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!

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

July Shamanic Journey Class

Intro to Shamanic Journey class - Tuesday, July 29th, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.  Click here for more details.  This class is for people who have never been exposed to shamanic journeying before and also for people with some previous journeying experience.

"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

May Shamanic Journey Class

Intro to Shamanic Journeying Class - Monday, May 19th 7:00 PM -9:00 PM.  Click here for more details.  This class is for people who have never been exposed to shamanic journeying before and also for people with some previous journeying experience.

September Shamanic Journey Class Change

September's Shamanic Journey Class/Workshop will now be held on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007,  from 7:00 until 9:30 p.m.  Here's a link to the info page:  http://www.lizoertel.com/shamanic-journey-angel-communication-classes.html

Or you can email me.

September Classes - Shamanic Journey and Angels & Fairies

They're finally here, my September Classes!

Angel & Fairie Communication, Saturday, September 22nd, 2007.

Shamanic Journey, Friday September 28th, 2007.

Email me to reserve your spot.

Powerful Full Moon in Scorpio and Forgiveness as Part of Positive Manifestation.

This mornings powerful full moon in scorpio, whose energy lasts from May 1 to May 6th, 2007, gives us a great time to practice forgiveness and positive manifestation. 

Forgiveness doesn't mean that you let your healthy boundaries down, it actually encourages healthy boundaries. Healthy boundaries prevent you from entering and creating situations filled with negativity, which would require you to practice even more forgiveness. Forgiveness means to change the energy/emotion you are holding to that person, situation, event, pattern, etc.  In this way, you free yourself, and them, from creating more of what you don't need and want.  What forgiveness does is to free up your own consciousness so you are not manifesting more of the same negativity for yourself.  So in reality, forgiveness toward "them" is necessary for "you".  Remember, what you hold in your consciousness becomes manifested in your outer world.  Or as James Ray says in 'The Secret', "Energy flows where intention goes". 

It is not necessary to take any outer action toward the other party/parties to practice forgiveness. Here's an exercise anyone can do:   

It's easy, just sit down and spend some time writing down a list of the names of people, places, etc., that cause you to feel resentment, bitterness, fear, anger, rage, or hatred, and say mentally or aloud each ones name and declare "I forgive you now".  When you have trouble feeling it, say aloud "I am willing to exchange pain for peace", and repeat the exercise until you feel a change has taken place. This can take a few minutes, or a few hours, so feel free to put it down and come back to it another time.  Just be honest with your feelings.

In addition to forgiveness, uncording is a very helpful tool in the forgiveness process because strong negative emotions (yours or other peoples) create negative etheric cords of attachment which further hold your emotions and consciousness downward, and are counterproductive to the positive manifestation process. 

Here's the exercise excerpt from my uncording article which you can do yourself.

The fastest and simplest way to cut etheric cords yourself is to mentally call Archangel Michael to come to your side and clear away all cords that are draining you. If you are unfamiliar with Archangel Michael, he is an angel who acts as a "manager" of other angels. His primary role is to protect you and to clear away all dark and fear based energy. You can ask Archangel Michael to come to your side anytime. You can even ask him to live with you permanently because angels and archangels can be everywhere at one time.

Take some deep breaths and relax.  Imagine a ball of the shining white light of God over your head.  Bring this shining white light down over and through your head, and cover your entire body with it.  When you are saturated with this light, call on Archangel Michael, by saying:  Archangel Michael I call upon you now.  Please cut the cords of fear that are draining my energy and vitality.  Thank you.

Stay silent for a while and be sure to relax and inhale and exhale fully during this process.  You may experience sensations such as air pressure changes, or you may not.  Whether you feel anything right away or not, the process is still working.  You can follow Archangel Michael by visualizing him removing or cutting these cords away from you.  Ask him to also escort any fear based entities back to the light.  Then, ask Archangel Michael to fill any voids you many have with God's loving White Light.  Don't forget to thank him once you have completed the process, or at any time during the process as well.

NOTE: I am not advocating that you completely obliterate yourself from negative emotions. All emotions have their healthy places in our lives, including fear, anger, and bitterness.  What we need to do is release ourselves from holding onto the destructive emotions

If you think you need or would like a little more help, you can schedule a half hour ($40.00 US) or full hour ($80.00) angel healing session with me  conveniently over the phone, my clients get great results!

April Classes!

The holiday is over, and the classes are finally here.

Angel Communication: Wednesday, April 18th 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., or, Sunday, April 22nd, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Shamanic Journey:  Tuesday, April 24th, 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., or, Sunday, April 29th, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

And remember, private angel readings and shamanic healing sessions, can be scheduled at any time!

Love and Light,  Liz