#BRING HER UP AND GIVE HER TO ME FOR GENTLE CLEANING AND RESTORATION AND TENDER LOVE!

[marzipanandminutiae]

sending her my love tonight

(the Titanic wreck doll head)

[thewillowbends]

BotW Link/Zelda or Link & Zelda: A-10, B-13, C-3?

Oh God, this took forever to finish because I rewrote the ending like three times before I found something I was satisfied with.  I hope you enjoy!

Long after the night has fallen over them and the air turned cold, the rain follows them. It lasts until midnight, where the bitter ache of his bones keep him sentry for the long night of their camp. Zelda rests fitfully, turning in her sleep, but it's more peace than she has known for years, and he dares not wake her. His guilt is a relentless beast, one that prowls and twists through the corridors of his mind when he is idle and curls at his feet to look at him with piercing eyes when he dares let his sword rest. The earth still carries the memory of pain; he feels the echo of the world's grief in the wind.

Link rubs his eyes, feeling the fatigue of a night that wears heavy, the ache of old wounds whose pain lingers after healing. Behind him, Zelda twists in her sleep, her breath so quiet he strains to hear them - and strains he does because her dreams are the blood and marrow of his. It is her voice that carried him in the long and lonely hours of a battle that seemed ever at an end, and it is his vision that drives them now, into the world hungry for hope. He tries to imagine a time when the world will be healed, when the hills and valleys won't hold the scars of great battles, when the air is no longer sullied with poison, when they are more than a scattered people scavenging the bones of a world's remains. He thinks of the Zora, where the rivers still ran clean, and the desert, with its soothing monotony and purifying heat, and the image cannot coalesce in his mind as anything whole, fragmented by loss of a mind that has only known the ruin. The dream of a world restored is Zelda's. He can only hold it in his fist for so long before he clasps too tightly, and it slips through the cracks in his fingers.

When she stirs, he stills, cautious in his regard for her wants. Zelda has spent her life a sacrifice on a great stone slab, waiting for the flash of the ritual knife. The world is always eager to ask more of her; he cannot fashion himself as one to be among their number. So when she comes to sit beside her, he tilts his head at her skeptically, his eyes sharp and knowing.

"You should be sleeping," he says firmly.

"I could not," she admits. In her hands, she fiddles with the gold chain of her necklace. She worries it keenly, this remnant of her past, as if it could be compelled to conjure something more than memory. She is quiet for a long moment, looking with him to a cloudy midnight sky, the stars hidden by the haze of a passing storm.

"I dreamed of my father," she admits after a moment, releasing her necklace to clasp her hands in her lap. When he does not speak, she continues unprompted, "I dreamed of him as I knew him in life, in the grand halls where the throne once stood. I saw him as he was in the prime of his youth when I was but a child, grand and proud." She smiles faintly. "A happier time, before the prophet brought word of the resurrection."

He looks at her thoughtfully, uncertain of the emotions that wells in him - compassion, yes, but also something more sordid, something with sharp edges that pricks should he grasp it. Envy, perhaps, he wonders, or something darker, more resentful. The cruelty of a life stolen, even as he knows the past exists mainly to cause her pain. Her grief is momentous yet contained, a lake to whose edge he can step but from which he cannot drink. Memory is a stranger to him. The novelty of it is an uncertain weight, as heavy as its absence.

"Did I know him then?" he asks after a moment.

"No," she answers, "you hadn't come to us yet."

Her feet are bare despite the cold. She wiggles her toes, digging them into the grass and soft earth. Her body still carries the litheness of youth, a countenance girlish and sweet; it remembers youth that she does not, her mind eaten away by years of madness gripped in Calamity's iron fist. He wonders if either of them have ever been children, if they have ever known laughter that came easily.

"Do you miss him?" he asks abruptly.

Zelda tilts her head to look at him, her eyes a blue as dark as the ocean in the dark. For a moment, he thinks he's offended her, but after a moment she smiles faintly. "Sometimes," she says quietly, and it has the color of a secret. "I loved him. He was a good man - but a hard one. He had to be. The world required it."

He nods, looking out in the vast plain, where the night lights up with the gentle glow of fireflies and the distant fire of Death Mountain. He thinks of time, how it shaped him as much as it has the contours of this land, how it continues to shape them. He wonders when the stories are written, will they be grand as the shadows of distant mountains or passing through like rain, a footnote among the pages. A sigh forms on his lips, and he lets it out, forming a moist cloud in the air.

