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Honoring the Spirit of Autumn Equinox

Items for Kriket’s Autumn Equinox ceremony.Autumn Equinox is a time of intensified energetic frequency. We have a sacred opportunity to honor the harvest of intentions cultivated at the Spring Equinox and nurtured by the light of the Summer Solstice. Equinox has been celebrated by our agricultural ancestors, awaiting the end of the harvest and the beginning of our slippery slope into the darker days.

I actively seek powerful messages during Equinox. Messages which share with me the efficacy of my work since Winter Solstice. I examine the dreams I incubated after Solstice, the seeds I have planted at Spring Equinox, and the growth I see at Summer Solstice.

In these moments, Spirit invites us to recognize our link to the universe’s cycles, through which we deepen our inherent knowingness of the oneness we are. We become aware of the abundance that we embody simply by being alive. For those on a journey to deepen spiritual connection, who strive to live from a place of higher purpose, it is the perfect time to open ourselves to embodying spirit and taking our shamanic development to the next level. It is a great time to celebrate our spiritual growth and acknowledge ourselves as beings of Spirit with the potential to profoundly impact the world around us. [Read more…]

October Moons and Spirit Prayers

I am going to enjoy the energy this month’s October moons. I love that we have a Blue Moon at Samhain. Exciting. I have dedicated hours of my life in prayer. Singing Prayer. Reciting Prayer. Writing Prayer. Free Flow Prayer. Dance Prayer. Rattle Prayer. Drum Prayer. Joiking is prayer. Glossolalia is prayer. Slam Poetry can be a blissful prayer of words in motion. We get it, right 😉

When I was immersed in Christian mythology I believed prayer was ‘asking for things’. A number of years ago I attended a workshop led by a woman from the Dagara tradition of Burkina Faso. During this experience, my relationship to prayer shifted – completely. I could not tell what she was saying, for it is not my language, but in her prayers, she was yelling at her spirits. The “younger than me” now say ‘mind blown’, well that certainly would apply. BOOM!! It broke the restraints, I had placed unconsciously on it. [Read more…]

Secrets of West

I had to walk a long time on the Medicine Wheel before I was ready to merge with West. Water is the Element of West. The Spirit Keeper of West is Mudjekeewis, who manifests so beautifully as the Great Bear.

On the wheel, the time of the Mudjekeewis is the Evening till Midnight, autumn, our adult years to elder time. This is the time of slowing down & taking stock of experiences, of going within, like the Grizzly in autumn, of going within spiritually, gaining strength from the knowledge earned; prepare for the time of “winter” or later times.

Like East it touches all three worlds. The depth of the Lower World, the mystical and magical middle world, the ancestral sky wisdom.

As with South, West widened my spiritual vision. We begin in the water, we gestate in water. Dreams and visions gestate in the darkness and the moisture of our fertile imagination and creativity. When I view a sunset, or look on the line, between land and water, I am reminded of my Ancestors stories of…. the betwixt and the between. The land is known, but still very mysterious. We seek to rest at the end of the day and chase our dreams, which is why dreams, lie in the West.

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Poisoned Water

Water has been my gateway between the worlds for as long as I have known about worlds. Water travels through the smallest parts of our human body, it makes sense it winds its way through every aspect of our psyche as well.

Collective Water

Community Water

The Water Well

We drink from the collective. You and I, together. Every day. Water, the depth of which reflects the depth of soul. The depth of which we measure the depth of the unconscious. The depth of which all the earth waters rise from. We all drink from the waters. The waters in the Spirit World are filled with the memories, lessons, teachings, and countless other parts, of the Ancestors who left their trace to. As much as we can travel into the collective, we can travel into our personal source waters. Examine there what has been left, not only on the shores of your unconscious but dive deep to find what is hidden in the cold and murky waters of Self. [Read more…]

Mind Medicine

How many times have you asked yourself “Am I really seeing this?” or “How can I trust myself…”? It is invaluable to ask yourself questions to stir your own consciousness to be, as much as one can be, objective when pursuing a relationship to Self and the Spirit World.

We all bump up against our own limitations, biases, and preconceived notions of how connected or open-minded we are. We only bump up against ourselves, when we are truly pushing against our own limitations. How does one move from one state of consciousness to another? How does one know when an authentic spiritual connection has occurred? How does one know when they are blocking their own journeys? [Read more…]

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