http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog Tribe.net. Local Connections http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/fa5cc6c9-70ef-466a-93eb-917403029c7f <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/fa5cc6c9-70ef-466a-93eb-917403029c7f"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/b4a/940/b4a94027-f817-429b-a54f-0e6ec8af807b.thumb" width="65" height="60" alt="" /> </a> <div>Autumn Equinox New Moon (Libra) October 17-18, 2009 for the next 28 day moon cycle... Hello wise owl moon people... what happened to you two days ago? Yesterday? This morning? Did you have a dream last night at the in-between dark and new moon? The three days surrounding any new moon are fertile moments of changes, and the dark moon of Virgo, just completed yesterday, is the end of the endless summer moons, transitioning into Autumn. I went to a Pumpkin Patch with my grown daughter; met a man from Česko-Slovensko about his Shamanic book; rekindled a positive relationship with an old apprentice; let go of a family member for a readjustment period; accepted some of my sons completed karmic path, driving a tribal dancer from India to the airport. This is a moon of relationship! And a new moon of changes within our primal nature effecting all our personal past and future relationships. Autumns new moon begins a time of re-balancing, not a building, nor a decrease of a winters moon, but the processes of reflecting our ripeness 'for' inner changes to come. Moon medicine's are internal affairs, even though this moon of Libra ruled by Venus is an external affair of human origin. Venus desires to have right relationship, but Venus herself can't seem to follow her own good expectation. She falls apart, cries, has tantrums and gets jealous. We all have a little Venus in us... In her happier moments she is joy, easy to be with and shares her excitement for life and finds balance where we cannot. But what about the celestial wisdom of Venus, the non-human centric one? Have you ever touched nature within your meditation, your yoga, your TM? Aries is the opposing energy of Libra, Spring is the opposing energy of Autumn. What we planted last spring in our sub-conscious has now come to harvest. Sooner or later, this daughter of modern myth, has a much older one. Venus is the light closest to the earth that shines the brightest along with her sister Moon and shining forth in the darkest of nights. She shines so bright because Libra also rules culture, the arts, the humanities, the expressions of right relationship of beauty, not only of the imbalanced collective human kind, but the inner beauty that is expressed through creativity. This is where we can express some of our personal Venus energy. Do we battle with jealousy, or paint it out in vengeful emotion? It makes no difference unless we practice and funnel our emotion into the acts of love that we choose personally. For those of us working on very deep and serious issues right now, this moon is truly about right relationships, either having boundaries that are appropriate, or making changes in personal relationships because it also rules justice and the law. Her consort Mars makes sure those laws are put into action. We are either... 1. finding; 2. building; 3. clarifying; 4. maintaining; 5. surrendering; 6. destoying; 7. letting go or 8. alone in in human relationships... What relationship is most important right now in the last three days? At home, work, areas of spiritual need? What phase is it in? Remember, we can go through each of the eight moon cycles in one year, one month or forty years in a relationship and its always moving in some fashion in a circle. If you work on relationships with someone in this manner, then you can navigate Venus or mother earths Autumn territory with that shiney light she gives off on the horizon. Jupiter is shining in the sky just as bright as Venus for the past few months and Jupiter in Aquarius is helping everyone expand their relationships to its proper order right now, and that is not always the light or the darkness, its somewhere in between. Sample New Moon Intentions that I am working with of what has arisen in the last day or so for me ... * I am balanced in my most intimate relationships! * I am supportive and loving with those I am with now! * I am creative, artistic and express this with joy! * I am beautiful! ____________________________________________ Leo 28 Day Moon Cycle: Full Moon at 13 Degrees Pisces September 4 2009 I wasn't able to send out my New Moon in Leo (my mid-heaven) because of my travels, so I wanted to share the full moon release in Pisces in a Leo Cycle. If we combine the Fire of Passion, Drama, Creativity and Jealousy of Leo with the impersonal Ocean of Timelessness, the Inner Creative, Self Undoing Prison and Spiritual Non-Attachment of Pisces we combine the remaining of this cycle with two opposing elemental nature's of Fire and Water. Water puts the Fire out, when out of balance, trusting that if we let go of attachments in a spiritual way of what we fear we will return to equanimity. Leo rules courage and our heart and can bring Pisces into a more calm ocean of flowing waters within, to expand beyond yet stay present. Thus our opposition for the next two weeks must express both at appropriate times. Leo wants to carry the torch of fire leading forward towards pursuit and Pisces wishes to retreat and be more silent. Both entwined together can allow us an opportunity for a re-adjustment of where our fire is too strong and where our retreat keeps us from opening up to our deeper higher self (creative) within. The Pisces Full Moon at 13 degrees is also combined with Mars and Pluto in opposition and Uranus opposing Saturn. Our personal Moon instinct (feelings) is thus changing instinct to become aware of where our private world has some self-made judgments and fickleness. Pluto is challenging this perspective to take us deeper within our perception to our personal situations and our actions are halted by our inability to conceive solutions to the problem. The need to change our self can be wild (Leo), or confusing (Pisces). I am feeling it very much. I buried my 13 year Leo Mid-heaven Shamans Sword that protected myself last Wednesday after I was completed with my humanitarian work when I held ceremony at the Templo De La Luna in Cusco, Peru. Now I am a Shaman and a Woman without a Leo Sword to protect myself from every unconscious shadow (that I am gifted to tap into), in this vast ocean of human drama and I can only navigate this great ocean of Pisces full moon cycle with awareness and more silence to perceive what is really happening in my personal space and local environment transforming it to Creativity. Ah thus that makes me even more in the realms of the term: Crazy yet Beautiful Shaman. Its all necessary and a change for the next level towards 2012 that we are all stepping to at the level in which we are conscious through self awareness. Depending where the Full Moon, Mercury, Uranus and Saturn hits in your chart, is your area of concern. Mine is in the 4th house of home and family. No matter where this hits in your natal chart, know it is going to be like all moon cycles, a begining, a middle and and end of some learning this month (moon). Set your intentions of RELEASE today wisely. Mine are during a full moon free form dance with some wild and free moon women tonight as i add the fire of creativity with the circle of this sacred dance in a spiritual form through my full moon intention releases ... I release my completion of my old story. I release the loneliness of my shamans life that has effected my life life as a woman. ***************************** Cancer New Moon July 21st, 2009 at 12:35 CDT. Phase II Dreaming with our Ancestors unseen. Total Solar Eclipse Dreaming with the Ancestors seen. August 5th - Full Moon in Aquarius 13* Dark Moon five days before the next New Moon in Leo August 20th The Sabian Symbol for this Moon cycle is at 30* Cancer: A Daughter of the America's Revolution. Well, here we go again, entering another 28 days in the primal watery womb from which we all emerged. This second Cancer New Moon continues our path to the next level inward, occurring at thirty degree's Cancer and reveals more depth about who we are. If you have considered the sign or the Cancer person, weak or incapable, think again! This energy is our most primal giver of life and one who sustains life through our own ancestral relationships to her. The all powerful Mother and Mother Earth. We astrologers refer to the three stages of a human life by the mark of time, called a Saturn Return, Youth, Hero and Grandfather, Maiden, Mother and Wisewoman. Do we see the reflection of this light in the dark of the Moon's progressed Cancer which is the parallel universe within? Most astrologers do not give it equal importance, especially for women and more feminine or spiritual warrior men. Our progressed moon stages honors the maturity of our soul aspects of the self moving through the expression of family and family dis-ease, be that mental, emotional or physical. We used to honor and value Cancer, honoring the birth name of all children by the mother's last name and her name from her grandmother and grandmothers, grandmother. Now we honor politicians, military and god's names from humans to street and city names by their actions. But where are we really from, who are our ancestors? When a woman is pregnant, the true lineage is always known and past down. There could have been many men involved in her pregnancy and therefor there are no absolutes of our true heritage. Primordial teachings now left in art, myth, song, dances and Tibetan, Buddhism and Taoism confirms herstory in current teachings. The time upon earth is now to first learn how to honor a re-education of our emotional intelligence which is 'wisdom and intuitive, creative and dreaming gifts' which is the sacred ruler-ship of both love and unconditional love in a feminine form. The mind has a higher mind called the heart and they both receive everything from the emotional bodies sacral and root chakra's mysteries. Set your intentions wisely again on the New Moon, knowing it truly is an extension of the concerns that you've been working on 'personally' for the previous 28 days.... I will be in Chichen Itza on the Eclipse and Peru for the Month of August finishing my collective work as a Shaman. I will hold my New Moon Circle on Tuesday at 7:00 pm, then won't start up the next one till September. Have a good end of the riches of the fertile Summer of the Great Mother Earth by honoring your Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Daughter and Granddaughters of the America's Revolutions and Evolutions to come. Say a prayer for me to add power in my work, at the Eclipse, I will need all the help I can get. The eclipse is not visible here, but visible in your Soul ! ************************************************************ Capricorn Full Moon and Dark Moon until July 20th July 7, 2009 Tuesday 5:21 am CST Lunar Eclipse July 7 5:39 am CST I don’t get – I don’t get furious. No! I get cool. I get angry! But not furious! Yeah! True Those who work with me on the New, Full and Dark Lunar phases is a passionate commitment to our internal reality expressed outwardly in our actions. This Full Moon in Capricorn is finishing up what you started on the Winter Solstice. Think back and 'remember' last December... living a lunar life is all about remembrance. Full Moons in the sign of Capricorn bring about a sense of responsibility and accountability to your primal needs and the foundation of your family and extended family. Fruition six moons later are the mirrors all around you now and try to see this six months completion. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere then yours would be the opposite: Set your intentions of the season appropriately and in six months your fruition will complete. Be patient with yourself and kind in this full and dark moon cycle. Work matters also are to be reviewed to really face the inner needs of your 'inner' stability in this changing or should I say retreating and less productive world which is difficult for some, but the cosmic alignments of the star influences do not stop for our personal needs, so we must attend to those with some sense of awareness. Cut back on your goals and try to find some inner peace with the stage you are at in life. There is no rush to any sort of interior work, you have all the time in the world. Neptune is going retrograde July 17th and for the past six weeks on my computer, my calendar has permanently froze with that date in the icon - the universe speaks to me loudly in many forms of communication, both nature and human made and I am sharing the all's communication with you. We will enter a new shift once Neptune retrogrades on the seventeenth and things will become a bit more lucid, a bit more of a thinning veil and I experience these very powerfully. Meditation always helps for you to bring yourself to an equal balance of what is happening in the dreaming of this planet mother of ours. When we realize that we are spirits in a material world, Moon in a Cancer cycle for 28 days shows us where nurturing is out of balance or in harmony. Capricorn is the physical result of this expression what the Cancer Moon feels inside, so your mirrors will be present as we enter the dark moon phase in the next two weeks. In early astrology, the ascendant, the moon and the sun were called the 'Wandering Stars' and I like this term equally to the newer name of luminaries. Be like a wondering star and let go on this full moon cycle of control, even if its just one small internal aspect that results in fulfilling your needs. Cancer Moons always brings up the stinky, the moody, the irritable and the crabby crab and this is our natural energetic communication through the voice of emotions that shows us where we are exhausted, tired or in need of doing more 'nothing'. That is really difficult for some. For those like me who have made the lazy, laid back dreamer a lifestyle without any attachments in a positive way, its just another day and not a challenge. For those new to internal medicine coming first rather than external realities filled with ideas, philosophies and old theologies it won't be so easy, so practice, practice, practice. For the young, under thirty, its about more playtime and making sure you don't get trapped in baby boomer ideology of Capricorn. So set your intention to be personally responsible for your body, mind and emotions, but let go of more responsibility in order to experience your pleasant emotions. There is no collective change unless each individual adds to it personally and watery moon cycles with earthy fullness can help you see clearly. ******** New Moon in Cancer Cycle including Full Moon article above. Primal Dreaming June 22 - July 20 New Moon 01 Cancer: Monday June 22 Full Moon 15 Capricorn: July 7 Dark Moon: 4 days before next New Moon at 29 Cancer - again! Making love with the Solar Gods is a dance of our waking life and actions in this world. Dancing with the Lunar Goddess is a secret garden, deeply enriched with passion, desire and need from the inside. Get ready this moon cycle, because we are entering phase one of two months in a row of Cancer New Moons! This one starts at 01 degree's Cancer and next month at 29 degree's Cancer. A double dose of our primal nature! This is a special moon cycle because there is a yin, yang coupling. Couple number one is Mars and Venus at 16 degrees Taurus; couple number two is Uranus and Juno at 26 and 27 Pisces and couple number three is Saturn and Ceres at 16 and 14 Virgo and it sets the star intentions at the basic primal Maiden, Mother, and Grandmother needs combined with Youth, Hero and Grandfather action! Mother Moon reflects Father Sun's Light don't forget and this reflection is our human mirror as the Buddhist, Indigenous, Taoist and Mystics teach. Depending if your a man or woman or combo of both, we chose a reality based on a... "Night follows Day or Day follows Night reality." If the sun shines dark or projects in a false nature, we still call it Light, but our lunar sensitivities become damaged, angry, over-sensitive and creates chaos because truth must be felt. Hence the Pluto in Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn Youth. Oh Mother Cancer, what are you sending us? Your light and dark mirrors are all your relations this Cancer cycle for the next twenty-eight days. Living without boundaries is like a fish out of water gasping for life and Cancer must protect her security, her stability, her self respect and dignity. Thoughts and feelings become either the great spiritual partnering in relationship or one's greatest enemy. Does that sound like Mars and Venus? It does... but our primal Mother, Father version. If mom and dad fight or are silently cold, then surely their children Mars and Venus will follow by example. Cancer Moon must work with her reflective and reflective nature in order to truly see what is happening in her life. Capricorn is Cancers exterior mirror, because everyone knows by now its Cancer who is concerned with security, feeling needed and the ability to support and take care in this physical world. Self respect around purpose and boundaries will manifest this month so pay attention to your primal relationships. Set your New Moon Intention wisely for the entire month. Remember when setting intentions, its about our interior reality. Solar is our exterior, Lunar is our internal that leads to true enlightenment through inner self awareness. This is a Fire, Water combination with Vesta conjunct the Moon. Vesta is the core of where the word Investment comes from and look what happened to everyone's investments over the past three years! Vesta is also where we invest in our self and how we respect this regardless of consequences, unlike the Moon who feels rejection so much deeper. Vesta working with Moon this moon cycle is all about Vesta's passion to protect her sister Moon, unlike Venus who would drop sister Moon in a minute for a little attention from Mars. Now combine Sun, Moon and Vesta all in Cancer this moon cycle and we have a very personal mirror to our basic needs of meeting our needs first for our own health and of course in opposition is Pluto, the great energetic symbol of change (death) bringing a personal mirror to where we mother or smotheri ourself or others, our children, partner? If you find yourself drained at all this month, take a good look at the relationships patterns so you can nurture and take care of yourself, otherwise the old Cancer martyrdom becomes oh, so present. I was given a gift yesterday, a story from Finland sent via my friend Anna, a Finnish Artist who shared with me the mythology of the Runes. It illustrated the primal Cancer and Capricorn wisdom. Capricorn at the Full Moon in two weeks, say as keeper of Time "I always follow Cancer, because she is Time itself" and Cancer always replies: "I will nurture you if you learn to respect and become accountable to mother and mother earth." With that, I share the gift... Lemminkäinen’s Mother ”Lemminkäinen’s Mother” by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931) is the myth found in Kalevala, a Finnish epic compiled of ancient folk tales in form of rune songs – although the editor, Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884), did make some alterations on those when weaving them together. Lemminkäinen was a red-haired (some say blond) solar hero and a pretty boy, much fond of warfare and women – even his name suggests that he was a lover (“lempi” = love). In the lore, it is mentioned that his dashing good looks and his cleverness were the result of his diet of plenty of fish while he was growing up! He did not come from a mighty family, but he was highly ambitious, and with his fiery sword he stole for his bride Kyllikki the beautiful noble birthed daughter of Saari (The Island). Poor Kyllikki was not delighted to have a warrior for husband; so they made an agreement that Lemminkäinen would not go to war if Kyllikki would not run about the village but stay at home as a good wife should. However, Kyllikki the strong-willed soon got bored as all Maiden's do and off she went to the village, to join in dancing and frolicking and having fun with other girls; this did not please Lemminkäinen, who in fury decided to leave his unruly wife at once, go to wage war once more, and woo the lovely Maiden of Pohjola (the North, associated with the Land of Death). Lemminkäinen mother warned him not to go, for in a dream she had seen him getting killed there; but the quick-tempered son snapped that he didn’t believe in dreams or any old wives’ tales. As the mother kept on lamenting, Lemminkäinen – who just then happened to be brushing his beautiful hair – angrily threw the hairbrush on the floor and stated that the day his body would bleeding, the brush would bleed, too. Lemminkäinen travelled to the faraway land of Pohjola, the North and went asking the old Mistress of the North for her daughter’s hand in marriage. The ancient crone mighty of magic gave him a few quite impossible tasks to perform to show if he was worthy of her Maiden daughter; some he managed, like skiing down the Elk of Hiisi (a sacred, otherworldly totem animal, perhaps the mythical progenitor (ancestor); Hiisi stood for a sacred grove) and bridling the fiery-mouthed Horse of Hiisi, went to achieve the last task of shooting the Black Swan of Tuonela (the very realm of Death) was doomed to fail, for death would await anyone trying to kill the sacred bird. Fearless and self-confident Lemminkäinen nevertheless set forward. On his arrival at the house of Pohjola, Lemminkäinen who also was a great magician – had chanted asleep all the men folk around, except a blind cowherd, for the tattered old man seemed too pitiable to be of any harm. However, it was this demonic cowherd who tracked Lemminkäinen to the Black River of Tuonela and with a poisonous snakes for an arrow shot the hero dead. Lemminkäinen fell into the Black River and the Bloody Son of Death with hooked fingers pulled up the corpse and with his sword chopped him up into pieces, which he then threw back into the river, one by one. Lemminkäinen’s mother now saw that the hairbrush of her son was dripping with blood, so she took off and went to the rescue. Demeter style, searching for her beloved child – it is said that she shape-shifted into a wolf, a bear, an otter, an ant, a bee, and a hare while she looked everywhere; she asked every creature she met if they had seen her son; and finally it was the Sun that told her that Lemminkäinen lay dead in the depths of the Black River of Tuonela. Lemminkäinen’s mother asked the magician Ilmarinen, to make a giant iron rake for her. With this, she determinedly raked through the Black River, collected the pieces of her son’s body one by one, and finally sew him back together again. However, the body remained lifeless. The mother, wise in healing, called for a bee and asked him to bring her some honey, which can be used to cure all ills. The bee brought honey from the Forest, but it was of no help; the bee brought honey from Beyond the Seas, but still there was no improvement; so finally the mother asked him to go and get some honey from the Goddess herself. The bee was hesitant at first, thinking it would be impossible, but the mother kept encouraging and telling him he could do it, so he did fly all the way up to the highest heaven and brought back some of the most special honey of the Goddess, which the mother tasted and immediately knew “Yes, this is the right kind”. With it she anointed the body of her son and successfully brought him back to life again. According to the scholar Martti Haavio (1899–1973), the story is in the collective unconscious rather than individual. So this Cancer Moon cycle for the next twenty eight days, will be trans-formative with both Vesta and Pluto involved with Mother Moon and Father Sun. For some, it may be life changing, for others it will be slight. If you try to open and see with your Moon eyes, you will see much deeper into your own primal relationships with your children, your parents, your co-workers and your business and home affairs this moon cycle. Wake up and smell the Coffee, Organic Juices and Paradise's Nectar of living a Lunar Life! _________________________________ New Moon in Gemini Dreaming with Mother Earth New Moon in Gemini: May 23 Full Moon: Sagittarius June 7 Dark Moon: 4 days before next moon in Cancer on June 22 This past moon cycle in Taurus/Scorpio... I have been waiting for my entire karmic healing spirit journey to complete and it was a long three year door closing. The closing gate of my south node in Taurus in the sixth house, which contained my past lives, its healing journey entwined with my karmic dept in order to be free in my soul and 'remember' myself as a shaman. Golden Eagle landed on my porch last week in the dark moon of Aries, with a headless serpent in its mouth, a headless snake on the ground and one innocent yet wise living one left on the ground who looked at me saying: "Do you understand and get this