Category: English 2024

I am sure many of you are expecting me to write something about the election results. I posted so much on social media I no longer have anything to say. For me it was no surprise. If you have been a long-term reader of the Transmutation News I have actually been preparing you for this time from the first column written in 2000 until now. We came here for this time. And you all have the tools and the strength to keep moving forward and live your life. As Isis keeps sharing every day with me- the ground is dissolving under your feet – keep moving!

On October 31 of 2024 I celebrated my 44^th year of taking my first training on shamanic journeying at the California Institute of Integral Studies (names the California Institute of Asian studies at the time). That night I met my first helping spirit who has been with me every day since that night.

He asked me not to share his identity publicly. So everyone has read or heard me talk about other helping spirits I have the amazing honor to work with like Isis, and the Wind, Earth, Fire, The Sun, and Water.

He not only saved my life from suffering a lifetime of depression and suicidal ideation, but he taught me how to perform soul retrievals and other shamanic healing ceremonies. He taught me everything and in the end, tens of thousands of people have been healed.

I just have to share what an amazing honor is has been for me to be a vessel for his love, healing, and wisdom. This is a poignant time for me as we end this year which in the tarot has been the Death year for me requiring of so much letting go, so much surrender, so much of my life dying, so many loved ones dying, and looking forward to a new rebirth in 2025.

And I have no idea what that looks like especially since the election. But I am ready to stand strong in my spiritual self and meet my new life with curiosity, wonder, and deep gratitude.

A couple of months ago I was driving myself crazy looking for an article I filed – where? Well in looking for the article I found some valuable ones I had forgotten about.

And I found an illustration that is in The Shamans Toolkit (How to Thrive in Changing Times). I had written a book for a non-shamanic community where people could show their friends and loved ones to understand the spiritual work they were performing. The book never sold well, but it really helped me a lot as what I wrote on was how much spiritual energy it takes to create change. So the information in it has guided my ceremonies and practices.

One of the practices in the book has you looking at how much in balance you are with the river of life. I have written for years now that as humans most of us are walking against the river of life and it is making us feel sick and/or depressed. We are nature beings and we were born to follow the cycles and phases  of nature.

The point of the exercise I am sharing is to fill in the diagram I have included here with what thoughts and actions have you moving in the flow of the river of life and what thoughts and behaviors move you against the flow of the river of life.

Take some time this month and reflect on this. For this is a wonderful way to end the year and prepare for new opportunities in 2025!

Of course this is great practice to do on the solstice as we welcome back the “return of the light” after we have done our inner work walking through the darkness.

My original plan was to wait until the election in the United States was over before writing the Transmutation News, and then I decided this is not the purpose of the Transmutation News. I do believe we cannot separate spirituality from politics and that politics is a reality we must bridge our spiritual work into. But I believe that everything we are experiencing today is looping traumatic events repeatedly like they have been done for thousands of years. This is a time to finally get closure. And we all have the power to get closure over what has happened in our lives. As we do this the trauma loop on this planet will start to shift.

Until that time happens, we have no choice but to do the inspiring and uplifting work of cultivating our Inner World. Here we can build the lives we wish to live, the beauty we wish to see, peace on Earth in our own hearts, the abundance of resources we know we can have if we work with sacred reciprocity with the elements. We must create a beautiful, healthy, and peaceful Inner World to create safety for ourselves and all of life. I am doing so much work on this right now. And it is such a wonderful practice to imagine myself putting nutrients into the soil and then my favorite plants that are growing all around me on the land where I live. So once again I turn to the power of shamans are gardeners of energy and I am using the plants I love as metaphors for the energies I want to grow in my life. I find this to be a beautiful way to work with creation and manifestation is to work on our inner landscape first. And using metaphor to create your inner landscape reaches into a deep level of our unconscious.

I found an old copy of the Transmutation News which I believe is so relevant for the times we live in. So I decided to repost this column for this month. I hope you can see that in October 2017 we were not in a dissimilar place to where we are now. The events and stories have changed.

🌹“Transmutation News October 2017

We continue to hold all of life in our hearts who are being impacted by storms, fires, and earthquakes. We continue to see all in their divine strength having the tools to navigate the changes. And to all of life that died in these catastrophic events we thank you for gracing the Earth with your presence and wish you a smooth and graceful journey home.

Remember one of the keys of our work is not trying to change the weather and join the ranks of humans who feel they can control Mother Nature. Instead we need to perform our spiritual work and live a life of honor and respect for all of life. And then using the principle of reciprocity the Earth will respond in kind.

In September, during a session of my teleconferencing courses through the Shift Network, I taught how to merge with a helping spirit to see the world out of the eyes of spirit instead of through the eyes of ego. As a demonstration of how to merge with a helping spirit, I brought through Isis. I had asked Isis to speak to the group about the topic of suffering. For it seems that so many friends and students have lost hope, feel stuck in gazing upon so much suffering and poor behavior by humans towards each other and all of life. Practitioners of a variety of spiritual practices are losing hope and focus.

I felt that the message Isis shared was a powerful one, and I wanted to share it with all of you in case it speaks to you and touches you on some level. I am sharing only the core of her message:

‘There are an abundance of planets and dimensions where spirits incarnate to learn and evolve.

Here on Earth you were born to experience love, light, and joy, But the lesson was to first experience suffering and then to be able to reach beyond that dimension where inside of you (not outside of you) there is an inner sense of love and joy. Actually joy is not the correct vibration for in reality it is bliss that your spirit feels.

In your world teachers, including your own, encourage you to open your heart to the spirit of love.

But this teaching is not correct on the level of heart that you are being asked to connect with.

