In a Word

Greetings all,

I for once am getting my blog out before the weekend is over.  It seems these past few months it has been a struggle to get it done with everything going on.  I'm not complaining, for the most part I have been pleasantly occupied and building good foundations to support my future endeavors.

This past week I launched a new service on my site aimed at prosperity.  I have had an abundance energy download on my site for a long time which is a good product, but I believe abundance is just half of the equation when it comes to financial success.  One of things I've discovered is that abundance is tied to nature, and nature is rife with it.  It is the normal state of living things.  While scarcity does happen in the cycle, it is temporary and the system of life has so much built into it that if an organism plans well and manages their energies they can thrive.  That is where prosperity comes into play.  I think of prosperity as what we do with the abundance of the world.  It is our interaction pattern which will determine whether we thrive and 'prosper' or if we'll struggle along.

Most of us have gotten a lot of negative ideas about money passed down from our families.  Some of us have patterns from old soul agreements laid down in former lives.  We also culturally have a dubious relationship with money because of its very visible misuse in our governments and societies. For those of us in the healing arts, we are often shamed for thinking about our work as something that should profit ourselves.  One of my shamanic teachers told me that we don't go to the same level of energy to solve a problem, we either go a level down or a level up from it.  The energetic blueprint of our finances often has distortions around it at the level of the mind, which recruits energy from our emotional body to reinforce it, which then directs how we see and act upon opportunity.  Well to bypass that I came up with a method that addresses our agreements around money and prosperity at the level of the soul.

I accidentally came upon this idea during a client session that had very consistent blocks with money that we couldn't seem to address any other way.  Afterwards I thought I should do the process on myself, so I did.  Then I spent the next 6 months beta testing it before I put it out on the market.  I learned a lot during that time.  I was amazed at how people were so different in their approach to wealth.  As far as how it showed up for me:  I was offered more classes and clients,  I became more visible professionally in holding leadership positions, and  I became less scared at investing and spending money.  I stopped feeling so trapped by money and started using it more effectively.  Do I still have limiting thoughts and feel in the space of lack, yes I do, but I also have a contract with Spirit and my own soul about how I want my relationship with money to be.  So whenever I choose to do something in alignment with that, it creates more of that energy.  So yes I am tooting my own horn here because I am proud of the work I do.

So why am I telling you all this?  Well I want everyone to do well.  We get locked into thinking patterns and while I don't want people to suppress their thoughts or feelings, I think it is good to check out from spirals that only take you down.  At the same time, I don't believe in punishing yourself for not having "manifesting mind patterns".  We are all going to have times where we just don't feel the magic and we eat from the table of scarcity economics.  I think it is more a sum of our habitual patterns of thought and deed that matter.  We have to learn when to risk and when to play it safe.  There is no right way to go about a prosperous life because there are no two people exactly alike.  I do think that there is a unique way for each of us to find our prosperity, and I'm excited when someone does.  It gives us another positive role model when that happens.

So how about you?  Do you constantly say no to opportunity out of habit?  Do you overlook your own potential?  Do you refuse a gift or help when offered?  Well maybe you should stop that shit and follow through on your dreams.  Maybe you should formulate some ideas and start building towards them.  I can shower you with manifesting energy, but you have to actually sprinkle it over the events of your life to make good.  I hope you do.  I hope you prosper, because when we all do well, we all do well.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Love Is Not a Battlefield

Greetings all,

I hope your week was good and full.  You may have been  a bit more fortunate and actually have had spring, it's been uncharacteristically absent for me so far this month.  I am eager to welcome the warmer times of the year...soon.

These past two weeks I've been getting back to basics with clients.  When I officially opened my healing practice eight years ago I was leaning heavily on my shamanic techniques, specifically the mesa.  I've kept that as part of my toolkit, but I'd ventured more into quantum tracking and transformational energy healing.  Lately the mesa practice has been taking center stage again and I am excited to see where I am with it this time around.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, a mesa is simply a collection of sacred stones wrapped in a cloth.  It is a portable altar.  When you create a mesa, it is you.  It is your heart's fire.  So working with the heart is extremely important.  I have been working a lot on mine so as the mesa practice becomes more prominent I am noticing things are flowing differently for me.

