We've decided to have a draw at the Open House. Anyone present gets a ballot for one of Brian's awesome charcuterie serving boards. We will give out ballots for the entire month of December - the draw will be held Dec. 30th, in time for someone to use it on New Year's Eve! A secondary prize consists of a pen, or a pair of my custom earrings (your choice). As independent artists we appreciate the support of our community.

Moonstar Lodge Holiday Open House

Saturday, Dec. 2 & Sunday, Dec. 3

10 AM to 5 PM

Seasonal refreshments and gift certificates are available.

There’s plenty of parking and we’re wheelchair accessible.

302 Lafontaine Rd. West, Tiny

L9M 0H1

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Moonstar Lodge

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Bring (or mention) this coupon to the Open House on Dec. 2/3 and receive 10% off your purchases! Taxes are included! Visa/Mastercard

302 Lafontaine Rd. West, Tiny, ON L9M0H1

 

Sacred Ceremoniees and Rituals

Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals Tomorrow! There are a couple of seats left…

Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals – Sunday, Nov 5, 1 PM to 4:30 PM Ritual formalizes the sacred events in life. In this workshop we perform approximately 10 ceremonies during this afternoon – it is a hands-on day. Concepts cover sacred ceremonies for physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life, as well as markers of life events, the seasons and life journeys. This is a very intimate and special day, so attendance is limited. Bring a notebook, scissors, and a bag to take home your finished objects. $40.00

Tapping/EFT – Sunday, Nov. 12, 1 PM to 4:30 PM “Emotional Freedom Technique” is enjoying a resurgence in the last few years, but in fact was founded in the 1980s as “TFT” or thought field therapy. During this afternoon we’ll go through the entire EFT process and I’ll give you some additional information not generally available. You will come away knowing how to deal with a plethora of issues in this simple 3-minute routine. Please bring a binder for the notes. $40.00

Dowsing – Advanced – Sunday, Nov. 19, 9:30 AM – 4 PM In this level we focus more on radiesthetic dowsing, but adding skills like orienteering, advanced navigation, the alphabet and more. We start by reviewing the skills learned in geomantic dowsing. The whole day will be spent analyzing chakras, crystal layouts, haric points, and healing. Everyone gets a chance to practise and receive healing through the day. Don’t forget your rods and pendulums, as well as your lunch. $80.00
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Put a ring on it...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the nature of relationships. I’ve talked with couples where marriages of long-standing are a little tired and the relationship is sagging [in a manner of speaking]. I’ve also been talking to some young folk about an impending marriage.  As we plan this marriage together and the details of the ceremony, I was asked why people would bother with the expense of wedding rings. Let me digress…

In 25 years of performing marriages and attending weddings [please note that the marriage is the legal commitment ceremony defined by law and the wedding is the party celebrating the legal union], I’ve had about a 50-50 ratio of failed to successful unions. I’ve participated in celebrations where it was planned right down to the colour of the nail polish on the bridesmaids and the number of sequins on the bride’s dress. I’ve also performed ceremonies where we're standing in an arbor in a backyard with a bonfire and several attentive canines. When I plan ceremonies with couples I’m not about being the “wedding planner”, but I am all about the words spoken and the commitments made…

So the young couple asking about the need for rings was given my take on the subject. Some traditional theologians speak of the ring as representing an endless circle – love never-ending.  It’s true this is part of the ideology, but as a practising medium it has much more to do with the change in individual’ s auric field [a.k.a. corona discharge] than it does with historic convention. I’ve watched with the exchange of rings how an individual’s field suddenly blossoms to double its size and encapsulates the field of the betrothed. At the other end of the spectrum I’ve watched when a couple in distress, sitting before me in counseling, has taken their rings off. Their field is diminished and stops encircling their partner. This is a pretty heavy duty experience.  I ask people never to remove their rings in anger or haste.

In teaching the medicine wheel over the years I’ve talked about the cycles within cycles and wheels within wheels – the cycle of the day, the week, the moon cycle and cycles of birth, life fulfilled, and death.  Small cycles morphing into big cycles, like the seasons, the years and life itself. These are natural rhythms cycles we cannot escape, but we can augment them by the choices of the connections we make intimately and globally. To that end I have exchanged simple rings – friendship rings – with people who are dear to me. I’ve exchanged marriage rings with partners. I’ve shared family rings.  For me personally there is no greater token of the endless cycle of love, even if it is between friends rather than betrothed partners, then the exchange of a ring.

