Join shamanic practitioner and author, artist Katherine Skaggs to learn about No Smoke Smudging with Flower Water.
Katherine will teach you about Agua de Florida, as well as the flower waters made from palo santo, tobacco, kananga, rose, and orange to clean and clear your space, and that of others. You will also learn about a pusanga or love potion, and how to use that to attract blessings, love, and good fortune.
Flower water is an excellent way to smudge when you can't burn smudge and use smoke to clear. With flower waters plant medicines are infused into alcohol and water, prayed with and sung into, used with intention, to clean your energy, raise your frequency, clear trauma and fear, as well as to bless and bring protection.
Agua de Florida water is the go to for shamans in Peru, and many places in the world. It is a mixture of a variety of plants. Many shamans, shamanic practitioners, and medicine people will pray into this flower water for general or specific prayers to heal and to clear bad energy (Hucha as the Q'ero call it), and to bring in uplifting energies of the plant spirit medicines as well as the prayers and intentions of the practitioner.
Using flower water as a daily smudge is an excellent way to keep your energy high, and to clean away worry, fear, and fright that is rampant in our world today.
Open your flower water, then as with all your allies, thank it for its powerful energies that are good in cleaning energy and raising your vibration, pray into it with a heart centered prayer and intention for wellness, shift, balance, love, peace, etc. Then pour some into the palms of your hands, rubbing your hands together, and then bringing up to breathe in deeply three times. Do so gently as this is very strong with alcohol and can be intense.
Once you have breathed in the flower water, use your hands to move through your energy field, above your crown, to the back of your neck, and behind you (intentionally sending to your heart and all of your back), and through your front, sending to your third eye to awaken your vision, to your throat to express your creativity and truth, to your heart for full heartedness, to your solar plexus to activate your power, to your 2nd chakra to support your creativity and intuition, and to your root, that you are grounded in this world with love. Place your hands onto any parts of your body that need extra healing and attention, intentionally sending this energy deep into your physical body and cellular structure to receive this energy and come back into balance. Use your hands and imagination to then send out into your room, to your animals, your loved ones, your land, to your work place, and to the world at large for healing and peace.
You can do a blessing offering anytime with this practice to clear, to bless, and to give gratitude. Give without condition. Those who would like to receive will do so in their right timing.
Other flower waters you can use are Palo Santo, Tobacco, Kananga, Rose, Orange, Lavender, and any assortment of home made flower waters, such as the pusanga/love potion.
I also have another company I carry that makes other plant medicine flower waters. Some that she creates are made from White Sage, Clary Sage, Sweetgrass, and Cedar to name a few. She makes an amazing Palo Santo mist that is one of my favorite.
If you want to buy some flower water, go to my website at https://wpdraft.simple.biz/katherineskaggs/product-category/flower-waters/
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Shamanism is an ancient spiritual practice that is a way of living life in harmony in the woven web of life, where everything from our inner, spiritual selves is connected to every part of our outer reality. Understanding the fabric of the invisible world known as the spirit world or Non-ordinary reality, and the visible world we call life also known as the ordinary reality, gives us a clue as to why we are here and how to navigate with clarity of intention, practices, ritual, and ceremony. We are sacred beings on an earth walk, meant to live a sacred life.
Today our modern world is confusing, chaotic, and often times fueled by fear and trauma. How do you show up amidst the crazy to live in joy and harmony? Many are struggling to find happiness with the ever changing landscape, seemingly controlled by forces outside of ourselves. Where do you turn and how do you find peace again?
Within the world of shamanism is a treasure trove of timeless wisdom, universal laws and truths, as well as shamanic mapping systems that give you direction to awakening as a conscious dreamer within the chaos of what might be a nightmare rather than a beautiful dream. Take back your power with ancient systems of harmony for creating greater joy, health, abundance, and wellness for your self, as well as for your family, community, and global tribe at large.
Within the Artist Shaman Healer Sage book you will learn about shamanic truths shared around the globe that are universal, regardless of the time, place or tribe you have incarnated into; you will be given shamanic practices for grounding, cleaning energy, working with plant spirits, elementals, guides, allies, ancestors, spirit animals, and angels, altar work and prayer, smoke baths and flower water medicines, working the medicine wheel, and awakening the Artist, Shaman, Healer, and Sage that lives within your very being. This is a hands on, direct experience shamanic guide that is both deeply practical and transcendently spiritual.
Great Spirit gave us everything we need to become aligned with our true spiritual essence that we may live a beautiful life on earth, integrated and harmonious.
Watch this little video, then get in on a Pre-order of the Artist Shaman Healer Sage book to receive many additional gifts of gratitude for ordering early while the book is at press. The book is expected to arrive between late April and mid-May. It will ship as soon as it is in stock.
Much gratitude, Katherine Skaggs
As we begin February 2021 what do we need to know, and focus on to begin the month and to create anew? The word courage comes to mind as I focus on the cards. So I ask the Mythical Goddess Tarot how to proceed for the highest and best outcomes.
