The Shaman Podcast

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Beloved – Radical Acceptance

Do not hold back. Do not stall or put the message aside. You are being asked to commit totally to something, a person, a business venture, a project. Or, something creative.

Recognize that what you are giving your undivided attention to a mirror of yourself. 

That mirror will show both the good and bad in you. Remember, in the Ying and Yang symbol, in the heart of the white half is a small amount of blackness and in the black half, there is a small amount of white.

Do not allow yourself to be persuaded to follow a path or give yourself to something that is not best for you. Be true to yourself and do not allow that part of you that sabotages your hopes, and desires any ability to take from you what the universe is gifting to you.

Empty Well – Time to Replenish

An empty well is a “Dry Well.” There is nothing in it, no water to drink, no water to help plants grow. It is time to move on and let spirit guide you to what is next in your life.

It is time for you to leave whatever situation, place, or people that no longer give you anything, no longer like or help you. Your soul is a bright light and you need to use it to figure out where your future is and engage with that. 

Move on!

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Overflow – Overwhelm and Plenty

There is no doubt to this. A lot of abundance and good things are coming to you. Perhaps too many for you to believe in. Have no doubt, overflowing abundance is coming and will be there soon. 

What you do not want to do is place constraints and restrictions on it. This is the problem with many vision boards. You want a new car, you have hopes, and desires on what will manifest but you place restrictions on it by the make, model and colour. 

Accept what comes and do not try to change it. 

When you receive a gift from the universe, there may be a feeling of disappointment rather than happiness. You need to release expectations so you may truly appreciate and be grateful for what is in front of you.

Focus on your personal universe, where and what you can manage yourself and believe in you. Let spirit take care of the bigger picture and the gifts appropriate to you for what you are doing now.

Jewelled Web – Connectivity

The message connects with the card from March 4th: “Spirit of the River – Movement Toward Adventure” from last week.

Do not be too narrow in focusing your hopes, dreams, and desires. Be open to new ideas, opportunities and a new reality that is right for you. Be in the moment and let life speak to you and help you experience the new and different. Think about not focusing on the struggles and turmoil of the journey and correcting what you believe is wrong.

Focus instead on the belief that you are where you need to be and that that place has everything you need and hopped for. Think about how that will feel and how you will enjoy it all. Practise the feeling and assuring yourself that what you feel is in fact, reality.

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Spirit of the River – Movement Toward Adventure

This message speaks to the need for you to step back from your habit of trying to fix things that are no longer part of your life. A friendship that has ended does not need your attention. There was a reason for it, learn from that, do not try to reignite something that has gone and should remain so. Step back and go with the flow of your life and its natural events.

Be open to new adventures, new people, places, work, friendships, and love. What you find in the “new” may not be what you expect, not what you believe you need or deserve. But what you find there is right for you and will develop into something wonderful.

Let yourself change and evolve as you move to the next phase, the next part of your spiritual journey.

The Wall - Obstacles

This card speaks in part to the previous card. 

As you move through life, you can plan, hope, and strive to achieve something new and what you think is better. When you hit a wall that stops you from moving forward and manifesting what you planned, there is puzzlement and frustration.

This is a message to stop and reconsider the path you are trying to follow through life. Is what you have planned right and will bring you happiness and manifest your goals? Have you considered all the options, all the possibilities. 

Have you considered that you are intended to do something else in this life? Life goes through cycles and you are asked to stop and consider whether there is a cycle which has ended and that you should not try to restart it? 

Is there a new and different path open to you which you have not paid attention to but which will give you more happiness and manifest more of your goals than you could imagine? Look around!

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Closing Door

The last week of the month and another message of completion and ending, being open to change and what it brings you.

A door closing is a literal and figurative message. Literal in that something that no longer serves you should not be pursed. If you are at the end with a job, a relationship, a friendship, you are being told, not asked, to close the door on that part of your life and walk away.

The closing door is also a message to stop trying to open a door that is closed to you. The past is a closed door, take the learnings from it and move on. The door you are knocking on may be closed to you because what is behind it is not meant for you. Stop trying to open it! Move on.

