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Healing with the Elements

As the New Year is upon us, I wanted to let you know we have a new video class coming to you this winter. It is called Daily Tools for Shamanism, full of tidbits of information on smudge, drums, sacred soil, using water in ceremony, and for health. Many insightful ways to further your relationship with Spirit.

I am also inclined to share a ceremony and journey I have used to help with the heaviness of the year. Healing with the Elements, shares a ceremony for you to do, followed by a very unique meditation, connecting you to a deeper Healing with the Elements. This ceremony can be a part of your spiritual tool kit to aid you on your spiritual path. The intention of the ceremony is to provide your deep self an opportunity to exploring healing. It is in the final editing stages and will be available to you in the very near future. [Read more…]

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…]

Amid the Changes

Amid the changes… in Canada, it is the time of Beltane. To our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, it is Samhain. Each hemisphere is in Mother Nature’s cycle of change. In the North we are celebrating the height of spring and the welcoming of summer. Samhain is the time of acknowledging you are moving inwards and towards the longest nite of the year.

But these cross days are like nothing I have ever experienced. Where I live we are ending our Shelter in Place order. I have been very fortunate to have kept my job and have had little disruption to my life. On the outside. On the inside, I have had good days and bad days. I have been sensitive to the energy around me all of my life, and I have become quite resilient through time. I don’t quite feel so resilient right now. I go through waves of sadness, fatigue, frustration, depression, and anger. We have had protests in our City to open up our economy. I have to admit I have been staying off social media. Not because I am not interested in staying in touch with friends, I feel the life sucked out of me when I read the mountains of misinformation, paranoid musings, and conspiracy theories. [Read more…]

How now brown cow?

How Now Brown Cow is a nonsensical phrase, the origin of which is up for debate. Was it really used in Scotland as a way to order a beer, or/and to teach elocution? Whatever the origin, the phrase is outdated and by many, forgotten.

Language is constantly growing and shifting, picking up new words and letting go of others. Shamanism is on a similar trajectory. The language and words used to describe it have shifted and changed, dropping some things and adding others. The origin of the word is often referred to in an off handed manner, with little, or no, meaning attributed to it. [Read more…]

Why Can’t I See Anything?

Why can’t I see anything? I encounter this question and comment very regularly. One of the first things I say is have patience and compassion for yourself. We are immersed in a world which places increasingly high value on NOW. Shamanic journeys can be very challenging. It can be very hard to quiet the endless procession of thoughts, grocery lists & fears. Anytime we enter into a realm we are unfamiliar with we are likely to encounter resistance in one form or another. [Read more…]