Maiden of Seas - Passion
The Maiden of Seas, the Passion card is in the very center of this spread. She tells me we need to first of all focus on our heart spaces and the passion we carry for our lives. Focus on our heart's desires, to give us the courage to 'go for it', whatever 'it' is. Our heart's know the way. They are the portal to our soul selves and will guide us where we need to go with the power of the heart and our connection to our very soul purpose.
Major Arcana Goddess Mother Mary - Sacrifice Mother
To the left of Passion is Mother Mary, the Sacrifice card. She tells us we need to let go of all that we are attached to that is dying and outmoded, devoid of spirit. Let go and trust the eternal life that is within you and all your relations, and move beyond any ways you live in the past, or look to past structures that no longer support you and your growth. Trust, faith, and hope are very much part of this card. Mary knows that we are so much bigger than our finite human existence. Tap into your heart spaces, your passion, and trust that your love and your spirit will show you the way, as you trust your heart. Work with the powers of unconditional love for yourself, and you can extend that to each person in your life and all your circumstances. As you trust your heart and soul's desires, releasing attachment to old form, you will be able to move forward with trust that what you desire flows to you in right timing.
Major Arcana Goddess White Buffalo Calf Woman - Sacred Fire
To the right of Passion is the beautiful, sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman. She reminds us that all life is sacred and holy. As we honor our hearts, releasing attachment to all form devoid of life, we more easily can embrace the holy life that we are all here to live. Look for the beauty and sacredness in all life and you will restore this in yourself at all levels. Let go of the things that separate you from your heart spaces. Purify your thoughts, emotions, spirit, and physical being through prayer, with fire ceremony, and offerings to the earth and Spirit. With the support of these energies we have the opportunity to return to sacredness in our lives and how we meet one another in a more harmonious way.
May these beautiful blessings enfold you.
In deep gratitude and much respect. Katherine Skaggs
Stay tuned for the pre-order specials coming soon until my book arrives in mid April or early May! Many special packages and offerings in addition to the book coming you way by May. We are so very excited. A new website is in process right now where we will invite you to all things born of this book, where you can learn all about it, including how to get in on the specials, watch free videos to support devoting your own shamanic practices, and how to join a community forum to support finding tribe and creating tribe that is based on this universal shamanic wisdom. This is all about heart, empowerment, and greater harmony within, and all around.
New website coming this February soon: www.artistshamanhealersage.com. On facebook look for the Artist Shaman Healer Sage book page where you can get regular updates and teachings linked to the book and these great wisdom teachings.
AMABIE, is a Water Spirit, Mermaid, who came in through my' Live Channeled Painting to Heal session on April 6, 2020, in response to healing as Humanity faces the pandemic and COVID-19.
This water spirit Amabie, is a legendary Japanese mermaid with 3 less, who is known to emerge from the sea to bring abundant harvest, as well as to help protect from illness due to epidemic.
This video brings teachings, and healing energies, from Amabie to assist us all in cleaning away the energy that makes us sick... both physically and spiritually. As I painted Amabie, I could feel her joyful nature, and wild woman spirit. She is very good at clearing fear, and bringing one back to the heart of truth and love. She helps to clean away what separates us from love, from harmony, and from beauty. She reminds us that true beauty lies within us, and that it is time to see that within all life."
Enjoy this live, channeled painting. Connect to the energy of this spirit Amabie, and her super powers to support you now, to bring you into love and to clean fear. Amabie, is the epitome of a helping spirit and shamanic ally. She invites you to call her into your life, to clean away that which makes you sick, and that which makes the world sick. Sit with her image and call her now. Thank her for her gifts and capacity to clean dense, fearful energy. Your gratitude is an offering. It is always important to thank our helping spirits, as that is what feeds their heart spaces. It is the reciprocity we all need to participate in, giving thanks, and giving love. May this bless you, inspire you, and encourage you to know you are not alone, that you have many angels, guides and spirit helpers. Call to them today to have them help you, to lift you up, and to support you in being the joyful, loving being that you already are.
Here's her image after this session. At this moment I am still working on her, as she continues to speak to me for bringing in energy for love, acceptance, transformation, and beauty. Use Amabie's image to inspire your heart opening, to stay in peace, and to know that you are safe and protected. Call to her now to lift you up. I'll add updated images once she is complete.
With love and many blessings, Katherine Skaggs
Dear Friends
I am reaching out to support you during these chaotic times, full of fright and fear in our collective, as well as a time of great opportunity, of great focus on the light by those of us willing to turn our attention to greater possibilities unfolding beyond the fear. How shall we hold the light, be in support and supported, and take practical steps to move through these experiences with power, strength and love?
I am holding space for healing each day at my altar. I am lighting a candle, sage, palo santo, copal, sacred tobacco and other powerful plant medicines to clear the fear energies and trauma vibrations that are emerging so we may heal individually and collectively. I am calling all angels, divine beings of light, helpers and masters of light to assist us now. In the big picture, this collective purge is an important part of our transformation as a species.
