Greetings Dear Ones,
Jaguar Woman has invited me to gather some thoughts from the Bodewadmin (Blessing) Longhouse. And so, I speak.
Her return from the south, the place of heart, bears a gift of love
to the north, the place of Spirit, wisdom. She walks the Good Red Road,
south to north, north to south. This journey on the Medicine Wheel is
rich in wisdom and love. Many are and will be the gifts which will
manifest from this journey, gifts made possible by many of you.
I thank you for this opportunity and In that Spirit, The Bodewadmin Longhouse is thinking on some of these things.
Winter Vision Quest Cave
In this season, many inner compasses will begin turning toward
seeking, creating and crawling into the blessed peace of the seasonal
vision quest cave.
Inside, a deep breast of the resting Mother Earth, is where the
Medicine Wheel slowly turns in an earthly circumambulation of all seed
dreams, penetrated by fiery shafts of our Father Sky Sun into the mind,
heart, body and Spirit of individual inner pools of quiet.
Here, ones bones can and may be deeply CLEANED: healed and loosened
from the labors, challenges, cares, aspirations and fulfillments of the
previous season, then slowly put back together as an honoring dream
dance echo of all the ancestral journeys made before ours and those yet
to come.
The womb quest awaits. Draw aside a veil of the great mystery,
breathe your name, make an offering and ask permission to replicate and
renew the journey that all beings have made, do make and will make..from
earth to sky.. breath into clay.. so we are made and so we reenact the
sacred moves, as we see them.
For, we are the new myth makers. Many dreams and messages have been
brought forward, by ourselves and others…accept these offerings, feast
upon the tears of bitterness and gratitude from which they were born and
prepare to embark upon making the new myths and creation stories…OUR
new myths drawn from a place where our sacred beingness meets with and
is fused with mysterious elements emanating from an indivisible and
indestructible connection with divine consciousness and personal
discernment.
This is how we stay alive and keep the world alive. This then, is our
Sacred Charge. Where we will feel most alive and know who we are.
Many are the ways of personal, creative ceremony.. Now, it is time to
smudge off, pray for the highest good for all concerned and ask that
bravery, wisdom, willingness and endurance walk with us.
Know that one may emerge, or come and go, from the cave at any time
and trust that commitments and responsibilities in the outside world
reside on physical and mental arms of the Medicine Wheel and will not
suffer from ‘medicine’ attention directed elsewhere.
When ones visit to the cave is accomplished there will be a natural
and unremarkable reunification of elements. The shifts and gifts will be
ours for life. Do not speak of these things too soon but hold them
close to mature and unfold. Journaling is a creative thing to do as many
of the realizations, visitations or visions will be of an ephemeral
nature. Do not censor or process the writing, that can be done later.
May we be eternally rich in Spirit, have good minds and strong
bodies. May we know no fear and may we have hearts filled with love..now
and forever more.
AHO!
Dawn Woman 1IK
Winter Solstice: By the calendar of the natural world, the winter solstice
marks the ingress into the profound precincts of the deep Mother Earth Womb,
the original confirmation point of all seed soul, sprout, and rootlet growth.
The days and nights of silent contemplation and Quiet Time observances have
served to quiet the mind and prepare the body, much as the field is prepared to
receive the new seed. Winter means that much of the northern hemi-turtle shell
of this hemisphere is blanketed by the purifying powers of Snow Woman’s gifts
and freezes … We live always within the Sacred Rainbow Hoop. This hoop of life
is a threshold of all the moments of the eternal present. The eternal present
we now find ourselves within and contemplating is the first of the White Plains
of Spirit, others will follow in succeeding seasons, each with basically the
same purifying intent. The winter solstice, embedded within the purifying power
of the cold, cloaked with the white plain of purity, located in and upon the
wisdom body of the original gift, represents the core wisdom quality of winter
… Conscious arrival and acquaintance with the Winter threshold of the Sacred
Medicine Wheel Hoop of Life is a primal renewal experience, made ceremony. If
this is a new concept to you, trust that you have entered into one of the most
beautiful and comprehensive systems in this galaxy and beyond for containing,
supporting, and interpreting life in a sacred way. Best wishes upon this
journey. The winter solstice is a naturally occurring station within the year
and, as such, has accrued a long history. The holy days, holidays, are usually
grounded in natural phenomena that grew out of the Creative Mind and manifested
in the first, most beautiful and enduring gifts of our Mother Earth, our Father
Sky-Sun and the myriad of clustering entities we call the powers and fixtures
of the natural world … This then, is the sacred charge: to bring oneself
forward in all possible wholeness, mindfulness, and beauty, and to conceive of
and design ceremonies of personal meaning, fulfilling the sacred charge to be
happy and enjoy life. This winter solstice is our time to unite with the
natural world. Take these long nights to rest, tell stories, celebrate, and
dream deeply of life before the stronger suns call us forward once again to
grow and to labor. But for now, enter into and be one with the conceptual
Return of the Light.
