Liz Oertel, Shamanic Healer, Ancient Astrologer

The Transcendence of Time in Shamanic Practice - Michael Harner

This is a very good summary of Core Shamanism from the man who started it, Michael Harner, Ph.D., and should steer anyone interested in shamanism into the right direction.  He is certainly the man who started it all for me. There are so many misconceptions out there in today's world about what shamanism is and what a shaman is. Here Michael touches on, among other details of the shamanic experience, the discipline involved in being a shaman and dispells the idea that taking mind altering substances helps to make you a shaman but rather the use of the drum rhythms actually drive the journey in most of the world.  Michael is in his 82nd year in this video from his keynote address for the SAND (Science and Non Duality) Conference 2011, and his knowledge gained from experience and his quick sense of humor are still ever present with him.

 

 

Celebrate the Summer Solstice Sun and Your Inner Sun

The Sun reaches 00.00 degrees of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at 6:51 a.m. EDT, and it’s Summer Solstice time!.  For this years summer solstice we have Mercury (at only 3 degrees from the Sun), Neptune, Pluto and Saturn all retrograde and the waning Moon in Aries conjunct the Moon’s South Node in Aries.  It doesn’t look like some people will have an easy time thinking rationally.  Better to get in touch with your heart.  A good time to slow down, look inside, and get right to the point of all spiritual work, that is experiencing your heart and through your heart connect to the outer world.  I can’t stress enough how simple and powerful this really is.

Just lay down with your hands over your heart area, close your eyes, now breathe into your heart area a few times and begin to feel your inner divine light that is there.  This light is warm like the sun on a pleasant day.  Feel thankful for this Light and let this light expand to however large it feels natural.  Begin to see all the people in your life as sunny, heart lights.  See them and yourself as pieces in the interconnected web of life and feel thankful for it all.   Just experience the feeling of this.  It’s simple, and so, so, powerful.  And while you are at it, don’t forget to give thanks to the Sun for all of it’s life giving properties.  Now go have some fun!

Hovenweep Towers, Four Corners area, CO/UT, USA, 1200-1300 AD.

Moon in Scorpio, Shamanic Journeying, Sandra Ingerman Interview

Yesterday and today's waxing moon in Scorpio brings excellent energy for going deep, deep into your heart, for shamanic journeying and for soul retrieval.  My own shamanic journeys today were like a rebirth, with my natal sun in Scorpio, it's no suprise.  The energy of Scorpio goes deep, deep, deep, is very penetrating, so now is a good time to look inside your heart and get to know yourself better, and get in touch with your own spiritual light. 

I'm posting this interview with my shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman from 2009 because aside from being an awesome shaman and teacher, Sandra explains the concept of our soul essence, our spirit, that your heart has everything to do with shamanism, and the evolution in shamanic practice that is taking place where people are learning to be their own shamans.  She gives an easy exercise to get in touch with your own inner heart light.  So listen, do like ET and turn on your own heart light, and go joyfully deep, deep, deep!  THIS IS THE DIVINE FEMININE.

Shinning our light & Experiencing our soul with Sandra Ingerman

 

Extreme Fertile Weekend - Jupiter and Waxing Moon in Cancer in May!

Anyone in the Northern Hemisphere planting their garden this weekend?  It's an excellent time to do that today, May 31, 2014 EDT until 2:32AM, and even during the void course Moon until 9:42PM on Sunday June 1st.  With Jupiter at it's happiest in the extremely fertile sign of Cancer, and the waxing (growing) Moon also in Cancer, anything planted now has the full blessings of the heavens for growth!

Yes, it's an extremely good time to begin anything.  That also means it's an extremely good time to get pregnant too!  In fact an excellent planetary position for getting pregnant, the best.  Anything begun now, yesterday through this evening will have the benefit of the most benefic planet of Jupiter in the most fertile sign Cancer.  So go start your new exercise program, your new meditation, your new business idea, your new creative project, your new home or remodeling on your home.  An excellent time for cooking and baking especially as well.  If you've met someone new, an excellent time for a date, even an impromptu get together for a walk in nature or meet each other for coffee.  Other than all that, it's a great time for having a party, for music and for making music, and for dancing and merry making and in general having fun with people as the Sun is now in Gemini. 

