Here you will learn about the lessons and opportunities of the Western Realm. And, since this realm is my favorite, we'll have a little fun and games...heh heh...did you happen to remember your garlic?
We now move on to the Western part of the Medicine Wheel. Here the Element is Water and we enter a misty, shrouded realm. The hour is Twilight. Take heart, it takes courage to enter this magickal quarter of the Otherworld. It is called by some the Looks Within Place because it is here you come to muster your courage and dare to look within. This is the place of the Bear, water creatures, and Raven. The energy here is Tidal and is most potent during the times of between time. The season is Fall or Autumn and the moon is Waning. This is the place of Introspection which uses and works off of Feminine Energy.
We come to this Blue and watery realm to enter the Void, where answers live in the dark cave of the Bear. And like Bear we begin to go inside ourselves where we can find the receptiveness of the Womb. Here our ideas are nurtured and birthed. It is also the place of Tomorrows.
The Western Realm is where we make our connection to All Our Relations which helps us to know that answers aren't outside of ourselves, but are within. We learn that our body's cells carry the memory of all that has been as well as all of our potential. And upon realizing this we can begin to stop judging and worrying about what others think and so free ourselves to follow our own personal truth.
Jamie Sams says that the three paths available within this realm are tasting the fruit of all ideas in order to expand one's outlook; going into the silence to digest ideas, and eliminating ideas that don't nurture or sustain us anymore. For this is the place we learn to reach for our goals.
To enter the Western Realm, I ask you to once again listen to the story I am about to tell you and use your imagination! You enter the West by passing thru a Waterfall that has a cave hidden behind it.
Your eyes open wide as the fog clears from your brain and realize that you have entered a magickal realm unlike anything you've ever seen before. You know that this is the realm of healing and plenty, a land which despenses bounty, gives new life to the land, and which holds the Cauldron of Knowledge. Here you will be transformed from a Seeker to a Guardian. Here is the sacred silence of Sacred Space; it is where you become willing to receive ideas thru experience. You come here to digest and integrate life's lessons by learning what your personal truth is. And here you will learn how to structure your personal truth by formulating your path and by making the plan to attain your set goals.
Jamie Sams tells us that if our goals are based on personal truth then they are based on joy and we will naturally want to nurture and pursue those goals because they are ours rather than the goals laid upon us by others. This means learning to find our own answers and the only way to do that is to go within and Listen. Why is it called the land of Tomorrows? Because by making goals today you are taking care of tomorrow.
The Western Realm is the place to tune into female energy which is receptive. It is the place of entering the Feminine Mysteries (even if you're a man!) and learning to trust that Great Mystery protects and plans for the future. There are challenges to this realm too:
Here is a list of things that are often used and/or worked with in the Western Realm. Use it to help yourself enter the realm and to succeed in changing your life:
| Element of Water | Inner Knowing | Dreamwork | Vision Quest | |
| Sea Mammals | Bear | Raven | Blue | |
| Autumn | September | October | November | |
| Tarot Cups/Chalices | Sandalwood | Dusk | Aquamarine | |
| Gabriel | Undines | Pearl | Waning | |
| Autumnal Equinox | Adulthood | Recptivity | Night things |