Durga “The Invincible”~

Sandalwood and Rose infused ganache with essences of Lotus, Gold, Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire and Pearl.

Durga is the great Hindu goddess who rides the backs of lions and tigers, whose eighteen arms wield weapons, flowers and mudras, whose fierce compassion and independence redeems situations of utmost distress. Durga manifests fearlessness and patience, and never loses her sense of humor, even during spiritual battles of epic proportion. She is Divine Mother, Shakti.

Sekhmet~

Port soaked Figs, Date Syrup, Frankincense and Myrrh infused ganache with essences of Gold, Bloodstone, Tiger’s Eye and Sands of the Sahara.

Sekhmet is the Egyptian Lioness warrior goddess whose name means “power” or “might”. She is the noontime sun, intense blinding heat, goddess of fire. She whose breath created the desert, whom led assured victory in battle, who was protectress of pharoah, she who holds the cure for all diseases.

Freya~

Amber Honey, Vanilla and Cinnamon infused ganache with essences of Ruby, Amber and Northern Lights.

Freya is the great Norse goddess whose unbridled sexuality is legendary. She is wife of Od, romantic sensualist, goddess of death and war, she who wears the magical necklace of amber and rubies known as brisingamen, the irresistable one, who rides on chariot of cats, whose armor causes the resplendent lights of the Aurora Borealis to flicker and shine…

Be the fire of transformation. Begin again.

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For Crust:

1 C raw almonds

1 C raw cacao nibs

1 C raw coconut flakes

½ C raw cacao powder

Blend in cuisinart until coarse and uniform.

Add:

1 C dates, one at a time

5 white figs, one at a time

2 TB raw cacao butter

Dash of salt and vanilla, to taste

Pulse until uniform and sticky but not mushy. Needs to have crunch and definition, and also enough stickiness to hold it together.  Adjust date and fig amount as needed. Press into bottom of springform pan that has been greased with coconut oil.

For filling:

3 C soaked cashews

2 C raw nut milk or 1 can coconut milk

1 ½ C Agave

1 ts ground vanilla pod or glycerine based vanilla extract

1/8 ts salt

Optional: Dash or two cardamom and/or freshly grated nutmeg. 1-4 drops flower essences of your choosing: rose, rose quartz, rescue remedy, lilac, kunzite, etc.

Blend until fully smooth.

Add:

¾ C raw cacao butter, melted in double boiler

¾ C raw coconut oil, melted in double boiler

3 TB lecithin

Blend until fully smooth and incorporated and warm to the touch. Should have the consistency of a rich smoothie or cake batter.

Add:

2 packages frozen or fresh raspberries and blend until smooth.

Stir in by hand so that they remain solid:

2 more packages frozen or fresh raspberries.

Pour over prepared crust and set in freezer for 1-2 hours until fully set. Put in refrigerator until ready to serve. YUMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

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her skin like sun warmed earth,

her skin the reverie and ecstacy of the manifest made good….
With her Smoky pearl and fire-scorched song,
Her unbroken hymn and hallowed hero’s tongue,
she asks if you would heed her call and with her dare
the narrow road that is your salvation.

Molten by design, licked by flame and by the first true sign,
she wants nothing more than your promise to follow her down
deep down into her volcanic lava swirls where release is the only way…
Her bosom filled with your bleeding heart no longer lost in uncertainty
but instead beating strong, awakened to your deepest, most arduous, ardorous, red pulsing rhythm song…

Lit up. Shaken down. Kicked back to the time when the fire and the night were as one
She knelt and kissed your brow and there left the scorched mark of your initiation,
the flesh-born talisman of your rebirth into and from her arms…..

In her presence the earth gave way to the stars and lifted and folded and opened unto their blazing medallions of eternal birth and glow, reaching higher and higher that they might touch…Like you, new and trembling….
Red Dragons of delight danced widely and galloped valiantly like so many awakened dreams into the skies of your newly-won back heart and she, she who stood in pride and in awe, she who knew the backwinds of time like the very curves of her own flesh, she who was merciless in her love,
ceaseless in her song, back-lit and fired up by the light of the suns of all worlds colliding…She, your eternal lover, mother and mind. She, the answer to your every desperate prayer.

She had it all and gave it all and gave it up and gave you back your body and your name that freedom may reign, that none may be tamed or lame or shamed, that life may course on and rise up to meet the heated and wild glories of the dawn, that you may be born again…

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2 bottles red wine
2 bottles Santa Cruz sparkling juice (lemon, lime, orange-mix them up!)
1 small bottle pomegranate juice
1 ½ C honey (lehua is best!)
1 cup water
Large handful of fresh mint
2 sticks cinnamon
3 Star Anise pods
½ T whole cloves

Combine honey, water, mint and spices in small saucepan. Bring to gentle boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes, until delicious scent emanates from pan. Remove from heat and let sit.

Meanwhile, combine wine and juices in large bowl. Strain honey concoction into wine mixture and stir until fully blended. Pour into attractive pitchers and add ice and essences to suit to night. Voila! Everyone who partakes will be sparkling!!!!

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24 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted in a double boiler
1 ½ cans coconut milk
½ C grated fresh ginger
1/2-3/4 C Coconut Oil
2 C Agave
½-3/4 C Crystallized Ginger
2 ts ground ginger

Melt Chocolate in a double boiler.
Meanwhile, combine cocomilk and ginger in a small saucepan, bring to a gentle boil, then simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Strain.
Melt Coco oil either on super low heat on stovetop or in bowl floating atop warm water.
When chocolate and coco oil are melted, place them and all other ingredients in cuisinart and blend until crystalized ginger is in very fine pieces and ganache is rich, smooth and luscious. Refrigerate until firm!

