#journey work

[sarenth]

Ehwaz

I am horse I am rider I am swift journeys I am the trailrider I am the trailblazer I am the well-worn traveler I am quick passage I am saddles and tack I am hats and chaps I am leathers I am breeches and stirrups I am safety belts and helmets I am safe travel I am cars and bikes I am ships and boats I am planes and rockets I am Sleipnir’s Hooves I am Sleipnir I am Grani’s…

[taigawitch]

Working as a Psychopomp (1)

A land healing.

Part of what we do is to help the passed on to move on to the next stage of their journey - not to linger in this, the middle world.

They can be family members, pets, animals in the wild, complete strangers, stuck souls.

We moved to a very wild feeling place. The land-wights were not exactly malign; 'challenging' might be the way to say it.

I claimed our place, and my allies saw to it our boundaries were seriously maintained. Our place was a haven.

Later, during a hands on healing working for a client I had a vision of the standing stones near us, then by them of a guardian spirit, dressed in a way that probably hasn't been seen round here for a millennium or two. Presenting as an older man -early sixties? dressed in a plain tunic, with foot bindings to the knee, he carried a staff and slung over his shoulder was a satchel with small pouches on the shoulder strap.

I wasn't entirely sure what the spirit wanted but he was insistent that the people needed to let go of something they had thought was important in life because it wasn't really.

I was called to do a working, but as I wasn't sure what was needed i let the spirit of my drum guide me, to where I needed to go. We stayed in the middle world in the valley we live in. A great darkness was in the west.

I lit a great fire, and placed a path to the darkness on the land that led to the fire. Many many souls started to move along the path, a bull was asked for to be slaughtered and burned. Once this was done the spirit of the land here appeared in the east and opened a great gateway through which light streamed . and the souls thronged along the path past the fire and through the gateway. Watching them I got the impression they had been killed in a battle.

The guardian spirit stood beside me and watched.

When the darkness in the west was emptied and the souls had passed through the gateway the spirit of the land closed it and the light reverted to daylight.

Since that working the land around us has felt far gentler; people have moved in- the crofts have been tenanted. The bothy is being redeveloped. Three new houses are being built. Children have come.

A year on, I went to visit a shaman I know about 100 miles south of here.

Unasked, he took me to see a Pictish stone. Carved on one face of it wàs a throng following a man in a tunic who was leading a bull.

I guess we were being told who they were.

[7serendipities]

Freyja's Falcon Flight: New Shapes

Well, I meant to do twice a month but at least I’m back with this on time again.  Spring weather changes and some mundane life stuff have left me still a little overloaded, but I’m working on getting back into the swing of things, and the abundance of sunlight is definitely helping! I recommend lighting a devotional candle and/or making a small offering to Freyja (perhaps a libation) before you…

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[lokavisi]

I recently attended a friend's workshop on soul retrieval and did some journeying with Loki for Him to put what I learned into practice. Of course, the final step of soul retrieval is attaching the piece back to the whole, and my friend taught us that sewing is typically what that looks like; like stitches for an open wound. But when I went to start sewing with needle and thread, something felt off. I felt like I should be gently rubbing over the place where the piece was reattached. I was contemplating this again this morning and realized it could mean that perhaps, for me doing this work, I rub in a healing salve and use those steri-strip bandages as sutures. I got a "bingo" but felt weird about it. Like clearly stitches are the Thing to do here, but Loki said, "Modern problems need modern solutions." So we use modern medicine in soul healing now 🤣

[twinkle-dragon]

I've been tossing around the idea that I'm otherkin. When I journey, I naturally almost always see myself as a humanoid goat creature, but the thought of a quadrupedal stance feels strange & uncomfortable. The cloven hooves are the big one. I've even physically felt my toes merge into hooves. Alternative aspects of me usually appear the same way, often as shadows.

[tuiliel]

Haven't been posting here about my personal work much, lately, so here's a tidbit.

Did some journeying last night before sleeping and went to see Airmed, Miach, and Ochtriullach at an old well in a young forest. I'm not sure if it was meant to be Sláine, but they had me walk down the steps in the well house to the water, and they poured three buckets of it on me.

I've been feeling a bit disconnected lately because my head cold and joint pain and brain fog and migraines have all been getting in the way, but after the third bucket splash I felt my energies returning to my new normal: dark colors for the dark half of the year.

Then I woke up this morning feeling better than I have in a few days. I think the migraine is actually gone for good, now, and my pain levels are lower than they have been all week.

I meant to go ask advice of my gods, and they blessed me with healing, instead. I'm so grateful for their presence in my life.

[unseelie-sorceress]

How do u do underworld adventures

They are guided meditations like anything else.  They are astral journeys like anything else.  They are the daydreams that pull you into the magical realms.  They are the dreams burned into your memory that fade with the dawn.  

Find a dark place, a carvern, a cave, a dark forest, whatever it is.  Find the stairs down.  Down, down, down.  Follow them, never forgetting that you are alive and must return.  Make sure you return.  Follow the steps to the bottom and explore the Underworld realms.  Speak, dance, laugh, reminisce.  Do not eat.  Do not drink.  Do not.  You must come back.  Follow the light and the pulsing of your heartbeat back to the surface, back to your body.  You are home.