Grand Cross Alignment and Blood Moon Eclipse of April 2014

Greetings!

I want to give you some information about the Grand Cross astrological alignment of April 2014, the Blood Moon eclipse, and some info on how to best navigate it.  I know there is a lot of fear, fear mongering, and people feeling very squeezed by the Universe right now.  On the other hand, people who have already transformed their consciousness in the areas being affected, are feeling a kind of bliss internally. This is an excellent month for examining your inner emotions and doing inner spiritual work. To make it easier for me, and easier for you, I've decided to put this blog posting into a podcast form, so you can listen as you go about your day, and listen again if you want to. Left click on the link below to open the embedded player, or Right click on the link below to download and save the .mp3 file to your hard drive and listen in your own player.

Don't forget to love yourself, and have a Stellar month!

Liz

Download 702_0060_04-09-14_GrandCrossPodcast

Note:  One error in the podcast, the Total Lunar Eclipse is actually in Libra, not in Taurus as was stated (both Venusian though :)!)  Also let me add that Mars is retrograde in Libra making some of us feel very drained of energy, particularly those with strong Scorpio, Aries, and Libra in their chart, and later on Virgo's.

 

 

 

Cancer Full Moon January 15th, 2014

 

The upcoming full moon will be in Cancer at 11:52 PM EST, 8:52 PM PST, on Wednesday, January 15th 2014.  Also widely known as the Wolf Moon because the wolves would howl with hunger during this moon in the Northern Hemisphere. 

Cancer is all about the home, nurturing, exploring emotions, and your stomach and food too. Your astrologer has her Mars in Cancer, so I can really speak to this.  With Jupiter retrograde in Cancer right now, there may be excessive emotionalism related to the past, or a female figure.  We may even see some explosions from our major female figure, our earth, in the form of earthquakes, severe weather or volcanic eruptions during the several day period before, during and after the full moon.  I tend to think it would have more to do with water and the tides though. 

Remember the universe is always pushing us forward, so whatever comes up needs to be aired out, looked at, acknowledged and honored.  Where does this lunation effect you in your own chart?  You can schedule a 30 phone minute consultation to find out more.

Happy First Full Moon of 2014!

Liz

 

 

Live Phone Consultations - Single Question Astrology Reading

Do you have a burning question, or two?  Then this approximately 30 minute consultation is just for you! It is meant to focus on a single question and questions relating to it. Get an in depth look for clarity and better understanding. It is not necessary to have your natal chart done previously for this consultation. I will need your:

- Date of birth
- Place of birth
- Time of birth, if you have it
- Your current location on the planet, not your full address, just the city or the town, and country.

Then we schedule your phone consultation!  The cost is just $40.00, visit my website:  www.lizoertel.com/astrology

“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” from William Shakespeare.

Happy Birthday to the Sun!

Have you sent your thanks and gratitude to the Sun today?  Today is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, but at 12:11 p.m. EST we began our journey through space back to having more of the Sun and it's life giving properties.  Of course, the Sun is now in Capricorn, ushering in our coldest months of the year, but after this week the light giving properties of the Sun begin to be more available to us, and HURRAY FOR THAT! Everytime you light a candle you are experiencing the energy of the Sun, if you heat your house by burning wood, you are experiencing directly the life giving energy of the Sun.  I took a shamanic journey today to give thanks and gratitude to the Sun and it communicated to me that it is always present with us in our hearts, and that the Sun itself is a reflection of the Divinity in each one of us.  So give thanks and gratitude to the Sun, and spread some cheer to everyone you meet!

Happy Winter Solstice 2013!

 

New Spirit Success Astrology Report & Radio Appearance 12/12/13, 6:30 p.m. EST

Just in time for the holidays and the new year, I have a really good and insightful, inexpensive written astrology report available through my web site.  The cost is only $19.95 and you can have it either emailed via .pdf, or mailed via USPS.  You can find out more at: http://www.lizoertel.com/astrology.html#spiritsuccessreport. 