Please join me in setting a space each day to light a candle, to pray, to meditate, to walk in nature, to go inward into the light of possibility and alchemy, to transform your own fears, through a shift of focus, through a shift of intention and attention. You can do this. We can do this.
Let's come together for a powerful shift, shifting our focus upward and inward.
Clear yourself and your space daily by burning sage, palo santo, sacred tobacco, etc. Use essential oils such as frankincense, tea tree, thieves, lemon, peppermint, lavender, thyme, eucalyptus, chamomile, clove, cinnamon, pine, juniper and rosemary on your body and in your field. Diffuse oils in your home and place of work.
Anti viral plants you can add to your diet are oregano, echinacea, garlic, elderberry, astragalus, olive leaf, ginger, cats claw, chaga mushroom, calendula, pau d’arch, siberian ginseng, reishi, sangre de drago, and st. johns ward. Eat lots of garlic!!!
Colloidal silver is also excellent to take to support your immune system.
Take care of your gut to support your immune system. Stay away from sugar, grains and dairy to support a shift in gut health if you are willing, while adding probiotics and prebiotics. This will assist in your energy as well. Your immune system needs good food, organics food, so you can navigate this world well in a body! Stay away from GMOs and foods that have been sprayed with glycophosphates. Organic only is a good way to go, to insure your immune system is optimal.
Over the next month I will be setting up some remote group healing opportunities to join, as well as some live channeled paintings on FB to clear the fear. Most events will be free, or very low cost to join remotely. It is time to support, to vibe up and to thrive regardless of the circumstances.
Several key teachings in shamanism to ponder at this time:
1. You are the Dreamer of Your Reality — (How shall you dream your life regardless of the circumstances you are amidst?)
2. All is Well regardless of the appearances of things.
3. Everything is Energy. Everything is connected. (Do your part in shifting upwards, through your focus, your thoughts and emotions, your intentions, your actions. Choose love as best as possible. Choose kindness. Choose to bless yourself and others. Look for the magic and the beauty. Be the blessing.)
Use this most amazing, free, great tool - Your Imagination! Connect to your childlike nature of innocence, curiosity and wonderment. When you still your mind, your heart and your focus, use your imagination and curiosity to reach to greater possibilities unfolding. What is the amazing shift coming as we are in the change? How good can all of this get? How much better might it be as we transform? What if we are moving into greater harmony as we clear the fear? What is it like to feel, sense, see, act and be from a greater sense of harmony and love?
Move your focus and attention into this world of energy and be emboldened for magical shift!
With much love, honor, respect and blessings!
Katherine
Katherine Skaggs
Estrella de la Luz is the Pleiadian Angel of the Stars who brings the light and star codes to assist humanity in a new life, a new reality, a new frequency that holds great possibility and potentiation of the Golden Age.
Estrella came to me in 2014, expanding onto canvas with great beauty and energy. Then it seems I had to wait, and wait before it was time to finish her. As much as I wanted to sit and paint on her, it seems I could not.
With that I understand that she teaches patience in a time of change and transformation. She asks us to trust timing, and the ever present flow of how all is in perfect timing. She tells me there is no hurry, just the capacity to be present to know when to sit and when to act. In this way she works with both the North and the East energies of the Medicine Wheel. The North is the time of rest, as well as great activity in the unseen or underground. It is a time of regeneration and learning right timing. The East is the Great Void, and the place of new beginnings. It is the place where the seeds of all dreams are placed and born from. It is the Cosmic Womb where all is held, where all is nourished and from which all life is born.
My first experience of Estrella was that she heralds a new beginning, a new way of life, as with the East. Her energy and imagery is all about the potentiation and possibility of New Life that is more enlightened, not only for Self, but for Other... and most importantly for the evolution of the species of humans. She brings a promise through her high frequency energy that activates the potentiation within each one who views her and desires to open to this illumination.
It was also apparent that she is deeply connected to the Tree of Life, and to the evolution of the soul, offered through a time/space experience. The Tree of Life is a symbol of all things that come from a seed and grow into fullness, the Tree of Life is a symbol all of humankind can connect to, to understand more greatly their own soul growth, and the soul growth of Mama Gaia, or the soul of Earth and all her creatures. This is also connected to all life through the Universe, an existence full of potential, full of birth, death and rebirth.
Estrella de la Luz is an angel of higher dimensional realities, born of Pleiadian wisdom and light. She offers the light frequencies of wisdom and growth that comes through love and nurturance. Her heart center is that of a blue lotus exploding with rings of lotus petals in green, pink and blue to symbolize an illuminated active heart. The blue lotus itself is a sacred visionary plant known well in Egypt during the times of Mystery Schools. It was used to assist the seers in keeping an open, illuminated heart and soul. This symbol radiates the remembering of what it is to be open and seeing through the soul's heart.
The Raven is a symbol of flight between ordinary reality as human and non-ordinary reality as multi-dimensional soul self. Raven flies between the realms, reminding us we can do the same as soul. Raven is here to assist in an easier transition with the use of magic, through intention and knowing that Spirit guides all things. Raven too beckons rebirth and renewal and is here to assist in our evolution.