For the focus has been on your physical heart which is simply part of your ego. And so many of you are experiencing and seeing suffering which on an evolutionally level is expanding your sense of compassion. It takes you so deep into your humanness. But you are still trapped in the energy, vibration, frequency of suffering and that is the energy you are feeding in the world. And by carrying the energy of suffering so many people are becoming ill.

You are now literally and metaphorically being cracked open to the deepest place within where all the knowledge and wisdom is waiting for you to learn from as you touch deeper into your humanness.

Behind your physical heart is a spiritual heart. You do not have to travel that deeply within to connect with it. It is talked about by many gurus, mystics, and spiritual teachers.

And this spiritual heart – one with Source and the joy, bliss, and unconditional love for all of life and creation knows no suffering. It knows bliss, it knows unconditional love but has no experience of suffering on this Earth.

In the Land of Dreams I see millions of egos dreaming the illusion you are seeing as it is being created again and again on Earth.

Shift out of this Land of Dreams to where evolved spiritual beings are dreaming joy and love into the world.

You are caught and trapped in your ego. Transcend into a dimensional reality situated beyond your ego to your spiritual heart which is only experiencing eternal joy, bliss, unconditional love, and the light of Source.

You are in a new time and new evolution on Earth. Drop your current role in the play of life. Step into the life of an awakened spiritual being. You keep trying to raise your vibration and frequency when you need to work from a higher vibration and frequency.

I hold you in my arms and say you do have more choices than you know. You can shift to a higher level of consciousness.’

This month listen to some shamanic music or meditative music or spend some time in nature. Imagine traveling right behind your physical heart to your spiritual heart. It is the place where divine love, light, and bliss emanate from. Bring your burdens to your spiritual heart and experience how quickly they are transmuted and transformed into light.

Perform your transfiguration work and radiate light from your spiritual heart. Be a presence of love as your heart emanates pure and non personal unconditional love. 

In past issues of the Transmutation News I have shared the exercise of traveling to the Land of Dreams as I wrote about it in my book Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life.

You can perform a journey or meditation and ask to be taken to the Land of Dreams where an evolved spiritual community of people from all over the world are focusing their daydreams only on experiencing the most positive, beautiful, and awe inspired dreams for the planet. Take your place among this circle of dreamers, and do your work.”

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The full moon is November 15. It is time for us to remove the cloak of illusion that we are just a body and mind. Allow yourself to dance and sing and imagine dropping your current persona, your role, allow yourself to imagine dancing and singing so the frequency of your body is no longer solid but is one of pure spirit. And let the spiritual light be released effortlessly into the web of life bringing light to all on this great Earth. It is our role to be Creating a Human of Light. And with this work, as we continue, deepen, become the work we will experience deep changes in our lives.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News below are links for instructions on how to prepare for a ceremony and then instructions for our monthly full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/shaman-resources/medicine-for-the-earth/creating-a-human-web-of-light-medicine-for-the-earth/

This is a time where people join together to honor the spirit of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and gratitude mean so many different things to all of us. But let’s allow our hearts to speak gratitude for our lives and all in the web of life as there are so many who will not be able to find those words this year. Let us speak them for them and hold all in love!

Let us join our hearts together to welcome our new translator who will bring the Transmutation News to our circle who speaks the Czech language. This is a lot of volunteer work to commit to so let’s share our gratitude, blessings, and love with Pavlina Goodman from Prague

I am so excited to welcome in October as it is such a beautiful month whether you are welcoming in the time of darkness or a time of new birth. I love to welcome in darkness. And the reason is for me being in darkness and silence is where I can get my deepest rest. As I live in the Northern Hemisphere it is a time of welcoming in a phase of life of going as deep within to be nurtured on a level we do not receive in the light of life.

I keep seeing news stories about people being anxious about winter coming. Fall and winter are when we can let go, release, relax from all the stresses of being so active. We need the balance. I am not aware of nature beings who do not need rest. And we are Nature.

I have been pondering this October Transmutation News more than I have pondered a column in a while. And I think one of the reasons is I am doing so much deep healing and moving forward that every time I feel I have something to share with you on a spiritual level the inner territory I am walking through changes.

As you might remember, a few months ago Isis told me that what was happening to many of us including me, is that our past is marching into our present and that is an issue as now many of us have so much from the past preventing us from moving forward.

I have been exploring my past and doing some deep inner work that is taking me on another trajectory into my Inner World which is quite lovely. I realize I have some work to do there to meet the aspect of myself that the spirits have been showing me, and I have been wanting to meet most of my adult life.

 I keep walking and moving. I don’t get stuck in the past as that is just quicksand with no way out. The other day Isis shared with me that during the time we are living in if we stand in one place too long the earth below our feet will crumble.

It is a time to keep moving forward for when you look around a lot is dissolving right in front of our eyes, Just look at how many places are now uninhabitable. We must keep moving forward. And to add to this, performing our creation work for what we wish to create in those places of life that are dissolving before our eyes. The creation and manifestation work taught in the Medicine for the Earth work is some of the most important work we can do.

I wrote in a previous Transmutation News how the goddess Inanna was my teacher for a short time and taught me the power of keeping a clear focus – not looking left or right but just keep walking toward my destiny and what my soul and spirit are moving me towards. What your ego is moving towards is not real and won’t create healing or happiness for you.

With so many outer challenges it is so easy to get overwhelmed. But again, the key is to find the dimension of reality where you have full agency and power to change. And that is your Inner World. I think I have written enough about this as I have written it all before multiple times.

But I received these fabulous journeys that I have not had a chance to try yet. I am just going to give you the themes to journey on. The Transmutation News has been devoted to those who do the Medicine for the Earth work and are journeyers or meditators who can perform their spiritual work and receive guidance for themselves. I can’t guide you in these journeys. I am doing them for myself for the first time.

