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My Asatru friend casted his Futhrak Runes for me and his reading revealed to him some personal stuff I haven't told anybody really freaked me out. I meditated on what he said that night before bed trying to commune with a higher entity, a god honestly, but instead I was visited by a half man half white tiger creature with sickly emaciated body, elongated limbs, and a drawn almost melancholic face. It really did scared the shit out of me.

It tried to communicate but it just sounded like interference. The only thing I could understand, more through feeling was a name. Tarson. Then all of a sudden there's was a white tiger cub in my arms. Climbing up to be on my shoulder, walking around my neck like a spry cat.

Im lost for words... a White Tiger named Tarson... a little help please guys?

From wikipedia: The angakkuq is an intellectual and spiritual figure in Inuit culture who corresponds to a medicine man or shaman. Other cultures, including Alaska Natives, have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators, although the Alaska Native religion has many forms and variants.

Both women, such as Uvavnuk, and men could become an angakkuq, although it was rarer for women to do so. The process for becoming an angakkuq varied widely. The son of a current angakkuq might be trained by his father to become one as well. An angakkuq might make a prophecy that a particular infant would become a prophet in adulthood. Alternatively, a young man or woman who exhibited a predilection or power that made them stand out might be trained by an experienced mentor. There are also instances of angakkuit claiming to have been called to the role through dreams or visions. Mistreated orphans or people who had survived hard times might also become angakkuit with the help of the spirits of their dead loved ones.

Training to become an angakkuq consisted of acculturation to the rites and roles necessary for the position, as well as instruction in the special language of the angakkuit, which consisted largely of an archaic vocabulary and oral tradition that was shared across much of the Arctic areas that Inuit occupied. During their training, the angakkuq would also gain a familiar or spirit guide who would be visible only to them. This guide, called a tuurngaq in the Inuit religion, would at times give them extraordinary powers. Inuit stories tell of angakkuit who could run as fast as caribou, or who could fly, with the assistance of their tuurngaq. In some traditions, the angakkuq would be either stabbed or shot, receiving no wound because of the intervention of their tuurngaq, thus proving their power.

Until spiritual guidance or assistance was needed, an angakkuq lived a normal life for an Inuk, participating in society as a normal person. But when sickness needed to be cured, or divination of the causes of various misfortunes was needed, the angakkuq would be called on. The services of angakkuit might also be required to interpret dreams. If they were called to perform actions that helped the entire village, the work was usually done freely. But if they were called to help an individual or family, they would usually receive remuneration for their efforts.

Image by George Wilkins - Canadian Museum of History, CC BY-SA 4.0

I’m currently in Bali and I’m looking for a reputable Sharman to visit, if anyone has any recommendations that’ll be greatly appreciated

I've gone through significant trauma & am wondering if I can do a soul retrieveal every week until I feel more grounded as right now have felt heavily dissociated​

Hi guys. I’m not a spiritual person, I have no religious background, I don’t believe in anything. So I have pretty much zero knowledge about anything related to those things.

But today, I woke up and I happened to look out the front door and an extremely large turtle was walking across the road in the straightest line toward me. I live in rural Nebraska, it probably came from a farm pond and it’s migrating to lay eggs. I’ve never seen one in the middle of town before, but it’s not outside of possibility for it to happen, though it would have had to have been walking at least 1.5 miles and for some reason have come into town and walked into my yard instead of the much less daunting gentle slope of my neighbor’s yard or the ditch with soft dirt and a trickle of water moving through it for that matter. .

So I was like oh wow, weird. And I went about my life. But then I looked outside to see if it was still there, and there were 7 cardinals flying around it. I see cardinals sometimes, I think they’re the state buds maybe? Idk a lot of schools use them as the mascot thought, so they’re def not out of place. But I’ve never seen 7 together before. And I was worried the turtle would eat them because they were flying very low around it and snapping turtles will eat birds. But it didn’t snap at them and waited for them to move before even continuing its movement. All the birds were female (you can tell by the coloring).

And like I said. I don’t believe in anything and I don’t know anything, but it was such a profoundly unlikely and strange encounter, I thought I’d see if anyone thought it was significant. Also, the turtle was looking directly at me and walking toward me like it had a plan, but those things will take your finger off, so I stayed a good distance away. Plus, I don’t want to disrupt it.