The equilateral cross symbol at the throat with the eye in it radiates light codes to each of us to wake up within this realm of Earth and human. It is a symbol of marriage between the material and the ethereal, bringing the inner and outer worlds together in sacred union. The eye within this indicates the ability to see between the worlds, to understand and express at the deepest levels this marriage from within the self to the exterior reality.
At the crown of this beautiful angel is a nest with a Robin and her babies, with the Tree of Life behind, and an orange yellow solar halo, surrounded in a pink moon. The Robin and her babies, is the symbol of birth and Spring. The Robin is a symbol of divine service and is connected to the Christ energy. Being at the Crown with the symbol of the tree and the solar halo, expect this is the message that it is time for us to wake up as a species, into our Christ light, into our true heritage as awakened beings. The solar Christ energy grows us into new beginnings as a wiser soul species, held in the lunar strawberry moon energy of unconditional love.
Gaze upon this beautiful Pleiadian Angel of Light and wake up now. Bathe in her high frequency light codes and symbols that emanate into your field and very consciousness. Remember who you are and why you are here now. She has come to gently and firmly remind you who you are, and fill you with light. She is here to activate your consciousness to great potential and pure, unconditional love.
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Focusing Through the HeartRegularly life reminds me of the importance of focus and where I put my attention each day, each hour and each breath.
In the world around us with so many challenges, from the news of floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, human tragedy, to the tenuous political environment, we are each faced with how we will react, respond and show up each day. There is a greater polarity of experiences, points of views and responses.
Do you focus your response through criticism, fear, intellect, denial, ignoring or do you find your compassionate heart along the way? Are you being bombarded by pain and suffering, or are you thriving in your world? Are you crushed by the human issues around you, or are you living in happiness and joy?
Learning to be more masterful with the power of your focus and the power of choice can change everything for you in a positive way. The world climate of fear is an energy leak. If we give our attention to it and let it rock our world negatively, it creates energy loss. This in turn creates a loss of power, draining your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual resources.
With practice, we can close up the energy leak and open to the life giving forces of Spirit found in the Cosmos, the Universe, Mother Earth, the Stars, the Sun, the Moon... Focusing through the heart, rather than the head, brings compassion and a path of possibility, a path of hope and healing.
Focus through the heart, through the energy of love, and shift everything experienced as pain and fear. The quality and energy of love forgives the mistakes and hardships, and brings us into the center of Spirit, into the presence of wellness. It allows us to flow, rather than to be stuck in fear, lack or stubbornness for what has been created in our world. It offers a place of flexibility and possibility where we can dream anew with support.
Use an altar to help you focus on love, on possibility and the power of Spirit. Click here to read more about how to do build an altar and use it as part of your spiritual practices.
During these times it is equally important to call in support, to ask for help from a more powerful energy (such as a teacher, a healer, or Mother Earth and Father Sky).
To work with the energies of the Cosmos and Mother Earth, click here to read more about a Tree of Life visualization that will assist you.
I was reminded this weekend of a buddhist teaching that is most appropriate when speaking of these human journeys. "Pain is part of the human experience. Suffering is optional."
Be well, be kind to yourself and others, drop down into your heart, and know that you are the blessing that changes your world and the larger landscape of all life as you simple love.
Be still, be love, be blessed and be the blessing wherever you go.
Creating an altar is a spiritual activity of intention as much as it is a physical endeavor. Altars can be communal, public or absolutely personal and tucked away from others’ curious minds.
When created ceremoniously and in ritual your altar is a place for sanctuary, prayer, meditation and ritual. It is a place to hold your prayers and intentions, as well as to focus your love and connection to Spirit. An altar is a place of non-ordinary reality held within ordinary reality. Altars are for your spiritual mind and soul heart to merge with your personality. Whether communal or personal, altars help to anchor your focus on Spirit, love, faith and possibility.
The Qer’o people of the Andes (an indigenous people in the lineage of the ancient Incans) know an altar creates a portal to the heavenly realms. With prayers, intention and attention to honor the ancestors, the elementals and spirit helpers with the altar as the focal point, a column of light emanates from the heavens downward into the center of Mother Earth via the altar space. This column of light is called a canali, and acts as a gateway for angels, guides and masters from the heavenly realms to come into your place of prayer and ceremony. They come to answer your prayers and bring blessings from the supernatural worlds of Spirit.
Altars are created and used by many peoples around the world, indigenous, religious, and vastly spiritually oriented. There is a common experience of creating sacred spaces for prayers to be focused, sent and received to and from the Divine. Native Americans, Peruvians, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, protestants, Celtic Druids, and on and on and on, find sacred objects, for sacred spaces, to set an altar to speak to Great Spirit, God, Goddess, the Divine.
