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Mary Novak Shaman Dreamkeeper

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SLAVIC ELK CLANS

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Serpent/Black Jag Initiation: 1958-2009

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MOON CYCLE

MOON CYCLES:
(CST) 2010

New Moon
Jan 15 @ 8:52 pm
Full Moon
Jan 30 @ 12:18 am
Dark Moon
Feb 10 - 12

New Moon
Feb 13 @ 8:52 pm
Full Moon
Feb 28 @ 10:38 am
Dark Moon
Feb 11 - 14

New Moon
Mar 15 @ 7:29 am
Full Moon
Mar 29 @ 9:26 pm
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Apr 10 - 13

New Moon
Apr 14 @ 8:52 pm
Full Moon
Apr 28 @ 7:19 am
Dark Moon
May 9 - 12

New Moon
May 13 @ 8:05 pm
Full Moon
May 27 @ 6:08 pm
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June 9 - 11

New Moon
June 12 @ 6:15 am
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June 26 @ 2:41 pm
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July 7 - 10

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Local St. Louis Sweat Lodge

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Mary Novak DreamKeeper Shaman

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DARK MOON Feb 9-12 Grandmother

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NEW MOON in AQUARIUS Feb 13 Maiden

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Full Moon February 28 Mother

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Contacting Mary ☼♪♫•*`*•♫♪•*♥*•* ☼*•♪♫ ☼

Email at: CondorDreamer@Gmail.com
Dream Group: www.facebook.com/MaryNovakDreamer

Here are my words so you understand me and my work.... My Healing Services are for those who wish to awaken, learn, practice and heal in a co-creative space together for clients and students. For my select apprentices, it is an 8 year journey and they are spirit chosen, they only come to me when they are ready.

My Shamanic Work for Clients...
As a shaman, if you come to feast upon my table without respect, nor deep listening, then you are not hungry enough for the food I serve. It will be neither satisfying nor digestible. If, on the other hand, you are truly hungry, sick or tormented and come with humbleness, I shall beat death upon my drum and we shall feast upon your fears together to overcome. Such nourishment is filling for an eternity.

My Dreamkeeper Work for Everyone...
"The only goal with Dreams is Dreaming. The only Intention in Dreaming is to Experience... set your Intentions wisely, for you are entering the greatest mirror of Illusion and it is you."

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Mary's Bio ☼♪♫•*`*•♫♪•*♥*•* ☼*•♪♫

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CONSULTATION DONATIONS Suggested

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ASTROLOGY Consultation

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Dream Medicine Circle (montly)

Sat. Feburary 13, 2010

Dream Medicine Circle
2nd Saturdays of each Month
New Moon in Aquarius 8:52 PM
(Since this also happens to be
the New Moon, bring an Intention)
My Home - Donation $20
7:00 - 10: 30 pm

*** Bring a Dish this time (only if you want) and Bring an Image or Object that represents your Dream that you will be sharing.

DREAM MEDICINE CIRCLE
Mary Novak, facilitate a Dream Medicine Circle, with her apprentices and you are welcome to join in. It includes working with one dream from our month, in a co-creation circle to learn the sacred art of living and practicing personal Intentions with our Dreams, for increased inner awareness, with the cycles of the Moon, Dreaming cycles and Earth cycle to structure emotional energy of chaos, changes and transformation, looking inward rather than outward as a structured practice to be applied in our outer world.

We practice “intent” to see both the beauty and the shadows of our truth and to allow our higher self's dreaming wisdom of our ancient grandmother ancestral lunar traditions all over the earth who have always followed Mother nature's intuitive rhythms of the changing moon and its consciousness through dream symbolism and a living experience of our dreams bridge to this world of our Muggle (mundane) Wort (root)... this circle is to serve and honor our feminine as women dreamers and dreamkeepers in the great tradition.

