Cowrie Shell Divining - an ancient art

“You only need claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done...you are fierce with reality.” Florida Scott Maxwell

How do we thread the ancient ways and the modern world to weave an abundant life of meaning and purpose? How can we, like Eagle and Condor medicine teaches, accept a powerful new dimension to life and spiritual growth, learn how to move between worlds helping us to find healing and bring our medicine into the world.

The Ancient Art of Cowrie Shell Divining This spread draws from the Dagara culture  West Africa. It is a beautiful cosmological portal, that uses the traditional and mystical language of symbolism, icons, cowries shells and connection to our ancestors to offer guidance into crossroads, crisis, transition, change and healing.

The Five Elements  Fire (ancestors, heart and meaning, passion) Water (healing, reconciliation, flow) Earth (center, homecoming, nurturing) Mineral (re-dreaming, life purpose, outer expression) Nature (change, transformation and authenticity) This is the foundation used by the diviner to navigate with the divinee, the  realm of empowerment, healing and possibilities for finding meaning in
one’s life.

Prescriptions for healing may be offered in the form of creative, imaginative rituals or offerings as determined by one of the five elements.

Our Medicine, the gifts we came in with and the skills we have acquired are often un-harnessed due to wounding, trauma, loss and the profound act of not being seen. We stay in the discomfort of the comfortable, negative self image and seldom explore the mystery of life and our potential. We remain immobile and our gifts remain unclaimed.

A divination can help the divinee bring her/his medicine into this world, move from the concept of scarcity to abundance, uncover a person’s gifts and help them heal.

 Why Ritual?
“The work of ritual provides the sacred space,-the vessel that we enter into with our emotional self. It is where spiritual and material world interact. The balance that ritual maintains is health and the work of ritual is healing.”  Malidoma Some

To schedule an appointment and learn more about Divination Salons and Divination by Phone: Mbali (415)710-5348.

Mentoring

“At the core of mentoring is the understanding that genius must be invited out of the person. People carry to this world something important that they must deliver, and mentors help to deliver that genius to the community.”  Malidoma Some

The mentoring process calls forth the genius of the Mentee, the style that is engraved in every person. It asks us to re remember what we came here to do. Each one to one session creates a portal for the person to deliver their authentic selves. Together we will listen, work with the obstacles in the path to our potential, the blessing alongside the wound. 

I commit to helping you find the tools to discovering your life purpose. Join me on the bridge to living your life more fully.

For more information call Mbali at (415) 710-5348. 

Vision Quests

“Many Shamanic traditions hold the belief that any solitary time that is spent in nature for purposes of reflection and guidance reawakens us to our own life purpose and reremember the original medicine that is ours to offer to all creatures and human beings.”  Angeles Arrien

One of the most nurturing gifts you can give yourself is the to spend three days and three nights in the wilderness where timelessness releases you of the burden of the modern world, a place where you can rejuvenate and gain strength.

Indigenous cultures called this Morning Star (work with self) Rainbow (work with another) and Medicine Wheel (work with groups/community). It is the work where we can reconnect with the losses of the Western world where we can find roots in a rootless society.  Nature teaches us about authenticity, change and transformation and precision.

Whatever path brings you here, either it was a sudden decision, or something that you knew you must do a long time ago, it is a message or call to mark a change or renew the spirit. Thank you for hearing the call and taking action. The journey has already begun.
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