Altars can be large or small, they can be permanent or traveling. What they have in common is that they are a dedicated space which honors Spirit, your guides, helpers and allies. It is a place to pray. It is a place to recognize as you are in a sacred ceremony. It is a place to say hello to your ancestors and allies. It is a place to listen and gain guidance. Commonalities of altars are a sacred cloth as the mesa, and ground for the sacred items. Flowers, candles, sacred objects from stones and crystals to statuary may fill your altar. Statues or pictures of saints, the Buddha, the Christ, statues of animal totems are excellent to have on your altar to honor and call forth these helpers and guides. Sage, sacred tobacco, incense, corn meal, and other sacred plants are also good to have on the altar. During prayer these may be lit, allow the smoke to send your prayers to Spirit in ritual.
Pictures of your self or family members and loved ones may go on a personal altar or an altar dedicated to the support and protection of your family. When I teach ongoing classes we make an altar in my teaching space for the group, with pictures of each participant for that six month class. Each day I go to that altar and pray for that group, for each person, for support, for healing, for blessings and such. I light sacred tobacco and send to each person, calling in help from their allies and the allies of the group. This is an example of the power of prayer and an altar to hold the space for an individual or for a group of people.
Set aside a place in your home that is private where you can set up your personal altar. It doesn’t have to be large. It can be as small as your bedside table, or even the drawer of your bedside table. Clear it of all clutter. Find a cloth or covering that is beautiful and feels sacred to you. This will help set the space.
Next, place a small statuette, piece of art, a crystal, flowers or an item representing Spirit at the center of the altar. Place a candle on the altar. Use your intuition as to where it belongs. You can place other items in on the altar such as flowers, crystals, a small container of water, feathers, sand, etc. The items you place on the altar should bring love, beauty and honor to Spirit and integrate with your intentions.
Smudge your altar with tobacco, sage, cedar, sweet grass, or whatever combination of herbs you are called to use and keep it as clean energetically as you do by dusting it physically.
Take some time each day to sit at your altar, putting your attention on Spirit, through your heart, your prayers, gratitude and intentions. When you sit you can burn incense and play music to assist you in going inward to connect to your intuition and to Spirit. When you are quiet and focused, you begin to open to the messages and healing energies Spirit has for you.
Enter into prayer mindfully, centered in your heart with gratitude. Light your candle, and send your prayers to Spirit in your mind, in your heart, and in your words. Pray gratefully with an earnest heart, opening to the love and gifts available to you. Visualize your prayers as not only heard, but answered.
Let go of outcomes and open to the larger vision Spirit has for you and your life. Open to greater possibilities expressing from Great Mystery, answering your prayers in love beyond what your human mind can grasp. Spirit works in the mystery, and ultimately weaves a path of awakening when you will surrender and trust the Greater Spirit and inter-connectedness of life.
Making an altar and having a mindful practice of prayer, ritual and gratitude can heal your life beyond anything you can imagine. It brings peace with focus through the heart. This ancient practice of prayer and altar work anchors your prayers from earth to heaven and heaven to earth in a tapestry of woven intentions that are your heart song. Try it and discover more about yourself as a sacred creator dreaming your world through greater love and heart centered intentions.
What you ask and what you bless, shall be given.
© 2016 Katherine Skaggs. You may copy or share this information, without changing the text, and with giving credit to the author please.
Elk Medicine is a powerful totem animal of stamina, strength, sensual passion, nobility, pride, respect, and survival. Elk teaches us the lessons about life that we need to learn.
Call Elk to help you pace yourself as you increase your stamina, for a project and for a lifetime. Look at the long journey and learn to "hit your stride" as Elk assists you in managing your energy. Perseverance is the ability you gain with the stamina Elk medicine offers. With this comes the teaching of right timing, and knowing not to rush into anything. Being present to the process is as important as achieving the goal, if not more important.
Elk also brings you wisdom when it comes to the importance of community, particularly when it comes to fellowship with the same gender. Elk herds are normally male or female. Male and female only unite during mating season.
Elk are also known as Spirit Messengers. Their antlers connect to the medicine of lightening, and channel that energy to earth. With this medicine comes instant knowing and messages from Spirit with great clarity.
To get to know Elk and call it as your ally and helper, say "hello." Call Elk to you as a new friend, with a greeting of sincerity, kindness and curiosity. Invite Elk spirit medicine into to your world by saying hello, then honoring it for its gifts and powers. Thank Elk for bringing its power to you now, and for sharing its wisdom. "Thank you Elk, for teaching me stamina and strength for the journey of life. Thank you for teaching me how to walk through this world with respect, and how to live in community. Thank you for perseverance in all areas of my life. Thank you for teaching me what is important and how to stand strong and consistent on my path."
Deer Medicine is a powerful totem of gentleness, unconditional love and kindness. Its qualities are often seen as gentleness, grace, sensitivity, beauty, innocence and keen observation. Deer are able to see through the illusions of this world's chaos and duality. Its heart medicine is able to sense through great intuitive and instinctive skills to avoid danger and to stay in peace.
Deer as totem or spirit animal is the ally who helps you to receive and embody these energies. These energies are its "medicine" and power it has to offer you.
In the way of the Huichol Indians of Mexico, they understand deer as a great provider and healer. They see the Divine as a Blue Deer, who brings nourishment to earth and looks out after them.