"The Zora have been telling me about my family," he says finally. "My father they knew died in the Calamity. My mother and sister left soon after, and they know not what became of them. Though all these years later, they would have passed."

"I'm sorry," she says, and her tone is genuine, carrying the weight of all their failures.

"You are not the one I expect to answer for it," he tells her gently, and though he is honest, he can see she does not, cannot believe him. Perhaps with time, though he can only hope they are given as much as was stolen from them. He gives her a smile, as faint as the whisper of the night's wind, which she returns with favor.

"I only met your family once," she admits after a moment. "The day you arrived at the castle with your father." She sighs a little. "We were so young, then, to recall it. You could not have been more than fourteen, but the sword had called to you already. I remember you were so quiet, even then. I thought you shy or perhaps reserved, but thinking back on it, I think you were just as frightened as I was. A huge duty had been laid at your feet, as big as my own."

Link tries to imagine himself as a boy, the shape of the fears he held then, an abstract idea of an uncertain battle to come; he wonders whether the knowing and concrete pain of his failure wears heavier. The face he sees in the mirror has it deceptive youth, a certain delicacy that lends itself to a nurturing and condescending regard from those who cannot recognize the weariness in his eyes, who do not see the scars etched in his skin. He wonders if his mother beheld his face now if she would even recognize it.

"The past is uncertain companion," he says eventually.

"So is the future," she answers, and he cannot bring himself to disagree.

He breaks a twig and tosses it into a fire. Its sudden flare lights up in Zelda's eyes, the flames dancing in her pupils. The shadows give her the edges and contours of sculpture, something hewn from stone, sturdy and with heft. Link thinks of all the years and days and hours she spent waiting, the way she hardened her heart against the possibility of a hero that may never come for her. He wonders if the strength that carried her through that time is enough to carry them forward.

"Do you think Impa will have the answers you seek?" he finally asks.

Her face falters, the smile easing to a flat line. It hurts his heart to see it; there has already been so much pain between them.

"I don't know," she admits after a moment, her voice quiet. "I'm not sure there are even answers to be had, but we need to start somewhere. Hyrule deserves a second chance."

He nods. "We owe it to the people to try."

She looks at him curiously, an expression he can't quite read on her face, like a book abruptly closed. They sit with the quiet of the night for a few moments more, before she turns to him more fully, her face reflecting a warmth more common each day the calamity is put behind her. Reaching out a hand, she touches his shoulder, and he twitches at the feel of it, the tension that holds them snapping like the taut string of a tightened bow.

"Does your shoulder bother you?" she asks after a moment.

He blinks, rolling his shoulders a bit, feeling them crack as he does. The storm makes his bones ache, but no more than anything else does. His wounds are deep, but he has learned to value the pain that tells a body it is still living.

"It is only the rain," he says. "It is nothing of so much concern. These things pass."

"They do," she answers softly, "but so does kindness, and the world has far less of that."

His smile is bitter. "That it does."

Zelda shifts, moving to her knees, then moves behind him. He glances at her in confusion until he feels her hands come up to rest on his shoulders tentatively, and he tenses, years removed from any tender touch. She lets them rest there for a moment, letting him feel the heat of her palm warm him skin. His shoulders remain tight; this sort of casual touch is not common between them.

But oh, that it could be, his mind whispers, full of weariness and longing. Link wonders if she knows how many nights he laid awake, the sound of her voice the only comfort, the only way he knew how to remember hope.

"May I?" she asks, and when he nods slowly, the touch of her hand is so gentle and kind it makes him sigh.

She rubs firm circles around the places where his muscles twinge and bones ache. It a strange thing to let her care for him, a strange thing to be cared for at all. It unbalances something between them, like a face reflected in a rough mirror, familiar and yet indistinct, not unpleasant but neither completely comforting. What a pair they make, two incongruent puzzle pieces trying to make a whole: a man who cannot remember the past, and a queen who wishes to forget hers.

"Did you dream in the ether?"

"What do you mean?"

Link stares out into the night, feeling its cold and dark keenly, black magic of the earth. "All of those years your soul was tied to Ganon, as you watched his power slowly expand past the breach, you must have held on to something." He worries his bottom lip with his teeth. "I want to know what it was."

Her hands continue their work, but he can feel the gears of her mind turning in the quiet. It is a long moment before she responds. "I dreamed of the day you would show to the gates with sword in hand. Or with a bow, riding a great horse. I dreamed of a day when Hyrule would be whole again. I dreamed of peace."

