Miscarriage Ceremony With Starfish Friends

Today I had the honour of holding a ceremony for a mother and dear little baby who was lost to miscarriage, who left the womb far too early. Pain and grief can all be supported by ceremony that acknowledges how momentous our loss is.

Through ceremony, we can find meaning and beauty in the darker human experiences, can be reminded that we are held and whole. Some souls only come here to experience unconditional love, to experience being in a womb, then they are off on their next journey… and we are left with a heart broken open.

So we went to the coast to set the little one free, the sea water like the amniotic fluid, making the passage from human mother to ocean mother.

And miraculously, Holy Mother sent us starfish friends to welcome them home. The breathtaking beauty of it all. The realisation of the interconnectedness we all share. The gift of seeing the starfish after so many years.

“You are loved, have always been, always will be loved”

Womb Stories

Womb stories…

I listen to her.

She tells me she needs room to breathe

I give her soft fabrics, no hard waistbands.

She tells me all the years of being held back

She loves to be free.

She tells me - no more hard silicone in my holy places

Let the river take its natural course

Don’t dam it up, my love.

She tells me she’s so proud, the healing that goes back

Through the motherline

From just one woman taking the time

To listen.

Show your womb some love…

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Blessings,

Jenny xxx

Chamomile (The Wise Woman's Folk Herbal Series)

Chamomile was the first herb I fell in love with aged 14. I just need to open the jar and smell it to be a maiden again, to be engulfed in earthy sweetness in an increasingly sanitised and artificial world. “Matricaria chamomilla”, what a name! Meaning Mother - what more powerful name could you give anything, I wonder? What higher compliment?

In those days it was about saving our pocket money to spend in the hippy shop, buying ear studs in the shape of pentacles, memorising the Witches’ Rune. Bags of chamomile like honey and innocence and the magical world of the Divine Mother. Like a fairy song beckoning these wild daughters down a winding path covered in wildflowers… promising that there is a way through rebellion into belonging, there is a way back through this madness into something sweeter, something more real and true.

We sipped our tea and talked about the wise and free women we’d someday be. Like the woman behind the counter who sold us the herbs and jewellery. Oh the injustice, to be “in the broom closet”! To hide my Wicca books and spell books, from my family or from God, I don’t think even I knew. Maybe the delight was in having something just for myself, something about myself that only I knew. On warm days we poured rinses of the flowers through our hair and dried it in the sun to make it shine brighter. We would hold hands and dance and take portraits of each other, a budding sisterhood that ended like so many do in betrayal… but I kept the herbs and the poems.

How do I see her now?

Chamomile to soothe the skin, calm the belly, bring up the mucus. To usher the sweet dreams, relax the nerves, caress the delicate yoni. Like a true mother she has many hands with which to heal. Like a doula, she is for women and babies. And as my doula, she has been by my side through it all.

She is a gateway

She is a portal

She is an ancient flower garden whose scent leads us back home

Ahava

Jenny xxx