Also, I'll be on another episode of Alpha Star Radio on Blog Talk tomorrow evening, 12/12/13 at 6:30 EST.  Linda and I will be talking about Sagittarius and what is ahead for those with a Sagittarius sun, moon or ascendant astrologically in 2014. 

4-22-13 Earth Day Intentions

It has been standard practice of shamans throughout the centuries and throughout the globe to do ceremonies to feed Mother Earth.  Ceremonies and rituals to help balance the Earth and to put energy back into her in different ways, but especially, by honoring her.  In walking the shamanic path, you are acknowledging and  honoring the life and spirit in all things, and it is especially important to honor the Earth, who lets us live on her and supports our entire life here on this beautiful little blue planet.  She grows our food, our  medicines and our shelter, she holds the precious water we need to drink and to live, her atmosphere gives us the air we need to breathe and carry spirit, and shows us the beauty of a blue sky with soaring birds.  She gives us a place to live and to put our feet down to create and grow, she provides for our shelter.  She holds the negative charge which our bodies are attuned to that pulls down to us the positive charge of the heavens for creation, hence, the divine feminine.  She gives us LIFE.

Chief Seattle says it well: “Teach your children what we have taught our children - that the Earth is our Mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth. We did not weave the web of life; We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the Web, We do to ourselves.” 

Only known image of Chief Seattle

People have such  busy lives and time seems to have speeded up, especially on Mondays! so, I received a short meditation that anyone and everyone can do on Earth day, and any day on Earth if you like, to help us connect Heaven and Earth through our hearts, and honor Mother Earth.   I’ve outlined the 5 steps which makes it look like more than it is, it’s really very simple, just apply your heart :-)

1)  Bring in and breathe in the golden white light of the First Creator, or connect with Archangel Michael, Jesus, or pray in any way at all that you usually make your divine connection,

2)  Bring this energy to your heart,

3)  Send this energy down to the heart of Mother Earth and give thanks for Mother Earth and the heart of Mother Earth, TELL HER THAT YOU LOVE HER,

4) Bring the energy up to your entire being from Mother Earth and heart of Mother Earth,

5) Then stand in this energy and send it out through your heart to all of the beings on the planet.

In this way you will be honoring Mother Earth with your heart connection, and sending the connection out to the hearts of all beings that live here.  And certainly feel free to add whatever positive intentions to this that you would like.  I will be doing this at 11:00 a.m.and 11:00 p.m. EST for anyone who wants to synch up at those times, here is a world clock time converter to check your time zone.

Remember, we are all the children of the Earth . . .  and the Earth wants her children back.

Astrology Services!

I want to introduce all of you to a new service I offer, Astrology according to Nostradamus.  Sessions are Natal/Full Life readings which I record and send to you, and you can follow up with any questions via email or phone.  In addition you can ask for 2 areas of interest with your reading.  Below is some information about this system, and the link for further information and to book a reading is www.lizoertel.com/astrology.html.  I can also do your astrology reading live over the phone with you for a slightly higher fee, which includes a recording.

Chinese astrologers refer to the Moon's Nodes as the Dragon's Head and Tail and give it great attention in the natal chart.  This 16^th century method of astrology utilizes the Dragon and shows you hidden, deeper information about yourself and your purpose.

• Find out where your efforts are best rewarded
• Know your Dragon
• Know yourself!

For more information, go to www.lizoertel.com/astrology.html

Wishing you Many, Many Blessings of the Stars! . . .   Liz

Some Great Messengers at Easter

Lilou Mace recently interviewed two amazing people; Inelia Benz, a walk-in type of being (what beautiful energy she has!), and Dr. Eben Alexander, the neurosurgeon who wrote a New York Times best selling book about his near death experience, their interviews are below. All that these two lightworkers are talking about, I can verify for myself because I have experienced for myself either through shamanic journeying, or just trusting and asking Angels to help me on this side of reality.   

Blessings at Easter Time!

Liz

 

 

 

 

 

Mercury Retrograde Today and . . .

It's time to revisit your subconscious emotions! 

