Black Seed OIL; a new addition to my winters...

 When the cold begins to knock at our doors,

there are few things that I always make sure are in the kitchen to prepare for our Canadian Winters...

• Black Pepper (by itself or under its many forms such as Lemon Pepper)
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Cayenne Pepper or Paprika
• Mentholatum or its western equivalents... Vicks  or Vaporubs

Theses spices mixed with honey in a tea of  your likeness such as Rosemary tea, mint tea, Lilac tea, Pine tea , beetroots tea, citronella tea, Brazilian Euphorbia tea are either cough preventive or powerful chest cleansers should you catch the cold. These are great for the immune system. 

In my native land, BENIN REPUBLIC, Ginger syrup mixed withsome hot water are often used drank during the cold days of the Harmattan season...

Now this past winter, I discovered that in GREECE,  ginger and lemon during the Winter, are often a go to.... 

https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/02/21/ginger-with-lemon/

And these have been my winter allies over the years, and even more so during the Covid pandemic, since I could not receive the vaccine because of a certain health condition of mine & complied myself with the alternative of covering myself; Maybe some day I'll share fully all the things I did during that season to ensure my immune system remained strong including the Holy Angel who vaccined me in a dream.

Now that I am discovering the wonders of Black SEED OIL, I am considering to add it to our kitchen...

 

With such wonders provided by nature, Winter will always be a lovely season... This said... Do you have any plans this winter? I am personnally eyeing the Banff Trial Riders, Winsport and other amazing locations and Christmas markets that are a win during the Christmas Season in our city and our nation... What movies do you watch? Or what books do you read during the winter months? 

This said, I wish us all a magnificent Winter 2025 / 2026!!!

Y.I.H. Princess Fanny Magnificat V 

of the Kingdom of CANADA, the kingdoms of DANXOME, SAVALOU and the empires of NIKKI, OUIDAH & FULA in BENIN Republic

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The Lougheed Gardens

The Lougheed Gardens

I visited the Lougheed Gardens...

actuallyyyy...

Not just I, but We...

My mother came with me...

It was a Mother & Daughter's date...

It was a sunny bright afternoon...

So....

I visited the Lougheed Gardens

The Bus driver had never heard of it

But He knew where to drop me off

Thank Calgary Transit!

I can always rely on you....

And so...

I visited the Lougheed Gardens

Preceded by the Grey Praying dove ensuring I miss not the place

WOW!!!!! was my first response when I soptted it across the streets

The Greek architeture that surrounds the Gardens opened by 

the Lilac Trees explains why it is a destination to magnify joy in the city

Verily and truly......

I visited the Lougheed Gardens

in this magnificent month of my birth I meditated there

Nesting myself in the Brawn Family Rose gardens

 Its gate mystically transported you to another dimension

where your being would find the peace it needed

Guess What? 

I visited the Lougheed Gardens

~Princess Fanny Magnificat V~ 

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FLYBALL, their invention

 In my village

Praying doves known as ... mourning doves

along with 

the squirrels and the black / whites/ navy blue Breves

invented a game one summer

...FLYBALL...

From my window

I watched them taking a break from their daily duties

and play ...FLYBALL...

I'm sure they'd approve

 of the name I gave it

In my city - village,

the birds and the squirrels 

play ...FLYBALL...

It's their invention

...FLYBALL...

@Y.I.H. PRINCESS FANNY MAGNIFICAT V,

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Black Friday 2023!

 Greetings one and all...

This is not the blog I had planned for today, but I am glad it is what it is... As the Holy Writ reminds us, mankind plans, but the Creator fers the last word, adds the final touch or / and modifies the plans...

Well, today is Black Friday , so I burnt some incense for you, and it is alllll black...

Here, I have made some Thuja Incense with the abundance of Thuja that grows around my village, and within my parish... 

Well, if you wish to know more about my devotion to St Sealtiel (also known as St Salaphiel ) Archangel, join me and many others  on my youtube channel to pause - ponder - marvel  while incensing.

Have a magnificent Black Friday, and if you haven't read my poem titled...My Blackness... search my blog or get my book by clicking on the word ...Village.. above...

Aloe Vera

 Aloe Vera became part of my life over a decade ago when I actually bought the plant itself as an indoor plant not for decoration only, but as well for health purposes.

