Finding Alignment through the FIRE with Sharon Brown: Sacred Fire Keeper, Granicera and Curindera, (Ep. 4 of 6)
In this episode:
This is the fourth episode in a series of six where I am sharing stories, anecdotes, exercises and valuable tips on how to align your energy via the five elements which relate to the chakra system within Polarity Therapy.
As this episode is focused on the fire element, I invited Sharon brown- sacred Fire Keeper, Granicera and Curindera, to share some of her deep wisdom on how to align your energy through the Fire element.
Sharon has also been taking my Polarity classes, so this conversation became a lively and riveting comparison between these two lineages- philosophies and energetic principals of Polarity Therapy and those of the Nahua spiritual healing traditions of Mexico.
In this episode Sharon and I discuss:
- How I reached out last minute to interview Sharon because of a dream (not that this is unusual- but still...)
- Sharons fascinating insights around the similarities and differences between Polarity therapy and the Nahua perspectives on energy, astrology, healing, the elements and more.
- How neutrality is one of the greatest common denominators between these two lineages.
- How to connect with Fire in a ceremonial context vs. an everyday context, and how doing so can open your heart, your mind and your energy in profound ways!
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about upcoming classes in polarity therapy, cranial sacral therapy and online courses in dreamwork, energy work, soul work, astrology, and more.
- Learn more about how to find Sacred Fire Keeper near you (or become one) here:
- Learn more about Sharons women's fires every new moon on Facebook here
- Read the current astrology report by Shelley Bredeson
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Transcript
I should do nothing as a fire keep.
Sharon Brown:I should simply endeavor , to hold neutrality, but to help people,
Sharon Brown:let the fire do it for them.
Sharon Brown:. Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Because the fire cre is the creator of everything.
Sharon Brown:The beginning and the end of ev, the creator, the destroyer, all of it.
Sharon Brown:But there's not a thing in this world.
Sharon Brown:There's not a, a meal you can eat.
Sharon Brown:There's nothing you can do where the energy expresses electricity in our world.
Sharon Brown:But, but it's all about that, that heat, that brilliance, that, um, that awareness.
Amanda Lux:Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine.
Amanda Lux:My name is Amanda Lux and I'm the creator of the Elevation Hive School and Community
Amanda Lux:for Energy Medicine and Dreamwork.
Amanda Lux:This is the fourth episode in a series where I'm exploring the five elements
Amanda Lux:in the polarity therapy healing model.
Amanda Lux:In today's episode, I'm honored to be discussing energetic alignment through
Amanda Lux:the fire element with Sharon Brown, who is a wise woman and a sacred fire keeper
Amanda Lux:trained in multiple healing traditions.
Amanda Lux:She's been initiated into the ways of the sacred fire keepers for many years,
Amanda Lux:Sharon has also taken some of my polarity classes, including , a two
Amanda Lux:part intensive class , , on the five elements and that class really deeply
Amanda Lux:explores how to align and balance and free up and organize our energy utilizing
Amanda Lux:various polarity protocols and practices.
Amanda Lux:, so in this really fascinating conversation, Sharon and I discussed
Amanda Lux:some of the overlapping energetic concepts and philosophies and
Amanda Lux:practices that occur between polarity and the Nahua traditions that she
Amanda Lux:has studied extensively for decades.
Amanda Lux:I feel like I got some insight and hopefully you will as well from
Amanda Lux:listening to this episode around how to relate to fire in a deeper way.
Amanda Lux:I've attended Sharon's fire ceremonies and some of the community events she's held,
Amanda Lux:and it's a truly transformative experience to sit with fire and receive its medicine
Amanda Lux:in this tradition, which, As Sharon humbly expresses that every fire I've attended
Amanda Lux:is a ceremonial process, which is on loan from the Cual people of Mexico.
Amanda Lux:And this way of relating to fire allows all humans, no matter their race or
Amanda Lux:background to experience and remember their sacred relationship to fire and to
Amanda Lux:the earth, to one another and all beings.
Amanda Lux:And this remembering.
Amanda Lux:Arises naturally around the fire when we make offerings in a way that the
Amanda Lux:fire recognizes and responds to and has for hundreds of thousands of years.
Amanda Lux:When we connect with fire in this way, , it just inherently assists us
Amanda Lux:in aligning our energy in bringing more vitality, clarity, courage, and
Amanda Lux:balance to every aspect of our lives.
Amanda Lux:So I just first of all wanna thank you so much Sharon for, , responding immediately
Amanda Lux:when I reached out and let you know that I had a dream that I had interviewed you.
Amanda Lux:I always respond to your dreams, Amanda . I had a whole other thing planned
Amanda Lux:and then I had that dream, that I was telling somebody that I had
Amanda Lux:interviewed you for this podcast.
Amanda Lux:And then I woke up and I'm like, well, that's brilliant in the dream.
