Fall Equinox & Harvest Moon Practice

The Fall Equinox is Wednesday, September 22nd at 10:08PM CDT. Six hours later is the Harvest Full Moon, Thursday the 23rd, at 4:17PM CDT. With the combination of the equinox and the full moon in such close proximity, we have a beautiful opportunity to align with nature to create from our higher selves.

We can come into rhythm with nature by observing its cycles and applying its symbolism to our lives. Solstices and equinoxes, new and full moons, are symbolically rich and potent times for setting intentions and coming into balance and harmony with nature. By doing so we are able to utilize nature's energy toward consciously manifesting reality.

The Autumn Equinox is a balance point, a pregnant pause where the light (day) and dark (night) are of equal duration. In Western astrology, the Autumn Equinox marks the entry into the sign of Libra whose symbol is the scales of life. This a powerful time to weigh the differing qualities of one's life to invite balance and wholeness. The Equinox is also the threshold between the expansive and externally oriented summer to autumn, where nature releases and begins to turn within.

On September 22nd or 23rd, set aside some time to honor and work with the Equinox and Harvest moon with the following practice:

Take stock of what you’ve been putting energy into creating, consciously or unconsciously, over the spring and summer cycle. Is anything now ripe for harvesting? Sometimes it’s easy to get so caught up in the work of growing that we neglect the harvest. Take a moment to acknowledge your good work and experience its benefits, receive the fruits of your labor with gratitude.

The time of the harvest not only includes the work of reaping, it also includes decisions about how to best utilize the newly available resources of your harvest. Take an inventory of the internal and external resources that are best utilized now and what can and should be prepared and stored (for the winter months ahead).

Next, consider what is ready to be released-- old ways of thinking or reacting, habits, relationships, career choices, health issues? Visualize yourself gathering, like the remnants of a garden or autumn leaves, those things you are ready and willing to release. Imagine placing them into a compost bin or a fire. With gratitude, ask the Earth or the fire to transform them, freeing up the energy to put toward the new. Better yet, if you have the opportunity, write the items down on a piece of paper and compost or burn them in your own little ritual of release.

Finally, allow yourself to resonate with and experience gratitude for several minutes or more. Count your blessings, be grateful for nature and her symbolism guiding the way, be grateful for all you’ve sown, grown, harvested, learned, released and healed and for all the creative potential that lies ahead in the coming cycle. Allow this gratitude to open and fan the flames of your heart. With an open heart, contemplate, receive or experience your heart’s truest desires, the seeds to be planted in the coming cycle. The heart’s desires are different from the personality’s desires, they stem from the higher-self, a place of source and essence. Through intending to create the heart's desires we co-create with spirit. The result is a more beautiful, harmonious, joy-filled reality that contributes to the greater good of all.

May your harvest be abundant and your heart dream well!

Blessings,
Tammy

www.BroadcastSol.com

September New Moon

Times are intensifying and we’re in for some radical shifts in consciousness. What seems stable and reliable one day can dissolve and vanish the next. Take nothing for granted. Definitions of stability and security will be stretched and are up for re-interpretation. You may experience mood swings, erratic dips in vitality, feel altered and ungrounded. Simultaneously, there’s a powerful moving centered quality that encourages us to make choices, take action, dissolve confining structures and expand through dynamic creativity. This is the spiritual awakening so many traditions have prophesied and it’s here. It’s Now. Truly, a miraculous time to be alive!

An alarm is sounding. A deep, loving and primal intelligence is being broadcast from the core of Mother Earth, inspiring us to re-dream our world anew. The depths of the human spirit is blossoming and awakening from a long slumber. Yet many continue to hit the snooze button. This is the dichotomy we face as the seduction of our modern culture collides with the deeper yearnings of the intuitive heart. Do we have the courage to answer the calling of our hearts and become peaceful stewards for the planet? Or do we continue to consume, pollute and destroy our home through our addiction to being asleep and unconscious of our creations? Do we receive the parameters for our experience from the immaturity of our culture or do we broadcast our divinity from our hearts and project out to inspire others to do the same?

We are engaged in the process of ascension. Ascension is a term that describes the maturation of consciousness as we channel our primal energies (Kundalini) up the spinal column to awaken and empower the higher capacities of our divinity. This is occurring both on a deeply personal level within our own bodies and on a collective level with the diverse lifeforms and energy systems of the planet. It’s a process of birth and initiation. Ultimately, to qualify as a steward we must each journey inward to explore our darkness and deepest fears in order to know the true brilliance of our light.