what is happening?". I did and it is the Eagle Serpent wisdom I carry forth into my purpose. I completed this Taurus/Scorpio Moon cycle with personal and collective joy, pain, shame, under balanced, sincere, forgiveness, laughter, many tears, a purpose, a thousand releases and letting go's and finally the death surrenders. Now I enter this moon with all of you at the place of my official 'rebirth'. In my rebirth yesterday I held a dreaming of art and myth animal workshop that was full with my two apprentices supporting and it was both fun, powerful and fulfilling. The journeys we took brought both this earthy Taurus dark moon and the Journeyer of Gemini New Moon into full experience. I ran an astrological chart for the group at the Artist Guild that participated and it was 0 degree's ascendant in Leo with the south node conjunct the ascendant. All of us, although having never met in this present world, have all known each other as artists before and Gemini brought us together. Gemini connects communication in all kinds of way and this cycle it was an artistic and shamanic expression. Gemini Moon cycles are the opposition of formal and university knowledge, it is the knowledge that is spiritual and within that is to be experienced... the inner path of wisdom from knowledge, journeys beyond ordinary reality and intuition into the other worlds. Most people who write about this moon cycle focus on the outer world, faxes, computers, retrogrades, human communication and those are all good, and the male side of Gemini, the Trickster. I focus on the inner feminine Gemini, the Coyote, the Wolf, the Dragonfly, the communication with Animals, Plants and Insects and Avian. That is the feminine side of the internal soul of Gemini, with the internal soul of communication of all living spirit. Mother Earth being our greatest to communicate with. It was such a full moon cycle for me in Taurus/Scorpio that I am going to rest up in this Gemini cycle and just allow the breath of the wind to flow through me. That will be my intention: I am the power of the wind and communicate with all spirits of the natural earth. ***************************************************************** New Moon in Taurus Dreaming with Mother Earth Friday, April 24, 2009 at 10:30 pm CST Full Moon in Scorpio May 8, 2009, 5:56 am CST Dark Moon: 4 days before the next: Gemini Happy Mother Earth Day and Happy Mothers Day to come, everyday! The whole previous 28 day Aries/Libra moon was so filled this month I just had to share this moon cycles story. Usually I move into this moons description explaining the energy of a Taurus and Scorpio Moon Cycle for the next 28 days. Today, the last week of the Aries Libra Cycle pretty much set the tone for the next cycle, especially the last few days. In the Aries Libra Moon cycle last month, first was my trip to Memphis to support completed apprentice Jennifer's Rattle workshop with my other apprentice Giovanna. We also did a dream incubation for Jennifer. In one of my dreams that night, I held an empty red shiny purse, which she gave me one she had that next morning, because she is selling everything to move to Maui. It was symbolic because it is exactly what is was! Next was when we drove home from Memphis to Saint Louis and I saw two dead deer along the highway and since things always run in three with me, the next one I saw was a dead Elk? There are no Elk in ARKANSAS of all places I thought ... at least not in this world. This too would come. Two days later my friend Ravenwolf and I did a five hour ceremony on the sacred Cahokia Mounds when two bus loads of 12 year olds, one from Wisconsin, the other an hour later from Kansas as they came over to join our sacred circle and we had children all around us which was such a blessing. We shared with them our teaching medicines. When all was completed, Ravenwolf took my drum and started drumming and went into his sacred trance. I went into an hour and a half of chanting animal sounds trance, wordless voices for a long time, when what appeared across the field I saw with my eyes open, was a magical Elk who came into this world with a bright shiney red blanket on its back. Some of you who have come to my Shamanic journeys have heard the stories I have shared of my totem Elk [also painted on my drum] that comes into assist as a helper for the groups those nights. Well this time, its gone from dreamtime and literally come into this world. This morning I set my intention for the next moon cycle which is in Taurus starting tonight at 10:30 pm. So if you wish to work with the precise time to set your intention out to the Universe, speak it out then! Taurus rules not only nature but the primordial magical nature which I am very blessed to be a witness in the past week. My intention for Aries moon was: "I am Nipping it in the Bud." meaning to address all things right away that are presented, in the present moment, with self and others. Of course the teacher gets her teachers too and the day before yesterday, a police officer nipped me in the bud with a 15 minute lecture on being patience and I never said a word, just listened to him patiently go on. I am sure he had mother issues. Then he gave me the ticket, got in his car and kept honking his horn for me to move out of his way faster! I gave him a gift of silence and listening deeply as a gift to myself, to him and everyone that day from there out, who he would pull over and not project his anger, since he was sharing his mother issues with me. I could handle this with balance, grounded ness, calm and focus. This to me is the Taurus moon since the Taurus / Scorpio axis this moon cycle rules money, values and other peoples money and resources and values in a physical way. Yesterday I took my last $100 dollars to pay my ticket [learning from a great teacher known as a cop and hence my shiney red empty purse] I was walking across the shopping center parking lot to get a money order and purple martins were flying all around me. It has been a week since the Magical Elk came to our Ceremony and at that moment I had a flashback when I remembered the Purple Martins came right before the Elk. About six years ago, the purple martins also announced Red Cloud who came into my dreamtime that night and for a few months and taught me to shape shift. So on this Taurus Moon one of my intentions is: I am Blooming. I decided for the first time to stay with a nature theme in my intentions this year, Aries being the first to Nip it in the Bud. My second intention is: I am Grateful. In your walk with the Taurus New Moon cycle for the next 28 days, pay attention! Although it takes a long, long time to heal to the core, heaven awaits at the end of that journey. Mine was 28 years of Black Jaguar Medicines. But like my last week with the Magical Elk who came into this world from the other worlds one is granted Mother Earths beauty in more ways than the physical, she also carries magic in a Taurus new moon. Let her show you. She showed Muhammad who rode the horse El Boraque to the other side, to get his teachings which were about dreaming in its original and Buddha the Tibetan who rode his white Ghost Horse to receive some of his. I have already been over to the other sides many times as a Shaman and now in my Slavic Siberian Russian Bohemian Polish Ukrainian traditions, I too enter the next level of the Dreaming! As Hayzoose once said: “Go among Wolves, wise as Serpents and be as harmless as Doves." and seek your Dreaming, Taurus and Scorpio Moons show you what needs clearing and focus to work on personally and your collective mythos! ************************************************ New Moon in Aries Dreaming with Fire Today March 26, 2009, 11: 09 am CST Full Moon in Libra April 9, 2009, 5:56 am CST Dark Moon: 4 days before the next: Taurus When I work with the moon I work with it as the emotion behind the hot sun of what is hidden until exposed. The most potent experience we can work with in a Fire Moon such as Aries this month is purification and clarity of action in both its yin and yang expression. Night and Day, Good and Evil, Light and Dark, Yes and No expression without judgment that either is bad. Its all good. Many things dissolve in a dark moon phase of Pisces and this last moon cycle over the past week are the same experiences over the last 14 new moons that I have consciously worked with them. The only difference is that they go deeper and deeper and deeper within my experiencing. For that I am blessed. Are they easy? Never, they are perfect! In our path for the next 28 days, Aries will point you in the direction of Justice, Balance, the Sword of the Warrior of what does and does not work for you in your life, unconscious or conscious, understood or not for Aries is the great warrior and Spiritual Warrior in all of us. He allows us to express our anger and if we do it without judgment and understanding our choices, we understand it. If not, we fly and bounce all around in relationships since Libra is the opposing sign. This is Venus and Mars at their worst and best. In that warrior within - if it is done for the goodness of all concerned, our body will not hurt in the next 28 days. If we made fire choices and get burned, we shall surely carry its headache, for Aries rules the head. Libra is the opposing yin air energy of Aries yang fire and sometimes our pride and jealousy or will can be off balance. We are both the passive warrior and aggressive diplomat. And I use these two oppositions in polarity because the yin always seems to be associated with passiveness and the yang with action or aggression .. but this is not true. How many times has someone docile projected their own unfulfilled aggression passively? I see it and experience it everyday. How many times does the aggressive active warrior pay for his or her actions in karma... everyday just like the pacifist. So in either case, predator or prey, there is only one coin with two sides looking for each other. In the end, its only a learning and what is needed in the moment for changes towards right relationship with self. For if you cannot have right and balanced relationships to your choices and actions, then who can you truly authentically have them with? Your dog? Your cat? Your 95 year old Uncle? We must start with our first step of Aries to set the Spring off with integrity and self respect. Which means fighting your battles with authenticity and dignity. Acknowledging your 'open enemies' of Libra with some self respect. Think back 4 years ago on your New Moon Aries evening and what did you learn in that moon cycle? Most of you cannot remember. It was always about you all along looking for you in others. Did they disappoint you? Let you down? Betray you? See clearly the mirror of life and you will find your inner guidance through those experiences. And that warrior or passive self, was really you looking for what is hidden in the moon, to exposed to the full light. ************************************* New Moon in Pisces Tuesday, Feb. 24 2009 5:35 CST at 6° degrees Full Moon, March 11 Virgo Dark Moon, 3 days before the next New Moon. I received this email today from a beautiful girl who wrote me and just had to let it be my Pisces New Moon monthly message from her to me to you! Perfection... "I remember things, I've been remembering things my whole life, but I didn't realize that I was remembering. I thought it was just day dreaming and night dreaming until I began getting revelations through what I can only describe as explosions of energy into my heart. It happen every time I'd pose a quandary of deep, inner truth to myself. These thrusts came when I would have questions of doubt about myself and the possibility of having more power than I've been accepting due to fears ... I've journeyed to the point of connecting many dots now; however, I KNOW for certain that there are many more connections that will help me to remember the full scope of my being. I feel that everything I touch, every room in which I walk, every living and even inanimate thing in which I come in contact, shoots me a memory message, providing a snippet of my mythical story, the universal one... " For your New Moon Intention ... Having faith and believing in "yourself" even if everything in life is showing you a difficult time... Perfect Imperfections (Virgo the perfectionist is the opposite sign of Pisces)... A moon cycle for resting, relaxing, letting go of time and the clock as much as you can ... Understanding the inner meaning of your Dreams... A closer connection to Spirit through the Inner disciplines of meditation, massage, anything to help you relax... ******************************** New Moon in Aquarius &amp; Annual Solar Eclipse and Chinese New 'Year of the OX' Monday, January 26, 2009 1:55 am CST at 6° degrees Full Moon, Monday Feb 9 Dark Moon, 3 days before the next New Moon. Aquarius New Moon under the lunar 28 day cycle has enough energy to go around for each one of us! My apprentices and I went to Memphis this weekend to do a powerful healing journey for Jennifer with her friend April. We loaded up our sage, rattles, drums and blankets and headed for the Sacred Mounds of Memphis along the Mississippi River. Of all the sacred teachings I decided it was time to do the Latvian Grandmothers primordial healing where we rubbed our bodies all over Jennifer to bring her that primal mother energy. So right out for all to see, on top a large mound, we sang, we danced, we cried and we held her down to the primal mothers mound with our mother energy and loved her at the level of sacred touch... she began to laugh after all her tears had been shed. This is my path, both its light and dark, its yang and yin, its near and far. This moon is Aquarius is about this kind of freedom on so many levels, free enough to love her at the level of the ancient grandmothers medicines, here on earth, here with real people, with real problems, with real abilities to rise and let go of that which no longer serves their heaviest of burdens. Following your dreams means trusting your experiences beyond your ordinary gifts. But this can also be a very dangerous path and requires courage. The full moon of Leo this month is about such courage to see where you can transform the powerful energy of drama into creativity, to see where your jealousness can actually connect to others and to let go of what needs to be released. Life shows us loud and clear in our life where we need to change and how to do it... are you listening and can you really see it? Those who follow a god, the light path of knowledge as king... move over, I am alive and living a path of ecstasy of a living spirit, and this comes at a great price, usually pain before its learning's are finished and the fertility is vision and dignity with enough wisdom to listen to [the inner] spirit, listening to the animals and birds that fly in the sky, the rivers that runs deep and the tree's that stand silent. If you practice this, you will learn more and also be judged greatly. I do it because I am free and its easy for me to hear others outrageous experiences, the touching of their personal mystery and where they find courage to yell rather than sing, to scream rather than meditate, to hug rather than bow. I give full attention to such wisdom, clarity and support, because to me, its a beautiful way to be. The seasons carry half this medicine and half of the other and if we live with the dark and the light we are free from others judgments. In fact, with my apprentices, they mesmerize me so with their beauty, their hardships, their struggles and loneliness, because I know they are really just 'diamonds' in the rough, where no one else sees, I see them shine so brightly it blinds me and believe me when I tell you I have been blinded by the real mystery. If you wish to become 'experienced' and make 'connection' to your experiences this month welcome this visionary and anarchist Aquarius moon and do something regardless of the consequences. In my world, God, she takes insults, she stands in front of unconscious ridicule, she accepts rejections, she looks straight into the eyes of harsh judgment and jealousy around her, she shakes her head and hangs up on people and walks away from low vibrations... Why? Because all is promised in all the great teachings and one must have enough courage to walk them everyday, to know truly first hand what it means to KNOW that god and goddess is within and no where else. *************************************************************** Capricorn New Moon December 27 thru January 25, 2009 "Grounding your Dreams with Nurturing" What can we say about the beginning of the next three moon cycles of Winter coming up with a planet line up like we have today! Every planet in our solar system plus the asteroid goddesses (minus Saturn and Uranus) are all squeezed in a tight group in the signs of Capricorn and Aquarius. I would suggest enjoy some stillness and a touch of nature to connect to one's dreaming! The Capricorn new moon this month is also conjuncting Pluto, the Queen of death and rebirth, who rules our psyche, our inter-relations of karma and feelings of penetration. Capricorn too is a heavier and darker energy compared to most moons, but with Pluto involved we can experience a deeper, more powerful month of awakening or transformation that may feel like stress, but is actually a change that is deeply grounded and very fluid. If you would combine two symbols that are powerful for both Capricorn and Pluto it would be: Oil Spill. So look at the thick psyche’s oil hidden deep in your dreaming and imagine Capricorn opening up the earth to let it spill forth for fuel or a new rich energy source. Our last moon cycle was in Sag and I heard more people who were having car problems, hence a 9th house Sag played out in its opposition of a 3rd house Gemini which rules cars. So this moon we must include Cancer with our Capricorn moon cycle and remember that life is playing out your drama or nurturing needs in a Cancerian way this month. Cancer rules our home, our mothering issues, our need to belong to family and our decisions about the health or dis-ease of such. So set your intention with Cancer and Capricorn's wisdom to allow yourself to be open with family problems that need to be let go, resolved, addressed or brought out in the open. Its a perfect moon for such changes. Capricorn words to mix together to set your intention this month with Pluto goes something like this: Grounded-Intuition; Mature-Death and Rebirth; Tenacious-Sensuality; Conservative-Emo (...my personal favorite!), Disciplined-Transformation, Ambitious-Pleasure, Prudent-Passion, Constant-Change. Combine any words anyway you wish to help you hit the target of your inner changes that you desire or that needs more awareness and expression through focused intent. With Sun, Moon, Pluto all in Capricorn this is similar to the Devil and the Tower cards in the Tarot where we bring struggle and change together to release unwanted burdens of our psyche's past to gain wisdom. And the only way to gain wisdom is to see what is internal first hand in the outer world as a complete mirror. Often life can be difficult or cycles of pain can be long, unless we've had a long cycle of good luck for years and things have been basically balanced for a long period of time, then any little change can seem huge. In my reality, only surrender eases pain, acceptance that we do not control anything when changes come. We only have an ‘Illusion’ that we control things when times are good. For the other half of those on earth at the same time, they have experienced dark cycles that's lasted twenty or forty years and the cycles of light are beginning to return and shine. This is my case, and everyday I am just amazed of my new life in 2008 and I look forward to 2009, but this is because I know in my personal life I have completed a death cycle that lasted 28 years and I am still alive, healthy, and yearning growth and emptiness at the same time. This Capricorn moon can be about transforming our weaknesses into our wise self-servant, one step at a time, what I call the true Alchemic life processes of the real spiritual teachings of the dark that search inward for the light in blind faith, especially during a Winter Solstice and Saturnian moon. ******************************** SAGITTARIUS Dreaming to Expand our Understanding! New Moon: Nov 27 thru Dec 26, 2008 Full Moon: December 12th Dark Moon: 3-5 days before the next new moon. It is everyone's job on earth to teach you about the Light, about Love, Sweetness, Good Girl and Good Boy Realities.... I am here to teach you about healing medicines, about your inner hidden demons, about your repressed shadow, anger or jealousy and bringing them to the fullest recognition and the great nurturing in order to alter your self-awareness. Why? To transform, experience a death, symbolically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, so you may someday become free within your rebirths, and spiral one tiny step closer to your true light which is at the core of your layers of darkness. To truly find the light, one must at least begin by saying one 'has a shadow self' in the first place. Sagittarius is about belief systems, but also about idealism that is to be expanded and contemplated upon. Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth has been in Sag for fourteen years and today on Thanksgiving it is now completed in its purification of where you have let your idealism become out of control or in a state of illusion which needs to be grounded. We now enter the real, the physical, and the reality of the most grounded energy there is: Capricorn …. For the next fourteen years. If you are the kind of person that cannot connect to the unseen, the symbolic and emotional realities of Pluto in Sag for the last fourteen years, then it is now your turn to see in it in the physical reality of the waking dream. Are you prepared to see the collapse of the United States financially and be at peace with that? If not, it would be wise to start or continue a deeper practice and do it everyday to find inner peace and acceptance because there is nothing to hide in the energy of Capricorn. This weekend my apprentices and I went to journey in a cave, we went to do a sacred fire dance and dream incubation on the eve of Thanksgiving. We journeyed, we gave thanks and we dreamed our healing journey to accept reality and truth the way it is, not the way we wish it to be. We accepted in our ceremony that the earth is changing and that we can find courage, strength and compassionate in our everyday life. And to work at the changes in our personal life which reflect our ability to accept the truth the way it really is. The Spirit of the Condor has come to me as a Shaman and Dreamkeeper in the past month of the Scorpio Moon. For the past 13 years I have accepted the medicines of the Black Jaguar to accept that Grandmothers medicines are real, that the Dark Yin is the healing medicine of the emotional body and I am proof in my life. Now I accept that graduation and a greater acceptance on a collective level of the Condor Medicines which I will now begin to learn from spirit and the earth and her consciousness, from the ancestors of earth and the Great Spirit. We all have something to learn this moon in Sagittarius and from here forth we begin the dance towards the Winter Solstice and the completion of 2008. Hold dearly what you have learned this year, for next year, you will find even more challenges and also beauty. For the two cannot be separated. ************************************************************************** NEW MOON CYCLE IN SCORPIO Dreaming Desire! OCT 28 - NOV 26, 2008 NEW: Tue Oct 28 2008: 5º Scorpio 6:14 pm CDT FULL/TAURUS: Thurs, Nov 13 DARK MOON: 3-5 days before the next new moon. Scorpio moons are always filled with the energy of intensity &amp; passion, death &amp; rebirth, success &amp; failure, all pulling at our Souls reality. If I combine spiritual and healing, I get… Spiraling! and these spiral medicines of a Scorpio moon touches personal depth, personal need, personal passion and desire and how it is expressed or repressed. We don't have control over much in life and Scorpio is always our gentle reminder. So give it up, let the tantrums release and relax! We start with Halloween, which is our festival to show both shadow and light as an acceptable reality one day a year. I think this is why me, my friends and family all celebrate it because it honors that part of us that is beyond ordinary and that the dark night of the soul does have a creative side to endure change. Passion out of control or passion not being fulfilled can be very scary and evil in the real sense when we look around us. Dramatic as life is or as ordinary as it appears to be, death and rebirth medicines this moon have to do with the opposition of grounding one's self with the earthy energy of Taurus by the full moon. All reality flows through such oppositions and we experience ’feeling satisfied with real releases in one form or another.” What if we were to dream a new dream in which we allowed ourselves to be human and really laugh, really dance, really cry and