The first journey I was told to perform is a journey where we ask to meet the Three Original Mothers. There is a belief in some traditions that we all came from three original mothers. What an amazing journey or meditation to try to take and to experience what it is like to be in their unconditionally loving presence. Whether they really existed or not does not matter. Go back to the beginning of life and witness the incredible love of life and creation that was born from the feminine.

The next journey I would recommend trying is an adaptation of a journey I have written about in some of my books, teach in Medicine for the Earth workshops, and I have shared many times in the Transmutation News. The journey we have been performing is to journey or meditate on being a seed planted into the ground and watching its germination, growth, blossoming, pollination, fertilization.

I was told in this journey instead of exploring the life of a seed of a plant to journey to your original cell. We all started from one cell. And watch how that cell grows into life and forms more cells leading to organs and the body you live in. Watch the power, the life force, the love, the light, the evolution, and the eventual end of life.

And something of my own you can add to this is to find a spark of light in one of your cells and share that light with cells that might need healing and repair.

These are journeys that were given to me by Isis as very powerful energies to explore. If you feel up to it I invite you to join me in this work.

We honor the full moon on October 17. Every month our community that performs Creating a Human Web of Light keeps growing. The hearts of those who love life are coming together from all over the world to emanate our deepest unconditional love and the light of our Inner Source into the world. As our lights meet up and grow light the beauty of the stars in the clearest night sky. Imagine that night sky within you emanating light to yourself and all of life.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News below are links for instructions on how to prepare for a ceremony and then instructions for our monthly full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/shaman-resources/medicine-for-the-earth/creating-a-human-web-of-light-medicine-for-the-earth/

Please join with me to welcome our new Spanish translator. Our new volunteer is Xandra Mongelos as a translator for Spanish, who lives in Bali. As you can imagine it is a lot of work to do the translations into other languages so our international community can keep learning the power of the Medicine for the Earth work and growing into a strong community where we walk together into new ways of life.

Also, we are looking for a new translator for the Czech language. I have a couple of books published in Czech and would love to keep these newsletters available to those who would like to read them. If you would like to volunteer to translate the monthly Transmutation News into the Czech language, please contact Sylvia at info@sandraingerman.com.

We made it through summer and winter depending on where you live on this great Earth. It has been intense. I know for me this entire year has been very intense as in the tarot I am in my Death year. I have lost so many friends and colleagues this year. I had to really work with my spirits as the psychopomp work I have done to help people cross over was more complex this year. I can only say this has been such an interesting period of my life. I am ready to greet fall and continue to release all within me that I need to psychopomp to Source too.

We are greeting the season of fall or spring again depending on where you reside. And what a perfect time to really organize your life so that you are moving forward with your life and work in the right way and finding your own flow.

This particular time of year where we celebrate death and rebirth simultaneously is such a good time to look at what do you need to:

Dismember
Discreate
Uncreate
Dissolve
Destroy  

And then to:
Remember
Create
Weave
Nurture
Sing Rebirth

If you look at your life like a weaving this is a good time to pull out old threads of your life that need to go and start weaving in beautiful colors, textures, dreams so that is what you end up creating during the seasons allows you to let go of what needs to go back to the Earth while celebrating the new birth that is woven by your work.

I also like the metaphor of sweeping out your inner home and the home you live in. Sweeping out the old that needs to be composted in your life and bringing in new life to your inner landscape and to the home where you live. Physically sweeping your house can make a significant change to your psyche.

These simple ceremonies return our lives to balance. We often look for the most complicated ways to find ourselves in a true healthy flow with life. And finding flow and harmony should never be complicated as Nature finds its way easily in the flow of life. And if we are all Nature which we are why can’t we find the magical flow of Nature. We can. Perform your ceremonies and practices and keep them simple. Keep your life simple. And you might find you have more bounty of beauty and all you dream of in your life.

The equinox is September 22. Let’s imagine our circle performing ceremonies whose energy emerges into creating great beauty in the world.

The full moon is September 17 and is the Harvest Moon. Let’s gather our personal power together as a world community in our true desire to bring peace, light, love, and harmony back to how we live on our Earth. Earth is our home. And fighting over territory is not what our lives what meant to focus on. Let’s remember our purpose and drop the ego that separates us and remember the truth that we are all one light shining from our hearts as our spirit intended us to do. Let’s emanate our spiritual light throughout all of the web of life. Separation is an illusion. When we are fighting we are essentially just fighting with ourselves.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News below are links for instructions on how to prepare for a ceremony and then instructions for our monthly full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/shaman-resources/medicine-for-the-earth/creating-a-human-web-of-light-medicine-for-the-earth/

Ines Fermosa has been translating the Transmutation News into Spanish as a volunteer for 20 years now!! Due to life’s circumstances Ines can no longer keep up the translations. I am asking if there is someone who is willing to volunteer to take over the Spanish translation, please contact Sylvia Edwards at info@sandraingerman.com.

I only wish all shamanic practitioners had such commitment to the work as Ines has had. If we all held such a commitment to the work I don’t believe that we would be seeing the same challenges playing out on our planet right now.

It is something to think about as we enter a new season and meditate on our life and changes we need to make. How committed are you to do your spiritual, physical, and emotional work to really be a changemaker at a time where we really need everyone to stand up for all in the web of life.

Inspiration for the month from 2019:

“A few years ago I was show that ceremony creates energetic building blocks to move us closer to our dreams. One ceremony alone might not do it unless you are destined for a miracle.

