Song ... when you come to recognize your song-vibration, begin listening for the unceasing song-vibration of every other thing. Each tree and species of tree has a unique vibration, the hissing and sizzling sound of the surf, the slow grinding sound that a mountain can make, the high-pitched ring of a tree. Just as each element has a vibration, it also has a visible energetic emanation, which is a 'medicine'. These emanations or 'medicines' are often what we like or find repellent about an element. Then, we may: take a photograph; draw color inspiration; make a perfume from its essence; plant one in the yard; go back to school and take a degree in this 'medicine'. These vibrations and their emanations have been measured and photographed by scientific devices but have long been visible and known to all other living things and certainly to some two-leggeds with sensitized awarenesses beyond commonly held parameters of what defines life and consciousness.
Random experiences of heightened awareness have probably happened to everyone but ceases when attention is returned to commonly held definitions of reality. One way to reopen and expand awareness is by relocating and identifying our personal resonant vibrance beacon within our unified Spirit Center ... signaling initialized life forces.
Now, we are on the track to finding and hearing our personal song vibrance, our Medicine. Building Personal Medicine is the means by which we can deepen inner communion, build and maintain conscious interactions with the natural world, and, most importantly, begin establishing viable and trustworthy communication with the Creator, of which we are an inseparable aspect. That is not always so easy to do. Often our most accessible links to the Creative Mind and our own creative mind is through the 'first gifts' made to us beginning as far back as when the firmaments were laid down, light and sound breathed our world alive and the Mother Earth and the Father Sky-Sun came to this part of the cosmos to take physical form and participate in our commonly held dream of unity consciousness and its offspring, the duality twins ... And then WE came and were seated with a superbly designed body, a relatively conscious mind, a heart capable of caring for others beside ourselves and the core center Spirit which is eternally seeking information about and reunification with Source.
The gifts and medicines of our elemental parents, the elements of the Medicine Wheel Directions and Colors, the Spirits of Wind, Water, Fire, the Green Beings, Stone Beings and the Medicines of their voices, songs, vibrations, resonances and the messages of their being are all key reunification passages. These beings ARE our relations. That is why when we kneel at the door of the sweat lodge we say 'to all my relations', because we remember and would say so. That is why there is a place for all living things and concepts on the Medicine Wheel. That is why and how each of us is divinely fashioned to mirror truths for one another simply by be-ing. In the rush, stresses and necessities of daily life These stupendous and gifted beings of the natural world are occasionally at risk of being either totally unknown or even mistrusted, forgotten or discounted, or uncomfortably outside heat and cold preferences ... to our great detriment. The resultant losses and costs to soul placement and contentment, balanced mental health, feelings of worthiness and identity, and a vibrant physical 'bag of bones' are well known.
Re-membering these disparate elements and energies, healing, resting, and dreaming the new year is a principal function of the White Winter Medicine Time. Listening to, reading of, or recounting old or new creation stories are the medicines by which we can originate, pollinate' and initiate a healthy, and more aware walk into the new year. What we have done and would do in the name of our precious seed brothers and sisters, we do for ourselves.
The White Winter Spirit Medicine Time could be viewed as a safe or home zone where we can release, renew, and reset certain histories and motivations, relax, laugh, feast or fast, heal, and observe our building personal medicine as a Sacred Flowering Tree, at leisure but not necessarily alone. This IS the main and appropriate activity for this season. For now we are always seated at home, in the company and fellowship of our medicine brothers and sisters ... prepared and willing to dream, breathe our life into and grow the medicine seeds of the new year by focusing on our loftiest ideals and intentions, prayers, blessing thoughts, gratitude and loving kindness ... with some assurances of success.
Please re-read and study this section many times. If you elect to more fully honor the Quiet Time when the Mother rests and sleeps, consider eschewing superfluous movements and curbing the excessive use of machinery. Where possible walk and use hand tools and limit electronic input. Speak less and more quietly ... listen.
Moving onto and within the Medicine Wheel Teachings, in this seminal season, will support and assist your hopes and dreams of a more balanced and harmonious earth walk ... Beloved Two-Leggeds. Project your valued goals into the future and be willing to keep them in mind and willingly work toward seeing them meet appreciable success, beginning with the first harvests of freshly fired seeds of inspiration, hope and stability.
AHO!
Dawn Woman
and story telling time.
