MOON CYCLES:
(CST) 2009

New Moon
Nov 16 @ 1:14 pm
Full Moon
Dec 2 @ 6:02 am
Dark Moon
Dec 13 - 15

New Moon
Dec 16 @ 6:02 am
Full Moon
Dec 31 @ 1:13 pm
(blue moon)
Dark Moon
Jan 13- 15, 2010

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
Dark Moon
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
Dark Moon
June 9 - 11

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

"Jaguar helps to dismember that which must die in order to be reborn.

Since 1987 I have been apprenticed by the spirit of the healing serpent and the black jaguar and now these are completed and my work. I am entering the final elder stage with the initiations and my apprenticeship with the Condor... I follow only Mother Earths initiation and teachings directly from her nature and my own healing path that is now completed for the initiations and spirit apprenticeship. When I work those seeking knowledge, healing or those seeking crisis, who may feel their life is beyond repair, I send her home with jaguar and my apprentices have thought this was a metaphor, but when I work with others one on one, I come to them in dreams, as myself or my jaguar or the world serpent energy of the cosmic egg which is more on a collective level.

As a death and rebirth shaman represented under the more archaic grandmother medicines, this assists her or him to allow these parts of self that needing to die to occur, or serpent who appears as an initiated of a pre-manifested sickness usually there for an awakening, and at the same time regain some balance from the chaos in ones life. Black Jaguar energy along with my buffalo and bear medicines who are the higher umbrella, I work with, can be called forth to sooth the energetic chaotic spread of a dis-ease, or to assist a dying person to find that level of peace needed in the dying process, and guide her journey back to the world of Spirit. Releasing some heavy energies into the flowing river of emotional blockage.

Serpent medicines are the awakening medicines and Jaguar medicines are the protector of the sick person, and protects the space against any negative energy or multi-dimensional realities that could penetrate a healing circle. When a client needs spiritual or psychological protection, I connect her with jaguar energy and most often she reports seeing a large jaguar in her dreams. If she is new on the path serpent medicine will come in from the ethers and appear as itself, its supporters such as grandmothers spider, owl, raven, bat or other internal night medicines.

I am Black Jaguar and Human and many of my clients and apprentices have been witness to this in my healing and circles. Now that these initiations are completed, when I was in Peru in August of 2009, in my dreamtime, a male Puma (blond jaguar) merged with me and this bringing me back to the middle world fully with the gifts of the underworld. Now I prepare for the Great Spirit and the teachings of the Condor Medicines in 2010 till my passage. It has already begun in my circles and experiences and this is my earned right of passage now with the pre-gods or primal earth of cave medicines.

The boys out in Eureka, hold a lodge every first Saturday of the month near the Black Madonna Shrine, If interested, please write at PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com and I will connect you with them. I usually go but not every month.

Welcome to my site, I am a spirit chosen and spirit initiated shaman, an organic dreamer. Having completed my 28 year journey of the knowledge path, the healing path and the spirit path and now at 51, enter my calling with my own ancestors. I am a full time transformational healer using my medicines of dreamtime following in the spirit footsteps of the grandmother cave medicines, the oldest healing based in woman's ability to reach gently yet deeply and powerfully into the separations of our physical and spiritual dis-eases.

Working within the veils of the three worlds, I help others find and allow slowly, the building of a personal bridge between mind and emotional body, inner and outer reality and material and spiritual balance which leads to self awareness and internal medicine experienced, to connect beyond mind and body into the deeper wellspring intelligence of the Soul and her unique voice.

The Earth Healing arts speak deeply to us: our personal past, our past life karma and our need for freedom from fear into dharma. The Dreamer identify bondage of fear as personal illusion, denial and dis-empowerment and with the subtle emotional intelligence of our spirit, transforms these into empowerment, intuition, dreamtime and visionary self guidance. In other words, Self trust. Our inner home, our inner landscapes and our interior realities re-gain balance by nurturing our emotional needs, healing our wounded past, bringing awareness to our unfulfilled desires and our ability to speak truth without fear of being judged or abandoned by family, friends or groups. The importance of loving and trusting the Self is a difficult but mandatory survival skill if one expects to maintain personal health even when life tests us. This is the true path of a spiritual seeker who is ready to begin to experience the depth and nature of her own wisdom that lay hidden and dormant.

Seeking allows us to go beyond our limitations and limited belief systems based on our youth or the youth of the collective. The path of self-exploration moves us beyond mental concepts and theologies and awakens our feelings, moving us out of stagnation, depression, anxiety and slowly begins to creates a spark of inner freedom where we can breath deeply by loving both our true nature in all its shadows and chaos. We may then begin to find balance by accepting the natural teachings of Mother Nature and Mother Earth. Wherever we hold personal fears, our spirit is in poverty, wherever we nurture the creative and intuitive self we fulfill our need and desire for harmony and peace."

