The Austin Alchemist
Loving Austin's Awakening Community
Summer’s Fire energy can be invigorating—but it also has the potential to burn us out. In this article, Feng Shui expert Belinda Mendoza shares simple, powerful ways to cool your space, calm your mind, and restore your spirit during the high-energy summer months.
In her article, Kay Hutchinson explores how daily practices can support higher ascension, coherence, and grounded presence during times of rapid change. Through simple resets, breathwork, and embodied awareness, she offers three ways to recognize whether a practice is helping you integrate spiritual growth into everyday life.
In this reflective essay, author Suzanne Gene Courtney explores the difference between simply seeing the world and truly perceiving it. Through quiet observations of nature, daily life, and human connection, she invites readers to reconnect with gratitude, awareness, intuition, and the deeper presence woven into ordinary moments.
Curious about numerology? There's a little more to it than a "lucky" number or two. There are many approaches to using numerology as a spiritual tool for insight. Heretical Numerology focuses on the soul and core structure of the raw energy you are—the equation you are—the song you sing, and how energy flows through your life. Heretical Numerology explores the deeper structure of the soul through the patterns hidden within names and birth dates. Jules’ research-based approach looks beyond simplified interpretations to the archetypal roots and energetic flow behind the numbers.
As the Year of the Fire Horse approaches, preparation becomes a powerful practice. In this article, Feng Shui expert Belinda Mendoza shares simple, powerful ways to clear space, restore energy flow, and set intentions for the Lunar New Year ahead.
In addition to being sparkly and beautiful, crystals put out unique energy frequencies which have an effect on each of our unique energy frequencies, harmonizing the two together.
Holidays bring happiness, cheer, abundance, and some much-needed time with family and friends. Would you like to create a harmonious work and living space? Maximize your joy this season with some helpful Feng Shui tips!
Deconditioning and aligning with your own pace can bring peace and deeper connections in life. Julie Bradshaw shares with the community what working with horse wisdom reveals about resistance, facing fear, and slowing down.
These feel like difficult times, and yet difficult times are great opportunities to do some deep and powerful personal work. I found some useful reminders and thought I might pass some ideas along to you. In these times, it serves to do your very best to take care of YOU with some of these ideas. Thank you for listening.
In the 4,000-year-old art of Feng Shui, the seasons each represent an element and color. They also represent life changes. We want our abundance and prosperity to continue all year, so shifting along with the natural seasons is important. Elevate your prosperity with these easy ways to move from summer to fall. Discover the Feng Shui art of seasonal transitions and invite abundance effortlessly.
Our personal relationships are vital to our well-being because human connection gives us a sense of belonging. When we feel supported and connected to others, we minimize stress and anxiety in life. Our relationships can be life-affirming when they work. However, when they don’t, they can cause us frustration and heartache. Here are four ways to help you improve your relationships.
In my ongoing search for the quickest, most efficient way to clear people’s emotional baggage, I discovered The Emotion Code, an exciting form of energy psychology developed by Dr. Brad Nelson. This powerful discipline works like a charm.
Whether you are looking for a new job or career, or just want the one you have to be improved in some way, feng shui can help.
Sometimes life can be challenging and difficult, and leave us feeling at a loss for what to do. These are great times to have a conversation with Spirit or with your guides so that you can feel more confident in the decisions that you make and about the journey that you are on.
Shamanism is a worldview – a way of perceiving and living in the world. It shares many traits with other forms of prayer and energy work, but not all forms of such practices are “shamanic.” We can identify eight characteristic ways of working in shamanic practice that most can agree make practice shamanic.
Happy relationships are sustained by several essential qualities, including patience, forgiveness, and acceptance. Yet, these things are typically glossed over, and instead, the focus is placed instead on finding Mr. or Ms. Right. Our cultural messages emphasize finding Mr. or Ms. Right as the key to everlasting love and conceal the fact that relationships take work. We erroneously believe that the right partner will make us happy, and we'll live "happily ever after." So, when your relationship gets complicated, does that mean you've picked the wrong partner? Or is there something else at play?
Shungite heals almost everything. Shungite rooms in Russia are used to concentrate the healing power of Shungite. I decided I wanted my own Shungite room. This is the story about how we designed the first Shungite wall in Texas.
Journeying in the Spirit World is very much about creating and exploring an experience that is mythological. Encounters in that world are “larger than life” and have an all-encompassing scope. Humans have gone on such journeys for thousands of years. In doing so, our ancestors have built a cohesive and reliable structure for the experience – the mythology of the shamanic journey. Read more...
Every day we witness more political, economic, environmental, personal, and social chaos throughout the world. Indeed, this is a unique and pivotal period in human history. The entire human race, individually and collectively, is facing monumental challenges and their consequences. We all feel and see these intense changes unfolding before us. And we all sense some hard-to-define “transformation” taking place. Yet, few people ask or address the simple question: What’s going on and why? And the answers often come only to those who ask such questions.
For empaths like us, we probably felt a jolt of relief, maybe even excitement, at the thought of being holed up at home for a few months when the Pandemic stay-at-home order began. But after realizing what the world was in for, we more likely became incredibly anxious, burdening ourselves with the idea of... Read more...
