Author: A Solitary Pagan

The shaman, as the sole mediator between humanity and the universe of spirits and omens, originated in the very early stages of human cultural development. The hunter-gatherer stage of society endured for hundreds of thousands of years. As societies began to move towards settled agriculture (this being only about 10,000 years ago) then the shamans began to differentiate into a developing priesthoo...

We cannot dismiss shamanism as having any relevance to modern society. Obviously, it does, but this very much depends on how you approach it. In an age where most information is transmitted via print or electronics, the value of adopting shamanic techniques lies in recovering knowledge from within and also in relating with other people. Ecstasy can be freed from the purely private domain and retur...

Raido is the rune of the cartwheel, the rune of movement, of locomotion, a rune linked to all forms of transport, Our journey on earth, and our inner journey. Raido in a normal position invites us to continue our journey and talks about travels, astral, and physical. Transformations. Spiritually it tells us about our internal compass, it is a rune of cyclical movement, it speaks of the travels and...

You can purchase or make your own set of runes for divination. To make yourown, you need a set of 25 objects. These may be painted runes on pebbles, wood, tilesquares, or engraved on crystals or metal. The stones are the easiest.Keep your runes inside a cloth bag, and consecrate them to your use as you wouldwith any other tool. (Described in the Full Moon Esbat ceremony notes) When you’renot using...

Think of the best case scenarios. Imagine possibilities. You’re constantly imagining. Visualize what you want and believe that things have officially shifted in your favor. Imagine you have arrived. You are now living your dream. Your vision has manifested. How would you feel? This is such an important feeling to allow to thrive within you. Let that thought of your success and accomplishment of yo...

“You don’t have to be what other people want you to be. You don’t have to be interesting or agreeable or entertaining. You don’t have to tone yourself down, quiet your voice, or hide your feelings. You don’t have to be outgoing or spontaneous or sociable. You don’t have to be thin or beautiful or anyone’s definition of attractive. You don’t have to be anyone other than who you authentically are, a...

Trust in your own senses, sensings, thoughts, and feelings. As you seek to awaken, to seek and to serve, listen, and look for the resonances that tell you that you are on the path that is for you. Once you start looking for resonance, you will find that the creation is full of information for you. The more that you practice listening, the more that you can hear the voices that are speaking to you ...

I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..“I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters.I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me…I stopped fighting with my in laws…I stopped fighting for attention…I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me…I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate peop...

I choose to be hopeful about what comes next. I’m going to keep speaking great things into existence for October. I know how powerful my mind is. I know how powerful my words and what I believe in are. I’m going to start attracting everything I want, by becoming what I ask for. Change starts with me. If I am not happy, I have to do something about it. I know that I am not my past. I am not my mist...

Is it possible to start to feel, that in this very moment, our bodies, our minds, and even our personalities are ways through, which our spiritual essence connects, with the world around us? Is it possible to feel, that our bodies and minds are actually sensing organs for the spirit? Our physical forms may be the vehicle, through which spiritual essence gets to experience its own mysterious creati...

Every minute someone leaves this world behind. Age has nothing to do with it. We are all in this the line without realizing it. We never know how many people are before us. We can not move to the back of the line. We can not step out of the line. We can not avoid the line. So while we wait in line – Make moments count. Make a difference. Make the call. Make priorities. Make the time. Make yo...

The more you expand your awareness and become familiar with your own energy fields, the more you will become aware of the energy fields of others, and within the environment. At first, we start to feel the various forms of energy around us, and as we progress on our personal ascension Journey, and as the biological effects start to take place within the body, we begin to actually SEE this ENERGY! ...