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Phoenix’s Dreaming Symbol-Analysis
By Phoenix the Elder – I had started my dream work when my dreaming became unbearable in my early 30s. I had always dreamed as a child and had very intense experiences. I didn’t have any dream visuals, or sounds, or images in my dreaming until I was around thirty-eight years old and because of […]
First Moon of Winter 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, artists, healers and moon lovers, we begin our winter moons now, and the month of building our Marzanna Effigy on the day of the Winter Solstice (there is more information below for the newbies)… First Moon of Winter Saturday, Dec 4, 2021 @ 12° Sagittarius & Solar EclipseFirst […]
Slavic and German Domovois
A Domovoi Story by Phoenix the Elder – In today’s world, books and stories, legends, movies to watch and folktales have pretty much replaced real experience. I thought I would share a real domovoi experience. I have had a ten year journey with a particular Domovoi (2009-2019). He actually belongs to one of my longer […]
Third Moon of Autumn 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, artists, moon lovers, spiritual ones, and healers… welcome to our third and last moon cycle of Autumn. Blessings on your New Moon, which starts on Thursday, 4 Nov. 2021, and our Full Moon on November 19th with a partial Lunar Eclipse. We enter the element of Water this […]
Chiron and the Medicine of Letting Go
By Phoenix the Elder – Symbolism is such an important part of the self-healing and self-love journey. It is one of the foundations of Mirror Medicines. I had a symbol of a man in a “wheelchair” for almost four years (all the time) as one of the last pieces of my three-decade karmic purification and […]
12 Ukraine Symbols
Translated by: Christine Chraibi – How very colorful and varied the vyshyvanka! It can be one color or many-colored, richly or delicately patterned, embroidered with flowers or geometric forms… But, do we actually know what are these intricate patterns adorning our traditional clothing means, how ancient their origins are, what they symbolize and why they are the […]
Second Moon of Autumn 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings and blessings dreamers, the 2nd Moon of Autumn begins on Wednesday, 6 October 2021. The moon will be sitting at 13 degrees Libra. This is another auspicious two seasons coming, just like last year when there were six, 23-degree moons (the covid year). Now we are dropping the 23 […]
Knowledge of Sorcery of the Eastern Slavs
Prepared by Olga Stanton and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Tales of the Sorcery in Eastern Slavic lands are mostly in oral traditions and small talk of whisperers and healers but much of it no one remembers anymore, people still believed in magic and the supernatural but not everyone experiences it. Many believed that […]
The Mysterious Virgo Constellation
Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – I find Virgo, the Archetype, her Myths and the association with healing, animals, and the earth very fascinating. She has fascinated me for a long time and it seems the more I find about her the deeper her associations with Autumn is just the surface. I wanted to share some […]
Autumn Equinox Ceremony 2021
Dear Dreamers, Mystics, Spiritual Artists, and Moon Lovers… We are upon our Autumn Equinox 2021 Ceremony! Normally I begin making my Marzanna Effigy (as a shaman) on the Autumn Equinox and add a bit to her each full moon as she leans up against the Cedar Tree or Barn, then when done, I set her […]
Neptunia and her Dreamers
By Phoenix the Elder – Neptune is the most elusive, foreboding, and dreamy planet we have, and the deliverer of natural illusionary soul effects that we can experience. For a long time after my T-Square (six planets) underwent a transformation with Uranus, and then Neptune in the late 90s and early 00s… I had learned […]
The Common Sense of Self-Healing
By Phoenix the Elder – When we work with common sense, we recognize that the spiritual journey cannot be separated from the healing journey of the self (self-healing). The Ancient Greeks regarded the Liver as the placement near the life-giving soul, and one’s intelligence but 2,000 years later, we know the soul (astral body) sits […]