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DREAM Workstudy Group (monthly)

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HEALING Services

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RATTLE Workshops 2010

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SHAMAN'S Art & Myth: San Diego & Houston

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San Diego, California
Date: TBA
2 Day Workshop
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"Shamanism: The Art & Myth of Dreaming”
with Shaman Mary Novak
FREE LECTURE General Public
Centerpoint Holistic Center - Houston, TX
www.centerpointhouston.com
Friday, March 26, 2010
7:00 - 9:00 PM (Donations Welcome)

Mary Novak is a full time, spirit chosen and spirit initiated Shaman and shares her wisdom, and experience and 2012 collective work in North, South and Central America. She shares how shamanism brings one to a deeper level in our healing journey, no matter what one’s practice is for student, client or practitioner of any teaching on earth. Mary has an extensive personal relationship with Mother Earth, Nature, Animals and the Avian messengers in both this world and the spirit world. She is initiated in both Ancient Dream Cultures and Dream Cave Medicines of the Grandmothers of our primordial past. Q & A circle included.

"Shamanism: The Art & Myth of Dreaming”
with Shaman Mary Novak
WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
$80, $45 Students, Limit 20
RSVP with Deposit or Payment: Amanda Holmes 832-683-0478

Mary Novak is a spirit chosen; spirit initiated Shaman Dreamkeeper of the Slavic Elk Clans, working full time with apprentices, healing clients and collective work. This workshop expresses an in-depth knowledge and the healing arts of the spirit of the grandmother’s cave medicines. Mary will touch on Dream work, which is an important doorway to both the living life of our soul and the spirit of Mother Earth, her animals and avian, trees, stones and rivers and oceans. We will re-connect our soul's emotional intelligence closer to Mother Earths in journeys and ritual to experience a more authentic nature (instinct) with the discovery of our animal spirit totem. The second half will be to bring our 'experience' into a form in an art project that brings forth our totem. No art experience necessary.
Private healing sessions will be available all week and can be scheduled through Amanda Holmes at (832) 683-0478: Astrological Readings, Master Energy Healing Session, Shaman Seer Readings and Personal Shaman’s Soul Retrieval.

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SHAMAN Soul Journeys 2010

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SHAMAN SEER and Clairvoyant Readings

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STL Pagan Picnic June 2010

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WOMENS Full Moon / Sacred Dance Circle

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Travel, Teachings, Healing or Phone

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A DREAMING-WOMAN SHAMANS JOURNEY....

If you are 16 - 20 years old right now, or your child, grandchild, you will begin to 'experience' the awakening of your Neptune-Uranus energy. This means that in your natal astrological birth chart the planet Uranus (chaos, truth, visionary and rebel) conjunct Neptune (mysticism / dream worlds, illusions, addiction and self undoing) is going to awaken when the planet PLUTO (death and transformation) begins to conjunct them. This will "begin and start" around Feb 2012 for the older ones (20 ye... read more
Mon, February 8, 2010 - 3:08 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
02.08.10

As a shaman I rarely dream anymore for myself, the foundation and second level of dreaming is already unified from not only my personal healing journey and my shamanic initiations completed... Last nights dream is of the future for the kids who are 16 - 20 right now:

I am dreaming, I am at a warehouse or a big area like that, there are lots of kids between the ages of 25 ...- 30, and a lot of 'dogs of the underworld'. I notice is that these dogs of the underworld are wolf **cla... read more
Mon, February 8, 2010 - 1:28 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
By Christina Bjergo

Serpents in dreams, myth and art around the world reflect the cycles of Nature moving one forward in the evolution of consciousness. Pagans, Mystery schools of Greece and Egypt, indigenous cultures around the world as well as matriarchal societies throughout history view serpents as symbols of the divine feminine of the earth and the instinctual nature (dream body) leading us towards enlightenment. These traditions find the joyful expression of the body through movement... read more
Sun, February 7, 2010 - 7:45 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
By Mary

Dreams can be an internal MEDICINE that is brought forth out here in the 'waking' dream. Even though some parts of the dream are actually healing you, mostly, your inner dreamer (higher self) is giving you instruction and teachings and showing you what to do on this side to manifest the teaching (self practice of healing the self). Like the Musician gets music from the dream worlds, they have to actually practice it with their guitar, piano or violin, thus too we have to practice o... read more
Sun, February 7, 2010 - 12:58 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
By Robynne Black

Explanation of many Animal Totems and their Roles along the Sacred Hoop of Life by Wolf's Moon/ Some of Wolf's Moons website from 2002 still exists, but most of the pages don't exist anymore nor her email. I have met Ted Andrew in '97 and do recommend his books very much and have them myself. I found Robynne's to be from a much more feminine perspective and wanted to pass along her informatin.