really be frustrated with great passion and acceptance? I've been "spiraling" so long I forgot which was is up and which way is down until I get entrapped by my own attachments and then again I must free myself each day like the Scorpio serpent who sheds its skin. We all have emotion/desire and when these are not met, open another door, try something different, see another opportunity in a new way. Spiritual-healing work is a spiral dance of frustration and inner peace with a dash of harmony and loathing all rolled up into one and to make it one without the other is only seeing the glass filled half way. This is the emotional body, our Soul and unlike the logic, form and rationality of the minds body it is an ever changing reality and this moon cycle is our proof. Dancing, singing, drumming, running are a few expressions for release that gives the internal medicines time to transform, while for others retreat, meditation, stillness and hot baths are the best medicines. Try to remember all your past Halloweens and you will remember what it is you need during this season. When I was young and would saddle up for a hunter-jumper lesson in the late fall, there was always a feeling of success or failure moments before the jump over the great thorny but beautiful rose bush. Out of all the times I jumped this, I was only thrown off the horse once into the thorny rose bush. Did it hurt, not really. Which jump do I remember clear as if it were yesterday? I am smiling because I know all of you know which one… The nature in which a Scorpio moon operates under then is anticipation, intuition, intense energy and release. "Intuition" is a powerful gift of Scorpio and the price is not cheap to attain it. So use your intuition this month to sharpen your skills... if something doesn't feel right, its not. If something is frustration, it is. If something is satisfying, enjoy it while it lasts. Questions for the Scorpio Moon: What do I desire this moon cycle and how do I feel passionate and express that. When do I truly believe my own intuition? Where do I feel safe in an intense world? Touch this and it will help you find part or if not all of a release. That can be in a sigh, a deep breath or a moment of deep satisfaction for five minutes over the next 28 days. Just like that thorny rose bush, felt deeply once in my fifteen year equestrian training. Happy Halloween and Blessings! Mary ************************************************ MOON CYCLE IN LIBRA Dreaming with All my Relations! WHOLE CYCLE: SEPT 29 - OCT 27, 2008 NEW MOON: Mon, Sept 29, 2008 3:12 am CDT 6º Libra FULL MOON in ARIES Tues, Oct 14, 1:02 pm CDT DARK MOON Transitional 3 days before the next new moon. My intention this month is: "I am both Passion and Intensity which is Balanced and in Harmony." When we work with lunar intentions, we are like a poet seeking self-awareness to understand the differences between our joy and our shadow. This is a big, big world we live in... and truthfully, the only thing we can change is our self. Otherwise raging at a TV politician who can't hear us or wasting our precious life force on 'the other' in conflict is like a blind monkey seeking nourishment from a plastic tree. This month is about Right Relationships. Healing and it's spiritual disciplines are to "expand personal self-awareness” which eventually with enough dedication and practice can lead to the expansion of personal “consciousness” when we set intent and pay attention to the answer. The number one rule when playing a lunar game of the mysterious female is to: Treat yourself kindly when you have made the decision to dedicate to a healing practice that is of the internal reality to awaken. We can change anything about our self with enough practice and vulnerability in equal proportions to become aware of what "it" is that we are seeking. Practices of intention, help us see eventually with our own eyes what everyone else has always seen. This is the basis of the Buddhist mirror principle, seeing clearly a mirror of what another reflects back, both positive and negative. Libra Moon cycles are perfect for this because the territory of Libra is right relationship and this mirror is an opposition to Aries the God of War, which means the inner warrior and the inner battle are both hidden and expressed in behaviors unconscious until exposed. If you hurt your finger in a drawer, how do you respond? With anger, with tears? When we play 'right relationship' game with others with emotion, we go inward to our emotional body and when we sense something from another’s psyche, we pay attention to our responses, not theirs... just like the pain of the smashed finger. This is one stage of becoming conscious. If we experience a Libra moment that brings anger or tears then we must pay attention to our tender emotions and honor them. Those who get angry don’t usually honor themselves as much as those who cry. But both need validation. In order to heal our karma, which is the deepest level of the soul which sits at the bottom of the greatest ocean, we start with the surface layers of the ocean with awareness of our journey inward setting intent and then seeing how it surfaces. Awareness, then integration are the keys without self-judgment or judging others. This is a daily practice. After all these years of working with my mirrors and looking for my own darkness and shadow chasing and then finding it, feeling it and healing it, I have learned from experience its about validating "Experiences, Oppositions and Self-Compassion". If we only pay attention to the light, we will never truly reach the light. In order to the reach the light we must swim the long ocean into the dark with acceptance, eventually finding the seeds and core issue of it's karmic origin in the soul [emotional body]. This is the most difficult work on the planet today, to keep going deeper and deeper without any validation. We need each other, even the most stinky, difficult and crabby among us to show us our shadow side. Meaning that if your angry with someone, your honest about that, rather than thinking its not perfect behavior and keeping quite until it tears at the fabric of your physical or mental bodies. Or if your crying all the time seeking true compassion for your tears, which allows one to make difficult choices rather than remain in the stuck position. I was able to see very clearly my mirror with the two who crossed my path in the past few days as I embraced this passive aggressive behavior in both the other and myself. As a shaman I can see deep into the darkness of a persons unconscious, this is why I delved into mine for so many years in order to heal a s number one priority in my life above anything else. This journey to the shadow is not about being perfect, it is about awareness and its frightening when we begin to get to the karma. I saw the two sides of my power this week, with the dark one in which with practice I walked away in silence and restrained my energy, and with the other, I spoke my truth without fear of judgment and groundedness. Tips for a New Moon 28 day cycle in Libra: Listen without interruption unless the other person is projecting their shadow or being passive aggressive without being conscious about it. Just practice Breathing deeply ten times in a conflict, it works the fastest. Feel before you think and then speak Compromise with others who compromise, the others let them go. Strict boundaries without compromise to protect one's self was physical, psychic, emotional, and mental abuse is absolutely calling loving and respecting the self. Practice non-attachment, this one is difficult but with years of practice it gets easier. Remember the difference between what is a "Universal Truth" and "My Truth” ... both are correct and the wise know the differences. Declare "Open Enemy" of yours... This is sending a message to your sub-conscious that the person is someone who can hurt you, and at the same time that they are a mirror as well. Gossip is Gossip. ************************************************************************* MOON CYCLE IN VIRGO The Earthy Dreamer! WHOLE CYCLE: AUG 30 - SEPT 28, 2008 THE NEW MOON IS TODAY: Sat. Aug 30 @ 2:59 pm CDT FULL MOON in PISCES Mon Sept 15 DARK MOON Transitional 3-5 days before the next new moon Did everyone enjoy and learn their universal lessons in the moon of Leo with that powerful Solar Eclipse? Major shifts are happening everywhere. Did your inner child rise or did you witness someone else's? Did you meet someone new or let go of an old partner? Did something happen to change your reality and path? Did the drama of Leo appear on time and on schedule? We say goodbye to Leo and hopefully you’ve recovered or working at it or enjoyed it. All of those three seem to be our choices today. Yesterday marked the darkest part of Leo’s moon cycle and the new cycle of Virgo begins today at 2:59 pm. This morning I made atonement in the darkest part of Leo by releasing and clearing any shadowy energy aspects of myself left this past moon cycle, so I could begin with a clear vibration of the Virgo walk upon the earth for the next month. I've been working monthly for thirteen years with each moon cycle and Virgo is always grounded and synchronistic for me. This morning it started with a mother holding her 6 month old baby named Stella, my mothers name. They were having fun and the little child wanted to dance. I told the mother that my mother loved to dance too like your daughter and her name was also Stella. I said my mother was a Leo and if you don’t mind, what sign is your daughter? She replied an Aquarian, I replied I am an Aquarian and then the mother of the baby said she was a Leo. I replied so was my mother! Now a woman who was near both of us said what is your Aquarian daughters birth date? She replied February 8th and the woman said that’s my birthday! I watched and observed the first few minutes of right before me, of my Virgo Moons new beginning. I can set my intention on this event and my dreams last night... "I AM INTUITIVE AND HEALTHY AS I UNIFY MY MIND, BODY AND EMOTIONAL BODY" Virgo is the intuitive communicator, bringing communication down to its earthiest level, unlike Gemini, which is dualistic in nature since both signs are ruled by the chatty messenger Mercury. Virgo Moons are synchronistic and intuitive and I have always noticed how Virgo people are very intuitive down to the detail if they allow such things to occur without ego. Virgo Moons are about our healing and health and it is this energy which transcends us to see real magic. Magic is within and when we point the wand, like the Harry Potter movie, where Hermione’s powerful wand shows us magic, we should always point it at ourself as the rules of ethical karmic reasons because Virgo brings us the universe in the palm of our hand to navigate the self, not others. Virgo Moon rules our natural need of both desire and satisfaction. Service is a small aspect of Virgo moons but a lower aspect of productivity. When we remove productivity of Virgo from the scenario, we find ourself doing either what we absolutely love or hate. You be the judge in your own life. I had a dream this week where I was a servant to a black family. Since my work is all about service of the shadowy nature of others as a shaman the dream showed me how I can give service by literally being a servant of the dark symbolically. In dream work the nature of symbolism is without ego and such work requires this understanding. There is no good or bad in reality, only the illusions that keep you separate in your own duality. So when I listen to my dream its not about black people or anything else, it’s the way the symbolism defines the story Virgo is the great story teller like Gemini and it was a great dream story in a shamanic sense. Virgo moons are perfect for my purpose, what are they for you? Virgo energy is very caring and reflects our health and happiness and the health of others. Its a very nurturing energy, so this month love and heal yourself in the earth body of the physical and also share that love with those you care about. Try drinking only water for one week, just to see how it feels. Try adding one day of walking out in a natural settings for this moon cycle. Try volunteering if you never have or stop volunteering if you've always done it. Remember, we cannot separate health and happiness, so give it your best attempt to work on one or the other or both this moon cycle. Love and Blessings, Mary! ************************************************************** MOON CYCLE IN LEO AND A SOLAR ECLIPSE: AUGUST 1 - AUG 29, 2008 Dreaming with Fire NEW MOON Fri Aug 1 @ 5:13 am CDT FULL MOON in AQUARIUS Saturday Aug 16 DARK MOON Transitional 3 days before the next new moon For those experiencing a normal life with average things going on and nothings happening, then enjoy it while it lasts. Leo wants you to be creative and to have fun, to address the world as if you were an actress or actor. As if you were a queen or a king. Be creative, imaginative and leave the drama at home in a suitcase under your bed tightly snapped. We just don't need the drama anymore... Now, if you are experiencing changes in your life of any kind, then I will address you with my wisdom... we started the official sacred dance of 2012 off in the first month of spring on the Aries New Moon around March 22nd. That was the Spring Equinox and it was the most powerful I have felt in my life. That was fire inside our bodies, yearning to be put forth into a world of creation. Now we enter the second Fire Moon of Leo and we must engage with others Fire... If you think that I don't take my work seriously, you are dead wrong. When I play with the Universe, it is a matter of life and death, creation and destruction, and I hold the balance between both. I do not only play with such matters lightly nor see anything less than the fire of spirit. No judgment between the light and the dark is within me, because if one tries to separate them then one lives in illusion or is totally devastated when the dark rises to seek balance with the light. Those who feel the power all around them now, must accept that fate leads us to our destiny, not the mind of our human nature. Nature's rules are more powerful and she can bring us to our knees. If you could imagine that you have no control then you join me in my reality. If you don't, then you are just fooling yourself and there is no fool like an old fool. The element of Fire is Spirit and when the soul of humanity is steeped in Illusion and seeks power, fire becomes out of control and dangerous. Don't trust so easily, don't judge so easily, accept and embrace that ever single experience you have, in every single thing life brings you is for you to awaken to a greater self. I like the image of the Babushka dolls, where one fits within another and then another and then another. Our dances to 2012 are about shedding the outer layers of those dolls and getting to the core essence of our karma, the essence of our power which is empowerment, truth and love. Love without truth is shallow and empty. Truth without Love is raw and harsh. For a decade now, Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio and Taurus have a;; been through chaos which is change, so much change. Now it is our Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn brothers and sisters turn. We hold you in our prayers and let you know that Pluto, even though science cannot handle her psyche by demoting her, we know she still moves and works in and out as the source of creation and destruction. She is still very much alive and gets to the heart of the matter. She is ugly in a kind sort of way and she will remove anything that hides your souls fragments, which needs to be confronted and integrated. Not out of hurt and pain, but for the sake of rebirth and freedom. Leo this next 28 day lunar cycle is the Fire Moon of creation and with creation comes destruction, we cannot separate the yin and yang. It is the shedding of old skin, like the serpent who draws upon a woman’s cosmic dance. Please remember that dignity and respect of Leo is at your side at all times like an angel unseen, this moon cycle. For the full moon in Aquarius coming can bring more truth to the surface about who you really are, and its ruler Uranus is the master of chaos and change with whatever arises, have dignity in how you address experience yourself this month. Treat your self like a king and queen, you deserve it! Love and Blessings, Mary ********************************************************** MOON CYCLE: JULY 2 - JULY 31 2008 Dreaming with our Ancestors and Inner Mother NEW MOON Wed July 2 @ 9:18 pm CDT FULL MOON in CAPRICORN Friday July 18 DARK MOON Transitional 3 days before the next new moon Wow, if you were not excited and filled up completely last month in Gemini then there is more fun on the way... Last month we traveled around the Moon in the Air (our Mind) and this month we’re ready to come down to earth. Cancer Moon’s are what we call the watery Lake, where Scorpio is the watery River and Pisces the great Ocean. This is the first water moon of 2008 and Cancer holds collectively for us the archetype of the mother, who rules our primal tides, our past memories and our ancestors. Below I have both a yin [dark] and yang [light] story to share... The Dark Shamans Moon of All my Relations During the past moon, I was asked to do a psychopomp [clearing a dead spirit] for a wonderful woman who had one very dark Spirit causing lots of problems for other spirits on her land. When I went into dreamtime and dream walked, I saw it was a 17 year old teenager who had taken her life in 1972 who was in one of the rooms on a building on this land and she had taken a 12 year old with her. In the dream walking I had freed the 12 year old and put the 17 year old in a place of containment. This 17 year old girl spirit was like a teenager in a mall with a gun, and all the other spirits become upset. I did half the work awake on the astral planes of earth when I reached her dimension that week, and then abruptly I was asked half way through to stop. As an initiated shaman who has traveled all realms, to stop a psychopomp in the middle of its proceedings is not a good idea. I experienced and felt and saw the pain of this girl Spirits soul having to suspend it and then return it. I did as I was asked and most light workers will try to send her to the light, but the ways of the underworld are perfect and the dogs of the underworld must take her to the Lords of Karma to bring her to the place of hell or deep in the mother earths belly so she can find her soul when she reincarnates again. Sending this spirit to the light will bring Imbalance not only to the land, the spirits, the psychopomp spirit but all the people involved who send her to the light. The Light Shaman's Moon of All my Relations My sister Ellen and I knew it was time... Ellen was ready to leave the good sister and begin her bad sister journey and I am ready to leave the bad sister and welcome the good sister for the first time in my life. With all our learning’s we decided to exchange the robes of liberation and drove to the Black Madonna Shrine to hold a traditional lunar full moon release. We walked to the Shrine’s spring, Ellen to release her Maiden and Mother and I to release my Maiden. After we finished our burial, we then baptized ourselves with the sacred waters into our new life. I found out the next day that we did it on the Feast of St. John the Baptist and it just felt right to pour the sacred waters of the Dark Goddess over each of our heads and all our chakra's. We then sat on the ground near the spring and began our fire ceremony. Ellen offered her photo's that represented each part of her life to the fire and I chanted a welcome to my new good sister world. At this moment coming from the woods were two families and as they approached we said hello. The eldest man said he and his two families present were from Poland and live in Chicago. He told us he was the one who built this Shrine in the woods. Ellen and I felt all of our Ancestors present at that moment as goose bumps touched our bodies. Ellen went back to her prayers and all of a sudden the polish elder began chanting prayers in polish, followed by the ten family members repeating after him and they repeated this for about 1/2 hour along with us speaking out loud our prayers in english. Ellen called in all our ancestors 17 generations back and 7 generations ahead in both Poland and here in the States and this kind of magic could have not been set up any more perfect than it was. So the Moon in Cancer will be filled with both yin and yang this month, observe and remain centered as possible so you may remain balanced. Reballance yourself from your actions. Awareness and Intention are the keys to doorways of balance within the Emotional Body Soul, the Mind, Physical Body allowing our Spirit to guide these three unified. Blessings, Mary *********************************************************************************** Dreaming with Spirits NEW MOON 28 DAY CYCLE in GEMINI Tues June 3 @ 2:23 pm CDT FULL MOON in SAG Wed June 18 @ 12:31 CDT DARK MOON Transitional 3 days before the next new moon " Life beats you down and crushes your soul, and art reminds you that you have a soul " Stella Adler... By now, everyone knows that I live in two worlds as a Shaman. The ordinary reality one and the non-ordinary reality. I have been practicing and teaching Intention with the 28-day cycle of the Moon for 13 years and as I travel and sit and listen in other circles, so many use solar thinking when doing lunar intentions. They use intention to manifest "physical gain or things" in an external world, which means they are really just practicing ordinary solar 'Goals'. Be conscious of your intention work, know that lunar intention is about the disciplines and awarenesses to reach the depth of our emotional soul body rather than outward towards the mind, the sun, the light. We practice lunar moon intention each 28 day cycle to understand cycles of our inner reality and higher awareness of our EQ known as our Soul which travels. Standard astrology says Gemini is about all forms of communication: phones, faxes, computer systems, thoughts, mercury retrogrades, etc. These are all our yang expressions of the waking dream or our Solar reality. Let us move fully into the future. I moved to the opposite side of the coin in all teachings over the past 13 years, I did the opposite, to learn the fine art of the Yin. This Yin side of Gemini as a mirror reality of thought and energy fields of an external reality beyond the veil. Whether you know it or not, we all are co-existing in two realities at one in time and one across the veil is in no-time. The yin nature of Gemini is also about communications and some of them are: interior travels such as astral or out of body experiences leaving your thoughts behind and taking your EQ with you to speak any language with any living thing in any form all from your emotional body; communication with ghosts, spirits or close encounters with both ET and the dead who live just across the veil side by side with us. I’m all moved into my apartment now and I have been sleeping on the couch for the last two weeks. Friday I bought a mattress to spend the first night in my bedroom last night and after I hung all the curtains, straightened up and laid down to fall asleep. The moment I laid down with the lights off, I felt a "huge" amount of energy that started near my closet moving across the room coming towards me... at those moments I didn't know if I had a room full of dead spirits [my neighborhood is from the 1850's] or if I was sleeping on top of a huge vortex portal. Another five seconds went by and now waves of energy moved from the back of the room and began fluttering under me. I began to sense a rapid pounding of a heart beat, what seemed like many heartbeats, thinking is that my heart? I jumped up, went into to the living room and my heart was not beating at all as I laid my hand across my chest. I was feeling many hearts beating, maybe about 15 was my assessment and by the size of the yin energy. In my dream the night before, I was seeing the back end of a dog/wolf going into a bedroom. I realized as I was experiencing this, it was my own bedroom I had seen in my dream and it was an underworld guardian dog. I went to get all my shamanic rattles, sages, bells and I asked the thunder beings to help too since there was a huge storm occurring at the same exact time interval as all this, ending of the storm precisely at the end of clearing all the spirits out. Two days later I understood my Waking / Beyond the Veil merged Vision... I got clarity when i was leading a fire ceremony near Washington at Mystic Valley's farm doing a ceremony of intention for the use of the land to be used now as a retreat center for healing and learning. The group of women were yoga teachers, healers, a medium, a song woman, and a few more... after the fire ceremony Saturday, when I woke up Sunday morning and we all were at the fire again. I was sharing my experience with my friend Patty and the "Wisdom" from the Vision came light a lightening