Shaman Shadow Balancing: Soul Light and Shadow roaming in life and after death
By Phoenix the Elder – Entering the Season of Night (Autumn and Winter) brings with it, thinner veils, the transformation of nature into its slow death, and the huddling together of people who seek like company, to understand their unique experience of their world through this seer and psychic abilities they are. This is true […]
Konrul and Toğru Birds
Compilation and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Shaman Birds of Ancient Grandmother Cultures show that many birds, bird symbolism, ancient bird art and old primordial bird cults of the grandmother traditions, are reflected in the beliefs of sober (non-plant) shamanism, the origins of pure shamanism. The Tuğrul (تغرل), is a bird from the family […]
Xiwang Mu 西王母 The Goddess of Women, Health, Immortality and Magic
By Phoenix the Elder – The Immortal of Heaven, the Supreme Goddess Xiwang Mu or Wangmu Niangniang as she is known in China, or simply known as the Mother of the West and Immortal Peach Goddess. Xiwang Mu 西王母 is the Immortal enlightened Goddess of Women, overseeing Health, Immortality, and Magic! She is known as […]
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 […]
The Empath’s Conflict
By Phoenix the Elder – If you are an empath, a true one, you know that you are an emotional wreck and trouble finds you everywhere. Oversensitive, emotions trigger easy and it takes a lot of personal healing to begin to understand who you are. If you call yourself an empath but its not a […]
Night and Day Goddesses
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known […]