When we can look into the heavens and see the love of the Great Mystery glimm... read more
Wed, February 3, 2010 - 10:53 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
On my Facebook:
www.facebook.com/topic.php
(Please join us if your interested in group dreaming)
Date: Thursday 28, Friday January 29, 2010
Place of Destiny in Dream:
Village of Austrey, North Warwickshire, England
Time: 1:40 am - 4:40 am

ALL OF YOU are Dream Messengers for these sacred peoples unspoken voices through your dreams. I am so honored that you are helping these ancient ones. This is their story from Grandmother Moon Dream Walkers and your dream wi... read more
Sun, January 31, 2010 - 3:37 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
To understand the karmic, then healing, then spiritual journey there are two parts...

One is we LIVE our karma, that is our life, the breakdowns or breakthrough and this is where we experience our life and our past live karma has certain rules that we must meet all who plays the part of destruction and pain with us. Generally we get sick have breakdowns sell our soul and have traumatic losses. It usually begins to open at our Saturn Return at 28 years old. Some experience it beginning at b... read more
Wed, January 20, 2010 - 10:11 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Shamanism and Shaman are two different realities. Shamanic Initiation is a fierce and deadly game that the person and the ancestors know. Not all awakening is Kundalini awakening, although it is a commonly used term when referred to mystical and paranormal experiences . Shamanic initiation is probably the least understood of all the spiritual processes and cannot be done by a human. Despite the recent uprising in world wide shamanic knowledge. Shamans do not initiate other Shamans, as occurs ... read more
Wed, January 20, 2010 - 6:58 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
NEW MOON FRIDAY JAN 15 @ 1:11 AM CST
11:11 PM or PST 2:11 AM EST
3rd and Final Earth Moon
Archetype: CAPRICORN

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and dreaming reality, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality.”

So how was your last Fire Moon Cycle? How did your Intention on the New Moon play out at the Full Moon and this past week ... read more
Tue, January 19, 2010 - 4:29 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
The Shamanic Tradition in Chumash Rock Art
William D. Hyder and Georgia Lee (c)1994

From the beginning, scholars such as Alfred Kroeber, Campbell Grant, Travis Hudson, and Georgia Lee turned to shamanism to explain Chumash rock art. They could not be certain the artists were shamans. They were speculating largely on the basis of the art itself, art that seems born in the imagery of shamanic experience. The word shaman, however, encompasses a broad range of societal roles filled by very di... read more
Tue, December 29, 2009 - 10:41 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
城隍 Cheng Huang: City of Dreams, Thunder Beings and the Mysterium Tremens et Fascinans
By Mary Novak and snippets from other writers and the entire bottom section by Mark R.E. Muelenbeld

My last three months are turning into quite an interesting dream. When I returned from Peru, it was the Thunder God Tunupa, the most ancient pre-columbian god paid me a visit and has been making himself known now that I am home in the Middle West, in the form of Thunder. First he responded to my prayers at... read more
Fri, December 25, 2009 - 3:57 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
As a Dreamkeeper, I know sometimes it takes lifetimes to heal our soul, sometimes 100 or even 3000 years. However long, it takes both sides of a dream to find forgiveness of something painful. Be it your own sister, your group of friends, a country or even the world... take your time, forgiveness is slow but steady in the lunar mysteries of life, death and rebirth. If another won't forgive, then both sides become the self and that is strong medicine as they say.

Wisdom of the Great Mother... read more
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 12:17 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
Once upon a time, there was a great shaman,
born through the gate of the EARTHS plane,
she wandered long and far learning of her place
in the world. One night, a second gate was revealed,
a gateway of the mind called the Universe, way up in
the AIR, far away from the Earth, where only the
Raven could fly.

