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.
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, April 18, 2008
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!
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!
Monday, March 10, 2008
A checkin with Hephaestus
Athena asked me to do a good thorough checkup on our horse Hephaestus, since he has been getting a lot of attitude recently and been very squirmy and dont-touch-me. The problem with Hep is that whenever I ask him what is going on, he just says "What? I don't know. I feel fine.". Her suggestion was to NOT ask him the explain or describe anything, but just to do a good Reiki overall check and see if his body could tell me anything.
He has good strong energy that moves pretty well. The first signal I got was over his flanks and rear end: kind of itchy and twitchy feeling. It was not in his digestive system (which felt fine). I finally narrowed it down to his private areas and his rear. He is due for a sheath cleaning anyway (oh joy) so maybe this will help him feel better; but I suspect that his melanomas are part of the problem. He has them all over that area, and received wisdom is that they are inoperable but harmless. But they surely don't feel good.
His legs also feel vaugely achy. Not the joints, but the long bones and muscles. A little like when you get the aches from the flu? Thats one reason he keeps shifting his weight and stretching out his legs, it feels better.
So no real answer. We are trying to decide what supplements to give him next, hopefully something will help him feel better.
He has good strong energy that moves pretty well. The first signal I got was over his flanks and rear end: kind of itchy and twitchy feeling. It was not in his digestive system (which felt fine). I finally narrowed it down to his private areas and his rear. He is due for a sheath cleaning anyway (oh joy) so maybe this will help him feel better; but I suspect that his melanomas are part of the problem. He has them all over that area, and received wisdom is that they are inoperable but harmless. But they surely don't feel good.
His legs also feel vaugely achy. Not the joints, but the long bones and muscles. A little like when you get the aches from the flu? Thats one reason he keeps shifting his weight and stretching out his legs, it feels better.
So no real answer. We are trying to decide what supplements to give him next, hopefully something will help him feel better.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Shaman horse
Athena and I went to visit a friend's horses this weekend, so I could talk to them and give them a little Reiki.
Mo and her husband have four horses. The first three were normal, easy to talk to, horses. We had a fun time talking with (and about) them. The fourth was different. Daskala is a Medicine Hat horse.
Mo and her husband have four horses. The first three were normal, easy to talk to, horses. We had a fun time talking with (and about) them. The fourth was different. Daskala is a Medicine Hat horse.
Not really knowing what Medicine Hat meant, I thought "Oh that's nice" and went ahead and tried to contact her. Nothing. I tried my spider thread, sent it to connect with her spirit. Nothing. It was like there was no one there. I pushed some Reiki energy, and it just stopped. Now I knew something was different. Instead of pushing and probing, I just tried to be receptive; then I knew that Daskala was blocking me completely. She has a shield around her spirit, a circle of protection that lets nothing pass without her approval. It was not directed at me, the shield was always there, she never took it down. I realized that this was not just an ordinary horse, but an adept with a high spiritual awareness.
So I stepped back, and apologized for being rude. She kindly but firmly said that she would not allow me (or anyone) to connect directly with her spirit. It was "not safe" to be open, with no protections; she couldn't just let any Tom, Dick or Harry poke into her spirit or read her thoughts! So I instead spoke to my animal guides, and asked them to help me explain that I just wanted to talk for a few minutes, and meant no harm.
She acknowleged the tree with respect, but would not talk to it. Spider she dimissed as uninteresting. But when my bird guide spoke, it turned out that she has a bird guide too! Our birds spoke together, and Daskala agreed to speak with me.
Daskala said that, just as Mo suspected, she was there on a mission. She is there to help Mo learn something. She would not say what. Mo asked could she tell me when? Will it be soon, or will it be a long time? Daskala said that it would not be right for her to talk about this. When the time was right, the lesson would be learned. Be content with that.
Daskala is a very strong-minded horse (not stubborn, that is different). She has a goal, a duty, and she will see it through. Whether the learning will be easy or hard depends on Mo. But the lesson WILL be learned!
