As in Helping, Healing or Conjuring? Are you hearing voices, seeing things that may not be there, getting information on others you may not want to know? Are you dealing with aspirations to heal, or perform magic or save the world (or parts of it)? Are you experiencing feelings that don’t quite fit in whatContinue reading “Are You Called?”
Category Archives: Altar Work
Day of the Dead
The Real Thing, Part 2 We waited until November 1 to write this post, deliberately. Since we’re in the middle of preparing for this Día de los Muertos, we thought we might make things a bit more real. For those of us who, through life’s circumstances, find ourselves quite committed to this ceremony, it takesContinue reading “Day of the Dead”
Day of the Dead
The Real Thing, Part 1 In this humble altar, the Day of the Dead, comprises a floor of knowledge that fuels almost everything we do, including healing, blessing, teaching, seeking the best life possible. We can’t list here how many philosophies, methods, inspirations, and powers we have learned and used from participating in the actualContinue reading “Day of the Dead”
Lost Souls
Lest We Forget Imagine the Spirit World. How big do you think it might be? How many souls live there? Are they all human souls? Know anybody in there? Does this Spirit World really exist right on top of us, all around us? I believe all of us have the answers to those questions andContinue reading “Lost Souls”
ALTAR WORK: A Simple Egg Limpia
Let’s talk about that egg a bit, or more precisely: that Egg. That little guy has three positive destinies ahead of him/her, at least positive from our point of view. One: she can experience life at the chicken farm – the courtyard life – laying many eggs, or she could be a he (therefore aContinue reading “ALTAR WORK: A Simple Egg Limpia”
DIY Limpias: The Right and the Power
You have the Medicine in you. Limpias are cleansings of the excess and foreign energies that we human beings attract over the course of our lives. In many Hispanic, Latino and indigenous communities, the limpia is a functional practice that falls under the heading of traditional medicine. We see medicine as anything from the realmsContinue reading “DIY Limpias: The Right and the Power”
Ancestral Healing and The Sacred Hoop
It was a few hours after he died that he showed up in my garage where I was mourning him like I’d never mourned anyone before. He reminded me of a Peyote Meeting at his home where we looked at the dark to the South of the hogan where we met. “Yeah,” he says, likeContinue reading “Ancestral Healing and The Sacred Hoop”
Altar Work: Soul Retrieval, Part 2
Drum, Journey and Heal, a True Story In Part 1 we introduced Soul Retrieval as a cure for the loss of energy caused by trauma or shock. We said a practitioner of soul retrieval, a “shaman” perhaps, or a person who uses shamanic techniques, performs a “journey” to retrieve the lost energy/consciousness. The goal isContinue reading “Altar Work: Soul Retrieval, Part 2”
Altar Work: Soul Retrieval
Magic or Science? When I first studied soul retrieval from a western education point of view, many Native People, myself included, were being very suspicious of what any anthropologist, archeologist, or other western expert had to say about us or to us. It’s a long story but considering that group of “experts” began robbing ourContinue reading “Altar Work: Soul Retrieval”
Altar Work: The Moon and the Jaguar
Earth Medicine Over the years the altar has gone from bare essentials to overstocking, everything from statues and crosses to feathers and stones. The altar goes through cycles and seasons, the “magic” of the week, three or four similar cases, and of course a current, supporting, philosophy. It’s an altar because we needed a spiritualContinue reading “Altar Work: The Moon and the Jaguar”
