Animals, Birds & Oceanids Signs and Planets

By Phoenix the Elder – As human beings, we’ve always had our Myth, Legends, and Folk Mythology, which are a little different lineage than the University, Philosophy, and Scribe History of men and their patriarchal glory, heroism, and supreme god and gods. The older cultures which were more shamanic based were oral traditions, about both […]
Pelican Spirit and Wisdom: The Water Bird’s of Silent Reflection

By Phoenix the Elder – In my spirit and soul animal relationship as a shaman, I not only with my own personal animism souls have mystical experiences for decades, but also have helpers in nature – such as birds, wasps, insects, animals and oceanids etc., which I have been blessed with this lifetime as messengers […]
Turtle & Tortoise Mysticism

By Phoenix the Elder – After receiving a peach in winter under a peach tree, I received an auspicious 13 Turtle Shells where winter and spring doors met two weeks before the Spring Equinox (as a gift from the earth and the turtles). I wanted to share some Turtle symbolism from around the world, especially […]
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 1/2)

By Phoenix the Elder – I begin with the Romanian traditions as an ancient Wolf Clan people. The Balkan Romanian, Serbian and Slavic traditions such as Poland and Russia also wolf clan people and this includes the more divine aspect of woman and her life, which were part of our shamanic understandings in the first […]