There are lessons to be learned from a closed door. As you recognize the door is closed consider what you have learned, the energy you will save by walking away turn around and find a new way, a new job, a new relationship. The gift to you is to save your energy and be invigorated by what comes into your life now.

Dreamweaver

Dreams, your creative mind is dreaming. Are your dreams of the past, the present, or the future? Time is limitless and in that the past, present and future are all one. But you need to understand this, and recognize the truth of it.

Use your intuition, to connect with and learn from your ancestors, and your past life experiences. The information in your dreams… not just the dreams themselves, will help you understand and manifest the good things in your dreams. 

If you dream of a new relationship, one that makes you happy and will last with you for your life, you have to understand what it is about you in that dream relationship that is different from what you are now.

As the previous card described, things are changing and doors close, that should be closed. You need to understand your dreams and hopes and what you need to change to help the dreams become reality.

As you think about this, you will also see why you are on the Earthly plain and what your life purpose is.

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Birds

We are only in the second month of the year but it may have already been tiring and exhausting. When you look up, you see the birds and hope passionately that your hopes will soar like them. If you are near water, you can watch them swooping and enjoying the breezes moving from water to land, and back again.

Your soul is like a caged bird. The stress of living the way you are is the cage denying you freedom.

Spring means new life and new possibilities beckon you to believe. If you are to welcome new experiences, people and manifest your hopes and dreams, memories and experiences you are carrying must leave you. You cannot, must not carry the past with you like luggage or an old suit of clothes. 

The past burdens you and makes it difficult for everything new this year to enter your life. Look up and smile, welcome the sun, welcome the new life around you in what will soon be spring. 

If you live in a part of the world where you can open windows and let fresh air into your home, do so. This breath of fresh air is the literal breath of new air that you need to breathe. If you cannot open your home because of the weather. Bundle up and go for a walk in a park or near a lake.

The new air in your lungs, its freshness and energy, will motivate you to spread your wings and seize new opportunities. Do not hesitate. When you walk and breathe resolve to be prepared to speak your truth when things get difficult. Spring is a wonderful time but it also brings challenges that help you change, being truthful to yourself at this time is important to your life path through this year.

The cage the past can create for your soul includes bars that prevent you from speaking your truth. Your honesty is locked away because you fear that what you have to say may not be well received. This confines you and makes you a follower. It takes away your power. Resolve to take back your power and express yourself to the world in your own way on your own terms.

Dust Devil

Another message of change within you, your evolution, and growth.

If you have been fighting change, now is the time to stop and embrace the changes you have been holding at bay. When you hold on to the past, the way things have always been done you waste energy. You become tired and may become bitter that you are being made to change.

You are not intended to hold on to the old and familiar just because it is familiar and comfortable. 

In your heart you need to consider new ways to love. You are destined to be with a companion, you are destined not to be alone, but you need to be open to the difference a new partner brings you.

In the same way you become open to a new companion, you need to be open to a new life path, what you do for a living, whom you make friends with.

This is the third week of February and the message of change and being true to yourself and what you want or need to do in life is clear. You need to follow it.

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Bells

Shamans use the sound of bells to ward off evil spirits and dark or lower energies who seek to hurt or damage a person’s soul. In some regions of Siberia, Shamans have a staff made of iron to which bells and other pieces of metal are attached that make a metallic rattling as they walk about.

Bells may ring loudly, or be quite mild in tone, yet the meaning is the same for the person ringing the bells or the evil spirits being warned to leave. By tradition, the person ringing the bells is silent. This focuses the attention of the dark spirits on them.

This is a time to ward off dark spirits trying to damage you or your dreams and intentions. Stay silent and to not let those around you know your intentions, hopes, and goals. In the work space, this can be co-workers who are competing with you for a promotion, or some other advancement or recognition.

Bells may also refer to warning bells intended to warn people away from a truth that someone does not want to share with you or others. Pay attention to the sound of the bells and how intensely they ring and who is silent where they ring the bells. This may lead you to understand what is hidden or where the truth is.

