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Poppets: 100 Days (38)

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Day 38: 

I made a few more hearts and flowers, and finished two more poppets tonight, so I have ten in a batch waiting for the next set when Radiance runs low. I won’t dress them all just yet. You can find my Little Protector Dolls at https://www.herbsfromthelabyrinth.com/shop/spiritual-tools-altar-items/magical-tools/little-protector-dolls/

April is when I get caught in project overlap, when the 100 Day Project continues, but here comes National Poetry Month, and I must write a poem a day! They may end up being short toss-offs mostly this year, but we’ll see. Rule Number One for me is that I am free to create garbage. Something good always comes out of the process.

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Rest: 100 Days (36)

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Day 36: 

It’s been a long and busy weekend, and I am proud that I managed to wrangle the squirrels in my brain enough to at least dance together a little, and I haven’t ended up in a stressed out puddle of overwhelm. I just kept juggling, steadily and mindfully. I made three poppets today.

Now I am tired, and I’m going to try to get to bed before ten, so I can start the week as well-rested as possible.

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Vasilisa the Brave: 100 Days (32)

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Day 32: On Which I Tell You a Tale

In one of the old tales, the child Vasilisa is sent out into the woods by her wicked stepmother to ask for fire from Baba Yaga, the witch of the woods. Brave Vasilisa does not go alone, however: she is guided and aided by the tiny poppet she carries in her pocket, a doll made for her by her mother before she died. The doll carries her Mother’s Magic. When Vasilisa becomes overwrought at the impossible tasks that Baba Yaga (the Initiator in this story) sets for her, her poppet tells her, “Do not worry, Vasilisa, for the morning is wiser than the evening.”  In the end, the doll helps Vasilisa win her fire from Baba Yaga.

I make poppets, too, like Vasilisa’s mother, and sell them at Radiance. For #The100DayProject, I decided to make twenty, so I will have some on hand next time they need a new batch. My poppets are made of fabric scraps and embroidery floss and lots of love, filled with the energies and ideas I am pondering as I make them.

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Fierce: 100 Days (29)

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Day 29: On Which We get Sweet and Fierce

I outfitted five more fierce poppets for Radiance today. Don’t be deceived by their sweetness. They’re ready for the work, and they have no more patience for patriarchy. 

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Little Warriors: 100 Days (28)

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Day 28: On Which I Invoke the Warriors

One of the awakenings brought about by the Epstein/Trump Files is the certainty that it takes a village to protect a predator. It takes people like the Chomskys, who claim they were innocently naive, despite Noam Chomsky’s deeply thoughtful critical analysis of social movements and philosophical ideas. Opportunists like the former Prince Andrew and the United States President and other wealthy and privileged men, predators themselves, who counted on the circles of secrecy to keep them undetected. Winkers and nudgers like Deepak Chopra, who clearly knew what was happening, and enabled the predator, kept his secrets, considered themselves and him to be outside the bounds of social convention. Women who groomed the girls. All the staff at all the properties. People who suspected but turned a blind eye. A flagrantly unlawful DOJ. Senators and Congresspeople afraid of what they might discover. Shame on the village that guards the secrets of predators.

I outfitted three of the Little Protectors today. They will be warriors, feral and fierce. A definite Do Not Mess With Me energy here.

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Bless Your Seeds: 100 Days (27)

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Day 27:

Joyful Spring Equinox to you! 

The seeds of ideas and plans we brought into the light in the season of Brigit are ready to sprout. How will we nurture them in the coming season? 

May your seeds sprout, your sprouts flourish, your flowers bloom and bear magnificent fruit.

The Little Protector Dolls I made today will carry some of that bright hopeful energy of spring’s awakening, along with the fierce energy of the times.

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What I Want from Men: 100 Days (26)

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Day 26:

Here is what I want from my beloved male allies right now:

1. Listen to women. When you feel an urge to explain or contextualize men’s speech and actions, just don’t.

2. Amplify women’s voices. In your speaking, and on your social media.

3. Know that, no matter our own histories—from boundary-crossing to harassment to coercion and violence—the stories are hitting us hard right now. The ground of the narrative today is our bodies. We might be feeling vulnerable, fierce, invisible, endangered, dangerous.

4. We don’t really want to deal with your feelings about it all right now. Do your own emotional labor.

5. Speak up, dammit. Call your brothers to account, for their sexist jokes, their boorish behavior, their silence.

6. Stand up for trans and nonbinary folks. They take so much of the weight of gender hatred perpetrated by men.

*****

I spent some time today organizing some scrap fabrics, cutting pieces for the 20 little dolls, and braiding up a couple little people. I’m also playing with free-form crochet on a neck-piece. 

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Little Protectors: 100 Days (25)

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Day 25:

One quarter of the way through the project today.

Starting on a new project today, getting another set of Little Protectors Dolls ready for Radiance. On my initial project list, I gave myself the goal of twenty. I have pieces cut for seven bodies right now, and I can get fabric laid out to cut another fifteen or so in the next couple of days. I braided one doll this evening, just so I could say I had done something other than just organize materials.

What magic shall I call upon for this batch of feisty protectors? Little Girl Dragon Energy. Old Woman Rising Energy. Fierce Mother Bears Energy. Ancestor Rescue Energy. Waving Goodbye to the Patriarchy Energy.

What magic are you calling upon for yourself in these days of turmoil and uproar?

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