Workstudy and Articles with Subcription
Sleep & Dream are Sisters who Communicate with each other
The great shift has occurred into dreaming now, with the Aug. 21, 2018 Eclipse that occurred. The moon time now begins as the sun cult, the time and space of the waking dream begins to end. Like light chasing the night, now night chases the light. Dream well my friends, its time to wake up, […]
Mother of Goddess – Matushka Zemlia
Matushka Zemlia Poem by Phoenix of Elder Mountain Blessings upon me from the Mother of the Moist Earth from whom my Soul and the Children of the Souls are all born. I take your hand as you are the binding that weaves the river into matter, into me. There is nothing false about any Mother Goddess and […]
Ukraine Ancient Traditions of the Spring Equinox Rites of Vorotar (Gatekeeping)
This article is from www.encyclopediaofukraine.com with my additions, from my Shaman’s perspective and experiences – The Ukrainian Spring Equinox is one of the earth’s oldest ceremonies and it honors the ancestors as a ritual of the beginning of the new year Velykden, when the “Day” (Spring & Summer seasons were called Fire) overcomes the “Night” […]
Spring Equinox, Nature’s New Year 2017
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – The rebirth of our Soul along side Mother Nature’s rebirth is a living harmony with the natural seasons. Today we welcome Spring and I follow my Slavic ancestors and celebrate the official New Year at the Spring Equinox. In religious terms, the death of winter was not honored […]
Kokoshnik Moon
“ Expression and imagination is the purity of consciousness, and this creates reality. This is the mysterious harmony of death, of truth and of beauty. “ ~Elder Mountain Dreaming Photographer Sonya Neustroeva, Vyra Gatchina district of the Leningrad region. Photo of Ksenia Kebryakova. Save
The 13th Moon
Monthly Lunar Work-Study with Phoenix of Elder Mountain – My fated work with my kinship to the moon, was to return to the prehistory lunar practices of the grandmothers, which has taken me my entire life (maiden, mother and now elder) to bring this invisible reality back, step by step, moon by moon and decade […]
Black Madonna, Black Marzanna, Black Baba Jaga, Siuda Baba & Black Kikimora
Lucid & Sober Dreaming
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The word Lucid, in the 1500s was written down and meant a person who was “bright and shining” a sense that is now obsolete or restricted. Lucid comes from the Latin word lucidus meaning “light” “bright” and “clear” and figuratively from lucere “to shine” from lux (genitive lucis) and […]
Shoymanas, Rusallias and Sfinte Soimane
On Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Neptune moved into Pisces and will be in its own sign until the beginning of 2026 and will close the door it had opened 2,200 years before in the great circle, which started around 220 bce. What does the weaving of the “Order of the Sphinx”, a bunch of “Balkan […]
Karelian Magic
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The Republic of Karelia is a region in northwest Russia, bordering Finland. Beside Lake Onega, capital city Petrozavodsk is home to cultural artifacts at the National Museum. On an island northeast, Kizhi Museum is an open-air complex of traditional wood buildings. Northwest, Kivach Nature Reserve has pine woods and […]
3rd Full Moon of Winter
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Musings by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Dear Dreamers, Healers, Artists, Empaths and Moon Children… We are coming near the close of our “Three Winter Moons” which ends both the year and the last season of Mother Earth’s year, preparing us to move into Spring’s rebirth. But before it ends – […]
Lemko Indigenous Folk
Lemko (Лемківщина; Lemkivshchyna) and Lemko region is a large territory traditionally inhabited by the Lemko peoples of Poland, Ukraine and Slovak territory since stone age times. After the deportation of Lemkos from the northern part in 1946, only the southern part, southwest of the Carpathian Mountains do these people remain, which is known as the […]