Shadow Work Weekend - Beehive Mystery School Level 1
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Level 1 Mystery 8th Month - Deep Dive with Shadow Work✨🕳🖤🪞🔥
Pennsylvania is delectable with it’s pre-Autumn atmosphere in the air!🍃 Friday night was our customary check-ins for the 8th month of the Beehive Mystery School level 1 gathering and training. In this small group there are close-nit women initiates only. After many years of facilitating this explosion of healing openings, and in this self-growth platform I can always humbling expect the unexpected, all around!❤️🔥This is the first mystery school under my tutelage with female initiates only😳. After many years I feel this full circle about it… The two official mystery schools that I have attended were both in the US. The first one was in California for 9 months around 2005. The second one was in Massachusetts for a 2 consecutive year program, also for 9 months each, in 2007.
What does 9 months have to do with mystery schools? The reason for the 9 months is primarily because it is a gestation time. It is a deep cocoon to dive into, and immerse oneself into the amniotic fluid of the emotional self, and explore a variety of multi-cultural modalities, ceremonies, teachings, loads of shadow-work and the invitation from the higher-self to transform oneself to a much, much better and elevated state of being. The element of water is associated with the Emotional Body💦. My format of mystery school is also a training as well, some are experiential only. All the seekers that are interested in my life’s work are definitely empaths, and healers in the closet, just like I was most of my life.
In the Beehive Mystery School level 1 the theme is unapologetic deep healing❤️🩹, learning to recognize the shadow and apply a myriad of effective practices and modalities to shift pesky and parasitic patterns. Many from our own past lives, and ancestors because we inherit them. The level of transformation is phenomenal and miraculous🦋… no other way to describe it.
I always go within to meditate and receive information about each of the weekends of training🧘🏻♀️. There is a frame or work for each of the weekends of level 1 and 2. And yet spirit keeps me on my toes to what happens and when🌪. There is a divine sacred appointment taking place with divine intelligence. The perfection of it over all is always to me mind blowing🤯, even if at the time I can see it, feel it, or comprehend it, it is humbling. And sometimes I don’t know. I simply show up and do what I am guided to do and then voila… magic strikes big🚀!
So like all the other weekends of training I check in and receive the downloads. I was super excited with the Saturday morning assignment to go to the mountain in my historic and enchanting town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This extraordinary hike to the top of the mountain is short and ascends quickly. It consists of huge boulders, one over the other creating a mountain. It was a grand playground for my children growing up, and then became a spiritual center for me to partake from, as I opened up myself to embrace the inner-mystic⛰.
The temperature was in the 80s, and clouds here and there making it very pleasant. I was very excited to share this special site with the initiates. Drum, rattle, sage, wing🪶, lots of water and lunch packed, and up we went. I began to listen to which spot to work with first. The lichen, amazing rocks hosting the lichen, and the lovely trees with its cooling canopy, were calling my attention since we arrived in the parking lot. There were a few folks sunbathing on the top. Among them were three older gentlemen volunteering and counting migrating and local birds for a local non-profit organization.
Lichen are long-lived, with some considered to be among the oldest living things. It is estimated that 6–8% of Earth's land surface is covered by lichens. There are about 20,000 known species. They are among the first living things to grow on fresh rock exposed after an event such as a landslide. The long life-span and slow and regular growth rate of some species can be used to date events, it is called lichenometry. Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. The shape of a lichen is usually determined by the organization of the fungal filaments. This is just a few of the things you may learn about lichen in Wickapedia. The earliest that have been studied are about 400 million years old. To me their energy is unlike any other. Since a young child I was very fond of lichen.
I could feel the presence of the fairies🧚♀️and the devas watching over us, as well as watching us with curiosity and delight as the initiates embraced the journey softly and swiftly. Appreciation of the ancient aspects and wisdom of nature all around us was and is always key to connecting to the plant medicine in this level🌎, opening up to the mycelium and all of the other plant medicine interconnecting with each other as this symphony of energetic activations. This is super nutritious to the nervous system💚.