Amanda Lux:I was like, yeah, she's the fire.
Amanda Lux:Keep like it's perfect
Amanda Lux:. Sharon Brown: It felt
Amanda Lux:I'd love to talk about
Amanda Lux:fire and that was just like two days ago.
Amanda Lux:So
Amanda Lux:, Sharon Brown: it was, and I
Amanda Lux:I'm traveling like.
Amanda Lux:in two days for like two weeks.
Amanda Lux:Whoa.
Amanda Lux:And I've got so many other things to do, but Oh my gosh.
Amanda Lux:You know, I, I don't want to block you in manifesting your dreams.
Amanda Lux:So , I figured I should
Amanda Lux:participate.
Amanda Lux:. Well, I appreciate that so much.
Amanda Lux:. I'm so excited to introduce you.
Amanda Lux:This is Sharon Brown.
Amanda Lux:We're sitting in your beautiful little studio.
Amanda Lux:. I've known Sharon for years now.
Amanda Lux:Starting with coming to your sacred fires.
Amanda Lux:Your fire circles that you hold and it has gone from New
Amanda Lux:Moon to Full Moon at different
Sharon Brown:times, In, uh, this year it's gonna stay on
Sharon Brown:the New Moon the whole year.
Sharon Brown:Okay, cool.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Good to know.
Amanda Lux:I prefer the New Moon.
Amanda Lux:, so on the new moon here in Olympia, you hold sacred fire gatherings.
Amanda Lux:Those are the women's fire circles that you host
Sharon Brown:by women's fire circles and also community fire circles.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:And my husband does, Mens, Fires.
Sharon Brown:And , also we have a number of different ceremonies throughout the year.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:That are related to the, the firework.
Sharon Brown:, everything's related to fire, , but also are part of, , the tradition.
Sharon Brown:I'm a, I'm a Granicera, right in the Nahua tradition of the Mexican
Sharon Brown:Highlands, which is a weather worker, and I'm an apprentice, uh, to
Sharon Brown:Patiani, which is like a Curandera.
Sharon Brown:, but in the tradition of the Nahua most people have heard of the Aztecs.
Sharon Brown:The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.
Sharon Brown:That makes them Nahua.
Sharon Brown:So, , if you're an Aztec, you're in Nahua, but if you're Nahua,
Sharon Brown:you're not necessarily an Aztec because there are lots of other.
Sharon Brown:, , traditions and, , names of peoples who speak that language.
Amanda Lux:Yes.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:. And do you wanna say anything about how you came to be a
Amanda Lux:fire keep in the sacred fire
Sharon Brown:tradition?
Sharon Brown:Oh gosh, that's a huge and long story . , I could and would like
Sharon Brown:to, But, let's talk about polarity.
Sharon Brown:Let's talk about the fire element a little bit.
Sharon Brown:. Don't get me
Amanda Lux:started.
Amanda Lux:, . Well, I feel really honored that you have.
Amanda Lux:Attended multiple of the polarity classes.
Amanda Lux:You took Polarity one twice.
Amanda Lux:Mm-hmm.
Amanda Lux:the first time when I had first started the school, and then we got shut down.
Amanda Lux:And then you , retook it.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Again recently.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:And I love having you in those classes with all of your wisdom
Amanda Lux:and experience, and you also went through the elemental class.
Amanda Lux:So we studied,
Sharon Brown:did that gonna be taking polarity three?
Sharon Brown:You're gonna be doing cranial sacral?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:I, I love how you and Kim teach.
Sharon Brown:I love what you teach and there's a great, uh, , it's not even a
Sharon Brown:synchronicity because that makes it sound like it's two different things.
Sharon Brown:Um, there's a unity.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:, between the work I do, particularly as a Nahua, , but fire as the creator
Sharon Brown:of virtually everything, , weaves into polarity, just in a crazy, , can't
Sharon Brown:make this stuff up sort of way.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Uh, with this, with this traditional wisdom that I'm studying.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Well, I, I would love to hear more about what specifically you think.
Amanda Lux:Is so interesting about that.
Amanda Lux:And you and I have talked about maybe even collaborating at some point.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Which I really look forward to, , in teaching something that
Amanda Lux:does bring these two together.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Well, you know, it's interesting.
Sharon Brown:So, , polarity, , is a spectrum.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:People think of polarity as opposites..
Sharon Brown:And, , what's in the middle of two opposites is this sort of
Sharon Brown:place where they come together and they neutralize each other.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:In a way.
Sharon Brown:And so I think we had a conversation a number of years ago, , on neutrality
Sharon Brown:You were, making a point of, of how you try to maintain neutrality.
Sharon Brown:And I do too.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And, and sometimes in our culture.
Sharon Brown:, , socially too.
Sharon Brown:, neutrality is not so popular.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:Um, people tend to, , feel that being authentic is really taking a firm
Sharon Brown:stand for a particular something.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:, and that's good.
