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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For legal purposes, all videos and podcasts and other materials are strictly for entertainment purposes. Viewers and listeners have free will and are entirely responsible for any interpretation they place on the readings. I take no responsibility for individual viewer or listeners' interpretation or actions. 

These show notes contain information on the card decks used in the readings and where to get more information on my websites, books, and courses. Please check out the links below.

Mystical Shaman Oracle Cards used in reading. Amazon link. - https://amzn.to/3fRG5Ow

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

Sacred Destiny Oracle cards by Denise Linn – https://shrtm.nu/58hG

Gateway Oracle Cards by Denise Linn – https://shrtm.nu/DHkr

Shaman Wisdom cards by Leita Richesson – https://bit.ly/3is9djB

Shamanic Medicine Oracle Cards - Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, Yuri Leitch, Flavia Kate Peters - https://bit.ly/3is9djB

Shaman Tarot Deck - Lo Scarabeo - https://amzn.to/3FbcKwp

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Thank you.

Upper World

Shamans visit the upper world to speak to angels, divine spirits, helping spirits, and all that is luminous, empowering, and wonderful. They go there to seek the highest answers to their challenges, and of those, they are seeking to heal. 

The Upper World is a place of destiny and growth, advancement and achievement. It is a place of discovery and potential. When the Shaman returns from the upper world, they bring healing and a future full of possibilities.

If the Trust card from last week encouraged you to trust yourself, the Upper World is sending you messages of encouragement to leap into the future. Your future. As you learned to trust in yourself and shrug off self-doubt, now you must rid yourself of sluggishness and apathy. While support for a new destiny is not yet in place, a new destination is available to you if you act now.

Journey - Imagination

A new opportunity has opened up for you. A new doorway, a portal, into the next stage of your life.

The opportunity can provide excitement, wonderment and happiness. It is time to stride through the doorway, grasp the opportunity, accept it, and put your hand over your heart and say thank you to who you are and what has come to you.

Make the opportunity grow, develop, and succeed. It will help you grow and develop at the same time.

If someone has been telling you to ignore your ideas, your opportunities, know now that these people do not have your best interest at heart and should not be part of your life as you explore your new opportunity.

The opportunity has come to you from spirit, from the universe. You have what you need to succeed. Let no one or thing hold you back now. Move forward and upward.

Lodge - Counsel

Look behind you at your steps. How many times have your steps been matched by another who has walked beside you and helped you, given you counsel, advice and given you strength? 

Lodge appears now asking you to be open to and accept the counsel of others. In the Lodge, you may ask as many or few for advice and guidance. Each will have a different perspective, a different strength, a different way of encouraging you to focus on your challenges and the solutions available.

Different perspectives will give you the distinction of having more than one solution at your hands.

Be genuine in asking for help, advice, suggestions, ideas, and you will be met with a genuine response. If the response is not genuine, or the advice is bad. You will see it because it shows so poorly when compared to the other advice you are receiving.

Therefore, you should ask for more than a person to give you many ideas and solutions to choose from.

When you ask for advice, help, and counsel, it is a sign of openness and strength. Not weakness. Be wary of advice that tells you not ask for anyone else’s help, ridicules you or shames you. The giver of that advice is closing your mind and spirit to all that you could benefit from others and the wider world around you.

What next?

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