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Eald- Mōdra – Ancient Mothers by Gabriel Tamaya

Animist Artist, Shamanic Visionary & Luminous Cartographer…

Gabriel is an animist, shamanic & cræft practitioner, contemporary British artist and luminous cartographer who bridges paintings and maps born through their collaborative work with the Unseen folk & ancestral spirits.

Through trance, ceremony, divination, journeying and guided mark-making, Gabriel bridges experiences and teaching encounters with the Unseen into luminous maps for the soul, offering signposts to help us reclaim our whole, luminous, magnificent selves.

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Geclipian (Invocation)...standing at the centre si Geclipian (Invocation)...standing at the centre singing in the Ancestors, calling to Serpent who carries a sun in their mouth, making offerings with gratitude & a radiant heart. ✨🔥💛🔥✨

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Wishing you all a blessed Wednesday 🤗✨

Gæbriel
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Tréowaþ - ...the way was long and arduous, yet Tréowaþ - ...the way was long and arduous, yet she never lost hope even through the most challenging of trials. Her trust in the Ancestors and the path that lay before her ran bone deep, eventually she would be reunited with her kin and the new cycle of work would begin...

Wishing you all a blessed Monday & wonderful week ahead! 🤗✨💖✨

Gæbriel
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Gelǣren - Guiding Spirits... wishing you all go Gelǣren - Guiding Spirits... wishing you all good relations with your helping and guiding spirits.💖 I would also like to say a massive thank you to all of you who show your support through likes, comments, shares and print purchases. It really means allot and helps me to keep doing what I do. Thank you 🤗✨

Gæbriel 
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Eald- Mōdra – Ancient Mothers…Working with o Eald- Mōdra – Ancient Mothers…Working with our helping & healed Ancestors. This recently finished painting is taken from some of my ongoing shamanic & healing work with my Ancestors. These last few weeks I have been working to reach further and further back, tracking the ancestral paths woven throughout my DNA, spiraling ever inward, deeper and deeper within my body. Simultaneously I am journeying outward, traveling further than I ever have before, pushing my limits and capacity for this work.

I have been working closely with my helping Ancestors, those who are whole and healed and who work tirelessly to heal our line and help it to realise its fullest healed potential. I do this work for those of my Ancestors who are suffering, wounded and need healing. I do this work for my children so that they may have as clear a path as possible ahead, that they may walk side by side with their Ancestors, conscious of their support. That they might live unencumbered by wounded patterns that may lay dormant having traveled down through the generations. I do this work for myself, to help me grow, to heal and to progress on my path and so that I might inspire others to do the same.

The deeper I go into this work, the more I am humbled by the generosity, unceasing kindness and radiant compassion of the helping Ancestors. I feel embarrassed for my younger self, my hubris in taking all the credit for any successes in my life as solely my own, when in reality I was receiving so much unseen help and support, riding on the hard won achievements of my Ancestors. I do this work in earnest now, that I may become the very best I can be in this life, that I might repay the kindness shown to me to others and so that one day I might too become a helping Ancestor to all my kin.

I honour and call on the blessings, guidance and protection of all our Ancient Mothers. May they grant us their wisdom and walk by our side through these challenging times of growth & change.

I wish you all many bright blessings on your path, good health, well-being and a wonderful weekend.

Gabriel
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Biorna Wegas - The Warrior's Path... “A warrior Biorna Wegas - The Warrior's Path... “A warrior would rather die than go against their nature!” 

Warriorship is an attitude, approach and way of being that we can bring to everything we do in our lives. Warriorship is about having the courage to seek out our path in this life and then to live it uncompromisingly. It is about standing in our integrity and for what we believe in, no matter what is going on around us or what others may say or do. 

It is about continually saying yes and answering the call to become who we came here to be, to continually choose to act from a place of heart with actions based on love rather than fear. A warrior strives to have no enemies in this world or the next.

Warriorship is about not colluding with the divisive and fear based mentality that exists in the world around us, one which is constantly perpetuated by the antiquated patriarchy on a daily basis in the news and media. It is about waking up out of the cultural coma that is made increasingly easier for us to stay in and remembering why we came here to this world at this time.

A warrior's path is a path to freedom, freedom from fear based patterns and limiting behaviors that do not serve them. To walk the warrior's path is not easy,  it requires the courage to stand up and think for yourself and be self referencing, as well as to admit when you have stepped out of your integrity. It requires constant mindfulness of your actions and motivations, the tenacity to keep going when it gets hard and compassion for yourself as well as for everyone around you.

Warriorship is about embracing wholeness and realising that we are all interconnected & interdependent, that by hurting others we hurt ourselves and that without inner peace there can never be outer peace. By working continuously on ourselves we are benefiting others, and by serving others we are also serving ourselves – there is no difference. If we can accept, integrate and love all aspects of ourselves we will begin to feel acceptance and love for everyone else out there in the world.