Sharon Brown:I take a stand for neutrality.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:. I mean, it's, it's good to be firm in what you are passionate about.
Sharon Brown:, but I was like, wow, Amanda's into neutrality.
Sharon Brown:I haven't met all that many people.
Sharon Brown:And of course as a fire keeper, one of the things that we are trained to
Sharon Brown:maintain is neutrality because the whole, , the why have a fire, , why hold
Sharon Brown:space, sacred space for people around a fire, , is to create a opportunity
Sharon Brown:for people to express themselves.
Sharon Brown:safely.
Sharon Brown:And so you can't invite the public to come to an event where, , safety
Sharon Brown:isn't part of the package.
Sharon Brown:Right?
Sharon Brown:But it's not being safe by stifling yourself, it's being safe by
Sharon Brown:listening, it's being safe, by having an agreement that everything
Sharon Brown:expressed in the circle feels.
Sharon Brown:Real and true to whomever is speaking it.
Sharon Brown:And they, you know, I heard a definition of love once, , one of
Sharon Brown:my teachers said that, , love is defined as the, , unconditional
Sharon Brown:acceptance of the other as legitimate.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:people have legitimate reasons for what they feel and what they believe
Sharon Brown:and, and that can turn into, , lot.
Sharon Brown:political positions that can turn into a lot of stuck conversations that
Sharon Brown:can turn into a lot of disagreement and challenge between people.
Sharon Brown:And so Fire has this capacity to move people's emotions.
Sharon Brown:It has the capacity to shine light on what's hidden.
Sharon Brown:, it has a capacity to help someone, , experience, their fear in a different way.
Sharon Brown:, and when we do that collectively, what we find is that we are just so much alike.
Sharon Brown:Someone that we may have completely opposite political.
Sharon Brown:and it tends to land around, , common heart and, , family being able to feed
Sharon Brown:yourself and house yourself and being able to create a life for yourself.
Sharon Brown:What comes up is that people have different ideas about how that
Sharon Brown:should be done, but fundamentally, we all want the same thing.
Sharon Brown:We all want to be loved, that we all want safety.
Sharon Brown:We just have different ways of looking at it.
Sharon Brown:So as a fire keeper, neutrality is extremely important.
Sharon Brown:And, of course Covid was a, wild time for that.
Sharon Brown:So when you mentioned your neutrality, I probably, I don't know, I probably
Sharon Brown:asked you to tell me a little bit about polarity or you, you did, and
Sharon Brown:I'm like, I, I need more of this.
Sharon Brown:I need more of this
Sharon Brown:polarity also, , is foundational to the Cosmo vision.
Sharon Brown:I love this word, Cosmo vision, , which is a translation of, , a Mexican
Sharon Brown:word, which is spelled Cosmo vision.
Sharon Brown:It's just not pronounced the way I'm pronouncing it.
Sharon Brown:Which is the worldview that inv, you know, includes the cosmos and, um,, spirituality
Sharon Brown:is, is just on the surface in Mexico.
Sharon Brown:, it's this very, , rich and mystical and magical, way that people.
Sharon Brown:And, and continue to be.
Sharon Brown:, I was, , initiated as a weather worker by, uh, Don Lucio, Campos
Sharon Brown:Alde in nepa, Paco, Mexico in 2001.
Sharon Brown:And, , have since that time received continuous training.
Sharon Brown:And, and one of the things that I'm deep into right now is working with, the
Sharon Brown:way time works and everything is married to its opposite in this worldview.
Sharon Brown:Hmm.
Sharon Brown:The worldview of high and low, hot and cold, , loud and
Sharon Brown:soft, , strong and and weak.
Sharon Brown:And there, the thing that's different from our western view is
Sharon Brown:that there's no polarity around.
Sharon Brown:Right and wrong morally.
Sharon Brown:Hmm.
Sharon Brown:Now there may be the right way to hold a knife and the wrong way to hold a
Sharon Brown:knife, but it's not a moral judgment.
Sharon Brown:And, um, that really.
Sharon Brown:Intrigues me and, and attracts me.
Sharon Brown:, I've had this, this sense since I was a child.
Sharon Brown:And in fact, that's part of how I was divine as having a calling is
Sharon Brown:that when I read these philosophies, I'm like, oh, I know this.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:, oh, I know this, this isn't what I'm taught in school,
Sharon Brown:but this is familiar to me.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And so, , , yeah.
Sharon Brown:Polarity and the way energy moves.
Sharon Brown:And I remember, uh, when, when you taught about how there is
Sharon Brown:the, the east west energy and then there's the fire energy spiral.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:The sp that spirals and moves forward and that is exactly how energy is described.
Sharon Brown:in the Nawa Cosmo vision.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Um, Ollin is the energy of, of going around and bouncing with pattern.
