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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for a fabulous weekend at Whose Turn Is It Anyway.

I’m grateful for my kids.

I’m thankful for positive business meetings.

I’m thankful that I can grow and change.

I’m happy to have gained blogs on the blog hop I created– What It Is Wednesday.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Email laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Collective) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

It happens. Despite all best efforts, things can feel or actually be stuck, sometimes. I’ve felt this way since about 2008. Path and purpose were very clear, then in a short period of time, they were not. The other day in casual conversation, two friends (without me saying a word) noted the same experience, exact same time frame. Not only was I surprised to hear them express my feelings, they surprised each other with the revelation. What’s not a surprise is that this collective experience of reality happens to me all the time.

I’m in a unique position in that I get to hear peoples’ wyrd stories frequently, whether it’s through loved ones, clients, Initiates, or the really cool online communities I visit. Hell, even among people who have no idea what I do, the maxim holds. I traverse different strata–literally and figuratively–and I hear the same stories over and over, from people who don’t know each other, and walk different paths. I am very comfortable sitting with the individual and collective together, with metaphor and literal. I hold a healthy skepticism and boundary in honoring what is happening at the personal level, and what I observe playing out at the collective level.

Frankly, I’m humbled and dazzled again and again by how often I feel like I’m in a vacuum feeling my feels, to learn that others are in the same boat, with the same oar, on the same creek, in the same shit storm. I don’t mean vaguely in the same straits, but quite specifically indicating the same feelings, symbols, dynamics, timeframes, as their experience of the present. It’s validating to be reminded that I’m not alone and everything isn’t happening just to me. Likewise, I really love being able to tell that to others who feel locked in the same isolated shame cycle. I’m a lifelong poster girl for “You are not alone.”

What kinds of collective patterns am I seeing? Generally speaking, anxiety is up, particularly among people who generally don’t feel it. It’s the new black hole. People whose cosmologies haven’t shifted in ages suddenly are revealing new scapes, new beings. Clear paths are suddenly roads to nowhere. Those who have been in close contact with Land Elders for decades now find themselves holding regional space “alone.”  Ridiculously intense emphasis on leaving old hurts, however deeply repressed, is all the rage, along with leaving linear time at the door. To be visible, floating orbs no longer require passing around curious photos. Whole groups just see them with the naked eye.

Surreal, maybe more than real. Intuition says get comfortable with it, though. The barrier between individual and collective is thin, perhaps thinner than ever.

Maybe it was always thin, and our senses are just catching up?

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The Weekly Rune – Jera

For the week of  5 June 2016

Reaping responsibly, this week.

Othala is the half-month rune through 14 June. Jera is the intuitive stave, and Hagalaz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Othala, Jera, then Hagalaz.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

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The beginning of the year saw some adversity with  the runes, particularly indicating a great deal of external change, then later internal adjustment. The sun’s movement into Othala urges us closer to Summer Solstice, and the need to know find the balance within and without.

Last week we discussed Othala ask a significant place marker of the present. While it presses us to reach back to our ancestors and have clarity on our lineage, it also demands that we get inheritance affairs in order, and consider what legacy we are leaving.

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When we consider the timing of Othala, it begins our winding down process for Summer Solstice. While other runes are specific to accounting, Othala brings its own tone around inventory and organization. I think of this stave as very much bringing awareness to how we organize the home space at an etheric level. What I refer to as “home spirits” become significant in this work, particularly ancestors. Without them, the job of organizing the home becomes a much bigger task.

 

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Jera speaks of this as a time of harvest, which again fits with Othala as harbinger of the sun’s coming death. Interesting still, Jera is the native stave for Winter Solstice. That it comes at the shortening of days urges us to be aware of what we have. Overall, Jera is a positive rune. It can’t be reversed, and it represents the harvest. However, if you’re unhappy with your harvest, it could point to a need to revamp the strategy for the next six months.

