Placenta Honoring Rituals

Healing with the Placenta

Placental medicine has a holistic component to it that many people tend to ignore. Like many traditional practices, colonial minds have erased spirituality and turned it into an exclusively utilitarian procedure. It is not about making capsules to prevent postpartum depression but about honoring the spirituality, power, and medicine that has been brought to you by this guardian of your child. Contrary to the allopathic beliefs around the uses of the placenta in the same way for all women, is the fact that you might not benefit from certain preparations. Also, the healing that deep in your heart you know is needed for you and your family might not come just from using the placenta as any other bottled supplement.

Just honoring your placenta by planting her can bring ancestral healing to your family's distorted identity, ill relationships, roadblocks to abundance, and lack of hope for the future.

If due to the circumstances of your health previous to your birth, or due to a challenging birth experience your body has faced depletion, malnourishment, or wounds, reincorporating your placenta orally within your early hours of postpartum may be the best way to honor your placenta, yourself, and your family.

Like these, many aspects might influence your decision about the kind of ritual you need. Please, give yourself the time to learn about these rituals and make sure all your questions have been answered before committing to honoring your placenta in a specific way. Let your heart and your placenta guide you.

Omphalomancy - Reading of the Placenta

Do you want to know about your newborn's spiritual gifts told by their Placenta?

How does it serve you?

The reading of the placenta is a tool for getting to know the soul of your child, their life purpose and how to best support them in their upbringing. This reading will become an important tool for your child's self-knowledge and a guide to best live according to their life purpose.

What is it read, what do I need to read

A fact sheet telling the ritual procedures and the resulting reading of your placenta, as well as a photographic record (6 pictures, only if I'm in direct contact with your placenta)

The Mystical Reading of the Placenta

The placenta is an oracle that shows the conditions of energy available at the moment of conception, implantation, pregnancy, and birth. The placenta expresses the energy surrounding the coming of a soul into the physical body.

Reciprocity

This reading is part of all my birthkeeping support packages at $0 cost to the family. If you would like to get read independently, the value of the service is $190

You receive

The energy of the placenta and all parts of the placenta are read. To give a more detailed reading, I need to be in contact with the placenta, but the reading could be done by looking at videos or pictures of your placenta.

Placenta Planting Ritual

Do you want to root your child's existence by offering back their Placenta to the Earth?

What do you need to Plant

Your placenta and the natural elements you want to welcome into your altar and offering. The rest depends on the place of the offering. Contact me if you have questions.

You receive

Knowledge-share about the spirituality of the placenta, an avío (offering), and the officiation of the ritual.

Root and Give Thanks

The planting ritual is an ancestral responsibility. It gives back to the Earth abundance and nourishment as a way of giving thanks for the life of your child. This gratitude act roots the soul of your child and reconnects your ancestral lineages to the Land, her spirits, and power.

Reciprocity

The planting ritual is part of all my birthkeeping support packages at $0 cost to the family. If you would like to get a ceremony independently, the value is $360

Placenta Art & Amulets

Are you looking for art to preserve the memory of your child's birth and ancestral inheritance?

Options

Tree of life, placenta prints, and compositions. Umbilicus, dehydrated and displayed in a shadow box, or woven into an amulet. Blood crystals or ink.

Conditions

Created as part of the medicine making with the placenta. 

Art is Memory & Power

Beautifully keepsake the elements of your placenta to honor the ancestral inheritance of your child. Honor these elements as tokens of power and protection in your child's ancestral altar.

Medicine - Placenta Raw or cooked preparations

Would you like to receive the nourishment and medicinal benefits of oral reincorporation of your placenta?

Preparations

Raw: Cotyledon smoothies with fruits or Pieces of cotyledons with honey. Cooked: Placenta and veggie soup.

When and How

Within the first hours after birth I prepare the placenta as you wish for you to consume. I must be present at your birth or visit you as soon after as possible.

Nutrition and Natural Balance

All the amazing benefits you've read that the placenta offers to you happen only if you consume the placenta within the first 72 hours after your natural birth, allowing all your senses to understand what is being ingested so that your body knows how to best receive it.