His hands tighten around his sword, a spasm running through the palm. "And when the years wore on, and I did not appear, what carried you then?"

"I did not allow a thought, otherwise," she says simply. Her hands move down his back, to the place where the tension knots like rope between his shoulder blades, where he wears the worst of his burden. "Understand that my thoughts were not wholly my own in the seal. To bind a spirit..." A shudder runs through her, fine and brief, but he catches it. "I had not known what it would cost then. I thought only of what must be done, but when you are bound, you are one. I saw what was in him, his plans for Hyrule, and I knew it must be stopped. I dreamed because I had to. It was all I had to keep the nightmares at bay."

Her hands pause on his shoulders, and when he turns to her, her eyes are wide and wild, the dark pupils round as black holes. It is fear, he realizes. The memory of madness that was not hers but found a home in her all the same. Before can stop himself, his hand is clasped around her own, firm and kind; she returns his grip tightly, an anchor for all her grief. He smiles at her sadly, feeling how very small her hands feel in his; how they have carried all of that grief alone, he will never know.

"Link," she says, then stop, her eyes glassy. A fine tremor runs through her hand into his; Link runs a thumb over her hand, soothing her.

"You're safe now," he tells her and means it with his whole being, every muscle that swings the sword and the soul that waited for her voice in the deep well of his lonely silence.

Zelda looks down at her hands, turning them over in his, looking at the way calluses are forming there that they have never known before. She has known hard work, but not like this, building a world up from a grown-over ruin, a little like coaxing life from dry and dusty earth. Now her hands know the heft of the axe and dirt under the nails. Her body knocks the ache of muscles worn and tired.

"And you," she says after a moment, "what did you dream of all those years you slumbered?"

Link weighs the truth in his mind, the way it scales against the pain he knows it inspires. He thinks of the gaps in his memory, like the darkness of space between stars, the past that is lost somewhere beyond his reach. In the time he slept, there was nothing; *he* was nothing. It is only when her voice awakened him, coaxing him out of the dark, that he grew out of his own ruin.

He closes his hands around hers, feeling the warmth in them, the way her pulse thrums in the delicate angle of her wrist. It anchors him to the moment, tethered to her in a way that has damned him as often as it has been his salvation, but he would no sever it, not for the privilege of any freedom beyond her reach. It makes what he says feel like something a little more truth, the bones of something like faith.

"I dreamed of nothing," he says, "but I remembered you. When there was nothing else, I had your voice."

Her hands are shaking when they unclasp from his and then when they move to cup his face, gentle and light as a bird's touch. When she moves toward him, Link feels he has seen this moment before, has known the contours of its shape formed in the eaves of his mind, in the shadows where hope flickered like the pale light of a struggling flame. Pressed this close, it is easy enough to reach out and clasp her to him, whole and warm and steady, more than a dream and greater than memory, to ease her trembling with the strength of his arms as they tighten around her, the way she fits so very well against him, tucked into the space he makes for her.

"All of those years with Ganon," she says heavily, her voice loud in the quiet, "I would never have survived if not for you. If it was my voice that kept you going, it was hope of hearing your answer that carried me." She presses her face against his shoulder, and he feels the wetness of her tears. "I cannot do this alone. I never could."

And it is the promise unspoken that he did not realize had kept him wanting, the one that slept inside all the hollow spaces of the silence between them, the things unsaid. They have been alone so very long, trapped in the prisons time made for them, kept distant by the failures that made them. How he has longed for her in the hours and day and years that have made them, two halves of a whole cleaved apart by a blade that could not sever them from the destiny that awaited them It has taken a long time to come back around to the voice that speaks in the darkness, the one that says you need not be alone any longer.

"You have me with you always," he promises fiercely, a vow as weighty as any he made on bent knee, and when she sighs against him, full of sorrow and relief, he knows this much is truth. "I wish only to stay by your side, to build the world you dream of. It is our now, our future to make."

His grip loosens on her, and slowly she looks up at him, all the trembling parts of her that held when Ganon wanted her to break. It fills his heart with warmth where memory leaves him cold. When she reaches for him again, he does not fight it, even as time seems to skip its rhythm, stuttering past them to leave them this moment. Then her hands are on his face, her eyes are glittering like stars, and the touch of her mouth is so sweet against his, warm and perfect as sunlight or summer's breeze, the moment that has waited for them through darkness and shadow, memory and time.