Enjoy my website, call me to set up a serious of appointments or any other work I offer in my practice. Blessings. Mary

For appointment please call me at 314-644-2264 for private sessions. Deposit required and then confirmation of our session appointment date. For group work please RSVP by email or at the appropriate centers.

Healing Session and Consultation:
$85 - 2-2 1/2 hour session

Astrology Session:
$125 2 hour taped session

Shamanic Private Soul Retrieval Session:
$133 - 3 hour session

Shamanic Group Session:
$65 for a 3 hour group journey
Living Insights Center, Clayton
Sri Mata Yoga Center, Maplewood

Private Students:
Practicing and building
the Intuitive Body, the Psyche,
Universal Mystery, Intuitive, Esoteric
$65 for 1 1/2 hours each month

Dream Medicine Circle
Once a month - $20 Donation

Woman's New Moon Empowerment Circles
Once a month - $20 Donation

*Sliding scale for appropriate circumstances,
and trade if it is something I am interested
in or need. I will work with you and your
situation.

FREE FIRST CLASS:
Sunday: November 22 2009 @ 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Mystic Valley Books, 3212 Laclede Station Rd
(314) 645-3336

MEET *3RD* SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH @ 1:00 - 3:00 PM

2. December 20, 2009
3. January 17, 2010
4. February 21
5. March 21
6. April 18

Shaman's UNDERWORLD Journey
FRIDAY DEC 18 2009
The Living Insights Center
RSVP ONLY 314-721-4455
$65 Bring a pillow and blankets
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Mary Novak has been leading Middle and Underworld Shamanic Journeys for the past 13 years, and this winter offers her seasonal journey for those who are on the wisdom/healing path of the inner journey. "The visions I lead are for personal healing, dream soul transformation and reclaiming personal vision in the tradition of female creating the softer-intenser side of the realms of the underworld of Mother Earths womb and one's emotional body. Men who come to my journeys will always be required to journey first to find their female side in the jungles of South America in order to respect the feminine within themselves and reclaim."

"The underworld is a place of healing, soul fragmentation, past lives and inner child separation this lifetime, a place where no-time exists in a non-ordinary reality, where you travel to reach a part of yourself unable in this world with the limitations of mind and body. Many people choose to work with soul retrievals to reclaim parts of the self and during times of transitions when life brings them tests such as dis-eases, transformation, new perspectives of the self, destruction or chaos. In my work, crisis and transformation leads to the most powerful journeys because the person is finally ready to surrender to ordinary reality where it is impossible at deep levels voluntarily. For those who are not in a crisis, it opens up the next level of their healing.

I lead journeys only in the Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice to the under-worlds for personal healing, soul fragmentation, separation and understanding the self in symbolic dreaming realities that shamanic work offers.

In the Spring and Summer Solstices to the middle-worlds, I lead these for vision, spirit guides and mysticism.

I have never done shamanic drugs or vision plants to attain such heights and depths of this shamanic path and have brought back clarity and discernment of such places in my own spirit chosen and spirit initiated learning and expereinces which is now completed and my work is grounded and safe for all who attend my journeys.

We will participate again under the Arch in Saint Louis at ARTICA: Our 2008 Artica Sacred Shamanic Healing and Sacred Dance with some of my apprentices was to do a healing on the Land and Water to connect the male Mound at Cahokia and the torn down female Mound on Broadway to tie them together. Sherry with a group of dancers, will lead the sacred trace performance dance as me and my apprentices will be doing healing work.

Women's Monthly Lunar Intention Circle
Sunday Full Moon Dec 2, 2009
Place: Sri Mata Yoga Cottage
Mary: PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com
Donation Suggested: $20

Mary Novak, Shaman Dreamkeeper and Sherry Summers facilitate a New, Full and Dark Moon Intention Circle once a month, a co-creation circle to learn the sacred art of living and practicing personal Intention with the cycles of the Moon,Dreaming cycles and Menses cycle to structure emotional energy of chaos, changes and transformation, looking inward rather than outward as a structured practice. Sherry Summer, a Yoga and Dance Diva teacher, leads the full moon release dances, the second half. We practice “intent” to see both the beauty and the shadows of our truth and to follow the wisdom of our grandmother ancestral nations all over the earth who have always followed Mother nature's intuitive consciousness... for she, her animals and plants and sky and clouds are reality and we are here to honor and serve her, just as our masculine is here to honor this circle is to serve and honor our feminine as women. Call or write for directions: FallingStarKawa@live.com

2nd Friday of Each Month
Living Insight Center 314-721-4455
7 - 10 PM $20 donation

Please join me every second Friday of the month, along with my apprentices to share personal healing dreams, dream practices, lucidity, world dreaming and symbolism.

