Order Of The Sacred Spiral

Dreams and Journeys

2011-11-26T09:19:00.001-08:00

"Bienvenidos a nuestra primera conferencia telefónica con el grupo de hierbas chamánica en facebook. En su mayor parte, esta llamada se mantendrá en Inglés." -Beginning of Shamanic Herbs Group FB conference call series

Today I was schedule to be in a conference call at this time but something went wrong! So instead I'm journaling my dreams and visions. Perhaps I'll get to discussing some of my salvia visions with you as this was to be the topic of the conference call.

I had some very vivid dreams last night. There were two sets of dreaming visions that seemed to be linked. The first sequence involved me in some sort of lagoon type resort with tropical trees and a large pool. Some friends were there and one person looked like Cuba Gooding Jr. seemed to be playing a foil roll in this vision.

I swam several times in the dream with a discomfort that there were alligators in the water, this scene felt very much like a section of a safari park that had been abandoned and was now taken over my vacationers. It turns out that there were two alligators in the water but they were sort of dwarf gators and I think they could be easily subdued.

The Cuba Gooding character seemed to be a bit of a punk and like to hassel me a lot. I felt like he was an outsider trying to pump me for info. This dream had the distinct sensation of magick where reality could conform with will.

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That's as much as I remember from that dream as I woke up suddenly as i seem to do quite often lately. The second dream sequence involve an Arizona desert setting with lots of jumping cholla cactus. I remember that my friends and I were escaping or leaving somewhere and the desert was part of the journey. I think we were all practiced as the art of shapeshifting because some of my friends seemed to become animals, mainly of the furry types: dogs, predatory cats, and coyotes.

I think I was part of a sort of pack or pride, of Nagual. As we traveled through the desert there was lots of sun and warm weather across the sandy cactus laden environment. I noticed sage and other desert plants. Also, an interesting feature was that there was an unusually frequent amount of dumped human furniture and similar debris from a nearby city. Honestly it felt like we were on an exodus from Phoenix, AZ.

Then trouble showed up. I heard from my friends that there was a feral pride of Jaguars and a Tiger that would be after us if we didn't stay close together. It just so happened that when I decided to scout ahead that they showed up and separated me from my pack. I was a human at the time, on the run through desert at dusk, potentially food for a Tiger.

As a fled the gravity seemed to be holding me from running fast and the feral pride closed in on me. I jumped around the furniture and kicked obstacles in their way as if this was a fight scene on the moon in low gravity. Cornered on top of an overturned trailer or extra large couch that was covered with dying cholla (prickly) cactus, I was surrounded by a tiger and two smaller predatory cats at looked like hungry jaguars.

This is when I knew this fight wasn't for a human because of the words that the tiger and I exchanged (did I mention that these attackers could talk as if they were modern people?!?). So I fell to my knees and saw my front arms turn to fur. I felt my new thick coat of hair coming in and my muscles change into positions of four-legged jumping power. I had paws, my teeth and jaw felt super exaggerated and powerful compared the human mandible, and I was covered a black fur coat with subtle spots of leopard pattern.

As this were-panther, I lunged for a nearby cat attacker and tore out his neck. The remaining jaguar and the tiger, backed off and even seemed nervous in observation of my power. I stepped up to the tiger and he said something to the effect of: "I dare not challenge the medicine of the black panther." In my cat jaws I carried the dead creature from the feral pack and brought it over to the pack of travelers that I had been with. The tiger and the lesser cat appear in the cactus forest across from me and my pack and requested to travel with us.

After these tribes had been united we moved together as one pride and I woke up shortly afterwards.

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Sincerely,

Jaguar Varen
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The Memory of Trees

2011-10-29T21:29:00.000-07:00

Inspired By Enya
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I am born to a world.
I was raised in a city, a concrete jungle.
I was raised somewhere void of plants, animals, and nature.

My relatives tell me that we are human, that we get our water from pipes that run a long ways through the wastelands outside the city to somewhere called an Oshun.

My ancestors knew what it was to walk in the light of a daytime star once called Helios. Now we have adapted to artificial light generated through the technology of our times.

Most of my friends that I grew up with understand that sleep involves shutting down our primary waking human processes to experience nothingness for periods of time. Eyes close, time passes, eye open...body usually feels capable.

Some people still dream and sometimes these dreams resemble the stories I've read. Old stories, told by old people, mostly found in archives on the Ever-Net.

I started dreaming when I was five. I saw things from the stories and the songs of the ancient times. Once, when I was almost six standard years, I dreamed I was in an open space outside the city. In this dream, I was alone but I could feel the life around me. I didn't know what this feeling was but I can only compare it to the times that I was in a crowd with other humans.

It was warm, and bright, and when I walked on the ground in this dream, it shifted and churned. The ground appears to go on forever in a type of wave like pattern. I walked, something that we rarely do in the city. After sometime, I could see a tall shape in the distance. The shape I saw appeared to resemble the architecture of buildings from the city I knew up in...it had a central pillar rising from the ground and many lateral and diagonal pillars moving off and upward from the central pillar in an organic style.

I woke up in a cold sweat.

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For the next few months, I had the same dream and each time I had it I was a little closer to the deserted monument. On my sixth birthday, I dreamed the same dream-setting except this time when I started my dream I was standing a short distance from this object that I sought.

I walked up to it, the feeling of human company tingled on my skin. I reached out to touch this new thing and watched as shade generated by the out-reaching arms at its crown, formed a pattern on my arm. An electric familiarity raced through my hand and up my arm as I made contact with this alien life form.

What... is this?

Why does it feel ...familiar...and alive?

I noted the color and the textures that went into this creature. It felt alive but did not move. It seemed old and aware of me, though it showed no signs. I investigated with my fingers and discovered the feeling of solidarity in addition to flexibility. Compared to my skin the being of my dreams was rough and felt more adapted to this hot desolate environment that I was.

Before waking from the dream I discovered one more important thing about the silent sentinel...it had a scab where an old wound had healed. I understood this because I had scabs after injuries in the city of my waking life.

This thing bleeds like I do and heals too.

I picked at the surface of the scab on the central pillar-body of this creature in the same fashion I picked at my own scabs back home.

Gently, something came off the being to reveal a sort of stickiness beneath.

I woke up.

