Feather work

Last weekend I went into the hospital for a colon blockage.  While I was there Athena brought me a turkey feather which she had purified and smoked.  She is working on bird magic, and I have helped her with some rituals.  She suggested that I work with the feather and try bird magic to assist the work the doctors were doing.  Alternative healing is not a substitute for standard medicine - but it can support and assist standard medicine.

I blew over the feather and played it, to stimulate the energy, and then brushed it down over my body, repeatedly over my abdomen and down my legs, trying to encourage the energy to flow through my body.  I felt the energy tingle and move a bit.  I could feel the wind the feather raised; it is amazing how easily the feather moves air, with almost no effort!

I worked the feather clockwise over my abdomen, urging things to move normally.  I tried to bring in bird magic, and direct it towards healing and health.  I could really feel things reacting inside; subtle but noticeable.   I continued this for 5 or 10 minutes, and repeated it several times over the next couple of days.

My blockage cleared after a couple of days, without surgery.  I am recovering nicely at home now.  I really think that the energy work helped speed things, along with some of the other work Athena did.

I will continue to do the feather work daily, until everything is running smooth inside :)

A scorched hand teaches best

I got a bad cut on my brow last weekend, which required some stiches.  That evening, after doing some Reiki on it, I tried 'pulling' some of the pain out.  I have done this many times for Athena in the past, and she has told me that it can be painful to do but that it does help.  This is the first time, however, that I have ever had occasion to do it to myself.  OUCH!  It hurt a LOT!  Athena wasn't exaggerating!  :D  I was not able to do any more, because it hurt to much.

Since then I have been more careful when I pull pain for Athena or for T-Man.  I take some time first to loosen the pain up, and only draw off what will come easily, rather than trying to grab and pull out whatever I can.  Athena says this is feels much better, and T-Man was much happier with it too. 

Oh, well, one lives and learns.  I am glad that I can do it in a way that is more comfortable to others, now.

Circle of healing for T-Man

Athena's horse T-Man is on stall rest now, after getting a cracked pelvis and a big hematoma.  We converted the run-in shed in his pasture into a stall, so he can see his girls and not get too lonely, since he may be there for several months. 

I have been doing Reiki on him every day, to try and help him heal well and faster.  I also put protections on his stall.  I had done something similar with my wife's mare Dear One, when she was doing poorly, with assistance from Spider and Oak.  This was a somewhat different situation, since I was less concerned with keeping out bad influences than in concentrating beneficial ones.  Athena had also gotten me a new rattle, which I used for the first time.  It is a beautiful Raku rattle, with lovely iridescent copper-matte glaze, about the size of my palm.  It is decorated with some tiny colored raku beads strung on rawhide.  It has a rich, soft, earthy sound.

I started at the corner post at the gate entrance, and opened up to the energy, and called for help and assistance from Spider, Oak, Swallow, the Green Man, and any other benevolent forces that could aid me.  The response was positive but sluggish, so I tried using the rattle to aid in the calling, shaking it my hand in three groups of three while calling.  I got a much stronger response, including energy from the Green Man and from the Indian spirit teacher who has danced with me recently.  Together, we sank an energy well at the corner post, and drew up a column of strong, warm energy into the post.  I started around the stall clockwise (sunward), shaking the rattle gently and drawing a thick rope of vibrant energy around to the next post; where we again sank another well, anchoring the rope and starting a new one.  I continued around the stall until I returned to my starting point and anchored it again at the post.  This left the stall guarded by four columns of rich earth-sky energy at the four corners, surrounded by a thick warm circle of energy that draw in blessings and healing power.  I thanked all who helped me, and left knowing that T-Man was well protected.

Healing the itchies

Well, its been a while since I posted.  Life has a way of getting very complex!  I am trying to get back on my path, and take some time again for personal growth

Last week, Athena got a very bad case of itchy bug bites, possibly chiggers.  I got a few, but she got a lot and the itching was driving her crazy.  She asked me to use Reiki to help.  I gave it a try, and asked for help from Oak and Spider in getting the poison out of her.  I felt them help; Oak seemed to have an affinity with the malady and was able to counter some of the irritation, and Spider cast her web to try and catch the poison and drag it out.  I also set up a circular circuit of energy into her ankle and back out into my hand, where I could catch and hold it it briefly and then dispose of it.  Athena reported an intense feeling of energy, and I just pulled as hard as I could.  I felt a lot of bad energy come out, cold and tingly.  She said that it felt much more comfortable, and it continued to improve over the next several days.

Melanomas - yuck

Athena's horse Hep has a lot of melanomas.  They are common with grey horses; they are not like human melanomas.  They are swollen hard lumps varying from dime- to quarter-sized.  They proliferate across the skin, but generally don't invade organs.  They are considered inoperable: if you remove them, they come back faster and bigger.  Received wisdom is that they are largely harmless and there is nothing you can do about them.  Hep's are all over his rear and sheath, and almost certainly up into his colon.
Athena has just started a new herbal supplement specifically for melanomas.   She asked me to use Reiki to get a feel for how the melanomas have spread, and to encourage them to break up.

Hep was very jittery about letting energy into that area, and kept moving around -- his usual thing.  He settled some after a minute and I concentrated on really soaking the energy into and around the melanomas.  After a few minutes, I really made contact -- I could sense them all through is lower gut.  As I poured energy into them and pushed at them, I could really feel them -- like big lumps all over my arms.  I didn't let them move up past my forearms, but just used the opening to really hit them with energy and told them to break up.  I also asked Hep to tell them to go away and reject them.  In a moment I felt a huge wave of heat move through the area, and I think the melanomas responded.  I don't expect them to just drop off, but hopefully they will start to gradually shrink.

