Changing My Tune

Jon Fairies, Shamanic Journeys

You know that expression: you better change your tune?  Well, the faeries tell me that everything has a song, and that we sing songs about situations in our lives all the time.  If you want to change the situation, change the tune, they tell me. So, if you want to establish harmony in your life, here’s a cool journey to …

Breath of Life

Jon Fairies, Shamanic Journeys, Soul Retrieval

I’ve become really curious lately about what serves as a medium for transporting energy from non-ordinary reality into this physical or ordinary reality in which we live.  When a shaman brings healing energy, power, or soul parts back from the spirit world, the breath is used as the medium of transport.  Breath is after all a life-giving force. For years …

I’ll Take Romance

Jon Celtic Reiki, Celtic Shamanism, Emotional Healing, Fairies

The Celts loved the betwixt and between—it’s where all the power of possibility was said to lie.  But here I am caught in the betwixt and between of the pain and disappointment of a romance that’s ended and the fear of recreating that pain in one that has yet to begin.  Not so powerful a feeling—just powerful icky. Neil Young’s …

Spinning Wheel

Jon Celtic Shamanism, Fairies, Power Animals, Shamanism Workshops

Today I am preparing for a workshop I have taught several times before on the Celtic Medicine Wheel.  I have changed it yet again, expanded it some, removed and rearranged other stuff.  As always, I am at the point of worry, when the structure hasn’t quite gelled and there are many more things to think through before the content is …

The Oak Men Cometh

Jon Fairies, Shamanic Healing

This morning, I draw a card from my Faeries Oracle deck (this is a very cool deck by Brian Froud).  It is The Oak Men, a lovely card, telling me to go speak to a wise old tree.  I happen to have one of those.  It’s a spirit tree—an oak in fact—that lives in my back yard.  Notice I said …

Hidden Secrets

Jon Fairies, Shamanic Healing, Shamanism

My life is really crazy right now!  I’m trying to sell my house, relocate, expand my business, find a new romance, usher my kids into adulthood, get my book published, and keep my head above water in this financial bath we all seem to be swimming in.  There’s nothing stable and set in my life—well, is there ever really?  Nothing …