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I'm older now by several standard years. I refused some of the "artificial enhancements" of my friends, family and most city dwellers that allow them to directly interface with the Net. At the age of 8, I chose to get an upgrade that would allow my physical arms to interact with the Net directly by touch, feel and movement. To my parents dismay, I preferred the use of removable Ear and Eye-clasps for other-sensory communication with the Ever-net.

From the time after my dream until this day, I have spent much of my education daydreaming about what I saw....and I have come to believe that I experienced a memory from before our time. In our language, we don't have a word for what I saw. The city archives have no direct references to the alien being that I touched.

But I've met a few people that describe a sense of familiarity when they see my 3D rendering graphic reproductions of the alien. I know our people have indirect references from translated old dead languages to "other" lifeforms that lived on this planet before us...perhaps even with us.

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As far as I know there is only one city on this planet and all organic life occurs within its boundaries. I am going to seek out the Oshun, a place where our toxic water is harvested, treated, processed and transported via pipelines to the city.

I leave for this perilous journey tomorrow, driven by a memory of...

10/29/2011

Aztec Elixir of Life Ceremony

2011-04-27T14:20:00.001-07:00

Over the last weekend in Arizona, several friends and I gathered to do a very sacred medicine rite. We spend most of the afternoon planning this. Prior to all the experiences with sacred shamanic ceremony and ritual, attendees are requested to fast and to submit birth times and locations for astrology reports.

Needless to say, our ceremony was mind-expanding, life changing, healing and purpose driven. The work we did as a group and with me holding space for the Sacred Chocolate elixir to work it's magick, resulted in nothing less than a spectacular expression of art and emotion through chanting, instruments, music, dance and laughter.

If you have an opportunity to experience ceremony and rites of passage through plant and fungal teachers, I light-hearted recommend that you do. Not only will it provide information about your purpose in life and healing trauma but you may actually discover "spontanous healing" in the physical body (as described by Dr Andrew Weil of ASU).

Here is a sample chocolate recipe. In the future, I highly recommend that you read and familarize yourself with a book by David Wolfe and Shazzie entitled "Naked Chocolate" for more info.

Aztec Elixir of Life, drinking chocolate recipe serves 10:

-Raw Cacao (fair trade Ecuadorian) finely ground/powdered: 1/2 cup to 1 cup (depending on how thick you want your drink)

-Almond or Coconut Milk: 32oz standard size container

-Coconut Oil (1-2 tbsp)

-Cayenne Pepper (1/2 teaspoon)

-Cordyceps Mushrooms powdered (1/2 teaspoon)

-Frankincense and Myrrh Essential Oil (one or two drops of food grade quality, pure and unadulterated, companies like Young Living and doTerra are good---DO NOT HEAT)

-Maca Powder (Non-irradiated, 1-2 tbsp)

-Honey or Agave (amount to taste)

**all ingredients should be organic, wild-crafted and fair trade if possible.

Mix everything together while stirring vigorously in a double boiler pot around a temp of 150 degrees Fahrenheit. (if you are trying to keep it raw stay below 150 for sure, remember stirring helps to reduce hot spots on the bottom)

In this form, this elixir will be great for ritual and enlivening consciousness. BTW, Cacao is a sacred sexual and sensual herb that will encourage horniness in men when taken daily.

Safe Journeys,

Jaguar Va'ryn

What Have I Become?

2010-09-13T02:28:00.000-07:00

The Jaguar's body holds these memories. Some memories are from this life and others are given from the lives before me that offered blood and body to make me.

This Jaguar body of mine was imprinted a long time ago by someone I chose to defend. I don't know what came over me on that day but I can say now (as I look back in Shamanic retrospect) that I was operating from another persona's system...one of the "gifted" ancestors' offerings at this lifetime's birth.

I growl as my eyes involuntarily tear and my body moves through emotional patterns that have been long analyzed from a strict mental perspective. You see, this Jaguar remembers six generations back or more into the lives of people who practiced tribal love...who weren't confined to this US scab-casting monogamous bull-spit. So naturally this lifetime, my body and the ancestral memories thereof, chose an half Asian girl to rescue and to be imprinted upon by.

The form of imprinting that occurred was that of the sexual imprint described in Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune. I am, as a being that functions on different layers of awareness, currently looking into the consequences of this imprint made upon this Jaguar at the age of 18 earth years. This far, my understanding of some of these consequences include a tantric inclination and several far eastern spiritual practices.

The Imprinter was 50% Malaysian and the perspective imprinter before her was 50% Philippine racially....and still there is something deep within me that desires to be with spiritually and to sexually procreate with Asian genetics.

The Imprinter was taught techniques of Asian Healing by her Malaysian mother whom appeared crazy (perhaps a sign of the shamanic call) to westerners for administering this style of healing or energy exchange. Between this Jaguar and the Imprinter, there was even talk of the possibly of tantrik sex practices that were taught in the household (or at least observed by children at a young age).

Some of the massage based healing sessions resulted in nudity or the expressions of the physically vulnerable and "available." These healing sessions were performed, perhaps directly taught, and perhaps (more likely) observed by this Malaysian woman's daughter to later be employed as part of the first courting rituals between myself as a virgin Jaguar cub.

Once this sort of energy was successfully transfered from Imprinter to Jaguar and a safe line of trust and express was created, I began to channel this energy in return. I learned to reciprocate the ritual. Thus I propose that the first tantrik practice that I learned came from age 17 through 18 during which time various encounters with this special girl occurred.

In recall of this and simply from a mental position, i cry. Involuntarily. I am shattered and endlessly loyal and grateful...it's almost like the Butterfly Effect or the Fountain movies. I growl and I remember and this body makes tears automatically. This Jaguar and I play out all the memories and the future possibilities.

Still I am drawn back to that moment when I stood up to someone in front of my high school who harassed this woman I would later love. In that moment, I defended her honor without ever knowing her and instantly I realized that I played into Karma... into lifetimes passed...into those "other memories" of not only my ancestors but hers as well...

I am certain that for as long as my spiritual path allows it, I will believe that I have known her soul and loved her in so many other lives and that we have common ancestors who wanted to mutually remind us...who we really are.

To this day, I wonder and theorize that if i was impressed and imprinted upon by her (therefore reawakening my memories of tantra), then what did she get imprinted with.

