Staying connected in the age of Covid-19

22/3/2020

Due to the need for social distancing during this time, we will not host our Shamanic Drum Circle in person for the months of April and May.

To stay connected and continue the work our society and our planet needs, we will post a journey on the first Wednesday of the month so we can journey from the safety of our own homes. We can connect in spirit by journeying at 6:30 p.m. If that's not possible for you, please journey on your own, when your schedule allows.

When you return safely from your journey to Ordinary Reality, please share your experience in the comments below. If you prefer not to share, just type PASS in the comment field. It would be nice to know how many of us participate!

APRIL 2020 JOURNEY: Please read instructions above.

Tonight we are going deeper into surrender.

Forgive them, even when they are not sorry.
Let them be right, if that's what they need.
Send them love and send them off.
Don't tie yourself to small-mindedness, it will steal your well-being.

Denise Levatoff said "To speak of sorrow moves it from it's crouched place barring the way to the soul's hall."

Your sorrow unexpressed, kept paved over, blocks the way to your soul.

Give voice to that grief, to validate it and to let it speak to you. Let it crack open your heart and in those cracks, let the light shine through to reveal a generous and caring heart, to see your courage.

In the speaking of your grief, outrage and sorrow, when you speak the sorrow, possibly...look to see that the sorrow you speak....when you look at our world today....possibly, that sorrow is bigger than you. This thought does not in any way diminish your personal sorrow. wondering, wondering if some of the sorrow in the world is the sorrow of others? The sorrow of refugees, burnt land, homeless animals, the sick and dying...all the images and reports we receive into our hearts.You perhaps are speaking your sorrow and the sorrow of others. Once you open the door to your grief, outrage and sorrow...there is the world, right there. For we are of the world, we are nature and then you are in a terrain the exceeds your previous notions of your delimited self.

The journey tonight is one where you and your power animal, or teacher will journey into the lower or upper world to find your grief, rage and sorrow. To sit with it and through your power animal or teacher - have a conversation in the language of love & light for understanding and forgiveness. Then, in agreement with permission, transmute your grief, outrage and sorrow into light.
If you do not reach a place of agreement and permission and readiness for transmuting, that is okay, this reflects the need for more understanding. More conversation.

9 Comments

Tanja Anselm-Cooke

1/4/2020 10:37:57 am

So glad there is a sister/brother-hood of you all. To have this time, uninterrupted, to go inward and bring my Self to a place where I can emerge into whatever this new world is becoming as whole is precious.

Amy

1/4/2020 12:17:03 pm

Hi friends! I have time now, none later so here is mine.
So I had both my guide and my spirit animal with me on this journey not really sure anymore where I am in the upper or lower world. They seem to be always with me now and I just kind of part a veil and I can talk to them, if that makes sense. I don’t necessarily go anywhere anymore, we’re in a cave or we’re in like this beautiful park like setting with a beautiful healing pond that I swim in with a giant whale, things like that. But I think it’s always the same place.
Anyway so I’m supposed to talk with my grief rage and sorrow which there’s a lot of and I knew it was gonna be big. At first I saw it is like this giant volcano which I’ve seen before, it’s my anger. But next to the volcano was like a rainstorm, depression that’s my depression. There is anger and depression and a ton of sorrow.
They said all of it comes from things that I don’t except as they are. Like God took my aunt, like I want my kids to not be going through what they’re going through right now, like of what I had to go through to be where I am now, because I think I know better than God’s plan. Everything is God‘s plan and not mine and I’m just not excepting things as they are. Like a spoiled two year old I have tantrums when I don’t get my own way, which I don’t know what’s best anyway! Why don’t I trust God? Or the universe or whatever?
Then I felt pain. It was pain and pressure and panic and it was how like a physical manifestation of the sorrow and the rage and the grief.
It was a headache and a panic, I’m telling you I physically felt rage sorrow and I was sobbing and panicking (good thing I was here lol) and only thing that I could think of was where is the love where is the love? I couldn’t find the love and I panicked more. I knew where I was supposed to go, that I was supposed to transmute so I tried to calm myself down and center and realize that was I just was in the pain in the rage in the sorrow. I was feeling it and it does affect me physically like that and it’s all over my body and it gives me headaches and I don’t want it anymore.
I mean it was such an attack that I was like take it take it take it take it, I was ready to be rid of it. But then I paused again it’s another thing coming off me, it’s like a blanket coming off and I am naked underneath strip down to nothing (I said to Grey Fawn Jesus! Because that was something! She said, It’s like rocks being polished, to the rock, it’s painful and strips you bare but in the end you are better than before). But it was so uncomfortable that feeling naked was better than holding on to it.
I let it go. Maybe gave it up is the better way to say it, it’s been with me so long, my grief rage and sorrow are my companions.
I did it and it was lifted and it was amazing oh my God wow!
I had a vision of my rage grief and sorrow being like a Sesame Street monster puppet sitting at the table with me when it was over.
It took it took a lot from me. I started breathing in and out transmuting all that into good things, into the world. When I do healing, it just goes down a hole, that’s where my guides direct me to put it. I think I must be in the upper world and it goes down into the middle world or something or just maybe goes into the earth but it just always goes down a hole. It started as my breathing the pain transmuting it to good as I breath out. It’s done this before where the goodness, healing and transmutation transfers into this purple glow like a purple crystal. I just glow light purple and I hold hands with Grey Fawn and Z and we all just glowed purple transmuting. I think some of it went up into the sky, most of it went down into the hole were supposed to go and then I just felt calmer. I transferred some of the purple light to my children through the umbilical cords that I know are still there connected. I hope they can use some of it. I really feel calmer and better. Great journey, thank you. Virtual hugs!!

