Amulets are moving home
In an effort to consolidate two related blogs I have moved the posts from here to Writings of a Pagan Witch. Any further updates will be made from there.
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A personal reading on my future life path
This week, I began a new stage in my life. I have been doing Reiki healing for a long number of years and over time have self-taught myself in intuitive Reiki. Now, I have been given the opportunity to take this knowledge to a higher level, and at the same time learn Shamanic healing methods. I have held an interest in Shamanism for as long as I have been a Pagan.
Our first class was last night – and I received a message which was verified soon after when another course participant did a journey to discover what I needed. I spent today contemplating that message and wondering where things will lead after I have finished this course – absolutely I intend to finish it.
Contemplations lead to ideas. Ideas which I am letting percolate and choosing not to share at this time.Ideas which will come to fruition in the next 5 years.
However, I did a reading to ask the amulets if I am on the right track in my thinking.
This particular reading shows how sometimes the meaning within the reading is not always the meaning within the pages. Not fully in any case.
My Question: Is ________ the Path I am to be on?
The response from the amulets:
Frog – Speaking out
Nightstar – Fulfillment
Comb – Sef-reliance
Inanna – Self-transformation
Eyes – Inner visions
The first amulet drawn is telling to to find my voice and speak out. More than that though, this is the frog symbol of Heket. Egyptian Goddess. As midwife of the Gods, she was called upon to aid women in labour – her priestesses may have been midwives, and she was called upon at the time of death to aid in the rebirth of the dead into new lives. In this regard, it refers directly to the question I have asked.
Next comes the Nightstar – here to tell me I am looking the right direction. Powers are at my control and my dreams here will come true.
Then the Comb – telling me that I am the ultimate controlled of my destiny. I alone am the one to decide if this is what I am to do.
Inanna, Goddess Queen who made the descent to the Underworld. Here again, Her message is very – if I am to pursue this vocation (for a vocation it must be), then I must first make the Descent into the Underworld to retrieve that which is lost just as Inanna did.
Finally, the Eyes – Inner Visions. Not much hidden meaning and symbolism here either. Inner visions are shamanic journeys. And the changes which will come in how I perceive everything around me as I continue on this path.
Am I on the right path? Yes – but it is also my choice on whether to take this path. Or another.
Inanna - Journey to the Underworld
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Two for one readings?
I was asked the other day if each of the amulets always has one meaning.
The answer to the question is no. The meanings from the amulets are always variable depending upon the questions being asked (which I don’t always know for a person receiving a reading) and the layout of the amulets.
In a recent reading, we actually saw answers to 2 separate questions within the same layout. I was able to give the recipient answers to two unspoken questions, one regarding her spiritual path and the other regarding her teenage son.
When I am reading the amulets I focus on the headline meaning of each, combined with my own intuitive feelings on the matter and what amulets are around it. Each builds upon the one before it while the 5th leads back to the first completed a circle.
Council of Elders providing guidance
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Musings on The Power of Words
This past Friday I went to the Shamanic Spirit Circle again. The focus at Starfire Alchemy in all their groups these next two months is the Voice. And the work we did in the Circle followed this theme.
To start, we talked about the Power words can have over us. The words other say to us, positive and negative, and perhaps even more important, the words we say to ourselves. The vibration and resonance of words can have a positive or a negative effect on us. This is beautifully illustrated in a book which Kay passed around. The Miracle of Water
Water exposed to hatred and then to love
We then discussed the negative words we tell ourselves. “I can’t” “I don’t know” “I don’t have time” and worked together to come up with a positive replacement. “I am open to abundance” “I have plenty of time” “I am doing it. I have done it”
The words I tell myself too many times “I don’t know” The phrase I now have to replace it “I have an abundance of knowledge.”
To finish up the evening we used drumming to journey to discover our personal Power word. We each in turn them lay in the center of the circle as the others chanting, sang, and otherwise intoned the Power word into us.
The word of Power I was given: Core or Kore
Hearing and feeling them being chanted into the center of my being was awe-inspiring, amazing, beautiful.
I decided to use the Amulets to further meditate upon what I had discovered. I drew one out and held it in my hand focusing on it as I fell asleep. The amulet I drew was The Ewe: Self-Worth.
Ewe - Self-worth
What is it telling me?
At the core of the negative messages I am telling myself: self-worth
The key at my core to changing these to positive messages: self-worth
My task now – to fill my core with positive messages and thus improve my self-worth. I have an abundance of knowledge.
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On Shamanic Circles and Finding the Wyrd
Today (Friday the 4th) I took part in a Shamanic Circle which journeyed to the Well of the Wyrd at the base of the World Tree Yggdrasil. There were were able to meet the 3 Norns and speak to them individually to ask them our questions.
I ventured forth not knowing at first what my question might be, but knew once I arrived what I needed to ask. Of the first I asked – what can I learn from my past. I was instructed to drink from a cup at the well. She showed me how all that I have been through in life has forged me, as a sword is forged in flame and quenched by water.
I was then beckoned forth by Skuld who spoke not a word to answer my question, “What is in my future?”
As she worked the threads, adding tangles and binding strands together, my hand began to move to weave threads of their own.
I heard in my heart what I need to do. I need to learn to Weave the Wyrd.
Coming home again afterwards, I have stopped to ask the Amulets – How do I learn to weave the Wyrd?
This was their response.
I can dance the ecstasy of my own life into being. The answer is in my hands and I know how to shape it.
I am about to take a big step in my spiritual life. Practise being in my own body – meditation, journeying, questing.
A reminder to maintain balance between extremes. Finding a balance between the spirit world and this world.
Again, a reminder that I have the skills and power I need within my own power bundle. Past experiences have events have given me the information I need.
Rely on the wisdom in my own body. Listen to my own intuition and inner power.
Cow is here to make sure I understand that as I am being told that I have the knowledge and the power I need within me, I don’t have to do it on my own. I will be forging new friendships and partnerships as I explore this new area to my life.
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