It is like needing to create a landscape for building a new structure through energetic gardening and tending. Preparing the ground and then using ceremony to keep building energetic blocks that grow into a beautiful form and physical landscape over time.

Remember shamans are gardeners of energy so this is what they do. And they create these building blocks through singing incantations- singing certain vibrations that create new energetic forms.”

I send you all love and blessings during the time of this equinox. I love the fall equinox. So it is a huge time of celebration for me. Whether you are celebrating the time of fall or spring know that you are held in love by our circle.

Back in the 1980’s I had a variety of helping spirits that taught me beautiful and potent lessons. They would come through for very short periods of time- just enough time to share a lesson with me. One of the helping spirits that came through for me then was the goddess Inanna. She stayed with me for months. When she did appear in my journey, the image and experience were always the same.

She showed herself walking through a very barren and desolate territory. The road was filled with dust. And there was no green around. The path was narrow and steep as Inanna walked through this territory with such amazing focus not looking right or left. She was walking up a steep hill with no end in sight.

Although she never spoke to me with words, I got the message she was trying to transmit to me. And the message was to keep my focus on my vision of where I was going. She instructed me to not look left or right. My vision was always to remain looking straight with 100% focus on where I was going and not allowing the challenging distractions to throw me off course. For the spiritual work is so important.

I feel like with all the planetary changes, we have to find the path that works for us. Some readers of this column are young, healthy, and vital and have the energy to be protesters like I was back in the 1960s. Some of you have the energy to enter into deep conflicts and find this is your way to be in service. And then there are some who are elders. Some elders are still out there fully in their passion doing their work of service. And some elders need to take on more of a traditional role of holding space for all that is going on.

For healing to happen we need multiple types of work happening. We need the socially active and we need those who can hold space for what is happening. I feel like that was the message of Innana.

Whatever role you choose if you are working from a place of love we can all settle in the role that we are physically capable of and that calls to our soul.

I see our international readers as a community and as a circle. We don’t know each other in the ordinary world. But we have been coming together for 25 years to work together in ways we are drawn to, especially using the Medicine for the Earth work.

If you can expand your vision and take in the possibility that thousands of people around the world are reading this column and choosing to join together to make a difference it will be “medicine” for our hearts right now.

One such circle member is a woman by the name of Maureen. And she shared a post on FB that really touched me. I asked her if I could share with our readers and community. Maureen was having a day where she was feeling how tough it was to live where she was living. The environment has made our living spaces more toxic and sometimes it is not possible for us to find the perfect place to live.

I was so moved by what Maureen wrote. I hope you feel the depth of feeling too.

Maureen’s post

“I was inspired to create a collage based on some insights I received the other night from my Guides. 
Without going into great length, my Guides were helping me work through some frustrations and related thoughts and feelings about a few things having to do with my life and where I live. They encouraged me to bloom where I am planted.  
Briefly, they were teaching me, helping me to recognize, that all the plants and flowers focus on expressing their divine essence, being their authentic selves, whether they grow in a field or forest, in a small patch of ground in someone’s yard, or in a pot adorning the steps or windowsills of a home. 
The potted plants, garden fruits and vegetables, and flowers don’t think about their relatives who grow up in an open field or forest, or somewhere else, wild, and free. They recognize their purpose is to express their divine essence, to provide their beauty, fragrance, and gifts to the world, – to be the best they can be – wherever they find themselves planted and growing. They have resilience and strength to even push through as they sprout in places which are not the first choice for growing plants, like the cracks of city sidewalks. 
This is part of what I was given to not only ponder, but to reflect upon and make my own inner adjustments, – learning from the beings of the plant kingdom the importance of being my authentic self and expressing my divine essence, offering my gifts and living my life in sacred service for the benefit of all beings, whether I live in a small pot (my little apartment) or have the opportunity to be replanted someplace else.
I choose to reframe my frustrations and be grateful for the gift of life, the opportunity to offer my life in service, and recognize that wherever I am planted doesn’t change that or hinder that, it’s an opportunity for me to bloom where I am planted.
As I make that inner shift, I come into balance within myself and with the world around me, and I come into coherence with the divine frequency.”

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To end on a humorous note. Karine is one of our French translators. She was translating the July column where I wrote about slowing down to 3G versus 5G. As she was translating this passage she got a notification on her phone.

You can sign up for 5G and everything will go faster.

The universe can offer us some synchronicity and humor sometimes.

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The full moon is August 19. Let’s gather our personal power together alone and as a world community in our true desire to bring peace, light, love, and harmony back to how we live on our Earth. Earth is our home. And fighting over territory is not what our lives what meant to focus on. Let’s remember our purpose and drop the ego that separates us and remember the truth that we are all one light shining from our hearts as our spirit intended us to do. Let’s emanate our spiritual light throughout all of the web of life.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News below are links for instructions on how to prepare for a ceremony and then instructions for our monthly full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/shaman-resources/medicine-for-the-earth/creating-a-human-web-of-light-medicine-for-the-earth/

Inspiration for this month:

Rest is reconnecting to yourself. Once that is done everything flows easily.

I wish you all a beautiful August!!

Throughout my life, I have carried this firm belief that when things break down in my house or car it is a metaphor for something going on in my life.

I found myself in a strange situation with my car. I don’t have a fancy car, but I have a reliable car and that is important to all of us. I bought my car in 2016 when I felt I needed a few more safety features. I have a Subaru.

It has been such a great vehicle for traveling, especially before the pandemic when I was driving more to trainings.

But every year my battery died. Woods and I would start looking at each other with accusatory looks of who left the door open, the lights, on, etc. This went on every year.

Finally, a couple of months ago we had to call AAA as we could not jump the battery on our own. And the AAA driver said “I see this all the time with older cars like yours that have Starlink”. I kept Starlink as I liked having the extra security if I needed help on a deserted road.

