First Step Shamanic Training

11/06/2025

6 Spots Left for Retrograde Support - https://mailchi.mp/maraclearspring/6-spots-left-for-retrograde-support

11/04/2025

It's here, the first anniversary of losing my beloved four pawed soulmate, Drew. Last week the Natalie Mechant song, Thank You, played randomly as I shopped at Smart & Final, and I almost lost it.

For all of us who have lost a dear pet-friend, I acknowledge the deep relationship that makes the grief even more potent, but worth it. ❤️🐾

11/04/2025

Elemental Alchemy – Ta**us Full Moon 2025

On November 5, 2025, your truth pours forth in the Elemental Alchemy Ta**us Full Moon.

Three of the four elementals fiercely swirl into a vortex of change: Water surges, Fire blazes, Air stirs everything into motion—activating major potential for big transformation.

Since the Earth Element is woefully lacking, it’s up to each of us to sink our roots deeply and hold our ground.

💧 Feels Like Swimming Against the Tide
The element of Water is associated with feelings—the fuel for change. Right now, the current is strong! But you don’t have to drown. You can find your own center and practice your own elemental alchemy.

🔥 Sheer Magic: Alchemy in Motion
The Fire Element acts as catalyst, Air offers focus and intention, and you—the embodied Earth—complete the formula.

Fuel:
Ask the Ta**us Full Moon to help you recall moments, people, and experiences that softened your heart and uplifted your soul. Gather up those satisfying vibes and really feel them. Ta**us is an Earth sign that wants you to feel good. Embody this Earthiness as much as you can.

Catalyst:
Take action now. Mars at 0° Sagittarius stands opposite Uranus at 0° Gemini, daring you to question what’s no longer working. Be brave enough to innovate and move differently.

Focus:
Pluto in Aquarius forms dynamic aspects across this Ta**us Full Moon chart, amplifying both death and rebirth.

Use the Phoenix spirit of the Scorpio Sun to die to the old self and rise as the new, no longer drowning in the passionate whirlpool but spinning and laughing, drinking in the power unleashed!

🌊 Weather the Storm
The Sabian Symbol for this Full Moon speaks to “the possibility of having to weather storms while maintaining that all will be ok in the end.”

As Mercury enters its pre-shadow phase (Retrograde begins Nov 9), we need to slow down. Take stock. Disconnect from excess noise. The world is uncontrollable and chaotic. The only thing you can truly control is yourself, so begin there.

💫 Grand Water Trine Guidance
Saturn in Pisces loosely anchors a Grand Trine in Water, whispering, “Face what you already know.” Name the monster; light dissolves fear. This Moon helps you choose grounded action over emotional drift.

Whatever unfolds may not happen instantly (unless it does!), but its impact will be life-changing. Such is the nature of a karmic, passionate whirlpool.

🌬️ Bridge to Mercury Retrograde
As this Full Moon stirs the tides of emotion and power, the currents soon shift again. Mercury is slowing, turning inward for its Great Unschooling and Reweaving on November 7.

The whirlpool you feel now opens the channel for that deeper work, the unraveling and rethreading of heart and mind.

In this sacred duality between illumination and introspection, choose to align with grace instead of chaos, flow instead of overwhelm. That’s the gift of sacred support, and why I’m holding a Shamanic Container for this Mercury Retrograde, to help sensitives and seekers like you stay centered while the world reshuffles its patterns.

🌟 Mercury Retrograde Support
Conducted Master Journey Style, with optional Personal Insight Report.
Begins November 7, 2025
I do the work for you—you simply receive.
✨ Sign up or learn more:
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♉ Ta**us Full Moon Celebration!
Don’t just float in the tide, dance with it! Let this Ta**us Full Moon awaken your inner alchemist. Your emotions are the potion, your courage the flame, and your breath the spell. Drum, sing, or simply breathe under the moonlight, whatever calls your Spirit back to center.

Let this be a Full Moon to ROAR about—where your power, passion, and purpose rise together like the Phoenix from the whirlpool, shining brighter than ever before.

