Shamanic Counseling
A shaman is an interlocutor between the human world and the world of Gods and spirits. As such, he or she possesses skills and techniques capable of assisting clients in sorting through a plethora of issues spiritual, psychic, and mundane. Some shamans are healers, some (like Galina) diviners but all are trained in an array of techniques designed to benefit the various communities (seen and unseen) in which they walk. Shamanic counseling may include any and all of the services below, as well as ritual consultation, blessings, cleansings, and more.
Ancestral Consultations
Ancestral consultations assist the client in developing a relationship with helpful ancestors, healing ancestral wounds, and determining how best to welcome their wisdom, strength, and protection into one's everyday life. There is a Lithuanian proverb that states "The souls of the dead are the protection of the living" and via appropriate ancestor readings, clients will learn how best to engage and access that reservoir of luck, blessings, and strength.
Spiritual Direction
Living an engaged spiritual life can be difficult. Sometimes we all benefit from the clarity of an outsider's professional and objective insight. An ordained interfaith minister and Northern Tradition gythia (priest), with a Masters degree in Religious Studies, Galina offers one on one spiritual direction to help people sort themselves out: with their Holy Powers, their ancestors, themselves, and the world in which they live. Everyone stumbles. Everyone has periods of disconnection and hurt (mystics across traditions refer to these times as 'dark nights of the soul'). You don't have to go through it without support.
Divination
Divination is the art of sifting through possibilities, potentialities, and consequence to determine the strongest influences in a given situation and the most likely outcome. The future is never set and good divination can help one figure out how to navigate the more challenging times in one's life. Moreover, divination is a sacred craft, one that helps the client interface with the ancestors and Holy Powers and thus to develop and maintain ongoing right relationship. A skilled diviner with over twenty years experience, Galina offers rune readings, baraja readings, tarot, lithomancy, and under certain circumstances, Northern Tradition soul map readings.
Readings and consultations are $80/session. Soul map readings are $120/session. Each session usually (but not always) takes 1-1 1/2 hours.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards at this time.
A Few important caveats
1. Please arrive on time for your appointment. If you need to cancel please try to do so 24 hours before your scheduled appointment.
2. Galina has the right to refuse anyone a consultation for any reason.
3. Shamanic counseling and any of the above services are not a substitution for adequate medical or legal advice.
4. In divination sessions, Galina will choose the method of divination. The client may request a specific type of divination, but it is up to the diviner to use the method she finds most suitable for the client and his or her situation.
5. Payment is expected prior to the commencement of the reading. Payment is non-refundable.
Setting of Lights
I will also set lights for people upon request. This is old school conjure and something that I very much enjoy doing for folks. More information on this service may be found here.
(Photograph by Mary Ann Glass).
A shaman is an interlocutor between the human world and the world of Gods and spirits. As such, he or she possesses skills and techniques capable of assisting clients in sorting through a plethora of issues spiritual, psychic, and mundane. Some shamans are healers, some (like Galina) diviners but all are trained in an array of techniques designed to benefit the various communities (seen and unseen) in which they walk. Shamanic counseling may include any and all of the services below, as well as ritual consultation, blessings, cleansings, and more.
Ancestral Consultations
Ancestral consultations assist the client in developing a relationship with helpful ancestors, healing ancestral wounds, and determining how best to welcome their wisdom, strength, and protection into one's everyday life. There is a Lithuanian proverb that states "The souls of the dead are the protection of the living" and via appropriate ancestor readings, clients will learn how best to engage and access that reservoir of luck, blessings, and strength.
Spiritual Direction
Living an engaged spiritual life can be difficult. Sometimes we all benefit from the clarity of an outsider's professional and objective insight. An ordained interfaith minister and Northern Tradition gythia (priest), with a Masters degree in Religious Studies, Galina offers one on one spiritual direction to help people sort themselves out: with their Holy Powers, their ancestors, themselves, and the world in which they live. Everyone stumbles. Everyone has periods of disconnection and hurt (mystics across traditions refer to these times as 'dark nights of the soul'). You don't have to go through it without support.
Divination
Divination is the art of sifting through possibilities, potentialities, and consequence to determine the strongest influences in a given situation and the most likely outcome. The future is never set and good divination can help one figure out how to navigate the more challenging times in one's life. Moreover, divination is a sacred craft, one that helps the client interface with the ancestors and Holy Powers and thus to develop and maintain ongoing right relationship. A skilled diviner with over twenty years experience, Galina offers rune readings, baraja readings, tarot, lithomancy, and under certain circumstances, Northern Tradition soul map readings.
Readings and consultations are $80/session. Soul map readings are $120/session. Each session usually (but not always) takes 1-1 1/2 hours.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards at this time.
A Few important caveats
1. Please arrive on time for your appointment. If you need to cancel please try to do so 24 hours before your scheduled appointment.
2. Galina has the right to refuse anyone a consultation for any reason.
3. Shamanic counseling and any of the above services are not a substitution for adequate medical or legal advice.
4. In divination sessions, Galina will choose the method of divination. The client may request a specific type of divination, but it is up to the diviner to use the method she finds most suitable for the client and his or her situation.
5. Payment is expected prior to the commencement of the reading. Payment is non-refundable.
Setting of Lights
I will also set lights for people upon request. This is old school conjure and something that I very much enjoy doing for folks. More information on this service may be found here.
(Photograph by Mary Ann Glass).