Wild Magical Soul by Monica Crosson

Author:Monica Crosson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wild magickal soul;monica crosson;monical crossan;natural magic;natural magick;natural witchcraft;elements;elemental magick;elemental magick;elemental witchcraft;elemental witch;natural world;nature;wisdom of nature
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2020-01-07T15:49:24+00:00

Dance Beat

Everything is alive and dances to the rhythms of nature. As Witches and Pagans, we can leave our inhibitions and self-doubt behind within the dance and become absorbed into nature’s rhythm. We are the dance. Through dance we can enact a form of self-hypnosis that can aid in our journeying practices. As we weave and shift and move about, the dance acts as a catalyst in guiding us to achieve altered states of consciousness that lead us to our spirit guides and connects us with the universal flow of energy. The dance helps us transform not only ourselves, but the world around us. As I will reiterate throughout this book, we are interwoven with all of nature. We are a partner in the dance, if you will, that overlaps and intertwines our world with the otherworld, creating a beautiful tapestry that most people in our mundane lives are never really aware of.

Much of the work of shamanic healers involves movement and dance. It is used as a form of journey that opens the doorway to the world of spirits. Once in the other realm, the shaman acts as mediator for the needs of their community, be it assurance of a good hunt, a cure for disease, assisting the passing of a dying loved one, or even soul retrieval.

Heightening Consciousness through Dance

I’m sure most of us are familiar with the whirling dervishes of the Sufi Islamic tradition. Through their method of dance, in a ceremony called the Sema, practitioners become an instrument for Allah. The whirling opens their hearts and frees their souls in order to experience the words of the Qur’an—for God belongs in the east and west and wherever you turn is the face of God.

Dance may have been one of our earliest forms of ritual. Movements that emulated events in the stories of the gods of our ancient ancestors or mimicked the rhythms of nature were acted out in accompaniment to the music of pipes and harps. Dance was used to express celebration, ritual inauguration, or even grief by funerary mourners, as was the practice in ancient Egypt. It could be ecstatic and uninhibited, such as the frenzied dances performed by practitioners of the Dionysiac cults of ancient Greece, or it could be subtle and formalized, like the dances of Hindu priestesses whose stylized hand gestures are still being used in the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam.

The thought of dancing, for some of us, can trigger some serious anxiety. But believe it or not, movement can empower us by allowing us to shake off lingering negative emotions that have built up over time—and just like exercise or sex, dancing releases neurotransmitters that help us feel good.

I find dance to be one of the most powerful tools in my Witchy bag of tricks. In my mundane life, I feel I have a pretty good intellectual understanding of the world that I live in. But how lovely it is to be able slip into dance, where I am free to

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