On this podcast I’ll be offering a simple meditation each episode so you can drop in, get centered, and self reflect. Whether you meditate often or are new to the practice, Raven Meditation invites you to take a few moments out of your day to sit with you
This card in the tarot signifies solitude and inner illumination. The hermit archetype image and energy are about anchoring inside of ourselves with meditation and balancing at the center of ourselves. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This tarot visualization is about desire, Union and self-love. Through relationship with others and with ourselves we learn and grow. We must ultimately learn to trust and love all parts of ourselves to show up in relationships in authenticity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In our psyche we give authority to different parts of our mind at different times in our life. When this card shows up it's time to examine what we listen to and where we put our trust. Can we start trusting our true nature? This is about finding your sovereignty. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The Empress is creative, abundant, FECUND. She knows how to rest and reflect. She is reflected in the earth. Her cycles of death and growth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The Chariot is a card of power and confidence. This is a solar plexus chakra card. This card speaks to the journey we all take through life. The goals we set and obstacles on the path. This card points us to our purpose. Finding your purpose and moving forward, sometimes into the dark, towards your purpose. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The moon card in the tarot points to full submergence into the unconscious mind. You are asked to take a look at the parts of you that still live in shadow, the parts that you may fear and avoid, the a navigated landscape of your inner world is being shown to you. When we are in transition or in the unknown, we must have courage to be vulnerable. When we're in this place you can feel incredibly alone. We may feel confused but what we are feeling or experiencing is hard To put into language. But as the moon is reborn in darkness to transform and shine again, us to have to face our terrors and be reborn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A time of vitality and enlightenment. This card speaks to the peak of renewal and life at it's fullness. With loved ones and the warmth of the sun let's celebrate the Summer Solstice. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The word judgment can conjure up feelings of discomfort because if you are judged for your true nature it doesn't feel right. However, this card is grounded in healing and love. This card takes the other meaning of the word judgement and invites us to examine and discern what is truth? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A dancer moves with wild abandon as they heal their wounds and integrate. This visualization deals with the healing power of movement and sexual/spiritual creativity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In our lives we experience intervals of change and transition. Some call it fate, or destiny. The Wheel of Fortune visually represents this expected or unexpected change. Transition is a moment of groundless-ness, where you are pulled up from that settled state and moved, transformed, shifted towards your purpose. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This card teaches about cause and effect, consequences or karma. It is in our deeper knowing to discover what is out of balance within us, society and the earth. And even a wisdom to know how to restore balance again. We have to look at the foundation to discover how to bring justice. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode I guide you through the imagery of The Tower card. When all is uncovered, laid bare, then a revelation comes to you. Are you ready to let it all fall? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Combining the symbolism and images of the Daughter of Discs and Priestess of Discs (or pentacles) this visualization brings you into closer connection with your body and the wisdom it holds. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Death is a shedding. A laying down of what no longer serves us, but it's not easy. To let die what was once a part of us and now must go is an act of surrender and grief. Death is the final portal before rebirth, before transformation. Can you cross the liminal threshold and allow the natural cycle of life? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Strength in the tarot can point to our power in tenderness. Our ability to remain grounded even when our most ugly emotions surface. Our ability to remain vulnerable when the dangers of life threaten. Instead of closing and pushing away our thoughts, feelings and emotions, it feels healthier to turn towards them and examine them, really feel them, in strength. This is strength. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The devil is about unhealthy attachments. He wants total control over a situation or people. This card represents dogma and rigidity. It can show up with addiction and jealousy, and ugly relationship with someone or something. This visualization offers an exploration of your attachments and anger and hopefully some answers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
He is the open hearted and balanced witness you can bring to meet your emotions. Creating a safe container this visualization will help you open to your emotions and listen deeply, feel deeply and love deeply. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