She flew a long journey, one filled with darkness
although she thought it might lead to the light.
Flying above the tree's she looked down and saw
four hooded horsemen who... read more
Sat, November 14, 2009 - 8:44 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Goddess Mazu started as a human being. She had this special skill of knowing about weather and when one could go sailing on the sea and when one had better not to. As a young girl, one day while she was sitting at a loom weaving, she went into a trance and saw that her fisherman father and brothers were in trouble on the stormy sea. As a spirit she flied to rescue them; she saved her brothers first and carried them into safety, and then she returned to save her father. But in the meanwhile at... read more
Thu, October 15, 2009 - 1:19 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Where is our great light in winter, other than
darkness who opens her dreaming at night,
that cannot be shared. Whoever journeys there
is required to live not in a world of gods, but
a suspended state of death, called emptiness.

Empty-Oneness takes form without a belief or
understanding, starting from a path of innocence's
light. Dreamer, it is you who must sacrifice everything
for nothing, casting no false light in such emptiness.
For surely winter is the keeper of your own darkne... read more
Mon, October 12, 2009 - 11:07 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
Since the start of 2009, I have been blessed in my healing work, from being assisted by the Muskoxen Spirits and feel blessed as a shaman to have such a powerful and beautiful teacher / helper. I work on dreamers, healers and those struggling with difficult dis-eases, working with their unconscious fragmented past life shadows or black astral bodies which causes great soul disease of the emotional body and sometimes effecting the physical nature of their body.

I feel Musk appeared when I ... read more
Sun, October 4, 2009 - 2:36 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Creativity is energy, energy is the heat of our life force and heat is the root of our sexual power that is focused manifested action, whether that be sexual, creative art, music and craft or the physical manifestation of a birthing of something, an idea, a philosophy, a deity, religion or a child. The basis of all Creation includes destruction when something no longer serves our highest good or we have reached an end of its teaching such as a divorce, a physical move, a new career a letting ... read more
Mon, September 28, 2009 - 7:47 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
In the dreaming worlds we do it blindly and don't even know what the bike looks like to get on it. To begin a discipline to master the beginnings of dreaming we look to its worlds, which is through our emotional body, our creativity and our imagination until we get good enough that we begin to see its effects in this world as the 'seen' aspects of the results of the intent. A dreamer is a believer and that is the opening gates to such non physical realities.

Hidden within these realities a... read more
Fri, September 25, 2009 - 3:15 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Two of my participants shared their Journey. I decided that it was time to lead a soul retrieval to the Ocean rather than Land of Mother Earth, so I set that as my focus on this group Shamanic Soul Retrieval to enter the Dreaming Ocean of Mother Earth:

*************************** JOURNEYER # 1

September 18, 2009: I followed the footpath up the side of the mountain and into the cave. Then, into the greenish pool to cleanse. Coming out, I went into the earth through a tunnel I was bla... read more
Sun, September 20, 2009 - 4:10 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
One note before I share... My vocabulary is *inclusive* which is my foundation of unity of my mental body, so anywhere the word woman is written it is already inclusive to man in both my heart and the logic's of language. If you want the divine in wholeness its good to start with one simple word and this word stems from wombed man and before that just wo/man from our primeval connection as women to have a child within our womb, two as one. The second is in reference within mythological or the... read more
Sat, September 19, 2009 - 2:00 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
A few pages: by John Layard

Hare, like Moon, sleeps with her eyes open. Blind hare recovers sight by diving. The moon is the watcher of the sky, that is to say she sleeps with her eyes open; so also does the hare, hence the 'somnus leporinus' became a proverb.1 This is yet another way of referring to the moon as the "light in the darkness" symbolizing inner wisdom.