bolt... It wasn't a portal, it wasn't 15 spirits.... it was me in my collective YIN in energy form returning to me after my shamanic underworld healing and initiations. It happened to me three years ago with the collective Light aspect after my full healing journey of mind and body, the YANG energy. I thought back then, that was it, just the light returning to me in my collective form Dah! why would I of all people who honors both the light and dark Goddess think that, everything is yin and yang. And spirits do not have heart beats. My wholeness of energy in a collective form has engaged into me and returned. I have had many paranormal, many mystic and spirit experiences, but this truly made all my hellish healing work understood and how the collective yin and yang energy self works in the unfified field works. This is what the deer spoke to me in an out of body prophecy in 1987 and now I am completed. Before enlightenment carry water, chop wood, after enlightenment, carry water, chop wood. Wood and Water Yin and Yang Inner and Outer Mind and Emotion. So, this Gemini moon, depending upon if your sensitivity and your ability to tap into the other reality happening at the same time as this one, it’s going to be a charged up month. For those that do not know, Spirit Guides will never cross respectful boundaries to touch you or enter you, but only lonely, desperate or negative spirits do. So people like Ramtha separate the two aspects of the self... JZ Knight says Ramtha is a walk in Master, but in reality knowing all the realms of reality and duality of dimensions as a shaman, JZ is both herself and Ramtha, her ancient self at the same time but unclaimed consciously. Also, this morning my sister informed me this morning, that her little granddaughter who is 2 years old, keeps talking about the Dragon Hole and not to go in it. So I will be doing a portal shut down on the other side of Southwest Ave. later this month which is my work to keep the dark spirits from crossing over now anytime they want. So, Happy Gemini Travels this Month! Mary! ************************************************************ Dreaming with Venus with two feet firmly on the Grounded Mother Earth! NEW MOON IN TAURUS Monday, May 5 - June 2, 2008 7:18 am CDT 15 Degree's Taurus This 28 day Lunar Cycle is about OPPOSITIONS. Can you see them, can you recognize them as they appear to you. Taurus Moon is about the physical world and questions such as... Do you love your body? What do you value today that is the most important aspect of your life? What will you allow yourself to see in this physical world that is non-ordinary? What grounds you? Is it your inner peace? Is it your beautiful home or the garden that you grow? Is it your beautiful relationships with your values? Our values and self esteem cannot be separated this month and this moon cycle gives us a chance to create, let go and find wisdomabout what we value and how it effects our self esteem. Do you value others who abuse you? A very good Venus word this month. Of course we don't, but sometimes our actions show us otherwise. As a shaman, my work is about the shadow and learning to love her. When we don't love our shadow it goes flying everywhere like helium balloon on the loose. Or when we focus on anothers darkness, we get lost in the light and our darkness is exposed while we are unconscious to it. Our light or our good qualities do not need attention, they speak for themselves. We work with the Moon with Intention because it reflects our darkness, our jealousies, our cattiness this month. This is where we want to focus in order to first see them clearly. They are not bad, they just represent where we have denied ourselves love. Venus is about love and the denial of love equally. This is the dark sides of Venus, which brings us out of balance if we do not practice mindful action. We do not seek perfection with Lunar Intention practices, we seek mindfulness and paying attention like a mother, to our emotional body who is our baby. Venus can be very jealous, indulgent, over-stimulating, too demanding and sometimes bitchy because she's too tired, too over stimulated, to gossipy. She can gossip and hurt other people because it only satisfies her infantile emotional body. So this month is an excellent month to focus on how much indulgence we take part in and become mindful of our energy. Venus when she loves herself, pays attention to what her body needs because she respects herself first in order to find respect for others authentically. For how can we love Mother Earths body as women, if we cannot love our own and treat it with respect? This moon in Taurus gives us an opportunity to start or continue our commitment for the next 28 days. We start at home, inside our own personal issues. Remember - Lunar teachings of the Moon are about our emotional needs, our deep desires to be loved and to be loving. If you use Moon intentions for manifesting things in the physical world, then that is put simply you are not practicing New Moon Intentions, you are practicing the Minds: GOALS. Lunar intentions with awareness to increase perception is not goal orientated. So if we focus inward, what if you put tape over your mouth, how do you think your Mind and Body would react in the next 28 days? With harmony? With rebelliousness? With fear or worry? When we do not respect our self, Venus within can become crabby. Remember that with Taurus its our inner values and focusing on those, our self esteem and increasing our awareness. Venus Libra qualities in September, October are about relationships and partnerships. *************************************************** NEW MOON CYCLE IN ARIES 2008 "The Waking Dream" APRIL 6 - MAY 5 8:55pm PDT 16º 44’ and then FULL MOON in Scorpio Sunday, April 20 3:25am PDT, 0º 43’ First of the Fire Moons and Beginning of Mother Natures 13 Moon Yearly Season This moon is the Aries / Libra reality of RELATIONSHIPS. ALL MY RELATIONS. See, hear, feel and recognize what comes on your path the first two weeks before the full moon. Digest the medicine even if its difficult, complicated or dark. Eat from the hidden manna, which means their is medicine and wisdom in such difficulties. When we accept this we are given a new name. The quote I received as a prophecy ten years ago was: S/he who eats from the hidden manna, will receive a stone and on that stone shall receive a new name." I ate from the hidden manna, the mystery beyond the minds idealism, and a stone fell through my ceiling as my proof. This is one of my sacred Stones. What can I say, its SPRING - we should express LOVE in all its dark and light forms, and be aware enough to Celebrate Mother Earths Maiden Stage of blooming again in her eternal cycles of the spiral. For those on a healing journey, turn your inner eye outward and discipline yourself to first SEE your dream and then work at bringing each action each day into living your DREAM. For those who have no idea what to Dream, go see a movie and see how dreaming works, then bring it inward and create any one dream just for today. Let no one, or no thing stand in your way. Be the Aries Warrior for your Dream, Healing your Past and letting it go, and stepping into the new dream of Living in the Present Moment WITH loving your actions and treating your body with respect. Aries opposite sign is Libra, which means do all these Aries things in a Libra Way. The Libra way is RIGHT RELATIONS to the Spirit of all things and humans. If you did not practice this, then in two weeks, Life will show you EXACTLY where you need to look inward, by what is reflecting in the world around you near the full moon. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW MOON CYCLE IN PISCES "MERMAIDEN WARRIOR DREAM" MARCH 7 - APRIL 6 Libra-Aries Full Moon March 20, 3rd &amp; Last of the WATER Moons and Completion of Natures 13 Moon Yearly Season “I cannot tell you your Dreams and Purpose, if you will be Rich, Happy or if the Love of your life is coming, all I can tell you is to LOVE YOURSELF and whatever comes to you, let it approach with Sacredness, Groundedness, Self Respect and Truth even at the cost of losing it all." The Aquarian Moon last month should have given you a glimpse of personal vision and inner truth along with that Powerful Full Moon Eclipse of release, which would have brought to your attention where you walk in harmony and/or out of balance. Mythology in this Lunar Cycle is the Constellation of Pisces which appears as 2 fish swimming in those Aquarian Waters of Wisdom. These two moons together build to an interal cycle ending and we hold Pisces as the last Medicine Moon, connected to inner therapy and unconditional love. Pisces rules listening, self-undoing, counselling, non-judgment, non-resistant responsive motion all which helps us keep our thoughts, feelings, and focus on our inner Dream. The New Moon in Pisces this month is about Dreaming, living life as the creative, honesty, connectedness and peace. Pisces Moons mark our completion of the larger yearly 13 Moon Cycle bringing another natural year to a close and a new beginning at th Spring Equinox Aries Moon. Sun, Moon and Uranus are Conjuncted this moon cycle and Uranus asks: Where do I need a sense of Freedom right now in my Life! and WHAT do I need Freedom from? An addiction? A belief? From Myself and my own Undoing or Self Doubt? Uranus/Sun/Moon wants Freedom from Self-Bondage and this requires some healthy Risk taking, Destroying the Ego's instant gratification and letting the self remain peaceful and lucid a bit. Declaring to the Heavens or a Lover or a Friend your Truth right now today, to bring a sense of Independence or unity that leads to happiness because this moon is heavily influenced by a bucket of planets in Aquarius... The planets in order are: North Node, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Chiron. If I take the astro-myth-symbolic language for each of these planets and make a sentence it would be: My DESTINY [North Node] with LOVE touches all my RELATIONS [Venus] unified with my SPIRIT [Neptune] enabling me to LISTEN, JOURNEY INWARD and VOICE [Mercury] my KARMIC WOUNDEDNESS [Chiron] for my ultimate FREEDOM which is my TRUTH. Because Pisces is about dissolve - her complexities simplify, allowing us to reflect on the past year and if teachings talk about meditation, this would be the moon to practice and all our spiritual disciplines to deepened self awareness and consciousness, be it with the self, humans, the heavens or our earth for this moon touches the dreaming, the original religion which connects us to that web of life, holding our future seeds by seeing what we have let go and healed in our past and for many what more inner work we must do. Wisewo/men throughout the ages aligned and still align the Lunar dreaming phases or incubation as dreamtime in the 3 winter months until the spring Equinox to find completion and resolve, like taking a deep breath of release, so Spring may step forth with newness, vitality and brilliance no matter what your age. Pisces Moon cycle is the stillness before the growth.... So keep holding still this last 13th moon, dream well, and set intentions with vision for the last cycle before another rebirth. For like Babylonian times, this star formation of Pisces was associated two fish Goddesses, Anunitum and Simmah reminding us that we are a part of the great cosmic ocean here on earth and our growth or love depends upon our Emotional Body and State of Mind in UNITY. For it is LOVE and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE which holds its sacred wellspring in our Emotions called the Soul and in a Pisces Moon, she is that SOUL within us. ******************************************************************************************************** New Moon in AQUARIUS FEB 6 - MAR 7 2008 3rd and last of the years AIR Moons... "Dreaming with Vision" New Moon FEB 6 - Solar Eclipse, Full Moon FEB 20 - Lunar Eclipse, Dark Moon FEB 28 - MAR 7 On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse — the last one until Dec. 2010. I will be doing Ceremony on the Cahokia Mounds that night and invite you to join in to Celebrate the return of the Primordial Grandmother wisdom back to Earth from its 2500 year absence. We will also be speaking in prayer to the Primal Forrest Wolves and the Phoenix of the Middle West Mound sacred lands. THE NEW MOON: Visionary Aquarius… our 3rd and final Air Moon [Mental Body]. Why are Aquarian moons linked with Vision and Visionary Perspective? Because our emotion reaches it’s highest state moving all the way up to the higher mind, giving new idea's, creative solutions, humanitarian endeavors merging with any hidden or unconscious anarchy and rebelliousness within to reach personal truth. Aquarius is the Water Bearer, Water symbolically meaning Wisdom, the Wisdom Bearer of the Observer Higher Mind which can flow when we learn to still, train and conquer the lower Conscious Mind. When the Observer or Higher mind is freed, it finds clarity, unity, stillness, image and creative vision. But like all Moons, what is blocked, repressed, unconscious or hidden must be exposed in order to flow and this requires a practice of self mastery through self observation at very deep levels. Aquarian Moons bring CHANGE, so pay attention to what is needed this 28 day cycle inside yourself for changes to occur and what change is most important today. If we use intentions to welcome change and define it, we allow our intuitive soul to reach out and grasp what is not known yet to the mind. We do this to create a balanced agreement between our Mind and Emotional Soul body, and not a shocked when a change appears. My water wisdom is to understand that we can learn to Honor, Respect and Love CHAOS in an Aquarian Moon cycle, because that is the one big way to touch our own personal chaos and begin to see it and eventually heal [integrate] it. “It takes intense attention and dedication to work with Sacred Lunar Intention and at this level it becomes and transforms within as Awareness at least in the mental body first, the true secret of manifestation that has nothing to do with the physical world but within the worlds of self. To reach subtle synchronistic awareness connected to the All and to live within the true nature of energy mirrored within in relationship to everything outside the self.” For years I practice intention to heal myself, not reap what’s coming presently, which is the prophetic and dream walking gifts which are too, the teachings of the ancient lunar dream keeping connection to our Soul. I did not know back then that I would enter a luminosity of rebalancing my entire system according to the cycles of the moon in a present moment living way. Back then I held Moon Circles for women and women healers to discover the lost Mysteries of Herstory, the feminine. All my thirsts are quenched and now great peaceful, grounded and the ability to flow with Waters of Chaos [change]. My three stages of Self Awareness, Self Healing 1. New Moon [Awakening, learning, studying and connecting with like minded souls and practices]; 2. Full Moon [the healing stage with every healing modality and healer, mentally, emotionally] and the 3. Dark Moon [Shamanic 8 gates of underworld initiations, spiritually, death/rebirth medicines and journey]. Aquarian Moons also are the ruler ship of Hopes, Wishes and Dreams… I asked a de-toxing question to cleanse my body and the answer was given in my dream that night… The answer was two fold Friday evening... The first was I dream walked and met Joyce Owl Woman and her daughter two days before she was to interview me on her and Joseph’s web blog-cast. I had not met her before in the physical world. The second was the answer to my question, a couple, who I have met once before in dreamtime, a mid-aged olive skinned couple and their father, and the man looked at me and said "Eat Seaweed." I looked at him and I wanted to remember when I woke up so I repeated to him and said Seaweed? He nodded. So keep doing the work, let the Aquarian 28 Day Moon cycle support you’re Dream and Vision in your life and how you want to have a relationship with yourself which is connected to all relationships and humanity. **************************************************************************** New Moon in Capricorn 3rd and last of this years EARTH Moons... "Dreaming Groundedness with Emotion Tuesday, January 8 - February 7 5:37am CST 17º 33 Pluto moves into Capricorn January 25th till 2024 Ahh Capricorn, the only energy I have in Capricorn is my Mercury and I will use it wisely... Remember, when we attune to play with the great Lunar or MOON energy and teachings - we are 'working' with the nature of our INNER cycles. Capricorn by its very nature is exterior and our relationship to our exterior life through this reality of a physical world. The first thing I learned about Capricorn long ago still it stands today... If I did not plant seeds inward last spring to welcome changes through an everyday discipline, I shall bear little or no fruit of its reflection, when winter comes. Winter has come and this is a good Moon cycle to see where you have reached deeper since the last Spring Equinox, to heal and change because Capricorn encourages us deepen our Commitment to our Journey to BE IN THE WORLD ! The I-Ching wisdom to me, is very Capricorn and practical... "A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. S/he should first calmly hold their own, then be satisfied with the small gain, which will come by creative adaptations." "The superior wo/man acts in consonance with the way of Heaven and Earth, which is enduring and eternal. S/he perserveres long in the course and adapts to the times, and remains firm in the direction and correct goals." Of course danger in an inner lunar moon practice are all those things that bring us grief, dis-ease, imballance and the greatest wisdom in such moments are to "Surrender. In the process of surrendering, we are not looking to see if we have surrendered, or what part of us has surrendered; it is the state of surrendering. In that state of surrendering which loosens the our grasp of our mind, the present moment awareness of surrendering is the present moment inself. Surrendering can be likened to a mantra; not really saying the word "surrender" repeatedly but being aware of that which you are doing. Consenting, an act of acceptance to change or to change within. It is the logical course... trying to figure out why, or solving the issue of the feeling is resistance itself." *************************************************************** New Moon in Sagittarius 3rd and last of this years Fire Moons... "Dreaming with our Passion and Expansion" Sunday, Dec 9 - Jan 8, 2008 Jupiter and Pluto Exact Conj from 1:30 - 4:00 pm TUESDAY the 11th This past Wednesday I did a Seer reading and I only saw the woman for a few moments as she followed me into the darkened room. I sat across from her, closed my eyes and began to do the reading. After I was finished we talked for a 1/2 hour bridging the medicine. As I looked at her, she looked about 65 years old, her hair was kind of gray, unkept and wild and looked very tired. It was a good spiritual seer session. We walked out into the lighted room and I took her up to the counter to pay. As I looked at her, she was about 42, her skin was beautiful and perfect , she had gorgeous long black silky straight hair. I batted my eyes as I saw how she really looked in this world. I wasn't confused, I just realized that I was seeing her soul with visual clarity and its true visual past the blocks from the sub-conscious from past lives and pain. This had never happened to me in a reading in the physical level so dramatic and right there, but this week, things changed, the soul was taking form right before my waking eyes, rather than my 3rd eye seer eyes in the readings. As we stood at the counter, we chatted and she said her grandfather was a Shaman and she was very frightened of such things. After she left, i had a few thoughts... what if 2012 and the build up to this point, will just be a true manifestation of what our true Emotional Body [Soul] and we can all see what others shadows really appear as in this 3rd dimension. It could be a frightening for most... rather than thinking the shift is something outside of ourselves.... Today, to me, this moon has brought up many finalizing of issues that i have personally been working on very hard for the past 8 years, within me to really deal with and make a final commitment to truth and clarity with proper perspective, knowing i can only truly change myself into who i desire, that of compassion, love, appropriate boundaries and letting go of taking things personal. Closing all final CONTRACTS of my previous lessons of all my lifetimes. My soul has reached its over fill point and i have had enough of entrapment and so I was given two good tests this monthto let go, even if it means never seeing a loved one or being judged by others, I am balanced, loving, detached in a positive way NO MATTER what happens each day of my life. This may not be the words of the sugar coated reality that I remembered so long ago when i got on the path to heal all four bodies. But today it only takes minutes to clear or let go of what used to take years. To me this is soul evolution progress and I feel blessed. Now i truly can love unconditionally both myself and others without meditating myself, or any other thing.... just beings. And allow others who still hides behind their masks just be themselves on that Shakespearian stage of Karma and Drama.... living in full experience, that it has NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. This Moon is Simple, Very Simple and Clear for the next 28 days of the Moon Cycle. What and how do we use our Emotional and Spirit Energy for? After all... LUNAR teachings about experiencing. Moon and Feeling cannot be separated, even though we try sometimes to limit our feeling, to get along with others, or make things smooth, or keep things simpler than they really are by hiding behind something that is not authentically our truth. Life is not simple; it is complicated and simple at the same time. Embracing this concept allows us to work in the real world with real issues so we can experience, transform, let go and move forward. What does your Fire Energy create or destroy? Have you done something recently or in the past which has sold your Soul "down the river", even if it was simple? How do we handle FIRE energy with Ethics and personal Values and still love others unconditionally. It sounds like an impossible opposition and that’s what makes self awareness and doing the right thing, so blurry between the lines of the real and the imagined without taking on more Karma. Today Pluto and Jupiter are conjunct at our Galactic Center - Degree of 28 after 1:30 pm Tuesday. Last time for this transit at 28 degrees of Sagittarius was in the year 1025. Anything we do from this point after 4:00 pm when it completes its EXACT, doubles karma, doubles its return, doubles positive actions and choices. When it comes to our SOUL and our physical LIFE, it’s a constant balance. Great transformational energies and much personal activation is being experienced by all since The Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and the Harmonic Concordance in November 1997 and now we enter the 3rd and FINAL gate before 2012... I call it the Harmonic Contract, since there is no name out there. Letting go of old contracts with old Karma and creating new contracts with one's self so we can move in balance in the world and let go or as Rumi stated in his poem.... DIE, DIE, DIE IN THIS LOVE The I-Ching says: When we become conscious of something, Return immediately to Equanimity and Balance and follow the wisdom of the Sage ... in a Sag Month its a good idea, and that Sage is YOU EXPAND and TRANSFORM... that’s what Pluto and Jupiter’s unity define or clarify.... Recognize you’re SOUL and how it really feels or even looks to others. True freedom is not pretty, nor easy, it requires difficult and hard work and then transformation and release can occur, to take one giant step for the feminine and one gigantic leap for all of us. Blessings NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO.... Mary PAULS.... Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 | Jupiter conjuncts Pluto, Venus trines Mars This is it, the moment of truth, right here right now. Today, as Jupiter conjuncts Pluto on the Galactic Core, this is their message thundering from the heavens above and the deep voice within. Eric's article in this Monday's edition of Planet Waves Weekly just about says it all. It echoes everything I have been feeling and hearing all around me from people, whether or not they follow astrology. So here it is again. "How about this: Stop bullshitting yourself and do what you need to do. Do what you came to this Earth to do, starting today. Tell the people in your life the truth about who you are. Tell them what you need. Try it; I promise, you won't drop dead, and civilization will not end. If people blow you off, good for you -- they were blowing you off already. Stop worrying about it and get on with the life you came here to live. Don't let anyone stop you, most particularly yourself." This is also precisely the conversation I had over dinner last night with my brother. Life is just way too short to be anything but real and to waste time on bullshit. The thing is most of us even in spite of knowing the truth, will continue to keep up a facade out of politeness. All this activity in Sagittarius (if you have known any Sagittarians, you will know this is true) is leaving no room for that now. Tact and diplomacy, along with a whole load of other crap we've been led to believe, are flying out the window. We can't force another to be honest and up-front, but it takes two and we can refuse to play. Everything exploding in the cosmos is mirroring the core of who we are and what's happening inside. I assure you, we are going to need every ounce of energy we have to face the tomorrow hurtling our way to waste time on people who don't want to get real. Let it go. And speaking of bullshit, watch this. Opportunities and situations in our lives now have the power to catapult us far into the future. Jupiter is the bearer of good fortune, but Pluto asks for a complete surrender before we can collect his [Jupiter's] bounty. Aligned with the Galactic Core, this is a surrender to our innermost realities that we may have long forgotten or suppressed. I realize this may not be an easy time for all, but I would say this is the universe's wake-up call. It may be a little disorienting at first, but once we snap out of our dreams, we can start making them real. Also today, Mars trines Venus, bringing our intimate relationships into the mix. With Mars retrograde in Cancer and Venus in intense Scorpio, there seems to be some sort of role reversal between the sexes here. Venus wants to get to the bottom of it all, while Mars retreats. There is, though, a great opportunity now to get real about what we need in our relationships and heal past wounds of insecurity or abandonment. Trust your instincts -- float to the voice of love and you'll find fear just sort of melts away. To sum it all up, I will quote Eric once again: "The cosmos is broadcasting the message on every known frequency that it's time to stop giving yourself lame excuses to not make love, make art or make a difference." The Greeks have a concept of 'divine time' or Kairos that implies an opportune moment in time when the Divine penetrates the earthly sphere. And we are truly in one divine moment, right here, right now. *************************************************************** New Moon in Scorpio 2nd of the Water Moons.... "Dreaming with our Soul" Friday, Nov 9 - Dec 8, 2007 5:03 p.m. CDT, 17 Degree Scorpio Scorpio Moons are a reflection of our personal Soul and the hidden secrets and strengths, both positive and negative. The Soul as Emotional Body, the third and deepest trinity of Mind/Body gives the personal sub-conscious or personal underworld releases or an entrance.... we are allowed to see what our Soul is made of for the next 28 day Moon Cycle. Some are working on releasing karma, some making changes with old patterns of behavior or beliefs, some to heal issues of relationship to people or the physical world, and others illness and others trying to create a new dream after the healing journey is completed. During this late fall, when we play with the Moon within and its outer reflection, we make sure during a ‘Scorpio Moon’ that our INTENTION is created with consciousness to expand self - awareness. I remember even today, my Scorpio New Moon intention 7 years ago. I had set my intention in the circle to reveal my 'Real Compassion deeper inside' to surface. The next morning, a woman hit my brand new car I had purchased and all I could do was sit in the car and laugh, because I was very well aware that this intention and all intentions are answered perfectly. I got out of my car and there happened to be a police car parked at the 7-11 across the street. We both drove into the parking lot and filled out the paperwork. I asked the woman what happened. She said she heard a car screeching and looked into her rear view mirror and saw a big red truck coming at her and she had an anxiety attack. I said why at that moment when the man in the truck was only really driving 5 miles an hour and just drove around us. She said that last month, she had written her last check, paying off the dept of a previous accident ten years ago where both her knees were broken. I asked her if she was alright, gave her a hug so she would stop shaking and showed her much compassion, my intent answered. Three days later my insurance man called and asked me to tell my story... I did and he said the woman who hit you had no memory of hitting you and denies it. I said calmly, well, you know how emotions and the soul are; they are like the moon which is linked emotionally with our memory. And sometimes they are in denial when things are painful. My intention was answered that Scorpio moon, I saw just how powerful INTENTIONS are, but absolute focus and attention to how this lunar magnetic energy in our watery emotional body is ANSWERED - the psyche of inner awareness cannot increase, nor relate to the depth of our personal untouchable Soul and must become manifested in the physical world. In her case, it was the car accident, in mine, it was a beautiful intention and my awareness increased because of it. We walk a day dream and a night dream and I used the same symbolism for both. In this revealing New Moon Intention, her rear view mirror was symbolic of her past; the red truck, use of her fire energy and her physical body, police: inner authority; me: compassion of self and awareness [because this is what I was working on] and her, a reflection of the same issues at that time in my life. I felt at that moment I was having a transcendent moment. So take the opportunity to really dig deep this Lunar New Moon. In astrology they say: ’Do the planet or its does you’… same too with the lunar intentions, set it out there, and pay attention to what is revealed or comes in your space. As I practiced this year after year, I found that the answer came within the two weeks at the full moon, then a week, then a few days, then the next morning, and finally at the moment I set my intent… as long as it’s within you, not outside of self. Mars the sub-ruler of Scorpio, planet of action and will goes retrograde on November 15 and with Saturn conjunct the south node, this moon really addresses the new Dream and Mars will then go direct on January 30, 08. So take this next 3 MOON CYLCE to work on ONE INTENTION with Completion. Blessings and have a Great!!! 28 Days! Mary ************************************************************** New Moon in Libra October 11 - November 8, 2007 CST Souls Journey into 'Relationship' My New Moon Intention: Rise Oh Libra, Queen Venus returning again to Earth with a passion of love in Balance within All My Relations. Look at your emotions dear Soul and see where you respond like the Magician. Other-wise, my minds fantasy without my emotional bodies Soul serves only the desires need, not the need itself, never quite quenching the Seekers thirst. Equinimity, Balance, Respect, Harmony and Union brings us inner peace, a sense of fulfillment in all that we meet! I spent a wonderful evening with Jeannie Breeze [Alias Elton Jean] and Ravenwolf's New Moon Circle last night, it was peaceful, grounded and magical. Jeannie does such a wonderful soul filled meditation and Ravenwolfs beautiful magical flute and drums created a space of peace. So much so, that I visioned a beautiful dream as I particpated. We all seek harmony in whatever we are doing each day and this requires practice, practice, practice and not much else. Being in circle with like minded souls can mirror our ability to express action within positive clarity. Those who work at this, set their wise intention this night, to seek any clarity that may be in dis-harmony within, with relationships. Because Venus rules Gossip, Hersay, Jealousy, Needyness, and a host of other love out of balance energy, setting intent to work with this always leads to magical energy. Relationships are life long work, be it friend, family, work relationship, or our relationship to the earth. This Libra New Moon we can set our "intention" to help us clearly see what is within, that has need and desire. And where we can pull back when we need a rest from such union, that can help us regain a sense of calm to engage in the physical and non-physical aspects of our life. I had an Iranian woman call this morning who wanted some information about a reading. She said her english teacher from Iran came into her dream last night and gave her, her phone number. She could not remember the phone number and wanted to know what that meant. I said well, she really did come to you in your dream and wants to get ahold of you. She was hesitant to act upon such dreamings. In my world we can work out relationships in the waking regular life, what i term the waking dream or we can work them out in the nights dreaming. She did not want to contact this woman, but I encouraged her to follow through because its important when someone comes to you in a dream and speaks so clearly to connect. However it works for you this Moon of Right Relations, act upon it even if there is fear, it serves your conscious mind with nourishment from your own soul, this emotional body that is not limited to just your physical waking dream has a wellspring of wisdom for you. Dream Well and Set your Intention with Clarity to create balance, peace and harmony within all your relationships. ************************************************************** New Moon in Virgo 28 Day Cycle The Souls Journey Sep 11 to Oct 9, 2007 Solar Eclipse at 7:44 AM St Louis Greetings friends, we start the next 28 days in the Energy of Virgo ! My new Moon intention this month is: "Oh Celestial Maiden, Virtuous Virgo of Abundance and the Great Harvest, offer me a Blessing on this Solar Eclipse, squeezing me like grapes where I am not yet fully ripened into alchemic Wine!" Virgo Keywords for Setting your NEW MOON INTENTION today: Organized, adaptable, nervous, thoughtful, speculative, sensitive, pleasing, criticizing, inquisitive, talkative, mischievous, expressive, good memory, conceited, winning manner, intellectual, humane, witty, quick, logical, fretful, gift of gab, self-conscious, worrying, perceptive, observant. This finishing Moon in Leo had some drama and what I observed is this deep yearning in others to take their precious life force and help heal others. Virgo Moon says HEAL THY SELF FIRST, and then one has an Abundance and Overflow of energy and joy to help others. Today the Virgo Moon helps us finds some comfort and grounding for the next 28 days to direct our intent towards this goal of Health. When we follow the Sun’s teaching, we allow outside forces of life to enter our sacred space and either we respond with balance and harmony or like the south winds, we get blown around a bit. In the teachings of the Moon, we flow at each timed cycle, moving our body, our mind and our emotions with the Spirit of the Rivers of our life and keep flowing in stillness regardless. Dancing with the Moon is like the Lover inside who DANCES with our own rhythms, clarity, healthy choices and the ability to analyze the self in order to experience Mental, Emotional Health and Physical well-being. Virgo is very, very sensitive to its natural environment and our inner environment will be a clear mirror. If there are ANY separations between us and our natural self or natural environment, ask the higher self to show us this very clearly this month. Virgo's Soul Journey: This Virgo Moon is experiencing a Solar Eclipse and A Spiritual Audit is the term I heard last week that applied. Be very discerning and analytical to integrate and heal ANYTHING within the self that attracts dis-harmony or brings imbalance. Remember, we reflect, like a mirror our environment as the first level of karma, and the second level of karma is actually working on our dis-harmony or Adharma. The Virgin in Herstory is the IMAGE of wheat, corn and harvests of her life expressed by the Autumn Equinox, saying that the Seasons of our year have reached a fullness and abundance. What abundance is in your basket today, right now and what is bruised and spoiled? Efficient, Practical and Tolerant are the Maiden Virgo's best qualities and her dark moon wear’s stress, worry and emotional upsets. Discriminate between constructive criticism and being over demanding with yourself, requires the practicing of: Perfect Imperfection. Its ok to strive for perfection, as long as we understand imperfection is equaled. Virgo is ruled by Mercury / Hermes and demonstrates the discerning side of our nature and the powers of clear observation. We can apply her energy this month to see exactly where we need to return to wholeness. Virgo is highly tuned and sensitive to other people's energy and for the next 28 days begin to 'observe' your personal Virgo spaces in your Mind, Emotions and Physical. All parts need to be in place before a big picture can be seen by the self, keep working on the details this month to help us find flexibility and adaptability in earthy way and to "think" before we take risks that might be harmful or unproductive. HAVE A GREAT MOOONTH ! *************************************************************** THE 28 DAY LUNAR: LEO CYCLE NEW MOON: AUG. 12 LEO 5:02 cst 20 degree's [The Next 28 Days] FULL MOON: AUG. 28 PISCES 1:35 am cst, Total Lunar Eclipse lasting 3:33 min DARK MOON: SEPT. 4 - 10 [wisdom and contemplation part of the cycle of what occured in your life in the new and full] Note: Help yourself every 28 days by beginning to enter each month with practices of SELF-AWARENESS and the Art of Lunar Intention. For the next 28 days I suggest only "ONE INTENTION" for mastery. The mind is like a mirror, it can only see the surface of the reflection before you. Opening the deeper emotional body and its wisdom, begins to enter seeing from the sub-conscious emotional body or what I call the SOUL. I list here each month the archetype of the 38 day cycle in a small story. Practice, Focus and Remembrance with the MOON is to penetrate beyond our waking Life into the Emotional Energy Fields or expanded Energy of Consciousness. This involves setting a Sacred Intention, paying attention and seeing it through with perspective tools of the mind, to enter the perception body to REALLY see the reflection of yourself and everything you do. Buddhists call this the higher mind, but its not really the mind at all, its our intuitive emotional body who feels all the pain and the joy. This is an ancient practice by the Grandmothers long ago, where we align: 1. Our Dreaming Cycle 2. with the 28 Day Cycle of the Moon [and menses cycle for women] and her Magnetic Energy 3. and Our Emotional Body [Soul] and the Reunification of these '3 THE LEO NEW MOON THE LIONESS AND THE LION SHINE LIKE THE SUN WITHIN THE DREAMING WITH THE MOON The Lioness is considered the Queen of the Jungle, and like wise we all have a little of her Royalty within us in the warmth of our Spirit, our eagerness for attention and our desire to be loved. Leo the Lion King is an empowered Spiritual leader and faithful Servant. Lioness adores being served by his Grace. If the King is scorned, he may be vengeful and withdraw. If the Queen is scorned, she may exert her jealousy or revenge energy. The one liner Actress says: I CREATE and What you see is what you get. The Actor: I am here for your Pleasure and to Entertain You! In the 28 day Leo Moon there is flair for DRAMA and how much drama is awareness. How much am I involved personally in drama and can I retreat says the Lioness who with practice still remains creative and expressive! Remain aware Lions of YOUR impact, both positive and negative finding balance quickly in the Leo Moon, so others can benefit from your presence. Fire Moons are naturally warm and we can look inward like the Queen and King within, who gives light and heat to our Day Dream. Our inner candle brings a lot of light or some light to our stage when we stand with Integrity and Dignity. We won't get burn any faster if we remain aware with our intuition in situations this month. Fire isn't logical, it’s experiential and expressive, so our actions and attentions can be attained with some good LEO NEW MOON INTENTIONS to set the 28 day cycle off to a positive right from the Start. So what are some Positive Leo New Moon Intentions? Lets look at Leo's Archetype. It is the wonderful creative Mother who can bring some release and joy to her own inner child and then her own children. It is the Lion in his dignity and action as a Spiritual being. Becoming aware this moon is paying attention to your inner child who is hurt, and this will be determined if any drama arises and how you respond or attach or detach positively because the shadow is needy in this moon cycle. We don't need to transform our good qualities obviously, so we generally look to where we are out of balance and with each moon there is a building up and a release of energy of a particular Archetype or Expression of Leo. By the Full Moon, two weeks later, we should be able to see where the DRAMA was expressed, if not ourselves or others, then in our Inner child and how s/he felt by the Fullness of the Moon. Work in any modality is a great way to express this Fire Energy by playing a little bit more this month and becoming conscious of that in order to find opposition to the drama. Astrologically, the Sun represents our will and our desire, a fuel that fires us individuality and gives us the energy to live a life of passion and being in love with life in harmony. If we don't master self love, then the hosts of drama plays out before us. In a Leo Moon, see it, re-claim it and become aware of it with personal responsibility. These are the keys to experiences and letting go this Leo Moon. We can do it in a very creative way, a playful and loving natural way or a drama way. In its Shadow Leo is the Needy child, who did not feel the love and attention at some point in growth and seeks attention as an adult. Become self aware where your needs are and just SHARE this with those you love which can maximizes our strengths and overcome our fears. Wear the Leo Mask this month if you have any conflict on any of the 28 days in order to protect yourself and also be the Queen of the Lioness Mask if you want to give and receive Warmth inside the Heart this month or the Mask of the Leo Lion King if you need to protect yourself. Both wo/men can use its masculine and feminine qualities anytime this month. : ) Mary ______________________________________________________________________________________ CANCER NEW MOON Jul 1 - Aug 11 2007 Element: YIN Feminine FULL: AQUARIUS JULY 29 2007 DARK: AUGUST 9-11 Dreamy Lunar Eclipse AUG 28 2007 From Dr. Tony at Nasa: August 28th there is going to be a colorful lunar eclipse visible from five continents including most of North America: Event begins 54 minutes past midnight PDT on August 28th when the Moon enters Earth's shadow. At first, there's little change. The outskirts of Earth's shadow are as pale as the Moon itself; an onlooker might not even realize anything is happening. But as the Moon penetrates deeper, a startling metamorphosis occurs. Around 2:52 am PDT (0952 UT), the color of the Moon changes from moondust-gray to sunset-red. This is totality, and it lasts for 90 minutes. AQUARIUS FULL MOON I am a Woman who Dreams, I already know you, you were my great, great, great grandchild, do you remember? Let me help you remember by not taking things personally especially what others do or say to you. Forgive them and then forgive yourself, for you were only a child, even at 70 years old. I am strong enough to love you and you are strong and beautiful enough to change that which keeps your Soul heavier than a Feather. – M. Novak A Dreamtime Story for the Aquarian Full Moon Six years ago I received a phone call at home from a young man who said: “This may seem strange to you, but I live in Vancouver, British Columbia and you dream walked with my Grandfather last night in our medicine lodge and gave him your phone number.” I replied I had not been unaware last night and to apologize to Grandfather where in live in St. Louis. I explained that I had been doing my healing work with dedication and had already been working with my Dreams for about seven years to master the foundation of the ‘present’ dreaming, an aspect of dreaming of inner communication as guidance to a personal waking life. He said we wanted to make sure we contact you and that is why i called. It was a very simple conversation and I thanked him for his generosity. Two months later the young man called again and said Grandfather told me to call you again, that you came to him again in his medicine lodge and this time he would make sure you understood this was urgent and important. I thanked him again. “Grandfather then said he found out a whole lot about you on the other side and that it was time for you to move to the Northwest and begin your work.” Well I really did not plan on moving from my home which I loved and always offered me the Universe in my backyard. I asked him if he could share with me what Grandfather had found out about me for I was curious?” The grandson laughed and said I can't tell you, he shared it with us, but you will have to find that within and for yourself. After I hung up the phone, this Grandfather gave the best teaching he could have possibly have given me by speaking nothing and stirring my curiosity so deeply that I began to day dream on his sharing everyday. I had done a lot of personal work by them, I had entered circles and practiced practices to be with like-minded souls in many traditions in my New Moon stage of my awakening Journey of self healing. I was determined that I would come to understand this Great Mystery even if it killed me. They say be careful what you wish for and as a Shaman my wish had come true. After that call, I began the next level inward of my healing journey, the Full Moon stage of my Spiral Medicine inward. Here is when the healing work begins, the love and light stage of the New Moon fades and becomes thirst quenching and now the Soul years for more. Maybe that was just me. At thsi point i practiced, practiced, practiced as if i were to give a concert at the Royal Hall, to master and still my mind to the least amount of power and bring it to the zero point for it guides our reality and that reality is so much larger than the mind. Being an Aquarian in the Gemini house, it is a oubled mental power, direction of the North and seeing both sides of not only visions but personal abilities to go both inward and outwards. My difficult mind twas hard to slaughter in the Buddhist and Tibetan traditions but I did it because I knew, if I was to truly be within the truth of the Great Mystery, I had to understand my own personal truth equaled to it. Is there any other way? Drive, passion and hard work are the keys to accomplish anything in this waking dream, and now I wanted to explore, discover the opposite, the Grandmother teachings, and hgad came to an enlightenment and realization from experiences that it is the cosmic emotional body [soul] where love and unconditional love exists and yes these are in words and even practices of all teachings depending upon how far you wish to go. But I knew something still was missing. I couldn't put my finger on it but I just knew. I was intelligent enough to know that this journey had been done before, that others had gone before and when the Deer spoke to me in the unified fields in 1987, she had granted me wisdom by allowing me to listen and to be with her and she said only 2% of humans on the Earth had completed the journey to enter the unified fields. I would imagine now in 2007 that this has risen to at least 5 or 6% of 7.4 billion souls. I felt blessed that I never naturally had Idols but later mentors who didn't know they were. I am aloof, even as a child I only questioned and never accepted unless I could see the core truth, not a Master Jesus nor a Rock Star. As I matured in my immature ways I guess I just found out that grandmother wisdom and mother earths wisdom were much more divine than I had recognized and still honoring all humanities teachings. In Chinese my path and where I was at was called Jin Jin, that if you refuse as a Shaman to take the path of a Shamanka when the Spirit comes calling, you will find meet your final death, around the corner. I knew this was truth and it was a fearful reality, not a judgment or thought or opinion. For I was given all the dysfunctions and I would be given the entire path to heal. This I knew was the true Law of Attraction that had nothing to do with money, and self-pleasuring ones’ ego and we are continually tested, even this past month for me, I remembered and I let go immediately. With no job, no respect, no-thing and even 20 something’s attacking my truth as a spiritual woman, I resigned and retretated from exhaustion hitting the lowest point in my life, weak, loss of life