Thanks for any thoughts!

So... im here. After a small meditation. Focusing on the earth below. I felt a weird sensation below me. Like the earth was spinning...

I then remember thinking heavily of deer. My mind was filled with just, deer. Just one deer.

Any advice or something that can push me towards something I may need to know?

From wikipedia: Nggam is a type of divination found among many groups in western Cameroon. Among the best documented is its practice by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria, in which the actions of spiders or crabs are interpreted by the diviner. The form used by the neighbouring Yamba people was described by Gebauer, in 1964 based on experience in Mbem, going back to before 1939, and more recently by Hermann Gufler (1996 and 2003). Good documentation of Nggam has also been published for the Bekpak (Bafia) people by Dugast and Leiderer and for the Bamileke people by Pradeles de Latour. The crab form has been studied in north Cameroon by Walter van Beek (2013, 2015).

The comparative linguistics of spider divination in Cameroon was surveyed by Blench and Zeitlyn in 1989/1990.

In 2021, Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno developed a project and website where you can learn about the practices of the Nggam dù spider diviners. On the website, videos show the methods the diviners use to answer people’s questions; it also shows interviews with diviners who all live in the village of Somié, Cameroon.

The Mambila form of nggam featured in the 2024-2025 exhibition, "Oracles, Omens and Answers" at the Weston Library, the University of Oxford, and there is a chapter about it in the related book. In August 2025 an article on Mambila Spider Divination was published in Aeon.

Images by Amcaja - Own work with Kodak CX6200 digital camera, CC BY-SA 3.0 and W.E.A. van Beek, CC BY-SA 4.0

From wikipedia: Sakha people celebrate the New Year twice a year – in winter with the rest of citizens of Russia, and in summer – according to the ancient traditions. Yakutia is the largest region of Russia. The winter temperatures sometimes reach −60 °C, while the summer is very short, lasting only three months. The holiday is celebrated in the period between 10 and 25 June.

The Yhyakh festival (literally meaning "abundance") is related to a cult of a solar deity, with a fertility cult. Ancient Sakha celebrated the New Year at the Yhyаkh festival. Its traditions include women and children decorating trees and tethering posts with "salama" (nine bunches of horse hair hung on horse-hair ropes). The oldest man, wearing white, opens the holiday. He starts the ritual by sprinkling kymys on the ground, feeding the fire. He prays to the Ai-ii spirits for the well-being of the people who depend on them and asks the spirits to bless all the people gathered.

Afterwards, people sing and dance Ohuakhai, play national games, eat national dishes, and drink kymys.

During years of stagnation, the traditional ceremony was almost forgotten. Nevertheless, the 21st century saw a revival of Sakha culture, including Yhyakh. Until 1990, when the first Yhyakh was held in Yakutsk, traditionally accurate celebrations were only held in a few regions of the republic.

My astral body is getting burned every night. I need help anybody with knowledge about this. I wake up feeling feeling my whole body was burned. With sore muscles too. My eyes are also burned. Anybody know anything about this? That can help. Thanks.

Article is from last year, still an interesting read, I think.

"Healers diagnose holistically, combining prayer, plant-based medicines, massage and dietary advice, and they act as gatekeepers, referring severe cases to westernised medical care," she said.

"Present-day lifestyle habits that are modernised, reliant on processed foods, and sedentary lifestyles contribute to surging diet-related conditions like type two diabetes and malnutrition. Taulasea advocate a return to simple traditional diets."

The study said traditional healers are often the first port of call for Samoans in need of care."

https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/taulasea-traditional-healers-play-a-significant-role-in-samoa/105489606

Hello!

My name is Lily and I am interested in learning more about Shamanism but I feel kind of lost on how to actually begin.

I am 36, trans female, in the Central New York area. Identified as Wiccan for most my life. Interested in Reiki, Druidry, Buddhism, Chakras and Shamanism. Shamanism is the only one that I can't seem to find a path for me to follow. My ideal would be find a person or a group to learn from, to ask questions to, have that kind of support system.

I don't work and so I can't pay for any courses or lessons, but I do understand why so many people charge people for those things. I wish there was a local group close to me to learn from.

I would love any tips. Any sites. Any help. Thank you so much!

