Category: Slavic Shamanism

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 […]

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Knowledge of Sorcery of the Eastern Slavs

Prepared by Olga Stanton and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Tales of the Sorcery in Eastern Slavic lands are mostly in oral traditions and small talk of whisperers and healers but much of it no one remembers anymore, people still believed in magic and the supernatural but not everyone experiences it. Many believed that […]

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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 […]

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Slavic Summer Rituals – A Rusalki Summer Solstice

By Phoenix the Elder – Learning to live by the Moon cycles, all thirteen of them, we embrace that the year is divided into four seasonal moons and each of the four seasons have rituals that are attached to them. In Slavic traditions there are the remains of pagan traditions that are celebrated and carry […]

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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 […]

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Marzanna 2023

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 […]

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Groundhog, Beaver, Woodchuck, Marmot Totem

By Phoenix the Elder – All Animals, Birds, Insects and Oceanids do not come randomly as totems to us. To be a birth totem, you would have to see them every year, month or week the rest of your life and that can only be determined by hindsight. Totems come to us with a purpose, to […]

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Clearing and Protecting your Energetic Spaces

By Phoenix the Elder – This is a clearing of spaces and land that I do as a shaman. I offer it to my students and apprentices so they can cleanse and then seal their home, their yard and home and their land, yard and home. I always do a thorough job when I clear […]

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Cult of the Bird Women

By Phoenix the Elder – Moon Birds – Song of Slavic Bird Tribe Shaman Women, their Culture, Art and Soul – The cult of the bird women go back to the very beginning of the largest cycle of Soul people on earth, which I estimate at least in this largest cycle (era) to be about […]

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The Ural Chudi 

Numerous legends about the “Chud,” about the “Chud people, ” have a peculiar fate. Having arisen on the basis of real facts and events in the period of the formation of Old Russian statehood and the first campaigns of Novgorod to the northeast, these legends then gained an independent life , being brightly colored by […]

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