Sharon Brown:It's like a bouncing ball.
Sharon Brown:It's like the sun coming around the earth.
Sharon Brown:It's like the beating of our heart.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:, that's a particular energy.
Sharon Brown:And then there's another energy called malinalli, which is vertical and
Sharon Brown:spiraling up and down at the same time.
Sharon Brown:And when I looked at the pictures in, in the polarity work book, I was
Sharon Brown:like, oh my gosh, this is going to be really, , fundamental to expanding and
Sharon Brown:deepening my, uh, my, to patiani, my corenderra practice with how energy moves.
Sharon Brown:, I just find it super fascinating.
Sharon Brown:, Dr.
Sharon Brown:Stone primarily in Eastern traditions, is that correct?
Amanda Lux:Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:From global.
Sharon Brown:At the level I'm at with polarity.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:Um, we could have a conversation.
Sharon Brown:I could discover there's like some whole new secret door that you
Sharon Brown:don't go through for a little while.
Sharon Brown:, mostly it, it's being described as energies and, that's the other
Sharon Brown:thing that really turned me on to polarity is that everything
Sharon Brown:is energy in the Nahua worldview.
Sharon Brown:everything is teotl, teotl.
Sharon Brown:And what is teotl teotl is energy without beginning, without end.
Sharon Brown:You don't even ask, you know, why is not a shamanically relevant question.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Uh, it's what is right?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And teotl is this never ending, always expressing energy.
Sharon Brown:If you think of a lotus unfolding those animations of the, you
Sharon Brown:know, that's what's happen.
Sharon Brown:and that everything that's unfolding, everything that manifests in this realm.
Sharon Brown:Okay.
Sharon Brown:Qualifying, we're talking about this realm.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:There are lots of other dimensions Yes.
Sharon Brown:Et cetera, but in this realm, everything that uh, emerges is teotl, everything
Sharon Brown:is sacred, everything is mundane.
Sharon Brown:There we go.
Sharon Brown:They're two.
Sharon Brown:They're two polarities, right?
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:They're sacred and mundane.
Sharon Brown:They're both and, and always.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:, But they're always got their opposite.
Sharon Brown:And, What's fascinating to me is, again, the overlap in how
Sharon Brown:healing happens time is alive.
Sharon Brown:And so, this additional synchronicity between polarity work and, , the Nahua
Sharon Brown:cosmology and the calendar is that as a human person, on the particular day, when.
Sharon Brown:Conceived, and it's actually not your conception, it's more
Sharon Brown:when your heart starts to beat.
Sharon Brown:But at that moment, you receive an imprint and the sacred calendar
Sharon Brown:is nine Gregorian months long.
Sharon Brown:It's 260 days, which is a little shy of , a human gestation, just shy enough
Sharon Brown:that it could be the time when the heart starts when you become a person.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And you have this timestamp of these various influences, and you
Sharon Brown:receive three different souls.
Sharon Brown:One in your head, one in your mind, yeah.
Sharon Brown:One in your liver, one in your lower body, and then one in your heart.
Sharon Brown:And it's all about balancing those three souls.
Sharon Brown:has the ether and the air.
Sharon Brown:It's, you're up in the clouds, you're up in the future, which is your mind soul,
Sharon Brown:that your tenali soul is in your mind.
Sharon Brown:One is rooted in your, your earth and your water, right?
Sharon Brown:The, the earth and the water, which is what our body is.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Earth and water.
Sharon Brown:And then, and then the heart.
Sharon Brown:And you know, this is the only thing that I haven't found sort
Sharon Brown:of a perfect fit with polarity.
Sharon Brown:. The Nahua view is that the fire is in the heart.
Sharon Brown:Right?
Sharon Brown:That's a little north of the solar plexus.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:In the air.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:But, , here's, here's kind of how I, I tend to work with that.
Sharon Brown:The, the true fire in the body digestion.
Sharon Brown:, the real heat, the real workhorse.
Sharon Brown:The upper body work is in the heart.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And so the heart has , as, , as many, , , neurons as the mind.
Sharon Brown:, a lot of people don't know that.
Sharon Brown:, the heart is as actively engaged in learning, knowing, perceiving,
Sharon Brown:generating movement, , decisions.
Sharon Brown:And it's the heart voice.
Sharon Brown:That's the voice.
Sharon Brown:That's the one that we wanna hear.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And what is earth?
Sharon Brown:Earth is decay.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Earth is rot.
Sharon Brown:Um, it's filth.
Sharon Brown:And so the, the, the Naah Aztec people have a Goddess Tlazolteotl and
Sharon Brown:she's the eater of, orger which is basically animal manure.
Sharon Brown:, she's the goddess of ritual bathing.
Sharon Brown:She's the goddess of sexuality.