Consider that walking away is not the worst you can do. Negativity and hidden truths drain you and your essential energies. You do not need to suffer that. Do not help others embroiled in dark energies. They will drain your energies while trying to help themselves.

Shamans use bells to clear spaces and people during ceremonies. Clear your space, your home, your vehicle and your workspace. As you do so, allow the sound of the bells to raise your own spiritual vibration. This will not only help your understanding of shamanism; it will shed the negative energies and allow continue to grow and prosper materially and spiritually in life.

Heart Home

Heart home is your quiet place. It is the place where you can rest and reconnect with your inner self. This is a message of peace and reconnection with your essence. 

Life brings many stresses and change is always a constant, disrupting the present and offering new opportunities and direction.

A short time in that quiet space is what you need. You need to return to that space where you can regroup, reconnect, and see a different direction, or change the emphasis of your direction. 

It is important to take this message to heart. 

You have free will and can ignore it, but if you do, the universe may create a situation which is more disruptive and difficult for you to force you to change. You have a choice, act now or be forced to act later.

What next?



I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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.

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards—Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters—https://bit.ly/3is9djB

The Shaman’s Dream Oracle Card Deck—https://amzn.to/394PCEM

Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Lost Compass

You have lost your life path. You have lost connection with your essential self.

This card is a message to follow your intuition, not anyone’s instructions so that you reconnect with your inner essence. If you have been following what you think you should be, how you should behave, how you should look, what you should have, discard it all now because that is not the inner you.

It is time to follow your inner compass, your inner voice.

True North is always North, it is a direction and state of mind that gives you balance and a direction that is always detectable by a simple $1 compass.

When you work to regain your inner sense of direction, remember, going back to the way you were before you lost your sense of self is not the objective. As you travel back to your authentic self, you see opportunities to follow a new life path. Be open to the opportunities and take the one that speaks to your intuition.

Altar

Shamans prepare and maintain an altar of meaningful spiritual items that help and sustain them in connecting with their helping spirits, animal guides and ancestors. What is on the altar is special and unique to them. There is no formula for what must be present. Each shaman is unique to him or herself.

If you were to create a space, an altar on which you could place things that have meaning in your life, what would be there? What is you are carrying with you in your mind that could be brought out and displayed?

When you look at the space, you have created and the things placed on there, what will be represented? Something from Mother Earth, from Spirit, from a family member, from a friend. How will your physical and spiritual journey in this life be represented?

Include something that represents the essence of the shaman within you. Things that speak to the essential essence of your life. A crystal represents Mother Earth, a red candle for fire, incense stick for air, aa blue candle for water. A small mirror for spirit.

The altar becomes a thank you and expression of gratitude for your life so far and for what is to come. This expression is both an act of appreciation for the past, and the present, it is a moment of reflection on how the things on your altar relate to your future.

By honouring that which has created you, you will be calling into your life the very things that will help guide you through that which has disrupted your compass and help you back on your life path.

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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

The Shaman’s Oracle - https://tinyurl.com/ms6k3fdv

Music from Epidemic sound: Through the Blaze—Rasmus Faber

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

Thank you.

Focus & Deep Quiet

Focus

This is a time of focus. Focus on what you want to achieve on what needs action and consistency.

At work, when we have a task, we need to complete or needs great attention they say we have blinders on. The blinders prevent us from seeing side to side, up and down, we see only the task that needs to be completed.

Blinders help prevent us from diversions and things that do not move our project forward. Diversions may come in many forms, an opportunity that does not benefit us. Over indulgence in looking back at where we have come from to the now. But now is not the focus of our attention, focus should be on where we are going.

Above all do not allow the diversion of comments and criticism of others drag you away from your direction. It is not selfish to pay attention to you! Pay attention to you! Now!

Deep Quiet

With all this talk of change and focus, you also need to slow down and seek that inner peace of true quiet. It is the time before dawn when the world is at its quietest. Seek this quiet within you and embrace it.