savings, no home and yet I could still laugh, my spirit and energy body was getting stronger and in a strange way I was seeing progress. It was both happening at the same time. I felt a loneliness that was unbearable, but not lonely. The isolation from my mystical experiences was pulling me further and further away from others for they would here my stories but unable to relate from experience, this caused torment and separation. At that moment, I chose to do the opposite. I made a commitment to myself, to go the entire mystics journey, to enter my shadow fields even if it was unbearable. I had already many extraordinary Dreaming’s and Lucidity, Astral Travels and even Visions before Grandfather called. I could feel things in my being, like some feel the weather changes on their knees. I was ready to step outside that box inside the bigger box, everyone know of but does not acknowledge by actually stepping across the threshold, the flat books of knowledge and the circles of the Age of Pisces for the past 2,500 years of teachings at that point were too limited. I wasn’t afraid anymore. So having my life on hold in a dreaming suspension and fully trusting in a Native Grandfather that I had never met I moved to Seattle with no job, money, no place to live and not knowing a soul past the Colorado Rockies and at 44 for me this was not easy. I would live there for four years, visions that soon came after I arrived would show me my collective work and to truly understand the depths of the unified fields of the deep experiencing of personal shadow and across the veil and the souls shadows who resided there. In Seattle I entered and began to experience the final third stage, the Dark Moon of my healing journey, what I call the gates into the real underworld, which are the darkest and I cannot say for sure if anyone but Shamans, true Shamans experience. The experiencing of consciousness of Self and the Mirror of the dimensions and the great void reflects back. Spirit and Nature and her consciousness reflecting back as equal in both the darkest and the lightest of my self. I had begun to access the spaces of fragments between my sub-conscious and my unconscious which co-existed at the same time in vision in the astral planes of earth of holographic fragments and watery energy fields, which reflected was reflecting. The Dark Moon healing was the shortest ‘Time’ period and most intense, and it was at the same time the longest and most difficult. Like a double Spiral and although I never read nor studies the double helix that’s a good word to describe it. What is it that I speak of? Oh its quite simple and you know what it is, that’s what you seek as a truth seeker and if you make the whole journey, you will understand what you already knew. It is here you meet your ugliest demons and shadowed self, the ones you never knew existed nor recognized; the one’s all the sacred texts in all traditions are written about. In the Dark Moon journey, they transformed from stories to experienced reality. A going into these inner Chamber of Ereshkigal. I too, like others had believed that what I knew was what existed, my reality up to each point in my life after 30, but this existence was not my reality… The Grandest of all illusion that leaves a filmy covering, a coating of rose-colored glass, a delusion that a mind can justify NOT to experience. Even though I had never committed a crime, nor stole, nor had any drug or drink problems, these were not the crimes in which I speak in the great betrayal of our self and of our souls emotional body, where all wars exist and manifest as personal karma, and our fear to touch and re-experience it lifetime after lifetime. No I am not a master, not even close, I am not a Light Worker, I am a Shaman and shamans understand and experience both the teachings of the Light and Dark and must know them BOTH intimately. mvoing into personal Evolution and the Drama of the Soul. Where you participated clearly and we begin to truly see, great or small within your self personally and because you cannot look away anymore from your own divinity the shadow must seen, touched, tasted and healed and it feels like death and it is death in the mental, emotional and physical body in order to merge as one and enter the unified of self and the unified fields simultaneously at each cycle revealing more and more. This is Enlightenment in its truest sense. A poem I wrote at this time was: An Ancient Shamans Dream In this existence, three million frozen oceans fill my broken heart of my ancient shaman’s silent screams of what is happening to me and my brothers and sisters, my oceans and land spirits of the animals and trees. One single drop of THIS precious tear falling down from your Souls eyes waited an eternity for you. In the Nature of Love, the Darkest watcher behind the veils clothed me in naked garments of beautiful and dangerous wisdom. This scripture was never for sale by those who wrote the word in red velvet shields of Conquests. Statues that actually built Kingdoms along its glorious path. Now, I am the one who must endure the frightened child’s dreaming each night freeing my own Soul regardless of my minds truth. Shadows of emotional remembrance until my last death released the timeless and ageless hold upon my mortality’s final awareness. Heaven is not to be experienced ‘after’ death but to bring over with you when you pass over. Through the Spirit of the Wind The soul and the mind are known throughout his story to have infamous battles. The poor mind, it can only stumble and master geometrics, language, physics, statistics and a host of other rote Magic tricks. When you challenge this Mind and hold your own Sword and Dagger to your precious throat, asking it to be prepared for its own slaughter, be ready for childish tantrums that you never knew existed on Earth. You shake your fist at the wind and god and cry but the wind only speaks and never listens. When she blows down your house that you have built, you shall have learned something of great value. Hearts and minds do not guide this precious Soul who teaches us like children patience to Mind and Body and then calls us to the eternal endless cycles without any alpha’s and omegas. She is the keeper of such Wisdom where battles were never to touch a physical plane. Pain and joy rises and lowers like the tides and offers you the hidden manna as deep as your own eternity. Be thankful for such deaths, which is the Grace to awaken you from your own deep slumbers. Once awakened, you will no longer be or able to turn away from the projection of your pain without seeing it clearly in the wars that never were for protection but the misery and suffering of your own new ancestors of innocent children to come. We are each guilty of such heresy and these precious waters reveal the reflections you see in the Shadows of your own being. Come the wind whispers each night, free your Soul who is coiled moving upwards and downwards and merge with the spiraling Sacred Serpent of Eternity’s Void. My dreaming increased to week long visions a year after I was in the Northwest. I knew why I had come, it was not pleasure, it was not safe, it was not abundance and it was all the greatest gift of all. Reaching for the opposite reveals the truth. When I would rest I would go to Mt. Tahoma [Rainer] and take large bottles of water to bring home with me. I would drink her waters, knowing that her wisdom in that water and its consciousness would communicate to my magnetic fields of my emotional body inside me and I was right, it did. I would speak to the water, pour it in my bath, soak in it, and ask her for more lessons that tested my endurance to heal. She was loving in her beauty, as I would see her in the distance, as I got closer. Drinking such water straight from the Mountain herself as a woman, was like breast feeding from my own Mother. She was my Mother having lost my own mother at 30. She was just as beautiful. I was trying to survive the visions and dreamings in a left-brain society and world. The Secret and the Karma which one is unawareness transformed and at times I judged myself for having made such a decision to come to the Northwest, I realized the traditions of Kali in experience now and to slay each one of my minds realities one by one, hanging them around my neck for all to see in my discomfort, my crabbiness my sheer black jaguar within becoming exposed without excuses. I knew then what the ‘Real Work’ of Enlightenment is and I was moving beyond the Gate and yes it is luminous, but I trusted myself that I would not stay and this story will be my last to free myself from the blessings of my journeys. A light seeking path briought no fertility and nourishment to my psyche, only the paranormal and the minds hunger and thirst for knowledge that was now too limiting, rather than experiences, wisdom, experiences, wisdom, experiences, wisdom, and reflection. I had met a man at a coffee place, during that time and he had shared his Fetish that he seemed so proud of, that I supposed was popular in the underground of Seattle. Those who do things to others that are their pain projected but in a slick urban way that their mind validates. I didn’t understand but I am sure where his soul was in his evolution it was probably perfect for him. I was getting to some deeper pain across the veil now in the mirrors of the tormented who are dead ones that were reflecting yet a deeper level, that sharing is mine and I keep it for now because it too long of a story/ But, him showing up on my path that afternoon was a reflection of its equaled mirror outside of myself. The holograph was being torn, I was entering fragmented dream windows of distortion, I suppose Don Juan knows what I am speaking of, I call this one: Fetishes Fetishes, whips and leather. He punishes women just like his father as he saw his mother weak as an innocent child who could not protect him. Now in his Heart, he has become his father’s rage and his mother’s weakness. Child of pain below your tyrant Mind, I am the one who remembers your suffering for I see you with my dreaming emotions. I whisper one last Time, I remember you before you were born, your name is not forgotten, for you wear the |marks upon your Soul that I can see without judgment. First you were the Father, now you have come back to earth as the Son, in the future you will come as the woman who is beat. You only get three chances to remember, then trapped forever, without a body. This is what Hell is, nothing more, nothing less. I am not your Christ to crucify, your projection will not heal this mark upon your Soul. I did not come here to wash away your Sin; I came here to tell you the Truth. The Memory and the prison in your nightly blood of Roses, below illusion you lay on an infinite Bed of Thorns. It is not to late to heal your own demon within and let go of your Fear to be Loved. And then begins another new cycle inward again and again and again I was dizzy, like laboring I child I could only breath through these experiences now. I was allowing my dreaming emotional body to be free in every sense, alone, in my visions and dreamings, in my reflections the next day. I laughed and told others I had an invisible PhD and it hangs in the infamous Gate on the other side in Dante’s Inferno and the gates beyond in Hell and if you truly wish for me to prove what it is I say is truth, it lays there in the Book of the Dead as proof, all you have to do is take a travel there and tell me your story when you return. That will be our only philosophies. I can breathe deeply knowing that I reclaimed all of my soul fragments and that the big stamp of KARMA PAID in red was written in the great Hall of Records in the Dreaming. Am I different from you? No, I just traveled there to the Holy Grail, the Great Yin Feminine teachings, which man fears and it resides inside your souls emotional body and all its complexities, uncomfortable feelings and you hurt no one but yourself and save no ones soul but your own through with teachings only as a guide to bring you to that infamous Gate in which you stand there making a choice to cross or forever ‘hold’ your peace, then the journey begins and you are truly alone and then the great return, to enjoy a nice cup of Starbucks like you never did anywhere off of the Great Mother Earth. I really was never curious to meet or ask to meet Grandfather or even ask his name, it was not important, I was not Native American this lifetime and did not wish to be, I was very happy with my Slavic ancestors who know and love and I learned the same great teachings in their way. I remember all my past lives; I have been many in many traditions, in my reality so have you. There is no one way, no one great teaching, they all have something to contribute and I listened to all of them, I practiced small parts of all of them, all I was doing was remembering myself. The Grandson shared his name and phone number but I never called or asked to visit, there was too much healing work within to do. I trusted and believed in myself enough to trust the Grandfather and realize that by the time I was 38 and still on a path, I was not even aware that story and myth could become a real actual reality. Dreaming is everything; the Dreamer is Unique, the two meet at some point in the Great Dream. It is my Emotional Soul Body \that is healed and that was the secret, the karma, the greatest gift and gratitude that I could give to my Spirit allowing it to be free, no matter what it seemed in the blurry lines between duality of good and evil so I could truly then be could connect to Great Spirit and finally recognize it. I don’t know what everyone else is here on this fertile ground in which the Mother Earth gives so loving her precious body as a gift to heal our Soul. I did it because I had to do my collective shamanic work equally to myself, and that was my mission, that’s what I came to Earth to do and why I am here. Now is done, what the future holds is not really important, it is to be lived and experienced with gratefulness, reverence, compassion, fire, resolving conflict as soon as it arises. Before Enlightenment Carry Water Chop Wood, after Enlightenment Carry Water Chop Wood. I had to do this level of healing work for the 2012 shift and to clear and lock down the magnetic fields but it was only a reflection equaled to my emotional magnetic body and it’s healing. It the only gift to Humanity and myself that I could give, they call this Selfless Love. Loving the Self at such depths that it allows you to love and accept the Spirit in all things and to be that balance in right relationship. And it didn’t cost Humanity a dime. I did it for and for my love of the Primordial Grandmothers, the Great Mother, the Grandmother Moon and the Mother Earth. She is the Great Mystery Teachings, in which we bestowed our openness to listen to her wisdom and why I honor these now first above all teachings on Earth. It was Grandmother who carried Remembrance; I only woke up in her Dreaming to remember. THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BODY: Love, Unconditional Love, Intuition, Dreaming, Remote Viewing, Peace, Lucidity, Astral Travel, Dream Walking, Communicating with Trees and Animals, Seer-ship, Psychic-ness, Clair-audio, Clair-sentience, Clair-Vision, Prophecy, Prophetic Wisdom, Art, Creativity on all levels, Common Sense, Laughter, Joy, Sorrow, Suffering, Knowing and the greatest Truth. Mind and Body is temporary on Earth, these yang or masculine gifts that exist are given everything from the Emotional body and Spirit body, this is the Secret and the Mystery, who would have thought I spent a 13 year journey to find this truth that no one believes. Does it matter? No, will the rest of the 95% eventually remember Grandmothers teachings that she exists for 12 of the 13 cycles each 27,000 years? Can I prove it to the non-believers and those who believe the Mind to be Cosmic? No. You just have to go there yourself. Can I sleep and dream very well, see others suffering and be with peace inside with all the wars of all fears all over this precious earth both internally inside humans and externally? That would be a define Yes. </div> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:27:07 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/fa5cc6c9-70ef-466a-93eb-917403029c7f DreamKeeper 2009-10-17T06:27:07Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c90cd868-87aa-4eab-ba33-33f4972afb25 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c90cd868-87aa-4eab-ba33-33f4972afb25"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/85c/90a/85c90a1e-6984-44e3-9336-cf010ed8e34f.thumb" width="55" height="77" alt="" /> </a> <div>Since I now work with Tunupa, the Thunder Primordial God of South America, my friend Anna sends me this... his consort... Mazu Goddess Mazu started as a human being. She had this special skill of knowing about weather and when one could go sailing on the sea and when one had better not to. As a young girl, one day while she was sitting at a loom weaving, she went into a trance and saw that her fisherman father and brothers were in trouble on the stormy sea. As a spirit she flied to rescue them; she saved her brothers first and carried them into safety, and then she returned to save her father. But in the meanwhile at home, her mother discovered her having fallen asleep and tried to wake her up, which interrupted Mazu's trance and caused her spirit drop the father, so the father drowned. The next day Mazu went to the sea, dived into it and found her father's body which she then brought back home for a proper funeral. Later on, when Mazu was 28 years old, she decided she had lived long enough, so she bid her family farewell and walked up to a mountaintop, where she was surrounded by white clouds, and within a beam of light she stepped into the heaven; only a rainbow remained where she had been standing. "Many people believe that when one is facing great difficulty, one can call her by the name 'Mazu' and she will immediately come to your rescue." There's water, water, and water, again and again; the theme keeps coming up, and I'm sure there is a message there.</div> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:19:33 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c90cd868-87aa-4eab-ba33-33f4972afb25 DreamKeeper 2009-10-15T20:19:33Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/2517d123-d17f-45be-9ac9-51fbe625435d <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/2517d123-d17f-45be-9ac9-51fbe625435d"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/178/990/17899052-639d-4484-a5bd-3a910b993255.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /> </a> <div>Where is our great light in winter, other than darkness who opens her dreaming at night, that cannot be shared. Whoever journeys there is required to live not in a world of gods, but a suspended state of death, called emptiness. Empty-Oneness takes form without a belief or understanding, starting from a path of innocence's light. Dreamer, it is you who must sacrifice everything for nothing, casting no false light in such emptiness. For surely winter is the keeper of your own darkness. When winter opens her doorways, innocence must die and all hope then dissolves, for illusion commands such respect. Awakenings crumble, the desert flower fades along the shore, rejecting your thought induced truth. Truth germinates from loneliness, insanity, isolation and suffering into the renewals of Spring. Innocence remains forever invisible, suspended, until wisdom emerges, like a hidden past seedling or a prior winters moon, forever pushing up slowly from the depth of your own mother earths womb. These are the roots deeply grounded, a magical-realism of one’s own faith and trust in the self beyond the cold and darkening mirrors that move closer. Ahhh, the rebirth of renewal and spring, lays dormant this long winters night.... until next winter's return.</div> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:07:37 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/2517d123-d17f-45be-9ac9-51fbe625435d DreamKeeper 2009-10-12T18:07:37Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e3f4fdae-02e1-4d1b-9ad7-f845b02ac774 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e3f4fdae-02e1-4d1b-9ad7-f845b02ac774"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f95/09c/f9509c96-3e90-4c43-902f-06dc77aa7000.thumb" width="65" height="35" alt="" /> </a> <div>Since the start of 2009, I have been blessed in my healing work, from being assisted by the Muskoxen Spirits and feel blessed as a shaman to have such a powerful and beautiful teacher / helper. I work on dreamers, healers and those struggling with difficult dis-eases, working with their unconscious fragmented past life shadows or black astral bodies which causes great soul disease of the emotional body and sometimes effecting the physical nature of their body. I feel Musk appeared when I needed it and when I was ready to use such powerful buffalo medicine. Muskoxen are truly arctic animals, well-adapted to extreme environments (which in symbolism are those who are in toxic personal or family relationships or past life soul relations of self). They are insulated and protected with long, thick coat of dark brown hair and woolly undercoat (much like a shaman must be at these levels of penetration into diseased energy at its highest levels). Muskoxen became extinct across much of their range in Norther Europe and Alaska, largely due from over hunting by men and have been successfully reintroduced into Alaska, Greenland where they were completely extinct. Bless the Musk Oxen. My spirit and their spirit at the higher planes of the middle world now work together and they have so much to teach me and I listen very deeply to what they show me and how to work on the bodies of humans, animals, plants, tree's, avian, oceania.