She reminds me a lot of stories of an Inuit shaman; she will teach you, even if the lesson involves shooting all your relatives and dragging you home :) Of maybe of a Kung-Fu master, who will whack his student in the head and throw him in the dirt if that will help the lesson hit home. She has a very strong streak of mischief in her, something of a Trickster.
I feel privileged to have spoken with Daskala. Her gifts are far above mine, I am grateful that she shared some of her time with me. But I don't know that I would want have her choose me as her student :D
So I stepped back, and apologized for being rude. She kindly but firmly said that she would not allow me (or anyone) to connect directly with her spirit. It was "not safe" to be open, with no protections; she couldn't just let any Tom, Dick or Harry poke into her spirit or read her thoughts! So I instead spoke to my animal guides, and asked them to help me explain that I just wanted to talk for a few minutes, and meant no harm.
She acknowleged the tree with respect, but would not talk to it. Spider she dimissed as uninteresting. But when my bird guide spoke, it turned out that she has a bird guide too! Our birds spoke together, and Daskala agreed to speak with me.
Daskala said that, just as Mo suspected, she was there on a mission. She is there to help Mo learn something. She would not say what. Mo asked could she tell me when? Will it be soon, or will it be a long time? Daskala said that it would not be right for her to talk about this. When the time was right, the lesson would be learned. Be content with that.
Daskala is a very strong-minded horse (not stubborn, that is different). She has a goal, a duty, and she will see it through. Whether the learning will be easy or hard depends on Mo. But the lesson WILL be learned!
She reminds me a lot of stories of an Inuit shaman; she will teach you, even if the lesson involves shooting all your relatives and dragging you home :) Of maybe of a Kung-Fu master, who will whack his student in the head and throw him in the dirt if that will help the lesson hit home. She has a very strong streak of mischief in her, something of a Trickster.
I feel privileged to have spoken with Daskala. Her gifts are far above mine, I am grateful that she shared some of her time with me. But I don't know that I would want have her choose me as her student :D
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Lots of AC practice
Athena, my wife, has been shopping on the Internet for a new horse a lot lately. I have been getting a lot of practice with doing quick long-distance AC probes, to see what a horse is like! It is getting much easier to use a few photos to open up a link quickly and get a reading on what kind of horse it is, what they like and dislike, are they smart or not-so-smart, calm or spooky, etc.
I quickly found that I don't like using the normal Reiki distance-healing symbol to make the contact. I find it cumbersome, overly complex, and impossible to memorize. So instead I have started asking Spider to help, since one of Spider's gifts is communiciation (making connections, bridging gaps). So I open my gates, raise my energy, then visualize a big spinnerette shooting out a long strand of fine, strong silk from my mind to the heart of the horse in the picture. I can feel it unwinding through a great distance, and then contact opens just as if the horse was next to me.
This 'spider-silk' distance connection has become easy to do, and very effective. And it is much easier than memorizing a long string of Japanese characters that I don't understand anyway!
I find it continually fascinating how much of a strong sense of individuality I get from these quick readings. Each horse feels like a different person, with attitudes, likes, and responses that may be completely different that another horse who looks very similar. I don't feel like I am 'planning' or 'projecting' these feelings, otherwise why would the results I get surpise me so often?
I quickly found that I don't like using the normal Reiki distance-healing symbol to make the contact. I find it cumbersome, overly complex, and impossible to memorize. So instead I have started asking Spider to help, since one of Spider's gifts is communiciation (making connections, bridging gaps). So I open my gates, raise my energy, then visualize a big spinnerette shooting out a long strand of fine, strong silk from my mind to the heart of the horse in the picture. I can feel it unwinding through a great distance, and then contact opens just as if the horse was next to me.
This 'spider-silk' distance connection has become easy to do, and very effective. And it is much easier than memorizing a long string of Japanese characters that I don't understand anyway!
I find it continually fascinating how much of a strong sense of individuality I get from these quick readings. Each horse feels like a different person, with attitudes, likes, and responses that may be completely different that another horse who looks very similar. I don't feel like I am 'planning' or 'projecting' these feelings, otherwise why would the results I get surpise me so often?
Friday, October 26, 2007
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.
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.
Monday, October 22, 2007
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.
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.
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