Hello and welcome to the Shaman Podcast. 

I am Mark Ashford. 

I am a Registered Usui Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher, a Shaman and author of books and online courses on Reiki and Shamanism.

Weekly, I post a video on YouTube and a podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is general; please take what resonates with you.

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Music from Epidemic sound: Langvaga - Strom

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Birds

We are only in the second month of the year but it may have already been tiring and exhausting. When you look up, you see the birds and hope passionately that your hopes will soar like them. If you are near water, you can watch them swooping and enjoying the breezes moving from water to land, and back again.

Your soul is like a caged bird. The stress of living the way you are is the cage denying you freedom.

Spring means new life and new possibilities beckon you to believe. If you are to welcome new experiences, people and manifest your hopes and dreams, memories and experiences you are carrying must leave you. You cannot, must not carry the past with you like luggage or an old suit of clothes. 

The past burdens you and makes it difficult for everything new this year to enter your life. Look up and smile, welcome the sun, welcome the new life around you in what will soon be spring. 

If you live in a part of the world where you can open windows and let fresh air into your home, do so. This breath of fresh air is the literal breath of new air that you need to breathe. If you cannot open your home because of the weather. Bundle up and go for a walk in a park or near a lake.

The new air in your lungs, its freshness and energy, will motivate you to spread your wings and seize new opportunities. Do not hesitate. When you walk and breathe resolve to be prepared to speak your truth when things get difficult. Spring is a wonderful time but it also brings challenges that help you change, being truthful to yourself at this time is important to your life path through this year.

The cage the past can create for your soul includes bars that prevent you from speaking your truth. Your honesty is locked away because you fear that what you have to say may not be well received. This confines you and makes you a follower. It takes away your power. Resolve to take back your power and express yourself to the world in your own way on your own terms.

Dust Devil

Another message of change within you, your evolution, and growth.

If you have been fighting change, now is the time to stop and embrace the changes you have been holding at bay. When you hold on to the past, the way things have always been done you waste energy. You become tired and may become bitter that you are being made to change.

You are not intended to hold on to the old and familiar just because it is familiar and comfortable. 

In your heart you need to consider new ways to love. You are destined to be with a companion, you are destined not to be alone, but you need to be open to the difference a new partner brings you.

In the same way you become open to a new companion, you need to be open to a new life path, what you do for a living, whom you make friends with.

This is the third week of February and the message of change and being true to yourself and what you want or need to do in life is clear. You need to follow it.

What next?

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