Sharon Brown:She's the goddess of, stink and sin and, , intoxication
Sharon Brown:and, , really losing yourself to.
Sharon Brown:very earthy things.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:, and she's the confession goddess.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:. And she is, , the goddess of weaving.
Sharon Brown:And what she represents is this reality that, , we are earthy people
Sharon Brown:who, , screw up and love life a lot, and love our bodies a lot.
Sharon Brown:and sometimes we get out of balance with that.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And sometimes if we don't, , attend to, , our family and our community.
Sharon Brown:She's a weaver that weaves all this back together through
Sharon Brown:ceremony, through ritual bathing.
Sharon Brown:, have a goddess of
Amanda Lux:filth, right?
Amanda Lux:. Love
Sharon Brown:it.
Sharon Brown:How po That's polarity.
Amanda Lux:So this series that I've been recording is about how to align
Amanda Lux:your energy using the elements.
Amanda Lux:Mm-hmm.
Amanda Lux:. And so this episode focused on the fire element is really how do we align
Amanda Lux:ourselves utilizing fire as an ally
Amanda Lux:Through the realm of the fire element or the third chakra.
Amanda Lux:And so in polarity there are certain ways, as you learned in the polarity two, That
Amanda Lux:we can utilize , that elemental nature to help us find alignment in our lives.
Amanda Lux:For me, my favorite way is through embodiment, because I see that fire in
Amanda Lux:the involutionary pattern of polarity.
Amanda Lux:How?
Amanda Lux:energy steps down into form.
Amanda Lux:It really becomes more physically manifest in the fire, in the air.
Amanda Lux:As we were discussing the heart.
Amanda Lux:There's still this relationship with the mind, with mental energy, with,
Amanda Lux:it's still a higher vibratory quality.
Amanda Lux:It's not quite fully embodied yet, but when you get to the
Amanda Lux:fire, it's really about action.
Amanda Lux:Mm-hmm.
Amanda Lux:and so about physicality, it's about inhabiting and, and movement.
Amanda Lux:Um, and I think of that as embodiment.
Amanda Lux:Um, and I go to that in five rhythms dance, which is
Amanda Lux:also related to the chakras.
Amanda Lux:the rhythm Related to fire is chaos
Amanda Lux:and that is really fast and loud and hard, and it's where we go into that deep
Amanda Lux:place in order to shake everything loose.
Amanda Lux:Mm-hmm.
Amanda Lux:. And we emerge different.
Amanda Lux:It's the great transformer, right?
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:When we come out on the other side of of fire, we are in touch with our heart
Amanda Lux:in a new way and we're, we're cleansed in a way by going into that deep.
Amanda Lux:crazy place.
Amanda Lux:All the shit . Yeah.
Amanda Lux:That's how we cleanse and we transform.
Amanda Lux:And so fire is the great transformer.
Amanda Lux:Fire is the place of, of embodiment, of taking action.
Amanda Lux:And so when I think about for myself, how I align my energy through
Amanda Lux:fire, I think about the physical practices that help me get there,
Amanda Lux:such as my yoga practice and running.
Amanda Lux:even art visual arts is also related to fire.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:, and so these are ways that I go to, and I was just, I wanted to
Amanda Lux:discuss that as part of this episode.
Amanda Lux:You know, like how do we align our energy through the
Sharon Brown:fire?
Sharon Brown:What's, what's fire?
Sharon Brown:Well, you know, and I think that's part of, um, what, and here's
Sharon Brown:another polarity, both confronts me.
Sharon Brown:and attracts me.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:About polarity.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Is that, um, that's a different re relationship with fire, right?
Sharon Brown:Than what I've had.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Amanda Lux:And it's a different archetype.
Sharon Brown:Yeah, the, polarity has the archetype of this, um, Transforming
Sharon Brown:actor, um, that's gonna move things around and create some chaos.
Sharon Brown:Uh, in Nahua we've got some other people that are focused on chaos.
Sharon Brown:In the, , Aztec view.
Sharon Brown:Um, fire is actually above chaos.
Sharon Brown:Fire is, is in partnership with ometeotl which is the oneness.
Sharon Brown:Chaos breaks into two.
Sharon Brown:Right?
Sharon Brown:The oneness is both at the same time.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And then it breaks into chaos and order, which might be
Sharon Brown:tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl might be a way to look at that.
Sharon Brown:But I do have a practice of how I, I think your question might be . What's
Sharon Brown:another way to look at working with fire?
Sharon Brown:, to affect positive, uh, polar positive changes It better?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:Let me, let me qualify what I mean when I think something's better.
Sharon Brown:Okay.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Because, because better or worse, good or bad, , the Huichol people who
Sharon Brown:are, , ancestrally related to the Nahua.
Sharon Brown:When they have a hard decision to make, , they all get together.
Sharon Brown:They all talk about it.
Sharon Brown:They don't say what's right or wrong, good or bad.
