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[@alanschaub147]

In addition to tracking the cycles of nature, I also find it helpful to spend time in natural light. I try to watch the sunrise and sunset. I sit outside during the full moon. I stargaze and feel my connection with the Universe. I light candles at night, instead of turning on artificial lighting. It is rare that I get to sit beside a fire in a fireplace, but when I do it feeds my soul. ☀️ 🌙 ✨ 🕯 🔥

[@iannadillo6922]

I TOTALLY want to be a tree when I die! I have three favorite holidays: Samhain, Yule, and Beltaine.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Those three are my favorite Pagan holidays as well. :)

[@iannadillo6922]

@@ScarletRavenswood Awesome!!

[@davidten-inch3109]

It would be cool to be a tree when I die

[@justpray4hope]

Just wanna say the Chinese follows the phases of the moon for their lunar calendar, I just have to look at the Chinese calendar to know when’s the full moon and new moon. there’s also a holiday for the coming of spring (立春), mid autumn (中秋节) where harvests are offered to the moon in ancient China, and winter solstice (冬至). It’s interesting to know these are ancient practices passed down for generations :)

[@JuanMartinez-Mont1]

Can't get my eyes from...those beautiful cycles.

[@bloominglife37]

I have always said the same thing about how to be buried. Makes sense. Grows some flowers on me🌷. Thank you for this wisdom. You are appreciated

[@jessicarobyns843]

Omg I’m so glad you mentioned wanting to become a tree because I’ve always felt that way. Sometimes when I get sad about death I think about my body becoming part of a tree, and it makes me feel better.

[@leahrose8835]

I have always wanted to be buried to become a tree, even before exploring paganism. 💕

[@redghost9968]

Yeah same😄

[@CadeD679]

That's what I want. I would rather have a beautiful, living tree, which houses life and benefits the environment, over my final resting place than a granite stone. As my body becomes part of the Earth, it will nourish the tree. I think it is a wonderful way to give back to the Earth, which gave me so much in life!

[@redghost9968]

@@CadeD679 That what I wish to due to, my tree would be an apple tree so that I can still be giving even after Im gone😌👃

[@CadeD679]

@@redghost9968 That is beautiful!

[@boop8685]

I've never seen so many people share the same desire to be buried to become a tree after death! I've particularly wanted to be buried with a willow tree for as long as I can remember, it just always felt like the right way to be 'sent off', strangely beautiful that so many of us have such similar experiences with that!! I've always buried pets after they've died in the ground/plant pots and planted whatever plant felt right with them, and hope something similar can be done for me :)

[@kefisher7218]

I have always wanted to be incorporated with a tree or some kind of plant when I die - it’s absolutely the most appealing option to me, and the most natural!

[@LucisFerre1]

I'm an animist, so I recognize that all nature, maths (and physics) has to do with cycles, balance and symmetry. (Sometimes super-symmetry). Both symmetry and "dual wholeness" or dual oneness is part of the ancient occult, hermeticism (alchemy), platonism and neo-platonism, and all sorts of eastern religions. The next step after maximum Yang is stillness (Yin). Both yin and yang share a common chi or qi, and so each moves the other in a constant, ever-changing flow and each constantly create the other.

[@palodine1]

I don't know why, but this is my favorite episode.

[@KlarraDaniele]

I have already planned my natural burial. Currently investing into my land that will be my family cemetery which will be a forest of flowers & vegetation. Natural burials is a developed industry, they even make beautiful woven caskets that’s are embedded with seeds. This is also the healthiest way to go. (The earth around cemeteries are some of the most toxic for caskets do not stay sealed naturally regardless of taken precautions, and as the bodies decompose, all the toxins from the embalming process seep into the earth.)

[@longlivegoodpeople]

I want my corpse launched into space towards a star or something. That they can point up and be like "There's your uncle right up there. No, not metaphorically."

[@WellintentionedWarlock]

Lol

[@WellintentionedWarlock]

My favorite holidays are yule, samhain, and mabon

[@danipereira5136]

I was an intern at a conservation cemetery that did green burials and it was so beautiful! I was a part of many ceremonies and it made me realize that it is something I want to do for myself when I pass. It’s sounds like you might be interested in this too! I really recommend you look into green burials or conservation cemeteries. The one I interned at is called Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery and they are awesome!! A great nonprofit to support if you guys are able to (:

[@CricketsBay]

Thank you for posting this info on conservation burials. Many people don't realize its a real option for human remains.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

This is great! Thanks for sharing :)

[@lavenderhazelwood8778]

Your views on what you'd like to happen to your physical body when you pass are very on par with my own. I would love to help other life grow, and trees hold a special place in my heart.

