Urban Shamanism

New power, new responsibility!

Last night's ritual was just amazing. There are many things that I can't describe properly with words. I first studied my work with Dune and connected strongly with the character of Paul Muad'Dib as a highly trained, effective leader and combatant. Then that image drifted away and I met both Anubis and Lord Shiva, who urged me to find the relationship between them and to accept the gifts that they were about to give me. I couldn't reject their teaching even if I wanted to. Shiva's dance and Anubis' ministrations opened something profound in me, and they deposited many things in me, which is the same as saying that they made them come out into the surface from my very cells. In fact, I felt that they merged with me, it was an astonishing feeling.

Then they moved away and I met my mother, dressed in her usual glowing white dress with gold and silver embroidery and with her long black hair as a shawl around her shoulders. She had a layered crown upon her head made of blue crystal and seashells. As soon as we saw each other we started laughing and, when we embraced, she kissed my forehead and held my face with both hands as she told me how proud she was of me. Then we walked through the garden that's now her usual place. I asked her about a group of ladies who have been contacting me a lot lately for readings and who have invited me to go to their city. One of them channeled her after one such reading and I asked her if that was indeed her choice and whether I should feed this connection. She confirmed her involvement and told me to be careful and trusting at the same time, after which we both laughed again in a kind of complicity that I now find profound endearing. Then she opened the way to a different place where millions of women dressed in white were gathered: my female ancestors, all arrayed in a great conclave and leaving an avenue in the middle for my mom to take me to a staircase. She said I had all of their support and could always benefit from their teaching and company, that I had great things to do. She then bid me to climb the stairs but when I did, I ended up being lower than hair. She said farewell as I jumped into a hole and slid downwards into shadows with a thankful smile on my face.

I re-encountered Anubis and Shiva, they gave me more information and once again confirmed my purpose, the power that I must wield to fulfill it. I saw a pack of jackals and dogs, a black mass so vast that it looked more like an army. The creatures ran across desert dunes under the moonlight and, although they had the immensity of the desert to run as they pleased, they followed a very specific pattern across the sand with many odd twists and turns, as if they were following a riverbed. They reached a pyramid-shaped mountain with a spiraling path going to the top. When they climbed it, they merged into a huge statue of Anubis and he again granted me passage to that fractal place where all things are possible. As I came out of this vision, I heard Anubis, Shiva, Mom and many other entities say "You can levitate now, Javier."

There's a lot more to this experience, but I think this is a good summary. Afterwards I called upon many entities and asked my friend Rebeca to bear witness of my Oath of Renewal for my Dharma. I pledge myself to the Narrative once more, this time with a sense of reach and authority that I'd never thought possible, not even this very year which has been so full of profound revelations for me. I'm extremely happy! After I publish this, I'll go take my second dose of the vaccine and I know it'll only bring me more strength. My gratitude is boundless right now!

Rune of the Day: Thurisaz

Movement, action. Trust in the efficacy of your tools but remember that their precision depends on your training. Advance with surety but keep a humble attitude, arriving to new spaces from the offensive will not provide you the fruits that you desire. In order to cross external frontiers you must overcome internal limits, your progress is bound to the focus of your energy. Physical health is also the health of your ideas; if your thoughts are aggressive, you only invoke aggression. Before accessing to other surroundings, close pending tasks and consolidate your accomplishments, what you leave unfinished reduces your strength and impetus. Implement your decisions, fulfill what you have chosen for yourself, waiting and hesitating drain your time and power. Resolve conflicts with speed and let the rest take its course, do not fall into dramas, there are battles that you do not need to wage.