Outside, it is raining, and the night is long and dark. It does not touch them.

[lostinaseaoffictionalbliss]

Life After Death (Final chapter)

A/N: I can't believe this is the last chapter guys. I've had so much fun writing this, seeing your reblogs and such. I really hope you all have enjoyed this as much as I have

Summary: the battle is over, the mountain is won, but things still seem bleak until Nell finally wakes

Pairing: Fili X wife!OC X Kili

Warnings: a little angst, but then fluff.

Word Count: 1256

Fili, Kili, and Thorin were exhausted. There was so much to be done to restore Erebor to its former glory. Funeral pyres had to be made for those killed during the battle of the five armies; food, clothing, and other supplies had to be found. But most of all, they had to take care of Nell. The three of them took turns watching over her as she slept. Her wound had been severe and the healers weren't sure she would live. But her husbands as well as the rest of the company refused to give up hope.

At one point Fili, Kili, Thorin, and even Dwalin had thought her dead after the fatal blow Azog had given her, but Mahal had been on their side and she still lived. Dwalin carried her back to the mountain after the fighting was over and the healers tended her wound. It was mostly closed up, but she was still pale, her heartbeat was weak, and she was showing no signs of improvement. But that didn't stop the others from coming to her room, talking to her, telling her stories, or bringing flowers. Ori knitted her a blanket and Bilbo told her about Fili becoming exasperated having to deal with the other lords and ladies. Fili and Kili would clean her and make sure to move her so she didn't get bed sores.

It was a month later when most of the rooms had been repaired and letters had been sent to Ered Luin inviting the rest of their kin to the mountain that Nell finally showed signs of life. Fili was resting his head on the bed beside her and holding her hand when he felt it twitch in his. Raising his head up he looked at her with hope filled eyes. “Nell? Gimlelul? Can you hear me?” He asked. Her hand twitched again and her eyes started to slowly open, but she was still too weak to open them all the way.

“I...can...hear you,” she whispered. Her throat was dry and her voice cracked due to lack of use, but she was finally awake. Fili started crying tears of joy and pulled her into a hug. A grunt left Nell as her wound was still tender and her body ached from lack of movement.

It took a week of the others helping her walk around her room before she was finally able to walk on her own, but now she was able to move about even if it was slowly. And tonight she was getting ready for the coronation. Now that Dis and the rest of their kin had made it to Erebor it was time to officially crown Thorin king and crown Fili as his heir along with Nell.

The coronation went smoothly and now Nell was sitting in between her husbands enjoying copious amounts of ale just like they were. Everyone was drunk or at least close to it, songs were being sung, people were dancing, and laughs were being had by everyone. After some time Fili and Kili drug Nell back to their room were they made gentle love to her for the first time in a long time.

Nell had been up and about for over a month now and most of the mountain was restored. A small smile graced her lips as she watched Dwalin train the recruits. She had managed to get a few moments to herself where Thorin wasn't complaining about some trade agreement or some treaty with Mirkwood or something else, so she came to the training grounds in hopes of him not thinking to look for her there. Just because her and Fili were supposed to rule one day didn't mean that Thorin had to overload them with responsibility right now. He had advisors for a reason and Nell wished he would seek them out instead of her and Fili.

“Keep yer shield up or I'm gonna ring yer bell,” Dwalin shouted at one of the young dwarves.

Nell threw her head back in laughter. “I remember when you used to tell me the same thing. Didn't take long for me to learn that lesson,” she said. Dwalin looked over at her with a grin. Something not many people got to see.

“Aye it didn't. And maybe if you had a shield when you went against Azog we wouldn't have been worrying about your death. Tell them how important a shield is.” He nodded his head toward the recruits.

Nell walked over to them and pulled down her tunic just enough to show her scar. “You see that?” The recruits nodded. “I didn't have a shield when I rushed in front of Azog to save my husband and because of that I almost died. So learn to use that shield properly and keep it on you,” she told them. The recruits nodded once more and began working harder.

Dwalin walked over to Nell and rested a hand on his shoulder. “Ya didn't almost die, Nell. You did die. When we got ta ya and Fili yer heart wasn't beating. They took off and I stayed with ya praying to Mahal and pushing on her chest, giving you my own breath until ya came back,” he said. Nell’s brows furrowed and she cocked her head. She hadn't been told that before. Fili and Kili had only told her, she had almost died.