[@Thewitchescookery]

Lovely video with interesting information :) you should check out organic burial pods, they are basically what you envision. Love&light from a German green witch

[@tomkirma5872]

My favourite is Yule 🎄

[@suprememoonbeam4986]

Great video. Energy can't be created or destroyed. It just changes form. Supreme Moonbeam building with the masters of the universe.

[@Biestdrinker]

Good to see you kept the dress! And thank you for the video it's one of my favorite topics.

[@muzerhythm2242]

I was exploring options on burials, and found there is a way where you are buried in a case called Bio Egg and for your headstone a tree with a plaque at the base of the tree. I want to do that PLUS have a round bench at a wide diamer for the tree to grown into and on the bench has my name and a poem of finding rest and peace.😁

[@14thgate]

They make tree pod burial things where your body is actually wrapped up with the roots of a sapling. Pretty awesome!

[@caseyouellette4045]

Yule is my favorite holiday.

[@kajagevorgyan250]

I especially feel connected to Mabon and Samhain cause as you can tell i really love Autumn ❤

[@rachelwhilden1208]

My favorite holiday definitely is Samhain 🖤

[@amandafazio3662]

Do you also talk about the old Pagan ways? That's what I'm more interested in. And I totally love your idea of burial, it's the most beautiful way to become one with nature. Samhein is my favorite holiday.

[@certainlylost3889]

I've been saying that I'd like to be buried like that for years now! I just find so much comfort in the idea of my body going "back to the earth," rather than being artificially preserved.

[@invadertifxiii]

this is my first year for each sabbat, i started with litha last year

[@gemmadoherty8919]

I totally get the tree thing. My husband and I both want to be buried in a woodland cemetery... no markers, just a woodland to go and walk in if someone wants to remember/connect to us. Lovely. Personally I only celebrate May Day (Beltane) spiritually from the WotY (the others are more social for me) but then I celebrate on the changes in meteorological seasons (1 Mar, 1 June, 1 Sept, 1 Dec here in the UK) as its when the changes in the natural world are strongest where I live. Plus the lunar cycle!

[@heatherfeather1293]

Samhain and Yule are my favorites!

[@meganlynn1900]

Thank you for creating content for us. I appreciate you wanting to educate us!! Definitely going to check out your other links!

[@natachaguyot]

Love this! Congratulations on launching your Patreon! Much love!

[@DaveBanks]

Wonderful information

[@luna-vm5ie]

thank you so much

[@DrVodun]

Great Video! Keep going with them very informal for the beginners of the craft

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Thanks! Glad you liked the video :)

[@waynewatts8736]

Sauwane is my favorite holiday.😜

[@alextremodelnorte1905]

This is a very cozy video from a very cozy planet.

[@tyson7687]

Becoming a tree isn't morbid at all. My husband and I have spoken about which saplings we would like our ashes to be part of. He wants to be a redwood and I want to be a mountain pine.

[@Kellylmiller30]

Love all of this, thank you...keep it up!

[@pedromiguelabdofidelisdepa4732]

I really don't like the procedure of filling a corpse with a lot of conserving chemicals so it looks good while a lot of people look at it for days before burying it in a concrete grave. The way christianity normaly treats death is pretty annoying to me

[@ExploreTanakh24]

There are other faiths that view death in more nastier ways. People can't keep pointing the finger at Christianity for everything in the world. Just like the muslims try to blame Jews for everything.

[@pedromiguelabdofidelisdepa4732]

@@ExploreTanakh24 I can point my finger at christianity for a whole lot of problems in the world. Yes, I know there are other nasty religions, but I point my finger at Jesus's fanbase becase their church has acted as government and held immense power in western countries for centuries, and made decisions that impact people until today. I don't think Brazil (where I live) would kill nearly as many LGBT people as it does if it had not spent over 500 years under hardcore catholic government. That goes for racism too, because the Church would justify slavery saying "black people have no soul" and make a lot of gold out of it. The massive murder of native americans throughout these past 500 years was religiously driven too (and the Church made a lot of gold out of it). Many people have problems accepting themselves, their bodies, their sexuality and the color of their skin beacause they were raised in radical christian families, and in a continent were christian is standard I point my finger at christianity. In Brasil we have Bolsonaro, in USA they have Trump, two ignorant people full of religious prejudices that do impact everybody's lives. I wish I could just forget about christianity and its tyranny, but my continent's history and culture won't let me.

