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The Sweat Lodge

Think of the Sweat Lodge and think of a modern Sauna. They have many things in common. In a small space, volcanic rocks from deep in Mother Gia are heated until they are red hot and then life giving water is spinked over them to make steam, and humidity. In the sauna we are often, but not always naked. Being naked, we can hide nothing and be who we truly are. In a sauna we sit in light, not darkness. In a native Indian Sweat Lodge, you would be in darkness.

It is a personal moment in a personal space. This is the time when our insides, through sweat become our outsides and can be shed. It is a time for old habits and beliefs to go, drip from us in the sweat that comes from the pores in our skin, the largest living organ we and all animals have.

Now is the time for a new start, a second chance, a moment of peace before change. Now is the time to be ready to adopt new habits, beliefs and thoughts and prepare to move beyond what we have been before we walked through the door of the Sauna or Sweat Lodge.

Observe the ritual of the sauna. Use more water to create more steam. Be patient as the heat and steam draw out the physical toxins, and the spiritual. Recognise them for what they are. But do not spend much time on them.

The Sweat Lodge, the Sauna is a place of new beginnings, new opportunities if you truly and freely shed the things that are not working for you. As you release, think of the hot steamy space you are in as being somewhere where the new opportunities can take root and grow.  

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer symbolizes beliefs and ideas of division, struggle and being without. We feel the sorcerer casts a dark shadow over our lives, but in reality, the shadows are own. Those shadows are feelings of separation from loved one, colleagues, pets. Feelings of conflict and aggression to others in order to achieve our self-centred goals.

Our shadows may be narrow, broad, or generous in their focus. Either way, our busy mind loves to feed off the shadow energy and its negative feelings. The sorcerer, is asking you to look at these energies, examine how destructive they are. What are you feeling? Resentment, vengeance, lust, greed, bigotry, or hatred about or to whom or what. These feelings are unjustified and not your spiritual core which is pushed away without consideration.

The Sorcerer challenges you,

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The Corn

Corn is sustenance, we eat the kernels and use the rest of the plant to build things and to make fire to warm our homes and cook the kernels. The stalks can be used for roofing and with the mud of Mother Gaia, make walls. Everything about Corn is abundant, it helps us and is tangible.

Corn is prosperity in the real, physical world. Corn also says there is more than enough to go around. Let go of thoughts and fears of scarcity and not having enough or that someone will steal your abundance. Understand that the universe will provide, but you must be in a relationship with it in order to receive. You will reap what you sow. 

We work hard to plant new ideas, and we hope they will grow and give us goodness and abundance in the future. Even when things were difficult, you did not lose faith in what you have planted. You have kept going.

The corn takes time to grow and provide the abundance you are about to reap. It is time to be warry of shortcuts, things that seem to be too good or inner feelings of being entitled to a certain outcome. 

Let go of insecurity, feelings or thoughts of there not being enough, or that someone else could take what is yours. You have all you need for success.

Remember, it is always darkest before the dawn but you continued on, planting and nurturing. Now the spirit of the Corn comes to honor this and show you how bountiful the harvest is. 

Now is the time to reap the rewards of effort, and trust. Regardless of whether the rewards are financial or the kind of prosperity measured in quality rather than quantity. Now is the time to feel blessed but don’t forget to share your good fortune.

As we anticipate good fortune and abundance be careful! Do not try to rush the harvest of abundance. Get rich quick schemes and shortcuts will not help, they may damage the things you have planted.

The Council

In this card I see your guides. Whether you have connected with them or not, these souls, some call spirits, are with us through our physical lives, they love us unconditionally and they help us if we ask them to. But be clear. If you want to drive safely and free from accidents. You have to say that – verbally, or in your mind.

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The Sun

The sun is the brightest card in the deck. It can be beautiful to gaze at during sunrise and sunset and it can be burningly hot at midday. As we move from the shortest day at the Winter Solstice, days start to grow longer and we expect warmth to envelope us.

In many traditions the Sun is seen as a masculine energy, on others, a feminine energy. Whichever tradition you follow, the energy is at full force, it is bright and relentless, like the sun on a summer’s day.