This week I had some depossession work come to my office.   I was helping to remove entities and stray energies out of a person so that they could heal and embody more of their own soul's essence.  Well I encountered what I refer to as a Mr. Grumpy Pants.  I knew it was one because of the client's reports of terror and then rage.  Those are two big indicators of a Mr. Grumpy Pants type of being.  In shamanic circles they are often called suffering beings or the suffering ones.  In more European cultures they refer to them as something else (I bet you can guess what).  Now the reason I call them a Mr. Grumpy Pants (I suppose it could Ms. as well but I've never checked under the hood for that distinction) is that I don't want to attach any extra fear or give them an aura of power that they've not earned.  In the Andean tradition there is no good or evil only light and heavy.  A Mr. Grumpy pants is an entity that carries a lot of heaviness with it.  This is no fun for anyone including them. You see a depossession is not just a healing of the client, but also of the energies that are stowing away in them.  The spirits I work with take them away for their own healing and restoration.

I don't know why but this week when I encountered pants with a bit of the grump in them I had a different reaction than in the past.  Usually I am very firm and somewhat annoyed.  As my client was telling me about their experience I had compassion beaming out of my heart.  I pretty much stayed in that space for the whole session.  It made everything so much easier.  It made taking direction from spirit flow effortlessly.  I have had other sessions in the past where tremendous healing has occurred and the common thread in them seems to be that my heart was open and the compassion of Spirit came through and bathed the room in that energy.  So while I do believe that learning and perfecting different techniques is important, it is the heart and the compassion that it generates which causes the most profound shifts.

So why am I telling you this?  Well I was pretty jazzed up about the session, as was my client.  Finding that compassionate space in my heart and allowing my helpers through was as healing for me as it was for the client.  We have a lot of cultural ideas built around the idea that love is a struggle.  Love is not a battlefield, it is not a fight, it is a space of flow without agenda.   Coming into a situation with compassion transforms the nature of the interaction, whether it is with friend or perceived foe.  It can be hard to do sometimes, but when you succeed it is very powerful.  Power is not always about struggle and overcoming, it can be equally about embracing and aligning.

So how about you?  Are you falling into battle rather than falling into love?  Do you defuse conflicts with your wild wide open heart?  Do you glory in your opponents defeat or do you look for the win win?  Do you see emotions and sweetness as weak?  If you do remind me to introduce you to the Ocean Mother sometime, so loving, so giving, and yet one of the most powerful forces on the planet. The power of love is not just an inspiration for pop songs, it is the raw power of all life.  So drink deeply from the power of life and until next week.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Nancy Drewing

Greetings all,

Happy Easter/Passover or (insert spring festival celebration here).  Hope you had a festive weekend filled with good company and good food.  I've been watching the tell tale signs of new growth coming across the land despite a colder spring.  Weather can be capricious, but then so can I.

Systems range from highly ordered to highly disordered.  The best ones in my opinion fall somewhere in the middle.  Too much order and you get stagnation,  too much disorder and everything falls apart.  I am the disorder in a system.  It's part of my role, mischievous me, trickster in training.  I like to see how the pieces of a pattern fit together.  I like to push against those places that have too much order.  Fun and games help me balance this nature so that I don't become too destructive.

I would like to add that I'm not against rules, I'm just against  ones that make no sense.  When I encounter those, if I can get around them it makes me feel warm and tingly inside.  Well I got that chance this week.  I had an appointment with a friend at their studio for some bodywork.  They were going to set me on fire (metaphorically speaking) in the name of alchemical science.  I probably should have used the bathroom at my office before I left, but I didn't want to be late.  So I arrived hoping to use the facilities.  Unfortunately the one good bathroom was off of the event room and it was booked that day.  Now technically there is another bathroom, but it's well how do I put it, a bit murdery.  It makes me think of horror movies and getting shanked while I am answering nature's call.  So we set off on an epic quest to find a bathroom that had less homicidal overtones.