With mercury now retrograde in the watery, dreamy, emotional, and creative sign of Pisces, it's a good time to have a look into your subconscious mind and get some perspective on what's there.  Just spend some time getting in touch with what your emotions are and acknowledge them, don't judge them, but work at accepting and loving yourself in your entirety, the way the Creator does.  Strong emotional issues can be helped signficantly through asking your Angels and/or Archangels for help, perspective, upliftment, whatever you need.  The Angels will not do your work for you, but will definitely lighten your load, help point you in the right direction, create harmony, and self honesty (which can be truly scary for a lot of us.)  With the fiery planet mars also in Pisces, subconscious emotions and issues are being pushed to the forefront in order to be dealt with. and the urge to run away is probably just as strong or stronger.  Another good technique to help lighten your load is to use EFT, there is a shortened version here:  http://www.in2it.ca/TapTroublesAway.pdf, I've only ever read up to page 12 and have gotten tremendous benefits from applying the information.

Looking inside yourself, knowing yourself better and especially learning to accept and love yourself in an unconditional way is extremely important right now, and will help you to minimize the attachments of negative energies/entities that are fighting for their own survival right now.  Just imagine a world where we all love and accept ourselves the way the Creator does, how different it would be, how harmonious, peaceful, and loving to others our lives would be.  Aspire!

In the interests of further information on our emotions affecting the entire world, and seeing that mercury is retrograde, let's revisit my post from March 10, 2011, below.

Edgar Cayce's Take on Earth Changes - White Light Up The Earth.

I came across some of Edgar Cayce's predictions on earth changes, and it's been in the news that the poles are now moving at the accelerated rate of approximately 40 miles per year.  I found this one at http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html:

"Cayce predicted changes to the Earth surface to begin some time between 1958 and 1998. The cause of these dramatic Earth changes will be the shift in the world's magnetic poles around the year 2000. Cayce predicted that when this pole shift occurs it would begin reversals in the world's climate so that: 

'..where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow.'

Cayce's prediction of a pole shift occurred in 1998. According to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in 1998 something changed the Earth's gravitational field which moved the magnetic poles closer together. The NASA article explained that as the ice on the poles melted, ocean currents moved water toward the equator, which factors researchers believe to be partly responsible, in conjunction with shifts in atmospheric patterns, for this ongoing shift in the Earth's magnetic field. This NASA finding affirms Cayce's prediction of a pole shift."

And this on the official Edgar Cayce site at http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/ancient_mysteries.aspx?id=2829:

"The Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, spoke at an A.R.E. conference revealing how his research with water crystals shows the positive and negative influence of human words and thoughts on water. He said that he believes the waters of the world are reacting to human energy patterns, causing many of these disasters. Cayce would likely agree; his readings state that sunspots, which affect many of our communications systems, are caused more by human attitudes and emotions than cosmic forces."

 "Our planet is actively changing. In one reading, Cayce stated that none of the physical devastation he predicted has to happen. The stability of the planet lies in humanity’s collective hands. Cayce also confirmed the biblical axiom that 10 good people can save an entire city. This brings to mind an old story told by the editor of Guideposts magazine. He received letters from two different women in a small town in California. Each told him how they were awakened in the dark hours of predawn and powerfully guided by Spirit to go out into the street of their little town and pray. They both did. Around 5 a.m., a powerful earthquake hit their town, destroying the entire downtown area, but not one person was killed or even injured. These two ladies did not know each other, living on opposite corners of the town. In this case, the prayers of two saved a town."

12/21/12 Winter Solstice, Rebirthing and Why Did the Mayan Calendars End?

There are so many prophecies surrounding this date, and so much is going on in our world at a mind-boggling pace.  The world is entering new energies, but perhaps one of my teachers has a more accurate view on why the Mayan calendar making ended, "because the Conquistadors killed all the ancients ‘wise men /astrologers’  that were making those calendars and decimated their culture."  That was not a nice thing to do, and we have been guessing about them ever since.