So, to make the longest story short it turns out that Subaru always knew there was an issue with older cars with Starlink. The reason is that the battery will keep searching for 3 G when the world has moved on to 5G, but older Subarus don’t know a different frequency is out there. So, it keeps looking for the older slower frequency that no longer exists. It was spending 24/7 looking for this slower frequency and the battery kept burning out once a year. Even when the car was off the battery was looking for 3 G.

This was startling information for me as Subaru was aware of the issue but never bothered to fill me in.

But I had to sit with the metaphor for I wonder if this is what I and others are experiencing.

In the shamanic community and the spiritual community, we keep talking about raising our frequency. In the Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light trainings, I constantly teach about the need to work on our body and ego before stepping into higher frequencies. For if your body is not ready to hold that level of energy it will certainly burn out. So diet, exercise, keeping your nervous system strong, grounding, working on shadow states and old traumas, and making sure you do your spiritual preparation are all important to keep us healthy as we do our spiritual work and move into more evolved states of consciousness. It is also important to learn from Nature. Everything in life goes through growth cycles. We can learn how to pace ourselves in healthier ways by becoming one with Nature and its cycles and ever-changing phases.

Back in the early 1980’s I ate some psilocybin late at night at home. This was unusual for me as when I was on mushrooms I had to be with nature. I had to be with running rivers and sitting with trees all day long, or walking all night to the ocean and then sitting with it as the sun came up.

Anyway, my helping spirits started showing me how to put my hand through the wood of a door. There was a lesson they were trying to teach me. They shared with me that in order to be successful at this I had to learn how to slow down my frequency to a much slower level than I was vibrating at.

I did have the experience of my hand starting to move through the door. I stopped myself from going farther. But the lesson of slowing down my frequency always stuck with me.

So with my car, I sat with what was happening for a while, and I can see how I have been searching for a lower frequency to live at so I stay healthy but can still do all my powerful shamanic work. For what do we keep trying to raise our frequency for?

I obviously teach transfiguration which is working with the Creator’s light that was planted as a seed in us. And that light and energy has the ability to create just like Source did. And this is high-frequency work.

This leaves me pondering and finding myself excited to explore another level of working with shamanic energies and the energies of life.

My mother and I were/ are the slowest walkers you can imagine. Do we truly understand the unique speed that we need to feel safe and grounded on this Earth?

Most of the help I personally see people need is calming down their nervous system.  Is it that our nervous systems are struggling to keep up with the frequencies we are trying to attain? Are we burning out our body’s ability to survive? Is there more work we need to do? And what are the benefits of working with lower frequencies? And what perceptions do we have about lower frequencies?

The full moon is July 21 and is the Buck Moon. Can you step away from the chaos and challenges of the outside world so that you can let go of your ego, thoughts, let go of the form of your body, and allow your inner light that is as bright as the sun, moon, stars above us to shine as brightly as these amazing bodies of life remind us of the truth of who we are. The truth is you are that light too and can radiate that light within and throughout the Earth to every living being in the web of life. That is our service right now to radiate love and light and to bring back the feminine principle to the planet.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News below are links for instructions on how to prepare for a ceremony and then instructions for our monthly full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/shaman-resources/medicine-for-the-earth/creating-a-human-web-of-light-medicine-for-the-earth/

This is an interesting inspiration I found in my journals:

“You can’t resist life because the force is too strong.”

It is true, isn’t it? We try but we get hurt. There was a recent inspiration on FB where someone shared how Buffalos face storms and get through them faster than trying to turn away from the storm. I feel that quote says something similar.

I have not had a chance to share about my One Year Practitioner Training at the Chi Center right outside of Santa Fe. 50 souls traveled from all over the country, some from Europe, Australia and even some from Japan. So we had the most interesting mix of people who bonded immediately. And then came the drums and the dancing and the incredible dance between humans, the spirits, the land, and each other. I can only say I was in true ecstasy and happy that I am back in person and connecting both with helping spirits and humans again in profound and meaningful ways. I can’t imagine teaching any other way anymore!

It’s been really interesting for me to get feedback on Walking Through Darkness. So many of you have read it now and are giving me feedback on the book. For some it has become like a lifeline. Finally, there are authors talking about walking through the darkness instead of immediately trying to turn everything into positivity and light.

The Medicine for the Earth work does focus on building an inner landscape that is so rich and beautiful that is what you see when you open your eyes and step into the world. Our perception creates our reality and when we get too dark that is what we see inside and outside of us.

But again, in life there are just certain truths where we can’t do a spiritual bypass. And when you have been deeply hurt in your life it is important to walk through that territory too. And that is how we get through to the other side where we can embrace beauty.

While walking through the darkness our ego is stripped. Until our ego is stripped we really can’t see the world of spirit that is so alive and vibrant every second no matter what is going on in and around us.

Our collective is in a deep initiation now. And it is the people whose egos are being stripped that are stepping into new states of evolution. It is beautiful to see. But some of us had to start with feeling the loss and feelings of betrayal that accompany a deep initiation before we could see that a true gift was being given to us. The gift is embracing life from another level of consciousness where we do feel fully empowered to live life in a good way despite the challenges.

That is the key. And when we do leave the dark night of the soul and the light welcomes us home, we have the tools to caretake the Earth and ourselves which of course is all one.

As we approach the summer/winter solstice on June 20 it is a time of celebrating the longest day of the year but mostly honoring the power of the sun which gives us life. As all times of changing phases these are wonderful and potent times to set your intention for the coming season and connecting with nature.