“Why didn't Fili or Kili tell me?”

“They didn't know lass. They were so worried about ya I didn't think I should worry them more, but here ya are alive and healthy,” he said patting her on the shoulder. Nell felt her stomach lurch and turned to the side vomiting.  “Almost healthy,” Dwalin corrected himself.

Nell wiped her mouth clean and smiled at him. “I'm healthy. That's nothing to worry about. It's perfectly normal.” She rested her hand on her belly her smile widening.

Dwalin's eyes went wide. “Yer pregnant?” He asked.

“Yes, but don't say anything. I'm going to tell Fili and Kili tonight,” she told him.

That night Nell made both her husbands’ favorite meals and sat gifts on the table to give them. “I have something to tell you, but first open your gifts.” She pointed at the packages. Fili picked his up first and opened it to find a small wooden sword a child would use to train with. He looked at her in confusion as Kili opened his and pulled out two tunics, one small for a babe and one for him. They both read ‘Durin Archers.’

“Amrálimé are you trying to tell us you're pregnant?” Kili asked as he looked at the items. Nell’s smile was from ear to ear as she nodded her head. Kili sat the tunics down and rushed to hug her. “I can't believe it, you're having a baby,” he said.

Fili was quick to join in on the hug. “This is wonderful news,” he said before kissing her tenderly.

Months later, Nell gave birth to a dark haired little girl. Kili now had a daughter named Gisela. But that wasn't the only child Nell would have. In time she fell pregnant again and gave birth to a perfect blonde haired little boy. Fili now had a son named Frerin after his uncle. And both children were loved dearly. Gisela took up archery much like her father, though she could use a sword and Frerin carried around multiple weapons much like his own father.

It would seem there was hope for life after death after all.

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[knifenymph]

healing session examples-

listed under the cut are five different healing sessions that i have done so i can start building my tag for references. reviews can be found on a different page, here

Your energy appears to be rather clean now, which is very helpful. Starting at your feet, I find that the tops of them area an injured blue color. It looks as though you may have been heading down the wrong path as of recent. Because the color isn’t spread higher than just the tops and sides of your feet, it leads me to believe that you have righted yourself on your path.

Continuing up, I find that your legs are frailer than they should be. They seem to be thin rather than strong and healthy. I interpret this as a cause of you not being sure of your footing, which could tie into the ailment on the tops of your feet. It is not clear whether or not this is a new occurrence or old, but it seems to ache rather than hurt sharply.

Towards your stomach, I find a knot there that is coiled and black. It sits and builds slowly, slowly, slowly, painful and raw. Reaching in, I grab the knot and it squelches but doesnt give until after a few tugs. I disinfect and mend the tissue it pulled when it was wrenched free, and examine the specimen. It gives off a foul energy, but is soundless and scentless. It pulses like a living entity, but seems to be influenced by my words. As i speak, it grows bigger, and as I silence, it shrinks down smaller. It seems to have developed due to swallowed words that were meant to do harm. Or ones that were sore and hurt, choked on. I am not completely sure, but that seems to be its origin. 

There is a scratch going down your back, from the top of your spine to about mid back. It is red and raised, but luckily, the skin isn’t severed. It just looks like it is scraped more. I mend that, and then do a deep cleansing of all negative energy, extracting it out. Your energy seems to be a very light turquoise color after I do that, compared to the turquoise-teal color it was before. Around your throat, I find it raw, but it could be of cause of the words swallowed and/or choked upon. It holds traces of a similar energy to the knot that was unearthed. 

Finishing up around your head, you seem to be a little more tired as your eyes seem to feel heavier, but is to be expected. A headache arises briefly, but is quickly shooed away

Starting at your feet, they feel relatively sore, but not overtly so. On the sides of them is where they are the most tender

I grab a handful of sunlight and shoot it up your legs, enveloping them in warm light that acts as an astringent for any pain or ailment that may plague your legs. Sending the sun away, there is a layer of left over grime that sits upon the surface of your legs. I take my cool hands and massage it off. I grab a ray of light and use it as a showerhead of sorts and wash off the stubborn pieces that don’t want to wipe away. 

I then wrap a band of light around your stomach, on medium-low strength as to not burn you. It cracks down on any ailments that rest there. There seems to be a pain that brews there quietly, and follows up your spine. The light tracks it and eradicates it. 