An example from a modern time referring to the hare's 'inner eye' saying a blind hare it was, is the German tale of "The Bl... read more
Mon, September 14, 2009 - 10:34 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Sunday my apprentice Greer and I were on Cahokia Mounds enacting out a dream exactly as it occurred there. When we finally got to the top she went off and did her work. I sat in an open eyed meditation watching the deep red sun, that was soft behind the dark sky and the lush dark green forests in the distance fill me as the in between time began to rise. On several occasions when the magic is revealed by mother earth, I have seen with eyes open the time shifts, the light and dark of sun rise ... read more
Mon, September 14, 2009 - 7:47 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
PART 1: As a shamans apprentices of Spirit, I have had red tail hawk for a totem for 21 years, everyday, and when I reached a certain level of initiations, then the hawks began to give their life for me. Then Golden Eagle began to appear last July 2008 when I was almost completed with my 13 years of in-between the worlds to complete this work for 2012. Last July I was driving home from Memphis where my apprentice lived, and i see this huge white bird, so big i thought it was a white crane. As... read more
Sun, September 13, 2009 - 9:36 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
This past Tuesday was the Full Moon in Pisces and I asked my higher self to show me in my dream with the Jaguar Medicines ended and the Condor just beginning.... I wanted wisdom from a deeper source within.... since my elk dancer dreamer has left me alone in the astral worlds after opening up my astral kundalini, i felt very alone on the astral planes in my dreaming. But last night the Spirit of the Great White Shark came into my dream. I now feel that I can navigate these waters as my warrio... read more
Fri, September 11, 2009 - 10:46 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I went to sweat lodge today to prepare for my shamanic work in Chichen and Peru and a black otter ran right across the field near the wood pile next to the sweat lodge. I was the only one to see it and it made me smile because otter is my birth totem and I love otters and weasels who are the same family!

OTTER: Rest and Cleansing Moon...

Otter is the animal totem associate with rest and cleansing. The otter is one of the most playful animals in the wild, both river and sea otters. Becau... read more
Sat, August 1, 2009 - 2:22 PM permalink - 4 comments
 
I said a prayer to spirit this morning and said I need help for my collective healing work and this trip coming soon in August and if the divine could please help me...

About noon, a kind man came when I was at a center and just gave me out of the blue, a very old "Thangka of Guru Rinpoche" it is old because its an oil painting and naturally yellowish from age, which I felt was a gift from the Buddha and l want to sell to help me pay for some of my stay in Chichen Itza & Peru in August sin... read more
Thu, July 23, 2009 - 4:24 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a pioneering woman in the field of Maya archaeology. She devoted her career to interpreting the art, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing system of the ancient Maya. Several films have explored her impact on this field: one by National Geographic titled "Code of the Maya Kings," and more recently, "Breaking the Maya Code," by Nightfire Films. In May 2009, California State University hosted a Mesoamerican conference as an homage to Proskouriakoff. It honored the ce... read more
Mon, July 13, 2009 - 3:59 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Story sent to me from my friend Pawel in Warsaw

Warsaw story about monster Bazyliszek shoemaker Dratewka and gold treasure. Once long long time ago in Warsaw there was a story about legendary gold treasures what was keep it in underground deep under the earth near river. Many people waned to get that gold but it was very dangerous to go to that tunnels because the guardian of treasure was scary monster Bazyliszek who looks so terrifying that if somebody look at him he immediately die becau... read more
Wed, July 8, 2009 - 12:44 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
"The Natural Predator of the Psyche" Developing a relationship with the wild nature is an essential part of woman's individuation. In order to accomplish this, a woman must go into the dark, but at the same time she must not be irreparably trapped, captured, or killed on her way there and back. The Bluebeard story is about that captor, the dark man who inhabits all woman's psyches, the innate predator. --- To restrain the natural predator of the psyche it is necessary for women to remain in ... read more
Mon, July 6, 2009 - 11:49 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in its original form
www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ALLEGORY.HTM

So far, we have discussed many of the principles of reality and magic. We have discussed the importance of our childhood training, our belief system, our perception of reality and the importance of what our reality does and does not include. These are all vital parts of our everyday lives and determine very specifically what our lives will hold in store for us. But, as one of my dear friends po... read more
Sun, July 5, 2009 - 6:32 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
My apprentice Kathy found this on Shamans Cave which is no longer around. I found my path very similar in duration and dedication to the Shamans Consciousness path through healing personal illusion, intimacy and karma this lifetime and then entered the dimensional realms into past life karma. It took a long time stone by stone. Enjoy, whichever your path... Shaman Mary