As the days grew longer, so do our hopes and plans for the spring, summer and fall. We anticipate and we enjoy seeing animals start to come out and be more active. Our passions and energy start to rise and we feel reenergized and reborn. Now is the time to enjoy the brighter days and the brighter things in your life. 

The Covid pandemic has shuttered many of us in our homes, away from all that is happening in nature and with others. As Spring comes, and there is medical hope that we are coming to the end of the pandemic, the sun is calling us out into nature just as it brings the birds and animals out from where they have hidden for winter.

Brighter things in your life include the night, rest, relaxation and sleep. These are valuable and tend to be lost during the long dark evenings of winter. If you have been working hard, take a moment to rest up and enjoy the evenings and the joys that rest bring us.

The Time Master

Humanity perceives time as moving linearly, a straight line from birth to death. Even when we look at our watches, we see the hands moving around the face in a steady, even progression of minutes, hours and days. This linear view leads us to the feeling that there is not enough time. We are always referring to something that has a finite ending.

In reality, time does not move in a linear path, when we are in the NOW, in the moment, we can see all of time, the past, present and future. In that moment, at any moment, you can see time in all its infinite potential, one vast and all-encompassing flow and then shrunken and finite. It all depends on perspective.

The Time Master asks you to think about how you perceive time and everything it represents. Will you break free from your limited cause-and-effect thinking.

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Flow

When we think of flow, we think of water flowing in streams and rivers, we think of the eb and flow of life in ourselves and in all living things around us. We even think of the flow of traffic when we are moving swiftly along the highway. We think of the flow of air as it moves clouds around the sky.

When we plan and strategize on how to reach our goals, we put a lot of things into motion. Sometimes we struggle, we fight to make things happen. As much as we want to manifest something now, right now! Yet, nothing happens. Understand that the universe has heard you, it is heard what you are trying to manifest and things are moving.

There is a certain cadence to life and all things we try and create, when Flow appears in the cards, it means it is time to be steady, to let the eb and flow of life move you and your plans forward. There is a time to strive and a time to rest, now is the time to rest.

If you continue to try pushing forward, life will become like a piece of string. String can be pulled behind your or beside you and it can be tried to something you want to be secured to but it cannot be pushed. 

Whatever obstacle is in front of you right now, trust this is for the highest good. It is an opportunity to regroup and reconsider your choices, and you must trust that your intentions will take form in good time. Believe this time is a gift.

The Rainbow

The Rainbow includes all the colours of the 7 Chakras that exist in all living things. 

The ephemeral rainbow is a representation of the bridge between this physical world and the worlds of spirits. The Shaman walks up the rainbow to the upper world of benevolent spirits to learn and experience the higher, Upper Realm. It is there he or she learns from the spirits so that they may help people and animals here in the Middle world.

The rainbow affirms that all is well and that you are in right relationship with Spirit.

The rainbow comes after a storm, when the bright warming sunlight pierces the still water laden atmosphere and shows all of its beauty. It is also a message to persevere, persevere in what you are doing. Remember that saying that it is darkest just before the dawn. 

Do not give up hope; things are about to take a positive turn. Listen for the morning rooster that announces the coming of the dawn even while the night is ...

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Buddhism first entered Mongolia during the Yuan Dynasty of the thirteenth and fourteenth century and was briefly established as a state religion. Mongolia itself was at a political and developmental standstill until the sixteenth century, after which the conversion of Altan Khan to Buddhism re-established itself. [1]

Yellow shamanism is the term used to designate a particular version of shamanism practiced in Mongolia and Siberia which incorporates rituals and traditions from Buddhism. Most Buddhists there belong to what is called the "Yellow sect" of Tibetan Buddhism, because the members wear yellow hats during services. There are also refences to Yellow Shamanism being linked to the Saffron coloured robes of Buddhist monks.  The term also serves to distinguish this form of shamanism from those not influenced by Buddhism, according to their adherents, who are  mostly "black shaman".[2]

During this time, Lamaists[3] divided shamans into two categories: Black and Yellow. “Black” shamans were those who kept the old shamanic traditions, and Yellow shaman.[4] [5] Yellow Shaman were those who are controlled by Buddhist Lamas, and practice shamanic rituals and traditions in conjunction with Tibetan Buddhism.