Namaste,
Mara
Shamanic Practitioner
See me for Shamanic Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing

🌀 Shamanic Weather Disclaimer
This is a general interpretation, not meant to address individual natal charts, soul journeys, or destiny paths.

Take what works for you and leave the rest behind!

Love! 💙

Art by Mara with MJ

11/03/2025

She is practicing mutual aid, a concept of people helping people in collaboration.

Our natural human instinct is to share (the research is there, you can look it up 😉).

Overwhelm can stop you from taking action. "I don't have something to give or do" might stop you.

One little action can make a huge difference. The momentum out of heart shadows into restored faith starts with that one thing, one choice.

This Thanksgiving can be redefined into mutual aid experiences that lift us all up out of the chaos.

Yeah, I believe stuff like that. Movements like this have saved us through the darkest times.

Turn sorrow into surprise. Move a mountain of shadows with a single bright light.

We can do this 🤗.

Namaste ~ Mara

Photo by Riley from Axios, link in comments

11/01/2025

Honoring Ancestors ~ Ofrenda for Dia de los Mu***os (not mine! This photo was by Bianca Collins of Zócola Public Square).

This tradition I embrace 💀.

11/01/2025

Happy Halloween!

10/24/2025

"I put a Spell on you, and now you're a little bit crazier than I was. "

🤪🧙🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛️ let the Friday Frivolity begin!

10/21/2025

Shamanic Weather: Love Shadows Libra New Moon

Outer You Sun and Inner You Moon line up together October 21, 2025 at 5:25 am to form the Love Shadows Libra New Moon. That's when the New Moon energies peak, but the days before and after have been filled with this soul wrenching love angst.

We may try to think our way through those Love Shadows during this Libra New Moon. But in the end, the heart must be felt and expressed.

Add to that: Just before the Love Shadows New Moon (4:11 am Pacific Time) we enter the Pre-Shadow for Mercury Retrograde. That means our stories and work for the next six weeks or so are now being revealed.

MERCURY RETROGRADE, ALREADY???
Yes, more on that below!

IDENTIFY YOUR LOVE SHADOWS
A New Moon in Let’s Talk Libra puts your focus on relationships, balance, fairness and social connection. These either/or scenarios can apply to relationships, jobs, or your family:

~ I love being in flowing conversations OR I feel needy if I perceive I’m being left out.

~ I thrive on creative challenges OR I am afraid of criticism or not being good enough.

~ My closest relationships do require work, but it’s so worth it OR I don’t feel I can be me with (fill in the blank).

I’ll bet you can carry on from here with this concept.

WHY FOCUS ON LOVE SHADOWS?
Wounded Healer Chiron stands across the sky to oppose this New Moon. We are raw and vulnerable, or angry and righteous. When you hear your inner child screaming “It’s not fair!”, you know you have touched a trigger to some of your Love Shadows.

It’s important to treat these moments as Eureka discoveries. Take the lamp of awareness into that darkness and light up what you truly need to see.

A Grand Trine in Water both activates emotions and offers solutions for leveling the waters. It’s tricky, but necessary. Yes, you need to feel to heal, but you want to move through rather than circle around in a vortex of sorrow or rage.

💞 YOUR LOVE SHADOWS NEW MOON CEREMONY

Set aside some time to be in sacred space with yourself. Consider a soothing playlist, gentle lighting, candles, and other comfort items that encourage softness for yourself.

Be brave. Stir up some of your personal love shadows. Perhaps you’ll journal a bit.

Draw an equilateral triangle in your journal. This represents the Grand Trine in Water, and gives you deeper access to the emotional balancing magic.

Focus on the triangle. From one of the bottom corners, imagine you are experiencing the feelings around any Love Shadow you may have. Yes, you can focus on memories if that helps, anything to build the feelings.

Follow the line up to the peak of the triangle, building your emotional energy as you go. Get mad, cry, shiver, whatever feeling presents.

Then, at the top, let it OUT. I like to sweep my hands out from my heart and say something loud, like “GAH!” or “STOP IT.” Activating the throat chakra further engages the magic.