Sharon Brown:What they say is, will it grow corn?
Sharon Brown:Right?
Sharon Brown:Is it generative for life today and into the future?
Sharon Brown:, so how do we work with fire to grow corn in our lives?
Sharon Brown:, and for me, that practice is.
Sharon Brown:being with the fire.
Sharon Brown:Hmm.
Sharon Brown:And recognizing that the fire itself in a fire ring.
Sharon Brown:, uncontained fire, is a healing medicine
Sharon Brown:. and I have a couple, of things that
Sharon Brown:have shown me how amazing fire can be.
Sharon Brown:, so first and foremost, , for me being around fire, it's
Sharon Brown:like my body recognizes it.
Sharon Brown:And, , we say that it's part of our ancestral dna.
Sharon Brown:, human people became human around the fire.
Sharon Brown:, we were transformed by the fire.
Sharon Brown:And so my body just recognizes it.
Sharon Brown:When I'm around the fire, I feel something.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:and then, , working with fire in a ceremonial.
Sharon Brown:making offerings to the fire in a traditional way, which is acknowledging
Sharon Brown:this relationship of giving and receiving changes the dynamic from, say, a
Sharon Brown:barbecue in the backyard or a bonfire at a party, to creating this, , sacred
Sharon Brown:space that calls in all the directions.
Sharon Brown:and for the time that we're in that space, we are in the center of the world.
Sharon Brown:And the transformation in many ways can come from the being with the fire itself,
Sharon Brown:with the context, and you may not even need the context, but I think it helps
Sharon Brown:to have the context that you're there.
Sharon Brown:to receive healing, that you're there to move something in yourself, that
Sharon Brown:you're there to open yourself to let the, the light shine on your
Sharon Brown:darkness, to bring forth something.
Sharon Brown:And so , I think when you're talking about the outward action
Sharon Brown:and focus, and I love that.
Sharon Brown:And I love fire as focus, which I got more from polarity than from my own training.
Sharon Brown:So the opposite side of the outward energy is the inward energy.
Sharon Brown:And so what I hold as a fire keeper is, , , maybe not embodying to bring
Sharon Brown:forth, but in-bodying to look inside.
Sharon Brown:I remember my, , daughter, , when she was in high school in Santa
Sharon Brown:Cruz, she had a, a science teacher, physics teacher, um, who had retired
Sharon Brown:from uc, Santa Cruz, uh, in physics.
Sharon Brown:So the guy had some smarts and, um, ,, I'd gotten involved with the
Sharon Brown:high school newspaper or something.
Sharon Brown:I was writing an article.
Sharon Brown:I don't know.
Sharon Brown:And I interviewed him and he was one of the developers first
Sharon Brown:developers of fiber optics.
Sharon Brown:And he talked about how much information can be contained, you
Sharon Brown:know,, in a single strand of hair.
Sharon Brown:I don't know, what is it, 40,000 simultaneous transcontinental
Sharon Brown:conversations or something in a strand of hair or something.
Sharon Brown:And, and as I started to work with.
Sharon Brown:I'd been working with fire for, for a little while.
Sharon Brown:, actually when I, interviewed this guy and I was like, oh my gosh.
Sharon Brown:When we light a fire, how much ancestral information is being
Sharon Brown:conveyed in all that light?
Sharon Brown:Because, what came first was the Big bang, which was this energy,
Sharon Brown:this Teotl fire is this Teotl.
Sharon Brown:Is this heat?
Sharon Brown:There's not a, there's not a thing that we do.
Sharon Brown:And you know this, the, the camera and the audio recording, it works on electricity.
Sharon Brown:How do you generate electricity?
Sharon Brown:You light something on fire, , or you use water Grandmother,
Sharon Brown:ocean, Chalchiuhtlicue, you know?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Water's.
Sharon Brown:Water's great, but what is it?
Sharon Brown:What's being created through that Water wheel.
Sharon Brown:Friction, right?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Friction Fire is, exchange polarity.
Sharon Brown:And so by bringing people, , together around the fire
Sharon Brown:by holding a neutral space.
Sharon Brown:And I just wanna, , recount a story that happened to me at, at, at your
Sharon Brown:class, you know, was it polarity one, and Kim did a demonst.
Sharon Brown:. And, uh, for the people listening, , , Kim and Amanda teach together and they
Sharon Brown:have this class and, um, and I, I think Kim just wanted to, to make a
Sharon Brown:point about the field, about resonance, about neutrality and holding space for
Sharon Brown:aclient . And so she asked for one of the students, is anybody feeling something?
Sharon Brown:And a fellow's like, well, my shoulder's bugging me.
Sharon Brown:And Kim's like, well, come have a seat.
Sharon Brown:And um, and so Kim grounds herself with this upward downward movement
Sharon Brown:that I constantly use now.
Sharon Brown:Hmm.