Your neck seems to be rather fine, but its your left shoulder that draws my attention. It feels sore and tender. I massage it down with light in my palms. The light on your legs is released. The light on your stomach will be released soon as well.

Your fingers feel semi sore as well, specifically on the right side, but not worryingly so. Just a tad bit. I release the light that holds your stomach now. As I remove it, I find that the flesh below it is now new and vulnerable, so I cover it with a stronger material to help keep it safe. animal-less rhino-hide. The area around your shoulder warms up a little bit, but that is the warmth of the healing that is taking place. In four minutes, it should be back to normal, I believe. 

The back of your neck and head is black with grime. It is as if there is a shell that covered the back of your neck. I lift it up gently, and smooth and clean the skin underneath it, plumping it and restoring it back to normal as the shell left an indent onto your skin. I peel it off and hand it to the Void. I find that the shell like material continues down your right shoulder as well so I continue my path there as well. I place a salve upon it to heal it without scarring or pain. Your left shoulder has now healed so I pull the remaining light off and send it up and away. 

Now your head is a little grimier, but i gently cast some light into it an the dark scurries and runs and hides. I go back over and clean the rest up I then do a final look through and pick up any excess light or dark that remains on your body

A general healing and check up with the help of Jn your legs seem to be rather tight when i look at them. they have red threads wound around them, almost cutting into them with how tight they are. on the inner area of each thigh, there is a vertical slit that is closed due to the threads, but very clearly inflamed. i start there and begin to remove the strings. 

as i begin to move the strings, your left leg jerks, almost kicking me. it is not used to the lack of restraint. i massage the circulation back into the leg, careful not to come near the gash. once i do near the gash, i find that there is glass in it which was what caused the slit. pulling it out, i mend the torn skin and heal it back to normal. Jn removed all of the strings from your right leg, massaging it, and then moving to massaging your hands, which seemed to have gone cold. i tend to the other gashed thigh

moving up, i arrive at your stomach. it seems to harbor guilt or hate, some sort of emotion like that. it stirs and gurgles, the acidity of it burning you up from the inside out. a silent simmer

your chest area shows wear and tear on your heart. it beats as a clean white color, but with undertones of blue. i seems that your body is suffering from hypothermia. warming you up, color begins to rise back to your skin, but your heart still aches. it needs to be shown a warm, honeyed love for a little bit. it aches for it

be careful of what you are breathing in. there seems to be a green sludge that cakes into your lungs. this could also be interpreted as to watch what you say under your breath, if applicable

Jn continues to massage your hands, bringing the aura around them to a warm, yellow color. she then goes to massage your stomach and continues up arriving at your head, it seems to be filled with cotton balls tinged yellow. I don’t know if they were yellow before i started, but they are a happy, wistful yellow now. it feels as if you could start crying now, but your tears would be made out of honey. 

i pass a beam of light through you, healing any other ailments i may have missed, and wait for Jn to finish massaging you. her hands raise the blood back to the surface of your body, waking it up from a hibernation like state, it seems. she is oddly pensive throughout all of this

she massages your neck, and then leans towards you, whispering the word “meaning” to you. i understand that it can be semi translated into “knowledge has meaning” but the word by itself holds a lot of value as well it seems. she kisses your forehead and your eyes flutter, a yellow warmth returning to your face.

The first thing that I notice is how you astral form seems to shine, yet is dull at the same time. It is dull in the sense of a knife’s blade, but shines and glitters and glows as well. Very interesting. I wave my hand over your body to bring some life back into it, and to bless with the ease of finding one’s proper path.

Starting at your feet, I find that your ankles look swollen and sore. They have been overused and overworked in the past few weeks in trying to find where to go, but traversing the harder paths in order to see where to go. Be careful and follow the paths you feel called to, not the paths you feel you have to try.

I relieve the ankles of their swelling, elevating them and letting it pass, while applying pressure to speed the process. 

Your legs are smooth and sturdy, holding the weight of yourself well. Minor muck holds onto them, but i can easily brush it off and extract it out. They thin a little with the removal of the dirt, but they are still strong enough to move mountains. 

Continuing up, I find that there is a bit of pain on your lower back, leading up to your spine. It pulses and aches, red energy emanating from it. It hurts, I can tell. I begin to massage the pain to the surface, and then cycle it out, pulling it from the depths of your lower back into my hands. I massage around your shoulder blades as well, relieving the pain from there. 

