Time Masters and Past and Future Tracking
One of the tasks of the Time Masters was tracking into the past and the future to become a master spinner. Carl Jung believed that when we don’t heed our calling—and this is not a call to greatness, but a call to meaning—then a life is wasted....
Time Masters and Creating a Sacred Hero/Heroine’s Map
After we complete our return to the Divine Mother, we need to develop a new life devoted to her care. Many of us bought into an old map presented by culture and family that turned us into a parasite, one who collects as much as possible for...
Time Masters and Jaguar Medicine
In the Americas, the Time Masters are the Jaguar priests. The Mayan jaguar priests are known as the Balam and their sacred book is the Chelam Belam. The great teaching of jaguar is to step beyond the fear of death, so it no longer lives within us....
Time Masters and Hummingbird Medicine
Becoming a Time Master means that you develop an extraordinary relationship with the cosmos, where you are no longer subject to the laws of ordinary time. The kind of time that keeps us trapped in the grip of fate and relies on causality. Shamans...
The Air Element
Air represents the very breath we breathe, it is essential to our life force. We cannot stop breathing, it happens automatically whether we think about it or not. Air is a metaphor for life – we breath in fresh air and newness and we release what...
The Fire Element
For shamans, fire is the path of rapid transformation. It provides the avenue to let go of the old story and drama, to transform, to renew and to be reborn. Through fire ceremony, you honor your lessons and old belief structures by placing them in...
The Water Element
There is a natural movement of events in the world just as there is in natural phenomena. The tides, the ebb and flow of oceans and rivers that rise up from the earth then flow to the sea symbolize an ability to gracefully move around obstacles...
The Earth Element
For earthkeepers, all of us who are dedicated to the stewardship of the Earth and all of life, the Earth element is foundational. We choose to hold the sacred dream of a planet where all beings live in peace and where the rivers and the air are...
Light and the Shaman’s Fire Ceremony
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SHAMAN’S FIRE CEREMONY As we have come to learn, ceremony and ritual are incredibly important to healing, as well as growth and development. To a shaman, the fire ceremony is incredibly sacred. Fire is a wild energy and...
Shamans and the light in plants
During my early work in anthropology, when I visited cultures that lived much like their Paleolithic forebears, I was surprised to find how present the sacred was in their lives. Many of their legends speak about a heavenly being who walked the...