Healing the Witch Wound with the Bone Mother
A Healed Witch Returns to the Hearth
From Exile to Nourishment with the Bone Mother
When I first set the intention to make hearty meat stews to sustain my body’s nutrition through a long Irish winter, I was excited at the prospect.
But as soon as I stepped near the kitchen a force field would stop me. The same energy that I often felt when the ‘witch wound’ arose like flames around me. Primal, irrational fear engulfing me.
It began to dawn on me – this inability to nourish myself was the witch wound screaming out from the body. Not just on a metaphorical level, but on a somatic level, too. Many health issues women have are often related to the gut and inflammation. We are quite literally still ‘enflamed’.
Bone broth, bone marrow, and the collagen that melts down from the connective tissues and bones soothes this inflammation. It’s like pouring an internal balm over the enflamed witch inside our bellies. Tallow does similar for our fatigued minds, gut, hormones, and skin. It is like an anointing and consecration after a deep exile from nourishment.
The first time I made bone marrow soup, I had to go lay down and let my body take it in for an hour! It was so deeply nourishing it almost hit me, and my body soaked up tallow like a drought soaking up rain. If anything could heal a witch who had been cast into exile, this was it.
I learned to heal the witch wound from inside out, with ancestral cooking spellwork, using food as medicine.
I am sharing that process here as a three part step by step guide to Return to the Hearth. To move from a Witch’s Pain to Deep Nourishment.
Part One:
Bone Mother’s Soup of Memory
In the first part, we step out of exile and into the kitchen to work with the deep nourishment of bone broth. As we do, we find it is a way to connect to the most ancient of deities: the Bone Mother. The ancestral deity of all ancient witches.
We trace our lineage back to the Wild Herd Woman and the Deer Mothers and our shamanic roots, as we drink the soup of memory and nourish ourselves from within.
Part Two:
Bone Marrow of Life force and Lineage
In the second part, we move through the transformative power of the Bone Mother, and turn our face towards life as we drink bone marrow. The marrow mirrors our lineage, our essence. The place all blood is born. We find the marrow is known as the ‘seat of our soul’ ‘ the ‘treasure of our life force’ the ‘mother milk in the bones’.
If the Bone Mother is the keeper of death, the marrow is the keeper of life.
Part Three:
Anointing with the Ancient Tallow
In the third part, we anoint and consecrate with tallow – ancient super nourishment for our brain, gut health, hormones, and skin. We remember the ancient wisdom of the ancestors through the rediscovery of the forgotten.
Tallow is what the Bone Mother gives us as light to survive a winter- both a natural winter and a winter of difficulty. We emerge from the witch wound nourished once more.
We Return to the Hearth from the Wild, Nourished Once More.
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