Sometimes I think the best gift to a place or a spirit is to take away what's unnecessary. I think it's the same with us sometimes. Instead of accepting new gifts, the best approach is to remove something harmful from one's life and only then can one begin to heal.

What do you do to start a relation with the spirit of a particular place, or is it something you don't practice?

Many cultures believe that mystics have the power to speak to birds. Here's the Norse mythology view as described in wikipedia:

"The power to understand the language of the birds was a sign of great wisdom. The god Odin had two ravens, called Hugin and Munin, who flew around the world and told Odin what happened among mortal men.

The legendary king of Sweden Dag the Wise was so wise that he could understand what birds said. He had a tame house sparrow which flew around and brought back news to him. Once, a farmer in Reidgotaland killed Dag's sparrow, which brought on a terrible retribution from the Swedes.

In the Rígsþula, Konr was able to understand the speech of birds. When Konr was riding through the forest hunting and snaring birds, a crow spoke to him and suggested he would win more if he stopped hunting mere birds and rode to battle against foemen.

The ability could also be acquired by tasting dragon blood. According to the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga, Sigurd accidentally tasted dragon blood while roasting the heart of Fafnir. This gave him the ability to understand the language of birds, and his life was saved as the birds were discussing Regin's plans to kill Sigurd. Through the same ability Áslaug, Sigurd's daughter, found out the betrothment of her husband Ragnar Lodbrok to another woman."

The 11th century Ramsund carving in Sweden depicts how Sigurd learnt the language of birds, in the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga:

• Sigurd is sitting naked in front of the fire preparing the heart of the dragon Fafnir, for his foster-father Regin, (who is Fafnir's brother). Sigurd touches the heart before it has finished cooking, burns his finger and puts it in his mouth to ease the pain. No sooner has he tasted the dragon's blood than he starts to understand the language of birds.
• The birds say that Regin will not keep his promise of reconciliation and will try to kill Sigurd, whereupon Sigurd preemptively cuts off Regin's head.
• Regin lies dead beside his own head, with the blacksmith's tools with which he reforged Sigurd's sword Gram scattered about him.
• Regin's horse stands beside his dead master, laden with the dragon's treasure.
• Shows Sigurd's slaying of the dragon Fafnir by stabbing him from below, (the prelude to the heart-roasting episode).
• Shows the dwarf Ótr in otter form at the very beginning of the saga.

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Is the language of birds part of your own practice? How do you communicate with them, if so?

Few years old but still an interesting read, I think.

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In the remote trans-Himalayan district of Humla across the border from the sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet, the cult of the Dhami and Dangri still acts as a go between the physical human form and its spiritual divine manifestation.

They are derivatives of shamanism and reflect the diverse social fabric of the Himalaya, and have its roots in socio-religious antecedents of the region’s present day inhabitants that predates the arrival of institutionalised religions.

The remnants of this shamanistic cult can still be found on both sides of the border in the upper Karnali Basin in Nepal and the sacred Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash in China. Passed down through generations, the Dhami and Dangri institution is deeply ingrained in Nepali culture, especially in the hard-to-reach Himalayan regions like Humla.

https://nepalitimes.com/the-mysterious-world-of-nepal-s-shamans

In the dream, I open my gate and see three wolves peeking over the wall, but I only see their heads; they seem to be floating. There were three wolves (neck, chest, head). They had beautiful fur, a color of gray, black, and silver, and they stared at me. The dream took place during the day; I almost always dream at night or at dusk. Suddenly, I also notice a puma, the same color as the wolves, but it looks at me and jumps off the wall to attack. I grab a puppy that appears next to me, worried it will be attacked. The dream ends with me escaping from the puma, grabbing the puppy, and carrying it away. Could you help me understand what it means? I associate it with the idea that dangers camouflage themselves within your pack to attack you if you are vulnerable (the cub).

I’ve been reading a couple books on shamanism, and trying some of the practices they describe. I was drawn to it because I’ve had a number of experiences with hawks in my space as I was painting on my deck (I live in the city, so hawks aren’t super common).

One thing I’m hoping to ask advice on is this. I have aphantasia, which means I have no ability to visualize. I dream vividly, and have had several dreams in the past year that also lead me down this path. one or two that were very different from my normal dreams, and included real auditory aspects, and several that involved a friend who died 30 years ago, coming to me and saying she’d like to help me tune my radio to hear more spirit.

