One of the most useful techniques I’ve ever come across was inspired by my travel and research in the Tibetan Himalayas. …
A grief eater will aid you when you are moving through sadness, picking up fractured pieces, and tending to your soul. A grief eater soothes emotional and mental issues as well as challenging daily situations. Call upon a grief eater to make life bearable through the grieving process. Access it when your heart has been shattered. Use it to vanquish a repetitive or painful thought cycle.
The Magician’s Secret
Working with a grief eater is a three-step process. First, integrate the Magician’s secret of reality. Second, select and invoke the grief eater you want to work with. Third, ask for permission and begin working with the grief eater.
The Magician’s secret of reality resides inside the tarot deck. Observe the Magician card in any historical tarot from the Italian Visconti deck to the French Marseilles to Pamela Colman Smith’s Magician card. Each Magician is depicted the same way. He stands behind a table with teh four suit symbols of tarot upon it: wand, cup, sword, and pentacle. It is a reminder that the tools you need are always in front of you. The secret of reality also hides among his tools.
Wands align with elemental fire. We feel tarot’s wands in our body when we experience passion, desire, and energy. We observe energy in others and feel it when our cheeks flush red with excitement. But we can’t hold passion in our hands. It is intangible. Cups align with elemental water,a nd we experience tarot’s cups via emotions, imagination, and love. We make things using our creativity, yet fantasies aren’t something we can place in a box. We know empathy when we feel it. But love and dreams are not something we can touch with our fingers. Swords align with elemental air. Tarot’s swords move through our body as thoughts, ideas and the sotries we tell ourselves and others. We can write or articulate a thought when we speak. But a thought isn’t somehting we can actually touch or taste. Ideas and calculations are intangible. Pentacles align with elemental earth. We can feel tarot’s pentacles with our blood, bones, and body. Elemental earth is everything we can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell. Have you figured out the Magician’s secret? It contains teh secret of who you are.
We are not our passions. We feel excitement, identify with the exhilaration, but it isn’t us. We are not our emotions. We experience waves of feeling driving us to act. But it isn’t us. We are not our feelings. Wild ideas and narratives fill our ever-calculating minds. But we are not our thoughts. A thought is simply something we have. Earth is the only element we can see, touch, taste, hear, and smell.
The magician’s secret: three-quarters of the world is invisible. The universe doesn’t exist “out there.” It exists inside us!
Who are we? We are the intelligence gazing through our eyes. We are the active observer. We are hte Magician. This secret gives us the space t choose how we respond to any emotion, idea or impulse. We can choose to respond to anything with our deepest authenticity. The Magician does not cast magic on the outside world. He casts the magic on himself.
It is easy to be a magical witcy creature when life is humming along beautifully. But what about when brush up against the hard stuff? What can we do when life gets in the way? The grief eater is a relationship you can cultivate to help you through life’s toughest times. A grief eater is energy you will befriend and whom you will feed your negative thought patterns and dark emotions to.
Choosing Your Grief Eater
Choose your grief eater through a familiar and comfortable association. It can bea god energy, archetypal energy, or plant energy. The god or goddess should align within your spiritual system. Hecate, Brigid, and Kali make excellent choices. The Death card from tarot makes a perfect grief eater because death will devour your grief adn reprocess it into something new. Trust your instincts for this work. You can choose an herb or tree (but not an animal). Motherwort herb is highly recommended due to its soothing qualities, but you can select any herb or tree energy you like and have access to.
Sit before your chosen image or in fornt of the herb or tree you ahve chosen to work with at twilight. As the setting Sun casts long shadows and the sky turns pink and purple, light a candle and gaze at your chosen goddess, tarot card, or plant. Focus intently. Observe everything. What does it look like? What does it smell like? What are the colors? How does it make you feel?
Close your eyes and continue to explore the goddess, archetype, or plant. Move close to the energy and officially welcome it into your life. Explain your situation to the energy and ask for permission to transfer your negative, repetitive, dark, or heartbreaking thought patterns to it. Allow the energy to speak for itself. If the energy gives you permission to work with it, you may ask if there are any additional messages it would like to share with you.
Keep the grief eater’s image close by in the coming days. Every time you feel yourself overcome with challenging emotions or destructive, sad, or heartbreaking thoughts, bring the image of your grief eater to mind. Take a deep breath, close your eyes. In your mind’s eye, allow the grief eater to absorb the negative or repetitive thoughts and emotions. This will give you space to heal and the ability to change the thought pattern, and it creates room to grow.
Thank your grief eater by making charitable donations in its name or by planting herbs, trees, or flowers. Working with energies and spirits is a two-way relationship. It mirrors the “regular” relationships in our life. Always treat a sacred pact with good manners and respect to keep your bond health and strong.
Adana Luna 