Va'ryn Varen

Six Jaguar of the Mayan High Priesthood

Inside Saint Peter's Alchemy & Achuma Hike

2010-03-09T17:22:00.000-08:00

Dear Alchemist,

Sunday was an awesome ritual that I helped friends, brothers and sisters hold space in Southern California near Palomar Mountain. My experience with this was a breathtaking honor and a heart sharing as we embarked on a Medicine Journey and walked with the great spirit of the cactus in the dichotomy of Mother and Father (Lady Achuma and Father San Pedro).

From the perspective of my relatives and my close relations, it was difficult to watch the frustration of some of my students as they battled with self doubt, mistrust, fear, and selfishness. And furthermore, it was the most rewarding experience to feel and to walk with them in their Medicine journey as they moved through earth and stone, water and trees, plants and animals.

Like the cat from which I get my namesake, I felt the rocks and the trees whisper that my sisters were near and early on in our hike, I was able to reach out to feel sister mountain lion and bobcat. Only minutes into our walk did I feel this energy and did I ask permission from these sisters of the wild to let us pass into their home. When the lioness spoke, I could almost smell her and she said that she wouldn't disturb our group but warned us to stay away from the area where she had recently buried a neighbor's dog (after eating most of him).

It wasn't more than 30 feet down the trail, when brother Rattlesnake and his clan reminded me that we passed near their home as well and that they too did not wish to be disturbed as they tried to sleep off the cold season in coiled excitement for the Spring. I was reminded that my name Va'ryn (or Varen) has always been with my brother and I even before our parents...as it faded into and out of being most of my childhood for fear of the bigger cats that teased us as Grandpa Jaguar did.

The medicine rooted use and connected us deep with the river and deep into the stones of the valley past the old oak tree. My brothers and sisters on this journey could feel me walking with them and just out of sight or rather on the edge of their hyper-conscious awareness; until the second set of waterfalls where everything (trail, people, and water) collapsed into a single crossing...and it was here that the four directions and the elements evoked our first ritual and our first outdoor altar...

You see these brothers and sisters of mine with their warm hearts and passion for the truth, represented a spirit of Fire and the intention of Promitheus gifting Fire to the first Humans. These "souls on fire" welcomed an altar and a tribal circle sharing that was flowing with the winds of the canyon, anchored upon the rocks where they stood, and surrounded by water and waterfalls.

I jumped into a body and struck up the invocation and the construction of the first altar and ritual. We offered to the rocks and water with song, rattles, and drums, and of course prayers...some brothers and sister laid possessions in the altar and other pictures of family.
After four winds (rounds of talking), we decided to explore upward of the cliffs and canyon.

For the first time, my human brothers and sisters learned what it was like to step into the greater space of offering oneself as a piece of the greater altar with the boulders and the canyon as they slide yearly into the water and back to the earth mother's embrace.

This was a turning point for our community and I bless all of my relations as we move to Legal Recognition as a Church in the state of California. We will conduct many more rituals in the coming weeks as all funds move towards paying our attorneys to create an organizing document for the Sacred Spiral.

Please help by donating to my friend Trevahr (http://wakingwithin.blogspot.com)

Story to be continued,

"Varen"
Wak Va'ryn Ek Balam (6 Highest Jaguar Grin)
Shamanic Alchemist Adept
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Living Shamanism and Neo Shamanic Alchemy in 2010

2009-12-30T13:18:00.000-08:00

"The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to achieve enlightenment. It has never been typically a path for self-improvement. It has been a path followed because people cared for other people and felt compassion for them and wanted to help them through healing and alleviating their suffering. In following that path, gifts were then given them that were totally unexpected. By working the way that spirits seem to want us to work, they help us in alleviating suffering and pain, and give the healers gifts to help them work even more successfully. This then changes them, and they are never the same again; they are indeed enlightened. But that was not the intention; it was just a result. And as the shaman works to heal others, the shaman himself or herself is healed because of that desire." -- Michael Harner, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, California

“We are all members of a growing global community of conscious change agents. We need to be realistic about the state the world and then we must use our thoughts and words and other creation principles to feed the vision of the world we want to live in. This exciting work begins by shifting our thoughts and words we use throughout the day. It involves setting an intention to join together with millions of others to put our vision for a healthy, beautiful, vibrant planet into action. Let’s join our hearts together as a unified field working in service to all of life. Many blessings to you as we spiral into a new decade together!” -- Sandra Ingerman, New Mexico

“… As Pachamama’s Children may we again celebrate our gifts of healing, altruism and visionary earth-honoring ceremony throughout the Four Directions. May the virtue of our shared Dreaming usher in the prophesied Era of Re-Encounter as a shamanic global culture. Honoring All Our Relations, may this offering inspire a truth lived as “Right Action Born of Compassionate Spiritual Wisdom Unites.” --Oscar Miro-Quesada - The Heart of the Healer Foundation

"As the year and decade end, the sun once more begins to move up into the northern hemisphere, or begins its retreat from the southern half of Earth. People have watched and celebrated this yearly change of light and dark for hundreds of thousands of year, and so do we. Now the dark and light dance around us, and we hear the Earth's songs. As we too dance and drum and dream, let us remember each other, and celebrate the dark and turning light in each of us. Let us sing this wonderful ancient song." --Tom Cowan, New York

The Gift of Love- “Become aware of your heart... Release all the tensions that may be holding you back. Trust. Trust the gift of Love. From my heart I thank you.” --Tony Samara, Portugal

“… We have choices. Choices as to what food we input, what people we surround ourselves with, what media (if any) we allow to permeate our existence. Our thoughts become choices as well. We need to choose wisely my friend. If we dance with the divine spirit within, in that place of quietude, in that place of peaceful solitude, the choices become very clear to us. Having set the table, we are ready to transmit, radiate, emote what we as spirit are. Simply by being, we can change the course of history, change the world! Namaste.” --Larry J. Brooksbank, Massachusetts.

