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Tomorrow will be a month!!

I have vlogs, yet I cant post unless it feels tika / in this case & inner knowing of what sits well because when it feels performative & ain't posting! So posting for the sake of posting is not the point of my 90 days!! Its about devotion in this "new" way!

Liberation = alchemising trauma, knowledge & making mother fucken friends with all the parts of self!

Alchemising through this month has meant rest is integral part of integration. For so long it was about the hussle, to busy to be ME x Old habits die hard and so does this Deviant Hag!!

Mauri ora gorgeous souls ✨️ ❤️ by @aroha_alchemy

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Day 11 and nothing but silence 🔕

Its cathartic writing a post at night, reflecting back on my day, and yet it also feels too hard, to revealing, to much! Mainly because in our current political environment here in Aotearoa I have feel increasingly angry about how my people are treated on their own lands! Why does this government do you hate us so much??
My comeback to you, our so called government is 🖕🏾🖕🏾with both hands! Let this be a one term government!
My second retort is I will continue to build a business of safety, safety for those I will be blessed to work alongside and safety that I no longer have to work in system that is no longer safe to serve under or in!

Mauri ora gorgeous souls

Deviant hag x by @aroha_alchemy

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Devotion is still happening gorgeous souls!

I have pulled myself out of the underworld and planted my butt back into reality by gardening & moaning to the Atua - Goddess' & God's.

Candles have been burning & the occasional phone charger cord 🫣 lucky I was close! Deviant Hag by name & nature... cue cackle!

😘 by @aroha_alchemy

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Heading into day 7

Had a few videos & one I am too vain to post and the other had no audio, so I've improvised. Instead I am showing a full moon from Beltane season, a bonfire & cows. Outta of the pic is sticky fingers, sugar rush & whanau time x

I live a privileged life, living with 3 generations of our whanau on the same piece of land. Tonight as I hear nothing, zero noise, sky dark with a sliver of moonlight I think of those who are in a genocide. What I would give for those in a genocide to hear the nothingness & feel the peace I do! The last picture is a ritual, burning up the anger that consumes me when I feel what genocide is in my bones! The crown tried to eradicate my people too, and still try with their laws and societal voices, how do we rise up against the system that oppresses so many of us??? As a community of like minded people ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 by @aroha_alchemy

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Hey, hiya meet my neighbors from my studio- Aroha Alchemy HQ. My sanctuary that was built by my hubby. I feel his love here, all the beautiful vibes looking at his anscestral mountain, amongst the Pā harakeke/ village of flax's xxx Super blessed!

Today had me feeling better. I went up to my studio after 5 days away. Saw some lovely cult members on discord. Cooked food & napped for 4 hours! Ugh this virus has me appreciating rest. I heard Hannah @cultmothertarot voice in my head saying "don't let the bastards grind you down"! What if you are the bastard?? What if its been so habitual to wear yourself out, literally too the bone?? Which I have done exactly that to both my knees! I have two new knees now however my attitude towards myself is, rest when you die.... really? Two new knees isn't enough!

So... 3 new steps in DEVOTIONal practice is

1. Self-grace
2. Stop being a C U N T to yourself
3. Oh & duh rest is VITAL. Just breathe in & out x1000

Much love

Deviant Hag by @aroha_alchemy

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Day 4

My morning have begun with my hubby bringing me tea ( actually thats tradition) the new part is enjoying the sunset whilst sipping said tea instead of scrolling.

It's my son's birthday today! Birthday's have many traditions within our family. Family dinner were you as the birthday person who gets to choose what we are eating. Celebrating another blessed year on earth.

Our get togethers are full of roasting each other and now we pass our twisted sense of humor on to our mokopuna. These are the traditions that heal us, connect us. My tupuna passed on the joy of whanau/ family. Whilst we have had many difficulties as a whanau, I am blessed beyond with my tribe on the farm which we have loving call the asylum 🙌🏾 3 generations doing our best to raise each other up. Not always successful but for the most part we do well!

