Greetings ,
Rain has invaded our consciousness! With 14 inches falling in two weeks, after our very long drought in California, we're thrilled. And relieved, excited, and anxious.
My house was flooded when I was in 7th grade. My most vivid memory is of wading through waist-high water, up to the road, carrying our Cocker Spaniel and a big cage with my little brother's guinea pig. My mother had had the good sense to get the car out of the garage and onto higher ground. We evacuated to an old friend's home for at least two weeks. The good news was that we were renters so the landlord had to clean up the muck. The not-so good news was that everything in the
garage was ruined (including my mother's wedding suit, which I'd never seen her wear). It wasn't until many years later that I discovered the anxious memories in my body. As I
listened to the boulders rolling down a creek and watched the waters rise, I became aware of the anxiety-behind-the-excitement over potential flooding. Those feelings give me a sense of what others are experiencing. They fill me with compassion for all those whose creeks and rivers flood, whose hills turn into mudslides, whose trees crash into their homes. The Shamanic Connections You may be wondering what the shamanic connection is. We are made of the elements. With our bodies about 70% water, rain offers us the opportunity to consciously connect our insides with the outside. Shamanism is about stepping between the worlds. You can draw on your own experience, observations, and listening to the elements to go deeper, understand how everything's related, and find the internal fluidity to stay in balance no matter what happens. Where I live, mushrooms are sprouting everywhere. We're watching the dirt lump and rise for days until the fungus pops up. In our yards we're seeing varieties we haven't seen before. We're
harvesting Chanterelles and Lion's Mane, two wonderful edible varieties. Most important. the fungal mat and mycelial network that connect trees and plants underground are showing us just how widespread they are, making visible what we don't usually see. What a gift! One night
when winds and rain were particularly fierce—the pounding, banging, and wailing waking me constantly—I apparently fell into an altered state of awareness. The wind and rain became a part of me, or me of them. I didn't fully understand this till the next morning, when I was driving to an appointment. I realized that I really had to pay attention to where I was and what I was doing. My psyche was still in that altered fierce storm state, not really present. Seeing the bigger picture—the ways creation and destruction emerge from wild weather patterns—can take you out of your personal worries into awareness of the larger whole. Water changing a creek's trajectory or slumping a hillside and reshaping the landscape makes evident its power. As does a tornado flattening all in its path or lava spewing out of a volcano. The power to destroy contains the power to create. So the volcano goddess Pele in Hawaii is given offerings to keep her calm and happy; if she erupts, natives know that they haven't maintained balance and
reciprocity. This is the basis of all indigenous understanding, and those of us who follow these ways are honored to take responsibility and offer ceremonies for balance and harmony.
Which brings us back to the foundation: shamanism is about seeing from your heart. It means understanding Earth changes with your whole being, your essence, rather than just your mind. It means seeing beyond the ordinary and into the mystery. It means living from your heart and being a heart-guided person, as my friend Ilarion Merculieff says. As we struggle to step out of despair and back into active hope, over and over in these wild times, our hearts are key. Ingesting the Waters of the
World For many years I've collected
waters from sacred springs, holy places, and water sources around the world. I use the water in ceremonies as a way to weave our connections, and to gift the memory, intent, and healing contained in the water molecules to other bodies of water. So a while ago I thought: why not drink the rainwater from my rain gauge rather than just emptying it? It's a wonderful practice: the water tastes fresh and clean. It has traveled around the world, or at least across the ocean, in the rainclouds. When I swallow it, I am ingesting all the connections, all the places the water has
come from, all the wisdom it carries. This helps me feel a part of the whole in yet one more small way. But you don't need a rain gauge. You can place a clean bowl outside to catch the rainwater, and ceremoniously drink it or offer it to the earth. You can use it for scrying. You can save it to use in your ceremonies or to water your plants. However you interact with the water, your experience will change. Instead of watching the rain go by, you will bring it into your life, your consciousness, and your
awareness of how we—all beings—are connected. Heal Your Soul, Lighten Your Spirit If you are looking for soul and spirit healing, moving away from stress and anxiety, or finding your life purpose, make an appointment! I will help you come back to life and re-inspire yourself using shamanic and energy healing. I will help you find your wholeness and learn to interpret and integrate your mystical experiences.
We can meet in person in Sonoma—in my sacred medicine wheel or healing space— or remotely on Zoom. Make an
appointment here Hints for dampening your stress on your own: walk, meditate, breathe consciously, connect with a tree, limit your doses of social media. Gift your dense, heavy feelings back to the earth, and fill with light. Honor your heart's wisdom. Blog Wisdom: Explore More Everything is just energy in this beautiful universe. Quantum physicists tell us this; indigenous people live it. Your medicine body—your luminous body and energy bubble—is in constant interaction with all living beings, including the elements... Read
More... Because you are interwoven within this beautiful universe, you can find source energy to tap into everywhere. Source energy can come from the magma at the center of the earth... Read
More... The more we contract, the smaller we get, the harder it is to breathe. To feel confident. To believe in ourselves. To make change. The contracting emotions of fear, anxiety... Read More... Resources to Open Your Heart, Clear Your Energy,
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Meg Beeler—Author, Shamanic Guide, and Spiritual Mentor—helps you heal your spirit and find your luminous presence through mentoring, training, healing, and community ceremony. She is a lifelong explorer of shamanic, animist, and meditative consciousness who practices Earth-centered, nature-based, ancient wisdom ways, and studied Andean mysticism extensively with the Q’ero in Peru. Meg is the creator of Energy Alchemy™ & founder of Earth
Caretakers Wisdom School. Author of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energy, she is a contributing author and photographer to Where the World
Begins: Sonoma Mountain Story and Image. Meg lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. megbeeler.com.
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