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Healing Dreams / A New Medicine Dream

« on: March 13, 2012, 03:28:10 PM »

I awoke this morning from a beautiful medicine dream and I wanted to share the blessing.

I found myself outdoors at a rave or some sort of summer music festival. There were all kinds of people there, mostly younger, in colorful clothes and covered with tribal art and jewelry. I was alone, very content, full of a calm life-force as I wandered among the revelers. The midday sun was shining down warmly upon us and there was an air of freedom, safety and joy all around. I was drawn to some people dancing around a fire pit, and on the ground I saw a beautiful silver bird brooch of mine on the ground. Then I saw another piece of my jewelry, and another. I realized I had hidden my bag away while I was exploring and it occurred to me that it must have spilled open and my things fallen out. I began to look more intently for my beautiful silver jewels, but only found four of them and realized that everything else, including the bag was gone. It was a surprising realization, and yet, somehow, in that time and place not really troubling at all.

The scene shifted to later that same evening. I was in a small, outdoor amphitheater and a lecture was going on while people were milling about. It was still a rave scene and there were all kinds of beautiful, psychedelic visual effects happening up on the stage and all around on the side walls, though the theater was open aired. I realized the whole effect was inducing a trance state and it felt really good to collectively be linked emotionally. I spied a really gorgeous object shimmering an irredescent purple red blue pink and thought it some wondrous new stone I had never seen before. When I reached out to touch it, I realized it was man made, some kind of new synthetic plastic and I thought that was really interesting and funny. I left it and turned back to the stage where now a serious ceremony was being performed. Two Native American Medicine Men were on the stage saging and singing prayers in their mother tongue. They were wearing old traditional buckskins with green paintings on them. Their hair was raven blue/black, long and shiny falling in braids down their backs. I recognized the face of one, he looked like a kin of Chief Joseph, with a proud bearing and chiseled features.

All the while the young people were still grooving and milling about quietly though hardly reverently. I realized I was part of an amazing blessing of Elders, and saw that beside me was a Mexican American man my age who was completely fixated on the ceremony going on at the stage. Right then a young may, barely 20 fell into his lap, very high and happy. I think it was the man's son. The man held him gently and shared something about the ceremony going on and I realized that We are the Keepers of the Elders Traditions and we must pass them on to the new generations in ways they can hear and understand. The man and I shared the bond of choosing the path to be Loving Teachers, a bridge between the old and the new, this world and that.

And I awoke very grateful to the spirits that they share such a great blessing with me.

Aho!

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Healing Dreams / Walking the Medicine Wheel

« on: October 05, 2011, 02:36:24 PM »

Below is a gist of my own personal prayer as I walk the Medicine Wheel to begin each day. Calling in the directions and working with my guides is a very personal practice, one that I encourage people to explore and develop for themselves. Mine has grown out of the teachings shared with me by my Beloved Teachers and experiences in both the Seen and Unseen worlds.

I ground myself deeply in the core of Mother Earth and pull the energy of the stars up from her fiery core into my chakras before I walk the Wheel.

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Walking the Circle

East

I invite the Spirits of the East to walk with me today. My Butterfly, Wild Boar and my Hawk, in the place of New Beginnings, the Rising Sun, the place of Air and the Winds and the intellectual mind….My Gaian Circle abides here…..

South

I invite the Spirits of the South and Fire to walk with me today. My Amaukua, my Red Fox and Coyote, and my Gentle Deer. We walk the place of the Noontime Sun, the Place of Unconditional Love and Creativity….My Voyager Circle Abides here….

West

I invite the Spirits of the West to walk with me today, The Great Bear and my beautiful Blue Whale who swims the deeps, in the Place of Water and the Magical Twilight, the land of Introspection and Hibernation…Irene’s Shaman Circle abides here along with the DreamLodge and the Tanzanite Crystals….

North

I invite the Spirits of the North to walk with me today, in the place of Earth, with my Partners Horse and Buffalo, as we head towards Midnight, and face the Cold Harsh Winds that teach us to Surrender. I do not walk this path alone… with my Spirits of the North beside me, facing our Challenges and Sacrificing what needs to be let go…My Lakota Tokala Circle abides here…..

I invite the Spirits of Above to walk with me today, with My Friend Skunk sharing the Respect and Kundalini of Spirit to guide me on My Path….

I invite the Spirits of Below to walk with me today, my Jaguar beside me protecting me with Integrity….

