Institute of Shamanic Wisdom, Inc.

01/26/2026

Imbolc is coming up this Sunday February 1st as well as the Full Snow Moon! Hope you'll join me for this powerful ceremony I'll be leading!

01/02/2026

January 3, 2026, isn't just another day in the Solar System. 🪐

While we go about our Saturday, the universe is orchestrating a rare and spectacular "triple alignment" of orbital mechanics right above our heads. Here is exactly what is happening 👇🏻

✅ Perigee (The Supermoon): The Moon is swinging by at its closest approach to Earth for this orbital cycle. Because this coincides with the Full Moon phase (the "Wolf Moon"), we are witnessing a Supermoon. It will appear about 14% larger and 30% brighter than a micro-moon, dominating the night sky with an intense, luminous glow that will make shadows look sharper than usual.

✅ Perihelion: While it might feel freezing in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth is actually reaching its closest point to the Sun all year! We will be approximately 3 million miles closer to our star today than we were in July. This proximity creates a gravitational slingshot effect, causing Earth to move at its fastest orbital speed—roughly 67,000 mph—as we zip around the Sun.

✅ Quadrantids Peak: To top it off, we are moving through the debris trail of the asteroid 2003 EH1, triggering the peak of the Quadrantids Meteor Shower. While the bright Supermoon will wash out the fainter shooting stars, the Quadrantids are famous for producing bright "fireballs"—explosive meteors that can cut through the moonlight and leave glowing trails across the atmosphere.

It’s not often we get three distinct celestial events converging within a single 24-hour window.

So, if the skies are clear tonight, don't forget to look up. You’re watching the solar system in motion. 🔭✨

12/31/2025

Before the year ends, take 3 minutes for a clean reset:

1) One lesson from 2025:
What did this year teach you?

2) One standard for 2026:
For What are you no longer available?

3) One non-negotiable:
A habit you’ll protect weekly (even if it’s small).

That’s how you enter 2026 with power — quiet, clear, committed, taking action and moving forward, just like the Horse.

12/27/2025

12/23/2025

🌟 Start 2026 Aligned & Empowered!! Hope you'll join me for this powerful Full Moon and New Year ceremony! You'll need an Oracle card deck that has the major and minor arcana.

Together, we will:
* Reflect on 2025 takeaways, including triumphs and disappointments
* Gently explore what you want to keep and what you are ready to release
* Engage in meditation and soul-searching questions
* Receive oracle card guidance to support what you want to embody in 2026
* Set clear, heartfelt intentions for the year ahead

This ceremony offers a supportive space for mindfulness, clarity, and conscious creation as you begin the new year.

12/21/2025

12/20/2025

Time within Time: Omen Days

The Omen Days come from the Celtic tradition. This practice goes back to our ancestors' time when they understood our interconnectedness within the web of life. Everything around us, especially nature, is always communicating and speaking to us. We can observe and gather signs and omens from the world around us to divine the year to come.

Omen Days are often observed during the Twelve Days of Christmas (Dec 26 - Jan 6), where each day symbolizes a month of the coming year, offering insights into what that month might hold through signs, nature, and dreams. It's a time for deep observation, connecting with intuition, and receiving guidance for the year ahead by noting events, feelings, and natural occurrences.

The Significance
"Days out of time": This liminal period bridges the old year and the new, offering a doorway for deeper wisdom.
Year-Weaving: Each day's "omen" acts as a preview or theme for the corresponding month, helping to divine the year ahead.
Connection: It's a practice of connecting with the land, ancestors, and your own inner voice.