I want to address this time we are in from a shamanic journey perspective.  Each time I tune into this date I get that it is not about “doing” things on the outside of ourselves, but it is very personal in its effect.  Each time I tune into what this date is all about, I get the message to “love yourself”.  When I did a shamanic journey on the subject, my guides threw me off of a cliff, and into a soft darkness which I realized was the dark rift in the milky way galaxy.  Inside this dark place I again got the message to “love yourself” and  realized I was being reborn.  The energy inside this soft darkness felt very soft, nurturing and beautiful.  I have to admit I was content there.

To correlate this experience with what’s happening in our world, this froman article by Thomas Razzeto, 2012 and the Psychedelic Shamans

On the precise day of the winter solstice of 2012, the sun will be in the middle of the dark rift of the Milky Way. This section of the sky contains a large ball of faint stars near the center of our galaxy. The Maya considered this ball to be the pregnant belly of the mother of creation. The dark rift intrudes into this ball and was considered to be the galactic birth canal. From the point of view of earth, the sun goes through this section of the sky once a year and on the one day of the year when the sun is in the middle of the galactic birth canal, it can be said that the sun is being reborn. In the years around 2012, this happens on the same day as the winter solstice.  

Of course there are rapid changes happening in our world, and within our world due to this birthing process.  We can hardly escape  these changes as we live right on the earth, which is a “Being” too and needs to rebirth herself as much as we need to rebirth ourselves.  The process of being born can be quite scary and painful, that’s why we don’t remember it the first time.

Stay close to mother earth,give thanks and respect her, as it has been said before,” The earth wants her children back”, that means back in harmony.

Wishing a Happy and Healthy Winter Solstice to All of You!

Update on Incoming CME & Aurora from Spaceweather.com

I told you this was a big one!  Look up tonight, maybe you'll see something spectacularly beautiful.  This posted on spaceweather.com today:

GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: A remarkably long-lasting geomagnetic storm is in progress as Earth's magnetic field continues to reverberate from a CME strike on July 14th. Sky watchers in Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska and northern-tier US states from Maine to Washington should watch for auroras after nightfall. Observing tip: The hours around local midnight are usually best for aurora-spotting.

When the CME first arrived on July 14th, its effect appeared weak. However, conditions in the wake of the CME soon become stormy. On July 15-16 Northern Lights appeared in the United States as far south as Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Illinois, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan and Arkansas. Travis Novitsky sends this picture from Grand Portage, Minnesota:

"Anticipating the CME's arrival on Saturday, I planned an Aurora Party with my girlfriend and a couple of friends," says Novitsky. "Just after midnight the sky erupted and suddenly we were surrounded by the shimmering, dancing lights. The intense activity continued through the rest of the night until the first light of dawn started to creep into the sky. Certainly one of the most amazing aurora nights I've ever witnessed in northern Minnesota!"

Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis has been sighted in New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and directly above the South Pole itself. 

Greetings on this Solar Maximum, X-flare, Mercury Retrograde day!

The current solar x-flare is bringing needed energy of change to us and all beings on our planet.  I tapped into it psychically the moments it began on July 12, 2012, and could feel the pressure happening over the earth, people all over the earth feeling pressure from within and without, and then behind the pressure this very uplifting, empowering, simple and wonderful energy decending on us.  I sent an intention out that more and more people look within so they can tap into all of this beautiful and helpful energy available to us all. I then went and checked out spaceweather.com and sure enough, an X-flare had just happened within the hour and the UV's had smacked our upper atmosphere causing ionization, with any CME's expected today, July 14th, 2012.  Today also happens to be the first day of the current mercury retrograde cycle, and mercury retrograde cycles are all about going within.

It is so important to breath and cultivate your inner self RIGHT NOW!  As for me, I'm having a great time with the blue light of truth and compasssion, protection and healng from Sirius, covering the planet with it, bringing it from my crown chakra down to my heart, and sending it from my heart to the hearts of the people who are trying to control our world in a negative manner.  There is just so much help for us from the other levels.  On that note, Here is some helpful information I found today from James Gilliland's (eceti.org) recent message from the Pleidians.  James' message is empowering for all of us and he really "gets it" about going inside and JUST BEING who you are.  It's really simple if you just B-R-E-A-T-H-E!