Laura

1/4/2020 07:10:02 pm

Thank you for still doing a virtual group. I tried to reach out and feel connected to everyone, even in our time of isolation, the drum was a pleasure to hear.

This was my first journey alone. I was definitely worried I'd do something wrong and noticed that I kept one foot in this reality. My cat curled up on the pillow by my head. That was nice.

I went to the lower world by a new path. I had actually started down a different path but my power animal appeared and suggested we go a different route. We went past a large rock and down a ridge then climbed down a ladder to a cave. I met Wolf and Rabbit there along with my power animal. I looked up and saw the sun far above. Something about a third eye maybe? I was having trouble settling and my power animal suggested I follow the advice I was given on a walk last week and just listen. So I listened, or tried, it was a struggle. My animal guide took me to "the first sorrow". For a second I thought it was going Biblical but then I saw a woman leaning over a bed crying. It was when my Babka (grandmother) died. I was very young. There were other flashes, the coffin being carried and the cemetery and how we never talk of it, but I saw something a white bird maybe, i might have seen it the day she was buried too. I'm not sure.

I asked to speak with the sorrow/grief and saw a woman's face while she was eating soup. I don't know what she said but it felt calm.

I had to return shortly afterwards and left.

I'm not sure, things were a bit muddled early on, but I think that was the gist of it. I often wonder how my Babka's death when I was young effected a lot of things in my life. My family doesn't really talk about the people we lost and so it's always interesting to me to realize that i know I have sorrow and grief from before I understood what they were and why.

Beth

1/4/2020 07:12:34 pm

I traveled with my power animals to the upper world and we met with my Spirit Guide. Asked for support from my Power Animals. I am afraid. Their support is reassuring. Asked help in finding my way from my Spirit Guide. Overwhelmed by the large number of attachments, cords. The grief, rage, feeling of betrayal. Painful. Need to detach. Need to cut cords. Need to scrape away attachments. Need to let go. Love - need to let go. My sons. Family. Employer. Friends. The Universe. Trust all are doing what needs to be done. The Universe. Most painful betrayal. Bringing pain to all during this time of Worldwide crisis. An umbilical cord. My umbilical cord. Much pain to release. Left free floating. Naked. Alone. Floating alone. Then came the warmth and light and my Spirit Guide. Gratitude. Return.

Cynthia

1/4/2020 07:23:34 pm

Journeyed to my sorrow, grief and rage. We all sat together, (Turtle, Snake and Wolf) discussing this new chapter in my life of this ancient, yet very present awareness. Unfinished is this story and yet I want to be done with it, after all these centuries. Resolve or let me go.
Then Buffalo and my teacher appeared, I was inside his teepee, it was night, the fire was casting images on the walls of various scenarios around the world. So many hearts anguishing and my sorrow merged with theirs. Collectively we breathed together, breathed in our grief & sorrow, breathed out light and love. We let go and flew through the flames out into the night.

Lena Sweet

2/4/2020 06:37:19 pm

Wow!
Snow Leopard began walking with me. We came to a bottomless hole. It was swirling darkness. It was terrible feeling. We looked in it and could hear taste smell feel it sorrow grief and fear. We bowed down together on the outside lip of the pit and asked for help from Water. A stream began to flow into the pit. Snow leopard and I remained bowed to the water and our third eye was sparkling in to the water. It was flowing into the pit and filling it up. There were things in there that were getting submerged and their essence was changing they were floating and moving. Even as we rested by the stream of water our minds eye was blessing it.
This is such a great idea! I would love it if we continued to be able to access the journey like this again. Thanks!!!

Jane

2/4/2020 11:04:34 pm

My healing spirit joined me for the journey. From the beginning, love and protection surrounded me. I surrendered to the sorrow, feeling the sadness buried deep within. Waiting to awake.
Waves of energy rippled back so soothing. Feeling the wave and accepting. Offering love and light to the universe.
Elk stepped into the path, felt the herds power. Felt a rush of anxiety and urgency flood into my chest. The wave intensified and gradually released.
I continued on the path, Bear appeared by my side we walked through a soft meadow in silence.
Calm. Warm yellow glow and mountains in the distance. A second wave of sadness. So many are crying, deeply afraid. Felt the calmness in the rush. Move on together and lift upward.

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