''We all dream. Many of us began to believe the dreams. Many of us then dared to dream more, to manifest, to bring to life, to fruition and more importantly to remember. At this time of our evolution, I now dare to dream further. When we sit by our fire, in circle, we are one. I now dream us to a place where words are not needed, where our hearts and vibration speak more loudly than ever before. It is time, to prepare, to remember who you were, and make your way to the fire, to take your rightful place. Dare it into being. Aho.''--Kalisaya Flynn, United Kingdom

“May all communities have shamanic and spiritual gathering places, as we have established here in Chicago! “ --Joan Forest Mage

“…Every time we cultivate joy and cast the seeds of laughter you can feel the energy rise, rise, rise, until there is an overwhelming contentedness of simply, being. The next time we walk to work, take the bus, driving in our cars through rush hour traffic, let us be reminded by the spirits who hold us; Every moment a gift, every second an opportunity, the world is as receptive to our desires as the mother to her own child. Grace is in the air, lets spread it everywhere. Love and blessings this Holiday Season.” --Grant Guindon, Canada

“…I believe in this new decade mankind will find that those of us with this gift of communicating and working along side the spirits being able to enter the other levels of reality and protecting against the evil in this world. … I believe the shamans of the earth will soon come into power as it was before for they will see we are correct and our wisdom from all the many spirits." -- Justice Rupe

“ Imagine if all people would awaken to our interconnectedness to the Earth and suddenly realized the great importance of addressing the issues of global warming, ocean toxicity, pollution, cruelty to animals, overpopulation....I dare to dream that it is possible before it is too late, to heal our planet and ourselves.”--Maureen Bobrovnicky

“I wish you all happy holiday season that is upon you at this time. This contact is now for a call to anyone who wants to help the World. Anyone who can hold Unconditional Love in their heart. I ask you now to take that which you call 'the globe' your symbolic representation of Earth, and sit with it in your arms. When you call to God, pray for earth. This will magnify the intensity of Love upon the earth. As you heal the Earth, so you heal each member upon it. Remember to ground through the bottom of your feet - this will help to have the Love flowing through you with Gratitude. This is your thanksgiving. Bless you for all you do for your brothers and sisters in the Love.- Manuel" --Don Manuel Quispe, as passed on to Elizabeth Desrochers, Rhode Island

“Here's one Texan hoping the spirits continue bringing aid and protection to you and yours!“ --Tommy Raz

“…Our future is unlimited in scope and vastness. I feel so blessed to be an awakened part of it.” --Fred James Orillia, ON, Canada

"Why not take the challenge to trust our journey enough to walk a road that is beyond our comfort zone, dreaming our lives into a space where we do not have ready made answers."--Nancy Wells

"Let us dream of a world where everyone is fed, all have access to health and healing, children have schools, war is a myth that no one on the face of the earth has ever experienced, and culture is honored as a way we can learn from each other." --Jackie Branangan

“le deseo a todos que mantengan su atencion en su camino del corazon, que se inspiran por cosas simples, que mantengan tranquilidad y sean lideres de su comunidad, sea grande o pequena. que crean en su destino sagrado y que se le ayuda el espiritu si tenga dudas. “ --Maria Ortiz Lavrova, United Kingdom

"Greetings to all of my brothers and sisters who walk the path of Spirit, wherever you may be in the world. The beauty of this path we've chosen is that when we work together we can indeed accomplish miracles. There is much work for us to do. My wish for this new year is that each of us may walk further along our path and thus bring more light into this world. In the strength of the Medicine." "Les mando saludos a todos mis hermanos y hermanas que andan el camino del Espíritu dondequiera estén en el mundo. Lo mejor de este camino que hemos eligido es que cuando trabajamos juntos realmente podemos lograr milagros. Hay mucho para hacer. Mi deseo para este año es que cada uno de nosotros ande más adelante por nuestro camino y por eso lleva en este mundo más luz. En fuerza de la medicina." -- Judy Red Hawk, New Mexico (Halcón Rojo)

"My possible dream intention may be, "I am letting my intuition guide me more in 2010." Setting this as a dream intention has already influenced my behavior. I am already letting my intuition guide me more. May you have wonderful dreams in 2010! Love and blessings." -- Deerheart

"I HOLD THE VISION WE PUT DOWN THE WEAPONS, CLEAN THE AIR, WATER, SOIL & CO-CREATE PEACE ON EARTH BY 2012...JOIN ME! blessings" --Troy Casey, California

"Step into your personal power as a co-creator of this world in which you/we live. Be your own guru! Access your inner wisdom, derived from your lifetime of experiences. Expect magic and miracles! Always remember that we are all connected, heart to heart to heart... Cheers." --Ben McManus, New Jersey

"Thank you very much and I congratulate you in connection to 22 December an equinox day:) be in happiness, health, and peace and feel sun, moon and stars above your head always...my best regards. -- Timur from Khakas Nation lived in Southern Siberian Altay Mounts

Love and Joy this Season,

Grinning Jaguar Elder
Order of the Sacred Spiral

Light up, Light up!-- "In the Garden of Shadow Masks...(part 2)"

2009-10-05T14:06:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

I awoke today after the full moon, the weekend having just passed. I was lit up with a burning pain in my hip and inwardly, as I rolled awake, to scream "let go....let GOOOOO!". In bed I shouted at my Mom, Maternal Grandfather, Grandfather's Father, and all of our shared Ancestors....for release of my pain and of my dysfunctional muscles.

My beloved had left the bedroom already and she was fully dressed when she greeted me as I lay there in bed, pain, and with an Ipod Touch in my hand furiously researching Ayahausca plant medicine in hopes of answers.

I learned what herbs the magical formula needed in a matter of minutes through various sites listed on Google. I was ravenous for answers and solutions. It was suggested to me about three weeks ago to do this sort of Shamanic Medicine Work, as a way of purging my Ancestors' diseases from my body by a dear friend and Hawaii medicine woman.

After my lover stared at me for several minutes, and I slowly sickened of memorizing harmaline alkolodes properties and reactions with human bio-chemistry..."Out OUt OUT..." as I stretched in bed, and felt a strong pull in my psoas muscle on the right. My lover noticed my discomfort and offered some Essential oils...internal and external....and I promptly refused..."I just want to be complete without external things; heal myself with my own bio-chemistry.." thoughts rushed in...

Mr. Iyengar the great master yogi, healed himself of physical ailments, why can't I? My mom said it, a long time ago, "Son, you have to take this medication because you just don't have all that your body needs to be normal."...emotional pain toggled to physical pain again.

I agreed to the capsole of Essential Oils (including Helicrysum Italicum and Basil) and the pain relief blend by Young Living Co. to be applied directly onto my skin, hip and abdomen. I swallowed the pill...I have always done..."in order to be normal"...and drifted back to a memory of the weeks passed.
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I am to donate blood today and I just sliced my finger open (Left thumb) in the Kitchen. As my finger spills blood all over the counter, I curse myself for making a Universal Request (just 2 minutes ago) to keep some of my blood for ritual while still knowing that the nurses at the clinic would not let me take some of my own blood home.

