Liz Oertel, Shamanic Healer

Halloween, Samhain . . .

. . . as it's known to our celtic friends (pronounced SOW-ween, SOW-in, SAH-vin, or SAM-hayne, depending on what part of the celtic world you are from), and also known as the Witches New Year (which for some is actually on the winter solstice), and also known as All Saints and All Souls Day, and also known as the Day of the Dead in Central and South America, and many other parts of the world as well.  Samhain is a cross quarter day because it is exactly in between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice. 

To the shaman, this is the time of year when the veil between the worlds is thinest, and in cultures all over the world, it is a time of honoring those who were here before us as it is easier for them to be close to us.  It is also a time when spirits with less then good intentions can be more active, as the veil is thin making it easier for them to be here also.  It is a good idea to spend some time honoring those loved ones on the other side, as well as making sure you have your protection around you.  An ancient celtic practice was to party and laugh and get each other in such a high vibration that the troublesome spirits would literally be laughed away, because those with bad intentions can't exist in a vibration of love, light, and mirth.  The fairies, leprechauns and little people abound at this time too, and leaving offerings for them, such as chocolate, cookies, something alcoholic and sweet is much appreciated by them!

Contrary to popular opinion, the actual date of Samhain, which means "End of Summer", is not always on October 31st. The cross quarter day of Samhain occurs when the sun has reached 15 degrees in Scorpio, which for 2009 in the Eastern United States, is November 7th, at 1:42 a.m. Eastern Time. Divination is particularly clearer at this time, and all types of magic work as well.  But celebrate this time when you can as the entire season between October 31st and the Winter Solstice is a very magical and inner time where communicating with your  angels, fairies, loved ones, etc. has more support due to the natural energies that abound.

So, keep your protection around you, do something to honor your loved ones on the other side, and leave some treats for the little people, to insure you'll have friends on the other side, in this world.  Don't forget to laugh, love and let the earth fill you with mirth!

White Light Up the Earth!

This is an older post of mine, that I have reposted because I feel it is even more important today.

In spiritual healing, nothing is more basic than working with love and the white light. The white light and love heals on a very deep level and is a very strong protector as well. Daily visualizations of yourself, your loved ones, your pets, and your home surrounded with and permeated by bright, shining, white light, and love, is the best simple healing/protecting practice you can do.  So, it's no wonder that the angels have requested that before we go to sleep each night, we picture the earth surrounded by a field of bright white light. 

The angels have been telling us this for a very long time and many people have been lead to visualize the earth surrounded and held by white light and love.  One of my favorite earth/white light exercises is recommended by my shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman in her Transmutation News, which she calls "Creating a Human Web of Light."  Sandra's exercise is done at the full moon and involves getting in touch with your own light and visualizing your light linking up with the light of others all around the planet.  Here is the link to Sandra's page so you can learn this exercise for yourself: Creating a Human Web of Light.

I have been doing the visualization of the earth surrounded in bright white light and love nightly for the past few months. I do this when I get in bed, before going to sleep, as the angels have instructed. I have to tell you, this has been the best sleep aid I've known in my entire life.  So many times, I fall asleep with a book on my belly, or with the light still on, and the next thing I know it's morning!  In the process of visualizing and and feeling the earth surrounded and held in white light and love, you are aligning yourself with the same.  After all, earth is where we live, it's what supports us.

So, start holding the planet in the white light and love of the Creator before going to sleep at night.  If you would like,  you can return to this article and post your comments .  Just click on the "comments" link at the bottom of the article. I would love to hear how many of you are doing this and I would also love you to share your experiences!

Solar Eclipse in Cancer tonight, and What You Truly Desire.

I found this very good astrology blog that explains the energies of the eclipses, and particularly the energies of tonight's solar eclipse which reaches maximum at 10:35 PM EDT (visibile over the Pacific and parts of Asia), the longest one during the present century, in a very positive light.  Check out Allison Rae's "Evolutions" at http://www.starpriestess.blogspot.com.  And remember, our thoughts are amplified during these times of planetary alignments, so tonight, let go of the unwanted and think and feel what you truly desire.  Yeah Baby!!!

Long Distance Healing, it brings me closer!

Since I moved from Connecticut to Vermont I've had many requests for my shamanic work to be done long distance.  What I've found is that my work is much clearer from a distance than when I am in actual contact. I realized that when I'm working this way it is through pure energy.  There is nothing for me to see or sense in this world that could possibly alter my  thinking or perception in relation to any situation where I am asked to help.  I've always preferred to do my angel readings and healings long distance and I've worked on  cases from personal healings, to angel readings, to clearing negative entities from homes,  with much more focus . . . . because of the lack of proximity!  Even some as far away as the  U.K. 

Some practitioners are better at long distance working than others, and of course, one could argue that my move to the mountains and trees, and away from the raging and coarse energies of the coastal cities in Connecticut, helps to keep my own energy centers from being overwhelmed, hence more clarity on my part.  Whatever it may be, my own skills at long distance work are  definitely coming to the fore, and this is a reminder to all of you reading . . . that I'm still here LOLOL!!! 

