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Transmutation News – February 2020

We are all feeling so much emotion for the landscapes and all of life being destroyed through climatic events.

We know there is destruction and death happening in numerous places around the world. But more recently the fires in Australia are tearing our hearts open.

I read about all kinds of statistics of loss of life and don’t know what numbers are accurate. I have seen reports of 500,000 nature beings that died in the fires. And 8,000 koala bears have died as of writing this month’s column.

It is tragic beyond what our minds and hearts can imagine.

I too am praying beside all of you for the fire to be contained.

I recently spoke about this during my Introduction call “The Three Hidden Worlds” hosted by Stephen Dinan and The Shift Network.

Shamanism is a nature based practice and in shamanic cultures all life including Earth, Air, Water, and Fire are our family. But when we don’t honor, respect, or act with kindness towards other life beings there are consequences.

Earth, Air, Water, Fire gives us life. We continue to throw all our toxic waste into the elements that give us life. They are living beings and are our family.

In our culture we still are still ignoring the sacred practice of reciprocity. All of you reading this column know intuitively and in your heart that if we honored the elements that give us life they would not be acting so violently.

But yet we bypass building a strong loving relationship with them and simply try to get enough people together to try and manipulate the elements to move fires, move flood waters, move storms, create rain, and so on. This might have a temporary miraculous effect, but in some ways is more part of the problem as people feel they don’t have to change how they live their lives if they feel they can manipulate Nature instead of respect it.

I wonder how things would change if we established a relationship with the elements of mutual respect… You have to know in your heart that this would make a huge difference. You must KNOW this.

But here we are. Our hearts are broken with so much loss.

Start honoring the elements. Let’s gather our spiritual energies to open lines of communication with the elements instead of just gathering forces to manipulate them. Nature will not be manipulated.

Let’s perform honorable closure ceremonies for all the beings that have lost their lives. I wrote about Honorable Closure ceremonies in The Book of Ceremony: Invoking the Sacred into Everyday Life.

Connect spiritually with beings who lost their life. Thank them for gracing the Earth and all of life with their presence, their beauty, and their strength.

They contributed so much to the web of life and their loss is devastating to all of us.

Wish them a journey home to Source filled with grace, love, and light.

Let’s honor all the beings who died. This creates healing for all of life. Emanate love and light to all who lost their lives.

This level of consciousness actually allows all of us to live more consciously on the Earth.

Connect spiritually with the land you live on, the compassionate ancestors on the land, and to all the nature beings including the elements. Emanate love and light daily and feel that love returned to you.

Life on Earth will change as we do this. This I KNOW! The full moon is February 9. Let’s gather our spiritual energies together
to show all of life how much we honor and love all that inhabits this Earth with us. On this full moon let our divine light hold all of life in love and radiate this light within and throughout the Earth.

If you are a new reader of The Transmutation News please read Creating a Human Web of Light on the homepage for a description of our full moon ceremonies.

Let’s keep our transfiguration work strong and perceive all of life in its divine light and strength. Don’t burden other living beings with your pity.

Transmutation News – September 2019

In July, my husband and I had the amazing opportunity to take an expedition to the Arctic. This has been a life dream for me. Also, I had a powerful journey where the Sun asked me to make the pilgrimage.

So, we set off on an ice cutting expedition boat. It was an amazing experience to travel into such a magical realm. We went to the Svalbard.

During our journey, the ice expanded so we were able to get to the 80^th parallel. We got to 730 miles toward the North Pole. But we could not go further.

I cannot possibly put into words what we experienced here. We definitely now have “polar fever” and are seriously thinking about moving to a town in the Artic for a while.

I went to be in the ice and in the silence. To be able to ride through the ice shelf was spectacular! But we did get to see some amazing nature beings- dolphins, seals, walruses, an amazing number of birds, beautiful flowers, reindeer, Artic fox, and yes, we saw a polar bear. I mostly got to see the polar bear climbing onto a piece of ice so mostly I saw its butt. But then I could see it walking. This all happened too fast to take a photo. But such a gift!

I keep sharing in the Transmutation News that all life sings. Well on one zodiac excursion we did go into a fjord where there was singing ice. We got to be with it for one hour before we had to return.

I did post a clip of a video I took of singing ice on my Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/SandraIngerman

We took some spectacular hikes and amazing zodiac rides to witness a wealth of animals, birds, and landscapes.

To be in the silence in this magical dimension of reality is life changing.

This is something we all miss in the frantic lives we lead. And how fast life has become is causing illness of the soul.

We must return to living a more nature-based life. This would help people emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

With all the changes happening in our environment we must learn how to adapt. For our current environment is filled with so many toxins, and we must get really proactive on how to transmute them.

