Autumnal Equinox, September 22, 2018

Greetings Kin,
A fire will be Kin-dled. Bring your emptiness and fullness of the season in quietness and peacefulness into the reception chamber of all matter to observe and sit together, with the season.

Offer what you have or what spirit suggests … these breath offerings are designed to feed and nourish all sentient and insentient beings, including ourselves, through intent. It is through these things, thoughts, and actions we come to more deeply know ourselves and nourish the intent of this unified ‘knowing’ of ourselves within the structure of the Medicine Wheel Teachings.

Like minded community furthers each person’s opportunity to both see clearly and to be seen clearly, a deeply held blessing of knowingness that can further happiness and calm and to develop a growing sense of compassionate detachment and loving kindness in the context of the seasons and the natural world ... these first, most beautiful and lasting gifts from the Creator, are for us and all beings to live upon and within, all days, all ways, in balance and harmony. AHO!

Prepare to enter three circles of spirit energy, beginning now, as you approach the ceremonial grounds, from your personal central tree of integrity. We are the new myth makers, done from where we sit, stand or lay, be we a physical part of this circle or not. Let us be increasingly alert and aware of the emerging myths ... stories. Their times to be told come near with the winter quiet. The new creation stories ... they arise from out of the seeds of this harvest season, lying dormant for the blessing of their telling, remembering and telling of the fires that will make them ready for the new growth. This is one of the medicines of this season that make us ready for winter sun and winter rest ... as does our mother, the earth (sekmekwe) and our father the sky sun (kisus).

Through these ways we reconnect with the original instructions and link them where desirable and recognized, with the current stories and emerging myths/medicines by which we can know ourselves and live … feeling like we have a right to be here and to live. These ceremonies then assume a grounding and a radiance that can and does contribute to the continuance of all life, just by virtue of ours and others positive beingness. These then, are some of the sacred charges and as such, belong with the original instructions. Without them we are wanderers ... and to these ones, we would extend a helping hand of in-spirit … inspiration to those who would be seeking or in need, through vibration or physical service.

Bama mine, until we see one another again,
Wabaksekwe (Dawn Woman)

4 Ahau , Autumn Harvest Observances, September 1, 2018, Taos, NM.

Minisa and  negweses (nephew) Nakota Crumbo

By the calendar of the natural world, SPIRIT TALK Indicates autumn as the third quarter of the year, the sunset of the year. And so, we set our highest and most honorable intentions toward building personal, abundant and visible harvest dances of gratitude, beauty and pleasure.

Taos sunset fire to welcome in the universal burn day of 4 Ahau.

GLOBAL BURNER: Sacred Fire Ceremonies -- Sep 1 -- The Element of Fire

GLOBAL BURNER: Sacred Fire Ceremonies -- Sep 1 -- The Element of Fire

Contributed by Jaguar Woman

Fire holds the power of transmutation, able to change the form and structure of other Elements. Honoring Fire as a Sacred Element through which we can purify and release those things that no longer serve. On the traditional Medicine Wheel path we bring our prayers of tobacco to send up the smoke of our prayers. We offer blessings to honor and feed it. Traditional gifts are chocolate or raw liver. What we bring to the fire is released into the Hands of the Creator. We feed the Fires of Creation.

There are many traditional ways of Sacred Fire Ceremony. The Maya and Native American tradition lay a circle of cornmeal and mark the 4 directions with the cross made of tobacco. The Mayan incorporate candles, sugar, flowers, and consecrate the Earth with tequila. Prayers are offered to the 4 directions, for the Inspiration of the East, the Relationships of the South, the Unknown Journey of the West, and the Wisdom of the North.

Fire holds the power of transmutation, able to change the form and structure of other Elements. Honoring Fire as a Sacred Element through which we can purify and release those things that no longer serve. On the traditional Medicine Wheel path we bring our prayers of tobacco to send up the smoke of our prayers. We offer blessings to honor and feed it. Traditional gifts are chocolate or raw liver. What we bring to the fire is released into the Hands of the Creator. We feed the Fires of Creation.

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Sacred Fire Ceremonies

Summer Drum

The Summer Drum design is now blocked in with the 4 sacred berries, 

the strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and blueberry. 

The inside rim is painted blue for the circle of spirit. 

The drum head is anchored by four principle cords which represent the four directions 

of the Medicine Wheel Speaks: the Heartbeat of Our Mother Earth.

AHO!

WE WOULD REMEMBER THAT OUR HEART BEAT AND THAT OF OUR MOTHER, THE EARTH, IS ONE. 

