Powerful Magick is Afoot….

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dark moon, dreams, eclipse, holy, infused, lunar, magic, magicks, moon, oneiric work, oneiromancy, ritual, solar, sun, water, workings

Yesterday, at dusk, there was a storm, a solar eclipse, and a dark moon. Each of these energies on its own carries great power, yet when combined contains seriously earth shattering power.

Last night, my workings were intense, and these carried over into my dreams. Such intense images were conjured. These images are lessons that are expanding and awakening me to to a higher understanding of my Self.

To continue working with these energies, so that I might receive the greatest possible growth, I collected the waters that rained down. Each droplet contains and holds these energies so that I can revisit the Magicks….

Luxuriating in Self-Love

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behaviours, breaking, candles, care, change, changing, habits, luxuriating, meditating, meditation, music, patterns, release, relief, self love, stress

The theme of this month, for me, is “Self-Love.” So often in a working mother’s life it is easy to overlook the need to take care of one’s self. I mean, I eat right and work out, but the actual intimate moments of just loving oneself and appreciating the great work that our bodies do for us each and every day have not happened often enough for me. In fact, I am less than grateful to my body most often, being unhappy with the space it takes up, its responses to certain stressed, and various other gripes.

At the recent Beltaine celebration I attended we discussed how we set up patterns of thought, and how it takes approximately 3 weeks to break these patterns and install new ones. We were challenged to break the habits of self deprecation and criticism in favor of new more uplifting habits. I have accepted that challenge with open arms.

Last night, as a way of loving myself, I took a long, luxurious bath. For this section, you are going to need a bit of back story. I bought my house about two years ago. Shortly after buying it, the drain in the bathtub stopped working properly. We certainly could not use it for bathing. Due to financial issues and prioritization, we were unable to have the plumbing fixed. Trust me, for a girl that treasures bathtime as a stress release and my favorite way to pamper myself, this has been maddening!!  Almost two years without a bath!! (FYI, I do have a working shower.)   Anyway, I allotted the majority of my tax return this year to getting the drainage system fixed. Turns out it was a simple clog that a bit of lye was able to flush out overnight. YAY!!

So, last night I lit the candles, ran super hot waters, added spearmint/eucalyptus bubble bath, put on my current cd of choice, and sank beneath the healing waters.

As I lay in the bath, luxuriating, I found myself becoming anxious. It seems I have forgotten how to let go and just enjoy the bath. I meditate daily without this trouble, but this appears to be a different sort of meditation that I have forgotten how to do properly. Since having children, my evenings have been about preparing for the next day so that I can sleep soundly for as long as possible. It shocked me to find that I could no longer just abandon all cares to the healing waters of a bath.

My goal for this month, in addition to changing harmful thought patterns, is to re-member how to take a bath. What ways do you most love to pamper and care for yourself?

Delights of Durga

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deity, doors, durga, entheogenics, Goddess, hindu, loren cruden, realms, spirit of place, teapot, travel, visualization

I had the most amazing journey this morning. I have been working my way through a rather fabulous book titled The Spirit of Place by Loren Cruden, one of my favorite herbalist shamans. In it, there are weekly exercises that are to be repeated each day. Today was a journey up some stairs, into a hallway of doors, and into a room where you will find an object that you may or may not take with you when you leave.

I went up the stairs, and as I stepped onto each one, they previous one fell away. Carefully and quickly I entered into the hallway through a hole in the floor, much like a trap door. I was sure to secure the latch on the door to be safe. Then I proceeded to look at the doors on either end of the hallway. There were seven in all. I don’t recall what each one looked like, but they were all very lovely and interesting, however it was the wooden one with the snake on it that called to me.

Reaching out to turn the doorknob, the snake began moving toward my hand, and bit me as I turned the knob. The sensation was a bit unsettling, but the door was opened, so I stepped over the threshold.

Upon entering the room, I was completely surprised. It was like an opium den. The predominant color in the room was red. There were luxurious lounging areas, and people all around smoking from hookahs, dancing, and generally making mellow merry. The most interesting and frighteningly beautiful element was the eight armed Hindu goddess dancing off to the right. It was Durga.

 

I was offered refreshment, and accepted it, though a bit hesitantly…. It was pleasant and I could have easily gotten swept up into the festivities, but I remembered that I needed to find an object of special meaning to me. My eyes were immediately drawn a special metal teapot on a shelf to the left of the door. I went over and picked it up.

As I handled it, I contemplated whether or not to bring it with me. It seem the right thing to do, so I started to walk toward the door. As I did, Durga came up to me and touched me lightly on the arm. I turned to look at her beautiful face, and ended up staring into her third eye. As I did, I was blinded by a flash from her Ajna chakra. I could not see, but she sent me on my way anyway.

As I stumbled down the hallway, blind, I was only able to travel through by memory. I felt the trap door in the floor, and unlatched. Knowing that the stairs had fallen away on my way up, I decided to jump….. I floated down, down, down like Alice through the rabbit hole, holding the teapot in my hands. Then I returned…..

 

3 Touch Organizing

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auset, dreaming. dreamwork, dreams, guidance, guides, isis, motivation, organizing, priorities, prioritizing

I have felt a bit crazy as of late. There are a number of projects that I am involved in and passionate about, and I have been felt that I am being pulled in many different directions. In order to find a more effective means of juggling, and directing my focus, I went to bed to dream with intention.

In my dreams I was working on a full scale doing my herbal stuffs. For a few months I have been trying to get this particular adventure started. I even started an Etsy store specifically for selling my teas, tinctures, and other such bits. It can be found here. It seems that I need to put more time and energy to realizing that focus…….