We wandered far over concrete stairs, and unfinished floors twisting round and round the expansive space, encountering Lovecraftian corridors. We found no bathrooms, but did uncover a back way into the event room which happened to be empty at the time.  My friend looked at me and I said, "Oh we are so Nancy Drewing this."  So the quest was complete, the promised bathroom found, and we got away with it too with none the wiser.

So why am I telling you about this tale of plumbing and sneaking?  Well a lot of us get caught up on the "rules".  It is important to remember that just because a rule exists doesn't automatically make it right.  There is a long history that continues to this day of laws that are downright cruel.  Order can be just as destructive as chaos.  It can kill you as surely as chaos can, the pathway is just different.  There are times when for your own good or the good of others you have no choice but to break the rules.  Do yourself a favor, do not over internalize rules, they exist as a framework for the common good.  When they aren't functioning that way they need to be changed.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

P.S.  Do pick up your dog's poop though, I mean that's just rude when you don't.  It spreads diseases when it isn't disposed of properly.

Twice Blessed

Greetings all,

I hope this weekend finds you well.  I've had a busy ten days.  It's almost like more than a month's activity was packed into those few days.  I once again raised my drum and honored the changing wheel of the season to welcome in the spring.

So at the very gates of spring, it was freakin freezing.  I guess it was in the 40s...barely, but it was also misting rain.  The kind of cold rain that gets into your bones.  It made my hands numb and so my drumming was not as steady as usual.  I worried a bit about this, however I decided that the important thing was that I showed up.  Most spirits understand that our bodies come with some limitations.  If you have guides that don't get that and are demanding unrealistic feats from you, then you need to fire them from your team.

This week I am noticing the longer days.  I am also seeing how erratic the changeover in seasons seems to have become in the past decade.  I recall much smoother transitions from my child hood.  Our first day of spring coincided with 7 inches of snow in the evening.  It was beautiful and thankfully didn't stick to the roads too badly, a rare combination.  Those on my prayer list got the benefit of two prayers this week, one for the equinox and one for the Friday ceremony.  Both were seasonally themed towards renewal.  On top of that my drumming got the extra mojo from the medicine bundle of the local shamanic weather circle.  It's the red one in the picture above.

Mostly what I've been feeling lately is lucky.  I am well fed, sheltered, clothed, in reasonably good health, and I work in fields that I love.  I also have good people around me.  This has been a long process to come into that combination of factors.  It has taken effort, but so much of the credit has been the grace of good fortune.  The chance meetings, information showing up when I needed it, and opportunities landing at the perfect time have all been huge blessings.  Stepping back and noticing these things is important; it is way too easy to focus on what is lacking or imperfect.  Our minds are programmed to scan for problems so it is up to us to reframe our situations.  I've been looking forward to this spring for months.  I've got many things lined up for the coming seasons.  Winter was a turn inwards and now I get to reemerge into the world and share what I've been incubating.  I've had a new healing method go through testing since the fall which should be out in a month, I'll have a Chi Kung video out this summer, and I will be putting together another day long workshop to present locally.  There is a lot of living to be had in the coming months and I am looking forward to it.

So why am I gabbing on about fortune and stuff.  Well the universe gives us some circumstances that we have no control over, but many instances of luck simply require us to show up.  So it is important to show up when we can, in whatever state we are in.  If we show up with a willing heart many wonderful things can happen.  So I challenge you to show up.  I challenge you to recognize where circumstances have served you.  I challenge you to find the perfection that exists in a moment in time.  They are there for the taking I promise.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Deep Mythings

Greetings all,

I know this post is late.  I have had a month's worth of activities packed into one week.  Since the commitment to blog was made to myself, I can on occasion relax my rules about getting a post out exactly on the nose.