</div> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:36:52 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e3f4fdae-02e1-4d1b-9ad7-f845b02ac774 DreamKeeper 2009-10-04T21:36:52Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/96472a24-cabe-4f96-9d06-58790465871c <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/96472a24-cabe-4f96-9d06-58790465871c"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/dde/c62/ddec629a-fa5d-4234-b58c-32ed3aa36426.thumb" width="55" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>Creativity is energy, energy is the heat of our life force and heat is the root of our sexual power that is focused manifested action, whether that be sexual, creative art, music and craft or the physical manifestation of a birthing of something, an idea, a philosophy, a deity, religion or a child. The basis of all Creation includes destruction when something no longer serves our highest good or we have reached an end of its teaching such as a divorce, a physical move, a new career a letting go. This is at the root teachings of dreaming and shamanism. Shaman energy and heat brings you beyond your belief systems and shows you: 'Nothing is what it really seems'. Mythology and the Dreaming Universe of Creation goes hand in hand and as its principle expression "We are Creative" in solving personal issues, emotional self destruction, or imprisonment to the physical nature of 'stuff'. There can be no separation in this reality. First let me explain that we have a physical action that is masculine in archetype and a passive nature that is feminine receptive called letting go and surrendering, not of our ideal, but the destructive parts of its illusion. The ancient myths taught this secret through art, creativity, music, ritual of dance, the expression of honesty in the union of community which or circle that does not judge, and comes together for the particular reason of expressing emotions. To brings unity into our collective expression as individuals into (energy) unity or a destruction of something no longer helping us anymore that is outgrown or dead. This is a truer Living Art. When we experience deeper levels of wholeness on a personal healing or spiritual journey, we experience the depths of the act of creation as truth with being honest or truthful to our personal nature. When we express pornography as art, we express a truth in what we yearn to heal, when we expression a mountain side of flowers in a painting, we express a union of what we week to understand within beauty. All forms of expression of union includes our own personal darkness and healing of this some level. Primal cultures and all human tribes of all races understand or understood that we reflection our natural world which is our teacher, just as our parents are our first teachers. To learn from the abundance of Creativity as union with our natural selves, we begin to express the act of creation from our emotional body and our spiritual body, and then in union emulate and express it outwards with our mental and physical body. In Shamanism imagery is the sacred union of mental and emotional expression within living fully and in wholeness. Trying to undertake any depth of one's journey into the depths with personal insight is where such creation exists, as within, so above AND below… this is mandatory and takes fluidity, release, dedication and great perspective of the self, by starting with: 'What are my personal beliefs; how do I reflect the mirrors around me, both light and shadow; and what is my present reality of the illusions that I cannot understand, nor see or even believe about myself and my world as it is now. Artists tend to release the mind and join into the union of the emotional body where art surfaces from feeling. The mind can view, review, mold, shape, any belief system it wants, but what is the driving force behind that constant workings when the artist is within the act of creation is change, acceptance, letting go, so we are all artists as creators and destroyers of our own reality. It is not that different than lovemaking when it includes love, it’s a movement and a dance of feeling powerful creative energy driving the spirit of self to merge and unify. And what blocks our desire, our lovemaking in our is karmic, called self undoing and self hate. In the beginning stages to move beyond separation where creation within us exists, it is necessary to go to these places with our logical and reasoning mind. This part of our mind always brings us to the infamous Gate called: The Unconscious or as Myth calls it, the 'Underworld - our Dark Primal Matter. Mythology and Symbolism is a linking bridge of the spirit of the inner creative acts through discovering our personal story of our storytelling, the illusions we invest in, the lies we believe about our from inner or an outer source and our fears that go along with them. When we are young, before forty, we are learning about them, after forty, our life starts to show us the burden of carrying them, and after sixty, we prepare for death in some small fashion. The more we practice letting go, the greater we are prepared. In pre-history the creation aspect of art, out number languages. Doing rather than discussing, feeling rather than over analyzing how we feel, expressing both light and shadow than representation shadows. When we work with our interior night, what is referred to in myth as darkness on a surface level, much less any level, we must recognize collective that for 3000 years of a Solar or mental reality without the counter balance of the Lunar or inner reality , the interior feminine of creative expression diminishes and we become a slave of any nature to what we fear, over millenniums from a high valued system to the lowest. There are reasons both physically and physiologically, all the core teachings talk about how to surrenders everything for the advancement of consciousness, our primal spirit needs to evolve for the elemental mental consciousness growth first, but not at the loss of our emotional consciousness. Chaos in its origination means Creation and within all creation is destruction, the inevitable yin/yang or light dark wholeness. This is why many shamans are artists, blessed with an overabundant of overwhelming emotion, creating beauty that seems self destructive to others. Community and Tribe once supported this as an intricate weaved fabric of smaller societies which to accept the depth from a karmic or evolutionary soul understanding. The dreaming at its greater yet unknown levels, bridges these depths, and what springs forth from this feminine wellspring within all of us, comes the images and co-creation with my spiritual self which can dream walk across the earth at night and allow awareness that the image can express a thousand words. I call myself a 'transitioner of darkness', rather than a 'seeker of light', which most people don't understand. As a death and rebirth Shaman, I see so many Illusions trying to reaching for the Light, that fatherly or masculine promise of heavenly delights finding all the depths of healing and abundance, or the good girl/boy metaphor. Do you know anyone on earth that hasn't been through times of struggle, shadowy realities in their personal life? So therefore it exists and like energy, it can neither be created, nor destroyed, only transformed and within transformation is creation. As a tribe, we have all come to the gate that we no longer come to terms with darkness or our night lunar self as a positive primal depth. Have we been taught to reach for the light not only in religion but in science and art as well. and never honor that which makes us constantly struggle, never overcoming it? This is where dreams and remembrance of the dream of who we truly are without looking away at our own shadows from ignorance, or the fear of not being able to judge others anymore, because if we lift up our own dirt, we would have to sacrifice of judging others. Leonard Shlain from his book: Art &amp; Physics explains: 'Having invented a new way to conceptualize space and time, the Greek philosophers tried to understand the nature of light. The pre-classical Greeks did not distinguish it between 'eye' and 'light': either word could be used to describe something beloved or beautiful. Eyes seem to emanate light and sources of light. The sun could be called an eye and one's eye was referred to as a light or the doorway to the soul. The later Greeks began to separate light as the vehicle of information from the sense organ that received it. Aristotle called the eye 'the gate of the intellect,' after Alcmaeon in the sixth century b.c. discovered that the optic nerve connected the eye with the brain. At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle remarks how we value sight above all else. We value Light above all and it let's us know and reveal the difference between things. The Greeks began to see light as properties. Since space was empty, light had to be something that traveled through nothingness or voidlessness. Plato proposed that: Light emanated from within our mind'. In Plato's theory, light rays shot forth from our eyes enveloping those objects we could not see. Aristotle conjectured the exact opposite he thought light originated from the sun or something outside of the self and bounced off the objects. Implicit in both Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas of light were that it was a 'thing'. They assumed it traveled from here to there through space, though they were not sure if light performed this mysterious feat in a certain allotted time or whether its transfer was instant. *4 I tend to favor Plato's perspective, not in the physical sense of science, but the philosophical basis of light and dark matter exists and is born out of darkness itself. That darkness or voidlessness is the elder and more dominating force in the universe of creation. That light does not exist, but our projection of our minds limited abilities to attain a 'thing'. In religion its control, in government its power', but beyond the realm of energy itself, it does not exist. Plato and Aristotle were still looking at light for the answers to the mysteries of the universe, but mastering your own darkness has no thing attached to it, as something to control or that it has no value and depth of meaning, free from the constraints of time or space, in other worlds, what we personally fear. What would happen if you let it go of these constraints? Most people go to a place of fear with just a thought of this reality or mention of the word darkness itself. My daughter when she was exploring as a teenager: 'I am an anarchist, why does society fear the loss of political, corporate and religion control. She with her next generation of ideas of confronting darkness explains: Do they think the world would fall apart and become chaos, I don't think it would? Its destruction would 'seem' as if this was occurring, but in reality it's just a shifting of tectonic plates, handing over one set of perspectives and beliefs to the newer one". After I thought about what she said, after integrating my own darkness and finding reintegration, I remain the same person I was before with greater self awareness and my shaman self reflects who I am more clearly at my depth overcoming all fears. In an anarchic state we would just experience deeper tests on a personal nature, but so too would the murderer in a state of anarchy, we would remain the same as a soul without any difference except we step into a self created universal by means of fear processing. Why don’t people live their dream, do what they love? Because these gates must be crossed. So what changes? We must change. This is exactly what led me to believe that on a spiritual quest, an artistic journey or a scientific one, the answer brings us again back to the infamous Gate of our personal Underworld and what we fear based on our inner pain and fear as little children, be it past life, or unknown realities of an adult world when we are small. That we've been so blinded to thinking that light has held the only key at a humanitarian level. Present theoretical physicists are just beginning to research deeper into the dark matter and the black holes of the universe. Is this a coincidence? I am a theoretical shaman; I know that this too is an illusion and nature tells me that nothing exists, that it is all darkness and void, and it exists at the same time in what we have created through our our lives, its only the dream, and the dream is how we are able to express our creative self, the inner god or goddess as it is referred. Aristotle's principles of 'gate of the intellect' is limited to the expansion of science, like religion. The logical and reasoning mind or teachings of the Sacred Masculine can only go so far in its ability to process because it needs a mirror and that mirror is Primal creation and the acts of creation called the sacred feminine, but this is what we fear: The Great Mother. If you wanted to gain a co-creator vision, start with daily meditation, art, poetry, chanting and stillness practices if you've never done it, that’s the easiest way to begin to connect to the deeper self. If you are advanced, then begin to explore the Dreams and the Dark Goddess teachings, the creative as feminine which is the depth of the empowerment of the interior principles beyond theories, philosophies and beliefs and begin to 'experience'. The journey into enlightenment was never separated and for most, this is just something new on earth. Once I mastered levels of understanding my creative interior with not only physical acts such as healing outside the box, I was tested. I could then dream both awake and in the night. With my eyes closed now I can remote view, which means from a solid practice, I can see images that exist in total darkness in exact form and replica where there is nothing in sight. Nothing can be gained spiritually as long as the mind gets in the way and a practice is not put into a daily or weekly discipline. I see nothing but I see everything. I have taken this into Seer readings where I can read the interior of a person’s story from their emotional body in symbol and image. The old seers were actually female shamans and this is our emotional body not our mental one. The reflective pondering of an experience of mysticism is a mental one. An empathic nature of creating physical objects from the void of my own memory within my emotional soul bodies accumulation. With Plato's understanding of how the mind uses light to find a 'thing'? It is the emptying of the mind, that voidlessness has a reality of its own and that requires the strongest of disciplines of non-mental arts, to understand the inner message from our higher spirit which is the inner layers of the dreamer. In my non-ordinary reality, as a shaman, the 'Day' Dream and the 'Night' Dream are only separated by the walls between my conscious and unconscious, between what I accept as real mentally and what I do not. Without intense self-insisting of self understanding, of clarity, discernment, and working on our own shadow and processing this from within, one could go insane or spiral into the darkness of the energy itself rather than possess its healing qualities within and mastering it. All personal healing requires these Four Directions: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual, because on earth these are the principles of physical and a spiritual reality. If one has doubts about the later, it is fear which keeps them from understanding or experiencing, thus working on personal fear is the greatest path to open up the universe dimensionally. Our ancestor's of Ancient Ancient Earth, the Primordial Mother asks some of us to go beyond - into the realms of the unconscious voidlessness or Universal Cosmos itself and this is who real shamans are. Venturing into these realms not by desire, but mandatory destruction, to reclaim our shadow self in more complete stages. In Eastern Traditions its Karmic work, Western Traditions - as the Hero/ines journeys of Mythology and to the Indigenous - All Things Sacred. Shamanic work or Dreamtime is the feminine body of this Spiritual teaching. I see how it leads me to my old belief system, old past-life belief systems, resulting in a deconstruction brick by brick through very personal and subtle illusion. Not a building up of stairs to the light. What's really happening is we are touching the tips of the roots of our own Primal Nature, a non-ordinary reality showing us a greater picture to perceive Mystery, once tasted, our personal beliefs begin to shift and our perspective and consciousness grows, warned by God Religions to stay away, but where the Primordial Mother becons you to understand because of your separation to the mother within, the great mother and mother earth. If you think Neanderthal wo/man were cave dwelling unenlightened beings, think again. We are again evolutionizing as humans to where all personal fear is revealed in small doses. Mythology can teach us great things about ancient Goddess Teaching of our mythical human collective from the past…. 'Chimera, is the sister of the Sphinx. In her story, like Hercules, the hero Bellerophon, a son of Poseidon, ruler of the Sea, must confront Chimera, who is exposing his dark shadow of sex triangles and misconduct. He shoots many arrows into Chimera's body, and then cruelly plunges a piece of lead in to her gullet, flowing down her throat, burning her to death from the inside, much like the teachings of Kali in Indian Traditions. The Mysteries of Chimera teaches us symbolically to look to the figments of our imagination that contain shadows of delusive delusion.'*2 This death (change) seems horrid, when we look outside of ourselves with no understanding of our primal nature or casting it aside - as if it we could really change it by our mental bodies belief systems. Most creation myths incorporated formlessness, in the darkness before birth that brought 'light' and the splitting of the Mother's body from herself and the child at the child's birth, thus a creator who could birth life or light from within from pure darkness. She then becomes a metaphor for both heaven and earth, light and dark, conscious and unconscious. 'In Egypt, Tiamat was Temu /Te-Mut, was one of the oldest deities on earth long before the ascended masters teachings. Mut represented the archaic Ennead of the four dual female elements: Water, Darkness, Fire and Eternity in symbolism: 1. Water refers to Emotion; 2. Darkness refers to Transition/Pain; 3. Fire to Purify/Surrender; and 4. Eternity, the infinite void beyond Fear. In my Shamanic work of the great mother and mother earth and the teachings out there on Tibetan and Taoist Shamanic work, I allow myself to go beyond convictions when seeking deeper wisdom within. I work at the practice of a more evolving defenseless empowered position from practice, for my own evolution and personal growth through the Primordial Mother and this is the most difficult work on earth because its the depths of one's dreaming within at layers that can only be navigated slowly. Not everyone is a shaman, they can be great healers who use shamanic tools, they can be educators of shamanic teachings, they can be book writers but this does not they have been initiated because if they were, they would have been in a life death reality that would have prevented them from accomplishing anything. I am grateful to all of them because they too are an important part of this evolution and how to seek help. NOTES: *1 - Mythical Beasts by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren, Michael Freedman Publishing Group, 2000; 2 - Barbara G. Walker, Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, HarperSanFrancisco, Publisher, 1983; 3. - Animal Speak by Ted Andrews, The Spiritual &amp; Magical Powers of Creatures Great &amp; Small, Llewellyn Worldwide Publishing, 2000, 4 - Art &amp; Physics by Leonard Shlain, Quill William Morrow Publishers, New York.</div> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:47:18 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/96472a24-cabe-4f96-9d06-58790465871c DreamKeeper 2009-09-29T02:47:18Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9a50ebb7-e45e-4263-9835-557d5c0cb68d <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9a50ebb7-e45e-4263-9835-557d5c0cb68d"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f10/0c0/f100c066-fb96-4d75-a31c-9f3611cf19a3.thumb" width="65" height="38" alt="" /> </a> <div>In the dreaming worlds we do it blindly and don't even know what the bike looks like to get on it. To begin a discipline to master the beginnings of dreaming we look to its worlds, which is through our emotional body, our creativity and our imagination until we get good enough that we begin to see its effects in this world as the 'seen' aspects of the results of the intent. A dreamer is a believer and that is the opening gates to such non physical realities. Hidden within these realities are many things such as the ocean of the dream worlds with each step unknown, our karma from past lives, our imagination and how much control we have over our lower thoughts, the ones that keep us limited or in self bondage in the things we truly want for our self. Sometimes people think they can approach dreaming like riding that bike in this world: Such as if i practice hard enough I will master Lucidity. But the Soul or this emotional reality of the hidden and unseen worlds, cannot be attached to any outcome that our mind wants. Sometimes these are the first things to master in a belief system when we don't get the results we desire. We are a dreamer all our waking life, every night, unlike a bike rider who may do it as a child and then move into a car when they are older. Even if one is a professional bike rider and does it everyday, its still linear (sun rises and sun sets). Dreaming is Lunar (the 8 phases of the moon show a full, dark, quarter etc and it changes every month, yet stays in a circle, thus dreaming is cycles that make no sense because in one year, someone may lucid 10 times, the next year none, the third year 5 times. So the best approach with dreaming at first is to understand your looking for a pattern in cycles rather than linearity of accomplishment. Most get frustrated with this aspect of dreaming. Like a bike rider, who has a thirst for water after a long trip, but the dreamer, has a thirst for understanding the self and what their dreams are trying to show them but the thirst is not contained like the glass of water, its your whole life and when the thirst is not quenched (understood) and there is no bottom to the glass, our navigation needs some structure and observations of whats happening without attachment, or the result we desired, but the great ocean reveals a little mystery when we understand, just like meditation. In fact meditation is a requirement to train the mind first to allow dreaming to even rise and flow. Mary</div> Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:15:16 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9a50ebb7-e45e-4263-9835-557d5c0cb68d DreamKeeper 2009-09-25T22:15:16Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/b845687c-0e6d-4f7b-9265-34278be70f00 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/b845687c-0e6d-4f7b-9265-34278be70f00"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/33c/e3f/33ce3fa3-01d9-461a-8fe5-c71add495e0e.thumb" width="65" height="35" alt="" /> </a> <div>Two of my participants shared their Journey. I decided that it was time to lead a soul retrieval to the Ocean rather than Land of Mother Earth, so I set that as my focus on this group Shamanic Soul Retrieval to enter the Dreaming Ocean of Mother Earth: *************************** JOURNEYER # 1 September 18, 2009: I followed the footpath up the side of the mountain and into the cave. Then, into the greenish pool to cleanse. Coming out, I went into the earth through a tunnel I was blazing with an intense energy. Moving through the passage quickly, I emerged on a beach in Northern California. It was a dark moon night and I was standing in a cove. There were sea caves and rock formations. I went into the water gradually. A sea turtle appeared inviting me to ride on it's back and dolphins accompanied us, swimming and diving on either side. We moved fast. We got out far enough so that when I checked, looking 360 degrees, there was no land in sight. Started to go underwater, losing my companions. As I went into the depths, I could feel my mind wanted to be entertained by the fabulous creatures of the water, the jellyfish and sea anemones, resisting going deeper.... but I pushed downward. I got to a plateau and stopped and waited. A shell, like an abalone shell started to glow from the inside. I watched and out of it emerged a fabulous woman; red-haired, green eyes, covered in shimmering silver-green scales. She was sexy and powerful, kind of a caricature or anime figure. But more fabulous I released skepticism and just experienced her energy, the interplay of our energies! Then, next to her, another woman/goddess appeared. She was more reserved, blond and pale and the image of regal beauty. Her scales were golden. They moved and shimmered and I just enjoyed the mirroring. I wondered about the 3rd. No appearance. 