I walked into the hall of the grotto to see feathers flip upward. I heard them as they went, and looked at a man weighed down with sorrow. He asked me to “turn back time”, bent so I could see his weathered face, and I… patted his cheek because he was so sad and tried […]
I had a spiritual journey months ago. I’d found how to dance, how to fly, how to world walk. And then as a newbie awakening shaman with no guide the way you should have, I became a prey animal. I was attacked early on and never knew it. I was pushed and used. I could […]
With all that I’ve been doing of late, I took the pop up 10×10 I used for faires and set it up in the backyard with the help of Rebecca. That’s my little temple. It’s still being charged up, and I’m still figuring things out, but I have used it for one ritual. I like […]
I walk the dead. I always have. There was this one time my husband’s roommate had been caught in an explosion, and he was on a bed in the hospital waiting. He knew they would save him. He was waiting to be seen, and his faith made the people walking around him not matter. Invisible […]
Song singer starts alone, Five steadfast fly to her side. Mind-gold passed by sacred bond, Steps run where gods dare not stride. Balance measured, fates entwined, Six weave paths to bind the lands. Lies undone, Trickster’s truth is sung, Red sun blesses life’s fate strand. Spear asleep in wisdom’s hall, Peace held firm, a cradle’s […]
I heard my father protest like this once, “I’m a dreamer. I’m not the other kind.” I’m paraphrasing that last sentence – I can’t remember the word he used for ‘the other kind’. He might have said ‘shaman’ for all I know. According to Frank Speck’s paper – the one that reassured me that I […]
04 – Social Disconnect and Liberal Meltdowns | RSS.com Edited transcript below: I actually had hoped to do a different topic, but with the election and all that is happening there was something I had come to know. And I noticed it was something that I deeply identified with That was the need for […]
The Midē´wiwin. This is the “official” society for the mide, or the shaman. It’s Ojibwe in origin, but the religion has been spreading so that it even touches the coasts where my own people were originally from. They’re supposedly secretive. I’ve seen public lodge pages and drum circles you can pay to go to. The […]
Language studies, music, and telling stories are my mundane focuses. I used to act as well, but in life you sometimes have to choose. I’d act again if the chance came, but for now I concentrate on things I can reach. I was taking a Montauk language class. Good people. Montauk is classed as Algonquian-Y, […]