Celtic traditions see deer as quite magical, and able to move between the worlds of Spirit and human life. With the stag and the antlers is the symbol of rejuvenation and rebirth. Antlers are also the symbol of telepathic communication between the heavens and earth.
Multiple other traditions honor the deer as a symbol of the light of the Sun. (The Pawnee, Cambodia and ancient China.)
And, wise woman archeologist Maria Gimbutas tells us that Deer is the symbol of the primeval Mother in pre-Christian times in ancient Europe. This symbol of deer tells us the female is the eternal bringer of life and the male with his antlers is the symbol of the Tree of Life.
To get to know deer and call it as your ally and helper, say "hello." Meet deer as you would any new friend with a greeting of sincerity, kindness and curiosity. Invite deer into to your world by saying hello, then honoring it for its gifts and powers. Thank deer for bringing its power to you now, and for sharing its wisdom. "Thank you deer, for your beauty, strength and gentleness and your wise ways of the heart. Teach me your medicine. Awaken my heart and my intuitive knowing. Help me embody your power and bring more kindness and love into all of my life and my havingness. Help me lead through your ways of sensitivity so I understand this way of love and peace."
Full Moon Jungle Redemption was painted deep in the jungles of Peru at the Yarapa Art School, on the Yarapa tributary off of the Amazon river early July 2015. Once again I was on a shamanic retreat, or shall I say "ADVENTURE!". This retreat, however, I struck off on my own to join a native Peruvian plant medicine and visionary shamanic sister artist, Casilda Pinche Sanchez. My shamanic adventure was filled with many more obstacles, challenges and opportunities for growth it seemed than my previous six trips to the jungle with my shamanic teachers, or that is what I like to tell myself. From language barriers, cultural differences, third world sanitation conditions and being the only white girl in the jungle, I definitely got the opportunity to let go of hucha (bad energy and attitudes), as well as fill myself with the true beauty and power the jungle had to offer.
Anyone devoted to the shamanic path knows that shamanic adventures are not romantic and necessarily easy, but they are vast in the opportunities to come into one's power and wisdom if you will take ownership every experience. After all, in shamanism, a core principle is that "I am dreaming my reality! As are you! We are the dreamers of EVERYTHING!" Another core principle is that "All is well, no matter the appearances of things!" So no matter how challenged I was on this adventure, just as I have been in many other shamanic adventures, I gained another opportunity to dream a little better and to know all was well or good, no matter the illusion I would wrangle with that I called challenging. A very clear guidance was that I needed to add a few significant details to my dream to raise the quality of my experiences!
Full Moon Jungle Redemption came right at the full moon, exactly when I needed her, and about a week into my 14 day stay. She came to bring healing, and to restore my heart energy, to restore my innocence, my purity and true inner beauty. This was not in spite of my challenges, but in transformation of my perception of my experiences. She came to help me forgive that which was challenging and hard within what I was experiencing as a harsh yet beautiful environment.
The imagery and energy of Full Moon Jungle Redemption brought me the restorative medicines I needed exactly at that moment. She offers inner awareness, innocence, purity, protection, wisdom, trust and sacred transformation. Her inward state comes in union with the powerful Divine Feminine medicine of the jungle.
The female in the painting represents the blending of the innocence and purity of the inner golden child with the young woman entering into her power. She is focused on the cup of sacred tea she is about to drink, in an inner reflective, and prayerful state. As this painting came into form, the word Redemption came into my mind, telling me the power and medicine this painting brings.
The other medicines that came forth in this painting are that of the Amazon river, again with pink dolphin as my Jaguar Woman painting that came first, and that of mermaid. The Amazon river is the river of life, the pink dolphin this time brings humor and love, offering a lightening up of the situation that has been intense. And the mermaid brings protection with honesty to the situation. She reminds me the 3-D reality is a dream, and to wake up and to nourish my self with the love and vast energy all around me, and within me.
Again, jaguar is present, arising from the energy of the cup of sacred brew. Jaguar's spirit, again reminds me that there is great protection and guidance always, and in all ways. To the right arising out the the cup are vibrant, chacruna leaves, to activate the spirit molecule DMT and bring great vision. Also arising on the right and overhead is the Ayahuasca vine, or vine of the soul. The sacred vine and the chacruna leaves create the magical brew (in the cup) of grandmother ayahuasca, a revered visionary plant medicine used by the indigenous Amazonian peoples to bring healing, vision and alignment with the highest soul’s expression.
The full moon shines the reflective light of the inner self, the subconscious, upon the beautiful maiden, bringing illumination beyond the darkness. Within the energy sparks and forms on the right above the chacruna leaves you can see the owl eyes, peering through the dimensions, again bringing protection and cleaning for this one, and for all who partake of this imagery.
If you have been called to this imagery, call Full Moon Jungle Redemption and her medicines into your heart, to restore your purity and innocence, and to call forth great protection and wisdom to guide you upon your path, unscathed by the illusion and challenges of physical world, or ordinary reality. Invoke this medicine to redeem and restore you at the deepest soul levels, bringing you present to your power and presence to dream your life with nothing but love.
