Illuminating Objects: Lunar Magic, Soul Stones, Lunar Talisman, Thunder Stones and Charms
By Phoenix the Elder – The solstices and equinoxes are the best days of the seasonal year to do many spiritual practices, journeys, ceremonies and talisman. This is because its when the major seasons change in nature and the movements of the earth’s energy, reach the ebb and flow of peaks and stillnesses. The energy […]
Second Moon of Spring 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, Healers, Spiritual Seekers and Dream Walkers, I hope your first moon of spring and the burning of your Marzanna, brought some joy and sacredness into your rebirth along with the rebirth of Spring. I can’t believe we are at the second moon already! The first moon went by […]
Waxing Like the Moon: Women Folk Healers in Rural Western Ukraine
By Sarah D. Phillips, University of Indiana – Once a woman came to see me… she says to me, “I can’t sleep, and I’m so weak.” I asked her, “Did something frighten you?” “No,” she didn’t want to tell me. I began to pour the wax, I said, “Something has frightened you—either a man, or […]
Influences of Chinese Tao Shamanism
By Phoenix the Elder – This is a story of some of the ways my personal shaman life is intertwined with the Chinese mysticism and its presence that seams to weave in and out at certain cycles through the decades. A lot of my work was healing my karmic Roman soldier who was stationed in Egypt […]
Third Moon of Winter 2020
By Phoenix – Greetings Dreamers, Healers, Artists and Empaths, we have now completed Mid-Winter and begin our final moon of winter on Friday, January 24, 2020. It is also the time of the Chinese New Year, on Saturday, January 25. And its the moon cycle of Valentine’s Day in the very independent and humanitarian lover […]
Behind the Traditional Cloth
By Phoenix the Elder – I ran across some Kursk Embroidery from Russia and these particular designs are called “Months”. Kursk is South of Moscow in Russia near the Ukraine border. There is a not a definite oral tradition explanation for these but they seem to represent growth of cycles. In nature, there is no seed that […]
Marzanna 2023 / 2024
By Phoenix the Elder – Its that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter, the Slavic Marzanna, Morena, Maslenitsa. The archaic night goddess and primal grandmother connection to her shamanistic and animistic mysteries of the past, present and future. These pre-religious rites are still done in very simple ways today and I hope […]
Third Moon of Summer 2019
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Moon Lovers, Healers, Spirit Seekers! We enter our third and last moon of summer on Wed, July 31, 2019 with the Moon and Sun in Leo, conjunct at 8 degrees. This moon ends the six moon Season of Fire, and is also referred to as the Black Moon (third moons […]
Karmic Dept and The Halls of Amenti
By Phoenix the Elder – I have had many mystical experiences this lifetime, for most of my life and each one was either shadowy, demonic or the intense light and divine. The more I awakened, the more they were both present. I learned when I was younger that one does not present itself without the other. […]
Ziva, Zhiva, Zywie and Siwa: Slavic Goddess of the Waters
By Phoenix the Elder (compilation) – I searched and did a collection on the Goddess Zhiva, Siwa or Ziva as she is known. I work with Slavic Fire and Water Rituals in both my folk healing work, my apprentice work and my greater collective work. The Living Waters of Zhiva, Siva, Ziva is one of […]