Shamanic Dreaming- Bring: Shamanic tape, tape recorder, rattle, essential oil spray.
Updating with your Shamanic Guide
At the beginning of our dream course we spent two days exploring dream animals and spirits that could help us on our dream journey. We have done much since then but have not formally checked in to see how our inner dream guide is doing and get updated advice about our dream symbols and dream life. it is important to remember that the portal of dreaming is not so different from journeying. Both portals lead us somewhere deep where we may obtain a different quality of information than in our waking life.
Like dreams, journeys range in intensity from some being very deep and profound, to some being lighter.
Remember you may re-meet a dream being in journey state.
Reiterate- Go to an opening that exists naturally in the world- a tree, whirling water- somewhere where you can enter into the upper or lower worlds.
Decide on a question or theme before you go. Ask questions around your dreaming- how to dream more, how to work with clients, how to understand a particular dream, tips for dream workers in general.
If your plan is to connect with your animal guide go to the lower world. If you are looking for, or wish to reconnect with a spirit guide you may be more drawn to the upper world.
You will hear drumming on your journey, which will last for about a half hour. Try to resist falling asleep. When you are being called back there will be four sharp drum beats and then faster drumming.
When you get back, record your journey in your journal and we will share later.
Shamanic-
Purify with spray
Find some way to cover your eyes, a pillow, a journal, a pen.
Previously we have visited the lower world, which is the richest journey location in many ways, and it was here you looked for your plant spirit guide.
Today we will be visiting some other locations, but if you find yourself in the lower world with your plant spirit guide, that is good.
Smudge:
Call in the Four Directions:
4 sharp rattles facing east.
We call in the spirit of the EAST.
Qualities of Spring, Hope, Seedlings, New Possibilities, Element of
Air, New Dawn, Clarity, Purpose, Excitement, Vision.
Be with us here, guide us, help us in our healing.
Call in the qualities of the spirit of the SOUTH
Energy, High Noon, Summer, Fire, Passion, Action, Blossoming,
Growth, Development, Full Blown Manifestation,
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We call in the qualities and the spirits of the WEST.
Setting Sun, Fall, Element of Water, Intuition. Deep emotion, Dream State, Closure, Knowing how to let go of that which no
longer serves you. Letting go of the old to make room for the new.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We Call in qualities and spirits of the NORTH.
Winter, Night, Hibernation, Earth, Ancestors, Wisdom, Reflection,
Sorting and deciding which seeds to plant in the spring,
practicality, preparing for rebirth, depth. Persephone, Hecate.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We Call in the qualities and spirits of the SKY.
Expansion, possibilities, vastness
THE SUN
Warmth, heat, regeneration,
THE MOON
Feminine rhythms, ancient stirrings, intuitive knowledge,
sisterhood.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We call in the qualities and spirits of MOTHER EARTH
Grounding, fertility, connection. She who supports us, cradles us
and nurtures us. Demeter, Terra,
Be with us here today, guide us, help us in our healing.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We call in the qualities and spirits of the CENTER
May we be centered. May we be present to ourselves and others. May our egos dissolve and only the guides who represent our highest good be present. May we remember our true identities and be able to feel our unique purpose and be open to receive.
May we also release the people we hold or dominate for our own purpose. As we give others freedom, so shall we give this gift to
ourselves.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
We call in the qualities and the spirits of the UNIVERSE
May the negative energy we extract be taken and transformed and used in the highest way possible. May we understand and feel our
connection to the universal soul.
May the fleck of us that is thou shine brightly. May we remember
our infinite Soul, and know this time on earth is fleeting.
May we live the highest form of our purpose.
Be With Us Here, Guide us help us in our healing.
Journal
Sacred Sharing Circle
Water World
The first place we will visit is the water world. For me, it is just above the lower world. It is watery and full of amazing sea creature guides and sea plants.
Before we begin to remember to think of an opening in the ground that actually exists, a tree root, water, such as a lake, or well. You will travel down this hole as far as you can go. Follow a tunnel to get to Water World. Instinctively you should be able to find it. If you find somewhere else that is o.k.
Have a question in your mind before you go that you wish to be answered. Because you are so close to ending the program, you might wish to ask for guidance in your journeys today about your next steps with Plant Spirit Medicine, career-wise, or lifestyle tips. Or any other issue that is pressing at this time.
Remember to find a guide that feels right. If it is creepy and not right, just move on. Ask your guide the question and see what happens.
Ask your guide its name. Remember it may speak telepathically, and you will just know the answer.
When you hear 4 drum beats close together you will be returning to ordinary reality. When you come back to write your journey. Do not bring anything from Waterworld back with you. Thank your helpers before you leave.
We will first call in the four directions.
Middle World
There is another Shamanic Dimension called the Middle World. It is a place most similar to ordinary reality. It is used in the journey state when people are working out issues with others in daily life. People generally show up in a reasonable and high state in these discussions, ego is not in the way.
You can chat with someone in non-ordinary reality, always in a respectful way, and see if there can be an agreement made, or a resolution, that feels awkward or not possible in ordinary reality.
Guides can take on many forms here, often rather human looking.
Then see if the person or situation shifts at all in ordinary reality. Sometimes it paves the way for an easier discussion, or sometimes the actual discussion resolves in various ways and becomes unnecessary.
Upper World
It is here we go for meeting guides that often know our soul plan. They might be guides that help us frequently on the other side. They are often angelic, or rather refined, but sometimes just old and wise. We ask questions about the big picture of our lives here. There can be a feeling of seriousness, serenity and wisdom in the Upper world. We find it by travelling upward, into the sky realm.