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Fire Ceremony for Serpent Wisdom

Fire Ceremony for Serpent Wisdom

Begin by opening sacred space using the invocation in the Appendix of the Wisdom Wheel book. Have a journal or notebook and pen by your side to use for having a conversation with the power animal you encountered on the Island of the Sacred Animals...

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Transformative Eagle Wisdom

Transformative Eagle Wisdom

Eagle medicine is the gift of knowing that you are significant despite how very small you are. It’s knowing that each step you take, each word you speak, can be an expression of love and that this lays the foundation for a new vision, a new way of...

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Transformative Jaguar Wisdom

Transformative Jaguar Wisdom

In Western culture, we value the mind for making sense of the world and our experiences. But while we might think we possess our mind, our mind can possess us. The challenge of jaguar in the wisdom wheel does not require you to cut your brain out...

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Transformative Serpent Wisdom

Transformative Serpent Wisdom

The journey through the wisdom wheel begins in the South, where you learn to shed your past like a serpent sheds her skin. By doing this, you can become unencumbered by family drama, no longer fated to develop the physical ailments that your family...

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Reclaiming the Divine Feminine

Reclaiming the Divine Feminine

The Bon Buddhists revere a Great Mother deity who is both a powerful protector and a fierce destroyer. The depictions and stories of her remind me of the Amazon shamans’ tales of the female jaguar, a protective force that teaches us not to be...

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Our Energetic Makeup

Our Energetic Makeup

Modern physics helps us understand how all of creation works together in its intricate and elegant dance of life – including at the micro and macro levels of particles and waves of light and of galaxies, black holes, and solar systems. However,...

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In Service to Something Greater

In Service to Something Greater

The power a shaman engages in the invisible world is vastly different from the power that people seek in the visible mundane world to improve their lives. She is interested in entering a non-ordinary reality in the invisible realm to discover and...

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