And I ask the Spirits of  Within to join me today, My Black Panther holding me steady within the Void, and on the Wings of My Pueo, keeping me always safe within the All that Swirls Within…

And Mother Earth and Father Sun, Grandmother Moon and the Great Star Nations, Creator and All My relations, I ask that you bless me as I rise to greet this day.

Aho, Mitake Oyasin

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Healing Dreams / Building a DreamLodge

« on: September 29, 2011, 11:08:54 AM »

Tony and I have worked together for some years. As we live thousands of miles apart, we have developed strategies for communicating with one another. One time, Tony guided us in a meditation where we verbally talked together about building an imaginary structure where we could live together. He asked me what our place would look like, and for me, having an affinity with Native American indigenous ways, I envisioned (1) a small circular lodge with a dirt floor and a fire pit in the middle. Tony kept guiding me to describe the lodge, and I continued to fill in the objects that were found inside, animal skin rugs, baskets, everyday objects for living in those simple ways. Then he was able to add some things he wanted in the lodge and we continued working together to create the space in our ‘joint imagination’. We continued building the lodge over the next few years, adding rooms or spaces for various things. There is a beautiful, calm room for healing, another place with a beautiful natural spring where we can drink or bathe in healing waters. There is a gorgeous room full of silks and pillows for intimacy. We also developed spaces outside the lodge as well. There are two beautiful tropical coves, one with a cave and white sands and another with black sands. There is a small camp on the north side of the lodge with a large fire ring leading off to a northern conifer rainforest in the distance. All of these spaces evolved over time either through guided meditations by the two of us together, or as we individually meditated and then shared what we had done with the other. It was an incredible experience building these sacred spaces together and adding to them through dreaming, and meditations over the years.

As time went on, Tony and I learned that we could take things from our dreams and give them a home in our Lodge. I have lots of dreams of animals, and so I invited many of them to come to share the spaces at our lodge with us and participate in healings as they wish and as needed. There have also been other types of spirits from dreams I have had. I had a dream encounter with a wonderful school of shimmering blue-green Sea Dragons and they now live in the sea off the coves and can be called in for any purpose. I also had a dream about a family of Red Haired Sasquatch, and they now live in the northern rainforest outside the lodge. They are available to Council with us and others at the outdoor fire ring outside of the Lodge.

Over the years then, this DreamLodge has grown into an active space in the Unseen World. Tony and I used to meet there fairly regularly, but as time passed, things changed and he was no longer as present. I still held the space for the Lodge through constant meditation, and continued building spaces and inviting the many spirits I encountered to come and share the healing space with us. I also added other things that came from dreams, like a huge cluster of tanzanite crystals which I was gifted in a dream. I knew upon awakening it was to be used for healing, and I realized, if I moved it into the Lodge it would be available for that purpose.

So then I realized, though Tony was no longer active in the Lodge, it was a real place in the Unseen World and it could be opened up for use by other Beings who wished to do healings. So, I opened it up in the Spirit World for that purpose. As there are many Spirits and Guardians there, such as the Sea Dragons and the Sasquatch, I am confident of the safety of the space. I worked there in this way on my own for close to two years before I was able to tell Tony what had been happening to our Lodge. I think he enjoyed hearing how it had evolved and now he is able to share it again as he wishes.

For me, it will forever be the sacred space in which I can enter the Unseen World and commune with my Spirits. I also do my healings there, for myself, my loved ones and the planet/Mother, etc. It is a sacred space open to all who wish to work for the good of all. I find great comfort knowing that I am secure there, surrounded by so much beauty and love.

So, my belief is that this process of Envisioneering, envisioning building a sacred space either for oneself or with another/others is an amazing tool that can be used by any of us to explore a part of ourselves working with the Unseen World. It has been a wonderful way for me to incorporate the gifts I have been given in my dreams and deep meditations into some structure where I have them accessible to me for healings. I find that these gifts/beings, whether they are animal spirits, mythical creatures, feathers, crystals, whatever, have really thrived by being acknowledged for their abilities and have responded heartily to being invited to share a healing space with all manner of others.

One of the amazing outcomes of this was the building of our DreamLodge, a sacred and safe space in the Unseen World where we can work, relax, heal ourselves and others, do ceremony and commune with our spirits, ancestors and others for the good of all. I am confident this process can be used by individuals, pairs or groups of people, to build structures in the Unseen World that can be very useful to us here as well. I hope that some of you try this process, either on your own or with a partner/partners and use this thread to share with us what you create.


Envisioneering

To envision :
to picture mentally, especially some future event or events: to envision a bright future.

Envisioneering: to build structures in the unseen world to use for exploration, communing and retreat.