When I felt them on my arms, I considered trying to 'draw' them out of Hep into myself where I could cast them away, something I have done in the past with aches and pains.  But I could tell that they were much to strong for this, and that if I really pulled them into me I could be in danger.  So I set firm limits on what I would allow into me, accepting the awareness of them but refusing any essense or tainted energy.  Instead, I kept the focus of pushing healing energy out, and sending the melanomas away.

Time will tell if the supplements and/or the Reiki will help him.  We will keep working!

Gifts from Oak

There was a part of my last spirit journey that I had not written down.  Near the end, I looked at the tree's leaves closely, trying to determine exactly what kind of tree it was.  But the leaves flickered and changed shape as a looked, I could not pin it down.  After a moment, the tree chided me and said that the shape of the leaves doesn't really matter.  "Leaves are prayers to the Sun, but acorns are gifts of the Moon.  The morning after a full moon is an excellent time to collect newly dropped acorns.  They will be filled with both the blessings of the Moon and gifts of the tree."

Well, that night had been a full moon, in fact the largest and brightest full moon in several years.  So the next day when I was out at the barn, I remembered and looked over at the oak trees.  As soon as I looked, several acorns dropped to the ground.  I went over and collected a small handful of the freshly fallen ones.  I didn't know what to do with them, so I kept them in a bowl.

Yesterday I saw the bowl, and I immediately knew what to do with them: put them in the ground in a circle around the paddock where my wife's horse is recuperating.  I did that today, placing each one in the ground with a brief wish that they will lend her some of the Oak's gifts: strength, endurance, and the ability to weather a storm without cracking.  (she already has patience and wisdom in plenty :D)

I hope this helps her continue to improve.  Her feet are slowly healing, it is now an endurance match for her to keep strong and positive until she can get back on her feet.

Help from the spider

As I wrote a while ago, the spiders in the barn gave me a symbol/spell to use to help my wife's horse's hooves.  I have used it now a number of times.  I am getting a better understanding of it now, it is definitely a symbol to catch and cast out "bad stuff": diseased tissue, foreign material, infection, etc.  She really needs it, she has subsolar abcesses on both front feet and is sloughing off the soles.  There is probably rotation, but the coffin bone has not emerged through the sole yet (fingers crossed, that would be very bad).  We are working hard now to keep her feet clean and free from infection.  She has to drain off any remaining dead tissue from the abcess and get the exposed sole laminae to harden so she can walk on them before the bone can break through.  She is game for it, and we are all working hard with her!  

Today after cleaning and packing her feet with antibiotics, a small spider appeared on her bandage and ran across it a few times as if checking it out, then into the grass beside her.  I hope this is a sign from Spider that She is helping her, and that she is on the mend.

Help from the Green Man

My wife's horse is doing better, her abscess broke out and drained on Sunday. On Wednesday she had told me that it would break out over the weekend, and she was right :D. The circle of protection helped, I think. I charged it up again several times. It was interesting; from inside I could pour in more energy, but from outside I could not touch the energy, I could only touch the barrier and strengthen it. I left it open at the top and bottom to draw earth-energy and heaven-energy for her. She said that it helped her feel better, especially on Saturday when there was a horse show on the premises and lots of strange people going by.

Also on Friday the spiders I had asked for help suggested a web symbol for her hoof, which I used. I don't know what it did, I don't think there was a lot of power in it, but it was offered with kindness and much appreciated. I think it was intended to help catch and cast out the infected tissue. I used to be very frightened of spiders, but since I started communicating with them my fear is almost gone and I have a lot of respect for them and try to treat them well.

On Monday I had a strange experience.

Monday morning my wife's horse was walking much better, but then she coliced. (Colic is an intense intestinal pain, often caused by a blockage. In horses, it can be deadly). We called the vet and while we were waiting we were madly walking her back and forth (she can't be allowed to roll, she could twist her gut). She was in a lot of pain. I was walking beside her doing all the Reiki I could do. The Cho Ku Rei worked well, I was getting a lot of power, but it wasn't enough. I tried the distance-healing symbol, directing the energy back in time to early in the morning just before the blockage formed; trying to reduce its effects or disrupt the formation so that it would break up more easily in the present. I couldn't quite remember the symbol, but I remembered what it felt like to use it, so I did my best to recreate that and I could feel it working. Within a 30 seconds she had calmed down, and was in much less distress. She was still having discomfort, but not nearly so bad. 

She was worn out, and laid down. This is a danger time, because if she starts to roll she can really hurt herself. I sent out a call for anything that could help her, and on impulse asked for help from the Green Man (which I had been reading about online the day before). The image of the Green Man is one that has always felt significant to me. I immediately felt a very large flux of power coming in from all around, that felt like a green wave. I channeled it into her and she relaxed. It kept flowing for a few minutes and I let it flow into her, and as it tapered off she began to look better. She sat quietly without trying to roll. The vet arrived a few minutes later and gave her a muscle relaxant, and she was soon eating grass and feeling much better.

She is back to normal now (although tired) and the vet says there is no sign of a blockage. She thinks it may have been gas, which can happen when a horse is stressed. That could be (and we are treating her accordingly). But a part of me wonders if sending the energy back in time didn't un-make the blockage? I don't really know what happed, but I am very glad that I could help her. I am especially glad that help came to me when I needed it.