hot scrots and spicy meatballs 🌶

Cosmic Summer self care 🌝

This is a monster substack post about hot scrots, spicy meatballs, Cancer season 🦀 energy and the push-pull of overdoing it when things feel globby, plus ideas for wading the blancmange, including a resource bonanza of Ayurvedic remedies, embodiment offerings, creative ideas and musical tonics, in other words: 😛 spicy seasonal giblets 🌶

🌈 Also, do you know i have a free Summer Series?! Weekly emails direct to your inbox with a yoga + movement practice along with a love note + extra titbits.

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Daaarlings! Cosmic greetings to you!

How are you doing, out here on these spicy streets? 🌶

We’re moving through an intense time energetically. Heatwaves abound in many parts of the world, on that, i hope there can be something here to help you out.

Of course we’re also still very much riding this intense period of time globally where… there’s a lot going on. So although this post is using examples of ‘summertime’ heat, you might apply this boiling point to whatever intensity feels resonant right now.

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Thank you for being, let’s dive in! 🦦

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🌶 Hot scrots

There’s an inappropriate name i give to the particular irritable mood which peppers the summertime: ‘hot scrots’.

This has nothing to do with gender constructs nor genitalia, more a description, like my infamous uncontrollable urge to describe a potentially intense situation as ‘spicy meatballs’; it’s not that we are eating meatballs, rather, we observe the balls of meat are spicy, whether they are our desired thing to eat or not.

Hot scrots carries the same energy.

The scrots are hot.

Scrots might be… balls. Or they might be topics of conversation. They might be a ‘situation’, or a way of being, a form of response… does that make sense? …Have i spoken about hot scrots too much?

Anyway. Summertime is a season potent with hot scrot energy. 

We might notice it as we make our way about the world, trying to access a park so we can stand under a tree to decompress, yet encounter obstacles like SHOUTY people, beepy horns or big car rev energy, vroom vroom, etc.

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So why do we get hot scrots in the summer?

why is this ridiculous scene still so funny? i didn’t even know this phrase was uttered, sorry to anyone who’s ever heard me say this in any class/workhop - welp!