He is the eye or window to the soul. Illumination of the structure and inner workings. The witness to our substance and form. He is the wisdom to know that true gain comes from surrender. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We can a tune ourselves to our inner knowing through our emotions. When we dive under the turbulent white caps of emotional resistance into the watery depths we can enter the blissful oneness of our emotional world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This visualization is self loving. The purpose is to come into your heart center and fill your cup with love. Enter the healing waters and be in your body. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Some days you feel like you are overwhelmed and holding up the whole world. It's time to pause and become the Hanged One, surrendering to this moment and unconditional love. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The leopard as a representative of justice invites you as ritual to travel through the elements to find balance once more. Introspective and deeply creative. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A phase of creative energy and rebirth. The first card of the Minor Arcana of the Tarot. Incorporating the energy of Prajna, this ecstatic visualization will invigorate and help you reflect on what holds you back. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Son of swords is disconnected from the interconnection of all life, he has lost respect for life. His goals are on singular gains and he has become competitive and greedy. He must now awaken and reconnect to the life cycle and the wild. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Standing before the gateway of life and death you must explore your inner knowing and how to surrender to the wisdom within. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The Fool in the tarot is about new beginnings and fresh innocence. The childlike wonder and creativity that proceeds the start of something just around the corner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This is a visualization by Joanna Macy from her book “coming back to life”. In this episode we go back through all time to feel our ancestors and to see the gifts they have past us through our cells. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The winter Solstice is about coming inward, self reflection, and gathering our energy for the spring to come. The darkness of the long winter night invites us into our shadows and ask them for wisdom. Intentions sowed in winter can bloom and flourish over the next year. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A walk through the seasons to receive gifts and messages from each part of ourself that comes out in spring, summer, fall and winter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This is deeper shadow work. Dealing with the shadow parts of ourselves we created when we were young. Make sure to care for yourself after and I recommend journaling to process. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Gratitude is abundant this time of year, how do we give back to those whose way of life way dismantled by pilgrims settling. America the beautiful must open her heart to the deep work of healing a nation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Your guide takes you to the Crystal city and you may receive powerful messages of your power and purpose. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this visualization you travel through the woods to meet the elders. They offer wisdom and medicine. And you meet your spirit animal guide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Love and Grief of the American Election. No matter who you voted for. This election has been hard and hurtful. Let us heal our hearts so that we can better accept ourselves and each other. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
As tension is in the air with pandemic and the election upon us we can get very overwhelmed and our brains are fatigued. I offer a way to clear the brain and recharge. With a clear head and an open heart. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
For this weekend of Samhain I explain a little about the Celtic pagan festival and a visualization of ancestors to allow what needs to die. Joking me for this deep symbolic work. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I teach about using the words “hung sow” as technique for getting our breath and minds as still as possible. This allows our brain a deep rest and for our deepest truths to arise. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode we root down with the earth, finding connection. Finding empathy for how she supports us and gives to us. As you visualize yourself as a tree you become deeply rooted. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Let's take a walk, whether outside or inside, you'll be slowly walking and saying a mantra. This practice in a somatic awareness campaign practice is that is incredibly grounding and calming. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I take you through the chakras from the root to crown. At the top we visualize going through a door and meeting a guide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
An episode of musing about darkness and a darkness practice for you. As we move into winter and darker days in the northern hemisphere we are encouraged by nature to rest, embrace darkness. A winter of the soul. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Recorded on The Great Salt Lake. I guide you in a visualization of expanding your light. Be ready to expand far! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode we'll do a writing exercise. Have a pen and paper ready. The purpose is to wake up to our thoughts and become the one in charge of our thoughts and how they affect our daily lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Compassion starts with ourselves. But it can be hard, painful even, to give ourselves space to be completely loved by ourselves. I reference “Shadows & Light: Volume 2” Kaklauskas. This episode we practice compassion for others. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode I give a simple explanation of the Chakras, energy centers. My own take on balancing them. Then we do a Reiki practice to clear and balance your 7 main chakras. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Again we dive into ourselves and listen to the messages, this time from the wide one within. We visualize a waterfall and a scared object. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode I offer a simple definition of mantra and how to use one. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
For this episode I take you through a future self visualization that was created by Tara Mohr, that I modified a little to include this idea of a convergence of two rivers one from the higher self and one from the instinctual self. This guided meditation will get you centered and your will power buzzing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I describe the meaning of Sa Ta Na Ma. Then we get to spend 10 minutes chanting this mantra together. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this immersive visualization you imagine moving up the mountain and meet guides along the way. They have messages for you. There is an incredible view from the top. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I define passive and active meditation in simple terms. Here I teach a couple simple thought detachment practice. Then we actively meditate with a five minute OM chant. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app