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I am frequently asked about the use of mind-altering substances in shamanism to access the spiritual realms. Ant... read more
Sun, July 5, 2009 - 6:26 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
In my work as a female shaman, I must always work with a more, pre-history understanding to make sense of symbols from my ancient grandmothers original meanings to apply to my work, otherwise current understandings over the past 3000 years make no sense to me in how I experience my work as a shaman healer. In neolithic and paleolithic times, lithic meaning 'stone', neo meaning 'new' and paleo meaning 'old' refers to our remembrance when we lived, did healing work and performed sacred ceremoni... read more
Fri, July 3, 2009 - 11:10 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
The goddess of light and creator goddess of the Karraur, an Australian aboriginal group, she lay asleep in the Dreamtime before this world’s creation, in a world of bone-bare, windless mountains. Suddenly, a whistle startled the goddess. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes, flooding the world with light. The earth stirred under her warm rays. Yhi drifted down to this new land, walking north, south, east, and west. As she did, plants sprang up from her footprints. She walked the world’s... read more
Tue, June 30, 2009 - 9:51 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
I have seer and shamanic gifts and their releases from the core of my emotional body (soul) was a long and painful initiation journey will full remembrance not in mental knowledge or mental meditation journeys, but energetic and portal experiences. Since my magnetic field work on temples is almost complete, my higher self is releasing some auditory levels for this world. I didn't need them in the subtle worlds in fact I wouldn't want them now that I look back... but in this world I can use th... read more
Fri, June 26, 2009 - 7:47 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
In the tradition of Shamans, in order to attain the gifts of the all, a certain level of the underworld tests must be passed. Mother earth will give you a sacred stone if you pass a certain level. I passed mine and had a dream during that time. In the dream I was in Montana and a group of seven native men with one chief whose chest was painted with red paint, told me that who I was, would be written on a stone and it will fall from the sky.

Six months later it did. A dark stone with an im... read more
Fri, June 26, 2009 - 6:57 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Ever since my apprentice and I booked our flight down to Yucatan and Peru for our August 2009 trip, I have had these Xan spirit creatures in my cottage. They are about the size of a small orb, solid black and come in and out with high speed and sometimes slow. My life as a shaman of the female nature is that some things in sacred text which are enemies of male shamans are my protectors. The yin, night, mother, feminine, color black in a holy way are what shamans not only deal with but work ve... read more
Fri, June 26, 2009 - 3:00 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Below are: Turtle, Frog and Mouse in the order in which they came on this New Moon in Cancer at the Ceremony I did.... I started off my New Moon in Cancer Intentions at the sacred Wellspring at the Black Madonna Shrine, a sacred Dark Goddess Spring and her healing waters of the Slavic Diety both Kupalo of the Waters and Black Madonna of the Great Void, two Slavic deities. My sister and I did the ceremony to honor the Goddess for the next three months of the cycle of this Summer Solstice and t... read more
Tue, June 23, 2009 - 9:10 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
In 1940 four schoolchildren accidentally stumbled upon the hidden entrance of a cave system and became the first recent humans in 17,000 years to set eyes upon the cave paintings that were depicting prehistoric beautiful paintings of animals. These caves located southwestern part of France hold one of the oldest women's shamanic cave art called “Lascaux” with walls and ceilings decorated with approximately 1,500 engravings and 600 paintings of horses, stag, deer, goats and bison. On one wall ... read more
Mon, June 22, 2009 - 11:59 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Kupalo is a Slavic Spirit of the Summer Solstice who is venerated on Kupalo's day (June 24). She is a water goddess and also associated with fire. Devotees worship her by taking ritual baths and casting flowers on the water. They also leap over huge bonfires. Fire and water are both associated with purification. Her effigy is often set alight and cast onto the water by worshippers. Kupalo is also a Goddess of sorcery and herbal lore. If magical herbs, the reading of minds and controlling evil... read more
Mon, June 22, 2009 - 12:22 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
I shaved my head in sacred ceremony completing my 28 years of black jaguar death initiations including the last 13 year healing, mystic and then shamanic initiations from spirit and mother earths spirit. I came out of my mother Stella (star) Czarnik (black)'s womb with a half inch of hair and this sacred ritual, now with a half inch of hair, is being reborn from my ' Mother Earths Womb ' as her daughter in the great tradition of our primordial grandmother shamans returning to earth for the fu... read more
Sun, June 14, 2009 - 11:14 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Farewell to finished apprentice and great friend Jen. Here is to your death spirit initiations in Maui from here forth. I will miss you and know what challenges await and know you will complete what you've started out in this self healing and spirit shamanka initiations.
Sat, May 30, 2009 - 8:58 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
Remembrance of a Shaman is a most difficult task for any woman. I have been no exception. My ancestors come from Poland, once known as Bohemia where the great elk clans lives. I have been given the gift of remembrance and once my shamanic initiations of death were passed and the mysterious levels of all three worlds and their dimensions were completed, I have now been visited by my own palaeolithic Ancestor from Poland who came into this world as a Spirit Elk. I have collected a few rare item... read more
Mon, May 18, 2009 - 2:55 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
While the earliest archaeological artifacts thus far found at Chichen Itza date from AD 1 to 250, it is probable that the site was settled at a far earlier time. Proto-Mayan tribes had inhabited the flat limestone plateau that makes up much of the Yucatan peninsula for at least 8000 years. These nomadic peoples would certainly have discovered the enormous natural well, called a cenote, next to which the city of Chichen Itza later grew. As a Maya social center, Chichen Itza began its rise to p... read more
Tue, May 12, 2009 - 5:54 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I have had Red Tail Hawk as my main Avian Totem and spirit messenger for the past 15 years and through my completed initiations as a Shaman, the Animal Kingdom has advanced me this week now to Golden Eagle from here forth. Golden Eagle came this week on my back fence about four feet from me, was eating a snake in front of me for about 1/2 hour. As he flew off with the half eaten snake I walked over and I saw he left me a gift of a second headless snake, and then as I looked over to my left, a... read more
Tue, May 12, 2009 - 10:40 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
Hearing her silent song of Eternity
laying in the presence of my broken heart
from stillness and death, a mystery stands
before me opening poetic embraces of desire
and slow awakenings.

