Anyway, my purpose here is to go through the signs of the zodiac with suggestions as to what type of shaman they make you! Don’t forget to look at both your Sun and your Moon signs, and then maybe imagine a synthesis. Here goes:
ARIES You are the warrior shaman. The important principle is ‘Not my will but thine’. That has been a difficult aspect of the path for you. You are excellent at what you do, and you will stand up for shamanic principles. But you need to let others have their viewpoint, and to be in service to spirit, just as the warrior needs to be in service to the king. The shadow doesn’t come so easily to you, you would rather dwell in the light and in straightforward action: you cut through the nonsense. Allow yourself 4 days before you make a decision. Life is a quest for you, a quest to find the gold in your soul, that makes you a magnificent human being. You are notable for your courage and determination: if anyone has spent a month naked in the wilderness, with nothing but a blanket and a knife, it is you. There is a heroic dimension to becoming a Shaman, and you embody it.
TAURUS You enjoy the beauty of the natural world, and your delight in her is infectious. This is your gift to others. Where else is the sacred but all around you? You understand that Shamanism is an earth path. You make beautiful medicine objects that connect you to Spirit, and you are steady and loyal in your Spirit connections. You can show people where the fairies live. You don’t find change comfortable, and your task is to direct your gaze towards inner truth as well as towards outer beauty.
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GEMINI You are the storyteller shaman, you can tell people exactly how the world was made, because you were of course told it by the Creator himself. And then 5 minutes later you will tell them another story of how the world came about. So you are also the trickster shaman. You stand in both worlds, and communication between them is easy for you, for you see no difference. Words are just words, they are not realities, you move smoothly around them with your quicksilver tongue. There is such a thing as factual truth, however prosaic that may sound, and you will lose your audience if you pass off your invented memoirs as fact. You dance between the polarities, light and shadow, good and evil, male and female. Keep your eye on the meaning of things.
CANCER You are Mother Nature herself. Her suffering at human hands is your suffering, and you know that we are nothing but mother earth: all the healing that any of us may need lies within her. We are her dream. You are so tender-hearted, and you are psychically attuned to all the people and animals and plants that you care for. You have a strong sense
of tribe and people and ancestry. Take care of yourself first, so that your love of others is not also your own neediness, or you will unknowingly smother them.
LEO You embody the regal quality of the Shaman. You have the dignity and poise that come from being deeply rooted in who you are, your own unique connection to the universal Spirit. You do not need to do anything for others, you just need to be who you are. Others will pick up on that and drop all the ‘shoulds’ they often live by, their anxieties about measuring up to other people’s standards. This is your gift to others, this is the deeper way in which you are the life and soul of the party. You understand that all healing ultimately comes from being true to the Spirit within, and you help people become their own guides, to trust in their own wisdom.
VIRGO You are the earth goddess, attuned to the cycles of nature. And you are deeply moved by a sense of service – this is what gives meaning to your life. Under the cool surface you are deeply emotional. And you are a healer. You were born under the sign of purity, of impeccability, and a particular gift you have to offer is how to live, how to lead, without the ego sneaking in. Shamans are a notoriously mixed bunch, with great gifts often living alongside behaviour that is damaging to others. As a Virgo, you have the integrity and inner and outer discernment to know your mess, but not be ruled by it. And this makes you trustworthy. Your learning is to let go of your ability to live in an orderly way, and to trust the chaos.
LIBRA You have the wisdom that sees both sides of any question, and understands the truth to be complex and never finally to be pinned down. Human beings are by nature one-sided, perhaps nowhere more so than in politics. You are a diplomat, and can move the way people see matters without appearing to contradict them. You are a sign of balance, and have been on the long and often painful journey of seeking inner balance outside of yourself, through relationship. People are inclined to ignore Spirit in seeking relationship, and this makes them foolish. You have found the balance that allows for ‘spaces in your togetherness’, because you understand that fundamentally you are alone, it is just you and Spirit, and you would not want it any other way, now that you have finally arrived there.
