Elisabeth P. Sikie, PhD

Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher

Samhain 2026 – Navigating Liminal Worlds in Joyful Celebration

We’ve arrived at that point on the Holy Wheel of the Year where the veil between the worlds is the thinnest. It’s time for Samhain, Halloween and All Saints Day. Time to party with the dead. Our Ancestors knew this to be the time of blurring earthy boundaries. We can commune with the other realms…   Read More

Eagles at the Lion’s Gate Portal August 2026

THESE GUYS landed on the transmission tower behind our construction shop. WTF?! We scrambled out of the building to catch a glimpse of their magnificence. Wow! What a blessing! Eagles showed up at work on a Friday! All is possible! The Lion’s Gate Portal on 8/8 is an annual celestial event that marks seasonal movements…   Read More

Spring Equinox 2026 – Transform! It’s a New World

After this year of awakening as our world restructures itself, we find ourselves gaping at our accelerated social transformation. Despite the horror we’ve been witnessing, I find myself ready for a seasonal shift. I realized it was time to change my outlook, my vibe and my wardrobe. With the oncoming of celestial light I feel…   Read More

Imbolg Portal 2026 – Transformation after Destruction

One year ago on Feb 1, the old Shell oil refinery located down the street from our house that has stood for a century and creates jobs for thousands in our area including me burst into flames. It was a Sunday and the holy pagan day of Imbolg, a sacred Celtic cross-quarter fire festival. After…   Read More

Solstice Portal 2025 – Ancestors Everywhere

Coming off our trip to Alaska at the Autumn Equinox, even as we’re collectively living through an absurd psycho clown-car year of incredible chaotic destruction, I find my spiritual antenna activated at this Solstice season. I am ablaze. The increasing seasonal darkness occurring at the Autumn Equinox terminates in full expression at the Winter Solstice.…   Read More

Autumn Equinox 2025 – Ancestral Healing in Saxman Totem Park, Ketchikan

Once again we found ourselves undertaking pilgrimage to dazzling Alaska at the pagan holy day of Mabon. This Celtic cross-quarter season celebrates the necessary establishing of balance – with self, family, community, relations and the planet. Passing under the Golden Gate is always thrilling because we know we are traveling to a fantastic realm of…   Read More

Autumn Equinox 2024 – Descent into Inner Worlds with Intent

I love this time of year. In fall I come alive. I feel the expectant crackling energy of the coming rejuvenating dark seasons pulsing through me. Being that I am a devotee of Persephone, I know that it’s time to follow the cyclical path of her descent to the Underworld to face my inner self…   Read More

Lammas 2024 – Rx for Summer Intensity

Wtf! Is going on in this world right now? The seasonal evolutionary heat is on. Turned up so high our outer and the inner realities are synchronized in perfect accelerated chaos for nearly everything and everyone. It’s like hell and heaven existing in the same point of time and space dancing some crazy-assed prophesied evolutionary…   Read More