So I manifested this and shit it hurts, but I can live with this, heck it's my blood rite...I looked around the kitchen, while holding a paper towel over my finger and holding my finger above my head. I found a wine glass in a cupboard and set it nicely on the counter top near where I was cooking...okay think Aztec-Mayan priest and let go of the pain.

The glass slowly filled up with crimson dripplets as I squeezed my left bleeding thumb with my right hand. It was about one-fourth the way full when my Beloved came into the room and exclaimed, "What are you doing?!?" I explained and she left the room to get something to stop the bleeding.

I remembered the night before our Community Anniversary Ritual (Tuesday night, September 22nd, so equinox 2009--two nights ago) when I was reading a book called "Queztalcoatl: Biography of a Mexican God". I opened it to a chapter randomly which for whatever reason, I deemed interesting and begin reading.

In two paragraphs, I read about the creation myth of deity (of which the name escapes me and I just returned the book to the library so I can't cite it) who rides a "Great Flying Grinning Jaguar"....and I am struck with emotional connection...to Grandfather and my lineage. (Remember the spirit guide that I channel and the same one that Grandfather channels is named Grinning Jaguar, as the entity tends to growl and appear as a North American Mountain lion, who smiles at fear.)

I shook off the chill down my spine and the hairs that stood on end at the back of my neck, and continued reading. The chapter continues to elaborate about the Azteca and the activities of the Priests of Azteca. In less than 2 minutes, I come across the bloodletting descriptions which would sometimes procede a ritual and/or be part of a ritual.

The book stated that a priest would take on the necessary trance state through blood-loss, and for this ritual offering, one would often make cuts on the shins, the tongue, or the ears. The ears for example were bled by pushing an Agave thorn through different aspects of the earlobe...and before I could continue on reading I was struck with a wave of emotion/fear/understanding/tingling that came from the abdomen and rose to the hairs on my head and neck. My eyes began to water and become misty.

Just months ago, when I was on a Tantra retreat to Mexico with the San Diego Tantra Community, I did this very thing...after collecting wild blue agave, and removing the leaves for boiling as medicine. I gathered the thorns and pushed them through my pierced ears. I don't believe that I bled...much; although when my friends questioned why I did what I did, I told them that "it just felt like the right thing to do."
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The evidence continues to mount, as I map my healing and draw closer to the end of pain for me. I am invested in the mental/emotional/energetic sources and solutions to my ailments but am in no way closed. If you have any helpful healthful suggestions for me, please offer them up and I will be truely grateful. Thanks for listening!

Peace Peace, Namaste...

Va'ryn Alchemist
Waking Within Co.
Shamanism and Alchemy of the Sacred Spiral

Aside: We'll I am off to begin a food diary and discover and record how I feel after every item I consume. I welcome you to discover and reply to this blog with information from your Ancestors! Which ancestors do you feel you take after? Are there any ancestors that control your actions today? Does your emotional healing/physical involve your blood family? Have plant medicines worked for your healing?

In the Garden of Shadow Masks, Ceremony, and Ancestors (part one)

2009-09-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

There comes a time when one chooses to invoke Healing and it perhaps leads us to the past or the areas in our life that we have left behind for whatever reason. It is that time for me. During my recent path to healing and while practicing Shamanic herbs and guidance on my Medicine Path, I was led to do a parasite cleanse. I am in the portion of the cleanse in which most people get sick, from the little critters dying off and decomposing in my body...and it has been interesting.

Let me say this from an Anthropological perspective before I further discuss my specific situation; in many tribes, a tribal shaman is tested for their ability (especially as they are growing up) to transmute toxins or highly trans-formative substances...IE. in Peru they pick a child with shamanic tendancies and start them on Ayauwaska at a young age of 8 (sometimes younger). For this cleanse, during my trek to the White Mountains of Arizona this summer...I was led to gather and prepare Wormwood for consumption in a parasite cleanse that was on my mind at the time...that and black walnut....both of which I found wild harvest in my travels....without seeking them. So maybe it was that they found me...this was oddly verified the other night when I spoke with a friend about it being a popular herbalist recommendation for Wormwood and Black Walnut to be taken in combination...I was a little shocked but felt gratitude instantly on a spiritual realm when I heard my guides remind me that I was being directed by the Ancestral will of something bigger than my ego!

This conversation was after the cleanse became rather trippy so to speak. I was in a fever space for a long while (13 hours about). Since that strange fever day, I have been up and down with the healing. It has been odd in that I am feeling great and almost normal for an hour or two, then depleted and crash with sensitivities to everything and almost a headache. Lots of sleep (and dreams) and water has become my existence these days.

I think that I reached an old plateau in which healing stopped or me when I was a teen, and a section of my past that I often deny as a Yoga professional and Spiritual teacher. Just the other day, I revisited some of the music I listened to as a teen....and wow some of my close friends were appalled and uneasy with my interest and embodiment of the words as I sang the music.

I again recalled the areas of my life that ignore and deny because I am often trapped in "politician excuses" to act in a certain way...perhaps you have done this or even do this now in your life in order to better fit in with a clicke (yoga teachers, business owners, shamanic traditionalists). So I experienced my darkside and sat with it, and enjoyed it.

In this moments of darkness, I discussed my ancestors and the spirit guides that I feel are "ancestral" with my friends whom were most interested in finding solutions for my hip and shoulder pains. To my amazement, I discussed the intuition based theory about having shamanic ancestors who, just have to "help" or intervene in my life and the lives of men in my family...IE Grandpa Grinning Jaguar.

Background on Grandpa: He was my first teacher. Once upon a time, when he would care take my brother and I, we would get scared in his house by a growling sound down the dark hallway on the way to the bathroom. Of course it was him imitating a Cougar, and the having a rousing laugh after he made either my brother or I jump out of fear. Well, it has been that he taught us about the natural world and advocated the Golden Rule, and he further trusted and explained to us that for him, life was painful due to injuries from a long time ago and an individual had to learn to live with the pain...Hip pain.