With anticipation we embraced the shamanic journey guided by the drum. Time to journey… It brought up the sensations in their body and their hearts, particular messages, affirmations, clarifications, visions, and more! Opening up to one’s own intuition is one of the reasons for these kinds of sacred exercises.
Each initiate has its own signature way of how they operate with their own guides😇, as well as how they process and activate their innate gifts. It is my job as the facilitator to listen to that distinctly and to clarify any messages that they receive, and direct them toward a pragmatic way of anchoring in the messages or teachings into their lives. In addition I connect the dots in other areas of their lives. It is always very practical information and a lot of times life changing. This is where the shaman and the psychic within me intermingle.
We completed the share and walked up the mountain to meditate by the grand view of the valley and the other side of the mountain as well. We communed with all of the vultures that were flying around. We sat and laid down taking in all of the visual and the energetic beauty. After a while of basking in the sun🌞 I ignited the work by opening up a vortex and inviting the initiates into it.
The Native Indigenous presence from the land kept showing up💓. The energy was very present. I Immediately recognized the need to honor their frequency by orchestrating an atmosphere of gratitude for all the land caretakers and honoring what they did for hundreds of years.
After initiating the basic breathwork, centering, connecting all of our energies together, expanding it to the center of the valley, which was all part of building the vortex, I activated gratitude and unconditional-love as I called the ancestors💞. Immediately three vultures came from different directions forming a triangle outside of the vortex. The buzzards were part of the whirl pool creation of energy in front of our hearts and eyes. They came from three different points from a triangulation and created a circle as they flow into the vortex. Super cool! Three is a very sacred number to me, and in numerology.
Helping the healing of the Native Indigenous people here in Central PA has been part of my journey for many years, even when I had no idea of why I was doing the ceremonies and vortex activations I was anchoring⚓️. That is also part of healing the land. The atrocities that have been committed against the Indigenous peoples have a frequency. This frequency lingers in the land, buildings, structures or in people’s bodies. Since I have Indigenous Native blood myself from South America it has become a calling to help the transmutation of these energies into a higher vibration. We are blessed with many sites in our own back yard with such potent energies. Potent after the healing and clearing takes place.
There were other powerful and poignant times in which a hummingbird hovered closely, a hawk, and a fascinating clicking kind of sound circulated us while all of this action was taking place. Our eyes were closed, but the clicking sound was not very close. And yet we could hear it moving around us. The bird-watcher that stayed behind to observe us, and partake in the energetic yumminess told us later that the mysterious sound came from a raven. It was a form of clicking. It was a magical show of sharing their energetic gifts, their sounds and their beauty.
Coming into a completion I thanked Great Spirit and the presence of Eagle with a song in our ceremony and energetic excursion. And to close I played the Native American flute to bless the space and all the happenings for hundreds and hundreds of years… to bring it love and peace, and a red tail hawk came right in front of us and lingered for the time of the playing. It was exquisite. The gentleman stayed with the expectation of witnessing something interesting and magical, he told us later. We chatted a bit. He was bearing witness to all the bird action taking place with delight, as he felt the purpose of something grater then the mundane. He invited us to climb up again soon. He is there daily… amazing!
We are blessed to have the support of all of these sacred sites, energies and animals. They will be felt for a long time as the initiates dove deeply into shadow work on Saturday evening into Sunday. A full day of deep research and getting tremendous clarity for the most poignant ceremony to gracefully and purposefully address the minutest details of their shadows. No stone left unturned!! The ceremony following was super powerful and poetically stunning. The center of the Chartres Cathedral’s six petal rose with its seven spiritual principals crowned the shadow-work ceremony. It was truly glorious!
These weekends of training are always such a tremendous gift, for the initiates, for myself, since I consider myself to be right along the initiates… always in the mystery. As it unfolds, to the land, to the ancestors around us all, and to the collective at large. These processes keep unfolding for us far beyond the weekend itself. #TogetherWeRise #TogetherWEcan #beelove
