"I walk around the pond and come face to face with a massive lion. It stands up and I am instantly reminded of Aslan from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He turns around and indicates that I am to follow him into the forest." ~ Snippet from a shamanic journey I...
Poop Dreams
Over your lifetime, have you had dreams with similar themes? Off the top of my head, I can name three themes. 1. the obvious one is desperately trying to find a bathroom, or finding one but the toilets are overflowing and disgusting. This is a very clear signal from...
Giraffe Symbolism
One of the reasons I love journey work is never knowing what I am going to encounter. I have common places I travel to, but what I find there is unique to the person I am journeying on behalf of. Like a giraffe! There I was, standing in my lower realm meadow of very...
Garter Snake Symbolism
"I dreamed of Garter Snake. She was giving birth and my husband was assisting her. At first, full size babies, and it was exciting. But they kept coming, getting smaller and smaller. I became anxious and tried to shovel away the small ones. Eventually, they were so...
Ebb And Flow
"You and I are like cats. We like being with people, on our own terms." Someone said this to me one day, and I laughed at how succinctly accurate that is. "Eliza, you are ALL about people." I am told this quite often. This statement is also accurate. But here's...
Sisterhood
I have never been part of a sisterhood. Sure, there was the six of us in my last two years of highschool. We were bonded in our refusal to dumb our intelligence down. Upon graduation, however, we went our separate ways.I sort of belonged to a group of women in my late...
Oh art journals
Oh art journals, let me count how many I have ... or not.So many art journals and not a single one of them completed ... until now. I have just filled one up, the pages of which I shall be sharing here over the coming weeks.But this begs the question, why have I...
Actions as Journeys
"Think of the beginning of each action as the beginning of a journey." Wow! Often my response to oracle card advice is "gotcha, course correction required". Then there's times like with this card where my mind explodes. Sooooo many layers! Where to even start? At...
Random? I think not.
"Oracle card selection is totally random." Uh, that's a big NOPE in my experience. Take this little guy. There are 45 cards in the deck. My process is to shuffle the deck at least twice. Then, backs facing to me, I hold the deck and fan through it until my thumb...
Rock, Paper, Viking
It never ceases to amaze me how insightful working with my mesa energy map is.I started by intuitively placing my little Viking next to the rock. Vikings symbolically represent brute strength. Apparently little dude just wanted up to conserve his strength, because he...