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With June comes the first hints of the fires of Summer and the lingering freshness of Spring, days filled with the pure light of the sun at its peak and glory. In honor of the elegance and brilliance of the magical month of June, I offer the June Lily Collection-the first of its kind!  Let your cares wash away like warm sun on your face and lazy days spent by the lake with these three graceful flavors:

Pink Water Lily-With Essences of Pink Water Lily, Balinese Floating Temple and Gold for a sense of ease and royal repose. With hints of strawberry and vanilla!

White Water Lily:  The purest of its kind.. The simple elegance of white water lily and dark chocolate.

Golden Day Lily: With Essences of Golden Day Lily, Citrine, Soltice Sun and Orange Calcite for activating light embodiment and joy! Made with golden, ripe peaches and a hint of lemon.

*All Lily essences made by Elysium Alchemistic Arts jayadeva77@gmail.com

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1 ¼ C white wine

6 TB champagne vinegar

½ C minced shallots

1 TB minced ginger

Salt and Ground black pepper to taste

Combine in a small skillet and cook over medium heat until reduced down to three quarters.

Stir in:

½ C heavy whipping cream

½ C fresh squeezed pure lilikoi juice

Remove from heat and add:

3 sticks cold butter, cut small pieces.

Add butter, one piece at a time, stirring constantly. If you need more heat, put over very low flame briefly. Never let butter melt completely or sauce will separate. Strain through a fine mesh sieve. Serve with ono, mongchong or other light white fish or chicken or your choosing.

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I will come to you with kisses born of an unbound meteor

and offer these forces  as prayer for your life.

I will burn in the passion and the splendor of the rose;

its naked seed shorn and fragrance native born

in the fires of our first dawn

I will light the petals of our sylvan song

with aurora sheen and violaceous scream

and swim far and dive deep, deeper still

into our ruby waters teaming….

I will bring the sky down into scarlet roots

touching, clutching, suckling, soaking in

the red richness of our earths colliding,

I will harness the flares of the sun

and lick back their curved and fevered heat

into our reverie, skin on skin.

I will tear from these eyes the song of sorrow

and in its place

paint a fiery constellation of night flowers blooming

And upon you

I will look with heated gaze the pride of tigers,

cast from windstruck wings the victory of birds…

I will give the fires of our wombs new names

thick and dripping with worthy sweetness and daring praise.

and traverse the wild underworld of your cascading cups of orchid wine;

Deep springs the mother of your surging light

You taste like violet flowers fresh blossomed

out of ice fields melting into honey

under daybreak sun,

like the original night bloom of the white cereus

inside an indigo dusk,

like chocolate, like mint, like mist,

like the musky tear of a she-lion,

like a woman in love….

I will consume the hungry torch that is your heart

until you are drowning soft inside the mysteries of mine;

Reborn into new skin subtle and earthly shining,

this touch and the song of my lips your way back home

I will take you in and breath naked fire into your lungs

and dance the dance of the ages on your far arching rooftops

hung with old world lantern and blood orange coal

I will speak the vivid tongue of the gods onto your flesh

as your hips in proclamation raise to the rhythm of the dialect of surrender….

and in the silence that follows, I will open thee even more,

the rose within the rose within the rose

I will at last offer my scorched dagger,

blue winged tears tarnished on this eternal heart,

and let you cut the ropes of my own binding

and listen as I bleed out rivers of lava hot blood from the depths of my love

and hold this beating thing close as you would a child or a bird or a seed

and see that the tender way is at last

sown and grown and shone

in the trusting hands and succulent lands of love,

this fire flower burning…

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This month I am proud to offer a new Goddess Collection of exotic, divine chocolates made in honor of all the mothers of the world and the ceaselessly unconditional love and endless care they offer to the world- that life may live on and thrive and flourish and blossom again and again and again! Each truffle not only represents a different Mother Goddess but also their corresponding element, representing the power and fortitude and infinite blessings and gifts of Mother Nature herself. Step into the feminine, take a chocolate flavored dip into the divine with these new flavors…

Wild Plum-Rich chocolate ganache drenched with preserves and liqueur of wild plum rolled in raw cacao nibs then drizzled in luscious chocolate. This truffle invokes the Wild Divine of Mother Nature at her deepest and finest. Infused with a hint of secret spice and essence of Green Jasper for restoring the earthly feminine. Made in honor of Mother Earth Goddess Gaia.

Blue Lily with Honey and Gold-For nurturing, soothing, deep trance and deep calm. Graciously infused with honey, essences of sapphire and gold, and blue lily spagyric. Made in honor of Egyptian Mother Goddess Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility and the element of water.

Ruby Rose- Infused with fine wine, rose absolute, powder of while gold, essences of ruby and wild rose and sprinkled with a dash of vital cayenne, this truffle embodies the passion that is the source of all creation, the deep mysteries of the feminine, the power of devotional love and the firey lifeforce within us all-the spark that creates all things. Made in honor of Mary Magdalene.

White Lotus/Vanilla- An etheric, peace invoking blend in honor of White Tara, the hindu goddess known as the Great Compassionate Mother, Mother Creator and Great Protectress. This truffle is lovingly infused with vanilla and essences of lotus and diamond and represents the element of air.

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