Old Magic in Everyday Life
Mhairi Simon
Author Bio
Mhairi is a Gaelic name still very much in use in Scotland.
In the Gaelic tongue, the letters ‘ Mh ‘ are pronounced as a ‘ v ‘ – so Mhairi is pronounced ‘ Varry ‘. When she began to work as a professional, she started under the name ‘ Vav ‘, as it is easier to use.
She has been healing ever since she can remember being on her uncle’s farm as a little girl. While the other children were asked to find the chicken’s eggs or clean the horses’ tack, she would be given the broken animals to fix. “She’s got the Way with her”, they said.
She says: “Over many years I have searched for new teachings to expand my awareness. I am confident that we never complete our learning, so I am always keen to find out more and also to be inspired again.”
Description
This is a find-yourself-again self-help book for people interested in developing their spiritual path…
Full of humour and personal stories, Mhairi’s writing will catch the imagination of anyone who wishes to peer behind the gloss of present-day life.
She ranges from the roots of Old Magic in nature and Mother Earth, passing animals and humans, through past lives and modern life to spells and shamanism. She describes many aspects of the sixth sense, bringing them into the present and offering meditations to try at home.
Neither a fantasy nor a textbook: real-life experience, story-telling, autobiography and personal opportunity…
Book excerpt
Magic is a different way of doing things.
Much magic comes from the Universe, from the past. It is already here, waiting to be found and used: it does not need to be invented or improved. It is, however, mysterious – that is it’s nature. And that is the conundrum: how to find and use something inherently mysterious.
For many of us, this conundrum can almost stop to our efforts to find it.
But I know I was born with magic – it came with my soul.
I use this gift every day. I consider myself lucky to be able to do that for the benefit of many others, some human, some animal. But it has not always been so: my journey has had it’s ups and downs. Magic has brought loss as well as gain, and pain as much as a sense of identity.
Many people I’ve met have journeyed as though magic was somewhere over the horizon, aeons away, almost alive and determined to evade capture. I would like to tell you about my journey, so that you may gain ideas and encouragement for your own personal path (which won’t copy mine!). My main point is that Old Magic is close-by, still relevant and very very interesting.
SOUL MAGIC: Recognizing Mine
For me, it began with a horse. She was a nine-year-old native pony – probably Dales breed – an unremarkable bay called Pal.
We lived in a small village in Scotland where my grandfather was a wealthy landowner and farmer. In time he died of alcoholism and the land was sold off for housing, but back then, it was still quite quaint. The train went through the middle of the village by way of a level-crossing but it was still quiet enough to ride a pony through it – and for everyone to know everyone else who lived there. My sister was 10 years older than me and she had riding lessons from a young local woman, who always hacked back to our house at the end of the lesson. At one year old I was desperate to touch the horse and to sit on it, and regularly Carol, the teacher, would lift me to sit in front of her on Pal’s neck. Occasionally I would be allowed to sit alone on the saddle and plod back to the stables as she cooled down from her ride. And that’s when it happened – my awakening!
I’m sure it happened by sense of smell – they say that’s the first to stir in the body and the last to die. It is closely connected to the pituitary and pineal glands within the brain which have a lot of control and influence in stimulating the intuition or sixth sense. The smells of horse sweat, hair and leather wafted into my brain and suddenly I was present, as thinking and feeling and knowing as I am now 50 years later. . .
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Genre Non-Fiction
Author Website
http://www.vavsimonbooks.co.uk
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