Blood, Belly & Stars

We’re entering an eclipse week, and the energy is asking us to get honest about what we truly need versus what we may simply want.

This week’s total solar eclipse in Leo brings illumination, potential endings or beginnings, and the possibility of stepping more fully into a new reality. Raccoon medicine reminds us to balance caring for ourselves with caring for others, while the runes Nauthiz, Hagalaz, and Fehu invite us to examine our needs, move through necessary change, and return to the wisdom of the body.

In this reading, we explore what may be cracking open this week, where ego and soul may be asking for different things, and how embodiment, sensuality, giving, and receiving can help us navigate whatever emerges.

This Week’s Invitation

This is an eclipse week, so there may be big energy—but that doesn’t necessarily mean something dramatic has to happen.

For some, it may look like a major shakeup.

For others, it may simply be a small crack in something that no longer works.

You may see something you weren’t previously able to see.

You may recognize something you can no longer ignore.

You may finally understand what you actually need.

And you may begin bridging into a new reality that you’ve been preparing for much longer than you realized.

Consider contemplating one or several of the following questions to support you as you tap into the energy of this upcoming week:

* What am I telling myself I need that I may actually just want?

* Where might my ego be disguising a want as a need?

* Is there something I’ve been convinced is aligned for me that I’m beginning to see differently?

* Where might I be bridging from one reality into another?

* What has been building beneath the surface that may finally be ready to shift?

* Where am I being called to protect or provide for someone else?

* Am I supporting others without taking away their ability to support themselves?

* Where do I need to tend to myself before I can continue giving?

* Where could sensuality or embodiment support me this week?

* What would it look like to meet whatever arises this week with awareness rather than fear?

This week’s medicine is about awareness, discernment, embodiment, generosity, and finding the balance between caring for yourself and caring for others.

In this episode:

* The energy of the Leo solar eclipse

* Raccoon medicine as the generous protector

* Distinguishing wants from true needs

* Hagalaz and bridging into a new reality

* Fehu, embodiment, sensuality, and the feminine

* Finding balance between giving and receiving

Resources:

Elemental Embodiment Journey

If you’re feeling called to deepen your relationship with your body and strengthen your connection to your intuition, the Elemental Embodiment Journey is a beautiful place to begin.

This self-guided, seven-module course weaves together embodiment practices, guided journeys, and shamanic teachings to help you experience the spiritual and grounded wisdom of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air within your own body. It’s an invitation to come home to yourself through direct experience.

The course is available for $27 and includes lifetime access, allowing you to return to the practices whenever you need grounding, clarity, or reconnection.

You can find the link below.

https://shannon-amrein.thinkific.com/courses/take/elemental-embodiment-journey-2026

If you’re feeling called into deeper feminine embodiment work: Make sure you’re on the waitlist for the next round of Love Your Lips!

Thank you for being here. If these weekly readings support your journey, I’d love for you to subscribe so you never miss a new episode. Wishing you an illuminating eclipse week.

This week’s reading offers a welcome exhale after the intensity of the past several weeks.

This week is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with your intuition. Through the wisdom of the runes, Swan medicine, and Chiron’s retrograde, we’re reminded that grace often opens the door to our greatest transformation.

Instead of striving, this week asks us to trust.

In this episode:

* The energetic shift from action into integration and reflection.

* Chiron’s retrograde and what it may reveal about your healing journey.

* The message of Laguz reversed and the invitation to trust your intuition with discernment.

* Swan medicine and the power of grace, surrender, and spiritual transformation.

* How denying your intuition may also be denying an essential part of yourself.

* The significance of Dagaz, the rune of dawn and new beginnings.

* Othala and the call toward soul family, ancestral gifts, and true belonging.

* Why this week offers an opportunity to rest, integrate, and prepare for the upcoming eclipse season.

This week’s reflection:

Where have I been denying my own inner knowing?

What becomes possible when you stop resisting your transformation and allow yourself to be guided by grace?

This is a week to soften, listen, and trust that your intuition is leading you exactly where you need to go.

Resources

Elemental Embodiment Journey

If you’re feeling called to deepen your relationship with your body and strengthen your connection to your intuition, the Elemental Embodiment Journey is a beautiful place to begin.

