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We all have our own interpretations and honoring of the four elemental quadrants. Some of us enter our Circles in the East, direction of dawn and new beginnings. Others prefer to start in the North, that their working be well grounded and strong. At Samhain, we open a gate in the West, the direction of the Ancestors and of the Land Beyond, and we lead the Spirits through. An exercise in liberation or purification might begin in the South. Some traditions reverence a fifth Element, Spirit, as the Cauldron of Possibility, Center of Change, or other similar aspect. Most pagans would agree that from the East comes illumination and communication, from the South passion and transformation, ...
The exploration of mediumship, spirit communication, and all things paranormal can be an exciting and overwhelming process. For some, the interest begins when they have an experience they can't explain. They may have seen a ghost or felt a presence or had some unexplainable phenomenon occur in their home. For others, the study of death, dying, and the afterlife comes with the passing of a loved one or friend. Sometimes finding the right resources to start can be a bit overwhelming, but hopefully these next five steps will help you get started. STEP ONE: Allow the SearchIn June of 1998, my wife's uncle died; when she called me with the news I tried my best to console her and then ...
We've all done readings that go along very well until suddenly your brain freezes and no words are coming out of your mouth. If you're reading for someone else, this can be awkward or embarrassing. Even worse, it may cause you to lose confidence yourself or create a disconnect between you and your reading mojo. Luckily there a lot of techniques that can help you overcome just such a moment. And, as is the way of Universe, these methods may become some of your favorite tools for accessing intuitive, divine wisdom, whether or not you're feeling stuck. Before we get into some of these practices, I want to mention a different experience of being stuck. In an earlier article I wrote about the ...
In most ways, the Summer Solstice of June 2009 is likely to work and play out in the Northern Hemisphere much as it has for thousands of years now. Ever since we lived in prehistoric matriarchies in the Age of Cancer (c. 8,790 – 6,630 BCE), we have intuited that this major hinge point in Earth's annual cycle is connected with the sacred feminine, the element of water, and the Moon. This is why, long before the first zodiacs began to evolve, we had a knowing, that was not yet a proving, that the month that begins with the Summer Solstice—what we would later call Cancer month—was ruled by the Moon and water, and somehow began a "female" half of the year. This made sense ...
