Sal (afflictions)
Browse meanings, origins, signs, and practical notes for common shamanic terms.
Sal (afflictions)Dohwasal (Peach Blossom Sal)The peach-blossom energy said to draw people to you effortlessly. Tradition holds that popularity and gossip arrive together with it.Sal (afflictions)Yeokmasal (Post Horse Sal)The energy of the relay-station horse that never stands still. Once read as a wanderer's fate, today it is read as the luck of expansion and travel.Sal (afflictions)Samjae (Three Calamities)A folk cycle in which misfortune is said to visit each zodiac sign for three years out of every nine — a period for caution rather than fear.Sal (afflictions)Gongmang (Void)The two 'unpaired' slots in the sixty-year cycle. Tradition reads them as zones of hollowness and scattered rewards — and also of spiritual depth.Sal (afflictions)Hongyeomsal (Red Allure Sal)A warmth that seeps out rather than shines out. Where dohwasal is a flower in full bloom, hongyeomsal is an ember glowing under ash.Sal (afflictions)Gwimunsal (Ghost Gate Sal)The sal of an 'open ghost gate' — read in folklore as spirit-sensitivity, and in modern terms as deep intuition and a finely tuned nervous system.