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 and podcast for the Shamanic Energy of the coming week. The reading is general; please take what resonates with you.

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Queen of the Moon Oracle Cards used in reading by Stacey Demarco https://shrtm.nu/uj5f

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The Beloved

This is an invitation to love. To learn about love. To be free to love and experience the return of your love from another. Sometimes, the object of our passion and not be a person; it could be a pet, it could even be a garden that never seems to stop giving back to you in beautiful blooms, fragrances, growth, and abundance.

If you are learning to love a person, do not conflict with what you think is love with personality. Personality is the totality of a person’s qualities, how they appear to others; it is their organized pattern of behavioural characteristics.

If you focus your ability to love on their personality, you will be disappointed because those attributes are not their ability to give and receive love. It was once said to me by a Finnish person that Finnish people often do not express their love as freely and often as other cultures. Instead, they demonstrate their love by doing something for you. Action speaks louder than words in their culture.

As you open yourself up to give love, you must be prepared to looks at actions and deeds rather than words.

The Rattle

The rattle is an essential part of the Shaman’s attire. It calls the spirits the Shaman wishes to speak with. It warns evil spirits that a Shaman is coming. It is a beacon, sending out the Shaman’s prayers and messages. It carries them to all four directions of the Shaman’s compass.

Take a moment to listen to the Rattle and its message. Concentrate on your wishes and pray for all the Earth; when you pray for more than your wishes, everything we need is provided for us.

Prayer can be simple… sit for a moment, and dream of the world you would like for your children and the children of all the people you know. End your prayer with “Great Spirit, may you will be done!”

Queen of the Moon Oracle Cards – Resilience

We all make mistakes and suffer the consequences of our actions, or sometimes inaction. We learn from our errors and move forward, move on. Someone once said that we recover from our mistakes and how we move on with what we have learned that makes us what we are today.

How we move forward defines our resilience to the “slings and arrows” of life, events and people around us. Resilience means an ability to adjust to or recover readily from illness, adversity, significant life changes, and events. Take this moment to look at your ability to recover from adversity and significant life changes.

2020 was a year of great upheaval, and 2021 is compounding the events of the year before. We have all undergone many life changes, and our resilience to continue to move forward has been tested. Now that we are through the test, we need to look at what we have learned to continue to grow and develop.

Now is your time to look at what you have learned and the resilience of your being, your soul, your spirit, develop it further and move on with energy and vigour.