Potawatomi Women's Drum Group, Shawnee, OK, Aug. 11, 2018

Dewegan Kewk Women's Drum Group

Bozho!

The Dewegan Kewk Women’s Drum Group performed in the rotunda today, opening the balloon festival on the Citizen Potawatomi tribal grounds in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

The drum group offered social and ceremonial songs, and a ‘49’ one from the Anishnabe tradition/powwow, some in Potawatomi and some in English.

The members have each constructed their own drums and regalia. Pics will follow showing a step by step doc of this process.

Bama pi,
Dawn Woman

Fire in the Sky: Hot Air Balloons Take to the Skies Over Shawnee (NewsOK)

Rebroadcast of My Tune In Tulsa Interview @ KOSU -- 7/22 @ 5p

Join us at KOSU this Sunday, July 22 @ 5 pm for a live stream rebroadcast of myself being interviewed by host Julie Watson. This weekly program of creative personal profiles in the Red Dirt Country of Oklahoma, combines conversation linked with favorite musical selections and some chat about such tunes.

Jim Halsey, Minisa Crumbo and Kyle Dillingham (a contributor to this Sunday's Tune In Tulsa)

Here are some of the featured artists/songs:

Buffy St. Marie – I Love You, Baby
Bill Miller -- Praises (Prayer Song)

JJ Cale – After Midnight
Stevie Solace – I Was Made to Love Her

Woody Carter – El Candor Pasa
Kyle Dillingham
Jana Jae

Red Dirt Rangers – Where the Arkansas River Leaves Oklahoma
Leon Russell – Tight Rope

Global Burner Days by Jaguar Woman

Contribution by Jaguar Woman about Global Burner Days:

Greetings Kin,

Some questions have been raised about Global Burner days, so I wanted to offer some insight for discernment from the Intentions that were held by the Maya when they held fire ceremonies. All the Holy Celebration days were established with a specific Intention - each has its own. The "Global Burner" Fire Ceremonies are different - all held for the same purpose and intention (to burn off karma and restore harmony in relationships).

There are only 4 Global Burners in the Tzolk'in round. They occur every 65 days, one in each season of the 260 days. There is not a Global Burner for every month of the Gregorian calendar, and there is no Global Burner in July 2018. FYI - we each have our own Personal Burners too, 4 of them. Your own Mayan birthday is a personal burner. The rest of your own personal burners are 65 days apart and will show up on the same Tone number as your birthday (you could count them out on the Tzolk'in calendar.

Below are the dates and Kin of the next 4 Global Burners:
4 Sun/Ahau, (September 1, 2018)
4 Serpent/CHICCHAN (November 5, 2018)
4 Dog/OC, (January 1, 2019)
4 Eagle/MEN, (March 15, 2019)

The next Holy Day celebrated by the Maya with a fire ceremony:

8 Serpent/CHICCHAN (July 28, 2018)

For consideration, if someone was wanting to schedule a fire ceremony in July, 8 Serpent/CHICCHAN may be one of the most powerful days for it in the Tzolk'in round. However, NOT AS A BURNER. The Intention for fire on this day is ALREADY RESERVED as a Celebration of CHICCHAN (Serpentine Day).

The Whole Power available to draw on 8 Chicchan would be lost in a fire for a personal purpose of burning our own residual energy. It holds far greater power in the Intention that's been held by the Maya on this KIN for so many years. You might think of it energetically, as using a day that was meant for bringing appreciation and and offering to Fire ... but instead, using it as a day to bring all your prayer requests for things you want to get rid of. :)  A Higher, more Powerful Intention for that celebration is already in place.

July 28, 8 Serpent/CHICCHAN, Serpentine Day, is reserved by the Maya to celebrate the Gifts of Knowing and Consciousness, Chicchan Power. The fires of 8 CHICCHAN are a Sacred Exchange of Human Honoring CHICCHAN, the Force of Life. It's celebrated as a ceremony that Honors Fire itself.  

Considering a July date for a fire held specifically for the purpose to burn off residual energy/karma, it would be better to choose any other day that resides under a Red Day Sign of the East, holding the Element of Fire ... that is not already observed by a fire of another Intention.

8 Serpent/CHICCHAN - might be one of the most Powerful Fire Days on the Tzolk'in. So definitely a day for fire, but solely for the purpose of Honoring Chicchan ... it's Chicchan's day. Chicchan in Tone 8 resides in its zenith position. A fire on this day would be powerful as adding to the many prayers and fires that have been celebrated all under that same intention.

I love you, in lak'ech, Jaguar Woman
mo sah thi wey ney