Workstudy and Articles with Subcription
Agatha, Herself
Elder Mountain Artist Residency’s Art Director, Sarah Burnt Stone is traveling the world doing a few artist retreats in India, Malaysia, Japan and currently in Thailand working on her art film: “Agatha, Herself” which is a body of work from her personal dreams (dream work). The Residency focuses around a series of video works created […]
Fox Totem & Fox Dream Symbols
Totem, dream and animism work with Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Fox people and foxes are very unique, they are cunning, instinctual in their feminine physique, quick witted and they are changeable with the seasons. Those are their basic totems along with their eyes that are piercing yet loving with a softer edge. They are […]
Second Full Moon of Summer
We cannot prevent the Birds of Sorrow from flying over our head, but we can prevent them from building a Nest in our Hair. ~ Chinese Proverb By Phoenix of Elder Mountain… Hello Dreamers, Artists, Magicians, Witches, Gypsies and Creatives, we now enter our Second Full Moon of Summer and continue on our “six moon” […]
Shamanism of the North Goddess
“The Norse Goddess” by Monica Sjöö (1938 – 2005) – The people of the north believe that everything has a Mother and that all of nature has a soul. The most important mothers are Mother Earth, the Sun, and the Moon, and the Sun has always been female in the north. This is because she […]
You can do Magic
“I do believe in an everyday sort of Magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; The eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.” ~Charles de Lint Сон в летнюю ночь с иллюстрациями Веры Павловой Midsummer […]
Elder Mountain Contact
To be on our… “Once Upon a Dreaming Moon” musing write to: ElderMountainDreaming@gmail.com Blessings from Wise Elder Phoenix, Mother Juniper, Maiden Burnt-Stone! Painting from artist Hecatispidr
Unearthed 12,000-year-old Female Shaman in a Cave near Galilee site, called Hilazon Tachtit
A well-preserved finding in burial cave from the Natufian of the era 12,000 years ago sheds light on the complex rites and rituals of the prehistory. The bones of a shaman woman who was lying in her burial site, surrounded by 86 tortoise shells, an eagle’s wing, a leopard’s pelvic bone, a complete deer, a tailbone […]
I only looked back to heal my past.
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New Moon of Summer
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Our New Moon starts at 13 degrees in Cancer, July 4th, 2016 with the planet of communication Mercury, conjuncting the Sun | Moon, in opposition to Pluto. The moon in Cancer is traditional, its not really accepting of change that easily. The archetypes this moon are about tradition, family, purpose, work, […]
Peumo Dreaming
Argentine and Chilean Women’s culture of Shamanism: Photo of three young Mapuche Machis shamans in 1903. A machi is a traditional shaman healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina. Machis play significant roles in Mapuche religion and is a woman’s tradition, but on occasion there will be a male shaman. […]
She Shells
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1891 According to J. B. Friedrich, “Symbolik der Natur” the Sea Shell, on account of its being a product of the Sea, or of the all-generating moisture; and much more probably from its shape, is an emblem of woman herself. Being one of the great emblems […]