It’s like this ~
there lives a spring for your thirst
where your parched lips around Her waters
turns Her body on to make more honey
and your desolated heart becomes soft ground
Others will catch the scent of satiation in the air
They will come to the mouth of abundance to drink
When your body tightens around old fears
of losing your free flowing treasure
-remember-
your mother’s breast
an unsung maiden well until your cries for Love
set in motion a spiral of miracles turning
the Wheel of Life
upon which the codex of reciprocity is inscribed
And in one line of this ancient scripture
you will find your Name
The Original Medicine (OM) operates under the tenets of the First Flame as a spiritual organization committed to preserving sacred laws and the golden thread that weaves all of life together in one Song.
Sacred laws are a Universal blueprint that upholds unity consciousness, reciprocity, indigeneity, innate abundance, right relationship with and between all living beings, sovereignty and Life inclusivity. Distilled down these Universal laws rise out of feminine consciousness and what we also hold as Christ consciousness. When this consciousness is at the root of our lives, all lives are in balance.
The OM is the educational body of the First Flame dedicated to bringing people back in touch with the sacred wisdom of Life, Love, God, Self. There are many pathways home to that undying flame that governs all life. We are committed to helping all who come through our doors reconnect to their innate belonging, their personal soul lineage, cosmology and prayer.
The many sacred technologies such as prayer, Earth medicines, music, initiatory rites of passage, ritual, and holistic healing modalities are honored here as they help pave that pathway to the inner healer. This is the high seat of awakening to individual cosmology. Every life story holds a powerful medicine that lay patiently waiting for the time when, often by way of life’s storms, the sacred is summoned as an ally on the journey again.
There is a Holy force within all of life that can never die. We know this force through the flesh, the sacred vessel of living, breathing holy human. Here we honor the All of You as divine and turn towards the immaculate expressions of Life for our healing, wisdom and liberation.
There is an Original Medicine that rises from the First Flame of all Life. Around that flame is where The Ancestors gather to tend and tell the first Love story. Some call this force God, Mother Goddess, Christ, Holy Spirit, Mitakuye Oyasin, Shiva.
We say She has many faces and many names and is awaiting yours.
We ask you as you enter:
How does the sacred show itself to you? What old story is ready to be freed? You are one of Her many faces, an unconditionally loved child of Father God. What needs to be seen by you for you to see?
OM was founded by Shira Starfire and tended by all the many hands that make it all possible. It operates through the collective wisdom of appointed council members and all individuals who partake in the services offered under OM and The First Flame. We welcome feedback at any time. We want to hear your voice, your heart and why you are here.
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I have refused to live locked inside
the orderly house of reason and proofs
The world I live in and believe in
is wider than that.
And anyway, what’s wrong with Maybe?
You wouldn’t believe what
once or twice I have seen.
I’ll just tell you this:
Only if there are angels in your head
will you ever, possibly, see one.
~Mary Oliver
Shira Starfire at a glance-
Hello friend and thank you for being here.
I see my life story as a great initiation and journey for the evolution of my soul. It is my life path to serve and support others on the journey through their own great story.
The majority of my experience has come from the great classroom of Life. The power of prayer woke up in me at the end of 2011 when I almost died from the weight of a many decade’s long battle with addictions, mainly bulimia nervosa. I was saved by a force beyond personal will and experienced a miracle. Since then I have been undergoing the arduous chiseling away of everything that stands between me and the force that resurrected me from darkness only to praise the darkness as I sit here now.
Like many wounded healers I was called into the healing arts to steward others back to what I call Womb consciousness through holistic, spiritual healing modalities. I am a guide through the labyrinth of life– which by its nature forbids me to be too “professional”.
I am raw and honest to a flaw. Ask me anything.
I have seen the underbelly of most maladies. Initiations on my altar- yes, training by Grandmother hands- yes, master ritual maker- yes, and a certified health coach, initiated womb guardian, breath work practitioner, trauma informed, harp playing, sing songing gypsy queen. I came to ministry the Song of Life.
I have worked in clinical and private settings addressing physical, emotional and spiritual pathologies of the feminine/womb body (this applies to all bodies) ~ Transformation and life change~ Chronic mystery disease~ Eating Disorder and addiction recovery~ Sexual and mental abuse ~ Anxiety, depression and grief. .
The soul calling is to share the song that was living under the rubble of oppression and serve the Holy eminence that animates all the beauty we can and cannot see. Music has found me and I am devoted to the medicine of sound and the beautiful harp that chose me some years ago.
Prayer is real. God is real. Love heals. And there are, as the Tao says, 10,000 unreal ways to prove it.
Stewarding this life back to alignment with Creation, doing my best to be a walking prayer and embodied spiritual organization is a humbling honor.
I don’t know anything you don’t know. And that is the truth.
I bow to my many teachers in flesh and in spirit who have made me so. I know with every bit of my soul that I was handed a lot to love free because of the medicine I carry. If that lives in me, that lives in all beings.
And what I have said from the beginning to the cynic that lives in all of us ~
Why not try on a little magic before you die, because from what I have seen that other stuff just ain’t workin out too well.
Please reach out. I am an open book (with good boundaries). Blessed Be.
