Shadow Emma Vanstone writes on her blog page where she shows you how to make and play with shadows that shadows are formed when light hits an object it cannot travel through . I don’t discuss the concept of “shadow” very often. Actually I don’t think I have ever written about it. Honestly, I tend to be a happy-go-lucky person who keeps her eye on the positive rather than the negative. Light definitely moves through me mainly because I choose for it to move through me. I’m a solution-driven person who looks at challenges and crisis as an opportunity to work at letting light move through me. I guess you could say “I believe in heroes and super powers”. Looking back at the last few years and the events of 2023, I have to admit that the world is struggling with shadows. They surround us globally but also at smaller levels like within our communities, our families, our couple relationships and even within ourselves, within our personal dimension. It seems like we are being called
I haven’t written a blog entry in years. Let’s summarize my absence as a walkabout and I’ll promise to be back to share more of my experience. Today, it’s clear to me that I needed to explore the notion of owning my story. In Shamanism we explore life through cosmological and natural influences. For example if we were to explore this idea through our daily living we could say that there is no thought, emotion, choice or action; which is brought forth without some kind of domino effect of influence. I can hear my parents, my teachers, my loved ones through so many of my attitudes and beliefs. As an individual born in the 60’s I can also hear generational programs behind my life perceptions. If people can easily identify me as Canadian it’s because I carry a kind of Canadian code so to speak. Whether we speak of DNA, religious doctrines or social indoctrination we speak of “influence”. Cosmology and nature are the influences which lead every creature on Planet Earth, huma