Pleasure of such awakening at the depth
of one infinite moment is intolerable
until separation from blood thirsty
Deities contemplate and dissolved
into nothingness's rebirth.

In presence they were my savior's
of searching inside this Dream that does
not reveal anything but those who know... read more
Mon, April 20, 2009 - 8:21 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
“Dreaming means nothing without the waking dreams result and so too, the opposite.”

Woman (and the feminine side of men) uses her intuition and emotion to express the meanings of what she wishes to convey. Her language is the language of dreams and symbols, art and poetry, of feeling and touch. Although these are meaningless in definition, within art and action they are manifested and therefore express’s the highest level of the feminine or the emotional bodies (soul’s) freedom. I am a new... read more
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 12:14 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I found this on the web and wanted to share. I had my son with father science at a hospital and my daughter with mother intuition at home. Experienced at both, both births were positive. If I had to chose for my son over again, I would have only had a Midwife and at home. The only struggle that I had to overcome back then, was a possible death of my child. I found peace with that by taking full responsibility for my choice and after the birth everything was perfect and I was glad I took the r... read more
Tue, April 14, 2009 - 3:07 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
When men write history they refer to Vanth as an Etruscan Goddess of the Underworld, a Shaman [psychopomp] who indicates impending death. When women write herstory, they refer to their own heroine self and therefor I write as a representation of the Dark Goddess, the mystery of the female Shaman. Vanth then becomes an impending death for someone challenging her spiritual authority of the emotional body which is the soul and wisdom but also the healer who assists another to transform and overc... read more
Thu, April 9, 2009 - 11:01 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
The male Jaguar was captured by the Arizona Game and Fish Department on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in an area southwest of Tucson during a research study aimed at monitoring habitat connectivity for mountain lions and black bears. While individual jaguars have been photographed sporadically in the borderland area of the state over the past years, the area where this animal was captured was outside of the area where the last known jaguar photograph was taken in January.
Fri, April 3, 2009 - 1:11 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
About once a year I get a symbolic message email and i take the symbolism and apply to what is happening in my life. After my Femme Osage, woman of the osage story below, where I prayed to the medicine shaman women of the osage, my symbolism has been coming very strong since this past friday. Uranus conjucnt my moon now, which is bringing me great energy to detox with consistenacy but also epiphanys of what my pisces moon is all about and to come, because eventually in 2012 Neptune will be in... read more
Tue, March 31, 2009 - 11:26 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
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