As far as Yellow Shamanism and Mongolia is concerned, there is an argument of whether the practice continues to exist. Mongolia was part of Communist Russia from 1924 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. During this period, known as the Communist era, all religious activities, their practitioners, and adherents, regardless of form were persecuted. Iconography, manuscripts and places of worship were destroyed and practitioners often killed.

The same process of persecution and destruction was followed in Tibet by Communist China with the worst occurrences of destruction to monasteries and places of religious worship, persecution and killing of shamans and Buddhists took place under Mao Zedong during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

The melding of shamanism and Buddhism started in the thirteenth century and comes after the merging of shamanism and the indigenous Bon Religion of Tibet. Bon is an ancient religion, dating back 3,800 years. Bon and shamanism closely influenced each other over many thousands of years. The ending of animal sacrifice during Shaman rituals being attributed to Bon.

Bon traditions were absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism along with those of shamanism. Bon is still practiced today. In 1978, the Dalai Lama acknowledged Bon as the sixth principal spiritual Buddhist school of Tib...

I am a Registered Reiki Teacher and Practitioner and a Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher as well as a Shaman. I am a published author of books and online courses on Reiki and Shamanism and together with this YouTube Channel, I host a Podcast on Shamanism.

Weekly I will post a video and podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is a general reading, please take what resonates with you.

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For legal purposes, all videos and podcasts are strictly for entertainment purposes. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewer interpretation or actions. Thank you.

The Corn

Corn is sustenance, we eat the kernels and use the rest of the plant to build things and to make fire to warm our homes and cook the kernels. Everything about Corn is abundant, it helps us and is tangible.

Corn is prosperity in the real, physical world. There is more than enough to go around.

We work hard to plant new ideas, and we hope they will grow and give us goodness and abundance in the future. Even when thigs are difficult, we have not lost faith in what we have planted. We have kept going.

Now is the time to reap the rewards of effort, and trust. Regardless of whether the rewards are financial or the kind of prosperity measured in quality rather than quantity. Now is the time to feel blessed but don’t forget to share your good fortune.

As we anticipate good fortune and abundance be careful! Do not try to rush the harvest of abundance. Get rich quick schemes and shortcuts will not help, they may damage the things you have planted.

Let go of thoughts and fears of scarcity and not having enough or that someone will steal your abundance. Understand that the universe will provide, but you must be in a relationship with it in order to receive. You will reap what you sow. 

The Time Master

Humanity perceives time as moving linearly, a straight line from birth to death. Even when we look at our watches, we see the hands moving around the face in a steady, even progression of minutes, hours and days. This linear view leads us to the feeling that there is not enough time. We are always referring to something that has a finite ending.

In reality, time does not move in a linear path, when we are in the NOW, in the moment, we can see all of time, the past, present and future. In that moment, at any moment, you can see time in all its infinite potential, one vast and all-encompassing flow and then shrunken and finite. It all depends on perspective.

The Time Master asks you to think about how you perceive time and everything it represents. Will you break free from your limited cause-and-effect thinking. Will you move beyond linear illusion, and be able to welcome the cyclic quality of time?

If you can look beyond the linear view of time and take back your power, let go of the past so you can step fully into your life. In this moment you are all-powerful. Anything is possible now.

I am a Registered Reiki Teacher and Practitioner and a Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher as well as a Shaman. I am a published author of books and online courses on Reiki and Shamanism and together with this YouTube Channel, I host a Podcast on Shamanism.

Weekly I will post a video and podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is a general reading, please take what resonates with you.

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Thunder

Tengri, the great God of the Mongol Sky speaks in ways that cannot be misunderstood. Thunder is a wake-up call. A call to be alert and be prepared as the tensions in the sky are realised so dramatically. Do you have relationships, friendships, or acquaintances that have been under stress? 

