Return from a Shamanic Journey

Through space and time, I returned to myself holding and allowing new principles and deep guidance.

I am guided to work with my family and the medicine people up North and to be open and giving with my gifts even in the face of fear and rejection for I have nothing to lose and everything if I do nothing.

I know that I will be journeying again today as I have done with my teacher Thaddeus in the past and then again on the next day with my friend Lisa (all shaman people and good hearted ones). And earlier tonight, I journeyed with my teacher and my ancestors and I heard their voices. Now I know that I am not alone. Just like in Avatar the movie, our souls live on in Gaia (earth mother) and can be returned to her.

My teacher Leah Tenderfoot taught me the practice the channels and the ritual of the medicine wheel. Her spirit was with me in my journey, as I was considering the ghosts from my partners/lovers, from friends, and from the Old Town Ghost Hunt http://www.meetup.com/sacredspiral

I remember the Medicine Wheel perfectly and now I also realize what I am doing at the nursing home (place where I work and teach Yoga): I am collecting lost spirits to show them the way and to let them cross over. Every now and then, I open a wheel in my bedroom or wherever I am asked to and cross these spirits. Usually I can cross them one at a time if they are polite and ask for it and especially in dreams.

I believe my friends Georgia and Wen have these similar powers and I was shown that my friend Jacob deserved initiations and a cloak...and can complete the shamanic staff that I walk with.

I see into you and with clarity I know that you have incarnated (or passed over) in my life for a reason...and soon, very soon I will guide you and heal you and all of our relations.

To my ancestors and to relatives, I leave offerings of fine medicine, frankincense, blood, and copal. May our lives be rich together and may Gaia and the souls of the World Tree show us truth and love in divine time.

To my friends and spiritual family (those who chose to be with me without blood ties that we are aware of), I love you and I honor you with my drum, with the rattle , with the Feathers, with the Plants and the Fungus, and with the energy passed to me by God and My Teachers.

Namaste to All That Is

T. R. Hughes
Order of the Sacred Spiral
Waking Within

I am that I AM

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