Well Grandpa and I are older now and have come to an understanding of our similarities. He has hip pain that after "hip replacement surgery" he has not been able to overcome. I have hip pain or back pain depending the day (but everyday none-the-less). He and I look identical at this age; family members have compared his WW2 photos (when he was in his early twenties) to the way I look now and the resemblance is uncanny. Now Grandpa isn't one for the spiritual but Grandpa's Younger Brother (my Great Uncle) is, and I have visited this side of the family that relocated to Northern California only to find extensive talk of Spirit Guides....I even listed to my Great Uncle talk of Entheogens and giving names to the Spirit Guides he carries.

My hypothesis is that Great Uncle is a Shaman and Grandpa is a wounded healer on his spiritual path to become a shaman in fullness...the men in my family Acuna are "called!" There is no other way of looking at this, even a friend of mine from Sante Fe (Melissa Weiss Steele- The Oracle of Initiation) received messages on the subject of Ancestral Shamanism in my line about me, Grandpa, and my blood Uncle (Grandpa's youngest son).

Do you have any spiritual calling that is genetically linked and could therefore be incorprated into your healing this lifetime? Write me and tell me of your past, the connection to family living and dead, and messages that you know are truth but sometimes to afraid to follow to an end!

Story to be continued...

Namaste,

Va'ryn, A Grinning Jaguar
Shaman, Alchemist, Yogi

Order of the Sacred Spiral

Proverbs, Pirates, and Two Wolves!

2009-02-03T09:54:00.000-08:00

Aside,

My life has begun deep changing as I am pressed into a space of consciousness experimentation. I thought that it would never happen to me as I had been straight-edge for a long time and never wanted to come into so called "drugs". Under the title of medicine, I am able to learn about myself and my processes for understanding and learning. I feel sometimes reduced to childlike conversations in order to better understand people and I really enjoyed talking to the pirates that I met in the desert of Arizona some of whom seemed only there in order to sell me on their rocks. Joy excited me when everyone was so nice though. I was of course pleasant but I can understand if they saw me as a simpleton. I really enjoy being a simpleton especially since it gives me the upper hand when I shift from experiential learning in the moment to sharp ambitious conversation that has been honed by years of research and torturous lectures by my elders who always seemed to have the way for me before I could find it myself.

I am not longer into the way of efforts and actions that others convey to me that they have taken in this lifetime and that they still in their age feel is that appropriate path for others. Yesterday in the wee hours of the morning I discovered something and I am going to share it with you in context:

A Native American Proverb: "Two Wolves"

An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.

"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."

I was having a conversation with an old friend renewed, and she made me think of this proverb because she was describing exactly that: a struggle within herself that was forcing her to feel as if she would have to feed one wolf or the other. I let her reflect on the proverb for a bit, then I revealed to her the truth that I have come to notice through years of yoga practice and shamanism:

"Why feed the wolves?" I asked. "What if one reserves that food for something other than the wolves? Is it not a perfectly balanced decision not to interact with the wolves and to simply let them be. Let the wolves be wolves. Let them do what it is in their nature to do. There is no greater balance to this situation and to the situation you are describing aside from impersonality or non-involvement or (in yoga) surrender."

We are humans, and we have the capacity to make decisions the same as the Gods. Why not the next time someone asks you to choose either or the other, tell them "Neither or Both."

Have Abundance and Acceptance my dear Reader,

Va'ryn, Grinning Jaguar
Order of the Sacred Spiral
Varenanda@gmail.com

Research and Development:

http://metzneralchemicaldivination.org/workshops.html

http://www.greenearthfound.org/

We are But Humans--Life Path 6

2008-10-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

I have for many moons and years studied magick and myth-based belief systems. I know more about the topic than most young American 20-year-olds. I also have been in reflection upon my own set up beliefs and how unlike most men...(according to a Jungian fueled quote that Vox made the other day)...I am privileged enough to believe.

To have faith is an interesting and sometimes rare gift. So I practice all that I can. I practice everything, from Healing and Yoga to Meditations on death and curse-casting. This makes for an interesting lifestyle. One of my new friends whom is a member of the Taoist Bliss practice known as Kunlun, has been known to comment at how I am everywhere or everpresent within the different community circles of the holistic San Diegan locality.

I mentioned and explained sometime to her when she said this because this was not the first time I had heard this comment before.

Bi-Location http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation and Padre Pio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pio_of_Pietrelcina

When I was younger I was introduced to a Science Fiction Book and Movie Series known as Dune (Created by Frank Herbert). In this series the Main Character Paul is put through a Hero's Journey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces) and he takes the water of Life with puts him into an altered state where he discovers that he is the KWISATZ HADERACH: "Shortening of the Way." This is in my understanding one who is able to be in many places at once, it's past presence and future presence as well and the now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwisatz_Haderach

I have cultivated myself for many years now, since I began studying meditation and hypnosis at the age of 9, and it is a safe bet that (when awakened) my talents for presence will be similar to the talents experienced in the Dune novels by our lovely Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach.

I have studied Language, Mathematics, Geometry, Psychic Energy, Meditation, Yoga, Alchemy, Martial Arts, Linguistics, Ethnobotany and Shamanic Medicine, Asian Philisophy, and Physics. I love all these things.

I above all else have made it my life's path to generate human community and to find Balance and Love in this Great Responsibility.

I am a life path 6, and I am here to learn Balance and spread the great beingness of Balance. I will find this truth in myself and my community, through love and responsibility. Maybe you know other 6's, ask them to join us in this time of change as the world comes into a sense of Center...after being out of whack due to human mastery for so long.

With A "Know It All" Grin,

Varen, Madhi Alchemist

To Know thy shadow is to know thyself...and this singer has me pegged...enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuEw-9t9Xs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLzjNBFcw08

777--The Weaving of the Order

2008-09-16T19:43:00.001-07:00

Dear Readers,

Thank you for being patient with regard to our articles on Numberology and "being Life Path 7". In this entry we will discuss many differences and similarities that are evident in the beings/writings of the members of The Sacred Spiral. The purpose and join intention of this conclusion to Numerological exploration of the Seven aspect of self, is to show and commune with the great Web or Spiral-shaped being-ness that exists all around us.

Our Order was founded on a single purpose: String Theory

The basis for super string theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

As you may have noticed if you have been following our blog entries we are building to something. The first evident item was the 7's that became our first entries and our first students of the Order and of Alchemy. The Article written entitled "The First of Seven" was an assignment that a student of Yoga fulfilled and she is currently away from the Order of The Sacred Spiral HQ which is located in Carlsbad CA. This woman who goes by Alchemical Alias: SIGE ("seej", the goddess of the great silence, the Void) is force of superior researcher and experience through life travels but seems to always come from a place of curious innocence in which she "sounds" as if she knows "not of the conversation piece". If I may say so myself, Sige is a true Mystic Scientist.