I recently learned through a medical test that I am filled with very toxic mold and so is our house. We are working with a mold remediation team who is getting the mold out of our home. And I am taking supplements for my own healing.

But I realized that I can get lost in paranoia about how some mold might be escaping some of the cleansing we are doing.

I realized that instead of shifting into a state of fear it is time for me to go even deeper with my own practice of transfiguration. We know it works from so much we have seen throughout the years. Light does transform toxic substances.

I focus during the day on sensing and feeling my inner sun radiating light through all my cells. I emanate light and love throughout my house and the land we live on.

I see our home in its divine perfection. And I am also doing my spiritual work to step out of the field of energy of mold. Stepping out of fields of energy is a topic I want to pursue with you in the future.

To adapt to our environment, we have our work to do. We must step out of the frantic field of energy that so many of us are caught up in and find ways to step into the field of energy of silence. We need this to regenerate!

And we must do our spiritual practices such as transfiguration to transmute what we do take in from our environment instead of living in fear.

Adaptation will be key in our lifetime. Spend some time in nature and reflect on what I am sharing.

What are you doing to make sure you adapt? And how are you inspiring your loved ones and community to do the same? This is important work that we cannot deny anymore.

There are beings in nature who tap into the blueprint they were born with to adapt and there are those whose time it is to leave the planet. But all of life right now is being asked to adapt one way or another.

The full moon is September 14. This is a perfect time to connect with the power of the sun, moon, and stars and to tap into your divine light that reflects back powerful life-giving energies. Find a way to adapt your own transfiguration work so you can tap into your purest radiant light.

Let’s radiate this light throughout our global community empowering each other. And let’s radiate it within and throughout the Earth touching every life form with perfection and love.

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

And amazingly summer and winter are shifting to fall and spring in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. It’s time to connect with the land where you live and feel the changes within and without as we welcome in a whole new season of life.

The equinox is on September 23. During the time of fall we always think about what we need to let of go of and surrender to the earth so that she might compost the energy into new life. And for the spring we think about the endless possibilities that can be birthed as we plant new seeds into the earth.

For this equinox let’s ceremoniously plant seeds of hope in the earth where you live. You can certainly do this as a journey or a meditation. But better than that would be to go outside, bring your sacred tools with you, welcome the helping spirits, the compassionate ancestors of the land, the hidden folk, earth, air, water, and fire as the sun, the power of the moon and the stars to be your witness. Use some seeds that you have gathered or bought and plant them while you breathe hope, love, and light into each seed you plant. Fill each seed with the intention of hope bursting forth around the world in their right time. With the changes in seasons, we will have plants of hope blooming everywhere.

Every living being on this Earth is sacred. You are sacred. Life is sacred. Let’s remember what a gift it is to be here and continue to deepen our spiritual practices.

I join our circle in wishing everyone a beautiful and powerful equinox!

Transmutation News – December 2012

As the Transmutation News is sent out and posted before the beginning of each month, many of my friends and students on the East Coast read the November Transmutation News before Hurricane Sandy rolled through.

Once people’s power came back on, I received many emails and letters saying that what I wrote in November helped so many to weather the storm. I received numerous accounts of how reader’s homes were miraculously saved.

But most of all knowing that there was a global community holding them in love and light was transformational. Those on the East Coast held onto the advice from the November Transmutation News and felt held by our virtual circle.

There are intense shifts happening all over the world. Some of these events are widely publicized and some go on without media coverage. But the intensity of the shifts and energetic clearings are resulting in a great deal of loss and death. Spiritually our divine light is eternal and shines through every challenge that occurs. Our divine light can never be lost. Our divine light cannot be extinguished. And there is an exponential power of transformation that we can create as we choose to shine our light together as a global community.

During these changing times it is important to remember to hold all of life in love and light. And our light radiates to living beings and to the places that we know are challenged. Our light radiates to all living being and places that are not receiving media coverage. Our web of light is woven within and throughout all of this great earth! Trust in this. Feed the light! Feed the vessel of love that we are.

We join our hearts together to hold the entire Middle East in love and light during these turbulent times.

We have arrived at the anticipated December of 2012. Wow, so much has been written about this time! And we have the opportunity to ride the wave of shifts and changes together.

Last month I wrote about the need to grieve the personal losses we are experiencing. It is also time to grieve what we might be saying goodbye to in life as a collective. For the time we live in demands shifts and changes to embrace a healthier way of life that honors and respects all life on earth.

This month let us do some ceremonial healing work together as a global community. I see this as a cleansing we can all do together as we welcome in the solstice and also the New Year.