It seems that you have been carrying a load upon your shoulders and back, taxing your spine. It has really done some damage it seems. Lighten your load, share the burden. You may not even realize the stress that you hold if it has developed gradually, rather than all at once. Take some time to catalog yourself and see where you are and what is going on. Assess yourself.

Your neck seems to be pained as well, but I can tie it back to the aforementioned circumstance. I massage the pain away. The tenseness of your neck seems to possibly be the culprit for any headaches that may have been caused. Pain radiates from the base of your head. I massage out your head, surging gentle light into it to eradicate the pain. There seems to be a pressure in the front of your head. Maybe a lot on your mind? Let yourself breathe and let go of any burdens or stress you may have. Let yourself free. 

Around your minds eye, there seems to be a barrier that blocks it from seeing. Removing it, I patch it up a little until it can heal and adjust. Let it rest, don’t strain it for the next few days.

I go back and clear out any excess energy that may be lingering. Taking a sheet of light, I pass it through you, warming and cleansing you from the inside out. It seems that your back may still be sore, but that could be on your end more.

[phynxrizng]

EVERYDAY SACRED LIVING WITH KIMBERLY F. MOORE

June New Moon in Cancer Divination – Finding Your Flow

JUNE 22, 2017

Source, By KIMBERLY MOORE

The moon is NEW at 10:21pm on Friday, June 23, 2017. The Super Moon is home in watery Cancer, expressing at once the feminine wisdom of the Great Goddess and our own emotions with the moon, the Mother, the watery womb of our birth. This moon and lunation is a time to feel the feels and dive deep into the depths of our emotional experiences.

What nourishes you? Where are you supported? How is your heart? And, perhaps most importantly, where are you not nourished and supported?

Cancer represents the oceans that humanity began in and the waters of the wombs that brought us here. Cancer knows that water holds memory. Cancer knows that each tear shed can be a release of the past. Cancer knows the importance of understanding our genesis in order to consciously and compassionately create our present. ~ Chani Nicholas

We may find in this lunation that we are drawn more to family, calming activities and practices, with a craving for comforts of the heart. And couch time with ice cream. This is not the BOOM of the last Full Moon (also a Super Moon), but a sweeter and gentler cycle which is good, because I still have an existential Full Moon hangover.

Our beloved trickster, Mercury, is only a few degrees from the New Moon and generously (and positively) influencing our communications and collaborations. Remain open to receiving messages from within and without in the next few weeks. All the cosmic convocations right now bring a fertile time for psychic and inner journey work.

The lunar is combining with the solar with celebration of Midsummer, the Summer Solstice. New beginnings, opportunities to reset and branch into new directions are palpable right now, especially influenced with a close New Moon. The seeds and intentions that are your focal point this week will have far-reaching effects throughout the rest of the year! Choose wisely and be very clear. Emotions can affect the clarity of our intentions. Take a deep breath and roll with our two very potent Mama Goddesses!

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.” ~Maya Angelou

Ways to sync to this New Moon:

Spend time dipping into the waters of Mnemosyne Goddess Remembrance) – share family stories, gather pictures from the past, and light a candle to your Ancestors Take a dip – a relaxing bath, swims in a pool, or head to the ocean, river, lake, pond. Connect with the Goddesses of Sacred Waters.

Use divination to inspire journaling or vision board activities for personal intention setting Give and receive oracle and tarot readings with your friends Guided meditations to Goddess, Guardians, and Allies – gather your Spirit Guides for a wisdom download Gentle yoga sequences that stretch and heal Clean your sacred space and create an Altar of Intention for the second half of the year Random acts of kindness and compassion, to your Self and others

Record your dreams for symbols and messages I can safely say that our key word for the New Moon and the next few weeks is floooooooooooooow. Lakshmi and Kuan Yin, paired with the Fountain card, immerse us in sacred waters which cleanse AND renew.

Take the time to float, dream, and connect in the waters of Goddess; you are safe.

Lakshmi throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the divine; to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow out from her like light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.  Shri Aurobindo – The Mother

Embodied within the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi is everything that makes life sweet and wonderful.  She is success, prosperity, beauty, fertility, the luster of life that invigorates us and propels us forward in joy and happiness.  Shri Lakshmi is every form and expression of goodness in the Universe and if she were to turn her gorgeous face from us, the world would die.