Luckily, we are not alone on this inner journey. We are surrounded by support. Each of us is interconnected through a quantum web of intelligence, a living library that responds and molds to our intentions. As we awaken and ascend, call out to that vast intelligence. Connect to your ancestors, your guides, your totems, the spiritual masters, the heavenly bodies of the sun, moon, planets and stars. Immerse yourself in nature, listen and receive the teachings of the plants, animals, insects and elementals. Harmonize and heal. Trust your body and give it proper rest, nourishment and exercise. Seek out qualified teachers and healers that can help you when your karma intensifies. Remember, we are all in this together. 

A very potent New Moon arrives this Wednesday, Sept. 8th, at 5:30AM CDT. New Moons are opportunities to reset our internal compass and set clear intentions for positive change. Create a sacred space free of distractions. Be present and ground through some deep breathing. With sincere willingness, examine your life and take responsibility for your reality. Identify your power leaks, your ambivalence, your limited thinking and beliefs and your addictions. Then shift your identification to your inner essence, the Spirit within. This is easiest done by focusing on the heart chakra and coming into resonance with gratitude and appreciation for life. Chanting or singing several I AMs also efficiently opens this portal. From that place of essence, invoke your allies and support system and direct the energy to appropriately destroy the patterns and stuck energies of your karma. Do not rush this process, stay vigilant and be thorough.

Once complete, direct your essence and your allies to fill you with vast abundance, creative light, happiness, playful expansion and coherent intelligence. This is the essence of who you are. You are worthy; receive and accept your birthright! Once you feel complete with this process thank your allies and helpers. Then get practical. Write down and make an action plan of mundane tasks that further demonstrates your commitment to anchor and live an awake and empowered life. Be ruthless with any and all interference patterns that arise as you embark to manifest these tasks. Follow through until you complete them all.

Tammy and I commend you on the courage and willingness to evolve yourself and this beautiful world. May every moment be a powerful blessing and inspiration to all. Please do reach out if you need assistance, insight and/or healing. We would be honored to be of service.   

From the highest in me to the highest in you,
Deva


www.BroadcastSol.com

What is Shamanic Healing? Can it treat chronic pain?

A friend recently mentioned that his wife has chronic pain in one of her wrists and asked if this something that could be treated with a Shamanic Healing. My general response follows: 

Shamanic Healing really works on the psycho-spiritual aspect that's at the source of whatever is causing symptoms, rather than treating symptoms themselves. So, something like acute or chronic pain may or may not be relieved during a session, depending on where the person is in their process and if they're in the right space to release or shift whatever is at the source of the pain. Often, you might get insight into the source of the pain, which you then work on over time to heal. For instance, I have Celiac Disease/ gluten intolerance, which I have discovered, for me personally, has to do with a combination of setting appropriate boundaries, claiming/using my personal power and learning to receive and be nourished (worthiness). It is taking me several years to sort through this because apparently I have a lot to learn from it. It's been a growth inducing experience and I am much healthier and stronger  than I was since I began working with Shamanic Medicine to help heal the issue, although there is more work to do. This one is like peeling an onion and sometimes that's how it goes. That said, sometimes spontaneous healing occurs & is fully possible, I've seen it happen & have personally experienced immediate relief from things like migraines. Following is my recent attempt to explain Shamanic Healing. See if it resonates with your wife as far as a treatment goes. We would love to help if she is open to this approach.

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Shamanic healing strives to create and preserve inner and outer balance and harmony and can be applied to the individual, community, nature, the world at large and beyond.

Shamanic medicine is a tradition dating back some 25,000 years. In simple terms, the basic perspective shamanic healing assumes is that external reality, the material world, is a symbolic manifestation of the inner world, also referred to as consciousness or spirit. Furthermore, everything that exists is consciousness, is vibration, is energy, is imbued with it's own innate intelligence and unique gifts, often referred to as medicine. Simultaneously, everything that exists is interconnected, forming a web of life where even the smallest, most individuated part influences the whole and vice versa.

In this web of life, human consciousness is uniquely individuated with capacity for abstraction, reflection, memory and other complex physical, emotion and thought processes. As we mature, our essential nature often becomes clouded or distorted by our individual life experiences, familial and cultural imprinting. These internal distortions of our essential nature tend to manifest as physical health issues, mental or emotional suffering.

Shamanic practitioners work with a variety of tools and techniques to identify and address the obstacles, imbalances and distortions at the core of suffering, with healing intent to restore one to their fullest expression of essential truth and authentic power.  A Shamanic Healing session typically lasts from 1/2 an hour to an hour and may include the use of song and other sound instruments to move and transform energy, shamanic prayer (co-creative direction of the spirit world, also referred to the quantum field of consciousness), plant, herb, mineral and animal spirit medicine, visualization, soul retrieval, extraction, hands on healing or physical body manipulation.


Blessings,
Tammy

www.BroadcastSol.com