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I am very pleased to announce that I have now fina I am very pleased to announce that I have now finally launched my Patreon account! One of the main reasons for creating a Patreon account is that I would like to connect on a deeper level with those who follow my work more, away from social media. I also wanted to provide a way for those of you who have expressed a wish to help support me in a small affordable way.

By becoming a Patron you will be helping to support me to push my current work in new directions, as well as help it to progress through future projects such as: books of collected works, an oracle deck, creation of soundscapes & short films from my work in the land as well as travel further afield to work with Europe’s sacred sites.

I am looking to move away more from social media in the future in order to share my work & interact more directly with those who follow it.

The first tier of support, called the Hedgerow Tier is now live. For £3 / $3 a month you will recieve  early access to my work, including originals for sale, limited edition print runs (including a patron only discount) as well as Patron only content & more. You can read more about it, how to sign up and what you will receive in return for your support via my Patreon link in my Bio Link Tree. ✨🌲 ✨ 

The second tier, the Forest Tier will be going live shortly, benefits of which will include receiving monthly special edition Patron only prints in the post as well as discounts on original works & more. I expect this support tier to go live in the next month once I have finished sorting out shipping logistics etc.

Thank you all for supporting my work, all your kind words and feedback and I look forward to chatting further and sharing more of my work with those of you who would also like to join me on Patreon.

Bright blessings. 🤗✨💖

Gabriel
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Forelærend - Teachers & Guides... Learning to rea Forelærend - Teachers & Guides... Learning to really lean into our spirit relationships for support. This painting, finished a few weeks ago, came from a rapid deepening of my path and personal work this year. This year has been incredibly difficult for allot of us, myself & my family included. 

I haven't talked about it publicly, but I was extremely ill very early on this year with Covid. I am still on the slow road of recovery, I have good days and bad days. I have to constantly manage my energy expenditure very carefully so I don't relapse again. It is not an exaggeration to say I thought I was going to die at a couple of points early on, I was that ill. But I didn't and I count myself as one of the truly lucky ones! There are so many who did not make it through and my prayers are with them for their onward journey.

Throughout being ill, I have found that at my lowest points I have had to lean more and more on my spirit alliances and friendships. It is through the grace and kindness of my spirits (including my helping Ancestors) and my relationships with them that I found the support and encouragement to keep going, to keep hope in my heart! I cannot begin express the magnitude of gratitude I feel towards them. 

It made me think how I would have coped with, perceived & experienced being so ill without my shamanic animist path and support of my spirits & helping Ancestors? Walking this path made this experience and many other very challenging ones I have had in my life endurable, it gave me a resilience that I would not otherwise have had. I felt held at all times by my spirits, especially when I thought I would break & fold. Yet again it gave me context in which to frame my experience, so that my illness had purpose and would ultimately make me stronger in spirit and heart.

I believe that an animist approach / view of life and living is in fact our inherent natural human state. I watch my children grow and witness their instinctive animistic way of engaging with the world consistently arising spontaneously. It is our birthright, one which has unfortunately been stolen from many of us by modern culture and religion. Cont. in comments...
‘At The Crossroads’ – becoming the bridge ‘At The Crossroads’ – becoming the bridge we traverse… Sacred space, the compass, the hedge, the mill, the tree, the circle and the crossroads are just some of the many names we give to that liminal space (that is both everywhere and nowhere) where we can converse, seek guidance and assistance from the Unseen Folk.

Something that I have really grown to appreciate over the years as my personal experience has greatly deepened, is how we ourselves are in fact the crossroads – that we are the bridge we traverse. If we can shift from the perspective of seeing this place as somewhere ‘external’ or somehow separate from us that we seek out or create, to one of complete embodiment – strange and wonderful things can begin to happen!

‘Standing at the crossroads 
once again realising that 
there is nowhere to go 
but here.
We are the compass incarnate 
moving ever from our center 
treading that radiant serpentine path back to ourselves…
to realise we were never apart!
We travel without moving 
becoming the bridges that we traverse’.

Wishing you all many luminous blessings on your respective paths!

Gabriel x 

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This sketch is taken from a journey I made recentl This sketch is taken from a journey I made recently to meet with a new teacher with some specific questions on our working relationship. I was given specific instructions for the creation and correct adornment of their home / vessel which will act as an anchor for us to work together, here in the physical world.

As I have learned over the years, it is very important when given requests / instruction by your familiar spirits to not leave it too long before taking action. Swift action when following up shows your commitment and respect for the working relationship.

Wishing you all a blessed week and good relations with your familiar spirits.

Gabriel
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Wyrt Lárþegn - plant teachers... Some more work Wyrt Lárþegn - plant teachers... Some more work from one of my sketchbooks, documenting encounters with plant teachers and allies.

Wishing you all good health, well-being & a wonderful weekend 🤗✨

Gabriel 
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