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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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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.
Mystical Shaman Oracle Cards used in reading. Amazon link. – https://amzn.to/3fRG5Ow
Queen of the Moon Oracle Cards used in reading by Stacey Demarco https://shrtm.nu/uj5f
Sacred Destiny Oracle cards by Denise Linn – https://shrtm.nu/58hG
Gateway Oracle Cards by Denise Linn – https://shrtm.nu/DHkr
Shaman Wisdom cards by Leita Richesson – https://bit.ly/3is9djB
Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards – Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters – https://bit.ly/3is9djB
Shaman Tarot Deck – Lo Scarabeo – https://amzn.to/3FbcKwp
The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck – https://amzn.to/394PCEM
Music from Epidemic sound: Turmoil – Rasmus Faber
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Thank you.
Lost in Space – Needing Direction
Does the future seem vague and uncertain? As life changes, and people come into or leave our lives, or we change where we live and feel a sense of loss of the friends and family that supported us and gave us life variety, we can feel lost. We feel uncertain about the future.
Plans for the future can also disrupt of feeling of the place and being. This is especially true if we feel we have no control over the outcome of those changes we are planning, or hoping to make.
For a moment, the future seems vast and uncertain. As you contemplate the vastness of the future, you tend to dwell on the past and mistakes made that have resulted in where you are now. The future is shrouded in mist and the past hangs like a dark cloud over what has been. As you contemplate your future, you desperately do not want to repeat any mistakes.
The setting of the sun each night brings a period when we eat, sleep, and rest in family or tribal groups. The shaman recognized the setting of the sun as a time when he/she danced, drummed, and sang in ceremonies to help heal the soul of a client. When they journeyed to upper or lower realms to retrieve lost souls and knowledge for healing.
Night was not a time to be feared, it was a time to cleans and shake off that which no longer serves us.
In the morning, the sun rises to ease your worries and anxiety. Let the shaman practise the sun ritual where fears and worries are given to the sun so that it may wash them away.
Find a quiet space, where you can be alone and face the sun, give your fears and worries to it. Say it in your mind or out loud, “take my worries and burn them away.”
Ask for its strength to meet your challenges today.
Fool’s Embrace—Transmuting Pain
There are two great energies in our lives. Pain and love. They are the Ying and Yang of our life experience. Everything can be distilled down to one of these two.
Of the two, this card is sent to you now to think about how you deal with pain. Pain can be angered, distrust, hurt, loss of someone or a pet, scheming, recklessness, and desperation. Pain is anything that can be considered negative.
How we deal with pain in all its forms affects us and how we move forward and deal with the challenges we encounter in the future. If we manage pain poorly, it can become part of us and become the “default” way we deal with life as we move through it. Pain creates pain and darkness.
To a shaman this may speak to a soul damaged by evil spirits or energies which can be healed through advice, teaching, and healing ceremonies. The wisdom gained from the shaman helps the client understand the lessons the loss has to give.
Now is your time to reflect on the pain you are carrying like so much unwanted baggage. Now is the time to think about the pain you have encountered and the lessons it can teach you. Why did a relationship end? Why was I let go from a job? So many painful events can be opened up now and the lessons you can draw from them unpacked and brought into the light of day.
The lesson you draw from the pain may not reflect well on you but there is a kernel of truth and value in these thoughts. Now is the time to make the lesson your own, recognize the value in the lesson learned from pain and make it part of life journey.
The shaman knows that at life’s end, the karma of the good and bad in a life are weighed and what the soul needs to learn in the next life decided. Before you get to the end, take this time to look objectively and dispassionately, at the pain in your emotional luggage and start learning from them so that what there is to learn can be integrated into your good karma and become your default way of dealing with pain and challenge in the future.
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