It is with some bemusement that I noted the lyrics of a song by Beyoncé in recent years. I’m not a huge fan of contemporary rap-style music, but I noted in the lyrics her suggestion that if her friend was serious, they needed to “put a ring on it”.  I agree. So any couple contemplating a formal marriage gets to see what their auric field looks like with – and without – the exchange of rings. I pull out the dowsing rods, and I show people the exchange of energy which comes with the exchange of a ring.  The rings don’t have to be platinum and diamonds; a simple silver band is an adequate choice.  We are what we think and we are what we project with the words we say…

I’m recently aware of karmic bonds between people I know and hold dear… people coming to the end of this earth walk as well.  It’s all about our consciousness, the elevating of this consciousness and raising our vibration to the highest it can be before we transition to the next level of being. It acknowledges or recognizes bittersweet karmic bonds. It’s never too late to put a ring on it…

Peace.

P.S. Just in case I have to practise what I preach, I wear a size 6 ring…  

Autumn Classes and Gatherings

As we write this, the leaves have barely begun to turn colour. There are still 2 weeks of summer but it feels like November outside. Time to think of courses and gatherings. Grab a cup of your favourite beverage and have a read…

New! - Private Group Channeling Sessions. It is $150 for a group of 4 - $40 per person for additional participants [up to a maximum of 8]. Most of these sessions will be held on a weeknight evening at 7 PM, but there are occasional weekend dates. Please contact us for details.

Upcoming classes:
(Please note that class end times are approximate.]

Dowsing - Sunday, September 24, 9:30 AM to 4 PM This popular course provides training in the two forms of divining. We demonstrate the use of a single, suspended pendulum and 2 L-shaped dowsing rods. We should have good enough weather to assure lots of practise outside doing geomantic dowsing, and learn radiesthetic dowsing for healing work. This class looks at ley lines, vortices and ghost paths. Please bring a lunch, binder, pen, crystals, pendulums and L-rods if you have them. We have pendulums and L-rods at a nominal fee for those students who require them. $80.00

Meditation Mondays - Oct. 2 to Dec 4 (inclusive) 7 PM to 8:30 PM as we work toward some Ascension classes in the winter let’s focus on meditation practise. We will start with a gratitude/burden basket exercise, progressing to various international forms of meditation, and concluding with a private introspective time. $100.00 for ten weeks, or $12 per class.

New Format! Psychospiritual Development - Sunday, Oct. 15 9:30 AM to 4 PM In order to assist those traveling from a distance, we’re doing a basic course over a whole day. There will be opportunities for practise in the Channeling Circles which follow on Tuesday evenings. Here is the course description:
This is the most popular, intense and exciting of our courses. Developing psychically and spiritually go hand-in-hand, and happen in a safe (if swift) format. This is not for the faint-of-heart; you must be ready to try mediumship, trance work, and psychokinetic practises. The beginner level works at a quick pace through the metaphysical basics to understand the possible paths of spiritual development, and acts as the foundation for the advanced level which focuses only on mediumship, trance work, healing, and meditation practises. Psychospiritual development is THE foundation for every other course we have, and will, ever teach. It is a directed, formal study of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairolfaction and psychokinesis through a variety of practises: levitation, spirit photography and recordings, learning to see the aura (aurvoyance), apparitions, psychometry, meditation, altered states of consciousness, psychomantium (scrying), out-of-body experiences, karma, phases of spiritual growth, types of spiritual beings and more. Mediumship techniques and channelling are practised weekly in the Channeling Circle on Tuesday evenings. Historic techniques and modern, scientific parameters are studied. This course changes people - be prepared for many new life experiences, and homework! Students are to bring: a binder, pen, any course notes from earlier development groups and PLEASE DO NOT WEAR PERFUME. Do dress comfortably and remember to bring your lunch. Class size is limited - register early to ensure your space! $80.00
New! Channeling Circle Tuesday Oct. 17 to Nov. 28, 7 to 9 PM This is where all past and present students of Psychospiritual Development can come to practise the mediumship skills learned in Psychospiritual Development, and practise together some of the many exercises (mirrors, automatic writing, ITC/EVP’s, water divination, crystal work, etc.). Bring your dowsing gear and a snack to share! You must attend at least 6 of 7 classes to receive a certificate. $70.00

Oracle Cards - Beginner – Sunday, Oct. 22, 1 PM to 4 PM This is always a fun afternoon of learning the differences between tarot decks and oracle formats. It’s important to learn the right way to ask questions, and focus within to our higher self. We will work with various new oracle cards and divination types and everyone comes away with a reading. We also discuss care, handling and cleansing cards. Bring a binder for handouts. Seating is limited so register early. Feel free to bring your own decks, and a snack to share. $40.00

Oracle Cards – The Spreads – Sunday, Oct. 29, 1 PM to 4 PM In this class, we work with at least 7 different card spreads. I will provide printed templates for the spreads, with simple descriptions of the card connections. There are some rare spreads included in our course since information of basic spreads is common. Bring a binder for handouts. Seating is limited so register early. Please bring your own decks, and a snack to share. $40.00

Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals – Sunday, Nov 5, 1 PM to 4:30 PM Ritual formalizes the sacred events in life. We will perform approximately 10 ceremonies during this afternoon – it is a hands-on day. Concepts cover sacred ceremonies for physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life, as well as markers of life events. This is a very intimate and special day, so attendance is limited. Bring scissors and a bag to take home your finished objects. $40.00

Tapping/EFT – Sunday, Nov. 12, 1 PM to 4:30 PM “Emotional Freedom Technique” is enjoying a resurgence in the last few years, but in fact was founded in the 1980s as “TFT” or thought field therapy. During this afternoon we’ll go through the entire EFT process and I’ll give you some additional information not generally available. You will come away knowing how to deal with a plethora of issues in this simple 3-minute routine. Please bring a binder for the notes. $40.00

Dowsing – Advanced – Sunday, Nov. 19, 9:30 AM – 4 PM In this level we focus more on radiesthetic dowsing while reviewing the skills learned in geomantic dowsing. The whole day will be spent analyzing chakras, crystal layouts, haric points, and healing. Everyone gets a chance to practise and receive healing through the day. Don’t forget your rods and pendulums, as well as your lunch. $80.00

Upcoming Events

Holiday Open House - Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3, 10 AM to 5 PM. We’re not sure what we’ll put on special this year but there’s always a surprise. Seasonal refreshments and gift certificates are available.

Winter Solstice Gifting and Potluck - Sunday, December 17, 1 PM - 4 PM. Our annual gifting celebration is a most powerful gathering. It is a potluck, and you need to bring an object to “re-home” in a plain bag – something which you no longer need and wish to pass on the energy. This is an opportunity for great spiritual exchange. For further information email me! Registration is essential to hold a seat as space is limited.

Of Wacky celestial happenings...

Meteors, Eclipses, and Lion’s Gate – Oh My!

There is a plethora of information accumulating online [especially via social media and blogs] concerning the imminent opening of Lion’s Gate Portal, the partial lunar eclipse tomorrow during full moon, the amazing Perseid meteor showers, 5 planets going retrograde during this period - all culminating with the full solar eclipse on August 21 – which coincides with new moon. With so much information out there I would normally not weigh in on the subject publicly; however, it behooves me to speak on some matters that add to this discourse because I follow lunar astrology in addition to solar astrology.

There is a dearth of information on aboriginal lunar aspects, as far as I can find…

Let me backtrack and make this a bit personal.  19 years ago today I went into labour a month and a half prematurely. In 1998 we had a similar collection of celestial events over a 4 or 5 day period which I knew about many months in advance [thanks to my Llewellyn annual lunar guidebook]. I’d gone so far as to warn my obstetrician at McMaster - as early as March - that I had concerns about going into labour during this celestial convergence in August ’98.  I told him about our aboriginal traditions around lunar astrology and the influence of the moon on rupturing membranes.  He pooh-poohed me and said it was much too early in the pregnancy for that to happen and not to worry.  Needless to say when we finally drove to McMaster on August 11 to have my daughter he gave me a very quizzical look. So much for birthing at the end of September 1998!

That celestial event in August 19 years at ago was not anywhere near as powerful as this pending Lion’s Gate phenomena.  I often talk to my students about preparing oneself for the psychospiritual impact of events like this and likening it to being a surfer off the coast of Hawaii. One wants to be the surfer on the top of the wave hanging 10 and experiencing the best damned surf of their life. One does not want to be the unfortunate surfer who is pummelled by the waves, dragged beneath by the undertow and having their derrière chomped on by great white sharks. To paraphrase, one either rides these waves or is drowned by them.

I’m not a professional astrologer but I do know my way around an astrological solar chart.  I’m more at home with lunar charts and aboriginal aspects and these are the bits of information missing from the mainstream glut on social media. 

In a perfect year we would have a New Moon coinciding with winter solstice on December 21. However this year the 1^st moon of the New Year was not until December 29/16. In a perfect year we would be in the 9^th moon cycle called “Harvest Time Moon”. The grandmother of the 9^th moon cycle is called “Setting Sun Woman”. So we are actually still in the 8^th moon cycle known as “Hot Weather Moon” and governed by the grandmother “She Who Heals”.

How divinely synchronistic is this! She Who Heals is the grandmother in governance during this time of celestial and lunar convergences of a kind and type we have not experienced in decades, if not centuries!  Who better to appeal to for support and help as we ride the spiritual surf? Who better to keep us on top of that proverbial surfboard?