Now is the time to release those tensions and everyone live life in a more relaxed manner. Thunder is dramatic and releasing tensions can be dramatic, one of your challenges is not to allow the thunder in what you are releasing, destroy what it is you hoped to save.

Thunder also speaks to opportunity, it is arriving in your life, perhaps more than once and the effect can have will be dramatic. Now is the time to prepare for the great adventures that will be coming to you.

Be ready to learn abouto use them. You need to be prepared to run with them. Stand ready to be flexible, dexterous, and open to the experiences coming to you. Now is the time to look out over the sea and see your ships all coming in to port. Be ready to unload them.

This card is a repeat of last week. It is a message sent to you to say that nothing has changed, the message from last week has not been heard by you, so, it is repeated. Pay Attention!

The Rainbow

The rainbow only exists because of the Sun. The light of the sun shines through the water left in the air after a storm to make something bright, sunny, hopeful, and magical.

The colours in the rainbow include the colours of the Chakras that exist in each one of us. The chakras conduct and manage the energy in our bodies and our souls. In the high mountains of the Himalayas a rainbow is recognised as the full realization of our essence. 

The brilliance of a rainbow is that it marks the end of a storm, a difficult period in your life. Remember to carry on as you have, as they say, it is darkest before dawn.

The rainbow is a bridge between the spiritual world and the physical. Shamans climb a rainbow to the upper world to speak with and learn from spirts beneficial to mankind as part of their healing process. A rainbow appears as a message to affirm all is well and that you are in right relationship with Spirit.

The rainbow is a message not to celebrate too early, victory, success, happiness or whatever it is you are trying to manifest which has not arrived.

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White Shaman work with spirits of the upper world and obtained their magical power from a westerly direction, the home of the benevolent deities and spirits. White shaman direct prayers to the Western Heavens.[1]

They are shamans of peace and have a special relationship with the spirits of nature. Their main focus is on pacifying angry spirits and helping mankind to live in balance with nature. White shamans also do divination, blessings and healing. One thing that they cannot do is shaman’s curse. [2] That is the dolman of the Black Shaman.

During the Mongol Empire, while Black shamans dealt with foreign affairs, White shamans dealt with local affairs and served as administrators and concerned themselves with the day to day lives of the people.

They operated at a tribal level almost exclusively as healers and diviners and they only had dealings with beneficent entities. It was their role to pacify angry or evil spirits, exorcise them if they possessed human beings and help the tribe live in harmony with their natural environment and the spirit world.

Today Buddhist influences, trappings, and style appear in the rituals of white shaman. Some chants are of Buddhist origin and White shamans burn incense instead of the wild plants that Black shamans burn. [3]

The white and black shamans, the Buryat say, fight with each other, hurling axes at one another from distances of hundreds of miles. White shaman serves the West, Tengri, and are in charge of ceremonies held at birth, marriage etc. The White Shaman wears a white coat and rides a white horse. A famous white shaman was Barlak, at who’s grave his descendants still go to worship.[4]

White shamans do not use drums, but instead have a wooden staff and ring bells during ceremonies. White shamans also do not wear the antlered headdress of the Black shamans, but instead wear a cape called a nemerge.[5]

During the 17th and 19th centuries, some white shaman acquiesced to the control of Lamaists and became Yellow shaman, other did not and were incorrectly categorised as Black shaman. It was not until the fall of the Soviet Union and the freedoms that Mongolia and other parts of Siberia have enjoyed that White Shamans were recognised again in their own right.

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I am a Registered Reiki Teacher and Practitioner and a Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher as well as a Shaman. I am a published author of books and online courses on Reiki and Shamanism and together with this YouTube Channel, I host a Podcast on Shamanism.

Weekly I will post a video and podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is a general reading, please take what resonates with you.

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For a Personal weekly Shamanic Energy Reading please go to: https://bit.ly/30PmCd3

For legal purposes, all videos and podcasts are strictly for entertainment purposes. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewer interpretation or actions. Thank you.

The Sun

The sun is the brightest card in the deck. It can be beautiful to gaze at during sunrise and sunset and it can be burningly hot at midday. As we move from the shortest day at the Winter Solstice, days start to grow longer and we expect warmth to envelope us.