This self-guided, seven-module course weaves together embodiment practices, guided journeys, and shamanic teachings to help you experience the spiritual and grounded wisdom of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air within your own body. It’s an invitation to come home to yourself through direct experience.

The course is available for $27 and includes lifetime access, allowing you to return to the practices whenever you need grounding, clarity, or reconnection.

You can find the link below.

https://shannon-amrein.thinkific.com/courses/take/elemental-embodiment-journey-2026

Thank you for being here. If these weekly readings support your journey, I’d love for you to subscribe so you never miss a new episode. Wishing you a week filled with grace, trust, and beautiful new beginnings.

Ps. Make sure you’re on the waitlist for the next round of Love Your Lips!

This week’s reading arrives just after the powerful four-planet basket alignment and carries an invitation to notice what is ready to come into the light.

This week explores the symbolism of the runes Raido, Isa, and Jera, alongside Beaver medicine, the Aquarius Full Moon, Jupiter cazimi, and the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa.

In this episode:

* Why this week may illuminate something you’ve been carrying from the past.

* The significance of the Aquarius Full Moon and Jupiter Cazimi.

* What the rune Raido reversed reveals about returning to old experiences or patterns.

* How Isa points toward recognizing what has been keeping you stuck.

* Why Jera continues to affirm that we are in an ongoing season of harvest.

* Beaver medicine and the invitation to build, collaborate, and take meaningful action.

* The spiritual significance of Lughnasa, the Celtic festival marking the beginning of harvest season.

* A simple ritual for welcoming and giving thanks for the harvest unfolding in your own life.

This week asks us:

Where do I keep returning in the past, and what is finally ready to be seen so I can move forward?

Meeting what has frozen us is not about reliving it but about creating space for the life, opportunities, and harvest waiting on the other side.

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Thank you for being here, and I hope this week brings insight, movement, and a beautiful harvest.

If this week’s reading resonated with you and you’re feeling called to deepen your relationship with your body, I’d love to invite you into my Elemental Embodiment Journey.

This self-guided, seven-module course offers a gentle yet profound way to reconnect with yourself through the wisdom of the elements. Through guided journeys, embodiment practices, and shamanic teachings, you’ll learn to experience Earth, Water, Fire, and Air not as concepts, but as living forces within your own body.

It’s a beautiful place to begin—or deepen—your practice of coming home to yourself.

You can explore the course through the link below. It’s available for just $27 and includes lifetime access, so you can return to the practices whenever you need grounding, nourishment, or reconnection.

https://shannon-amrein.thinkific.com/courses/take/elemental-embodiment-journey-2026

Thank you for being here, and I’ll see you next week.

Ps. Make sure you’re on the waitlist for the next round of Love your Lips!

This week we are standing at a threshold.

With a rare astrological configuration peaking in the sky, we’re in a season of profound change. The runes and animal medicine remind us that this is a week for aligned action.

Some identities are continuing to fall away. New ways of being are beginning to emerge. Trust the wisdom that is already within you, seek the knowledge you genuinely need, and then move forward with intention.

This is also the beginning of a harvest season. The seeds you’ve been tending are beginning to bear fruit—but harvest still requires participation. Keep showing up and taking the next aligned step.

In this week’s reading we explore:

* The rare “Barbault Basket” astrological configuration and why this period may mark a significant collective turning point.

* Why an old identity may be dissolving to make space for something new.

* Listening more deeply to your intuition while remaining open to learning.

* The balance between observation and decisive action.

* Why moving quietly and protecting new ideas can be powerful medicine.

* Continuing to receive the harvest of what you’ve been cultivating.

* Trusting yourself instead of remaining stuck in second-guessing.

Animal Medicine

Weasel reminds us to move quietly, observe deeply, and allow wisdom to fully mature before sharing it with the world.

Antelope arrives with a clear message: the time for aligned action is now. Trust your timing, trust your knowing, and move forward with courage.

Reflection Questions

* What identity am I ready to release?

* Where am I being asked to trust my own inner knowing?

* What action have I already known I need to take?

* What harvest is beginning to arrive in my life?

Mentioned in this episode

The Elemental Embodiment Journey

I’m re-releasing one of my favorite foundational courses—a journey into relationship with Earth, Water, Fire, and Air as pathways back to your body, your life force, and your connection with the living world.