How to Observe Omen Days
* Timing: Start on December 26th (symbolizing January) and continue through January 6th (symbolizing December).
* Focus: Pay close attention to your surroundings, dreams, conversations, and inner feelings.
* Look for Signs: Notice anything that stands out in nature (birds, weather, plants) or in your daily life, as these are considered messages or omens.Throughout the 12 Omen Days, raise your awareness to the natural world around you for inspiration for the coming months, looking to nature itself for an omen (prediction) of the nature (energy, theme, inspiration, etc) for the corresponding month. Any element of nature can be your inspiration: plants, trees, fungi, weather, wind, clouds, snowflakes, rocks and stones, mountains, birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, rodents, creatures of the sea, lakes and rivers, and the elements themselves (depending on your traditions, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Ether, etc). Take your inspiration and find your omens from that which is around you such as books, crafts, paintings, photographs, or even a movie or television show. Or simply look out the window and observe the weather, the trees, the animals, the birds, the insects, the buildings, the sky, etc.
* Journal: Keep a record of these observations in an "Omen Journal" to track patterns and insights for each month.
* Intention: Set an intention to be present and aware, viewing the world with heightened sensitivity.
* Guidance: Integrate goddess or oracle cards (I do both!!) by drawing one card each day and ask yourself what inspiration, affirmation, or questions arise. Whatever method you choose, note the cards in your journal and ponder/meditate on each Omen for its meaning and relevance to that month, and to your life.
* Word of the Month: choose a word to highlight the month. January could be “Begin,” March could be “emerge.” How does the word relate to the goddess/oracle card, the signs you found, any observations you’ve made?
* Synthesize their combined messages into your notes for that month—this may include writing a reflection, poem, affirmation, or question inspired by all the information you’ve received.
* Continue this process for all 12 Omen Days to build a rich, layered guide for the coming year.

At the beginning of each month, contemplate your Omen for the month and review your initial observation notes, what you first sensed or thought when that omen appeared. With the wisdom and experience since the omen first revealed itself, what now comes through to your awareness?

Spend some time connecting to the omen to deepen your understanding of its relevance and message for you, as you view it through new eyes and experiences. What medicine might it now be bringing you for the month? What can you now see or sense that you didn’t see or sense before? It may be that the message is clear and direct, or it might be asking (or answering) a question or inviting you to explore even deeper. It might be suggesting some further soul work or shadow work. Let the omen signs direct the exploration and inspire your next steps.

If you would like more information, please feel free to reach out.

12/08/2025

Long before Christmas, long before calendars mapped the year into neat months and weeks, people across Northern Europe marked the turning of the year with Yule, the festival of the midwinter sun. It was a time when the nights were longest, the earth deepest in sleep, and the promise of returning light shimmered just beyond the horizon.

Yule was not a single day but a season—a sacred pause. Fires were lit, evergreen boughs were hung, and feasts were shared, honoring the sun’s slow return and the cycles of life and death that governed the land. It was a time of reflection, protection, and renewal, when households cleared out old energies and called blessings into their homes for the coming year.

The ancient Norse and Germanic peoples celebrated with ritual and revelry. In some tales, Odin himself rode across the skies during Yule, leading the Wild Hunt, a procession of spirits and ancestors that reminded people of the thin veil between worlds. In Celtic and Druidic traditions, Yule honored the rebirth of the sun, with symbols of light—candles, torches, and golden fruits—offered to guide the returning warmth.

Evergreen trees, now so entwined with modern winter celebrations, were originally symbols of eternal life, standing green against the decay of winter. Holly, ivy, mistletoe—plants that survive frost—were hung in homes to invite protection and resilience. Feasting, storytelling, and song filled the long nights, binding communities together against the darkness.

In modern practice, Yule invites us to pause, reflect, and honor the rhythms of nature rather than the calendar alone. It is a time to light candles, decorate with symbols of endurance and abundance, and mark the turning of the sun with small rituals of gratitude, intention, and connection.

Reflection Questions for Yule:
~What are you ready to release as the year turns?
~Where can you invite light, warmth, or growth into your life during the longest nights?
~Which traditions—old or new—help you feel connected to the cycles of the year?

Yule reminds us that even in darkness, light is returning. The season is a time between endings and beginnings, a pause to honor the past, and a call to step into the year ahead with awareness, intention, and reverence.