Jaguar Woman is an inspired vision that came to me while deep in the jungles of Peru in late June 2015. Her inspiration was the first vision to come on a 14 day trip, without the comforts of home, and yet with the guidance of the jungle totems, plants, animals, birds, dolphins, mermaids, etc.
Jaguar Woman is the merging of Black Jaguar, a protector of mine, and a "medicine" that has worked with me for some time now, and woman. Particular to my own challenges of being in the jungle this trip, Jaguar Woman showed up from within my own being, to help me own my power and strength, and to let me know how protected and guided I truly am.
Jaguar filled me with restorative energy, great strength, power, protection, focus, authority and wisdom, and brought me other medicines reflected within this painting. Into Jaguar Woman's mouth is the Ayahuasca vine, or more specifically the banistropis capi vine. Around the Jaguar Woman's head is a circle of chacruna leaves. When the vine and leaves are brewed together, they create the powerful visionary Ayahuasca brew, native to the jungles of Peru. A cup of this sacred brew is held in Jaguar Woman's right hand, with much energy radiating from the brew, reflecting its power of transformation and restoration. In Jaguar Woman's other hand is a pipe with tobacco smoke coming from it. Tobacco is a powerful plant ally to the shamans in Peru. It is very good at carrying prayers to Spirit and clearing bad energy and bad spirits. It is also a protective energy, and works well when you honor it as sacred and respect its power.
My teachers will tell you tobacco is an amazing healing spirit, who will work with you when you are in right relationship. AND, if you disrespect it and are unconscious with tobacco, it will kill you! So don't mess with tobacco. Honor and respect it for its power.
To the upper left in the painting is Owl, whose medicine brings great power and healing. Owl eats fear, and brings the golden light of wisdom into any situation when you have owl medicine. Owl is incredibly powerful too, at cleaning up energy that is not serving you, assisting you in waking up and seeing more clearly what is Spirit and what is true, especially when life has been dark or difficult.
To the right of Jaguar Woman are two pink dolphins, another powerful medicine from the Amazon rivers. During my trip the pink dolphins brought me much happiness and joy, restoring my heart when things were not so easy in this jungle environment. The dolphins were reminders to lighten up, don't take it all so seriously. Restore your playfulness. At the top right you will find three hummingbirds, who bring the medicine of joy.
Jaguar Woman sits on a beautiful ground of patterns, which reflects the song vibrations of the medicine of the jungle. Many indigenous peoples in the jungles will tell you were are born as a song, or vibratory pattern. The Shipibo in the jungle will create "song" clothes that reflect these patterns and medicines. This pattern of vibrant greens is singing healing into you through the painting! These patterns extend into the waters of the rivers around the dolphins too.
As you look more deeply into the painting you will find eyes at the top of the painting as well as one under the far right hummingbird. These eyes represent the all seeing eyes of Spirit, and the wisdom of piercing the illusion of 3-D reality. We are multi-dimensional beings! These eyes are bringing greater vision to seeing through this world to the larger reality.
If you have been called to this image, ask Jaguar Woman to penetrate your mind, heart, body and soul with her wisdom and healing powers. Call upon the sacred spirit of the Divine Feminine of the jungles and all her medicines to bring you into your wholeness, to remember who you are, and to bring that fully present now.
May you be blessed by this image and her living energy and power.
Radiant RA Essence of Solar ActivationThe Radiant RA Essence of Solar Activation and Light came into my awareness when I was asked to flow two different Soul Essence paintings and portals into form for a chiropractor and his offices in Boulder area, Colorado. He set his intentions for each office, to bring in energy and a portal of reflecting wisdom, to support him in fulfilling his purpose, as well as to feel the state of flowing gratitude, relaxation, spaciousness, prosperity, passion and connection to self and others. As I reflected upon his words and focused heart desires, I began to feel the Golden Light of Consciousness penetrate my auric field and consciousness, lighting up my inner vision and perception.
Radiant RA essence was the second painting to come in, though I thought his energy would penetrate the canvas first. (See blog on Soul Star KA essence to learn more about the first painting and to enjoy it's portal imagery).
The golden light continued to illuminate my mind’s eye as I asked for the energy and imagery of the second soul essence painting. I asked how does this come in, and all I could see was golden light coming onto the canvas with magenta pink energies at the bottom of the canvas.
As I took the pigment and flowed it to the canvas, I could feel incredible joy, love and benevolence. Kindness. Protection. Peace. All is Well. I smiled as the flow expanded with this great being of light coming forth and opening another portal of the Golden Octave of Light.
La Luz de Oro, the light of gold, poured forth, with a wing of gold, coming from the throat and heart area, representing flight, movement of the Solar Octave of Golden Light and the ability to move that frequency through heart and word, and action. Active in principle, yet illuminating havingness, openness, healing, and receiving.