Each day go inside yourself and start to meditate on shadow states of consciousness that need to be acknowledged and released. Examples might include such issues as betrayal, disappointment, fear of loss, hatred, etc.

You can meditate or perform a shamanic journey to examine, observe and acknowledge these types of issues. You can allow your own inner wisdom to reveal to you states of consciousness that need to be healed. You can look at who you might felt has betrayed you in life, or those who have disappointed you. You might observe that there are people who you need to forgive. There might also be life circumstances that occurred where you felt betrayed or disappointed by a community or life itself. There might be energies that you left in places that need to be cleaned up and transmuted.

Look at where and to whom you might have directed hatred and anger to. Have you betrayed anyone by your behavior?

Do you need to forgive anyone (don’t forget to include yourself in your list)?

Allow your own inner spirit to reveal to you the inner states of consciousness that need to be examined, acknowledged, and released. This is a time to be cleansed.

Each day as you do this imagine a giant cauldron of divine light. This cauldron is being used by our entire global community to release into. As we release those inner states that need to be healed, we release them into divine light that transmutes their power and energy into love.

In November, I started creating this cauldron with the assistance of my helping spirits. It is filled with blessings and light.

On the solstice let us all meet up in the invisible realms together stirring the cauldron creating a mist, stream, beams of light and love that embrace all of life.

As different issues and situations reveal themselves to be healed release them into this cauldron. Do this with honor. Say goodbye to what you feel you are ready to release and do your work with intention that what you release will be transformed into love and light. Do this with the intention that the work you do for yourself will create a shift in consciousness that ripples throughout the entire web of life.

The shadow states of the collective in politics, religion, and business are all becoming more transparent. Our own personal shadow is also becoming more transparent. Let’s begin to heal our inner shadow. As within so without. The changes we make will be reflected back to us.

Let us continue this work as we continue weaving a vibrant web of light within and throughout the earth on the full moon on December 28.

If you are new to reading The Transmutation News, please read the instructions for Creating A Human Web of Light on the homepage of this site.

A message that Isis shared with me recently is that we must shift our inner consciousness to a place where we feel true love for our lives. She said that as we truly love life this force will help to move us out of the dark places in our lives.

In many of my books I write about the need for feeling passion and meaning in our lives. When we dull ourselves and lose passion for life the light starts to go out of our eyes and our life. Your love for life will always light the way.

My mother will be 98 years old this month. She has always inspired me as she has always had such a love for life. My mother has faced endless challenges in her life but through every challenge I watched her go through she always maintained a true love for life. Every single breath is so precious to her. I have learned a lot by watching how her love for life created a pathway out of each situation that needed transforming. Her attitude and her passion for life transformed all that life presented to her. She has been a true teacher for me in this area.

Now Isis has reminded me that this attitude is something we must all embrace.

Build a small altar either inside your house or out someplace in nature. This altar might contain stones, crystals, flowers, objects from nature, a candle, a small bowl of fragrant water, photos, etc. The intention for this altar is to create a place where you can honor our circle, all of life, and the earth.

Each day spend a few minutes at your altar giving thanks for your life and state blessings that embrace all of life.

As a suggestion you can use a form of decree that comes from the Celtic tradition including such words as:

Blessings of health be yours.
Blessings of love be yours.
Blessings of light be yours.
Blessings of abundance be yours.
Blessings of peace be yours.

Let us cleanse ourselves to welcome in the solstice and the New Year. And let us share our blessings that will embrace and honor all life on this earth including our earth, our home.

Let’s give thanks to earth, air, water, and fire for our life. As we bless the elements, they will bless us in return.

We continue to be a vessel of love and light that holds the earth and all of life at this time

As we approach the end of the year, please join me in giving great gratitude and send blessings to all the wonderful people who help to share the Transmutation News around the globe.

We give thanks and blessings to Sylvia Edwards who is the brilliant webmaster of www.sandraingerman.com.

We join our hearts together and radiate light, love, and blessings to our translators who translate the Transmutation News into the following languages:

Katalin Abrudan – Hungarian
Lena Anderheim – Swedish
Nello Ceccon – Italian
Ines Fermosa – Spanish
Sofia Frazoa – Portuguese
Dorota Goczal – Polish
Eleni Eva and Rallou Gromitsari – Greek
Annie Idrissi – French
Miriam Kissova and Jan Lenc – Slovakian
Aurel Mocanu – Romanian
Jitka “Jitush” Navratilova – Czech
Irina Osechinsky – Russian
Eva Ruprechtsberger – German
Simin Uysal- Turkish

Will we transcend on December 21? I suspect I will be writing you in January to wish you a joyous New Year.

In the meantime, blessings to you, your family, and all of life on the solstice!!

Category: Shamanism in Nature