Reciprocity

These preparations may be part of my birthkeeping support packages for a fee. If you would like to get a preparation independently, the value is $180

Medicine - Placenta Mother Tincture

Would you like to have a comprehensive medicine suited for all your family available for postpartum and beyond?

How it's done

Part or all of your placenta may be transformed into a tincture. The procedure is a ritual of 40 days and 40 nights of daily tending. The result is a potent preparation that if diluted in homeopathical doses may support a vast range of health processes and imbalances for you and your family. I pick up your placenta and tend to her transformation for your whole Dieta (40 days pp) and then, return it to you in a mother tincture with micro-dosing instructions, a photographic record, and an offering jar for planting.

Reciprocity

This transformation service value is $480

A family medicine

Your placenta can become a treasure of homeopathical preparations when transformed into a proper tincture, supported by the plant medicine that best resonates with you and your birth experience.

Medicine - Placenta Dehydration

Would you like to have a convenient medicine for postpartum recovery?

How it's done

I may come to your home to transform or pick up your placenta and tend to her transformation using the method best suited for your postpartum needs (Traditional Chinese Method or As it is). Then, I return it to you in an amber jar with dosage instructions and an offering jar for planting. Depending on the preparation method, I may also provide a broth for your consumption.

Reciprocity

This transformation service value is $360

Reincorporate your Placenta

Part or all of your placenta may be dehydrated and powdered for oral consumption. You may choose to have it as a powder or portioned in capsules. The result is a strong preparation that may support your nourishment, holistic adjusting process to your new parent self, and your recovery from childbirth.

Placenta-honoring is a Spiritual Practice

For the people of the Abya Yala, the fertile land known today as South America, the traditions around honoring the placenta are vast and rich in mysticism. The placenta is feared and revered, read, elevated, preserved, eaten raw, cooked, burnt, or planted depending on the different beliefs around her medicine and spiritual powers.

What are YOUR ancestral beliefs about the placenta?

What you and your ancestors believe will greatly determine your openness to receiving your placenta's medicine and healing. If unsure, at least offer your placenta a place to rest by planting her in ceremony.

The three traditions that inform the placenta-honoring rituals I provide to your family

Andean Inga/Quillacinga/Timana

My grandmothers from my mother's side follow the Andean tradition of burying the placenta and blood from birth in the family's chakra (Kichwa for herb and vegetable garden) along with an Avío (offering), to bring abundance and nourishment to the Earth and the family as a consequence. The Placenta, like all parts of us humans, belongs to the Earth Mother, Pachamama.

African Balanta

From my father's side of the family, the ancient traditions of Balantas revere and plant the placenta next to the elder's home, or in secrecy in the place of power that best suits the spiritual interests of the family for the baby. The placenta is the bridge for the "Faiyeh", life power, to enter from the ancestors into the incarnated body of the newborn.

My maestra partera Zaraswati Zambrano, from the School of Andean Midwifery Biopartera, taught me her family's art of omphalomancy. I learned from her and her teaching team of artists, chemists, and biologists a ritualistic approach to artistic creations with the placenta and western technologies for placental medicine making. 

An Andean partera's family tradition and Modern medicine making

The two rituals that will always benefit Latino families

Those of us who have been categorized as Latino, regardless of our ancestral origins, have experienced and continue to experience institutional discrimination and violence. Most of us have long histories painted with all the tonalities of trauma one can imagine, yet we are still here, we are resilient and want to do our best to turn our peaceful, dignified, and empowering birthing and parenting vision a reality

And offer your placenta back to the Earth

Returning your placenta is an ancestral duty. It reconnects the soul of the placenta, the guardian of your baby, and your baby's soul with the Earth Mother, her love, abundance, magic, and freedom, all the aspects of your right to live that were taken away from your ancestors due to colonization. When you offer your placenta in ceremony, your blood ancestors rejoice, and the ancestors of the land anchor your child so that they can grow and flourish with dignity and power.

Then read your placenta,

It gives you a great understanding of your child's gifts and life purpose in relationship to you, your family, and the world. This helps you to support them in being themselves at their fullest because their existence and expansion heal us all.

Both these rituals are included in all my birthkeeping support packages. 🥰

If I am your birth keeper, you will have them ❤️ No need to book separately

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