You see the moment I entered the age of puberty, and my feminity began to manifest itself monthly as my Heavenly had designed my womanhood to be; I was glowing month after month.

In the journey of glowing, I would be faced with a  genuine cross; Dysmenorrhea.

See I was never the type who gets moody during my cycle. I don't become upset or cranky like some women do. However, in my case I could eat things that were too sweet, I would have severe cramps. I had a severe case of Dysmenorrhea. Now I say 'I had' because I was miraculously healed by the Eucharist years later while at Holy Mass. However, the journey from the carrying of my cross to the healing and after the development of a new regiment was very interesting. Fortunately or unfortunately for me, it was often when my cycle was near that I was tempted to have sweets, outside of Brown Sugar in my porridges or Honey that was a routine I had since childhood. It might be subtle, but when you pay close attention to my youtube videos on MEGALUNEI TV, you'll notice in my recipes that I often use these two in recipes. And ... when baking goodies like my Jewish Bread, the closest to white sugar is ... a sugar I discovered recently made of SUGARCANE... And anything sugarcane is my best friend, because I grew eating lots of sugarcane, cracking it in between my teeths. I could cover Sugarcane in an other blog, if it is of interest to anyone. Just let me know in the comment section. 

With a severe case of Dismenorrhea,going to work at times with severe pain was awful.Worse, I was constantly at the pharmacy to buy some pain killers. When I realised that my body was literally saturated with these pain killers, and were not really responding anymore; you see with pain killers, or commonly known here as (Advil, Tylenol),  there is only a certain number that you can take per day. Well, I began to think about other options, meanwhile praying whatever my lips, my mind, my body willed to lift to God in prayer. I must admit that these were days of constant offerings, as I had learned from some of the saints to offer my sufferings for my own salvation & that of souls. Lo behold, such acts of offerings in my case were often incredible spiritual pain killers... interestingly enough! So my grandmother was often coming to mind, and I decided I would research what plants were good fo my situation... I could not ask my maternal Granny since plants in my native land for such were not necessarily in Canada, but having instilled in me the love for natural remedies. I started to investigate, and ALOE VERA  was the first of many to come into my life.  

Although ALOE VERA is great at alleviating the pain, not alleviating the pain, but restoring your hormonal cycle by combating the pains as some write, don't do what I did... I was taking it (the gel) raw  when chopping it bit by bit from the plant, and extracting the gel from within the skin. It is very bitter, but it works, and whenever I took that I didn't have to take any pharmaceutical product.

Now, the proper way others recommend to take handle Aloe Vera in Phytotherapy is to mix the gel extract with something like juice or a drink of some sort. There are many reasons; among them is the risk of being subject to some of the plants' side effects , because the measurement of each intake is not clearly defined.

You see, for me in those days, when I was comparing the pharmaceutical products  to the portions I was taking, I knew that whatever the side effect may be ... it could definitely not be worse than these chronic pains... Well, eventually, I got my own warning from the plant. The side effect I faced was ear ringing... Since I knew about it, the moment it started I modified my intake appr😉ach slowly but surely...

Years have past since my healing, but ALOE VERA has not passed, and Ive tried different methods. I have taken it as juices...

These days when I go to the grocery store or to the dollar store, I get it as a drink; Aloe WATER (something a sister in Christ introduces me too, when I shared how much I love Aloe Vera...)

 Now as much as ALOE VER does wonders within the body, it is also often usen for skincare and haircare... At times, we get ALOE VERA gifts when our family does grocery online, or as gifts from neighbors such as this fine... Irish Spring ALOE VERA SOAP...  

I am always surprised whenever such gifts arrive. In my Black Natural Hair community, many of the women have showed their tesimonials of ALOE VERA's wonders on their hair, and their daughters' hair.... from the making to the application... Here is an example of a little girl & her mother on using ALOE VERA...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9up8xmuup_M

 I myself haven't embark on using it for my beautiful black natural hair yet... When it comes to pass, it will definitely be on MEGALUNEI TV, however, I have purchased Shampoo / Conditioner's brands (such as TRES EMME, my current shampoo) that have ALOE VERA in it...

  Now it is not just not just African Women or  Women of African Descent who use it, there are many other women in my Women Outreach Ministries group who have used Aloe Vera, but not as many who trends toward my youtube channel as my African Sisters...  

Thank you for your time... Pax Christi!

~Your Imperial Highness Princess Fanny Magnificat V ~

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