 

Summer Solstice Greetings and Doreen's New Meditation - Cool!

Hello and Happy Summer Solstice!  Summer is certainly coming in like a lion in the Northeast, many thanks for trees and for airconditioning!

Here's Doreen Virtue's new meditation involving the blue light of truth from the star system Sirius.  Perfect for these hot days . . . I've been doing it and having a great time with it. Keep in mind that this cobalt blue/royal blue energy is very transparent.  

Visualize royal blue light entering the top of your head (crown chakra) and then flowing outward from your open heart. Visualize royal blue light surrounding you, your loved ones, and everyone on this planet. Visualize royal blue light healing and protecting you in all ways. Vizualize royal blue healing everything and everyone.

Love, Doreen

Enjoy and keep cool!  Liz

 

 

Native American Chief Sonne Reyna's Message to the World

Hello,

Please take one-half hour to listen to Native American Chief Sonne Reyna of the Lipan-Apache Yaqui Carizzo Nations interview on Talk Radio Europe.  You can find it here (he's at 8.5 minutes  into the program): http://www.talkradioeurope.com/ondemand/Talk_Radio_Europe_in_Spain_2012-02-16_21-00-00.mp3

If you have trouble, right click on the link and download under "save target as".

Chief Sonne Reyna is a major contributor to the film Metaphysia 2012, a major contributor to healthy change, and is doing a world healing tour in 2012 bringing ceremony to combine with other cultures around the earth.  Some of his points in this interview are:

• That the current world cycle is in a lesson of greed
• That we all have shamanic ancestors and carry their bloodlines
• How to contact your ancestors
  
• Similarities in Celtic and Native American spiritual ideologies
• The Great Spirit is a Goddess
  
• Women are leaders on the earth

Blessings!

Liz

 

 

Water Dragon + Native American Commandments = Transformation

Hello, and Happy Year of the Water Dragon!  This is a powerful year for transformation as symbolized by the Water Dragon, a higher octave of the Snake. I am starting my new year with the 10 Native American Commandments, and would like to share them with you all.  So, here is the text and a short, and wonderful, video:

The 10 Native American Indian Commandments

1. Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect. 
2. Remain close to the Great Spirit
   
3. Show great respect for your fellow beings.
4. Work together for the benefit of all humankind.
5. Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.
6. Do what You know to be right.
   
7. Look after the well being of mind and body 
8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.  
9. Be truthful and honest at all times.
10. Take full responsibility for your actions.

   

 

Important 2012 Guidance from Doreen Virtue & Archangel Michael

Hello and Happy New Year to All!

Here is a pertinent message from Doreen and Archangel Michael that includes the importance of clearing negative energies daily, which I am a big proponent of, and focusing on your own power/higher self for your needs.  Both very important activities for the times we live in.

 

 

 

 

 

On Imagination

I found this, from T. Lobsang Rampa's book "Wisdom of the Ancients":

  "IMAGINATION : Imagination is the picturing of one's desires or one’s fears, and imagination is the greatest force of all, greater than will-power, greater than love.   It is an old lore of psychologists that in any battle between the will and imagination, the imagination always wins, and if we try to conquer imagination by brute will-power then  we cause a neurotic condition.  The imagination still wins because the imagination causes a breakdown, so that the imagination must conquer. 

There cannot be love without imagination.  One imagines the charms of one's beloved, or one imagines that one has met one's ‘twin soul’ (as rare as apples on a gooseberry bush while on Earth!), and one imagines all the pleasures with love undying of being married to such-and-such a person.   In passing, it needs rather more than just animal passion to keep two people in harmony.

If the imagination says that one shall not do such-and-such a thing, then, no matter how strong the will, a person cannot do it.  Could you, for instance, walk along a plank suspended across the tops of two ten-story buildings?  No matter how strongly the plank was anchored your over-worked imagination would say that you were going to fall, and then you would fall, to the delight of the onlookers and to the profit of the Press who would be sure to be there. 

If you want to get results you will have to control your imagination so that it and friend will-power work together in harmony. "