If you do not accept this moment of quiet, meditation and stillness, recognize how important it to slow down and rest. Life will do it for you with illness, and other ways to make you stop, for a moment, just stop.

If you take a pause now, you will see how the world can continue on without you and your efforts to manage it.

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford

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.

On YouTube, please take a moment to hit the Subscribe button and Ring the Bell. If you are listening on a podcast, please subscribe. This way you will receive notifications of new podcasts and videos.

For legal reasons: all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewers or listeners’ interpretation or actions. Please note that I do not give any medical or professional.

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

The Shaman’s Oracle - https://tinyurl.com/ms6k3fdv

Music from Epidemic sound: Through the Blaze—Rasmus Faber

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

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Thank you.

Acceptance & Falling Angel

Acceptance

Appetence is the starting point from which we can move forward. If change is inevitable, we need to know from where and what we are changing.

Fully accepting our current situation and our inner soul allows to see the options for change and the future. 

The past is gone, done, and dusted. We cannot go back. Well, yes, I guess you could but why would you? If a relationship has ended, a job no longer requires you, why would you try and rekindle a closed relationship or apply for a portion back at the business you left?

Accepting your current situation allows you to see what could come next. Be clear about what inside of you is driving you to make change, and then be accepting of changes you had not planned for but are sent from the universe.

Falling Angel

This card is the flip side of Acceptance. If we accept the place we are in and who we are, we must also prepare for change, we can also be casual in our thoughts and deeds which may lead to disruption, and a fall from where and what we have achieved.

Don’t take it for granted that life will proceed unchanged, it never will. There will always be change and disruption to our lives and our spirit. Be careful to continue flying above the ground and not fall and hit it. Be always awake and conscious of what is around you. 

Change will come and it will be sent by spirit and the universe. You will see it clearly, if you are awake and aware of life. Open your eyes!

What next?

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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

The Shaman’s Oracle - https://tinyurl.com/ms6k3fdv

Music from Epidemic sound: Through the Blaze—Rasmus Faber

Referral Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4pe9m/

Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and our Private Facebook Page for more content. 

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Thank you.

The Unexpected

They say change is a constant in life. What is certain in life is that the unexpected will occur. You should always be prepared for the unexpected. And if it does not show up, then at least you will have some benefit from what you did to prepare for the unexpected. In this case a person from the past may reappear unexpectedly.

The Unexpected are the things in life we wish for but never feel will appear. The major win on a lottery, a new car, a new relationship, a relationship that moves from “friend” to lover.

This is your time too prey and wish for that miracle to manifest.

No matter how much you try and plan and protect yourself from the unexpected, be accepting of it when it appears.

Sky Dancers – Surrender

This card speaks to the eternal confrontation of your logical, egoic mind, your soul, your spirt, and your intuition.

A common trait of the logical and egoic mind is over analysis, or repeated analysis of a situation or situations over which you have no control. The over analysis becomes tiring and stressful. It drains you of your ability to work, love and even take care of yourself.

The more energy you give to these thoughts the more often they surface and confront you with options and solutions that are ever more extreme and disconnected and the cycle swirls faster and faster.

This grounds you. You lose the will and desire to create and become more than you are. You are repeating the same worries and concerns over and over again while hoping and expecting for a different outcome.

Stop overthinking and release, surrender to the divine feminine.

Sky Dancers asks you to give up on your plodding, grounded worries that cannot be resolved and form a new relationship with yourself. 

This new relationship with yourself allows you to stand above the worries and cares of the logical mind. Look down, and back on the old self that worried and struggled trying to solve problems and feelings to which solutions could not be found. 

Remember, you can change yourself, how you see, think, act, and the emotions within yourself not those in others and do not allow yourself to be driven by what you cannot change. 

What next?

I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Please take a moment to click the link in these show notes to find out more about my books, Online Courses, and social media. Visit my website and sign up for newsletters and join my Private Facebook Page for more content. 

Click here—https://linktr.ee/markaashford