After many months of anticipation I had the distinct pleasure of taking a workshop with Justice Bartlett.  I first saw her at a Matrix Energetics Seminar in 2008.  She was dressed as Batgirl.  (It happened to be Halloween weekend).  She became entangled in my first access point into the quantum field of wizardry.  About 2 years ago she was supposed to teach a workshop up in Indianapolis, which I was interested in attending but it fell through.  I toyed with the idea of bringing her to Louisville for over a year, and then finally approached her about it this past fall.  Apparently the timing was just right, so this past weekend she taught a 2 day class at the Louisville Spiritualist Center.

As you can see above we had a good time.  Identity and how we enfold ourselves in the stories we believe about who we are can become rigid.  So we had to make up a new persona, with a story.  My persona was Madame Miseur Locke.  I don't know why but they were bigendered.  While we were on our lunch break though I began to ponder that having both the masculine and feminine represented in this alternate persona was significant.  I have talked before in this blog about my struggles in redefining masculinity in sacred and profane terms.  The women's movement has made great strides in redefining women's roles, but men's roles and identities seem to be stuck in the past.  While discussing a traumatic experience that two other participants had, I was curious as to how it manifested differently for them as one was a man and the other a woman.  The woman had been shamed.

This is not surprising.  We tend to project our shame onto the feminine in this culture.  Well I don't know how I got to the next bit of insight, but I started thinking about the myth of Adam and Eve.  Eve of course was blamed for the fall of humankind banned from the bliss of the garden for listening to the serpent and eating from the tree of knowledge.  I started to play with the story a bit.  The traditional interpretation blames her for staining us with original sin, a shame that can only be washed away by a savior that encourages ritualized cannibalism. I reached a different conclusion.  Eve gave us free will.  She gave us self direction.  Before, we were in our primal animal states only, the act of choosing her own will over an authority's made her and by extension her descendants human.  That's not to say we don't have our animal nature's now, but we also have something else, that human streak of sometimes having a mind of our own.  So instead of the original sinner we have Eve Liberator of Humanity.  She's practically the feminist Prometheus.

So why am I telling you this and promoting heresy (besides it being one of my favorite past times)?  Well it's important to look at the stories that run our lives and our cultures.  Look at them with fresh eyes or maybe with a pair of flower opera glasses like Madame Miseur Locke.  Would I have leapt to this new interpretation without personifying a dual gendered being for an exercise?  It is hard to say for sure, but by unifying two sides of a continuum I got a fresh perspective.

So how about you?  Can you hold the polar sides of the scale simultaneously in your awareness?  How does that change you or your perspective?  What spin does it put on the stories and scripts you've been living by?  Play a bit, stretch your concept of who you are in the moment.  See what insights can arise.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Joyful Limitations

Greetings all,

I hope your week was rewarding.  I was certainly kept on my toes.  It's never a dull moment at the Casa de Mooneagle.

Apparently everybody I know this week was getting hammered (and no I don't mean they were drunk).  I had a lot of people in crisis mode all at the same time.  I'm often found at the eye of the storm.  Not that I never have my own crisis, but I tend to keep that under wraps.  I tend to dance in that space between and lend a hand where I can.  There are times though where I just can't.  There is only so much Mooneagle to go around.

If you have received my voicemail message a bunch this week, I apologize.  The phone has been on airplane mode so that I can recharge and handle what is in front of me.  The troubles of the world will still be there when I turn it back on.  This is something I had to learn.  Before I would just go go go until I crashed.  I mean I still do that a bit, but I am starting to realize it and counter it in small ways.  Yesterday I said no to doing a depossession because with all the events I have in the next ten days I knew I didn't have it.  Well okay I could have squeezed it in, but not without completely exhausting myself.  This has been a hard lesson to learn.  Just because I am put here to be of service, does not mean I can't set up reasonable limits and boundaries on my efforts.

