviously my body knows exactly what it (she) needs, I simply have to be aware to hear the messages and activate the intention. Not only that, as some of you may see on facebook (Ria SweetRaw) I cut my hair, declaring buttafly transformations. I have my personal reasons for cutting my hair, but I will say that I found this very interesting article about cutting and trimming hair on a Full Moon and New Moon:

When you cut or trim hair on a Full or New Moon in the signs of Capricorn, Taurus, Cancer,Scorpio or Pisces, your hair grows back thicker and longer. On a Leo Full Moon hair will be like a lion’s mane! hhmmm.. Too keep hair shorter cut or trim when the moon is in Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius or Aquarius as well as the 3rd and 4th quarters of the Wanning Moon!

Well I can’t wait to see the results of my spontaneous chop. I seem to think my body, including my hair, has a mind and  will of its own. I’m learning to follow and respect the changes it wants and needs to evolve without judgment. I can’t say its easy, for even someone as cosmic as me, but here I am, activating my own evolution!! lol.

From what I just gathered and I’m quite the information cyber diva, (lol)   this Lunar Eclipse poses the need to work on Self in some very specific Sun-Sign ways, according to Elsa P of AstroDispatch.com, its a time to “release” and “let go”..hhmmm….no wonder I went within and started to investigate, clean, clear, envision and create the ‘new’ while thinking of releasing what I ‘didnt want’, how appropriate and aligned I was without even knowing it. Even so I kept questioning why I was doing this because it felt so powerful and life changing. Well, here are a few Sun Signs, listed:

Make the BEST of your days, nights, seasons, and blessings Earth Family!!

Have FUN, LAUGH, LOVE AND BEE LIGHT!!!

Your Soul Sistar EvolutionaryGoddess,

♥Ria ॐ SweetRaw

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Cyndi Lauper::Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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joke of the day!

(today’s joke brought to you by: cleanjoke.com )

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EVER WONDER …

Why the sun lightens our hair,
but darkens our skin?

Why women can’t put on mascara
with their mouth closed?

Why don’t you ever see the headline
‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what
they do ‘practice’?

Why is lemon juice made with
artificial flavor, and dish washing
liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all
your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the
slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn’t there mouse-flavored
cat food?

Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle
for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black
box that is used on airplanes? Why
don’t they make the whole plane out
of that stuff?!

Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments
when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is
Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call
the airport the terminal?

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quote of the day!

“Work like you don’t need the money,
love like you’ve never been hurt,
and dance like no one is watching.”
–Satchel Paige

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