Tear shaped almond turned into the cube that brings remembrance of sweet rich moments back to life. You can bite it and swallow at once or let it dissolve in your mouth. Like joy, you either look for it, find it and enjoy for the moment or treat it as your own and keep it handy no matter what.
Four Raw sweet bites
Gryka – buckwheat is very energizing and nutritious. Contrary to its name, this fruit seed is not in any way related to wheat.
Buckwheat is a gluten free power food.
Best source of high-quality, easily digestible proteins. Buckwheat is a warming food. It is classified by macrobiotics as a yang food. It is great for eating in the cold winter months.
Buckwheat is popular in Poland by the name gryka meaning Greek due to its introduction in the 7th century by Byzantine Greeks.
Buckwheat seeds with their nutty flavor perfectly match the fresh and delicate taste of a pear. In Greek and Roman mythology, pears are sacred to three goddesses: Hera – Juno, Aphrodite – Venus, and Pomona, an Italian goddess of gardens and harvests. The ancient Chinese believed that the pear was a symbol of immortality. (Pear trees live for a long time.) Pears are loaded with dietary fiber, are good sources of potassium. Classical Greek poet, Homer, refers to them as “Gifts of the Gods.”
Buckwheat contains the eight essential amino acids, as well as high proportions of manganese, magnesium and fiber. It also contains two flavanoids. One that is thought to support healing in the body. And a rutin which is an antioxidant, and therefore may inhibit cancer. Rutin also strengthens the capillaries and circulation, thereby reducing painful varicose veins.
Polish meadows, culture and tradition were painted in Adam Mickiewicz`s epic poem “Pan Tadeusz”. Mickiewicz was Polish poet, writer and philosopher. Poland in XIX century didn’t exist on the maps but was pulsing in hearts of Polish people who were always ready to stand up for Her freedom. The book was published in 1834 and it is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature.
Meadows of gryka and a single flower:
“I raised my dead eyelids, and could straightway walk to the threshold of thy shrine to thank God for the life returned me—so by miracle thou wilt return us
to the bosom of our country. Meanwhile bear my grief-stricken soul
to those wooded hills, to those green meadows stretched far
and wide along the blue Niemen; to those fields painted with
various grain, gilded with wheat, silvered with rye; where grows
the amber mustard, the buckwheat white as snow, where the
clover glows with a maiden’s blush, where all is girdled
as with a ribbon by a strip of green turf on which here and there rest quiet pear-trees.”
Adam Mickiewicz “Pan Tadeusz”
Waning Moon means the moon is decreasing in size – just like a good cake – moving from the Full Moon towards the New Moon. In this time it is good to eat light and not heavy on sweets or grains. Although there is a need in the autumn time to warm your inner strength, to prepare the body for a winter. Natural sweets like dates fulfill this need. Carrots will do the work for the eyes enhancing the vision in the darkness where the moon is going away. We need to let go of a desire to see in order to see in the dark. We need to let go of a desire to be seen in favor of being as light as a shade of our own eyes. To give our eyes the courage and a power to look forward.
The benefits of dates include relief from constipation, intestinal disorders, heart problems, anemia, sexual dysfunction, diarrhea, abdominal cancer, and many other conditions. Dates are good for gaining weight also. Dates are rich in several vitamins, minerals and fiber too. These delicious fruits contain oil, calcium, sulfur, iron, potassium, phosphorous, manganese, copper and magnesium which are all beneficial for health.
This is a time for spells that banish, release, reverse. This is a time to break bad habits or bad addictions, to end bad relationships. This is a time of deep intuition and a time for divination. Developing good habits by biting waning crescent dates carrot cake supports to release the sugar need. The cake is based on dates, non wheat flour but whole grain and almond meal, and on autumn spices that are awakening love in every bite.
At this time the moon represents the Goddess in her Crone Aspect, give praise to Hecate, Morrigan or one of the other Crone Goddesses.
Meet your inner sweetnes by having this smooth date with the carrot date cake.