SPIRIT TALK appears on the Night Altar

SPIRIT TALK appears on the Night Altar

Living Grand on Grand Lake Festival

Living Grand on Grand Lake Festival Edition Premieres and Streams Thursday, December 4 at 7:00 p.m. on RSU TV

This new pledge event will feature segments from RSU Public TV’s new hit show focused on the people, lifestyles and events of one of Oklahoma’s most popular areas. Show hosts Kristi Wallace and Brian Ruth will host this special pledge event, and artist Minisa Crumbo, a Grand Lake resident, will be on hand to discuss one of the very special thank you gifts for this event. Minisa has authorized an exclusive limited edition reprint of the stunning lithograph “Deer and Ducks”  (shown at 11:00 minutes) created by her father, renowned Native American artist Woody Crumbo. — with Ramona Montano.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR: Initiating the Day and Night Altars, Initiating Ourselves

It is now time, SPIRIT TALK WALKERS AND TALKERS, to initiate the new year, counting and sorting seeds of the previous harvest in preparation for Firing the Seeds of Prayerful Inspiration prior to the planting and sprouting time, yet to come. All fires of the northern hemisphere have migrated deeply into our innermost creative centers leaving the Father Sky-Sun Fire Regent into the gentle and companionable ascendancy and marriage with the now aged, resting and now, eternally renewing Mother Earth. Their fires, commingling quietly, privately, are yet receptive to the most mindful and honoring of our Medicine Wheel conversations ... conversations which include laughter and tears, prayer, stories, healing retirement, sleep, growing warmths and purifying colds. These qualities contain certain fullnesses defined by the Day and Night Creative Altars ... Creative Voids of naturally occurring and unnamed places of vision, personal and possibly secret, always sacred, Vision Questing Altars ... and so, now we prepare to go there and honor the winter cycle, the beginning of all. We are in a winter of our lives, no matter our age ... until the season builds and deepest prayer begins to bravely manifest and set out from the cave in curling sprout and seeking rootlet.

1st Night Altar

Initiating the renewed night and day altars will join in Creating, nourishing, sustaining, reawakening and energizing those new year focuses which are illuminated and emerging from the newly stoked and fueled fire centers, fire centers willing and capable of bringing the bright light and energy to the seeds of the deepest inner dreams of life. Now, we can and may design, and even easily accept a more balanced and harmonious quality of personal transparency, porosity and integrity, in preparation of once again approaching our now, well known and trusted companions of the Medicine Wheel. Stoking the bright inner fires of our center illuminates the day altars and casts the light of knowingness upon and within the night altars ... we no longer sit in darkness to ... Initiate and walk yet another cycle of life, with all of our relations ... Aho!

INITIATING THE DAY ALTAR OF THE WINTER

Purify and renew in a method or ceremony of choice and make ready to assemble, clean and rearrange an east altar where the sunrise can easily be approached, if not actually seen. An altar where the Dawn Light will be drawn from the night and Gratitude will welcome the Day when the long rays of Father Sky-Sun begin their travels upon the receptive body of Our Mother-the Earth (which is another way of saying: our minds, hearts, bodies and Spirits). At this time, consider 'making' personal and meaningful ceremonies of sacred, dry herbs, fire and earth, water, stone and breath (wind) ... freshly inspired ... daily. 

Continue to seek, find and design a personal WAY, inviting whatever and whoever is present and available to lend themselves to these ceremonies ... remembering that in the end, nothing comes between ourselves or anyone else, and the Creator.

It is by these WAYS that our paths continue to be swept clean and clear ... and no permanent perceptions or suspicions of separation with the Creator, or ourselves, grow up ... (they will and they do). It is by these WAYS that we maintain clean and clear pathways between ourselves and the Creator. 

These WAYS and their importance cannot be overemphasized. These WAYS, or other proven and worthy WAYS of choice, that build, honor and determine the most basic and positive qualities of life.

Sing and Drum the Sunrise and Day Light. Sing and Drum the New Year Alive!

4th Night Altar

INITIATING THE NIGHT ALTAR OF THE WINTER

The night altar can be and probably is the Day or Sunrise Altar. As the next day begins at sunset, this or any other time of night can honor the Creative Void, or Night. At this time we Initiate the First Night Altar of the New Year. Purify and renew with methods of your choice and make ready to do some Honoring things for the traveling Father Sky-Sun as he journeys into the collective new year of the Medicine Wheel Cycle (may include a sunset ceremony as well as a sunrise ceremony).

Sunset is a good time to face, look at sunset light or think sunset and think or say, 'Grandfather I thank you for your gifts and I pray you receive all that is needed to aid you on your journey'. It is also good to think or say out loud 'I LET MY TROUBLES SET WITH THE SUN'! Think these words if saying them out loud will draw unwanted attention, but remember, this is a proven and worthy tool which can be gifted, impersonally, to all within earshot. A gift becomes most truly ours when we give it away or pass it on. How will the teachings live and grow otherwise?

5th Night Altar

The shortening rays of the departing Father Sky-Sun build and lengthen the longest of our Mother's night cloaks as she begins the Winter Night Watch, wherein all things are protected. We stand at or sit with the Night Altars, especially the winter night altars, warming the deep inner fires of inspiration. Often these fires simply are, accompanied by no thought ... pure life force. The sacred herbs and incenses, fires and earth, waters, stones and wind breaths travels with us all ways, all days, welcome, honored and trusted allies and companions in the solitary and dark hours, often solitary, sometime lonely, probably undisturbed and quiet ... the healing night, home of the sacred creative void ... the dark, the vision quest cave, the dream, the groans of the Soul, the coursing bloods and pulsing systems, love and release. All of these things and more ... are the presences, qualities, reposes and reflections, and prayer limbs of the deepest and warmest inner fires. The Night Altars ... the fragrant and precious night lights of the innermost recesses of the Soul. The Winter Night Altar's heartbeat is the same as the heartbeat of Our Mother Earth.

Sing and Drum the Sunset and Night Light. Sing and Drum the New Year Alive!

WOTKO LONG and MINISA CRUMBO

Muscogee, OK

Roxy Theater

Following the screening of Sterlin Harjo's film:

THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME