{"id":4966,"date":"2010-01-10T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2010-01-10T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:37:35","slug":"gypsy-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/gypsy-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsy Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelson has been pestering me to explain what this red wrist band is that appears in all my photos, and so here it is:<\/p>\n

About a month after the breakup I was still a huge mess, I knew my mind was all over the place, my heart was in agony, I couldn’t concentrate on anything at all. I wanted to start kicking ass in my life again, to get control back and particularly focussed direction. So I asked my friend MoonDragon to perform a ceremony for me in Bisbee to boost the seawolf medicine, a gypsy blessing he once handed down to me that was handed down to him, and rebraid those pieces back into my hair. Which I did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Around the same time he sent me this message: “love love love… do not be distracted by the lions to your left and right… they represent the past and the future but there is only now and now is a very beautiful space… find a piece of red cloth or yarn, wrap it twice around your left wrist, tie it with 3 knots, wear it at all times.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The meaning of each knot:
\n“hard work<\/strong>, strong mind<\/strong>, patience<\/strong>……three knots… sea wolf medicine for you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The knots have carried me through the hard times and reminded me of pursuing the foundational elements that were completely lacking in my life around that time. I got them back again. Hard work, a strong mind and patience I now posses in oodles but I still won’t take it off. I don’t know if I ever will. It means too much to me and has become a part of me, somehow.<\/p>\n

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\nEarly days. Coming out of the fug.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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