Sharon Brown:Uh, drawing up from the earth and down from the sky.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And Kim said nothing.
Sharon Brown:She did nothing but she held space and, and you could, you could feel
Sharon Brown:it and see it in her being that she was like really becoming a beacon of
Sharon Brown:energy that was flowing in and out.
Sharon Brown:She was becoming, um, transparent and yet highly charged at the same time.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And, I don't know, 3, 4, 5 minutes she's holding this space and she
Sharon Brown:just kind of looks up and he's, she says, how are you feeling?
Sharon Brown:And he's like, well, I feel something in my feet.
Sharon Brown:I feel like something's coming up my feet.
Sharon Brown:She's like, you feel something in your feet?
Sharon Brown:Okay.
Sharon Brown:And then another three, four or five minutes, you know, nothing.
Sharon Brown:She's just holding space.
Sharon Brown:And she asked me and she, how are you feeling?
Sharon Brown:And he's like, well, my, my shoulder.
Sharon Brown:. It feels looser.
Sharon Brown:It feels looser.
Sharon Brown:And, and I had this like humbling moment cuz as a fire keep, you know,
Sharon Brown:twice a month I invite the public
Sharon Brown:To come in and sit at the fire with me.
Sharon Brown:And they're, they have expectations.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Something's supposed to happen at this fire.
Sharon Brown:And so I'm the kind of person, outwardly focused energy person.
Sharon Brown:And so sometimes, If I don't feel like enough is happening, I
Sharon Brown:would wanna engage it to happen.
Sharon Brown:Sometimes that's good and necessary, and sometimes that's not good.
Sharon Brown:And watching Kim hold neutral space with intention, she was focused.
Sharon Brown:She asked him what his issue was.
Sharon Brown:She knew it.
Sharon Brown:She was just holding his issue in her field and allowing the
Sharon Brown:energy to do what it needs to do.
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And when I saw her do that, I was just, and I'm, I'm like, tears are
Sharon Brown:like in the back of my eyes here with the humility, the humbling of myself.
Sharon Brown:I do nothing as a fire.
Sharon Brown:I should do nothing as a fire keep.
Sharon Brown:I should simply endeavor to , to hold neutrality, but to help
Sharon Brown:people, let the fire do it for them.
Sharon Brown:. Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Because the fire cre is the creator of everything.
Sharon Brown:The beginning and the end of ev, the creator, the destroyer, all of it.
Sharon Brown:But there's not a thing in this world.
Sharon Brown:There's not a, a meal you can eat.
Sharon Brown:There's nothing you can do where the energy expresses electricity in our world.
Sharon Brown:But, but it's all about that, that heat, that brilliance, , , that awareness.
Amanda Lux:I really loved Sharon the idea that, you know, you were referring
Amanda Lux:to with the fiber optics and that how much information is contained in this
Amanda Lux:strand and that the fire itself is also , containing all that information from the
Amanda Lux:very first fire that ever was and the big bang and beyond that even, right?
Amanda Lux:Like that, it's all, all time and all fire is in that fire.
Amanda Lux:Any fire.
Amanda Lux:. I love that feeling.
Amanda Lux:, and that truth.
Amanda Lux:And if I feel that in my body when you say those words, like Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:And then when you say that , you could take that idea of holding neutral space
Amanda Lux:for a client and how, by being in our own alignment, what, what Kim was doing
Amanda Lux:there was getting in her own energy alignment between north and South Poles.
Amanda Lux:Mm-hmm.
Amanda Lux:the energy alignment of heaven and Earth.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:And, and opening that channel.
Amanda Lux:Because of this principle of resonance that we teach in all of the classes,
Amanda Lux:there's , an intentional way that we can open our own energy flow
Amanda Lux:and that the other person's energy will also start to flow and find
Amanda Lux:their alignment through resonance.
Amanda Lux:And then it's like, you're not doing, you're non-doing, you're in a
Amanda Lux:space of non-doing and total trust.
Amanda Lux:or learning to experience trust in a humble way.
Amanda Lux:. Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Always.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:That's how I feel about it.
Amanda Lux:Like you, yeah.
Amanda Lux:Always.
Amanda Lux:I'm humbly, you know, learning to trust that more and more
Amanda Lux:and to do less and less.
Amanda Lux:But I love the idea specifically around energetic alignment through the fire, that
Amanda Lux:there's not any action you need to take.
Amanda Lux:Even though fire itself may, may represent in certain ideas in polarity, perhaps
Amanda Lux:that, that there's action around.
Amanda Lux:that there doesn't necessarily need to be, that the fire
Amanda Lux:has its own intelligence.
Amanda Lux:That the fire elementally has its own power, its own
Amanda Lux:memory, its own transmission.
Amanda Lux:And that if we just sit with it yes.
Amanda Lux:That it will transform us.