If you’ve been longing for a grounding practice during this season of change, this course offers guided teachings and practices to help you reconnect with yourself and the elements.

✨ Currently available for $27, with lifetime access. Join here.

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In this week’s reading, we begin with a grounding meditation to call our energy home before opening the space for guidance for the week of July 13th.

Through the rune Jera, we’re invited into the beginning of harvest season — a time when the seeds we’ve planted are starting to show signs of fruition. This isn’t the final harvest yet, but the first glimpse of what is becoming ready to gather.

Our animal medicine, Whale, brings the energy of the record keeper, connecting us to sound, soul memory, ancient wisdom, and the frequencies that help us remember who we are. This week is a powerful invitation to work with sound, voice, drumming, toning, and healing frequencies as a pathway back to the wisdom held within the body and soul.

We also touch on the New Moon in Cancer, Mercury retrograde in Cancer, and the themes of family, intimacy, memory, and emotional healing that may be moving through us now.

In this episode, we explore:

* The rune Jera and the energy of early harvest

* Whale medicine and the Akashic / soul records

* How sound can unlock cellular memory and inner knowing

* The New Moon in Cancer and planting new emotional intentions

* What may be surfacing through Mercury retrograde in Cancer

* Questions to ask yourself as harvest begins

Reflection questions for the week:

* What is beginning to show signs of harvest in my life?

* What still needs tending before it is ready?

* What memories, emotions, or patterns are asking to be acknowledged?

* How can I work with sound and my voice this week?

* What new seed do I want to plant under this Cancer New Moon?

Resources mentioned:

* Larimar Sound Alchemy — sound journeys and healing frequencies

* Drumming / shamanic journey tracks

* Binaural beats and meditative sound practices

If this episode resonated with you:

My 30-minute recorded intuitive readings are open this week if you’d like a personal energetic check-in and guidance for the season you’re moving through.

Book your reading at: https://www.shannonamrein.com/offerings/p/intuitive-reading

Connect & Share

I’d love to hear how this week’s energy unfolds for you. What are you beginning to harvest, and what is still ripening beneath the surface?

Share your reflections in the comments or send me a message.

With love,

Shannon

Moving into the second week of July, the momentum of the month builds.

This week’s reading brings together the rune Laguz and Skunk Medicine—two powerful allies inviting us into deeper trust, discernment, and self-respect.

Laguz reminds us to listen closely to our intuition. It speaks of love, emotional wisdom, and the flow of life, while also asking us to remain discerning. Not everything that appears beautiful is meant for us. This week invites us to notice where something may carry unseen strings attached and to trust the quiet knowing within that recognizes what is truly aligned.

Skunk Medicine complements this beautifully by teaching the power of reputation: not the reputation built on pleasing others, but the one created through authenticity and self-respect.

This is a week to embody your values, trust your inner knowing, and continue saying yes to the momentum that July is offering.

In this episode we explore:

* ✨ The wisdom of the Laguz rune and what it teaches about intuition

* ✨ Discernment versus fear when receiving opportunities, love, or guidance

* ✨ Skunk Medicine and the energetic power of reputation

* ✨ Walking your talk and living in integrity

* ✨ How your posture, presence, and self-respect shape your energetic field

Reflections for the week

Where in my life am I being invited to trust myself more deeply?

What would change if I carried myself with complete self-respect?

Sometimes the greatest protection isn’t building stronger walls.

It’s becoming so rooted in your own truth that what isn’t meant for you naturally falls away.

Continue the journey

If this week’s reading stirred something within you and you’re longing to deepen your relationship with your body, your intuition, and your feminine wisdom, I’d love to invite you to join the waitlist for the next round of Love Your Lips.

This four-week embodied journey is a sacred exploration of your vulva through anatomy, education and hands on practices, helping you cultivate greater connection, sensation, self-love, and trust in your body.

Join the waitlist here:https://delicate-fog-744.myflodesk.com/loveyourlips

If you’re seeking more personal guidance, my 30-minute recorded Intuitive Readings are also open this week.

You’ll receive a personalized recorded reading exploring the energy surrounding your current season, along with intuitive guidance, rune and/or oracle messages, and insight into what may be asking for your attention right now.