The place of Lakshmi’s essence, where she and Vishnu retreat, is to the Ocean of Milk. It is also the source of Amrita, the nectar of immortal life. Lakshmi as Sri is auspiciousness. In Lakshmi, we see the Shakti that embodies the vitality of life and the ability to preserve, sustain it (making note here that Vishnu, her consort, is also called the Sustainer, the Preserver through her Shakti powers).

She is the water of life ~ the nectar of the heart. In the material world, she is beauty and light, flowing waters, and blooming flowers. One of her many names is Kamala – lotus – which represents the female yoni and spiritual transformation. She is almost always depicted seated on a lotus or holding lotuses.

During this New Moon, meditate on your flow. How do you define prosperity? Can you see the obstacles to achieving prosperity as you define it? Gratitude is vital to working harmoniously with Lakshmi. She will not remain where there is pride, arrogance, greed or harshness. Unlike Durga, she will not ride into battle; she will simply withdraw and take her blessings with her.

As you ponder flowwwwww in your life, also consider collaborations and partnerships that may be of benefit. This Cancer Moon with Mercury’s influence could be auspicious for uniting forces!

This Cancer New Moon invites us to seek refuge in the healing of the Great Mother, to float supported on the waves of her love. Is there a safer refuge than in the heart of Kuan Yin, She Who Hears the Cries of the World?

Kwan Yin is the calm in the storm, a beacon to the needy, the Mother who bends gracefully and willingly to respond to the fears of her children. She also can embody fierce compassion as she wields the sword to cut through delusion and expose the truth. She is sometimes depicted calmly riding a dragon through a raging sea. Sailors have reported seeing her in this form during storms when they thought they were sure to perish. Kwan Yin calmed the waves and saved them.

For this lunation, I invite you to calm your own personal storms through the grace of Kuan Yin. To seek refuge and sanctuary with this Bodhisattva who embodies kindness, compassion, and peace. Her Chinese Mantra, NAMO GUAN-SHIH-YIN PUSA, lends itself to petitioning that refuge …

NAMO   (I call upon or take refuge in)

GUAN-SHIH-YIN   (Kwan Yin, She Who Hears the Cries of the World)

PUSA  (bodhisattva)

As you sink into Kuan Yin, allow release to happen. Let it Go as the card advises. She cleanses us, purifies us, and then refills us with unconditional love of the highest vibration. What needs to be released? How may you surrender to the healing power of Goddess and the influence of this Moon? There is no need to suffer, to wrap yourself in pain, when the promise of Kuan Yin as Bodhisattva can ease you and carry you for a bit. Open your heart to be renewed.

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” ~ Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

The Fountain Card from the Moon Oracle brings us back to our lunar themes … flow. sacred waters. womb wisdom. nourishment. sustenance. renewal. emotional experience.

Water is our origin, our physical and spiritual essence. The tides of our feminine selves renews and restores all in time with the Moon, in time with the tides across the whole of Gaia. We are literally pulled by the Moon into glorious, magickal sync.

Can you feel the fountain welling up inside of you? The messages of origin written in the waves of your soul? The renewal of your wisdom wellspring sourced to Goddess and your woman magick? And do you re-member that all of this is available to you in each moment, each breath, all just for you? Be the vessel of primordial sacred wisdom and pour forth as a fountain!

Wishing you the blessings of flow and the Goddesses of Sacred Waters!

xo Kimberly

New Moon Ideas and Resources:

Craft your own New Moon Ceremony using this ritual.

Join with friends and Sister Tribe to divine and support each other in journey work!

Crystals to sync with the element of Water: amber, ammonite, angelite, aquamarine, aragonite, bloodstone, blue calcite, blue chalcedony, calcite, celestite, charoite, chrysoprase, dolemite, elestial quartz, emerald, fluorite, green aventurine, green calcite, howlite,labradorite, larimar, leopardskin jasper, lepidolite, mookaite jasper, moonstone, muscovite, opal, orange calcite, pink calcite, pink tourmaline, record-keeper quartz, rhodocrosite, rose quartz, selenite rose, selenite, shell fossil, snowflake obsidian, stilbite (Contact me for a custom crystal pack)

Check out all of the new goodies at Red Wholistic – Sprays and crystals!

Lakshmi and Quan Yin are both from Archangel Oracle by Doreen Virtue

The Fountain – The Moon Oracle by Caroline Smith

Cosmic resources:

Astrology Update from Mary on MotherHouse of the Goddess

Audrey Alison (who uses Tarot and Astrology).

Chani Nicholas Horoscopes

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