The Rich Smell of Soil Divine
and the mists that fill my mind
Hello!
We are finally full swing into Spring — the morning insects are singing with the birds, and bees are zipping and buzzing by my head at full velocity during backyard yoga in the afternoon.
Our patio is a mess of tree parts from the rains, pollen and blessing gifts from larger animals — littering the cement pad. I will not post a picture, but I'm sure you can imagine it just fine!
So I will be on clean up crew for awhile. I need to absorb some extra Vitamin D from the fireball in the sky anyway.
💚 Isabella, Pups and Family
PS… See my cool new logo artwork images below featuring my backyard photos! Can you see the hidden image? 😮 Not AI Assisted, or staged; just organic living. Copyright IEM 2025. 🖤
The Call to Live Deeply
Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals is about making a promise to devote time and give sacred space to our healing, our internal processes. I share my practice with you in hopes it inspires you to create your own. To show the way with words and images steeped within my subconscious tea brought to life on canvas, in songs, stories and spirit journeys. How to live more deeply within your awareness and connection of the microcosmic world, and in turn our macrocosmic universe.
I wish I could promise you that every letter I write will contain perfectly organized subjects with perfect grammar and punctuation that obviously connect the dots for you. This is a promise that I simply cannot make.
What I can hope for is… to bring you along on my adventure into spirit, to show you how simple it can be, and to share in the beauty of my liminal spaces while you learn how to find your own… to make available sign posts, trail markers, bread crumbs and pin cushions.
To share Stories as Healing Containers within the container of our Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals. ❤️
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Because I will not pretend to know your journey more than I know my own, I write within my experience as woman. Please change as needed for your experience on this journey… for such teachings apply to us all.
Grab a cup of hot cocoa, plate of brownies and sit by the window listening to bird song while you read… for we are going on an adventure!
Love, Light & Shadows…
Isabella, Pups & Family
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My Weaving
My eyes open between my toes,
A portal to the foot of my Soul,
I dance the dance of ecstasy,
and Eyes open upon my palms...
Fingertips exuding rainbows of light,
I dance through the sky,
Down deep and deeper I go,
Hips undulating to the sound,
Following my roots,
Deeper and deeper into and below the earth I go,
The rich smell of soil divine,
and the mists that fill my mind…
I travel the stars of my own internal cosmos,
Filled,
Deep indigo blue, ethereal white, and purple hues,
I follow the path below...
The eyes of my feet
My soles knowing the way,
I dance and dance in ecstasy,
Arms outreached to the sky,
Fingers of rainbow light dancing with threads of glowing starlight,
Weaving spells of enchantment, and on and on I Dance into the Ecstasy of My Soul.
Your Weaving
As you read this work, what percolated up from your subconscious? Emotions? Thoughts? Images? Does my work inspire you to create one of your own?
Weaving Your Personal Mythos: Is there a Mythos or Series of Mythos that you identify with? How has its shape changed with each new Letter I post?
“Are we still on this? Yes, we are. I want You to shape and reshape YOUR Healing Container before bringing you in a deeper Journey of my own. Reflect on what You have read in My Weaving today and see how this changes Yours. It's important. YOUR sense of Self must be firmly in place before Traveling.” — Isabella
What happens if you plug-in your own life events into that Mythos?
Take that story and merge it with the Mythos of Your Astrological Sign(s).
What is your end result? How does it make you feel? Will this new story change your life choices moving forward?
Do you agree with it? Disagree? Why? Do you have a friend or therapist who will welcome bouncing the ideas around so you may see a deeper well within your Self?
Journal Prompt for Secret Messages: Choose an idea, word line, or entire phrasing from what I’ve written here and write down everything that comes up for you in a free-flow without censorship. Go back through and circle key words and phrases from your own writing. Is there a secret message hidden within your subconscious? Within your Soul?
Take it one step further, and continue to journal about how that secret message makes you feel. Do you agree with it? Disagree? Why? Do you have a friend or therapist who will welcome bouncing the ideas around so you may see a deeper well within your Self?
Accessing Spirit through Creation… Draw, Paint, Create! Illustrate Your Story Container, so your future self will have a road map to follow on challenging days.
Today’s Resources
Line “…to make available sign posts, trail markers, bread crumbs and pin cushions.” : Refers to all the different sign posts and trail markers that you might find in fairy tales and wisdom stories. Bread crumbs famously found in Hansel and Gretel, and following the pin cushion comes from my family’s deep dark forest roots across the ocean.
Poetry/Quotes/Images: Unless otherwise stated, I wrote/ created it :) IEM 2025
My Journal Entries: Dated June 2025.
What We’ve been up to
From the Reading Shelf:
The works of Caroline Myss
The Women's Book of Healing by Diane Stein (and I want to also combine this with her book on Modern Reiki later this week!)
Tara by Rachael Wooten, PhD
Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
Heaven's Banquet by Miriam Kasin Hospodar; Ayurvedic cook book I'm pulling back out so I can make my Curry Seasoning this week! YAY!
Watching: My anger when it flares.
Pondering: Certainly there must be a better way to ground my root chakra when my blood pressure drops than being angry at the world?
Pathway: Reciting any prayer that comes to mind to change my energetic pathways, and looking to combine with a black tourmaline prayer bracelet with an emerald green malachite bead for balancing out all the angry red.
Goal: Making my new prayer bracelet (above), which incidentally, combines the Green and Black Tara's for balancing (see book mentioned above on Tara). Wearing it will remind me of my Pathway (above) when my perimenopausal anger flares at the injustices I perceive.
Quotes:
“Is it mind over matter (which in the end was not enough) ? Or… the Em-bodiment of Spirit and Soul through Prayer… that Heals, and moves me forward into Life again?” — IEM 2025
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❤️ Light & Shadows,
Isabella, Pups & Family
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Disclaimer
I do not get paid for recommending any third-party products or materials that may be included on this journey. I simply share this information from my own beloved practice, so you have a wider range of options available for building your own.
Please take responsibility for your own devotional practice and health by making sure you do your proper research, which may include speaking with (but not limited to) your doctor, medical provider and/or mental health therapist before integrating new lifestyles, herbs, foods and practices, etc.
These Letters are about deepening your own personal world-spirit-view and practices to help heal your self, and by extension our communities and, perhaps even, the world. These sharings do not certify you with any particular cultural or vocational title.
Rooted and Anchored in the Deeply Spiritual Mountains of Colorado, we work under the Women's Model of Healing the Heart, Body, Mind and Soul through many modalities…
Including, but not limited to: the Healing that can occur through the telling of Feminine-based Stories, Myth and Metaphor, that works in compliment with modern medicine. Healing is not the same thing as ‘curing’ and our content and/or services are not considered westernized medicine, so please speak with your physician/ mental health therapist for any health issues that require medical monitoring, medication, etc. While I do have a variety of qualifications and trainings to share this educational material, I am not your medical provider and/or mental health therapist (etc); engaging in any and all activities, products, and/or practices stemming from this publication, or any other publication, written by Isabella E McClellan, are utilized at your own risk; results are not guaranteed, any and all sales are “as is” and final.
Thank YOU! ❤️
Love, Light & Shadows,
Isabella, Pups and Family
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