Hagalaz as the stave indicating the planet’s need suggests a time of external transformation. Literally meaning “hail,” devastating elemental ice that melts into fertile growth, Hagalaz usually points to past events that come back to haunt us. The planet’s trajectory has largely been sped up by human intervention. Over the next week, consider how we can mine aspects of our past relationship to Earth, and how we relate to Her, now. What of our personal actions have set Her on the current course, and how can we make different choices, now?

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for a fun holiday weekend with friends and loved ones.

I’m grateful for my daughter had the chance to be involved on her first choral performance.

I’m ridiculously grateful that the threatening sore throat staved itself off.

I’m happy to have gained blogs on the blog hop I created– What It Is Wednesday.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Email laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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Life Betwixt – Shaman 2.0

Soul Healing? Check. Now What?

You know the phase that comes after realizing you have no glaring soul wound to heal? No? You’re not alone. Loads of other people don’t know it, either. That curious place does exist, though. Chances are you’ve experienced it and weren’t sure what it was. I’ve experienced it, and it’s a topic that comes up in shamanic circles and sessions with my clients. So why aren’t more people talking about it?

In the New Age, a state of being spiritually healed is a unicorn; it doesn’t exist. For every ailment there’s a spiritual wound; likewise, there’s a spiritual solution.  Being without spiritual blemish isn’t part of the new dogma, just as it wasn’t part the old dogma.  That humanity carries an innate soul wound is a very old precept, we’ve just wrapped it in shinier insecurity.

I realize that what I’m putting forward flies in the face of most avenues of alternative and holistic healing, though here it is: sometimes there’s not a spiritual connection to ailment, dynamic, dismay. That’s right–I said it. There’s not always a spiritual core of life’s malcontent, and in this post I’m going to explain my logic behind that, my experiences that support it, and how that state can be recognized.

Cosmology

My Initiates and clients probably get sick of me repeating that cosmology is one of the two key ingredients to successful integration of a shamanic life (the other is ritual). Cosmology is how we make sense of the Multiverse. It’s the very personal ladder that allows us access to Other worlds. In base terms, it’s the lore that speaks to our brains and hearts to engage us in All Things, and help us glean meaning from that interaction, which can be applied to everyday life.

In shamanic teaching, we learn a cosmology to assist in journeying, or traveling out of our bodies, into the designated spiritual space to gather healing or insight into some dynamic for self or others. In indigenous cultures, people are born into their cosmology. It provides the structure for everything they do, not just spiritual interactions. It’s social, environmental, psychological. When one among them is selected as shaman, cosmology education is already in place. It isn’t learned alongside the rigors of ecstatic trance, itself, and what’s expected as shaman.

That amalgam of things to learn at once points to a significant difference between traditional and modern shamanism. Not only are many students in the contemporary set running from an ill-fitted cosmology, they usually don’t have a personal one. I tell every Initiate and student not to underestimate the distress that mere finding personal relationship to cosmology can stir, let alone that combined with learning to traverse said cosmology–to say nothing of when a fond cosmology changes. Learning journeying and a cosmology both at once is often as stressful as what brings one to shamanism, to start with.

Given that state of importance, the way we teach cosmology is highly relevant. Most modern shamanists teach it as the upper, middle and lower worlds, which serves several purposes. It gives a relatively familiar ladder to someone who otherwise doesn’t have one, it’s easy to work with, it’s without emotional charge, and it reflects layers of consciousness our brain is already familiar with: unconsciousness-consciousness-transpersonal consciousness.

A problem, though, is this triplicity is put forward as the cosmology of all shamanism. It’s a model of some approaches to shamanism, certainly not all. There are many nuances of other worlds, many cultural representations of other worlds, far beyond mere three. Keeping an open mind to that possibility expands opportunities for awareness, and isn’t awareness the key to healing?

I’m getting ahead of myself.

