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Ancestor Season

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Ancestor season is now. So many cultures find the veils to be thin between the land of living and those gone from Earth in this season. From the roots of Halloween in Europe to Mexican Day of the Dead to Hindu Pitru Paksha – all are about honoring those who have died before us, especially our beloved ancestors.

We can remember them.

One simple way is to make an Ancestor Altar. With photos, objects reminiscent of them, even their favorite foods and drinks, we can create space to remember.

We can honor them.

One tradition is to deck their graves with flowers and decorations. Another is to contribute or work for a charity in their name. And certainly we may send our best love and wishes to them, to sustain them in the Other World they are now in.

We can commune with them.

Whether you might use a Ouiji board or go on a shamanic inner journey to the land of the dead, you can still contact you ancestors , now in spirit form. They may give you a sign, showing up symbolically to you in the form of an animal, a rainbow, or finding a coin like those they often gave you when you were a child. Your love for them is a pathway between you.

However you choose to relate to your ancestors, this is the prime time for it. Know that you are the result of hundreds and hundreds of ancestors, known and unknown. And they can be there for you now.

For more about Shamanic Journeying contact Terra.

OWNING THE FEMININE SHADOW

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Owning the Feminine Shadow Workshop with Jyoti Wind

What is the shadow and how does it show up in our lives? In this lecture ( Part 1) we explore how the shadow lives in us, how other people can see our blind side, and how we can claim it.

Part 2 is experiential. We will explore our inner worlds to the place of the shadow through a guided journey experience. (No journey experience needed)

Based on the myth of Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of Heaven and Earth, we will journey into the depths of our own unclaimed parts and emerge whole.

We will invoke Inanna’s blessing and protection, celebrating the merging of the Dark and the Light..

RESCINDING VOWS

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Workshop with Jyoti Wind

Rescinding (canceling, nullifying, abolishing) our vows allows us to examine them and cut the cords and free ourselves.

We are setting in motion a more expansive future.

What binds you? What vows have you made to yourself? What things have you promised yourself you would or wouldn’t ever do?

Vows to another? Where have you outgrown bonds to others/or they to you?

FREEING OURSELVES – Ritual of Self-Forgiveness

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Freeing Ourselves: A Ritual of Self-Forgiveness with Jyoti Wind

In that deep place in our hearts, can we forgive those places where we have harbored guilt,given it a safe haven, and continued with our own self-uncaringness.

One by one,as we let go of the stories that we carry about ourselves, we can let go of guilt, blame and unforgiveness.

You can work with your own inner process.

“Nothing takes the place of forgiveness.
Because the energy of forgiveness always comes before change. Any time anyone has ever changed anything of substance about themselves – the energy of forgiveness was there to lead the way. Whether they realized it or not, they felt the energy of forgiveness, and something inside was forgiven before the change could even occur.
Either they got lucky and stumbled onto the energy of forgiveness, or else they took the time to consciously and sincerely forgive themselves.”

– Dolores Huerta

RECLAMATION MEDITATION for Reclaiming Parts of Yourself

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Reclamation Meditation by Jyoti Wind

We all lose parts of ourselves through different life interactions. This meditation will help you reclaim them. An alternative to having soul retrieval done by someone else.  9:01

When we have emotional attachments, in our relationships with other people, we give some of our energy to that other person.

In a romantic relationship, we, poetically, give a piece of our heart to that other being. If a break-up happens, we need to reclaim that ‘piece of our heart’ from that other person, so that we can be more complete within ourselves.

When we have been mistreated, humiliated, embarrassed, abused, we lose parts of our energy. We are reduced to feeling ‘less than.’

In order to feel complete, to be in our power for the decisions life will ask of us, we need to have all of our pieces back. We need to reclaim ourselves, so that we are whole wherever we stand on the planet.

Whether through a shamanic journey or a meditation, reclaiming our pieces back, is an act of empowerment and we become whole.