Moving Again!

Since I've been very good to Bridgeport, and Bridgeport hasn't been very good to me, I am moving.  Except that I don't know to where! I have one cat, he's very clean and very shy, one fish tank, and lots of plants.  Does anyone know of a place from Fairfield to Stamford, CT?  Most of my work is in this area with Westport being right in the center.  Contact me here.

As always, in Love and Light,

Liz

"The Things I Wish My Mother Would Have Told Me"

I want to raise awareness of a healing play, a one woman off-broadway show in NYC, which is also a charity event.  Mia Perovetz wrote, "The Things I Wish My Mother Would Have Told Me", after losing her mother to breast cancer and returning home from working with a Lakota shaman in the Columbian jungle.  This play is about her personal journey and will raise more awareness of the value of shamanic and alternative healing, as it did in London.  Most notable to us shamanic types, this play is going on when the veil between the two worlds is thinnest, October 22, through November 2, 2008.  She's definitely got something tuned in and tapped on with her work! Tickets can be found at:  http://www.theatermania.com/ticketing/index.cfm/show/141902 , and her website is www.thethingsiwish.com

There is more fund raising needed, by July 31st.  I could write more, but read below, it's from Mia herself.

FROM MIA:

Thank you for believing in my work - that is so topical and in many ways controversial people are fearful to discuss openly some of the area's I discuss so willingly. I do believe if we can create a world where we don't feel any pressure and can communicate whats in our hearts then disorders such as anxiety, eating and phobia's, and the hole we feel when we loose someone we love can lessen slightly.

My play: The Things I Wish My Mother Would Have Told Me...is my journey through my mothers breast cancer battle and coming to terms with her passing. But beyond the surface it shows how as a little girl I always feared losing my mother long before she ever got sick and how I always wanted to run against time to be successful before she died, how I controlled these fears of not succeeding and how I controlled my fears of my mother dying was all decided on by me not eating. My mind focused completely on my body. My mother was a beautiful model mother and I wanted so much for her and everyone to see that in me before she died.

From not eating I caused havoc on my mind, I developed all kinds of phobia's. After she died I started to have panic attacks - these were all my silent cries from my body saying "I"m not coping." I decided last year (much against my fathers dismay) to go work with the Lakota tribe in Colombia and learn Shamanic Traditions and healing therapies that would unleash years of fear and pain.  After my return, I wrote my first full length one woman show, the next month I opened in London and received very promising reviews, more importantly it was the first time I admitted to anyone how I felt on the inside.  It then became my mission to bring my play to New York -

Call to Action:

I have booked a theater in the NYC at Center stage Theater - its seats 70 people in order to give a very intimate performance to my audience.  I have raised $3000.00 so far for my show, I need to raise another $8000.00 to put it on and for people to really learn and receive from it.

My Mission:

One is to raise awareness for Kids and young adults going through a bereavement - Therefore I will be doing shows for the Den for Grieving Kids.

Two: Is to share with families and cancer patients why it is important for people to seek out places to deal with fear and grief -  The Center for hope will then be sponsoring two nights.

Thirdly: I want to share and promote the benefits of alternative healing - Such as the work you do, to encourage people to seek for a truer understanding of themselves.

As we had discussed - I need to raise this money by July 31st, 2008.

I would greatly appreciate any donations from your network.

Benefactors will receive and ad in my program as a sponsor - plus tickets for my show.

I am also asking for seat dedications - Any one who has lost a loved one to cancer:

These work in different stages: The first 3  rows are $500
                                              The middle 3 rows are $200
                                             and the back 2 rows are $100

Again I am so appreciative of your help, I would be willing to meet with anyone who would be interested in helping me achieve my goals and very much my dream.

To find more information out about my show please visit my website at:

www.thethingsiwish.com

Love and Light

Mia Perovetz

You haven't heard from me in a while . . .

because I was so occupied with work and other issues, and I have moved to a new location in Bridgeport, Connecticut, near the Fairfield town line.  No easy feat, let me tell you!  New classes will be posted soon, and also a workshop I am working on for sometime in June or July on crystal energy and healing the earth, with a guest teacher who specializes in crystals that I know we can all learn from.  So . . . Stay Tuned!

Last night I saw James Arthur Ray speak, you probably remember him from the movie "The Secret". I have always liked the way he translates universal principles in down to earth ways that people can understand and practice.  James truly speaks from real experience and  he is a wonderful teacher. His new book is titled "Harmonic Wealth" (he does not define wealth as money) and I do recommend reading it and applying what he says to the different areas of your life, or more appropriately, to the the different areas of your CONSCIOUSNESS!  I'll bet you didn't know he has immersed himself in shamanism, for many years, in different countries too.  I'll write more commentary on Mr. Ray's work in other postings. 

