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Hello and welcome to the Shaman Podcast.
I am Mark Ashford.
I am a Registered Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher, a Shaman and author of books and online courses on Reiki and Shamanism.
Weekly, I post a video on YouTube and a podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is general; please take what resonates with you.
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For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.
These show notes contain information on the card decks used in the readings and where to get more information on my website, books, and courses. Please check out the links below.
Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB
The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM
Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga – Strom
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Thank you.
Lost Compass
You have lost your life path. You have lost connection with your essential self.
This card is a message to follow your intuition, not anyone’s instructions so that you reconnect with your inner essence. If you have been following what you think you should be, how you should behave, how you should look, what you should have, discard it all now because that is not the inner you.
It is time to follow your inner compass, your inner voice.
True North is always North, it is a direction and state of mind that gives you balance and a direction that is always detectable by a simple $1 compass.
When you work to regain your inner sense of direction, remember, going back to the way you were before you lost your sense of self is not the objective. As you travel back to your authentic self, you see opportunities to follow a new life path. Be open to the opportunities and take the one that speaks to your intuition.
Altar
Shamans prepare and maintain an altar of meaningful spiritual items that help and sustain them in connecting with their helping spirits, animal guides and ancestors. What is on the altar is special and unique to them. There is no formula for what must be present. Each shaman is unique to him or herself.
If you were to create a space, an altar on which you could place things that have meaning in your life, what would be there? What is you are carrying with you in your mind that could be brought out and displayed?
When you look at the space, you have created and the things placed on there, what will be represented? Something from Mother Earth, from Spirit, from a family member, from a friend. How will your physical and spiritual journey in this life be represented?
Include something that represents the essence of the shaman within you. Things that speak to the essential essence of your life. A crystal represents Mother Earth, a red candle for fire, incense stick for air, aa blue candle for water. A small mirror for spirit.
The altar becomes a thank you and expression of gratitude for your life so far and for what is to come. This expression is both an act of appreciation for the past, and the present, it is a moment of reflection on how the things on your altar relate to your future.
By honouring that which has created you, you will be calling into your life the very things that will help guide you through that which has disrupted your compass and help you back on your life path.
What next?
I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content.
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