Shamanic Wisdom

We are currently in a Hun (One) year. That means we have just completed a 13 year cycle. That cycle began in 2012. You know the year everyone thought that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world. As we know, it didn't because we're all still here, however, I won't say nothing has changed and that change is yet to be fully understood. In 2012 we completed a cycle that spanned roughly 5,125 years. In deed that's a long time. But that also means that we are now in a t

The Trecena Of Truth & Healing Etznab, or Tijax in K’iche’ Maya, is the day sign of Obsidian, an extremely sharp natural glass formed by volcanic activity that among the Maya is most prized by diviners and warriors. Like obsidian that embodies the forces of nature that forged it, Etznab symbolizes the power of thunder and lightning. Like obsidian, Etznab is sharp yet fragile, difficult to polish and manipulate, and cuts to the core of things with all of the force of integrity

Teacher Wolf is the pathfinder, the forerunner of new ideas who returns to the clan to teach and share medicine. Wolf takes one mate for life and is loyal like Dog. If you were to keep company with Wolves, you would find an enormous sense of family within the pack, as well as a strong individualistic urge. These qualities make Wolf very much like the human race. As humans we also have an ability to be part of society and yet still embody our individual dreams and ideas. In

Echoes of the Ancestors ride The Winds of Change, voices of the Creatures calling out my name. Singing spirits on the breeze, the crashing of waves to shore, the pounding of Earth Mother's heart teach me what to listen for. In stillness, before dusk and dawn, hidden messages are set free. Like the chants of my people, their rhythms speak to me. My ears can hear this music, and my heart can understand. Clan Mother of Tiyoweh, I am yours to command. I listen for your whispers o

I've learned I can say things all I want however that doesn't mean anyone is going to listen. The things I say have been said by others before me for a millennia without anyone listening, why should anything change now? Hint... The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. So let's talk Father's Love and free will. I feel like the biggest hurdle to people listening to what has been said for a millennia is that they b

Associated with the mystical Feathered Serpent, Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl as the Aztecs called this deity, Chicchan, or Kan in K’iche’ Maya, is one of the most powerful day signs in the Tzolk’in. The Regent of the Sky and the Ruler of Time, Chicchan symbolizes the transformation of time, transcendence, peace, spiritual development and human evolution, and represents those predestined for spiritual vocations. Yet it is also the lord of all material things and represents the con

Transmutation Serpent medicine people are very rare. Their initiation involves experiencing and living through multiple snake bites, which allows them to transmute all poisons, be they mental, physical, spiritual, or emotional. The power of Serpent medicine is the power of creation, for it embodies sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction, and ascension (or immortality). The transmutation of the life-death-rebirth cycle is exemplified by the shedding of Serpent's ski

Secrets It is said that if you want to find out a secret, ask Lynx medicine. Unfortunately, it is difficult to get the silent Lynx to speak. To be confronted by the powerful medicine of Lynx signifies that you do not know something about yourself or others. Lynx is the keeper of the secrets of lost magical systems and occult knowledge. Lynx has the ability to move through time and space, and to go into the Great Silence for unraveling any mystery. Lynx is not the guardian

Mother, teach me how to see the shining lights of stars. The faces of the Ancestors, in worlds both near and far. Show me how to welcome the visions appearing to me, seeing the truth in detail, unraveling each mystery. Walk me through the Dreamtime of altered time and space, that I may share those visions with every creed and race. Doorkeeper of all dimensions, I seek your Medicine ways of how to earth my visions, seeing truth, inside me, today. LOOKS FAR WOMAN is the Clan M

Mother Earth In Native American teachings, the Turtle is the oldest symbol for planet Earth. It is the personification of Goddess energy, and the eternal Mother from which our lives evolve. We are born of the womb of Earth, and to her soil our bodies will return. In honoring the Earth, we are asked by Turtle to be mindful of the cycle of give and take, to give back to the Mother as she has given to us. Turtle has a shell which is similar to the protection that Earth has empl

Cimi, or Kame in K’iche’ Maya, means “death” and “rebirth”; grammatically, kame is the present tense of “the eternal Now.” Cimi represents Xib’alb’a. The Underworld of Mayan mythology, and embodies the eternal flow and cycle of death, rebirth and transformation. The Maya did, and still do believe in reincarnation; Cimi is the day sign that embodies this transcendental spiritual state. It carries a special connection to the world of the ancestors, and is imbued with plentiful

The following is an excerpt from "The Serpent and the Jaguar" by Birgitte Rasine. For those of us used to living with the no-nonsense, business-like Gregorian calendar, it can be a bit of a stretch to integrate not only a completely different timekeeping system (260 instead of 365 days, 13-day weeks, and no specific beginning or end), but also a vastly different conception of time - the concept of sacred time. The ancient Maya lived - and their descendants continue to do so