Visualize Healing

The Burning of the Sage

Address health issues with positive visualizations. Use your intuition to connect into your energy field and identify the causes of your distress. Research may be necessary to get a balanced view.

This painting is about a sacred ceremony of the Shasta native Americans who live near the base of Mount Shasta. When a Shasta couple marries, they retain some of the sage from their wedding ceremony and keep it in a little pouch. When they experience marital discord or ill health, they burn the sage as a powerful incense, giving up their problems to the creator and knowing they will be solved. Many illnesses are generated by disharmony. The fragrant smoke of the sage is a visionary tool that focuses healing intention, encompasses negative energy, and wafts it into the sky. In the background are the pinnacle peaks of the Castle Crags, located to the west of Mount Shasta. They say this was the site of the last tribal conflict. The woman shaman wears flicker feathers on her head and senses that close by is White Spirit Bird Raven, who is sometimes the trickster.