Templates

I just spent an amazing week with a wonderful Middle World shamanic teacher from Seattle.  My husband came with me for this one, and I was so glad :-)  So many amazing shamanic colleagues from around the world were there to be in circle with us, and I was so glad to be able to share his enormous heart with my dearest shamanic friends.

We were exploring mediumship with our ancestors, and using an ancient technology called Seidr to do it. This is written about in the Icelandic sagas, specifically in chapter 4 of the Saga of Eirik the Red. For those of us with Northern European ancestry, this is an ancestral practice which speaks to our blood. The first time I returned to myself from sitting on High Seat last year, staff in hand, I thought, "I've been doing this for a thousand years".  Apparently I really have.

This week, I saw again and again the templates that we create with our thoughts, the ways in which we inhibit ourselves by narrowing our possibilities.  When one sits on the High Seat and sees through the eyes of the volva, the seer. As each seeker came before us three on the High Seat, as the answers formed, I could see how we think a reality into existence that is so much smaller than the reality that is possible for us; we carve a narrow way with them, when a beautiful, broad avenue is available to us if we want it to be. The templates that we "think out" ahead of ourselves are the spaces into which we create our world.  Make them big!  Make them roomy; large enough for your own dreams and with some extra capacity for the dreams of spirit to fill in, as well.

The spirits have enormous love and compassion for us.  They want us to succeed and to unfold in a beautiful way, to meet the purpose that we have crafted for ourselves in this life, in these bodies head-on.