The scent is medicinal and comforting, like an understanding hug from mom when you're sick. As it dries down it becomes more incensey and deep, majestic and sacred feeling. It's a big helpful presence for sure, like burying yourself in warm thick fur to survive the coming deep freeze, secure in the knowledge you will survive. I absolutely love this, which I was not prepared for being a Saturn series and all. When nights are long and dark and all hope seems lost Mammoth is a most wonderful friend.

For when you don’t know what’s going on and you need to keep your head in the game while giving zero fcks.
It’s uplifting in the sense that it helps you not get dragged down by the situation at hand.
A clear head makes everything better and allows you to find solutions without being overly emotional or too invested in the particular outcome.
We’ll get through it (maybe using our tusks and all!) and it’ll be ok, kinda vibe.

I just received the powder on the 24th, and almost immediately, before engaging intimately, noticed an uptick in focus and my ability to gather myself x anything related to life admin-ing. It’s also meant *actually* doing/tackling it. One task at a time, with presence, clarity and care. I have suffered from extreme fatigue and health issues in recent years that have severely hindered my ability to executively function. In recent days, Venus x Saturn syncs have felt potent and repetitive, nudging me back towards this energy. Today, for the first time, I decided to fully engage and within the hour: (1) a picture of the Ama Dablam snowy mountains appeared randomly on my computer. When I looked further into it, it read: “Ama Dablam means "mother's necklace"; the long ridges on each side like the arms of a mother (ama) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures of the gods, worn by Sherpa women.” And (2) moments later, a participant in an online gathering I was in, centered on Divine Discipline, shared her experience and left us with these *exact* parting words: “Prepared. Preserved. Protected.” Such a beautiful and powerful introduction to this energy. A new favorite. Tremendous, tremendous gratitude your way.

The oil is incredibly friendly, steady and wise. I feel like I am tapping into ancient knowledge, and it’s very much alive…. Do not sit this one out, trust me. I have Saturn in its fall, in the 8th AND Cap Moon. This oil feels like remediation; when you understand, the healing has begun.

This series really makes me feel contained and connected to Saturn in a different way that I appreciate

Supports focus, persistence, and wisdom.

Mammoth subset was helping me to build my content for my TikTok. It was encouraging me to be trust in my own process and more patient. When I appointed it to myself, I felt so big than myself like I am riding on the ancient Mammoth and handling the scythe rather than riding on a dragon, you know I mean? Also, I feel this more Ying than yin.

After I posted a video on TikTok, I felt so good. Like I was sowing and reaping through dedication and hardworking.

I’ve tried Mammoth only on e, while meditating under the spectre of a nightshade truffle. It was by far, the most intese experience I’ve had with S+ materia. My first impression was that it smelled like fuel, which sort of made sense? It was early August in NYC and as I laid down, I realized I needed to wrap myself in a blanket because I was cold. From there, I wrote, “I went into the shadows…not too deep, but deep.” I did a second pass through the shadows and found myself rescuing my inner child from dark, murky water where she’d been neglected, abandoned…stuck. Me rescuing myself from being stuck in the nothingness. Possibly with an assist from the ancestors.

I got a bit of the oil to help me with the endurance needed for grad school and boy does it deliver. It's helped me deal with imposter syndrome, blow through difficult projects I've been putting off like editing my first book, and has helped me genuinely enjoy the discipline required to be a good student.

I held off from getting any SiA materia as I am very Saturn-heavy and Aquarius-heavy. Already regarded as an ice queen by plenty. I was too curious about the Mammoth subset, however, and got the powder. I was not pulled to engage it for awhile (esp. when Cap II was right there and doing its thang quite nicely), but eventually tested the waters-borne and sampled a bit. Then, a week or two later, was seeing synchronicities of the panoramic icy mountain landscape to the point I could no longer ignore, and meditated with the incense powder after using TM. That brought the most intense experience of any engagement of any S + S materia I have ever had. Reader, I was literally just holding the bottle and opening it to smell the powder. I don't know why this particular use on this particular day did this, but it was transcendent. Like visions of the personification of the character of this subset, slightly out-of-body. It has not always been like this when I've used it, but seemed to me to be the time to really connect with it in a way I can't shake. Since then, I have not had that experience but quickly connect with it in the way that I need to - like the bond of mutual reception has been earned. For my particular astrology and personality, it really helps cut through the proverbial when I need it to - I often am repulsed by emotional/social hangovers and tend to dislike too much emotion, and this takes that all away when it occurs, like a pure return to self. I really thought it would keep me too cold (emotionally), but it actually helped me recognize the wonderful aspects of that part of my personality in a way I have never connected to it before. Self-acceptance of it. I am -so very grateful- for this materia. If you are similar, or have similar astrology, do not fear the Mammoth.