As the days grow longer, so do our hopes and plans for the spring, summer and fall. We anticipate and we enjoy seeing animals start to come out and be more active. Our passions and energy start to rise and we feel reenergized and reborn. Now is the time to enjoy the brighter days and the brighter things in your life. 

Brighter things in your life include the night, rest, relaxation and sleep. These are valuable and tend to be lost during the long dark evenings of winter. If you have been working hard, take a moment to rest up and enjoy the evenings and the joys that rest bring us.

Thunder

Tengri, the great God of the Mongol Sky speaks in ways that cannot be misunderstood. Thunder is a wake-up call. A call to be alert and be prepared as the tensions in the sky are realised so dramatically. Do you have relationships, friendships, or acquaintances that have been under stress? 

Now is the time to release those tensions and everyone live life in a more relaxed manner. Thunder is dramatic and releasing tensions can be dramatic, one of your challenges is not to allow the thunder in what you are releasing, destroy what it is you hoped to save.

Thunder also speaks to opportunity, it is arriving in your life, perhaps more than once and the effect can be dramatic. Now is the time to prepare for the great adventures that will be coming to you.

Be ready to learn about the and how to use them. You need to be prepared to run with them. Stand ready to be flexible, dexterous, and open to the experiences coming to you. Now is the time to look out over the sea and see your ships coming in to port. Be ready to unload them.

Flow

When we think of flow, we think of water flowing in streams and rivers, we think of the eb and flow of life in ourselves and in all living things around us. We even think of the flow of traffic when we are moving swiftly along the highway. We think of the flow of air as it moves clouds around the sky.

When we plan and strategize on how to reach our goals, we put a lot of things into motion. Sometimes we struggle,

Hello. I am Mark Ashford. I am a Registered Reiki Teacher and Practitioner and a Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher as well as a Shaman. I am a published author of books and online courses on Reiki, and Shamanism.

I post a podcast here week on Reiki and or Shamanism. Please Subscribe to Podcast to hear more about these interesting topics. Click one of the following links in the show notes to learn more about our offerings.

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Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet! 

In terms of human existence, it predates current day organized religions by tens of thousands of years. European cave paintings and carvings showing shaman date from the Paleolithic[1] era, also called the Old Stone Age. The Old Stone Age is a period in human prehistory marking the development of stone tools and covers 99% of human technological prehistory. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago, Graves of shaman 12,000-year-old and older have been discovered in Israel and the Czech Republic.[2]

In this podcast we explore the original shaman, mainly in Tibet, Nepal, and Mongolia. 

The tradition says the First Shaman was both a Divine Being and human. Sent by the Creator, their role on earth was to create a bridge of knowledge, understanding, and awareness between The Creator, and humans. 

The knowledge and understanding imparted by the First Shaman to mankind included what is necessary to survive, hunting, farming, family, and tribe. The First Shaman taught humanity how to learn and evolve, how to improve themselves, and improve their connection to the environment around them. By teaching humans how to understand their own, individual spirit, humans are better able to form family relationships, friendships, and live in a state of coexistence with others they encounter but do not know.

The First Shaman brokered the ability for select humans, male or female, young or old to become Shaman in their own right. To be a Shaman in a tribe or community, the Shaman must be able to serve the people as well as understand how to conduct and perform the required rituals, ceremonies, and be able to connect to the spirit world. They must be able to bring messages from the spirit world to the physical, human world. 

The principles and beliefs of Shamanism are obligations the human Shaman has accepted as integral to their life and like a path through the woods, they need to stay on the path, grow and develop. Straying from the path may mean they become lost, things become difficult and the transaction of faith between the Shaman and their community or tribe becomes broken.

Being a Shaman is not the sole domain of Indigenous people. Just as there is no restriction on age, or gender, there is no restriction on ethnic background.

To be a Shaman is a unique and special path, to walk that path a new shaman will become aware of signs to show them the path they are meant to be on. 

The Shaman path brings with it various supernatural abilities if the shaman is young, or has latent abilities these will be activated by cosmic energy.