Anishnaabe Friday laugh break!
'Friday' is 'naano giizhigad' in Ojibwe!
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Making drums with the Spirit Horse Ranch Women’s Drum Circle.
Making drums with the Spirit Horse Ranch Women’s Drum Circle.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
'Circle of Life' by Minisa Crumbo
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The Circle of Life, as the water flows, the grass grows, and the winds blow: there is beauty above, beauty below, beauty all around.
Deer stands at the East, direction of illumination and mental clarity -- Spring.
Mouse stands at the South, direction of innocence and new life -- Summer.
Bear stands at the West, direction of introspection and heart-felt gratitude -- Fall.
Buffalo stands at the North, direction of wisdom and purity -- Winter.
-- Minisa Crumbo, from 'Spirit Talk'
Monday, January 28, 2019
8 Manik
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| Circle of Life (12 x 12) |
Deer is viewed by many as residing in the east-spring direction of the Medicine Wheel.
The east is a young, mental fire direction and represents inspiration and illumination. The shadow side of this direction is anger.
This is a day to mindfully seek balance and harmony with these powers.
AHO!
Dawn Woman
Friday, January 11, 2019
Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk'
Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':
This beautiful creation of Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun
offers each of us an opportunity to walk, always, in balance and harmony by
remembering them as our elemental parents.
We remember … we have access to an orderly and supportive life view within the
context of the Sun, Moon, seasons, the natural world, and the elementals of
wind, earth, fire, water and the directions of the Medicine Wheel …
Universally, the traditional view of life is one of a sacred nature. Myriad
helpers and companions accompany each person, and these helpers may be
recognized through vision, dream, inspiration, or experience. Vision, dream,
and inspiration are personal and vital connections to enhanced understanding,
experience and attunement with the Spirit World. In this way, we honor
ourselves as Sacred Beings and begin, or continue, to participate as
co-creators in a living world. And so, we move in wholeness and beauty.
Of all the paths and choices and histories, the energetic
pathways of the directions and elementals are the most real and vital … I think
they are only found by mind-oriented persons who comprehend the true energetic,
light components of the Medicine Wheel … fuse, merge, again and again with the
strips, rays, fibers, and channels of light … Find places of being that are
lighter and broader … just make sure that once the light paths open up, and you
know it, that some mental program stores it 24-7, making awareness and
experience of the light never far from surface consciousness, making the full
experience known, close and available, as soon as possible. Form new habits of
association … linking the moments like beads on a string until they can be
slipped over the head and worn … Our thoughts are our reality. We must think
better, smarter, longer, and deeper about ourselves, our world, and what we
really want that to look, feel, and be like. Be it. Do it. Don’t let up.
This beautiful creation of Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun
offers each of us an opportunity to walk, always, in balance and harmony by
remembering them as our elemental parents.
We remember … we have access to an orderly and supportive life view within the
context of the Sun, Moon, seasons, the natural world, and the elementals of
wind, earth, fire, water and the directions of the Medicine Wheel …
Universally, the traditional view of life is one of a sacred nature. Myriad
helpers and companions accompany each person, and these helpers may be
recognized through vision, dream, inspiration, or experience. Vision, dream,
and inspiration are personal and vital connections to enhanced understanding,
experience and attunement with the Spirit World. In this way, we honor
ourselves as Sacred Beings and begin, or continue, to participate as
co-creators in a living world. And so, we move in wholeness and beauty.
May we have a strong body
May we have a good mind
May we have a heart full of love
And know no fear.
Aho!
-- Minisa Crumbo
Of all the paths and choices and histories, the energetic
pathways of the directions and elementals are the most real and vital … I think
they are only found by mind-oriented persons who comprehend the true energetic,
light components of the Medicine Wheel … fuse, merge, again and again with the
strips, rays, fibers, and channels of light … Find places of being that are
lighter and broader … just make sure that once the light paths open up, and you
know it, that some mental program stores it 24-7, making awareness and
experience of the light never far from surface consciousness, making the full
experience known, close and available, as soon as possible. Form new habits of
association … linking the moments like beads on a string until they can be
slipped over the head and worn … Our thoughts are our reality. We must think
better, smarter, longer, and deeper about ourselves, our world, and what we
really want that to look, feel, and be like. Be it. Do it. Don’t let up.Sunday, December 23, 2018
'Winter Solstice' excerpts from 'Spirit Talk'
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.Tuesday, November 6, 2018
From the Hearth and Heart of Wind/IK
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
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
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