Amanda Lux:If we just are in the presence of fire, it will do
Sharon Brown:that work.
Sharon Brown:Absolutely.
Sharon Brown:And and you used the word transmission.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And that's perfect.
Sharon Brown:. And that's, that's really perfect.
Sharon Brown:And you know, our lives are so consumed by action.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:That people need a place to not have action.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:And so, um, you know, when we sit around the fire, it's really about
Sharon Brown:grounding and listening and letting go.
Sharon Brown:And then if one is interested in holding the awareness of.
Sharon Brown:, I can make offerings here.
Sharon Brown:I can express a desire to connect.
Sharon Brown:I don't know what it's like to listen to clouds and listen
Sharon Brown:to trees, or listen to fire.
Sharon Brown:This is foreign to me, but I'm gonna, uh, suspend my expectations.
Sharon Brown:. And um, and that's one of the things I'll say often is that, uh, when
Sharon Brown:we're making offerings is to start working on moving your awareness from
Sharon Brown:the movie in, in front of your eyes down to the feeling in your heart.
Sharon Brown:And just what, if you've never thought, what would it
Sharon Brown:feel like to open your heart?
Sharon Brown:Just try to go for that.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Um, open your heart to possibility.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:. And then the other thing that helps.
Sharon Brown:, move things a little more quickly if quickly is your thing.
Sharon Brown:Some people aren't ready to change, right?
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Some people it's too much.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:They don't wanna open the door, right?
Sharon Brown:That's cool too.
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:, right?
Sharon Brown:Mm-hmm.
Sharon Brown:. But if you're, if you're wanting to kind of move that along,
Sharon Brown:then speak and tell your story.
Sharon Brown:, and rather than thinking, thinking, thinking, what am I gonna say tonight?
Sharon Brown:What am I gonna say tonight?
Sharon Brown:I hope they don't call on me.
Sharon Brown:What am I gonna.
Sharon Brown:, like you were saying, do less.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:Just wait.
Sharon Brown:, and ask the fire, I feel something in my body.
Sharon Brown:I need to let this feeling out.
Sharon Brown:Speak for me.
Sharon Brown:Fire and then listen to what you say, right?
Sharon Brown:Yes.
Sharon Brown:, and it's about trying to get to your, deepest honesty.
Sharon Brown:. the, The whole idea of, um,, drawing in.
Sharon Brown:The things , that frighten you.
Sharon Brown:Like the fire is really good for working with fear.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And oftentimes, , what we find is that, being willing , to test the
Sharon Brown:idea that maybe that opposite pole, the pole that you hate and don't
Sharon Brown:like, that maybe you need a little bit of something of that, , , that can.
Sharon Brown:come up around the fire.
Sharon Brown:Hmm.
Sharon Brown:Um, to have that courage.
Sharon Brown:. . I just
Amanda Lux:love that you're such a student of life and mysticism and
Amanda Lux:many traditions and ways of thoughts, and I just admire that in you very
Sharon Brown:much.
Sharon Brown:I, I, I, well, and, and I feel very fortunate, , to have had,
Sharon Brown:when I was a small, small child, uh, I had some experiences of.
Sharon Brown:, well, children are magical beings anyway.
Sharon Brown:Right.
Sharon Brown:And so I, I remember some of my moments of magic and being able to
Sharon Brown:pull words out of people's mouths and, you know, some of those things.
Sharon Brown:But I knew from the time I was little that, um, it's not all as it seems.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:And so that's really been my life purpose is to help people.
Sharon Brown:get some of that.
Sharon Brown:find a way to, , connect for themself and trust, like you were
Sharon Brown:mentioning, trusting yourself.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Yeah.
Sharon Brown:Um, yeah, I feel , really fortunate.
Sharon Brown:Uh, I am a student.
Sharon Brown:, we're never done learning, you know?
Sharon Brown:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sharon Brown:I
Amanda Lux:love that,.
Amanda Lux:. Thank you so much for listening to
Amanda Lux:to the Divine, I am so grateful for Sharon Brown for discussing how to
Amanda Lux:align your energy through the fire.
Amanda Lux:With me today, and I just want to let you know that you can learn
Amanda Lux:more about the sacred fires that Sharon hosts in Olympia on Facebook.
Amanda Lux:And you can learn about fires near you from this tradition.
Amanda Lux:, by going to find my fire.org or sacred fire.org.
Amanda Lux:if you wanna Learn more about our upcoming polarity classes
Amanda Lux:that are in person on beautiful land here in Olympia, Washington.
Amanda Lux:Where our school is being hosted, you can learn more
Amanda Lux:about that at elevationhive.com,
Amanda Lux:as well as other events and things going on.
Amanda Lux:So I really appreciate you listening, following, reviewing, and just
Amanda Lux:participating with your energy.
Amanda Lux:It is such an honor to be in sacred community with you.