Workstudy and Articles with Subcription
Chinese Spirit of the Sun
By Phoenix the Elder, Solar Deity by Heathen Chinese; with additions from other writers – Oral tradition was a teaching story on how to apply the fullness of the circle of how the ancients dealt with trauma, hardships, jealousy, and a host of other emotional and physical issues. This was replaced by Mythology in ancient […]
Second Moon of Winter 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Hello Dreamers, we begin our Midwinter season with the 2nd moon of Winter, beginning on Saturday, January 21, 2023, at 1° Aquarius. Our 2nd full moon of winter is Sunday, February 5, 2023, sitting at 16° Leo. All I can say is wow, the first moon of Winter was very […]
Goddess Taygete the Ceryneian Hind
By Phoenix the Elder – I love mythology but I have had one issue since I was young… women, their stories, and their shamanic cultural stories were all changed when written language began to have more power over societies. These oral traditions and stories turned into written stories from the very beginning, finding women’s entire […]
Midwinter Dreaming
By Phoenix the Elder – Midwinter is a very magical time, it is a time for the dreamers. So many of us feel we have to remain busy or awake during the winter moons but this is not true. Our most ancient ancestors always show us in small ways of the rare pieces left, that […]
The Doctrine of the Mysterious Female in Taoism: A Transpersonalist View
Phoenix the Elder – I’ve always done some Tao work, either martial arts in the Buddist way (a few times) in my long journey or the I Ching practice (one I Ching Hexagram a year) and practiced that all year long as a medicine. It’s been good. I’ve always known that the Tao is truly […]
The Phoenix of Chu Xiong Culture
Various Sources – Chu, or Ch’u (Chinese: 楚, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese) was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted during the Spring and Autumn period. At the end of […]
First Moon of Winter 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, hope you are all doing well. The Winter Solstice starts our journey off for the last of the four seasons on December 21st and I consider the Winter Solstice magical energy to last until the first quarter moon on January 1, 2023. Our first (of three) New Moons of Winter […]
Addressing | Changing Traumatic Roots
By Phoenix the Elder – Each person, depending on their innate physical constitution, mental uniqueness, and emotional sensitivities, can change their life of pain, past trauma, or chaos cycles by focusing on their day-to-day challenges through their own spiritual journey. Our personal symptoms arise from our specific karma, our childhood, and tragic events, but our […]
Third Moon of Autumn 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Dear Dreamers, Healers, and Moon Lovers, our new moon begins on the 23rd of November, 2022, at 1° Sagittarius. Let’s keep our moon cycle enriched, creative, and expansive this month so we can get the most out of our learning. I had written my entire work-study this morning and when […]
The Death Rites of the Tibetan Bardo
Share by Phoenix the Elder – I am a writer in my later life of “experience” not of knowledge. And that is why my writings are very personal, without adding the apprentice aspects of those experiences as well. This is the oral tradition that shamans live and its one that teaches through the story of […]
Healing The Wounded Inner Child
Share by Phoenix the Elder – Just because we grew up, doesn’t mean that the child from our past has moved on and integrated. And even worse, for some, have lost that part of the soul and wonders in the abyss of dream levels waiting to come back home to the other part of our […]
Second Moon of Autumn 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, we now reach the fullness of the second of our three moons of Autumn on October 25, 2022, with a 2 Degree Moon/Sun/Venus and partial Solar Eclipse in Scorpio. The Full Moon is November 8th and has the North Node, Uranus, and Moon conjunct. Expect the Unexpected. I want […]