Up to this point, we’ve touched on what I refer to as mostly external cosmology, in the shamanic sense of traveling out. In/Out. It’s all relative, but let’s work with it, for now, and discuss internal cosmology. You know the one–Body-Mind-Soul? We’ve all had it shoved down our throats in the realm of wellbeing until we could scream. It is a cosmology, though it isn’t presented to us as such. This trio is usually put forward as the model of perfect balance, which should be striven for at all times. Everything we eat, think, and desire is equally measured against each branch of this model, if we’re observing good health and balanced wellbeing. Right? Hmm.

What about the chakra system as internal cosmology, connecting us to the external? What is the likelihood that every chakra will be perfectly in balance at all times? If not, is that spiritual failure?

Energy Work and  Shamanism

“Soul healing fixes everything.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told that energy work has no place in shamanism, or that real shamans don’t do energy work. Likewise, if you’re doing it correctly, soul healing alleviates the need for medical, psychiatric, or emotional care, thus overrides any need for other healing modalities.

Mind-Body-Soul as Internal Cosmology

My response to those suppositions is you’re either perfect or seriously tired. Shamanism at its heart engages the work of spirit allies–Nature Spirits, Guides, totems–to assist us in doing our work. They bring specific knowledge to healing, and they help us hold the space to manifest it. The shaman-Guide relationship functions this way so that we don’t deplete ourselves and our own energy as we serve community. In this way, shamanism is functioning as intended.

Yet, in order for shamanism to be intended we must actively participate. We have to show up and will what of ourselves is to participate, to do so, full tilt. This willed active engagement is why we create space (ie, why ritual) for our work, which if you’ve ever done for back-to-back ceremonies, rituals, or client sessions, you know it wipes you out. The best laid mandala or invoked altar space in shamanic work requires you to be fully there, regardless of spiritual aid start to finish.

So then how do you bring shamanic healing to a specific ailment for which no Guide shows up? From which no soul part is missing? For which no intrusions  are present? Which reveals no soul trauma? Are you just going to turn yourself inside out and force some spiritual mojo from your own depths? Are you going to tell yourself or a client that the ailment isn’t all that bad, because there’s no soul component? Are you going to think you failed as a shaman, because a problem didn’t display a spiritual source?

That’s where energy work comes in, or can. Wounds can exist in other layers of our being–Mind-Body–and they can wreak havoc that looks a lot like soul weariness. This observation doesn’t mean that they need soul healing. What it means is that other levels of our being are crying out to be addressed, in ways that soul healing can’t accomplish. The beauty of energy work is that it’s passive, by design. You show up for it, set the intention, put in the needles, touch the meridians, hold the hand positions, etc, and stay out of the way for the rest. Yes, training teaches how to accomplish these techniques in specific modalities–which I highly recommend exploring. Maybe there are Guides along for the ride of this work,too,  though in my experience, they function far more hands-off than in intended soul healing.  The bottom line with energy work is that it’s readily available. Intention on/Intention off. It brings a very different approach to healing than soul healing, and usually leaves less impact on the practitioner, as well. It doesn’t leave you tired, because you aren’t involved in directing what’s happening, as with soul healing.

Post-Soul Healing

Just because successful soul healing has been accomplished doesn’t mean that needed life skills have been imparted. It doesn’t in-and-of itself instill the confidence to or knowledge of other resources that allow that healing to give way to new life patterns, thoughts, beliefs, or relationships. It is possible to experience things like chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and fear, and they be connected to no soul wound. We can be at peace in soul, yet life is life. It marks us on all levels, not just the soul. The body is the body, and the mind… yeah. Though these aspects of our internal cosmology overlap in influence, they exist in their own worlds, with their own rules of engagement, their own perspective of the past, and their own projections of the present and future. If we are to be truly functional shamans, we learn the rules and resources for each of those worlds as thoroughly as we can, so that we recognize when we’re out of our depth, when we need to call or defer to other resources, and perhaps when we just need to witness. Remember, the lore of cosmology is the basis of psychology (mind). The nourishment of form (body) determines how well the soul manifests. We need all of our internal cosmology well-functioning to be well people. We must address woulds at the other levels.