A Dreamkeeper's Circle is a Shamans dream circle for the expression of self existing between the waking and nights dreaming through experiences and awakening. My dreaming as a shaman, does not solely belong to me but humanity as well and I am a devout lover and participator of dreamtime. Join us to share your experience, wisdom, groundedness and vision to become empowered through your own emotional soul body of dreaming. Begin to experience true realities of a multiple reality through practice, from a place that is deeper beyond the mind. Healing, awakening and building your own bridge to the day and nights dreaming.

"A master healer is one who heals the self and creates a safe place for another to heal the self." My passion in life has been my healing journey, part spiritual, part healing the self, part testing all faiths and part testing all my personal fears to overcome duality. My gift is moving deeply with you and with energy medicine to unblocked energy that causes mental, physical and emotional dis-eases. My passion is to help and teach you how to do it for yourself so your transformation and healing will be permanent. This type of healing work is beyond the physical into the emotional and mental bodies and as an Empath I work with subtle and transformation information that emotional energy carreis, I work with helping you discipline your lower mind, understanding and valuing your own experiences and help you connected to your physical dis-ease as a conscious relationship. Exploring both higher and lower natures of your issues.

I combine my wisdom from my long and successful, but difficult personal healing journey to help others overcome their own personal limitation, illusion and fears. As a Master Energy healer I offer clients deeper transformational work and helping structure personal chaos that arises from energy work. I have been a Reiki Master healer for the past 14 years and now work as a energetic medical intuitive into the deeper layers beyond vibrational energy into frequency of the Auric, Astral and Etheric levels of memories, past lives and remembrances.

When your ready to take full responsibility for your personal well being, awaken beyond the mental knowledge and begin to work with the yin, feminine or shadow aspects of your life and its connection with the practices of intuition, dreaming, etc. please write: PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com.

Mary works with your natal, transits, solar returns, progressions and karmic astrology cycles and has a great understanding of the nature of psychological developmental through divination. She helps you understand the processes and patterns of personal change, archetypes and insight from the horoscope of personal cycles. Understanding change effects consciousness and in her work as a healer through shamanism this adding more depth and her readings. Mary also experiences out of body and astral travel not limited to this world, which gives her great perspective of star knowledge when doing both your personal and collective aspects (inner and outer planets). She assists by enhancing your understanding of what you value so you can gain access to personal changes by applying them directly for the fulfillment.

Astrological Readings:

Voice recorded, e-mailed directly for long distance readings;
By phone or in person. A 1 1/2 hour Astrology Consultations
are $133 and appointments are necessary.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday
3 Day Retreat with Yoga Teacher Sherry Summer
and Shaman Mary Novak. More information to come.

Mystic Valley Farm
2 Day Dream Workshop 2010
$65 including Materials

Prepare to bring personal items, a tent, some tents available, also bring any special items to fill your rattle that are sacred to you. Bring your own food, drinks and snacks there will be no alcohol or drugs allowed of any sort. Call for more information.

Mystic Valley Books Farm
Space for 10 Participants
RSVP: Call Mystic at 314-645-3336

Discover the art of Rattles and Spirit Rattles. The basic use for Rattles are to dispel dis-ease in any form or elemental, energetic or physical. Some use them in ritual and celebration to build energy in spaces as weel. Some use them to clear space from negative spirits or negative energy and still, some use it clear their healing or personal spaces from thoughts and previous action. Rattle is power in a sound form and is empowerment, inside the Rattle made from your own hands are the sacred intention for its power as an extension of the self.

In this workshop, we will discover the significance of Rattles, as well as respect for Rattle and its uses. You will then create and birth your own Sacred Rattle charged with your energy. Your personal prayers and intent will give it life. You will select the elements of your Rattle honoring all or one of the Spirit directions. The body of Rattle is made of animal hide and bringing us together with the spirit totems. The handle is made of wood, touching us to the Tree People. The contents include sacred plants (corn, tobacco, and rice), crystal chips, sea shells, sea salt, glass, beads, etc... Please bring anything you may want to include in your Rattle or share with others. Each Rattle will be made the natural way and blessed with sage and sweetgrass in ceremony and painted by you.

RATTLE: The basic Rattle is for those new upon the path. Those who wish to begin to work with medicine tools of sound with intention. The Rattle has two sides on hand stitched Animal Hide with a two-sided head, on which images can be painted, a balanced handle wrapped in good quality natural leather to give an excellent grip and feel and embellishments of items that are special to you and your path. Walking your path with inner power can be assisted by the basic Rattle which is uncomplicated and simple, holding a simple resonant sound created by adding tiny pebbles or beads or natural seeds from Nature. Though this Rattle is designed for those new on the healing and spiritual path, it could serve your purpose for a long time as your path deepens.