[@crocketgsxr6]

You do even need to do that anymore with the modern refrigeration.there are no laws in any state requiring embalming anyway. The only thing you may come across is a refrigeration or embalming requirement if the burial doesn't take place withing a certain time, but that is a health department thing. There just saved you a thousand bucks. it's a cost they is pushed even know the service isn't needed at all.

[@lunawolfheart336]

Yeah it's just wierd. I grew up mormon Wich is a wierd branch of Christianity and the funerals were always full of boring religious talk and looking at the dead body and as a kid I just found it all a bit wierd and really didn't understand what was going on

[@lunawolfheart336]

@@crocketgsxr6 it's not a requirement it's just inforced by how our culture is

[@bethanygreenwood8259]

I think the moment I fully understood "The Circle of Life" in The Lion King is the moment I started my pagan path lol. Would certainly be happy to use my body to nourish the earth!

[@acutabove5240]

Yes … part of the sea when I transcend 😊

[@solracalayac]

Scarlet, you make my heart melt. when i look at you i feel like I'm dreaming.

[@ronofthesea5953]

I lit a candle at noon on Beltane. Thanks for the idea.

[@JeremiahCrow]

Great video as always 👍🏻 Good luck on the Patreon - may join when the job returns

[@DetroitAllyCat]

Love this content!!!!

[@jconway0127]

Yes! It’s a living urn where you can select a tree you want to be when you die. I so want to do this.

[@feliciadeatherage5974]

Oh my goodness! I've always said I am going to return as a tree!!!

[@angelicrealm222]

I know what you mean about pagans not being afraid to die. I am not afraid of death, because I know I will be reborn. Also my favorite Sabbat is Samhain :) Bright blessings my friend!

[@whynterstorme9592]

I want someone to just dump my body in the woods for the animals to eat. And my favorite holiday is Beltane!

[@AshleyWeill]

I’m a sucker for Samhain

[@LucisFerre1]

Green plants only use minerals and water in the soil, so you can be cremated and then the ashes used to fertilize a tree or forest or to be sprinkled in "living water", i.e. moving water like a river or stream. This is actually not uncommon.

[@SeekerOfWisdom]

Hi Scarlet, great video. I'm fairly new on my path which I document on my own channel, I really like how you explain things in your videos

[@ScarletRavenswood]

That's awesome you have a channel too! Just subscribed :)

[@SeekerOfWisdom]

@@ScarletRavenswood brilliant thank you :)

[@danilles.4247]

Omg yes. i've actually communicated my death plan to my partner, and he knows that when I die I want to be buried in a natural burial site in my city. They wrap your body in a linen shroud, lower you in a shallow hole, then close family and friends can participate in filling the hole up with dirt and flowers. You can't plant a tree but you can opt for wild flowers.

[@eringovoni4416]

This sounds lovely!

[@readingsbycara]

Scarlet, _you are beautiful._ #staywell everyone. ♥️

[@readingsbycara]

Yes, we have lost / forgotten our celestial rhythms. *They still govern us.* Yet we dismiss them and swim upstream. *Note:* "we" above doesn't include the viewership here, who are - by virtue of watching this content - are at least aware and eager to learn ancient wisdom. ♥️

[@readingsbycara]

Scarlet, thank you for continuing to educate. ♥️

[@halie4819]

I am all for the idea of a green burial. There are places in the US that have designated land for such burials. I think this is becoming more popular not only for the reduced cost but also many respecting the true meaning of dust to dust. Here in Iowa I have done a little research. If I own or know someone that owns property out of city limits then paperwork can be done to organize a green burial. All parties have to be in agreement of a few things and it is not necessary to have a casket and such. But I do plan to investigate more into this. I have years of experience in health care and if a person lives in a big city and has their body designated to being donated to science.... they may have a good supply and reject the body to be dealt with by the family or to be cremated. So this is a very important plan ahead.... we all will die one day and it is best to have a meaningful plan in place (especially if you are conscious of what goes into the Earth). Love and Light to all

[@korydahn3237]

Samhain and Ostara

[@kloerose2474]

i either wanna be buried in a forest or squished into a cool-looking rock. I will haunt both

[@mikeprice5345]

Lovely dress! Check out Jimmy pages dragon suit,it took over a year to hand embroider it. He wore it in concert from 1975 thru 77.