Awareness beyond soul isn’t just in regard to working with others. Many come to shamanism as the result of a personal healing need. However, moving from the place of needing healing into the role of shaman, into servitude to community is something else, entirely. In ourselves, as shamans we are responsible for recognizing when we have reached or surpassed the point of “physician heal thyself.” Instead of thinking we’re overlooking a soul source for a distressing present, of feeding insecurity that we’re not doing our job well, realize the focus is not on the constant quest to find soul wounds. Rather, it’s to sustain a healing awareness across all aspects of being. To dredge up spiritual ennui where there is none will eventually create it, which generates a state of the physical or psychological wound not having been tended, on top of soul distress. It yields a dynamic that becomes post-traumatic stress.

When Internal and External Cosmologies Meet

It’s okay for there to no longer be a focus on personal healing. I know, it’s strange territory, after being told since birth that we bear original wounds. At some point, we have to face our psyches and bodies. To continue stressing the soul above them is escapist and evades a significant portion of our experience as humans. Likewise, at some point we must turn our focus and practice over to work with others in some fashion. We must step into the role of shaman, fully.

The fact that life can still deal leveling blows doesn’t mean we aren’t also obligated on this path to serve community. The fact that we as shamans deal with mundane pains and rigors doesn’t mean we’re not ready for that transition to leadership. It takes radical honesty and awareness to realize that point for what it is, and not stall our growth as shamans because we need there to be a soul wound to justify our discontent.

Life is a mixture of many aspects of being, all interrelated and load-bearing. Address all aspects at the level they need and deserve. This is Shaman 2.0, for which we have few working templates in the modern context.It’s the one in which life happens, and you walk the walk with the wisdom you’ve mined from all the years of personal soul healing. You readily use the tools you’ve been given and created, to stay true to your path. It’s scary, also clear and liberating.

There’s no teacher for this part, no fall-back.

Thank you for venturing on, despite.

~*~*~*~*~

 

 

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Fun) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Hop…

My reality this week is finding the fun in life. Seems that wouldn’t be very hard to do, because, well, it’s fun. We all like fun, right? We invite and enjoy it at every opportunity?

It should be that way, and it was that way for a while, in my late 20s, and 30s. It changes, though, with the advent of deep adulting and parenting. Fun now comes in sharp bursts, rushed moments with loved ones, friends, occasions.

It isn’t that I don’t have fun, it just isn’t the strings-free, high-flying experience that it used to be. Most often, fun is planned weeks in advance, it’s not spontaneous. It’s often not free, as it involves traveling to entertainment, providing entertainment for those traveling to us, or some combination, thereof.

With the mix of health conditions that I manage, fun is also not found in the dirt like it was for almost four decades of my life. It’s not found in road trips, hours traipsing through Nature, or blissful vacations. I still like road trips and the like, they just come with a physical toll that takes a good while to overcome, and vacations bring a similarly challenging price tag. Most of my hobbies have become work in some fashion or other, so an element of shiny is lost. My free time is almost non-existent, so whiling hours away at the pub with friends is a dream.

My moments of most fun are found in last-minute board games, silliness with the kids, ridiculously hysterical video games with the family, and similarly fond moments singing at high volume in the car. These moments may not string out for days on end like they seemed to in more carefree times, though they mean more. They count more, and because they’re rare, I’m more grateful for them than I knew to be in my youth.

What do you do for fun? How has fun changed as you’ve aged?

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The Weekly Rune – Eihwaz

For the week of  29 May 2016

This week deals in graceful endings.

Othala is the half-month rune through 14 June. I changed up the order of the staves this week, leaving Eihwaz as the intuitive stave, and Tiwaz as the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Othala, Eihwaz, then Tiwaz.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

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The beginning of the year saw some adversity with  the runes, particularly indicating a great deal of external change, then later internal adjustment. The last couple of weeks with Ingwaz brought us the sacred seed manifest. The sun’s movement into Othala indicates that it’s time we know what to do with it.

