Category Archives: Spirit Medicine

MEDICINE AND WALKING THE WHEEL

 

 

Medicine and Walking the Wheel

Simply put, Medicine is the core essence of a person, place or thing. It is anything that deepens your relationship with Spirit and returns or brings you closer to balance and harmony. Your Medicine is your wisdom, that which you gain through the experiences of life and that which you give away to the world. Some would say your power.

Walking the Medicine Wheel is a sacred journey of initiation, where we are all apprentices to nature. This is deeply moving and challenging work that shifts how we ‘see’ ourselves and how and where we are in the world.

This Sacred Circle is a mirror of the organization of the universe.

The Four Directions and the wheel`s centre provide the organizing principle for everything that exists in the world:

The Elements, The Seasons, The 4 symbolic Races, The Stages of the cycle of Life, The Emotions and Aspects of Human Behavior, The 4 humours.

In this circle of knowledge, we discover how to source information and guidance through direct revelation with Spirit Guides, Teachers and Ancestors. This pathway to wholeness guides us through the natural cycles of life and its inherent stages of change. It is a map of transformation and a way of knowledge, not a set of beliefs. Through working with the Wheel, we know where we are, our place in the universe, and we know our relationship to the world around us. By becoming our own authority, we are then better able to be the author of our own destiny.

Knowledge becomes wisdom when it is yours, not someone else’s…….

SHAMANIC JOURNEY CIRCLE

 

SHAMANIC JOURNEY CIRCLE

Ancient Shamanic practices for contemporary times

in sacred circle ~ in community

Thursday July 19 2018 7 – 9 pm

Beginner or seasoned practitioner, all are welcome. Join us as we gather in community, in sacred space to journey to alternate, unseen realities. To the beat of the drum, ride across the sacred bridge to connect with Spirit Animals, Guides, Teachers and Ancestors. Receive answers, guidance, wisdom and healing…

THE INNER CAULDRON ~ SACRIFICE~ Dancing the Labyrinth

…connect with your Spirit Self, discover and restore your spiritual power, your Shamanic Consciousness and become your own authority.

Meet at a wonderful venue *** in North Vancouver

Address upon registration.

Pre-registration is necessary
info@heathirrhyasen.com

$20.00 cash at the door

Bring your curious nature, questions for guidance, healing and change, or come as you will with your love of possibilities. Water to drink, paper and pen to record journeys.

Circles for Healing ~ Circles for Change

Heathir Rhyasen heathirrhyasen.com

 

Sacred Circle ~ The Medicine Wheel

The original name for Medicine Wheels was Sacred Circle. Though they are used primarily in North American Aboriginal Medicine, they are found all over the world in many forms. Their use and purpose  are culturally specific.

Medicine Wheels represent the power of the circle and peaceful connectivity to all beings. Primarily a metaphor for life and an internal mirror reflecting back to us, the Medicine Wheel is many things….

Sacred Circle, Circle of Life

Wheel of Life, Wheel of the Year

Map of Life, Self

Healing tool, Teaching tool

Metaphor and Mirror

…allowing us to achieve interconnection with all life spirit and restore balance in the aspects of our nature the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual.

Now we are fully in the South On the Medicine Wheel. Summer Solstice celebrates the Sun at the height of it’s power, the element of Fire and the promise of the harvest. All life flourishes and Earth Mother is resplendent. For us, her Human Children, it is a time of progress, creation, passion and personal expression. With the mental and emotional balance between Air and Water on the Wheel, it is a time of health, vitality, strength and potency.

Breathe, Believe, Receive ~ The Wheel turns

The Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round….The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours….Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.      

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Spirit, Heart or Medicine Stone

The stone people are the wisdom keepers and teachers of many cultures. They are offered to us from Mother Earth and are the keepers of her teachings and messages and are a direct connection to her heart and wisdom. If we but listen, they have much to tell us.

For each of us, there is a special stone, an earth stone, a spirit stone that will put itself in your path when you are ready to see it. Some believe they were chosen for us in time out of mind. This is your heart stone, power stone, wotai stone. However you name it, call it with intention and it will make itself visible to you. It may be a stone you have had for a long time and not ‘seen’. It may be waiting on your walkway or on the beach. It will call you, you will see it and you will know it. You will sense it’s particular energy and ability to ground and balance you.

These Spirit stones offer vision, guidance and protection. Bringing their own stories, they teach us what our gifts and talents are and how to live in harmony on this planet and with all things. They are a Spirit Guide that connects deeply and teaches wisely.

There is great comfort in working with the stone people. Great wisdom to be had and great joy in honouring them.  

Some teachings and how to make a pouch for your stone if you choose to…

http://www.oocities.org/silver_unicornca/medicinestones.html

Through them, we deepen our connections to all things.

Heathir                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

Sacred Space

 

Creating Sacred Space

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Sacred Space is an intentional connection with Spirit and all that is in this waking world and in the Otherworld, the Dreamtime.

Ritual Sacred Space

Having a Sacred Space for your Spiritual Practice/Meditation/Ritual is a wonderful way for you to be able to connect with Spirit, Self, Earth and the Divine. It can be a candle you light, an altar you’ve created and dedicated, a meditation pillow in a quiet place, 4 stones in your pocket, a special chair with a cup of tea or a peaceful place outside. It can be the flame in your heart that you light with intention each day, a small corner or your room, or a labyrinth you have built in your backyard. However you envision it, create it, honour it and visit it often to deepen your connections.

Ceremonial Sacred Space

Creating Sacred Space is done by setting an intention and Calling the Directions. Mindfully and respectfully invoking the Sacred, the Elements, Guardians and Archetypes of the 4 Cardinal directions, to create an energetic sphere that allows us to step out of the mundane and into the Divine, outside of time, to do healing work for ourselves, our community and Earth Mother, in a safe and sacred space. There are many, many ways to invite them to join you and over time you will develop your own personal invocation. Pure, simple and heartfelt with strong intention and gratitude is best.

Some examples to use until you  discover your own…

Personal Sacred Source

There is also another way to create a Sacred Sphere for Journey and Healing work. Within our energy field, there is a golden spinning sun that connects us to Source and holds the Divine within us. This is our 8th Chakra, our ‘Sacred Source’ and we can surround and contain ourselves within its light and energy to anchor and protect us for journeying and healing work.

When we are finished ceremony or healing work, it is necessary to close Sacred Space, again with intention, by thanking and releasing the energies invoked, thus closing our Circle and/or our Sacred Source Sphere as well.

See you in Sacred Time,

Heathir