DreamLodge:
A structure created in the Unseen World through envisioneering for the purpose of healing, ceremony and learning.

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Dream Interpretation / The Redtail Gifting

« on: August 05, 2011, 04:25:47 PM »

So, Dreamhawk, As you thought you had commented on this, but I never received it, I would love to hear your thoughts on this wonderful dream I had.  Thank you for being so giving here with your time and experience. Blessings.....



The Redtail Gifting

July 15, 2011

I was at an outdoor stadium of sorts with UCLA athletics friends and Sam. It was summer and we were talking about the upcoming move temporarily to another football stadium and how bad the staff seats should be. I was musing that maybe we should pay for an upgrade when one of the staff said, “Your seats will be good. There’s a little heart shaped section of good seats for the senior staff”. I thought, ‘Its good to be Queen”, or some such sentiment. Just then a huge hawk came flying by, low and close to the high edge of the outdoor venue we were sitting at. Some other bird, or creature was chasing it in flight, and as it came close, in full flight with those gorgeous, enormous wings, I jumped up from my seat and extended my left arm. I was surprised as it turned towards me, clipped its wing a bit on the glass screen under the arena covering and flew into the seat area.

The other animal did not pursue. As I extended my arm, the Hawks hooked its talons tightly onto my fingers and held on tightly. I was stunned and exhilarated. Arm raised with the Hawk standing on it, I immediately I stood on the back of the stadium chair before me and then climbed onto another and another to get away from the other people and give the hawk the most space to be able to take flight again. The hawk held its very tight grip on me. Then something wondrous happened. I cannot remember exactly how, but the living bird’s spirit transmuted out of the hawk body I held on my hand and spirited away. I did not really see it fly, but I spied it, featherless covered in a white down in a eucalyptus tree far away, while the fully feathered body stay clinging to me. I worried that the featherless bird might die now, and wondered if it had wings to still fly, but it seemed large and healthy and I made peace with the way things had happened.

I realized I had just been gifted by Creator an entire Retail hawk to partner with  in Ceremony. Sam said to me, "You better get those wings spread out right away”, and indicated we should leave immediately, and I knew he was correct. But I was a bit stunned and felt we should stay at the game till the end.

Shortly after, the bird’s carcass had morphed into my black cat. Still sitting in my stadium seat I held him, spiritless, yet still warm in my arms, caressing him and laying my cheek upon his soft fur. Again, Sam warned me to be careful, that the animal may not be completely dead yet, and no sooner had he said that, then my cat took a few labored breaths, hissed at me and started to scratch me. I let Him leap off my lap.

Then I realized what had happened; that the Hawk’s spirit had flown out of the hawk body and transmuted into the downy white SpiritHawk using the body of my cat somehow. I realized that I was meant to have the full Redtail body and began gathering my things to go home and lay out the wings. I placed the hawk body gently in a blue silk sleeve bag and then in my larger satchel. I could see rigormortis setting in and realized Sam had been right and we should have left right away. A women and her friend came up to me and asked if I was all right. It had been an amazing sight to see me standing on the back of the chair, arm extended and the large Redtail perching upon it. I could sense she was going to ask me for a feather, but I knew I wanted to keep all of this bird together as a sacred gifting, and not start plucking and giving away feathers. She never asked that, but I volunteered that I was fine, that I had dreamt of this type of thing often so I was ready when it happened. I also told them that it was a huge blessing and gifting and that the Native Americans use the feathers in prayer.

They left and I again went to gather my things to leave. A man and his friend had already come to take my seat for the next event. Now I found that the bird was out of the satchel and lying a bit stiff and slightly squashed under my seat. I picked it up worriedly and wondered how I could have been so careless with it, and again I felt it still warm and placed it in the blue silk sleeve and the bag and left the stadium to go home.

I awoke at that time and realized it had been a dream. It had been so real that I had no idea I was in a dream and while exhilarated, I was a bit sad that it hadn’t happened in the physical world. I do know that it was a huge and wonderful dream of the sort I haven’t experienced for a while, and I feel very humble that my Dreamtime Spirits love me and continue to gift me with many amazing blessings.

As the Dreamhawk, I thought I should share this with you.

Xoxo SisterHawk  

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Greetings / Dakota in from Lodge

« on: August 02, 2011, 04:22:11 PM »

Hello Fellow Dreamers,

I have only just found this DreamLodge where I see my Great Teacher is holding a Circle. I look forward to sharing this part of the journey with you and learning many new things while rediscovering the old....