Our Second Seven Pathwalker is a Golden Researcher who goes simply by a Latin word/name Vox (Voice). Vox is an adult male seeker and student of Alchemy who came to be with this community through a need to expand into social situations and takes an factual and almost contrarian approach to the Arts and Spirituality. This is of course very welcome as he amongst one other group member is very positive and compassionate with regard to "disenchanting" a persona or belief system. I have always valued my brothers and sisters who often "Judge a sword by it's flaws" without hesitation.

In my extended opinion Vox would be the best person to have around in the event of Demonic Possession.

Seven's always come in Triples right? That's how one determines whether or not he is In Heaven. Our third seven from Heaven is the Elegant Rebel, Ketaa. Also very adaptive to Knowledge and understanding with a twist; Ketaa communicates more clairevoyantly and seems to dominated by Emotional Awareness Centers. Ketaa is potentially the right Woman to have around when one (of course a well practiced one) is planning on contacting the spirit world or as the Order of the Golden Dawn puts it "Evocation to Visible Appearance". Often times she is a hard worker and is very grounded when on assignment but when allowed to be "free" she floats into the Fae or Fairy perceptions.

Introducing our Alchemical Team for Research and Development:
Ketaa, The Fae. Life Path 7
Vox of Truth. Life Path 7
Sige, Goddess of the Void. Life Path 7

Let's weave the web for a moment. Please close your eyes and focus at the Beginning of the Nose.

The Web of Sevens: Next Entry.

Varen, Alchemist

High Council of The Sacred Spiral

Order of The Sacred Spiral

760-710-1713

I Am A Seven (Life Path Study)

2008-09-11T20:47:00.001-07:00

Dear Readers,

This the three article in regard to our numberology study, with special focus on our members of life path 7. This article was written by Ketaa with Editing by Varen.

Sincerely,

The Order of the Sacred Spiral

"I am a seven.

I am a searcher, a watcher and a thinker. I'm driven to know, remembering beings and things that I had forgotten in the blink of life.

My focus mirrors perfectionism, yet only to the point at which the next learning surfaces.

My personal life can often be cloaked in privacy, safety found in the cave of energetic silence.

I am fiercely loyal and protective of my jungle and those special ones I call friends.

Spirituality. One word with as many meanings as dimensions. The spiritual storm is disrupting the layers, shifting the planes of my life.

Then I thought I wasn't... but I was just being a seven.

Thought without action fades from my existence. I am compelled to not just learn, but to learn quickly – and only what I need to know now – before I move on to the next phase of my spiritual bootcamp.

I am peaceful...yet I am never settled. The wind calls to me with visions of mountain peaks, dusty paths and foreign tongues.Rootless, a visitor in my own land.

I am affectionate...yet also a warrior. Upon my ocean walk tonight, the paradox was resolved. Amongst the many examples, my mind went to LeeLoo of the movie called The Fifth Element. This foreign being with an unguarded thirst for learning is soon faced with a negative force that was unbeknownst to her world. When her naïve trust is shattered by invading marauders, her warrior self roars. However, she is later immobilized by the overwhelming awareness of human destruction. Coming full circle, the only thing that saves LeeLoo from death is the love selflessly given from one soul to hers. With faith in the potential of mankind restored, she uses her remaining moments of consciousness to save the world.

P.S. Eternal Quest:

For many years, I have searched for a meaning and symbol special enough to grace the body canvas. Almost a decade ago, I found the meaning, and then, after much searching (I am a seven, after all), the symbol: Eternal Quest. Permanently etched, it's not a reminder per say, since my mind has known this truth since I was very young.

Always searching. Always moving... because the wind was blowing again. Now this quest has evolved into my spiritual remembering, or as the message was communicated to me, "connecting the dots." But it's not just about discovering my path -- it's also my reunion with those who will journey with me once again, my soul family. And now it begins to feel like home. "

---Ketaa

2012 AD Discussion

2008-09-08T14:45:00.000-07:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4951448613711060908

http://www.projectcamelot.org/project_looking_glass.html

http://www.projectcamelot.org/david_wilcock.html

Chance..Life Path 7

2008-09-08T13:05:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

This is another entry of a member of the Order who is also a Life Path 7. Enjoy this powerful viewpoint and I welcome you to recognize similarities between this one and Rachel's entry on the being of a 7.

Your Editor,

Varen, Alchemist
Founder
The Order of The Sacred Spiral

"Puzzles and chance."

I’ve always been drawn to puzzles
and chance. There’s something about numbers that makes me feel comfortable.
Concrete. Reliable. A one is a one, and when you put two and two together, you
get four. Lickity-split, no shit.
That being said, it may not be surprising to learn that I am a skeptical fellow. I’m not a believer, or at least not easily one. I agree with Carl Jung in that the ability to believe is a gift of grace, and one which not everyone shares. For some people, belief comes from research and contemplation.
Some people like me.
In the realm of numerology, my power number is a Seven. I found this amusing considering I’m studying Library Science. Sevens, I came to understand, are seekers of truth. This is fitting for me considering I feel driven to learn as much as I can so that I might eventually have enough pieces of the puzzle to get an idea of what it all
means.
To me, the world is as Socrates described it in his analogy of ‘shadows on a cave wall’. The premise is basically this:
Imagine a man living in a cave. He is, for some reason, chained to one wall and can only look straight ahead at the other wall across from him. He does not know that, just above and behind him, is a hole in the cave where light shines in. He sees straight in front of him, oblivious to the world outside, but when an animal or somesuch walks by, he sees the shadow cast on the wall in front of him. To him, this is the whole world, and all the while, he never even knows that there’s so much more out there.
It all goes straight "over his head".

All joking aside though, I am a spiritual person, and despite all my doubts and logic, I
can’t shake the feeling that there really is something out there greater than
ourselves, be it God, Buddha, or just an all-pervasive Force-like energy, and
this feeling sometimes nudges me to go with the proverbial flow.
So here I am, walking the razor’s edge between idealism and realism, searching for a truth I may not find in a game I don’t know the rules for. All I can do is try to figure it out and hope the dice land in my favor.

