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EARLY SPRING 2020 -

In shamanic practice, ceremony is used in a wide variety of ways. Sometimes we hold big healing ceremonies or ceremonies to honour a special place or time of year.  They are also used for big life events that mark important communal thresholds – births, coming of age, separations, marriages, deaths. But they can also be with us in small, intimate, regular rituals. We can make a ceremony out of everyday actions such as making food, drinking a glass of water, opening a door, l…

SPRING 2020 -

Dear friends. Here we are.

A few weeks into these deep changing times. Where are you now? Where do you find yourself? What is this time bringing you?

One of the original meanings of the Greek word “krisis” is a "turning point in a disease, that change which indicates recovery or death". In the 15th century it came to mean a "vitally important or decisive state of things, point at which change must come, for better or worse”. Crisis is the time when there is no choice but change…

LATE SPRING 2020 -

As we move into the next phase of this special time, it can be helpful to consider – after all you have experienced these weeks, where are you now? What has changed? What do you want to leave behind? What do you want to bring with you? What is your deepest wish for what we are about to step into as we cross the coming thresholds?

As many countries begin to open up, it can be tempting to “go back to normality”, even in small ways in our daily lives. When we are tired or worn …

SUMMER SOLSTICE 2020 -

Be right here. Just be right here.
Here – where you are
Stand like the Sun, stand still at the Solstice,
Stand still in your life and see where you are.
Don’t run away. Take time 
to discover where you are
instead of looking back to where you were 
or looking forward to where you might go.
Stand still – right here, right now – 
deepening into this moment, and listen: 

Listen to what your hands are telling you
Listen to what your feet are telling you 
Listen …

AUTUMN 2020 -

As we go through Harvest days, this is a deep time to reflect on where we are. For many of us, it has not been an easy year, and it may feel like there is still a long way to go. But simply waiting for it to be over will not bring real change. There is no choice now but change. We cannot go back, we have to be where we are. Open our eyes and open hearts to the new beginnings that are waiting.

Even if you don’t know what it is, is there a way you can welcome the new growing out of…

WINTER SOLSTICE 2020 -

In Scandinavia, we are arriving in the dark time. The time of going within, resting and dreaming. Of finding deep knowledge and guidance for the time to come, opening to new possibilities that are beginning to grow.

The gifts of Winter are many. It can be easy to look past them, wishing for brighter warmth, but this is the time now. As always with shamanic work, it is easier to work with Power than against it, and so it is with the Seasons. Every season is alive. Every s…

FORÅR 2019 - af ANNETTE HØST

Udtrykket KULTUREL APPROPRIATION er ret nyt, og hvis du ikke kender det, er du ikke alene. Men udtrykkets indhold har været aktuelt for dig og mig, for alle slags shaman-lærlinge, animister, spirituelt søgende - i årtier! Fordi vilkårene for os (eller de fleste af jer, der læser dette) har været, at vi har måttet lære og låne af andre kulturer, når vi ikke har haft en egen, kendt tradition at bygge på. Men de kulturer vi har lånt og lært rituelle former fra, er tit …

EFTERÅR 2019 - af ANNETTE HØST

Der er i tiden megen diskussion om køn. Om ”hun”, ”han” og alt derimellem og derudover. Hvad har de shamanistiske traditioner at byde på af indsigter og erfaringer i dette emne? Shamanen, eller den troldkyndige,  er én, der i sit virke rejser frit mellem verdenerne. Én der overskrider – ja, nu og da opløser – grænserne mellem steder, tider, arter – og køn. Det findes der mange beretninger om fra ”klassiske” shaman-traditioner; beretninger om at blive ét med til si…

TIDLI FORÅR 2020 - af ANNETTE HØST

Meget shamanistisk arbejde foregår i en form for ceremoni, og gør brug af rituelle værktøjer. Altid for at fokusere vores oplevelse og styrke udkommet, for at give kraft til samarbejdet med ånderne og med hinanden.  Men hvad er egentlig ceremoni, hvad er det særlige der sker? Hvad kan et ritual? 

Ceremonier kan både være helt store sociale begivenheder, ved livsovergange og højtider, med masser af mennesker – eller helt private rituelle stunder, bare mig og s…

EFTERÅR 2020 - af ANNETTE HØST

For en tid er masker en bestanddel af vores hverdags sociale liv. Jeg ved der er folk som har svært ved at acceptere at bære ansigtsmaske. Som føler, at det er et indgreb i deres personlige frihed. Eller - hvis vi er i en shamanistisk kreds eller ceremoni – som oplever masken som en barriere mellem dem og ånderne.
Så jeg synes det er på tide at vi kigger grundigt på MASKER i shamanistiske traditioner, og ser hvad vi kan bruge i vores nye maske udfordring:

Forbin…