[@tatianka30006]

I'd love to be a tree! Or my ashes scattered in a beautiful forest. My favorite pagan holiday is Mabon!

[@Erynenchanted]

I think there is a place (maybe in Washington?) where you can legally be made into compost when you die. I thought it would be creepy and fun to have some portioned out to friends/family so they can grow stuff with me 😂

[@CricketsBay]

Eco-burials and Conservation-burials are a real thing. They are becoming more popular. Caitlin has s great video on this topic in the Ask a Mortician KZbin Channel.

[@trinitygrace145]

I am just now exploring paganism, but i have always said that i want to be buried bare to become food for earth! i have never understood coffins tbh.

[@pissed555]

Wow, you are gorgeous!!! Love your channel and your content!

[@larryhahn9526]

they now have eco burials where you are buried with tree seed and wrapped in a shroud. legal in some placesf

[@gpsit4u166]

There is no point on being burried in a coffin. I am more drawn to fire naturaly(personaly) so spredind my ashes and mixing them with soil (not water) will also be useful to nature.

[@ExploreTanakh84]

Hey there, I want to know if you have any really good books on Paganism you would like to recommend. I enjoy reading a lot and have a variety of books. 🙂

[@robertdineen1586]

I want to have a pyre at sea, my family is from Nova Scotia so I'd do it off the coast (pending legality)

[@annawallace4943]

I want a Willow tree,already shared this with my kids.

[@tedgrizwold2744]

wow, the tree thing really brought back memories of Orson Scott Card's book "Speaker for the Dead". Specifically a type of alien race that is like half tree/half pig... i think. "Their society is matriarchal and gender-segregated, and their belief system centers around the trees of the forests. " Anyways, weird reference. Hey, can you do a video on "leylines"? Would love to hear your take on that if you havn't already done it.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Hi Ted, Laylines is a really interesting idea for a future video! I recommend considering joining my community on Patreon www.patreon.com/scarletravenswood if you have topics you'd like to suggest. All my Patreons get to vote and help choose the topics for my future videos. :)

[@tylerthejokerfan4966]

I would wanna get shot up too mars while life on mars by david bowie plays when i die

[@SarahEsmaeWolfe]

I want to have my ashes become a hawthorn tree, with bio urns you can choose the specific tree!

[@mikailamoon]

Love your dress!!! Where did you get it? PS Love all of your videos 😍

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Glad you like my videos. The dress is from Lulus :)

[@zeppelincurse8381]

Do we come back, merge with a simultaneous life stream, or vibrate to a more subtle frequency of consciousness? Or...something else? Impossible to know. Perhaps our beliefs create the destination?

[@sammycastonguay7439]

Whoa! That was an intense one, Scarlet! What a cool reveal there at the end. You seem electrified by your new found knowledge of your perceived personal role, and so happy looking to share these words with you supporters. As a geoscience educator, I too really, really value and respect your educational goals (especially to have content available for free...but still make a living) and to bring a focused awareness to your role in assisting the spiritual and material sustainability of the humans. It is very clear we cannot do the later without healing the former. I know you are very careful in your content to avoid any political touchy subjects, and I commend you on your ability to do so (though Id encourage you to go there someday...), can I suggest a pagan slash global politics subject... patriarchy. One of my deepest early attractions to wicca, as a man, was the pursuance of bringing a balance between genders (Im not currently wiccan, and am much more familiar with gender fluidity as I feel the goddess). The new found focus (or purpose did you say??) you have here on earth (education, spiritual connection, planetary sustainability) inevitably entangle very deeply with the hold of patriarchy on all of these systems (no?). I would be interested to see you develop content (down the road, or in a series, or an annual update) on the collision of patriarchy and the way forward. Cheers!

[@chrisadimitriadou]

hello, could you provide a source on planet movements please? It would also be interesting at the beginning of each month to mention those "important" dates sth that I personally find equally educating.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Sure, each week we go over the planetary movements and moon phases on my podcast :) www.cosmickeyspodcast.com/

[@BlazeLeeDragon]

bio urn, you can actually do that

[@aggyzander]

I want my ashes in one of those urns that grows into a tree

[@lilykatmoon4508]

Yes! I do want to become a tree when this body dies.