SCORPIO You have the quality of emotional depth and honesty. You understand the archetype of the ‘Shaman’s Illness’, the deep turning about that is required in those who hear the call: that unless they shift their loyalties away from the demands of everyday life and the expectations of others, and towards the call of the Spirit, they will never be well. The Shaman’s gaze is turned elsewhere, like the ancient mariner and his glittering eye. You understand the journey into the depths, the struggle and the wasteland, and the deep renewal at the end of that journey. It is the ability to live through this dismemberment and come out renewed and not destroyed, that is the real qualification to be any kind of shaman or healer. You can be alongside people in this journey, you can reassure them they are not going mad. And you have the ability to get to the bottom of things and heal from that knowledge. You are deeply instinctive and intuitive, and you have learnt to trust that in yourself, even without apparent reason. You are not phased by anything, and you will survive anything. Just lighten up sometimes and enjoy this beautiful world.
SAGITTARIUS What you bring to the table is trust and faith. Faith in yourself and optimism, and also a wider trust in the workings of Spirit. You are a seeker after knowledge, and you have a cosmic perspective. You know many things, and you know enough to be aware that ultimately there is nothing to be known, that it is all the Great Mystery; that really our puny human theories of big bangs and evolution and atoms and so on all amount to nothing, for this is the Great Dreaming, which could just as well be some other Dreaming, it is not a static thing. Human beings are fragile, and they want a sense of certainty to reassure themselves and to delude themselves. You are a teacher, you tell people how the universe really works, often through stories; and you embody that sense of trust in things working out, of when to tether your camel, and when to trust in the strange workings of Spirit, and when to do both.
CAPRICORN This is truly a Shamanic sign, for you are Spirit impaled on the cross of matter, you are that difficult interplay between the two, the alchemy of it. You are that primal urge we all have to INCARNATE: it is much easier to either ignore the spirit and identify with matter; or to over-identify with the spirit and withdraw from being fully a part of life. Capricorn is the sign of squaring up to the difficulty of engaging spirit with matter, and the magic and knowledge that comes with that. You are the archetypal Elder, who has earned their place in the community through many years of hard-won experience; who has mastered the ways of the people, and has earned the right to break and re-shape the traditions.
AQUARIUS People want to know where they stand: what to believe, what to think, what is right and what is wrong. And many people need these limiting factors for their psychological stability. The Aquarian Shaman recognises this, yet subverts these tramlines nonetheless. He/she is the trickster, the clown, who brings insight through the unexpected. And like all the signs when they have got a bit further down the road to wholeness, it is not a wilful thing, it is Spirit working through them. If you go to see him/her, they will bring some new insight into your life, or maybe shock you in some way, such that you will awaken to yourself. As an Aquarian, you may have had to tread the path of not just trusting the brilliant insights that come to you, and that can be so helpful for others, but also learning to trust your own animal nature, so that you embody your insights, and do not become ill through the neglect of that animal nature. You may therefore have an animal spirit helper who helped you heal yourself before you moved on to healing others.
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PISCES The Pisces Shaman will love you unconditionally, and yet it is impersonal, in the sense that it is the ocean of Spirit that is loving you. Spirit wants what is best for you, that which will bring you more into balance, and it is ruthless in this quest – yet you will feel held by this Piscean healer nonetheless. This Shaman is not present in a personal sense: they are the complete hollow bone, the complete embodiment of Spirit. And they can draw whatever is needed from that ocean, whether it is information or energy work. When you look at them, you are not looking at a human. As a Pisces, you will have had little problem being a channel for the Spirit world: the journey for you will have involved grounding yourself, arriving properly on the planet, incarnating. You may therefore have had a long apprenticeship in ordinary life before Spirit decided you were ready to use those gifts.
Meanwhile you may want to look up the sign of your North Node. This is the point of our greatest growth, and my theory is that we therefore become that sign, over and above any other, as we age. It makes me a Scorpio 😈
Thank you for this!
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