The radiant light emanating from the third eye, and as the halo around the head, is encoded with light language patterns and codes to awaken one's inner light at expanded levels, activating one's own talents and gifts as knower, as healer, as shape shifter and one who transmutes the shadows of life through light.
This Cosmic Christ light eradicates the darkest areas of soul illusion, bringing awakening and illumination of true Divine Self to light. Solar glyphs of circles with dots in the center, open numerous portals to this luminous frequency and inner dimension for easy access, through simply being.
This Radiant Being RA is alikened to the Solar Flares of our sun at this time, emitting light so powerful, one’s field cannot remain the same in this light frequency. All that is not of soul essence, purity, light and joy will be burned away in the high frequencies. Be not afraid RA says, for this light will disappear the darkness, and refocus the soul into pure essence and light.
The glyph at the throat sits on top of a triangle of the high heart. The triangle is symbolic of the chalice, or the Divine Feminine principle, holding a space of great receiving, and great overflowing of love. This is the chalice and the Holy Grail of the Soul, to be present to this Divine Feminine principle, at the center of the Radiant Golden Light being, anchoring in light and love through all creative activities, energizing and generating only from the frequency of pure love.
The spiral at the throat is the creative active response to the chalice of love, balancing and honoring the Divine Feminine with the active principle of the Divine Masculine… putting into form the receptive energies of the heart, of the chalice.
As the light penetrates all awareness, all is truly well, all is relaxed, all is abundant and filled with growth, all is filled with love.
Gaze upon the Radiant RA essence and be filled with the Solar Logos, another expression of your Celestial self. Open to receive the frequencies of this Solar Celestial light activation within your human vessel, within the vessel of your work, within the vessel of your family, within the sacred ceremony of your life.
You are upon an evolutionary path, one filled with great awakening of your light codes and soul rememberings. Gaze upon this portal, as well as the Soul Star Ka, as healing agents you have manifested from your own soul substance, to activate complete awakening and complete shedding of human forgetfulness.
Here's a little inspiration from the painting, Soul Star KA Essence, which was actually a commission. Yet the message is Universal and timeless.
KA, is here to open a larger portal of light for your re-membering and fullness. The golden waves of light and the purple octaves in the background bring the royal frequencies of your true essence to life and to light. KA, the galactic, royal purple and gold frequencies of the heavenly realms activate the healing of any fractured dreams, of any fractured selves, bringing together the oneness of the soul star with the personality and the human experience.
Working with this portal will support your re-membering and also activate this healing within your self and all around. Gazing upon the KA will activate your heavenly light frequency within all of your human realm, with gentleness, grace, joy and peace.
The symbols and colors throughout the painting are unified in their purpose for activation, healing and re-membering true self, purpose… allowing an embodiment of this light frequency through all time and space, and most importantly in each breath you breathe in this body in this now moment.
The hands in the painting shine forth this light frequency and cosmic codes of remembering and activation. They also reflect your healing spirit that is divinely connected to your heart center, and heart light.
The symbol at the heart is a star symbol, with a spiral in the center, surrounded by an equalateral cross, with generating light expanding from this symbol. This portal opens to the depths of the great Cosmic soul light of unconditional love and creative light force. It is symbolic of the generative essence of soul, activating your desires and your dreams. Be true to your heart is the message, and all flows from this love and this space of creative light force.
This connects upward to another spiral seemingly within a collar of gold, with white symbols. This symbolizes knowledge and wisdom, light codes and the power of creativity through love and wisdom. The white symbols are light language codes, activating your power and desires in alignment with the higher purpose you have for being on earth, and for serving the whole in waking up.
Another star glyph sits at the throat area, with an ever seeing eye. This again is a portal to activate the true know, seeing and acting of the Cosmic soul self through human form. A radiant portal bringing the heart into action, into words, into listening, into Divine knowing.
It is as if wings come forth from the higher part of this glyph, representing the activation of inner flight through inner knowing… true freedom of the soul to fly through the inner dimensions, and the ability to bring that wisdom, knowledge and frequency to earth into the human experience.
The glyphs symbols continue to appear into the face cheeks and the third eye area. Again a star glyph on the cheek on the right side of the painting, which is actually the left side of the being, representing the full on expression of the Divine Feminine star light of compassion, kindness, wisdom and unconditional love reflecting into you, into your life experience, holding you from the joy and love of the Cosmic Mother.
The glyph at the center of the third eye as a diamond is another portal to honor and activate your true sight at expanded levels, bringing that energy to all you meet and touch and see. It is connected to a golden circle at the top of the diamond, with a white dot in the middle and a DNA strand moving upward to Spirit, higher Self. This is representative of the Solar logos, and the God Essence, or Universal Creator Light as pure frequency shifting Self upward into Ascended Master, into awakened DNA, into Homo Luminous.
This essence being KA, emanates deep compassionate and loving rays of light frequencies to awaken the total, whole God Self.
Engage this beautiful essence and guide, and receive the blessings you have imagined, that you have desired.
You are powerful beyond what your personality wants to believe, and yet you truly know this within. Claim this, allow this, receive this love and be en-JOY.
