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We will be beginning a practice of tuning in to the land about and allowing the senses to open by looking at Vision Quests, sacred sites and song lines through different traditions. We will set up an Earth Whisperer practice.

The Earth is attuning too. We are Earth Whisperers, listening to the Calling of ourselves and the Earth!

Vision Quests

Vision Quest is a term that was probably first used by nineteenth-century anthropologists to describe the rite-of-passage ceremonies of some indigenous American cultures.

Vision Quests can be both personal and collective events that are guided and witnessed within a community. They often involve the person who is on the quest spending time alone in nature in search of a personal vision that in its turn becomes a vision to support the entire community. A Vision Quest will often accompany an important landmark or life change in someone’s life.

What life change are you currently making that has drawn you to a visionary quest?

Sacred Sites

Vision Quests can open us up to the spiritual aspects of a sacred site. Sacred sites are places within the landscape that have a special meaning or significance to the people of the land. This can be historically through time, and it can also be through a personal connection. Hills, rocks, rivers, trees, plains, lakes, and other natural features can be sacred sites. In coastal and sea areas, sacred sites may include features that lie both above and below water. St Michael’s Mount and its causeway, in Cornwall, England, is an example of this.

What sites hold a special meaning or significance for you?

Song Lines and Ley Lines

Song lines and ley lines convey their spiritual aspects in vision quests. The Camino, for example in Spain, is an energy line that is walked to induce vision and healing.

Song line is a term that comes from Australian Aboriginal culture. Song lines are long creation story lines that cross the country, which have been walked throughout time. They geographically and mythically connect sacred sites to their places within the stories of the land and Aboriginal culture. They hold knowledge and frequencies that can be walked and sung for healing and for balancing.

Ley line (or ley) is a term that was first coined in 1921 by Alfred Watkins, an antiquarian who lived in Hereford, England. It describes the energy pathways that run through the Earth. Leys run as straight lines and they flow through sacred sites. Often they cross with other leys at these points. The sacred sites can be felt as nodules holding the vibration of these pathways as they cross, and are portals to their information and healing energy.

Working with the energy lines and sacred sites is a way of tapping into the Earth’s system. Walking or attuning to these lines can also support an opening to our visionary nature and intensify our ability to open up to worlds beyond the everyday one we consensually agree to occupy.

Setting up the Earth Whisperer Practice

What is written on the following page is an idea of words to read out each day that holds the template of wholeness, aligns you with the vision of the Earth and casts a gaze of support and resourcing for everything that you do. I recommend that you open up space as a daily practice and that you modify the words overleaf to fit with what you might already do or to find a language that feels true for you.

You may also choose to play a flute, shake a rattle or use another instrument that sets up the intention of the space opening without needing to read the words. 

Earth Whisperer Space Opening

Today I open up my heart to connect with the land and all of the special sites, beings and places on this land. I honour the ancestors of the land here. I honour all the beings, creatures and manifestations of nature that live here with me. I see the land and all of its places and beings being able to be felt, heard, seen and given audience and inclusion again by humans.

I open up my body to be able to connect with the true healthy energy of this amazing Earth I live as a part of. I set the intention that I can become more and more in alignment with the Calling of the Earth and the true vibrant essence of the whole of this planet.

I open up my connection with the vibrant energy in my own living body. I feel my intent to be able to listen to and understand the way of my body and its simple needs. I know that by listening to my body and by accepting its limitations, its knowing and its boundaries in each moment I serve this life and myself best. I know that these needs and limitations can change at any time.

I connect with the energy of the personal vision I bring to my life at this moment and bring a space to mind now where I place this alongside and within the true potential vision of this planet.

I acknowledge that in this moment I honour the power in myself and in everything to effect positive change. I know that in this moment I am initiating a pathway for flow. I know that the pathway for flow is set at a gentle but true gauge so that my family, my Earth community and myself can feel settled and held.

Additional Daily Practices

Here are some ideas for what can you do each day to begin to make the changes to be ever more available to allow the visionary self to emerge. er, from the water in your shower to the bed that you sleep in, to the neighbour who spoke with you today. This will open appreciation channels that value connection.

1. Be grateful for everything that you encount

2. Live in your senses. Be aware of touch, smell, hearing, sight and taste. This will aid and enhance connection too.

3. Be aware of the spaces between everything. This will help to aerate the pathways.

4. Make a list of the things you are drawn to and like on this earth This will help you to see what you are already in communion with and what is feeding your soul in some way.

Copyright ©2023 by Carol Day All Rights Reserved.
Adapted with permission of the publisher,
Findhorn Press, an imprint of Inner Traditions Intl.

Article Source: Shamanic Dreaming

Shamanic Dreaming: Connecting with Your Inner Visionary
by Carol Day

Visionaries dream the future into life, and throughout the ages shamans have served this role within their communities. Yet, how does one as an individual open to visions and allow the messages we need to hear to come through? Enter the stage of Shamanic Dreaming for a playful, evocative rendezvous with circle consciousness.

In this shamanic guide, visionary Carol Day shows how to access our creative potential to shape a strong vision for ourselves and others, connecting intimately to the world around with the support of seen and unseen realms. Earth whispering practices prepare for shamanic visioning by expanding the senses; we open up to different dimensions and initiate a conscious relationship with nature, myth, and archetype through the creativity wheel.

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About the Author

Carol Day is a visionary teacher, psychotherapist, artist, and director of Creative Earth Ensemble in Scotland. Also the founder of the systemic story therapy, she runs a private practice and is involved in projects centered on creating community and connecting people back to the land.

Visit her website at CreativeEarthEnsemble.com

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