We last discussed Ingwaz as a time of realizing who we are, how we can be of service in our time here. Othala asks us to deepen that perspective of service, and to see it as a legacy. Most interpret this stave simple as ‘inheritance,’ and indeed it does tap into matters of estate, having such affairs in order, and being aware of lineage. From a shamanic standpoint, it asks that we turn to the Ancestors.

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As well, Othala emphasizes not just the legacy we are left, but what legacy we leave. In order to know that, we must venture into the wild. Aside from dealings with death and inheritance, ancestors and legacy, Othala brings a certain muted quality of somberness, that can lead to vivid insight into our life’s meaning.

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Indeed, Eihwaz points to this being a transformational time. Also a death rune, it’s emphasis is more on realizing we, alone, lead ourselves through life. Closely connected with the True Self, or High Self as some call it, through the transition of Eihwaz, we come into our own wisdom. We realize the value of our own awareness sits comfortably with that of guides, gods, ancestors.

In the placement of energy available to humans this week, we have to accept change, which for this time points to the ending of some cherished thing.  Given its position between Othala and Tiwaz, it is likely an internal sacrifice–a habit, belief, way of holding consciousness. Expect shedding of the way self is regarded.

Tiwaz was the rune of emphasis, last week. This week is sits in the place of the planet’s needs, informing us that some radical change in plans is needed. As this is a survivor rune, this is an external sloughing off of some precious thing. If it wasn’t precious, letting it go wouldn’t be so significant. Also with Tiwaz, the highest reward can’t come until this release happens. It’s challenging for humans to let go of some fond thing, even with clear assuredness that something better suited and more dear will come.

The planet is telling us that we have to see it through her eyes, her expression of herself, and not our projection of what we want her to be, what we think she is. There is brutal honesty in letting go of our assumptions about Earth. We managed to adapt to realizing she wasn’t flat. What can we learn about her truth now?

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for making it through another dance recital/dance season.

I’m grateful for a wee vacation from the above.

I’m thrilled to have had a great weekend with friends and family. Tired, but thrilled!

I’m thrilled with the commentary I received on the blog hop I created– What It Is Wednesday.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Email laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Spoon) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Hop…

 

 

My reality this week is ongoing health challenges, by which I mean, the fun that never stops. It pauses, offers glimmers of freedom, though never stops.

People who know me know that I deal with a lot of chronic health conditions. People who know me really well understand what challenge they pose on a day-to-day basis. I don’t have grief about growing older, per se. What I do have, though, is angst in letting go of the fantasy that I can improve my health at my current age and older, beyond what it was in my youth.

Indeed, I can and do live better, though the state of the physical is what it is. I am in some degree of pain, every day. The question is how much today. I’ve had to accept that I can’t control it, rather, I can foster it, wherever, whatever that is at any given time. Sometimes there’s greater production, as a result, and sometimes significantly less–if any. There’s no question that my health and limitations that come with it impact my writing and client load in my shamanic work.

I never foresaw my health limiting my options at the young age of 44, yet it does. I also know that it could be improved radically had I the money and availability to implement the natural and alternative modalities that I know work for me. Therein lies another rub.

That’s the reality that’s on my plate. I don’t know how I will feel one day to the next. I do know, though, that it will certainly keep things lively.

That’s my reality this week. What’s your ongoing challenge? How do you cope with chronic conditions?

 

 

 

 

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Stroke Awareness Month, and When Words Saved Me

May is Stroke Awareness Month.

 

Many of you may not realize I had TIAs (transient ischemic attacks), or a series of minor strokes, in 2006, which radically affected my health. I was asked to share that experience with Wear Your Voice a magazine devoted to a radically fresh approach to media. Find it at When I Had a Stroke at 35, My age–And Gender–Led to Misdiagnosis. The moral of the story is, advocate for yourself, above doctors, lab results, and everything contrary to your own experience. The body knows.

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