Let me provide her curriculum vitae for you.  She Who Heals is:

Ø the intuitive healer, midwife, herbalist, keeper of the healing arts, the singer of the death song and keeper of the life-and-death mysteries,

Ø The guardian of the medicine routes and healing herbs as the servant of humankind,

Ø the mother of intuition, all rites of passage, cycles of birth, death and rebirth.

She teaches us:

Ø how to serve others with a happy heart using our healing abilities,

Ø how to understand and honour the life cycles of birth, death, and rebirth,

Ø how to believe in the miracles of life through our connections to our spiritual essences,

Ø how to understand the plant kingdom and the healing uses of all parts of plants

Ø how to serve the truth.

So how does one manage in these times of “Winds and Changes”? There are number of ways to walk the medicine wheel over the next few weeks.  If you think of the wheel in terms of a guide, then you need to look at physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual methods of dealing with these intense energies that are pelting the earth. Let’s break it down a little bit…

Physical options include things like overhauling one’s diet immediately.  Not necessarily huge changes but eliminating those foods just for a few weeks that cause us to slow down and feel sluggish.  Opt out of those red meat burgers, pop and fries. Pick a veggie burger and salad.  We’re coming into corn moon, so eating with the season is ideal.  Grab those fresh veggies out of the garden because our next moon time is called Harvest Moon.  Eating with the season puts you in rhythm with the earth so physically that’s very healing… Go for some hikes in the woods…  Take your shoes off and feel the damp pine needles beneath your feet…  Breathe deeply and try to just be in nature like this for 20 minutes.  Standing in water up to your ankles at your favourite beach helps stimulate the meridians which travel up through the body. Let your body feel the peace. Get lots of sleep. 

As we walk around the medicine wheel and look at some emotional supports for these celestial occurrences, take stock of the things/people which trigger you.  If it’s time for some emotional housekeeping these are the energies to do it in.  Take stock of the drama creators and energy vampires.  Just as we purge our homes of unwanted belongings and worn out things, so must we also eliminate the people in our lives whose energies no longer serve us.  Love and compassion are key - what you send out you get back 10,000 fold - but you can love from a distance. Ask She Who Heals to help you heal broken relationships and circumstances which cause you emotional distress. 

A very practical intellectual thing to do is set up an altar space in your home.  It doesn’t have to be huge! Grab a favourite candle, some matches, a couple of favourite crystals, incense and a holder.  Ask for a feather, an angelic apport, and place a photo of a loved one on the altar.  Put your Oracle cards there. Find a small box or bowl into which you place pieces of paper with focused thoughts. (Colette Baron-Reid calls these boxes “God boxes”]. What we think we manifest.  Here is a chance for the mental clarity these energies can provide to stimulate clear goals. Write those goals on the slips of paper and put them in the box.  During these few weeks of wild energies come back to this altar several times a day if you need to and use the slips of paper to help you stay focused.  Light the candle! Hold the crystal and breathe into it!  If in the clarity of your visions you find your objectives changing consider this a bonus! She Who Heals can assist with these objectives by providing clarity and bringing light where the ego would keep us in shadow.

Spiritually it’s important to use these celestial energies to stay mindfully in the moment.  If you meditate once a day increase it twice a day. If you use Oracle cards pull them out, dust them off and invest some time with your higher self.  Talk to She Who Heals while you work with your Oracle cards. Take those junkets in the forest as an opportunity to do a walking meditation and pray. Read a spiritual text you’ve always wanted - attend an outdoor ceremony.  Listen to music which inspires you…

Having said all that I’ll let you in on what I plan to do.  On Tuesday I’m taking a wild woman shamanic boat trip out of Midland up to Parry Sound.  I want to be on the water and in the land of the ancestors where earth and sky meet rock and water.  I haven’t done a cruise for years and the wheelchair makes it difficult but I will do this.  Brian is making me a special God box as he fine-tunes his smudge kits for the upcoming studio tour.  He’s taking me to the beach close by where I can take the chair right down to the water’s edge and stand up in the surf.  I’m writing and using the energies to create a book - whether I have the book finished by August 21^st is another matter.  At the emotional level I am severing ties with all kinds of people/places/things from the past using compassion and forgiveness in the heart of sacred ceremonies bringing those actions into this dimension.  We will celebrate our daughter’s 19^th birthday on August 11.  It’s not lost on me that numerologically that date equals “1” and 19 equals “1” – new beginnings. It’s her 1^st day of adulthood and in a matter of days she moves to Peterborough to continue her schooling.  New beginnings all around.  I’m encouraging her to use these energies to stay on top of the giant wave and surf her way to success.

All these solar and lunar celestial energies are acting like a catapult.  May you be blessed in these Ascension times.

Love and light, Kathryn