This stone talisman was made in part of a deepening inquiry into matriarchal energy and matrilineal lines, embodiment and intuition. I explore this stone and others in varying ways, allowing instinct to guide me.
I cleansed and blessed it in a stream on the land I currently live on, which I share with my cousin, her partner and her two young children. We talk sometimes of our own mothers, our upbringings, our grandmother, examining photos of the matrilineal line or female ancestors.
When we were kids we used to play together in grandma’s garden. It was something of a faerie haven, similar to where we have found ourselves once again. Perhaps it’s more about what happens when we reach out to one another – some kind of magic happens, more often than not.
A deep sigh of recognition settles in my bones. That coming home to self feeling, wistful. Continuously rediscovering myself, the land I live in. In the past two years I’ve moved to a few different locations which has been unsettling to say the least!
Surrounded by tall and graceful trees, kawakawa bushes and ferns, standing in a sun-drenched stream, I let the quiet find me. The gentle wind in the trees and the meandering stream carry the quiet as I call in a blessing, knowing natures peace settles itself into the stone.