Later, in a more lucid moment, Auset came to me. However, this was not the traditional Auset whose image I am more familiar with. This was Auset the motivational speaker, in a business suit, with one of those headset microphones. It was terribly amusing. However, she did give me some seriously awesome advice.

Auset taught me of a method that she referred to as Three Touch Organizing. What this means is that you prioritize your projects and put them in a list. From that list you only work on the top three, and don’t touch anything below it until the dents you have made in the top 3 are significant. This way you can focus your energies and not go mad…… I like it, three touch organizing!

Automatic Writing

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advice, advising, automatic writing, channeling, guides, insight, scribes, sunrise

This morning I performed a special Ostara ritual at sunrise. As part of the ritual I consulted with my guides to see if there was any instruction or insight that they wanted to share. What I got was this……

I have been asked to get up with the sun and do automatic writing. I was told much insight and information would be shared during these times.

Having toyed with automatic writing before, I have never felt very comfortable with it. Other forms of information gathering and divination have worked so much better for me. So my question is this, does anyone have any advice for someone delving into this practice?

The Wonderful Fae

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fae, fairy, healing, ritual, wonder

Last night I experienced the amazing Healing Power of the Fae.

I am truly thankful….

 

Spinning Wheel…..

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clergy, experience, information, new phase, praxis, psychopomp, reiki, seminarian, shamanism, teaching, writing

I have not posted much recently, not because I have little to say, but because there is so much going on. I would not even know where to begin!

Currently, I am working on a number of projects:

1. I am finishing up a shamanic apprenticeship of sorts, after which I will be a Certified Shamanic Reiki Master.
2. Writing has actually begun on a book which is the culmination of many years of study.
3. As a psychopomp, I am preparing to take on more responsibilities. (I will write a more detailed post on that very soon.)
4. I am facilitating a few upcoming Circles at the Women’s Circle I attend regularly.
5. Temple Training – more on this soon.

I am learning so very much right now, and am really excited about these wonderful experiences, but putting it all down in my blog just isn’t happening right now. I am in the experiential phase. The documentation phase will commence soon……

Dream Snippets

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cleanse, dreams, journal, juice, meaning

I started a juice cleanse about 6 days ago. Since beginning, my dreams have been very odd.

Hitler was a Ballerina

Snippet #1: I dreamt that I was taking a ballet class with Hitler. This was, of course, before he turned into the world’s biggest piece of poo. I liked him quite a bit and was his friend, so I was terribly upset when he became and Evil Leader.

Snippet #2: I dreamt I was homeless and sleeping on concrete. I was surprised to find out how very comfortable and cozy it was.

Snippet #3: Aliens made contact with Earth, but they chose to do so as a hologram. This choice was made due to their enormous size, and the fear that we might not see them as peaceful.

Snippet #4: My friend “L.E.” was writing a science fiction novel and stumbled upon a way to engineer genes so that we could choose the traits we want. She came to me with this information and I listened, but then dismissed it as part of the story. Later, while we were packing up her truck, a bunch of scrawny guys that had been bullied all their lives decided to become the bullies. They came up to us and chanted some mantra and they all started to get bigger, like abnormally large….. I ran away and hid in the crook of a tree and met a spider……

Snippet #5: At this party I met a scrawny, somewhat attractive girl with flaming red hair. She was loud, flamboyant, and annoying. I left the party at some point and continued on with life, forgetting her. Then, while at a tattoo studio preparing to get a tattoo, the girl showed up. This time, she was missing a leg and it had been replaced with a metal prosthetic. When she saw me, she said, “Oh no! Not you!! I hate you, cause you can truly see me.” Then I looked at her again and saw that she was a short, dumpy, manly looking girl with freckles and short brown hair. She got mad and she and her cohorts left.

Weird. Wonder what each successive nights will bring……

SCOBY is as SCOBY does

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connections, essence, Growth, journey, kombucha, life, plant, reiki, SCOBY, shamanism, spirit, teachers, teaching, tree

I had the most interesting journey this morning…….

This weekend is to be very fabulously busy for me. Tonight at our Women Circle, I am co-presenting the second in our Egyptian series. I am very excited and so went over the notes for that upon waking.

After that I continued preparations to present my assigned chapter in our Shamanic Reiki studies which will be discussed on Saturday. In my assigned chapter, there is a journey where you connect with the essence of Reiki. Thinking my presentation would be much stronger if I actually did the journey, I planned to do it this morning……. however, Spirit takes you where you are supposed to go, not always where you set out to go……

In my journey I followed the directions laid out in the text. I thought I was connecting with the Reiki energy, but found myself melding with the Kombucha essence instead, a giant SCOBY. I was a bit startled when I realized it, but totally went with it. Who am I to fight Spirit. As it goes, the lesson was one that has been showing up for me recently.

Last month, I received the same message from a tree on my property. This tree is a wonder because it was formed from a fallen seed and not intentionally place, so it sprang up directly next to a fence. Rather than destroy the fence or cease to be, it integrated the fence and grew as part of it. It is a lovely, precious being, and truly a wonder.

“Grow within the space given you. Don’t try to force the space you desire.”

The Cave of the Ancestors

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adopted, adoption, cords, family, journey, meshed, mixed, shamanism, ties

Though I work with and honour my Ancestors throughout the year, Winter is the time that the work calls me loudly. Today as I was sitting in meditation, a message began to take form. As the child of an adopted parent, it seems there are some pieces of the web that are frayed.

My mother, having been adopted at a very early age, has many familial cords attached to her, some precariously while others are more firm. However, these cords are disorganized and do not reconnect where they should. I have been shown that this is an area where much healing is still to be done. I shall have to journey on that and see how that I can assist in this process, for the better good of the whole line.