If you’ve been looking for clarity, confirmation, or a fresh perspective, this is a beautiful way to receive individualized support.

https://www.shannonamrein.com/offerings/p/intuitive-reading

If this episode resonated with you, I’d love for you to subscribe, leave a comment, or share it with someone who may need this message this week.

Thank you for being here.

With love,Shannon

Blood, Belly & Stars: The Totality Podcast

This week’s reading carries the energy of a threshold.

This week, we’re working with the energy of Otter Medicine alongside the rune Dagaz; the rune of dawn and new beginnings. Together, they offer a profound invitation: before stepping into what is waiting for you, ask yourself what old stories, identities, judgments, or ego patterns are no longer meant to come with you.

This isn’t a week for gripping tighter to certainty. It’s a week for softening, becoming more receptive, and allowing yourself to be changed.

Otter reminds us that true feminine wisdom isn’t found in comparison, jealousy, or division. It lives in playfulness, generosity, curiosity, sisterhood, and the courage to celebrate one another. As we collectively stand at a doorway into something new, we’re invited to lay down the baggage we’ve carried for far too long.

Whether you’re feeling excitement, uncertainty, or the quiet pull of change, I hope this reading offers a little guidance as you move through the days ahead.

In this episode we explore:

* ✨ Otter Medicine and its message for this collective moment

* ✨ The Dagaz rune and what it reveals about new beginnings

* ✨ The threshold we’re being invited to cross

* ✨ How ego, division, and old identities can keep us from moving forward

* ✨ Sisterhood, feminine maturity, and receptive power

* ✨ Learning to meet life with curiosity instead of certainty

* ✨ The spiritual medicine of play, joy, and humility

Reflection for the week

What am I ready to leave at the threshold so I can fully step into what is waiting for me?

Sometimes the greatest new beginning isn’t something we gain; it’s something we’re finally willing to release.

Join Love Your Lips: Begins July 1

If this week’s reading stirred something in you around reconnecting with your feminine wisdom and coming home to your body, I’d love to invite you into round 2 of Love Your Lips.

Love Your Lips is a four-week guided journey into reclaiming your relationship with your vulva through anatomy, embodied touch, education, and sacred practice.

This is body-based work designed to help you move from disconnection, shame, or numbness into greater presence, sensation, self-love, and reverence for your body.

The journey begins July 1, and I’d be honored to have you there.

Learn more and join here:

Love Your Lips

If this episode resonated with you, I’d love for you to subscribe, leave a review, or share it with someone walking their own path of remembrance.

Thank you for being here.

Until next time,

With love,Shannon

Blood, Belly & Stars: The Totality Podcast

Summer Solstice Medicine: Transmuting Pain & Remembering You’re Not Alone

This week carries the radiant fire of the Summer Solstice and an offer of profound transformation.

The rune Othala returns once again, reminding us of the importance of our ancestors, soul family, and community. This is a week to nurture your relationships, listen to the wisdom of your lineage, and remember that you are never truly alone.

This week we are supported by the animal medicine of Snake, who teaches us transmutation, alchemy, and rebirth. Snake invites us to shed old skin and transform pain, fear, and inherited patterns into wisdom and vitality.

As the solstice light illuminates what is ready to change, ask yourself:

* What am I ready to shed?

* What pain or fear is asking to be fully witnessed so it can finally transform?

* Where have I forgotten that I am supported?

* How can I open to receiving help from my ancestors, community, or the Earth itself?

This week asks you to have the courage to feel, release, and trust the transformative fire moving within and around you.

In This Episode

✨ The medicine of the rune Othala and ancestral support✨ Why community and soul family are essential right now✨ Snake medicine and the alchemy of transmuting pain✨ The difference between sitting with pain and allowing it to transform✨ How the Summer Solstice light supports healing and renewal✨ Receiving support from your ancestors, community, and the unseen world✨ Preparing energetically for the powerful shifts of July

Looking for Support?

If you are in a season of deep transformation and are ready to move beyond simply sitting with old patterns and pain, I offer spaces for shamanic healing, intuitive guidance, and womb-centered support.