So why am I droning on about this?  Well it is important to set limits with your energy.  Other people won't do it believe you me.  Last week I had 5 sessions in one day plus my weekly ceremony.  That was about my limit.  As my business grows I am having to place limits on myself or I will book myself into a sick bed.  It used to be more the province of the self employed and entrepreneurs, but with mobile technology, employees are getting to the point where they are never out of reach of their work.  I find it quite horrifying that people I know will get calls from work while they are away on vacation.  They will even email work to them.

So how about you?  Are you placing limits on your output?  What about to your loved ones?  What about to those things you think you "should" do?  What about to those people who "need" you?  So many of us try to make ourselves indispensable so that people won't leave us.  When we do that though we trap ourselves in roles of servitude.  Yes we should lend a hand when we can.  Yes we should be valuable to those around us, but we do nobody any service when we make ourselves a savior.  So start setting some limits here and there.  You have my permission.  The world will not fall down if you decide to take the evening off or have a nap.  However you may just fall down if you don't.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Adjusted

Greetings all,

I hope you've had a great week.  I got through the floods we've had here just fine.  I hope those of you on the east coast managed to make it safely through the storm from the last few days.  The full moon came through and was kicking a lot of people in sensitive zones.  I actually feel a bit of relief with this moon, but prior to it I've been getting kicked around too.

In one of my conversations with a good friend about the idea of enlightenment, I came to the conclusion that I just need to let it go.  I need to let go of the idea of being well adjusted.  I don't see myself as particularly well adjusted particularly when it comes to social and personal relationships.  I simply don't fit the recognized societal patterns of interactions, and I'd been beating myself up for it for a long time.  I mean I know I"m weird, hell I like weird things.  You would think I wouldn't have the problem being the weird person in any given situation.  That is sadly not the case.  Our deep seated needs for belonging really get in the way of not caring about conformity.

I am fortunate in that people in my family tend to be long lived.  I still have one living grandparent in her 90s.  It is through the stories my grandmother has told me that I've realized that being normal is a relatively new thing.  She remembers the time before television.  She grew up during the great depression in a rural town.  The stories she tells were often about the different quirks of the people (and of herself too) that she grew up around.  To me it seems like people back then were less concerned about being into "normal" things and more about what they were interested in personally.  There was radio, but they didn't have TV and the internet constantly reinforcing a particular paradigm.

This is not to say there was no concern about what the neighbors thought.  She grew up on a farm in a small town where everybody knew everyone's business.  The difference was they didn't have as many cultural media references telling them what the norms for everyone was.  It was more local.  In sociology there is a study that tracks happiness in the US with bowling.  The more we bowled as a nation the happier we were.  Now when television came along people stayed in more and watched other people do things.  Besides the ads there was the more subtle but also more insidious product placement.  Those TV homes have their couches, appliances, and fashions  for the cast.  TV became our culture, and we started comparing our lives to our fictional counterparts.  Well as you know comparing our lives with others always makes us happier.....not.

So why am I telling you this?  Well for good or ill, in times past people were left more to their own devices.  They had to investigate and find out what worked for them.  They didn't seem to worry about being "well adjusted", they were good if they had a family and a friend or two.  Between social media, movie and films, and the obsession of self improvement it is difficult to just appreciate yourself where you are in this moment.  For that reason I'm letting go of having to be well adjusted.  I don't need it to deserve love and respect.  I don't need it to be worthy of making a good living.  I don't need it to avoid being punished by a jealous deity after my physical form dies.

How about you?  What self improvement treadmill has you running in eternal circles simply to become worthy of self love?  I'm not saying we should never improve, grow, or change. I am saying we shouldn't with hold our self respect and love for ourselves until we reach some obligatory standard (which may be nebulously defined or unhealthy).  Love yourself where you are, not ten pounds from now, not after a promotion, not after you've achieved more.  Honor and care for yourself as you are, and see what happens.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle