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New Year Blessings and Offerings

Wanda Buchleitner-Garstad • Jan 09, 2019

Hello Everyone ! Happy New Year !

I do hope this finds you all in a healthy and peaceful state after the holidays. The holidays can be bitter sweet for many and I do hope that you all found your own ways to connect to those that you love, those present and those who are dearly missed. Remembering and honouring them with the ones around us can truly heal the heart and soul of us all.

Which is something integral to bring into this new year as well.


The coping skills needed for change and acceptance are still a part of this coming years requirements, along with other opportunities to do things in new and more aligned ways.

This year brings more change, more intensity and calls us to connect to our patience, creativity, trust,

flow and open ourselves to potential without limitations.

A New Newsletter Format For Just That!

Walking Soul Wisdom would like to assist you with those attributes and more through the values and archetypes born and inherit in its creation. This company creation comes from a heartfelt and divine driving force that manifested a container to fulfill the purpose of its founder. This business propels a sacred dream to be of service to the wounded, the lost and the searching, along with celebrating our victories and life’s accomplishments.

In traditional Seidr and or Shamanic teachings it is known and honoured that we do not do our work alone. That there are always teachers, ancestors, helpers and protectors in this realm and all other realms who as- sist us and do what needs to be done. The archetypes that birthed and sustain this company are all powerful in their own right and in order to honour the energies that contribute so much to Walking Soul Wisdom, I would like to share them with you here in these now quarterly newsletters.

It was magical and a true gift in the way that each one of these archetypes presented themselves. These archetypes where not picked, they picked Walking Soul Wisdom. It was additional confirmation in many ways that the creation of this business was meant to be and that it holds a powerful presence all of itself.

The business values held by this company and me, it’s founder, are also integrated to the success of each and every being it touches. So this, along with the Archetypes will send us on a path of enquiry and enlightenment. My hope is that you enjoy the ride with me !

In this newsletter we will look at the Archetype ”The Star” with the Value of “Sacredness”

The Star is a beacon, a point of light to pursue and or to follow. The star can represent our desires, goals and even our true spirits in our awake, walking dreaming. In some traditions the conscious connection to our “Soul Star” helps us to feed our lives, our experiences here on earth and gives us a destination, a homing device, for our death.

We all need energy to do both life and death well, with the sacred relationship to our Source (whatever that looks like for you), suppling us with that force of energy and comfort. The Star can represent that sacred connection, symbolizing faith, trust and clarity.

Also a messenger of new beginnings, the energy Star holds is illumination and enlightenment in all darkness. What we wish to illuminate can be brought to awareness with the support of The Star.

The Star sings a sacred song of connection, home and the collective soul.

How do you hold the Archetype of Star, how do you hold the Value of Sacredness?

Sacredness allows you to be with an energy that informs you of a greater presence, honouring what is (not what you want it to be) and allowing for something bigger than you, to hold you.

In my practice, it is often said that I create sacred space. I would agree to a certain extent, as what we think, we make, but in my experience with energy, I do not create it, I simply open a container where sacredness already exists.

There is a sacredness in everything, if you choose to be with it. What do you hold sacred?

Sacredness is in nature, in a church, in an office, in a workshop, in a hospital, in a prison, sacredness to me, is also anywhere where there is life and death and that is everywhere when you think about it.

The Star and Sacredness is inside of you and you are the conscious expression of both.

Shine brightly this year !


Look for more Archetypes and Values in my next newsletter this spring !

To further discover The Star, Sacredness and more, make an appointment with me or have a look at the upcoming workshops and offerings that may speak to you!

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