This is a snippet from a wonderful book titled Honoring your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration, by Mallorie Vaudoise. When my grandmother on the Spirit side of things was teaching me about being a Water Witch, she was very emphatic about the fact that, as much as this is a gift it is also […]
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
I think that, for the most part, there is one major reason that people lie. They do so to save their own hides, or the hides of those they care about. Sometimes they lie to create an illusion of who they are. Sometimes they lie to protect their inner world from collapsing. But mostly it […]
The Art of Loss
No matter who we are, there will eventually (and sometimes far too frequently) come a time when we experience the heartache of the loss of a loved one. In the work that I do as a shaman, I often help people through this type of situation. It does not matter to me how long a […]
A Winter’s Tale
I was born during a blizzard in February of 1963 (a good year! I am now VINTAGE!) For most of my life there has been a snow storm or heavy snowfall on my birthday. I tend to not mind this. I grew up enjoying snow. And the cold meant that there were no mosquitos to […]
Many Forms of Heaven
Whether we call it Heaven or Nirvana, or whatever other concept of the afterlife we may have created in our minds in order to conceive of what it may be, many have wondered what comes after this? Of course, there are those who don’t think that anything happens after this at all. They are welcome […]
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