As I said, I’m constantly pursuing truth, and I hope to help others along the way.
I love debate, though can sometimes get heated. I in no way wish to offend
anyone; quite the opposite. -Vox

Know Thyself

2008-09-05T14:33:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

Smile you are doing research!

The First of Seven

2008-09-05T14:04:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

This Article was written by Active Research Sage and Member Rachel Chase:

Obsession #7

I'm obsessed with numbers. I have been for awhile now. And I'm not even that great at math. Which is odd since I was always placed in the advanced education tracks for maths in school. In the beginning, I suppose I was good at math. But somewhere along the line, as my friends and classmates continued to advance with complex equations and mysterious formulas, I convinced myself "math was hard", and "I just didn't get it" anymore. So I stopped being good at math, and I stopped caring about numbers.

Years later, Numbers would have the last laugh. Because even though I had decided to give them up, they had never given up on me. But like a wise parent, they understood my rebellion and frustration and waited. and waited. until the time came when I was ready to face them, and even...embrace them. However, this time, they showed up differently. They disguised themselves. They started showing up in random places, and yet with non-random faces. In books, on purchase receipts, on clocks, and license plates, in conversations, on airplane flights, and most importantly, in my birth Charts. oh! what clever little minxes! How did the Numbers start outsmarting me once again? I had vowed they would never get the best of me and here I was being pulled into their sultry little web of mystery.

Mystery...my Numbers know me so well, they knew that the only way to catch my fancy once and for all was to be so intriguing, so alluring, and so dynamic, I would not be able to resist them. "You're a Seven." they started to tell me.

"A Seven?" I queried, "What the heck is that?"

And that was it. Simply throwing down a challenge to me, in the form of a mystery, and down the rabbit hole I went. I HAD to know what "being a Seven" meant. Oh I could see those Numbers laughing now.

"heehee, We just told Rachel she is a Seven." and because "She is a Seven, she will stop at nothing to find out what that means."

"That is what Seven's do."

"She is ours!" ahahahaha, twirling their shiny spiky little moo-staches, or double lacing their web-i-nous mazes.

So I started searching....

I began my quest to find out:
1) Why I should care about Numbers at all (besides how much of one equals another when converting foreign currencies and therefore determining my purchasing power while fiercely bargaining in chaotic markets on my endless treks overseas).

2) How "being a Seven" could help me make sense of my life, and personal world. I may have even started asking questions like, "Seven? Do I look better in Blue or Red?" or "Mr. Seven? Why is it that cute boys always end up calling as soon as I don't give a damn anymore?" and I definitely think I asked some questions like "excuse me, Seven? How do I get from Here..to There?" and "Seven? Please tell me the Meaning of Life."

I was now obsessed with asking questions. That was just it. I was such a Seven that this Quest became, and remains, endless. Sevens are the most "heady", and introspective, spiritual, solitary, and desperately seeking susan's of the 9 cardinal numbers of the Life Path spectrum. They have to know WHY and if they're not asking WHY, they have to know HOW or WHAT. A Seven's passion, or raison d'etre, if you will, is tirelessly asking the big questions of life, and relentlessly researching and exploring the answers. Basically, if you kill the Mystery, you kill the Seven.

Just look at their physical make up, (like you would place a certain individual in a corresponding athletic sport according to their body type.) The figure Seven starts out up in the air, planing horizontally as if anchored in Heaven, Then it meets an abrupt angle and lightnings down to ground itself in the Earth. It is literally living in two worlds at once. And hence, we come to a Seven's weakness. Sometimes the Seven's get to feel so natural and at home in Heaven, they forget to come home to Earth. You kinda gotta give them a kick in the pants, a gentle reminder, to go back to the people, and the planet. yet this is their greatest strength, and gift to the World. They easily see, and know, what is invisible or unimportant to most of us Earthlings. The Seven's challenge then, and responsibility, is to continually hang out in Heaven, and the Realm of Spirit, collecting information, knowledge, wisdom, and perspective, and then travel back down to meet their peeps and share what they've learned. Because let's face it, we're only as strong as our weakest link, and if we don't all pull together and build each other up, our team is going to get its ass kicked in the finals.

Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci had never bothered to write anything down. What he learned, and explored about the inner and outer workings of our Bodies, and Universe, changed the whole World. And yet most of the time he probably didn't even have that intention in his space, he was just doing what his soul compelled him to do: research research research, and conceptualize, expand, and bring together all the links to further give shape to, and highlight the inherent Beauty and Dynamism that composes all the elements of this Dream we call Life.

And for the record, since I am a Seven, and Seven's don't like things to be obvious or easily discovered...

this is how you get your number:

You add up all the single digits of your birthdate+ year and reduce it again to a single digit.

We each inhabit a number frequency between 1-9 that is our Life Path Number.

It is our most important number in our charts because it is the Path we must follow to fulfill our Destiny. We are always stretching in and out of the vibration of our numbers, carefully, and sometimes ignorantly, defining a delicate balance of all this energy.

Every Life Path number has its own little specialty. so I can't speak for everyone, but here's a tip, if you ever find yourself wondering the "Why" or "How" in order to understand any situation or relationship in your life, just ASK.

This is what a Seven does. Then sit still, tune out the noises and distractions of this world, then tune into your Sacred Inner Space...and wait. and the Magic Irony is that, Seven, and the Answer.. will always show up.

"Search into the depths of Things: there, irony never descends - and when you arrive at the edge of greatness, find out whether this way of perceiving the world arises from a necessity of your being. For under the influence of serious Things it will either fall away from you (if it is something accidental), or else (if it is really innate and belongs to you) it will grow strong, and become a serious tool and take its place among the instruments which you can form your art with." -Ranier Maria Rilke
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This Article is revealed by Rachel Chase on 9/4/08. Edited by Varen Ananda, Alchemist

Sincerely,

The Order of the Sacred Spiral

TheSacredSpiral@Gmail.com
760-710-1713

Welcome the Order of the Sacred Spiral

2008-09-02T20:04:00.001-07:00

Welcome Readers,

We are a research group and circle of Friends who intend upon learning greater truth from Esoteric studies and Alchemy. Please read on in order to better understand us. Membership is usually open and we will be planning a trip to Peru in 2009 as part of the advanced student initiation process.

Yours Truely,

Varen, Alchemist