I do not like being sick, I have however enjoyed the rest which affords reflections and integration. Dame this 90 day challenge has already revealed so much!

Mauri ora gorgeous souls

Deviant Hag by @aroha_alchemy

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Day 3 Claiming my right to self - grace instead of just self - love.

I had a year sitting with the lovers card as my guiding star last year which had me on a journey of burying myself old self, the therapist, the burn out, the mother (stage, not actual mumma) in Autumn 25 & growing bones help me to love my disabled self cause my sciatica was so debilitating I could hardly walk. I learned to listen to my body & love myself. After my hubby taking care of us, which also includes more than me, cause we live as a hapu (3 generations) cleanses, herbalist, rongoa and tonnes of encouragement from my discord friends in the @cultmothertarot I started to walk, heal and accept love. It has been humbling.

Today I have been resting because of a cold and the above memories came flooding back, rest = debilitating pain! Not just during last year, because its a generational pattern.

Rest = Lazy, who hasn't been there! I heard it, I passed it on to my tamariki however today REST = GRACE!

REST = SAFETY! REST = FREEDOM! Mother trucken freedom, no longer am I going to berate myself by always trying for the hussle, the perfectionist, fuck that! Self grace is were it is at, I encourage the same for you! You are a human being not a human doing!

I shared a post on my stories that said "my younger self would feel safe with my older self" and I believed it and my younger self said he'll yeah I do! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings on that story too friends 🧡

Thoughts of what self grace means to you?

Mauri ora
Deviant Hag ✨️ by @aroha_alchemy

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Day 2

I am not use to slow mode, my body is not use to relaxing, so its decided to MAKE this deviant hag rest!
The lurgy has sat on my chest and said, I am here for as long as I am here!

I have still done the reading, journaling and napping, daily rituals that say I love you. Tonight I looked at my camera roll and given a glimpse of my inspiration. The taio/ environment & the creatures I am surrounded by. I am a lucky human ♥️

Mauri ora

Deviant Hag xxx

#witchwork #entrepreneur #manamotuhake #māuriora #kotahitanga by @aroha_alchemy

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Day 1 of my 90 day challenge!

I feel like a new human... 18 months since my last 90 days and I have birth DEVIANT HAG!

Time to put my life into a new mode, deviant hag styles. The name DEVIANT HAG came from my love of sociology whilst studying in my psychotherapy degree... DEVIANT means to live on the edge of society, to press up against the so called norms! I feel deviant to my bones! Norm got me burnt out! Following societies rules, fitting in and all that bullshit. Time to be deviant, doing healing ancestor styles ✨️ HAG is an older witch, in modern society its frowned upon... cue cackle! Not here, in my space this is a space of honoring who the fuck I we are and quite frankly have always been! A witch, a hag, a healer!

Join in, follow along, your welcome into my space if you feel pulled to do so! I thought of doing a pilgrimage, modern day styles, a 90 day ritual space. Yes 90 days is the gorgeous @thevoyagingsoul @te_whare_uia baby. It made sense to me as I too live by seasons... 90 days is a season, this is my season for radical change! Instead of the hussle and grind which was my old way of creating. I feel at peace, ease and abundant!

Welcome to daily practices I . Today started off in silence while sipping herbal tea and watching the sunrise! Feels like the kind of rituals I live for!

I look forward to showing more of my rituals and witch work!

Mauri ora

Deviant Hag

#witchwork #indigenouspractices #indigenouswisdom #freepalestine #freecongo by @aroha_alchemy

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Hey gorgeous souls x Missing my ukaipo / ancestral lands & ngāhere. Must be time to swim & be cleansed in my awa & sleep on the whenua! I feel cranky 😠 by @aroha_alchemy

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Indigenous practices with a rant!

#manamotuhake #proudtobemāori #witchwork #indigenouspride #indigenouswisdom by @aroha_alchemy

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