Some people like to perform ceremonies in nature at a park, beach, or even in your own backyard. This is where I perform my ceremonies on my land which I am literally woven into.

You can read the article I wrote on how to prepare for a ceremony. Preparation is key for all sacred spiritual work. Ceremony creates sacred reciprocity so there is a lot of flow of energy being transmitted between you and the creative forces of the universe.

https://www.sandraingerman.com/preparing-for-ceremonial-work/

This link brings you to a powerful transfiguration ceremony.

We are dealing with climate change. It is time to honor the sun for all the life it gives us. We can’t survive without the sun. In shamanic cultures Shamans performed ceremonies to make sure there was balance between humans and the climate and the land where they lived.

It is time to start honoring our sacred elements and sacred ceremonies and practices and then through reciprocity we might see some dramatic changes occur. You can dance your love for the sun, sing a song, light a candle in honor of its life-giving light. If safe you could do a fire ceremony and speak with the sun. You all know how to perform ceremonies where you ask the fire to take from you a pain or something burdening your path forward. Or asking the fire to carry your intentions of what you are passionate about creating to the creative forces of the universe.

Use your drums and rattles to connect spiritually with the forces of nature and make sure to honor the sun. Perform some of the inner work I have been suggesting, to work with the energy of the sun that lives inside of you to learn and obtain knowledge of how the changing phases of the sun inside and without are impacting you.

Always remember to thank the helping spirits and the elements for their participation in your ceremony and let them know you are done, and you are releasing them.

If you are new to performing ceremonies check out my book The Book of Ceremony published by Sounds True. I wrote this for our current days and issues we could use help creating ceremonies for.

The full moon is June 21. It is the Strawberry Moon. This is our time to drop all we are doing for the greater good of all of life and prepare to do our most sacred work of harmonizing our emanating brilliant spiritual light within and throughout the Earth. May our work add to all the beautiful work people are doing in all traditions around the world to pray for peace.

When we come home to our light we will always come home to a state of peace.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News please read Creating A Human Web of Light on the homepage.

Here is an inspiration from my journal I wrote a few years ago:

If we have a field of energy what kind of field are you building for yourself? For the energy field of energy around you in itself will impact your life and how others respond to you. Are you filling your field with being courageous to state to yourself your positive attributes, and how you share and uplift other beings? Or are you filling yourself with self-sabotaging beliefs? Or are filling yourself and your field up with all that is wrong in your life and the world? I keep sharing that we carry the ‘medicine’ of our helping spirits. Well, we carry our own ‘medicine’ too. And you and all life are healed by the ‘medicine’ you carry.

We join together to wish everyone a blessed solstice!

I have been on a number of podcasts speaking about Llyn Robert’s and my new book Walking Through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss.

There are some really deep lessons in this book about darkness, when to fight, surrender, or accept. And obviously some interviewers want to touch on these deeper and most relevant subjects. But I find myself moving every interview back to the first chapter I wrote on which has to do with empowering ourselves by using our intuition in making decisions about our health and life.

For how do you even begin to approach the deeper mysteries of life without first listening and speaking from your intuition and heart instead of your mind?

On one podcast I said I feel like when I go onto social media that I am at a Carnival like my parents took me to when I was young. I know I promote my books and audios a lot too! There are so many voices selling their work and making the promises everyone has to make in the world of promotion.

But the biggest mistake I have made in my most intense initiation of over 9 years now is not listening to my own body. I gave my power away to doctors, all kinds of healers, psychics, shamans, technological devices, supplements, and the list goes on.

I was so busy listening to others there was no way I could hear what my inner voice and what my body was asking for. And when I did start listening, I found my symptoms were starting to change. It has been really extraordinary of the omens and synchronicities starting to happen due to listening to my body.

I also found myself starting to question my own sanity as there were so many other people’s voices in my head – take this product, stop working, keep working, walk, don’t walk, exercise, don’t exercise, you’re not living right, blame, judgement. I got so much conflictual advice I started questioning my own sanity as I could not hear myself anymore. And my intuition has always been my strongest tool, and I just ignored it. Not being able to hear my voice left me feeling completely unanchored and unsupported. I had a lot of support, but none of it was the right kind.

I don’t have any regrets as it all led me to finally listening to myself and seeing the dark side of both the allopathic, functional, and spiritual world of medicine and healing. I feel like I can now hold my own working with all the teachings of the Medicine for the Earth work. I never stopped doing any of my practices. It was just that I did not give them the power to transform my issues. If I had fully dropped in like I did before I began this most recent initiation, I would be in a completely different place now.

There is so much fake news in every arena of the news and in the medical world. There are so many people who are sensitive and psychic and having a hard time maintaining their health on so many levels due the challenges we are going through personally and collectively.

The only way out is through. And the only way I know how to get through is listening to my own inner voice. It never steers me away from the truth and always brings me back to my deep connection to myself and to nature within and without. My intuition has led me through the most incredible challenges, some life threatening.

And now I need it more than ever. And I believe we all do.

There is a lot of chatter and noise from everyone who knows more than you right now. But only you know what is right for you! So trust yourself. I believe this is how we get through.

I feel that trusting our intuition is the first step before we can make a positive change and choice in our lives.

I find that some people’s inner spirit and intuition are leading them to connecting deeper to the Earth and the elements of nature by rewilding and creating natural landscapes for nature beings to live in harmony and love. There are people learning old ways of gardening and cooking and making healing foods. This is what their intuition is leading them towards. And then there are those whose intuition is leading them into jumping fully into politics and the environment and are becoming activists while holding a spiritual perspective. And we have our community that has the love for travel and feels this is the time to see the world.