Now, ride the downward line to the next corner of the triangle. Say words of gratitude and kindness, like “you/they did the best they could, I forgive myself/them, it’s time to let that energy go.”

Move back along the base of the triangle to your first point. Be both timeless and ready. You are creating space for change!
Do this as many times as you like as you reveal and clear your Love Shadows.

Your final trip around you’ll want to consider what could be different, where you want your energy to shift toward. What are your Love Lights? Fill up with all the best things you could imagine!

Whatever you do for this Libra New Moon, I hope you discover the glow that comes from working with your Love Shadows!

Make this a New Moon to Roar about!
Namaste ~ Mara
Shamanic Practitioner

See me for Shamanic Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing

🌠 About Mercury Retrograde: We enter the Shadow period, where Mercury begins to travel over the same area of the sky where it will appear to later go backwards (Retrograde), an hour before the New Moon on October 21 at 4:11 AM Pacific time.
Between then and November 9, pay attention to what comes up for you, as you’ll be visiting the same issues through to 11/29/25.

That’s when Mercury stations direct. Then, there’s a final examination and perhaps reckoning through December 16, when Mercury exits the “retroshade” zone.

I’m offering a Support Experience where you don’t have to do anything - I do the work for you! Plus you can add on a Personal Insight Report:
➡️ Shamanic Mercury Retrograde Support
https://maraclearspring.com/.../mercury-retrograde-support/

Shamanic Weather Disclaimer
This is a general interpretation not meant to address individual natal charts, soul journeys or destiny paths. Take what works for you and leave the rest behind! Love!

Fabulous art from Shards of Glass

10/20/2025

Illness - Life Overload

Over the past week I've spoken to many who have had or know someone who has a weird but really difficult illness.

The symptoms are all over the map and don't seem to conform to a "normal" diagnosis.

Others who have chronic conditions have noticed a worsening in their symptoms.

One way of looking at this associates the external "world imbalance" around a sensitive with the body's expression, such as:

- Collective fear shows up as hypertension, insomnia, agoraphobia
- Collective grief shows up as respiratory problems, shoulder issues.
- Collective anger shows up as body pain, skin irritations, fevers.

These are just a few thoughts that came up for me. Obviously there's so much more to the story.

I wonder if you have or know someone who has a case of Life Overload right now?

I'm sending positive vibes for healing heart, body, mind and soul for any who would want it, who would say yes to a bit of good intentions and collective compassion ❤️.

Feel free to share this and add to the loving flow!

Namaste ~ Mara

art by Kyoht Luterman on DeviantArt

10/17/2025

10/16/2025

I'll be up in the mountains over the weekend, volunteering with San Diego Mountain Biking Association for our annual TrailFest, a long weekend where mountain biking enthusiasts and their families camp out together.

Sponsors help provide booths, clinics, demos, meals and more. I usually help out at the Volunteer Snack Shack and ask the Mountain Spirits about the weather conditons, stuff like that.

So, I won't be at the party in person this weekend.

I will, however, be offering prayers and healing for all participating in the big, outdoor festivals happening literally around the world. I'll spend time on the Mountain holding strong intention for a successful, peaceful outcome.

I'll do ceremony and offerings on behalf of everyone. Anyone else who is doing the same, may we align frequencies and build a strong wave of compassion and love.

We can have a great showing of disagreement without needing any conflict. I have to keep holding that vision.

May all beings be peaceful.

May all beings be happy.

May all beings be safe.

May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature.

May all beings be free.

Namaste ~ Mara

10/14/2025

The wind storm rages.

Rain is on the way.

Fiery trails of meteors, comets, and mysterious Interstellar objects flash overhead, whether you see it or not.

So the Wise One seeks grounding in order to be ready to receive the messages from Spirit.

Tonight in the Shamanic Portal, we will be working with Crystals and Earth Energies.

Our intentions are strong. We will be sure to have healing waves flow out in all directions so you can receive them if you wish.

Just say yes! The flow begins after 7:00 p.m. Pacific time tonight, October 14th, 2025.

Namaste ~ Mara