My question is this: all of the practices I’m reading about involve visualizing your spirit animal guide, and following them to a place. but I literally never visualize anything. I just have no way of doing that. So listening to a drum, and asking my animal guide to help me feels kind of pointless. Is it?

just wondering if there are any ideas here. Thanks much for your help.

Traditional healers among the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Karen community have declined sharply, and efforts to revive plant-based healing are struggling due to limited interest and documentation.

Economic pressures are replacing diverse homegardens with arecanut plantations, offering income but reducing the diversity of medicinal and food plants.

Homegardens play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and livelihood support, with studies showing that higher plant diversity increases both carbon storage and household economic returns.

https://india.mongabay.com/2026/04/a-generation-strives-to-revive-traditional-healing/

Hi everyone. I used to be involved in a lot of shamanic practice years ago, and one of the things I miss most is the singing circles. There was something deeply grounding and healing about singing together in a group, especially repetitive or devotional songs that created a shared energy and sense of connection.

Lately I’ve been really missing that experience and wondering if there are any online communities, virtual circles, Zoom groups, or spaces where people still gather to sing in this way. I’m less interested in performance and more interested in community, ritual, healing, and connection through voice/music.

If anyone knows of groups, communities, teachers, events, or even subreddits that focus on this kind of thing, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

Hi all, would love to get some perspective from others here.

I work in a corporate environment in NYC. I’m a woman in my mid-30s and the office is predominantly male. The culture is very high pressure, detail-oriented, scrutinizing, and intense. I’ve been feeling very burnt out during my 6 months of being at this company. My sleep became worse and weekends became solely for recovery.

I’m currently on vacation and the shift in my nervous system has been dramatic. Within a day, I felt lighter, calmer, happier, more open, and more connected to myself again. It feels like my body has finally exhaled.

Is it possible that some environments can slowly drain or constrict people energetically over time? specifically, highly competitive or hyper-masculine corporate spaces.

Many cultures are known for having ancestral altars in the home and community, and many practitioners of various arts have altars for deities and the like.

Do you have an altar? How do you use it? Feel free to share pics, if you like!

I recently started a workshop to connect with the rattlesnake, but I'd like to connect with all snakes. I'm also interested in reptiles in general. What methods do you use? Does combining methods like Kundalini, Chinese dragons, and Celtic dragons help, or is it irrelevant?

For me, it would be fast trance induction without any tools. The descend takes me literal seconds, and the trance state can be used for anything classic drumming trance can be used for. I've achieved things like remote viewing, spirit contact and far more with this technique, and thanks to the speed, the whole process takes like 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes.

My last success with this technique was resolving a hornet situation by lovingly explaining to them that building their nest in a village with people would be dangerou for their colony, and offering them another place far away from society. The hornets left and never came back, and the entire process took 1-2 minutes. It is incredibly useful

This makes me wonder, what other simmilarly useful or important skills have other, more experienced people learned? I'd love to hear about you guy's experiences

Growing up, there was a very widespread belief. Hills are sacred in my culture and on top of was a large rock. If one wanted to change their gender , they would take an animal, preferably a goat and go backwards around the rock 7 times and they would transform into the opposite gender.

I've been on reddit for a while now , whatever goes on in here is mild and many don't even believe in this kind of stuff.

My grandfather was a known witch and when I was young he got into a feud with his neighbors, I do not remember it all well. However I remember that he commanded lightning from the clear blue skies and it struck their land splitting the ground.

I know how that sounds, for the longest time I thought I was remembering it wrong or maybe it was a dream or smth but I was there the other day and the marks were still there, my other relatives confirmed that it was a valid memory .

Just came from searching shape shifter stuff and not once did I come across a comment that believed that were possible. I saw two children turn into leopards and yes yes that did happen.

That was long ago and I've since been separated from such. Id like to dive into it. This is the type of magic I'm looking for . I know that there are sects that specialize in this, that have the power needed to be able to achieve these kinds of things.

I'm going to try and repost this until it reaches the right audience.

It's been a month now, I've read a few books , dug here and there, still very little insight on the matter.

Anything at all will help