When we were dealing with lockdowns all over the world an elder from the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico would frequently call me and say, “Tell people to live a simple life.”. I think we all know what that means. And when we learn to trust our intuition, our intuition will always lead us to living a simpler life for this is where health lies.

It is interesting to watch the roles people are taking on as we find our authentic selves by using practices of deep inner listening.

You actually can’t make an error right now as everything happening for all of us is to help us grow!

Here is one of my inspirations that came to me in 2019:

“Ceremony creates energetic building blocks to move us closer to our dreams. One ceremony alone might not do it unless it is destined that it is your time for a miracle.

You have to create a landscape for building a new structure through energetic gardening and tending. Preparing the ground then using ceremony to keep building energetic blocks that grow into a beautiful form and physical landscape over time.

Remember shamans are gardeners of energy so this is what they do. And they create these building blocks through singing incantations — singing certain vibrations that create new energetic forms.”

The full moon is May 23. I know many of you spent the new moon and the solar eclipse in meditation and many of you transfiguring. Transfiguration creates the light behind the challenges. The light always calls us home to our authentic selves of a seed of the creative forces.

Allow yourself to fully drop into your divine light and absorb and ground yourself with the light flowing into each of your cells. Imagine a spark of light that is so shiny and put it in a place of your body that needs healing and let it grow.

And then let your light grow in a profound way that just its very presence travels through every cell of the planet too.

If you are new to our full moon ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light please read the instructions on the homepage.

I do have a lot of announcements this month due to sharing podcasts I have been on for promoting Walking Through Darkness as well as announcing projects of colleagues who I really love their work.

I started the Transmutation News to share knowledge with all of you, not for promotion. But I am also happy to be part of a community that supports each other’s work. So please don’t feel like you need to read announcements if you are not interested in other events.

I know most of you feel significant changes in your life, work, and spiritual practices. Although many people I know don’t agree with me, I feel strongly that this world is a play, and we are actresses and actors in this play of life. We play a role for a while and then something happens, and we lose our part and a different role for us emerges. Or we make a conscious decision to remove our old costume and find a role that now suits our level of consciousness.

A metaphor seems to be emerging for me in weaving together conversations on social media, the news, and having deep conversations with others. It feels to me like on many levels the curtains have been closed for some of us. And we are in the wings examining new costumes with new colors and textures and exploring taking on a new part, a new role that reflects the huge changes we have made in consciousness.

I am working with people now who are facing the biggest decisions of their lives and if they will still be alive. I have so many students who are finding new avenues to share what they are learning in their spiritual practices such as creating stronger communities, helping people using spiritual practices who are dying, creating fire ceremonies in their communities to help people learn the power of letting go of a lot of the burdens we carry, and the list goes on.

We have a new generation of practitioners who are not only being trained by human teachers but also are getting amazing new healing information from helping spirits and from Nature itself. And they are stepping into new roles of service as with every new lesson we embrace we change the world around us.

My friend HeatherAsh Amara is truly a brilliant writer and teacher. Recently, in her substack column, she wrote an article about coming out of challenges. HeatherAsh’s land was deeply impacted by one of the biggest fires in the U.S. set by the fire service not paying attention to how high the winds were blowing. Some of the oldest and sacred rural areas of New Mexico were literally destroyed.

 HeatherAsh doesn’t write fluff. She deeply goes into what she is seeing from her perspective and practices and new ways of living we need to adopt as the world changes so rapidly.

In her column, she brings up the issue of spiritual bypass. She questions if only looking at the positive is a healthy way for us to live, and do we sweep under the rug things we can be doing to be in service.

Our perceptions do create our reality. This is one of the main teachings of the Medicine for the Earth work. It is to keep us positive so we can keep moving forward and not sit down in the dark. We can drown in negativity and start projecting it out into the world in very unhealthy ways. And so there is a big role for keeping positive and staying grateful for your life.

Many people today want to do something to help and there are endless ways. There are many of us who are elders who are taking the traditional role of doing deep inner work and preparing for our own death. This takes us into being a true healing presence in the world. Yes, being in meditation, taking walks in nature, and being in deep reflection, or finding inner peace all contribute to the health of the planet.

But are there more ways you can make a difference? HeatherAsh wrote out a list of some simple practices that you can add to the spiritual work you are doing if you are so disturbed by what you are observing in your community and in the world.

From HeatherAsh:

“Three actions every week, one local, one global, one self-care

Volunteer. Donate. Pick up groceries for a neighbor. Call your representatives. Make art. Replenish your inner battery. Reduce your use of the precious, and limited, resources of water, electricity, etc. Support a local business. Help send someone to school. Google “how can I help…” Lean into organizations that are on the ground in the areas you want to support. 

Set aside time each week/day/month to take action in your local community and your global community, AND to replenish yourself.

Drink lots of water, rest, and resource yourself. Find joy where you can. Don’t guilt, shame, or blame yourself or others. Let’s use creativity, intuition, compassion, fierce love, and tenderness as our guides.”

There was a period in my life when I was taking a sabbatical from my work. I wanted to make sandwiches for children at the Food Depot. I had called. I was so excited. I had my hair nets! They were happy to have a new volunteer. Unfortunately, I had a family emergency, and my life went in a different direction for a few beautiful and very challenging years.

But I still find ways to contribute outside of the shamanic work I do and it helps the community I live in which just feels like an act of sacred reciprocity to me.

There is an inner smile that we naturally experience when we reach out to help others.

HeatherAsh’s article is deep beyond my words here. Here is how she ends her writing:

“Remember, beloveds. Both, and. We can’t hide from the hurt and harm happening around us. And we also can’t allow ourselves to drown in our / other’s anger, fear, or struggles. We need to foster creativity and sustainable, willing action. We want to learn how to hold the long view AND take action in the short term. 

