In honor of tax day, I would like to share my favorite ways for creating a magical mindset around money. Here are my top ten magical, mystical, marvelous methods for manifesting money: Reiki your checkbook! (Wallet, purse, money pouch, fanny…
I was having a conversation with a colleague the other day about affirmations. She works with them a lot, and I use them to a lesser degree. At first it seemed like we had divergent opinions on the topic, but…
Kokoro: Heart, Mind, Spirit The following is excerpted from the student manual for the Daiseishi Bosatsu Reiki class that I teach. One of the goals of traditional Japanese Reiki is to approach Reiki from a culturally Japanese perspective. What does…
I first learned to work with energy back in the late 80s/early 90s through the magical practices of a few Neo-Pagan ritual groups. The work I learned included some healing techniques, although I didn’t use them much. In addition to…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
For compassion to develop toward a wide range of persons, mere knowledge of how beings suffer is not sufficient; there has to be a sense of closeness with regard to every being. That intimacy is established either through merely reflecting…
This year I am serving as a flamekeeper for Brighid. At Imbolc, the festival of Brighid in February, the flamekeepers met for a meditation ceremony at which we each lit a small candle from a larger candle that had been…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
Poetry is an important aspect of Traditional Japanese Reiki. The Usui Reiki Ryôhô Gakkai included 125 poems, called waka, in the hikkei, or handbook, given to members. Meditations on gyosei, the poetry written by the Meiji Emperor, reflect the nationalism…
Thursday night I taught Enkaku Chiryo Hô, the technique for remote healing, to my Okuden students (Reiki level 2). We learn a variety of traditional and non-traditional methods for treatment, as well as discussing the philosophy behind the practice. Then…
I think the attunement is one of the most misunderstood aspects of Reiki. Recently a friend, a Reiki practitioner who was unfamiliar with the traditional Japanese Reiki that I teach, complained that he didn’t like the way the system of…
Aligning with Universal Cycles One important aspect of ritual work is timing. When I first studied this topic, I learned that, although magic can be worked at any time, it was advisable to align the work with universal cycles, such…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
“Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Breathe in and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and bring…
I’m a big proponent of ritual. I love it and recommend it to students and clients. However, too often I come across discussions online where people talk about the “hocus-pocus of ceremony” or the “mindless running around” of a formalized…
I used to wear a red windbreaker style jacket with the Constantine High School band insignia on it. I pinned all my festival medals on the front left breast—they mostly just blended in with the coat. Red for receiving a…
Uranus, the planet of radical new thinking, and Pluto, the planet of transformation and rebirth, formed the first of seven exact squares last month. The last of the seven squares will be in March 2015. The square aspect is a…
What is meditation? I looked it up in my trusty Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary and found that “meditate” and “meditation” fall in between “mediocrity” and “Mediterranean.” That sums it up, doesn’t it! To get from an ordinary, average quality of…
This ancient mystical tradition of the Hebrews possessed three literatures: the Books of the Law and the Prophets, which are known to us as the Old Testament; the Talmud, or collection of learned commentaries thereon; and the Qabalah, or mystical…
