Feral Conjurings is a small business est. in 2017 that began as a passion for holistic, animistic, and omiscent ancient practices aimed to heal, teach, and guide our humankind that is now heavily embraced in modern society, structure, and earth/spirit disconnect. The wares offered to the community reflected and revered wild nature's balance of darkness and light, and the teachings and healing found inbetween when we allow ourselves to be just as feral-hearted and surrendered as our ancient ancestors. This quickly turned into heart-fire for animistic practice, pagan symbolism, culture, diversity, human pain and healing, all that is forgotten and discarded, and enviromental sustainability/ wildlife preservation.
All bones, flora, stones, etc. are respectfully scavenged within the wetlands and forests, all cording, packaging paper and wire are gifted from the community's paper-recycling facility, and chains, beads, and textile scraps are upcycled from thrift finds and gifts.
Weaved togethor with intention and symbolism, the wares that are conjured are an ode to the healing and wisdom we can find all around us, within us, and in our land- even in the dark places, where things are forgotten and awaiting death to become rebirth.
Originally, the Feral Conjuring's offerings and words went under the project name MotherRoot, and all handmade wares were conjured and set on booths in small metaphysical shops along with accepting commisioned, custom work.
MotherRoot booths and commisions closed during the WI pandemic lockdown of 2020. Along with job and home loss, this pushed the project to close down. Soon after, we moved our small family and entire shop north into a renovated school bus in a 1.5 million acre forest called "The Northwoods" (See The Northwoods page.)
While this presented loss and challenges, it pushed us into a world of self-sustainability and a stronger land-connection in our new rural enviroment. It also lead us to deepen our understanding and fully practice our reverence of the healing and wisdom wild nature and all its animistic medicine has to offer. This gave us strive to turn around and offer the online community of the feral-hearted our work, and to work alongside/ learn from the indigenous and forestry department off the Wolf River. Our mission to offer sustainable, enviromentally-conscious, scavenged and upcycled animistic wares centered in healing, respect, and gratitude has only stregthened.
SaVana is the Northwoods scavenger. She sources all the bones, feathers, quills, stones, and botanicals from the forest, wetlands, and roadkill, as well as repurposing all thrifted/gifted beads, chains, cabs, and textile scraps. She is an animistic siedkona who turns the ancient traditions, reverence, and rituals of her Sami, Scandi, Slavic, and Celt bloodline into intention jewelry, soaps, balms and candles, as well as primal bonecraft wares in hopes to impart healing and answer to others. She is studying phytomedicine and death doulaism, as well as starting classes for cultural studies and psychology at tribal school in Spring/22 to become a Tribal Drug Counselor.
Bear stays behind the scenes. When he's not working as the designated Northwoods knife repair/sharpener or welding, hes melting and recycling aluminum cans in his forge to drop for pendants, drilling the scavenged casings and harder bone pieces, shaping the bone mounts, setting blades into the femurs, and keeping all the tools running and sharp. He's studying forestry and nature conservation at tribal school to become a Forest Ranger.
MotherRoot portrait by the Spiritual Art of Steve Samsara. -> stevesamsara.com\ IG: @stevesamsara
