This elixir began as a gift from a friend of seven cacao pods who wanted to become medicine. A journey with the drum into a cacao forest revealed the instructions to peel, ferment, dry, and process the beans. I made offerings for eleven days and left them next to the roses, along with many prayers. The roses were gathered on the eleventh day, on the full lunar eclipse, and made into a glycerite, which I opened and strained on my birthday, and added to the cacao elixir. This is a medicine for the body, heart, and soul—a medicine that nourished me deeply as it was being made—and I’m honored to share it with you. Tune in to the subtle energetics of the plants and the prayers, and I know you’ll feel the magic.