[@lutherdean6922]

thanks for sharing this, I would want to become a tree totally

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Glad you liked the video :)

[@luisselby7041]

As a roman catholic believer this pagan woman is beautiful and classy...

[@AusDenBergen]

I completely agree with your desire for death. As a water person who's always has a relationship with the sea, even being a commercial fisherman for some years, I wanted to be buried at sea so I can spend my eternity with my first and final true love. The sea.

[@meredithematthews5937]

Can I just say in my Will I have be a tree listed for if/when I die. The man putting it together for me was like, excuse me 🧐. That was like 3 years ago and I just said it’s a company for a more natural burial 😂 my kids will know what it means.

[@heatherdks1]

I actually have it written in my will that I want to become a tree

[@Devast8r34]

Omg the more you speak the more I think the exact same. Especially I have to be buried naked so I can feed the soil worms nature and the earth not so worried about becoming a tree but feeding the cycle that feed me!

[@PondersTech]

I would love to become a tree when I die

[@babyirene3188]

Good job To be a tree: very high aspiration ;)

[@goncalocarvalho4917]

I like the idea of being buried in nature and serve to help a tree grow. In a fully respectful way....You look gorgeous today ;)

[@mesafatboy1]

I love your thoughts on being buried to become part of a tree. I wrote this one last week. I guess I feel the same way: Love is the universe. She is in me and I am her. Her warm breath blows love throughout every star and seed. You are the flower. You are the universe. The flowering universe is in you and you are her. Cast your seeds to the fertile soil and let the universe's love spark new life everywhere. Love is our life's destiny. Fire is our leader. The fire from within leads to the path of creation. Cast your seeds on the path of creation. Creation is love from the flames. Follow the extinguished flames. Again broadcast your seeds with every step and let love follow. We are the flower of love. We are the creators. Love is the universe. She is in us and we are her.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Thanks for sharing that beautiful passage! :)

[@christineridings417]

When I live my life to the fullest and pass away I want to be cremated and shattered on my family farm and woods. I want to become a guardian spirit for that land and watch my future generations grow.

[@markhengenesis6836]

nice hair.. you change signature :) it's nice

[@lunawolfheart336]

I'd like to be barried in nature because then my energy can be reused instead of just taking space in some graveyard.

[@ronofthesea5953]

Wow my ex - wife said the same thing about how to die/decompose. I caught it on audio and thought it was rather a beautiful little speech. I have it on my VeRONica Secret channel. It's a short video called "The Beauty of Death - Dolly-osophy".

[@manishtr5328]

Sounds similar to hindu calendar.

[@davemcbeardface8976]

I’m just starting my path on paganism, but I have always wanted to be buried how our describe

[@cunningmancrowe5483]

Ya wanna learn about the wheel of the year, the cycles? Go work on a small farm for a farmer.

[@anaperon]

I want to be a three when I die!! Yees

[@donnaterry85]

Is donating your body to science encouraged in the pagan community? I want to be used as a cadaver in universities and medical research.

[@pedromiguelabdofidelisdepa4732]

I find that idea amazing as a pagan scientist!

[@halie4819]

Hey Donna. I have lived in Iowa since 2012 but before that I was born and raised in Tennessee. I wanted my body to be donated to science (at the University of Tennessee) they have a place called the body farm... this allows for the study of body decay through different elements and time frames (a great asset for not only scientist but FBI and law training). But when I moved to Iowa I no longer qualified. I think it would be a great idea to see what is available in your area. And to know that plans may need to change if you relocate.

[@donnaterry85]

@@halie4819 Thank you for this! I do have future plans to move out of state. I will definitely be looking into what Washington state says about this.

[@eringovoni4416]

I am so happy to see someone else is asking this and wants this too. I have always been looked at like a crazy person when I say I would like to be donated to science to it can help others.

[@dianabakes1]

I totally get wanting to become a tree when you die! IF I were to be buried, that's how I would want done. But I have a weird aversion to being buried... Not that I would be able to say anything about it once I'm dead, but I've made it known to my husband that I want to be cremated. My ashes could be scattered or not.. But I'd rather not be buried at all and I can't explain why I feel so averse to the idea!

[@BattleofTrenton]

About to fall out of the shirt in the biginjing

[@LucisFerre1]

Lovely dress BTW.

[@ScarletRavenswood]

Thanks :)