SPIRIT RATTLE: A primal, earth connected Shamanic Rattle for those who undertake ceremonies and rituals with Nature, those who work with beyond the Veil will seek a Spirit Rattle which carries power. Listening to the voices of Spirit or the Spirits of Mother Earth, speaking to them when you use a Spirit Rattle. Depending upon the depth and spirals of your own healing journey, it will be mirrored in strength that reflects equally your own. A two sided, hand sewn Animal Hide, the head of these ancient styles are the shapes of Journey Animals of Ocean, Land or Air. Depending upon what you are working with, to Ground [Land], to learn from Spirit [Air] or to delve into Mother Earth [Land] and heal, this Rattle surmounts you searching a special piece of wild wood with a particular, evocative shape that you are called to carry. These Rattles inspire and carry the wild power of the land, air or water and also reflect Avian [Air], Animals [Land] or Water [Ocean] which includes Water Image Patterns, Dragons or Mythical Imagery]. They often have feathers or aspect of some animal totem hanging on the stick. A Spirit Rattle has feathers attached to the handle and partially covering one face of the head, and so it is only possible to decorate the other face. Find or gather or ask the Avian to bring you feathers specifically for your Rattle. Spirit can guide you to whatever feathers you need. What you put inside the head ensures that the sound from this Rattle is strong and clears around your energy space, and can be filled with small flint pebbles, tiny river pebbles, mixed with healing stones from local sources and helps spirit voices speak through your Rattle. Animal hide with stitching so it is durable, holds image and strength.

DREAM SERPENT RATTLE: Serpents are linked with Feminine Wisdom and Power and are the oldest Rattles connected with the Neolithic Grandmothers or Great Goddess Medicines of Primal Cave Dreamers. For those whose path is Rainbow [Many Traditions] the Wisdom Serpent represents the power of nurturing, of healing yourself, of love and unity of both your male or female sides into wholeness. Asking Spirit or your Higher Self to show you Sacred Images to paint on your Rattle is suggested before the workshop in which you Dream with your Rattle before it is manifested. Serpent Imagery painted on the handle is to represent your Life Force Energy connected to the Earth [Grounded-ness] and the Spirit of Life on Earth and also to Dream with Sacred Souls who have similar paths at the collective level. Rattle handles also should be decorated with Spirals, Images of Serpents or any Night Symbolism.

MEDICINE RATTLE: For those who are working on a healing journey and atonement or work with the world Indigenous or Native American Medicine Wheel, creating a Rattle to mirror your own personal journey of healing is the foundation of a Medicine Rattle. It is directly inspired by the Native Plains such as the Cheyenne, Cherokee and Mohican. Medicine Wheel colors of Red, Yellow, Black and / or White and the Images of your personal Totem Animals or Spirit Animals such as the Wolf, Hawk, Raven, Eagle, Buffalo, Bear, Owl, Vulture, Jaguar, Cougar or Cave Human Spirit forms are brought into Image as you work with the specific Medicines of Clearing, Boundaries, Dispelling negative Emotion such as Anger, Jealousy, Envy, Control, etc. putting the intention to clear those in the Rattle.

The Art and Myth of Dreaming with Animal Spirits
An Shamanic Art and Dreaming Workshop
with Mary Novak

This workshop was done in May
at the Saint Louis Artist Guild
and I will be hosting it again,
Date and Place: TBA
2 Day Workshop:
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $80, $45 students
Includes materials, light lunch
limited to 20 RSVP

Mary Novak is a Shaman Dreamkeeper, Visionary Painter, Poet and healer. She created this workshop to offer change for people and artists who are seeking new ways to reconnect with the natural spirit of the earth through the lower and higher emotional body and creativity.

The healthy approaches to living on earth today are beginning to open to a reality that the beauty of our tree's, the animals, the water all have a life force that carries spirit beyond just a teaching. Our ability to understand this as real, effects our relationship to the earth's health and her vitality in the future.

As a Shaman Mary works with such alternate or non-ordinary realities beyond ordinary reality to share her gift and this inspiration with others. This workshop is to experience one's own higher self as the inner creative who meets the nature of dreaming calling forth ones' spirit to connect with ones' power totem or animal soul, known to the indigenous as a spirit animal. Those who are beginners and not familiar with this language will soon learn that its about one's imagination and emotion combined at a higher level called the Soul. We shamans call this the dreamer dreaming in the real dream reality.

The workshop begins with a lecture connecting animal symbolism from our past as the ancient one's who saw great value in the spirit of the cats, the wild big cats, the serpent, and other animals as sacred represented from cave art to ancient art. We will experience a shamanic dream journey and an afternoon of creating art from that journey.

The Artist Guild offers to host our artwork in a two day weekend show if one wishes to display their art with the group.

To register please call Mary at PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com