Prayer for a Spirit Child

[For earthly-departed or potential children who live in spirit.]

Blessed child,

awed by the wild,

spirit-kept and beloved

across all times,

my being thine

and never to be sundered.

 

Baby Mouse Update

After some much needed water, and lots of food, the little guy is already looking better! We never know how a wildlife rescue is going to go, especially when it’s a baby. But I have good reason to be hopeful about this sweet fellow.

Twice Blessed

We found this little baby field mouse, who seemed dehydrated and too young to fend for himself, so we thought we’d take care of him until he’s big enough to romp out in the country.

Wildlife Blessings

Spirit rewards me beyond all imagined riches, often with truly special wildlife sightings. Recently Willow and I saw a beautiful grey coyote and a baby deer with its mama.

Making a Spirit Doll for Healing

I made another little spirit child doll this morning. These dolls are intensely helpful for getting in touch with your wounded inner child, or dealing with mothering issues such as miscarriage.

 

I sculpt the face out of polymer clay and colour it with chalk pastels, then add fabric and beads or stones.

Healing the Inner Child and Connecting With the Mother Goddess

This morning I made a little spirit-child doll out of clay, fabric, and crystals (amethyst, rose quartz, pearl, and Picasso jasper). She represents so many things for me, a wealth of healing opportunity and a spiritual focus for connecting with child-energies of all kinds.

African Porcupine Quill Necklace

I have a spiritual relationship with porcupine, so I wanted to honour this spirit animal with a new necklace, made with amazing African porcupine quills.

Spiritual Symbols in Practice

I love quartz in all its forms, so when my beloved Willow treated me to a trip to the crystal shop, I was most drawn to the 1/2lb bag of quartz with inclusions. I made several into rings (simply by gluing them to blanks) and I am already in love with them. These stones tell stories and my own imagination can create all sorts of meanings that they can represent. This is how I work with spiritual or sacred objects in the physical world — they are symbols, and their sacred nature is something that I bestow upon them, or at least participate in creating.

My partner Willow shellacs deer and moose scat to make keychains. This is no different. Anything can become sacred when we believe it to be so. In fact, the more we are open to seeing the extraordinary in what appears plain, the more we are opening our inner door to the spiritual realm.

Lost and Found

Lost…

You’d think these days you can’t get lost. But you can.

 

Are you feeling lost?

Is your heart heavy with loss, with sadness, with fear? Does all seem dark and dim around you?

Let spirit guide you home.

 

I provide free shamanic services. I can help. I can connect you with a spirit guide, bring lost pieces of your soul back to your heart, and provide guidance towards your soul’s purpose.

https://wherespiritstops.wordpress.com/free-shamanic-readings-and-healing/

Or connect with me on Facebook: Story Kassie Kai

 

 

Cultivating a Soul Retrieval Practice

 

Some shamans use a “soul catcher” to hold the lost soul part they have found in the spirit realm, although they have already asked that part to return to the person it came from. It is symbolic, as all spiritual actions are, but is it necessary for the soul retrieval to work? Does a spirit need to be contained in a physical object (such as a crystal) when returning from the spirit realm to join their whole soul?

One line of thought I’ve had is that this temporary containment of spirit is symbolic of bringing the spirit from existing entirely in the spirit realm, to connecting it back to the physical realm. When the soul part is given back to the person who lost it, that soul part will again be participating in physical reality as it will exist integrated within that person, experiencing their daily struggles.

Soul parts often need to be encouraged and even coaxed (but not forced) back to their human life, existing with the rest of their whole self. Since pain and/or trauma in the physical realm cause them to break away in the first place, it can be frightening to consider returning.

With this in mind, I have re-created a sacred altar for my desk (it is small due to the limits of my current living situation) and I am creating another, more elaborate sacred space in the spirit realm. Having both a physical and a spirit-realm space may help bridge the gap between the two worlds. Instead of employing a soul-catching device, I have made a dedicated space for soul retrieval work, a place I will invite lost soul parts to visit during their journey from the spirit realm, while heading towards integration in their whole personhood. There are several wonderful objects and photos in this space that may comfort, delight, or simply remind the soul part that sacredness exists in the physical world too; that the physical and spiritual worlds are in fact the same place, just seen through different angles.