Shamanic Inspirations + Becoming Unstuck
Hello to my return journeyers. A warm welcome to my semi-constant journeyers. And, a very special welcome to my new journeyers.
I am so glad you’re here.
It has been a while since I have given voice to deep thoughts around healing, soul work, and Shamanism. The end of Winter and the step forward into the early part of Spring brings about a surge of energy. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring shares a relationship with the direction of the East and the rising sun. Every morning signifies a new beginning of sorts. This is a powerful time of upward-moving energy — Spring propels you forward on your life path. This upward-moving energy can stir up strong emotions as you adjust from the containment of Winter to the expansion of Spring. Pay close attention to sensations of feeling stuck or blocked and to the emotions of anger, frustration, and resentment. During this intense time, there are many opportunities to enter a Shamanic State of Consciousness or visit the Spirit World to seek clarity about the sensations and emotions you are experiencing or on your visions and dreams that are coming to life.
In my experience, it is easy to get stuck during this season. The powerful surge of energy can leave you feeling ungrounded and unbalanced. It is important to remember that the energy necessary to step around again on your personal wheel into the East and Springtime is unruly and chaotic. Nature reflects this deep knowing of birth and new beginnings as a time of intense energy – so intense that it can, at times, feel out of your control. This is a time to lean on your Shamanic practice, to journey to these forces and seek guidance from your guides for this season in your life. Remember: when you get stuck in life or when journeying, look for a different way. With those that I work with one-on-one, some of the most powerful shifts occur when the individual journeys to the resistance they are experiencing and then asks to be shown a different way. As Kriket always said, your Power Animal, Spirit Kin, and Spirit Allies will bend over backwards to support you in the Spirit World.
You can support your well-being in this season by acknowledging the newness that is present in your life: relationships, choices, life events, and emotions. Only two short seasons ago, during Samhain (Halloween), those souls that gathered in ceremony deposited aspects of self that were dying unto themselves – be those thought forms, emotions, relationships, entanglements, decisions, curses, wounding, and so on. During our Samhain ceremony, those aspects were given to the Earth to be transmuted. Winter followed – for drawing inwards, introspection, and a dance with Shadow — to understand the deepest aspects of Self and Soul. And now, we come around again on our personal wheel to Spring.
Right now, the seeds held deep in Mother Earth are thrusting their way out of the depths of the soil toward the light. Everything around you in Nature is in the process of unfolding. Where I live, it can be hard to perceive this transition into Spring as the elements of Winter – the snow and ice – still cast their cold, shadowy breath over the early signs of Spring. This is the time to adjust your perception filter and attune your awake awareness to the aspects of Spring that are around you right now. This is a time of transition and transformation — a time of new beginnings, clarity, and illumination. This is the time of the breath in. Remember, breath is life. This is the time to circle again in ceremony at the cross-quarter day known in Celtic lineages as Beltane (Beltaine).
As you step into this time and contemplate your soul’s work before Beltane (May 1), consider: What in my life needs to grow and unfold now? What is it time for me to step into now? If you are feeling stirrings within your Soul for movement, change, or a shake-up, the Beltane circle on April 27 can support you in your soul’s unfolding. If your soul feels the call, I welcome you.
These next few weeks are a sacred threshold time. I hope that you find yourself shifting easefully into the flow of life that is all around you. May the seeds that you plant grow fully.
As always, thank you for your kind attention.
Until we meet again in this time, this place, this space, happy journeying.
-Heather