✨ Shamanic Biomagnetism Healings (On-Demand Course)A self-paced collection of energetic healing journeys designed to support emotional, spiritual, and energetic clearing from the comfort of your own home. If you’re longing for extra support as you move through transformation and release, this course offers gentle yet powerful practices to help you reconnect with your body, energy, and inner wisdom.

✨ 1:1 Sessions & MentorshipFor deeper, personalized support in transmutation, healing, and reconnecting with your body, womb, and soul.

Links to my Intuitive check-in offering and 1:1 sessions are below.

https://www.shannonamrein.com/work-with-me

https://www.shannonamrein.com/offerings/p/intuitive-reading

Thank you for joining me for another Week Ahead Reading. May this Summer Solstice week bring you the courage to allow yourself to be held and supported as you shed what no longer belongs to you.

With love,ShannonBlood, Belly & Stars: The Totality Podcast 🌿✨

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The summer solstice is a sacred threshold. It’s the longest day of the year and a peak moment of light and vitality. In this guided journey, I invite you to join me in connecting with the sun as a source of nourishment, healing, and renewal.

In this practice, you’ll learn how to receive the codes of light from the sun, the energetic gifts the sun shares with us through its rays of light every day. During the solstice portal, these codes, or energies, are especially potent. This is an ideal time to consciously connect with the sun and learn to receive the light codes of clarity, inspiration, purification, and connection with the natural world that are on offer.

Like the earth itself, we are nourished by the sun. May this guided practice remind you to take time to receive the support, warmth, and nourishment of the sun every day.

Try to return to this meditation throughout the days surrounding the solstice. Also take time each day to physically connect with the sun’s light, whether while you listen to this practice or at another point in your day. A great time to connect with the sun each day is at sunrise and sunset, however you can receive the sun’s light codes whenever you feel called to step outside and bathe in the light of the sun.

May this summer solstice bring you light, warmth, and nourishment.

Thank you for being here with me ☀️.

If you want to go deeper:

If you’re interested in deepening your connection with the natural world, your body, and your soul through shamanic practices and guided journeys, I invite you to explore my offerings and reach out with any questions.

And if you’re seeking energetic support, healing, and a deeper understanding of how energy moves through the body, I invite you to explore my on-demand course, Shamanic Biomagnetism Healings. This self-paced offering provides supportive energetic practices and healing experiences to help you reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom and capacity for restoration.

✨ Learn more and explore my offerings: https://www.shannonamrein.com

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As we move into the week of June 15th, we are approaching one of the year’s most beautiful thresholds: the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year and a powerful portal of light, illumination, and becoming. This week invites us to notice:

What is being illuminated in my life?Who am I becoming?Am I still trying on this new version of myself, or am I ready to fully commit to her?

In this collective reading, I explore the energy of the Summer Solstice as a sacred threshold: a time to sit with the sun, receive its nourishment, and allow the light to reveal what is ready to emerge. The energy of this week is asking us to take the next step and fully embody the transformation that is calling us forward.

I also share simple ways to honor the solstice, including:

* Watching the sunrise or sunset

* Sitting with the sun and receiving its light

* Drumming the sun up or down

* Taking time for meditation, reflection, and ceremony

* Listening for what is being illuminated within you

This is a week of movement, expansion, and commitment to the next version of yourself.

In This Episode

✨ The spiritual significance of the Summer Solstice✨ Illumination, thresholds, and receiving the nourishment of light✨ The energy of becoming and committing to your becoming ✨ Why transformation often begins by “trying on” a new identity✨ Practices to honor the Solstice and connect with the sun’s medicine✨ Questions for reflection as you move through this powerful week

Reflection Questions

* What is being illuminated in my life right now?

* Where am I being invited to fully commit to my becoming?

* What version of myself am I ready to embody?

* How can I bring more balance into the spiral and movement of my life?

Resources & Offerings

If you are looking for energetic support, meditation practices, and healing experiences to help you move through this season of transformation, explore my Shamanic Biomagnetism Healings on-demand course. These distance energetic healing sessions are designed to support nervous system regulation, energetic clearing, reconnection to self, and deeper embodiment.

You can also subscribe on Substack and join my email list for future collective readings, guided journeys, and any bonus Summer Solstice practices or meditations that may emerge this week.

Thank you for being here. May this Solstice illuminate your path and support you in becoming all that you are here to be.

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