I hope you're all enjoying the onset of Spring.  The return of the outer light really helps the inner light to shine!

My Fire The Grid Experience

"Completely New, Totally Familiar." Wayne Shorter, Jazz Saxophonist & Composer

This phrase best describes my experience during Fire The Grid.  Rest assured that even if you didn't have time to set aside for this event, even a fleeting thought about it will added to it's potency.  So here goes.  I was going into my meditation and showering myself with the golden white light of the creator and immediately was flooded, and surrounded with, a very strong, yet soft, white light, and the presences of some very happy light beings whom I have not met before.  This white light gave me a feeling inside that was distantly recognizable, yet still familiar, and it was complete joy.  I found it effortless to focus this light on other people and places, and I specifically sent it to many people I know, to the whole planet, to our collective consciousness, etc., and I remained in a place of gratitude for it.  During the hour of focusing I became more and less aware of this light and I thought "I wish I could experience this every morning", there came a reply from these beings, "You'll have this available to you at all times".  It was a truly wonderful experience!

Later, during the day, I got a clear message indicating that I needed to forgive this world for being so dense and not allowing me to fit into it.  Me, a lightworker, was still holding anger against the world for not accepting, supporting, and embracing who I am, and what I do.  Think about it, so many lightworkers come to this planet where societies don't understand us and go against what we feel and know is right.  It seems risky to be who we really are and to offer our gifts to the world, especially if you look at history (really, don't give that any more attention!), and then get knocked down because you don't "fit in".  All this breeds anger and fear in us and we both knowingly and unknowingly go around upset at the world and holding an image of the world as broken. We then are polluting the very project we came here to help.  Really, if everything was hunky dorey down here we wouldn't have come here in the first place! All you lightworkers know exactly what I mean or you probably wouldn't be reading this. So, in the process of Firing the Grid and uplifting the planet, I am uplifting myself also.  I'll be giving this forgiveness project some time and attention each day and I know I'll have help from these wonderful beings who asked Shelley Yates to organize Fire The Grid, and from the collective energy we created during this project.  "Completely New, Totally Familiar" is what my inner connection to Source feels like each time.

Check the Fire The Grid website toward the end of the summer, Shelley Yates has been given a new project called Project Cause.

Want to share your experience?  Scroll down to "Post Comments" below and type away, I'll post it, I'd love to hear from you!

Fire The Grid Gathering, Tuesday, July 17th at 6:45 a.m. EDT until 8:11 a.m.

I am holding a gathering in Stamford, Connecticut, beginning at 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday, July 17th, email here if you would like to attend.  If you haven't heard about this already, this is a very special global event/opportunity in which people from all around the earth will be holding, sending and receiving the energy of love and joy to create a catalyst for healing the collective consciousness, the earth and all her inhabitants, at 11:11 GMT, on July 17th.  I first heard about this from Doreen Virtue.  Extra energy will be channeled to the earth at this time and people who participate, whether in a group or alone, will be open to even more vibratory upliftment.  I hope you will be one of them. 

I ask you to please go to www.firethegrid.com and read Shelley Yates unique story. The first 4 items on her navigation entitled, 'The Story', 'The Problem', 'The Plan', and 'Preparation', will give you the complete picture.  The website has instructions for people who cannot, but would like to, focus for this hour, under 'Grid Updates', then 'Four ways to fire our earth grid'.  Then, on 7/17 at 7:11 a.m., spend one hour (either in a group or alone, doesn't matter which) joining many, many people who are opening their hearts around the world, at the same time. Basically it goes like this, whatever you can think of that causes you to feel joy, love and bliss, will get you into the proper vibration to hold for this hour.  Shelley Yates states, "Meditate, pray, use the power of intention, or simply find joy and give thanks for it, for the entire hour."  Again, email me, if you would like to attend this local gathering, it's free.

If you will be in a time zone other than Eastern Time, USA, go to www.firethegrid.com for the correct time in your zone.  The Greenwich Mean Time, otherwise known as Universal Time, is 11:11.

As many shamans have been told, "the earth wants her children home."

Apparition in Clouds, China

Hi,

It's been a long, interesting mercury retrograde.  I lost my computer a few weeks before it even began and had to rebuild one all over again.  I did learn a lot though.  I'll write more when that little planet joyfully goes direct next week on the 9th, or 10th, depending on where you live.  Also, I'm taking a leave from teaching classes for the summer, so, you can look forward to deeper and more fun workshops in September.  I am, of course, available for healing sessions and intuitive readings, as usual, just email me to schedule. 

I couldn't resist sending you all a copy of this picture from today's news in China.  Maybe some of my more intuitive readers can get a feel for this photo . . . is it real?  You can click on "comments" at the bottom of this post to share what you've intuited, or you can share your opinion.  Whether or not it is a real apparition, it is a beautiful, inspiring photo.  The world needs more beauty!  Here is the link to the news story http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-07/03/content_908778.htm

click on image to enlarge.