These are a few of the heartbreaking things. 

May our hearts break open to more fierce love, more wild compassion, and more willing action towards the local, and global, vision of equality, freedom, and happiness for ALL beings.”

To read her entire article here is a link:

These are a few of the heartbreaking things

By HeatherAsh Amara from Out of the Fire

https://heatherash.substack.com/p/these-are-a-few-of-the-heartbreaking

Or here is a Google link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BPUjR_LOUmZArwr8PPZdCGkLP1a3EvFmHCTSdkwCIyg/edit?usp=sharing

The full moon is April 23. We celebrate the Pink Moon this month. Let’s drop our robes that hold the consciousness of separation and focus on oneness. You know the work you need to do for our ceremony Creating a Human Web of Light. Let’s fully connect as one loving light-filled energy that keeps circling within and throughout our great Earth.

If you are new reader of the Transmutation News, please read the instructions for Creating a Human Web of Light on the homepage.

I am re-reading Walking Through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss. I will be re-reading it again and again. There is so much wisdom I want to really deepen my own experience with.

Recently I found an old folder of insights that I had a few years ago. I was actually working on a very small book to share these. Some of them are so profound that starting next month I will be weaving them into the Transmutation News.

The last couple of months some of you have been reaching out to me about the importance of what I have been sharing about living in the present and also in reflecting on your current connections and seeing who and what you need to disconnect from and what new connections need to be made.

When we connect in healthy ways to others and nature we end up collecting very valuable knowledge. And suddenly this has been very important to me. When walking out in nature and seeing a plant I don’t know I ask what kind of knowledge it has. For I have realized that everything that exists is not only alive but carries knowledge to be shared across species about how we can live on this planet connected fully to the web of life. There is so much knowledge to be gained right now.

As you know I am in love with the elements. And since the elements are the first beings who came onto the Earth imagine the knowledge that they must hold for us on living life in a good way.

All of this loops back to sacred reciprocity and community.

Of course, the first step is to examine the connection we have with ourselves and how to practice sacred reciprocity to give thanks to ourselves for being willing to keep moving forward and doing practices no matter what the outcome is. So much of spiritual work is letting go of outcomes as everything in this world is outside of time although we like to put time in convenient boundaries so we can make sense of the passing phases of life.

You really need to connect with yourself in a way where you feel empowered and are walking forward while trusting your intuition and knowing there is a higher power and order we just don’t understand at this time in our evolution. But our work brings us to a place of realizing that beyond the suffering we are experiencing ourselves and projecting out onto the world, we are actually truly blessed to have an earthly experience where our growth is challenged so deeply. Who will we become when we take charge of our destiny and join in love and kindness with others?

Coming back to the elements that gave us life. As I keep repeating, we are also earth, air, water, and fire. You might know a circle song that is sung around the world:

Earth my Body

Water my Blood

Air my Breath

And

Fire my Spirit

We are the elements and they are also outside of us as well giving us life but at the same time stripping away at our ego and parts of our life that no longer serve the larger earth community.

On March 19 we celebrate the equinox. The illusion of time is quickly passing into a new phase of life where in the Northern Hemisphere we get to see the bounty of the seeds we planted in the fall and winter and in the Southern Hemisphere it is time to prepare for letting go of the old and preparing for rest and renewal.

Isis gave me the suggestion of merging with the elements of Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Lightning, the Moon, the Stars, the Cosmos. Perform these journeys over the month of March and experience what knowledge you absorb from the elements within and without.

If you have never performed a merging journey, it is quite simple. Think of a form of an element you wish to merge with such as a raindrop, the mist, the sea, a pinecone, the land where you live, a flame in a match, a fire forest fire, the sun, the wind caressing your hair, a rock, the land that lightning has touched. I love to merge with ice.

Start with “May I step into your field of energy and learn from you by merging with you?” When you receive a yes as your answer gently imagine becoming this being you are learning about. So you are learning about the element by becoming it versus speaking to it.

You can also perform this as a meditation using some spiritual music to get you into a spiritual space. You can do this outside and experience the merging of all the elements coming together in harmony.

What knowledge can you gain by connecting with the elements in this way? And what can you learn about how the elements work together in perfect harmony? My body is asking for “intelligent” knowledge right now. And I am seeing everything in life as having knowledge to connect with right now. It feels like I am reconnecting to life by sending out strings or webs to nature and finding my spot in the web.

The full moon is March 25. It is the Worm Moon.  Wouldn’t it be fabulous to merge with the moon while transfiguring and adding our power to the power of the moon, stars, and cosmos to emanate light and love to every part of the Earth and all in the web of life. Do your preparation work so you can be in the right state of consciousness to leave this world behind and shine like the light of the moon bringing beauty everywhere to this great earth.

If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News you can find the instructions for our full moon ceremonies on the homepage.

By the way, I wrote a fabulous chapter on Earthworms in Speaking with Nature.

You have probably seen the joke going around Facebook. I have watched it circulate for years. There is a funny comic and two comic book people talking. “What do you think the future will bring?” The future will bring beauty and flowers.” Why do you think this?” “Because that is what I am planting”.

I had to paraphrase this as I don’t remember the exact wording. But as shamans are gardeners of energy we all get this.

Plant during the spring and fall what you want to see grow in the future when the timing is right for the germination of the seeds to blossom into the beauty we all dreamed of. And don’t forget to get rest, sun, and nurturance on all levels to feel fed by nature and by the elements of life.

Join me in wishing our global circle a beautiful equinox!

And I am delighted to announce we found new French translators. Please join me on thanking Laurence and Karine for bringing the Transmutation News to our French readers.