3 pearls dropped from their hands, an offering to me, as they dissappeared. Then, as if inside a memory, the 3rd appeared in a room in my mind's eye, she was a young girl, dark-haired, absorbed in her reading and writing. This was me, pre-puberty, deeply introspective, creative and intelligent.... and innocent to outer projection of self-image, very inward. She was the 3rd pearl. That image/experience dissolved and I was in the water, knowing I was to go deeper. I was tempted to distraction by creatures undulating and sparkling... and I felt the calling to intensify my attention... i wanted to know more! At this narrowing of focus, my experience shifted so I felt myself expanding, taking up all available space, filling the ocean with my awareness of self. it was fantastic! And it continued until i realized I was in amniotic fluid and I could see it's greenish-gold glow surrounding me. i was pushing the capacity of this ocean or sac with my fetal enormity and needed to be born! I had the sense of that having happened, not very graphic, and then I was on my way back. Finished with the journey. I started flying back skimming the waves... got back to the beach and dove into the earth creating the tunnel in the earth with my force as before. As I got back into the cave, I felt unsettled. Something was left undone. so I sat, meditated, waited.... then it came to me. i needed to go back and get my dark-haired girl and bring her back. Quickly, I went back, tunnel, sea, underwater. I found her and took her hand and brought her back to the cave. I needed to integrate her back into me, into oneness, so I "danced" her back in, as is my way. Green, glittery, gold, light and rhythm..... whirling and sweetness, a green-fire energy.... assimilated with all 3 aspects, my journey was complete. I bathed in the pool. I slowly made my way back out of the cave and into the nighttime air. Later, I realized that these 3 Goddess represented the triumvirate of Navaratri, the Hindu 9-day festival of The Goddess.... Durga, the fiery one; Lakshmi, beauty and devotion; Saraswati, manifesting all that in the world in music and writing and the arts. Saraswati represents that part of me that I am reclaiming, the writer, the inward manifest outward, honoring the duality and the dance. Wonderful! *************************** JOURNEYER 2: As I entered the emerald water hole, I was a younger woman, with long black hair, bronze skin, and only my waist was covered. The water was dark, as was the most of the jungle. I bathed briefly in the Cave Emerald Pool and then to my right appears the jaguar. The hole emerged with an under-water cavern, so I began to swim into the cave. At this point, my heart was racing - I was nervous, I found I had difficulty swimming and I felt alone, as the jaguar was not with me, nor any other helpers. I proceeded for a while, moving slowly. I then noticed creatures in the cave - they had a bat like appearance, except they were white - with very large heads, but small appendixes for arms/legs. They moved effortlessly throughout the cave - being able to scale the sides &amp; ceiling of the cavern. I knew they meant me harm and I stopped. I tried to gather myself but my fear was growing. Finally, I noticed my skin color was changing the further I emerged into the cave - I was becoming more and more white. I breathed and painted my face with a Red stripe down the nose, black around the eyes, red stripe across each check. I also had manifested a staff and with me was jaguar. I proceeded further into the cavern. By this point, I was out of the water and walking through the cave. I was then attacked by the cave creatures. I fought back, using my staff and my body to slay the creature. With each "win", I encountered more creatures. After some time fighting, I saw an oculus in the cave. The opening to the oculus was some 20 feet above me. I began to spin, with my arms helping my body spiral. I spun almost like a toy top would and was able to spin up into the oculus. I made it to the edge of the outside rim when I looked down. There was jaguar, still in the cave unable to escape. I jumped back into the cave and placed jaguar on my back - her claws digging into my back. I was able to use my hands to grip the sides of the oculus and climb out of the cave. When we reached the outside, I noticed that my body was 3 1/2 feet tall, I was pale, still with black hair, but my eyes were yellow - yellow and the sockets in which the eyes laid were red. I pulled dirt from the edge of the cavern hole and began to blow down into the hole, sealing the cave. I walked through the sea fields, heading to the ocean. It was dark and the world was only filled with gray, white, and black hues. Jaguar was beside me. When I came to the beach the ocean to enter it, to my left, I noticed about quarter mile down an Native Indian man - long hair, dark skinned and he began to yell at me, and began to run towards me. Behind appeared two children whom I believe was me as a 3 year old and me as a teen. I manifested a few other jaguars, who circled the children. Just before the man got to me, I knelt down and ate a crab, shell and all. The Indian hit me and yelled that I could not go into the ocean for my journey. I fell from the blow, but suddenly rose and hit the man back. He was shocked and as he gathered himself, I told him I that I will enter the ocean and he will respect me. He remained on his knees as I left him and entered the water. The water was black and I walked further and further into the water until I began to swim. A lone seal was near me - no other creatures. I swam and swam, it seemed to take forever. I did not like the water being so black and I tried to create a bluer oceanic color, but the water refused to change. This frightened me, so I swam back to the surface and spied a full moon. prayed to the moon for courage, then began my journey once again. A dolphin swam near me, but not with me. I swam deeper and deeper in the ocean. Then I spied a treasure chest. The chest was bright and golden in color and I opened the lid. Inside was a human skull. At this point in time, I prayed for my divine god to appear. At that moment, my body was pulled to through the water and out of the water. My body was prone and I was being pulled through the air - my prone body rotating around and around. A man was in the sky - surrounded by white light. He had dark brown hair, a bead and mustache and had gold in his cloak. My body, still prone now lay near his waste. He asked for the skull, which I handed to him. He held the skull in his right hand, nothing in his left hand, but it was extended from his body. He said I was a gift - then a vulture landed on my face and began to eat my face. I was sickened. At some point the being took the skull and placed on my neck - my face and skull being swapped out (I suppose). I then wrapped sea week around the skull and my body fell to the ocean. I swam back to the beach and now on the beach, I was simply dressed with the sea weed still wrapped on my face. There were many, many people. I unwrapped my face and then my entire body changed to that of a Cleopatra type woman. I had a gold head dress with the serpent. I shouted to the people and told them to bow to me. All moved in union, doing what I demanded. I saw my temple through the jungle and began to walk there. Some followed me. I walked thought the jungle to the temple. Upon arrival there were many men - they had sacrificed a woman on a sacral bench. I was angry. I said there will be no more blood shed of woman; I said it was time for peace and harmony, for compassion - then I began speaking some other language - shouting the words. I was attacked by many. Energy came from my hands and destroyed those in its path. I killed many. From the battle (I think) I began to bleed. Then my blood covered ALL - men, women, children and the temple and surroundings. I climbed the temple to its top. I was now the native woman who had entered the emerald pool. I prayed and sprung out my arms and asked the wind to cleanse the earth, me, and the people. I felt peaceful. I looked at the ocean and knew I had to return. The ocean was blue now - but the sky was still a night sky, but the sun was rising. I returned to the ocean and I thought of Mary. I began to swim heading the an underwater cavern. It took forever; and I was not making progress. I large whale appeared and I rode on her back and then the whale swam to the near the entrance of the cavern. Then shark appeared an I grabbed her fin and rode into the underwater cavern. I was looking for a small staff - I emerged in an opening of the cave. Shark - hammerhead, flipped her fin out of the water and then left me. I walked through the cave, knowing I was heading to another exit. As I walked, I noticed a beautiful pink flower growing on the left side of the cave. I knew this was marking the correct path and continued down that corridor. On my left had appeared a large spider bracelet. Then white lotus petals rained on me and I closed nearer to the exit. I walked emerged from the cave and sat near in the woods. </div> Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:10:20 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/b845687c-0e6d-4f7b-9265-34278be70f00 DreamKeeper 2009-09-20T23:10:20Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3be2f927-c133-4f21-a958-77d5a671f25c <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3be2f927-c133-4f21-a958-77d5a671f25c"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8ba/7fd/8ba7fde0-d0db-4470-ae7b-3c989a5564c1.thumb" width="45" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>One note before I share... My vocabulary is *inclusive* which is my foundation of unity of my mental body, so anywhere the word woman is written it is already inclusive to man in both my heart and the logic's of language. If you want the divine in wholeness its good to start with one simple word and this word stems from wombed man and before that just wo/man from our primeval connection as women to have a child within our womb, two as one. The second is in reference within mythological or the psyche's symbolism it is the mystery within our emotions and emotional body/soul. When the word woman is used here it is in reference to wholeness and unity of our male and female sides, men and women, yin and yang. When I write grandfather or grandmother, I make the distinctions as gender. Mary... "In old Finnish folklore, aquatic birds were seen as beings able to move between worlds – they could swim and fly, and walk on the ground – and as the water was regarded as the gate to the other worlds in Grandmothers traditions. It was said that the Swan with its long neck could effortlessly reach out to see the other side. That’s why the ancient Finnish shamans respected the waterfowl; for example, the black-throated diver (arctic loon) was one of their favorites, a water spirit and a bird of magic, especially around the district where I was born (Savo). It has been documented that the lineage of female seers (shamans) often had a skin of that bird among their equipment, and sometimes they put it on their head while working magic. In the Finnish epic Kalevala, the world is created from the egg of a Sotka bird (Aythya, a genus of diving ducks). A wonderful image: in the beginning, the Sotka bird was flying with its other wing touching the sky and the other wing touching the primal sea." - Anna Kunnanen An ocean, a seer alone having healed from duality becomes she (s/he) whose world is magic, a living presence of the God/dess in the embodiment of a woman. These are a woman's highest path, the highest worlds, the highest bliss. Like the bliss animals, birds, trees, rivers, other creatures have in this living within the dream of earth. If one is fortunate enough to over come death through the destruction's and long durations within larger cycles after awakening and continues, among woman, and wealthy, lady over others, it is provided with all human enjoyment, even the destruction or darkness, that is the highest bliss of woman. Now a hundredfold in the bliss of woman is the one bliss of bliss of those who have won the mother's world, mother earth in which she stands... is one bliss in the Goddess. Then her work is the work of the Sage, the Teacher, the loving Grandmother and Grandfather. In herstories and what we are returning to is emotional energetics the call of love (riding the wave of light and darkness as wholeness) in action rather than word or language, the heroine, the bringer of death to community and family through truth spoken without fear, the loving and compassionate mother and seer (shaman) for what is healthy for not only mother earth and her creatures, but for us and our own children, others children or the inner child within others or our self without being consumed with fears, jealousy, regret, shame or guilt etc. and constantly carving that primeval, dark forest green stone into the oldest wisdom of the old god/desses that left when no one listened to them anymore and were replaced by the new ones of earth over the past 4,000 years. "If you are a Dreamer, come in. If you're a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope/er, a pray/er, a magic bean buyer. If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire for we have some golden tales to spin.... Come in, Come in! (S. Silversteen) To attain such gemstones, s/he must begin when life brings destruction and pierces the veil, the path of dreams as the dreamer. She allows to dream beyond what family, community, order and law expect within self love and empowerment to swim or fly through such tests. The greatest test rejection from the tribe, community or the world as a seer is deemed unfit, sick or psychotic but what is hidden is the references to being *emotional* from the uneducated of the night self within the night medicines of the Vulture, the Condor, the Owl, the Bat, who represent or as spirit birds of our emotional bodies journey to the higher emotional intelligence after swimming through the lower emotions, which is just emotion itself. The greatest fear of woman then becomes the laws and orders of history. But the universe is made of such realities without illusion, in both the divine and the ordinariness of chaos that leads to transformations and changes on a personal level. It is then she has found purpose from unity without expectation of the illusions of perfection, the illusions of light and dark, entering with more authenticity and truth with conviction and divine eyes wide open and the souls eyes penetrating the same truths with eyes wide shut to penetrate within self and everyone's soul in the community, tribe or family through the empowerment of the self. Even if the Emperor stands naked before her while everyone bows, the unseen of the shaman is apparent far earlier, although blind to everyone else. This is half of who we imprison from our fears of such mysteries. The great harmony and balance of self first, then god, family, community and the world is then our closest relationship to Mother Earth because we have a personal relationship with her and her creatures and is always flowing between the action and contemplation or stillness of our mind with eyes closed with our emotional body's soul and its ability to see, feel and hear beyond. These are truly our outcasts and it is our projections from fear from all of our males side onto our female or feminine nature. In the original Dark Mysteries of the Dreamer, the original Night divinities of the Seer (woman shaman) is feared and misunderstood, but Mother Earth reveals to woman's consciousness, her womb of mystery on this planet where she has other worlds and other dimensions of reality. In order to navigate this in the real, a veil must be pierced and these are the disappointments, the cancer, the car accident, the judgments, the betrayals, the saboteur and all the natures or archetypes of woman that individually we must navigate then in a very personal way. The Journey after destruction has pierced or veil or personal illusions of what we thought was reality or truth up to that awakening. A female shaman then becomes one with her womb and the Universe breaks open before her, all illusions dissipated and dissolved in her pursuit of magic and unity within. I want to be very clear on the distinctions and how this is different than history and that is, that wholeness comes from both the light, but fully and equally includes the Night or the Dark emotion. For it is here, where the great journey inward finds the fertile wisdom. Emotions as our Soul and our soul teachings are found in myths in every culture and color on earth, but they are seen with the glasses of grandfather, where it has been misunderstood or profaned and thus must be controlled and commandments written for its banishment. Thus the bird, phoenix, vulture, eagle, hawk, song bird, and later in mythology with the images of the the Gamayun, a Russian spirit inhabiting the magical Booyan Island, the Celtic Dragon Mermaid, the Greek Harpies, the Karina who was a fearsome female owl shaman lineage of Islam, Lamia, the Libyan slayer shaman... thus we can embrace a living myth when enacted out in the search of unity overcoming duality and separation of mind and emotional body. All of these and many more were the divine woman of the Goddess' and her animal connections in our shamanic beginnings from the earliest cave medicines. Why were these holy divinities demonized in the coming of the grandfathers medicines and patriarch and what were our consequences for rejecting such? PRIMEVAL SWAN GODDESS Through the Oceania of the in-between I lay asleep next to her before her long journey. Laying in my dreaming the night of my mothers death. I see and feel the stormy sea's over her soul body, with my eyes in both this world and the in-between, feelings slipping away with the exiting of her life from this world. I welcome and greet the great beauties who appear, two swans, the myths of the Swan Goddesses in the flesh. They take my mother and exit from this world into the upperworlds. Never again do I touch or speak to the one who birthed my life into this world. M Novak As a female shaman I have yet been asked to assist the living entering deayh exiting this world and up to this point I could not have done it before my initiations were completed. This poem was a gift that night when I laid in the room as my mother was dying at 31 and a loss that I could not of known that would become my gift of understanding the non-physical reality of the humans final transition from death to rebirth. My life looks at things from the other half of the story, the myth that is real and a dream of all the realities that have been behind the veil, not only for myself but humanity. As I risked my own death to know the truth of wholeness, great wisdom of such mysteries are no longer a mystery. The Swan Goddess has a story of her own and I am only the great listener, the great observer, the second attention to such stories of Grandmothers wisdom. This is how I have always perceived life and one that I cannot reject from being shown the truth. It makes me poor, isolated, lonely and healthy. My initiations now complete do not come with great deaths, dying and suffering anymore, thank *goodness*, it comes now with understanding and all things are connected, rejected, recycled... her story of death, transition and rebirth not limited to just our physical death. Excerpt from Christiaan from http://www.youtube.com/user/christiaantonnis: "Leda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Zeus the God came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband, King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris. The motif was rarely seen in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity, although Timotheos is known to have represented Leda in sculpture (compare illustration, below left); small-scale examples survive showing both reclining and standing poses, in cameos and engraved gems, rings, and terracotta oil lamps. Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance. Many artists have their own representative paintings of 'Leda and the Swan'; with the support of Greek mythology. "Leda and the Swan" is a poem by William Butler Yeats first published in 1928. A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? BEYOND 2012 As we navigate after 2012, we will more and more see of the feminine nature (energy) of our emotional body or the soul in order for purification of our blindness, in order to us awaken from our long 3,000 years slumber and if anyone must see what a real shaman seer see's and have these experiences even in the ordinary reality and a witness, i would suggest a healing path of the emotional body, a re-education of ones belief systems and becoming familiar with herstory, because this is what is returning in the Age of Aquarius on a collective level. Harmony through crisis, releases, transitions and purification of that which no longer serves our highest good of a limited one sided mythology and putting on the new glasses to see what is hidden within your own feminine soul. Woman becoming or wearing such wings are the dreamers and to be a dreamer in this world is a difficult path, both in actuality and action, both in the hidden symbolism from our feminine pre-history and within much of modern mythology teachings, they are the old story and the new story is unfolding before our being. Angels for most women is the only level in which the depth of our soul can experience or touch, but its truly only the surface in the great dreaming. Everything else is an older archaic system when woman and animals were companions in the mystery to help each other, the spirit friends helping each other to connect to mother earth and her dreaming with her in her own dream in our solar system. We don't live on Mars, so we don't need to be so invested at our root system of a Mars Archetype. We live in and on and around the Earth, which is earth centric rather than Mars, Jupiter or Saturn centric philosophical and theological beginnings. Memory and Knowledge is the domain of the mind and all its written teachings. Remembrance of all past, present and future of self and the collective lays deeply guarded layer after layer within our emotional body's Soul... The Dreamer with Wings, both in chaos of our little deaths and the joys of our life, both dark and light, night and day.... duality or unity is the choices we must face now within our own reality, that is not about everyone problems *out there* its about our personal ones. Quotes from my friends Jennifer and Anna, Photo: Brazilian_assassin Angel Wing Tattoo on Photobucket.</div> Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:00:58 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3be2f927-c133-4f21-a958-77d5a671f25c DreamKeeper 2009-09-19T21:00:58Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9f7c6882-e21c-4c2f-8826-4c0b06218a53 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9f7c6882-e21c-4c2f-8826-4c0b06218a53"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/1a7/93a/1a793a6c-6741-4ffd-b1a0-711ba1d09088.thumb" width="65" height="68" alt="" /> </a> <div>A few pages: by John Layard Hare, like Moon, sleeps with her eyes open. Blind hare recovers sight by diving. The moon is the watcher of the sky, that is to say she sleeps with her eyes open; so also does the hare, hence the 'somnus leporinus' became a proverb.1 This is yet another way of referring to the moon as the "light in the darkness" symbolizing inner wisdom. An example from a modern time referring to the hare's 'inner eye' saying a blind hare it was, is the German tale of "The Blue Riband" which ran before the Princess and by plunging in a brook, driving thrice under water, recovered its sight and scampered off, thus teaching the Princess to lead Hans to the same water, with satisfactory results that after he had plunged in 3 times, he like hare, recover his sight. This last example is of great interest since it combines the use of the number 3 representing in ancient times represented the Initiation processes symbolizing a passage through death with true wisdom, that is only earned by true trust in the healing power of the deeper unconscious, that the spiritually blind can indeed receive sight. Omens paralleled by and possibly derived from dream symbolism: The use of omens in general appears to me to represents a kind of half way house today or what’s left over after the 13th century to mysticism or Constantine’s rewriting of spiritual law into manmade biblical law loosing the connection with Jesus’ actual teachings through time. The half way house being real spiritual understanding and pure superstition, since on the one hand it recognizes the reality of the ‘other side’ of things in its use of a symbol, but on the other hand depends upon the chance whim of an actual animal (or whatever process is exactly parallel to that kind of dream symbolism common to all peoples and no less to ourselves when we examine our dreams, in which the dreamer is, in her dream, actually led by some animal or another to discover the solution to her problems. One such modern dreamer once dreamt that he was asleep, an that a cat jumped on to him bed and brushed his face. In the dream he seemed to wake up, but as he would do in this life, just turn over to go to sleep again. A second time the cat brushed his face, and this time he became slightly annoyed being anxious to get all the sleep he could. However, the cat brushed his face a third time and this time violently that he (still in his dream) could sleep no longer and had to sit up and take notice of what the cat wanted. It seemed it wanted to be let out. So, still in his dream, the dreamer opened his bedroom door, whereon the cat led him down the corridor of the modern house in which he actually was, till it arrived at a non-existent door at the end of the corridor, which it indicated it wanted to go through. The dreamer opened the door, and lo and behold, in this modern house appeared an ancient spiral stone stairway, down to which the cat led and he followed. Arriving at the bottom, another corridor revealed itself leading back wards directly beneath the first, which they both passed down till the dreamer found himself in a dream room situated immediately below the bedroom in which he actually lay sleeping; and in this lower room representing his own impersonal unconscious was revealed to him, the information which he needed for the solution of the problem which in fact actually beset him. I believe this to be the kind of dream experience, which is in fact far from infrequent and still corps up constantly in psychological analysis, that gave rise among ancient peoples to use animals as omens. It is of course far superior in its efficacy to the observation of external omens, which may be quite fortuitous, because in a dream the dream symbols arise from the dreamers own unconscious knowledge or shall we say, unconscious intuition of his emotional soul body. “Participation Mystique” With regard to this kid of supposed transformation, Frazier quotes some relevant passages referring to similar beliefs among still living peoples. Thus he says, “The Malays believe that “the soul of a person may pass into another person or into the animal, or rather that such a mysterious relation can arise between the two that the fate of the one is wholly dependent upon that of the other” This he expands by further process notably one from the Codrington to the effect that the Mota word for soul is Atai. “The use of the word Atai in Mota seems properly and originally to have been to signify something particularly and intimately connected with a person and sacred to her… Whatever the thing might be the woman believed it to be the reflection of her own personality, she and her Atai flourished, suffered, lived, and died together. But the word must not be supposed to have been borrowed from this use and applied secondarily to describe the soul; the world carries a sense with it which is applicable alike to that second self, the visible object so mysteriously connected with the woman, and to this invisible second self which we call the soul or higher emotional intelligence. There is another Mota word, tamaniu, which as almost if not quite the same meaning as Atai has, when it describes something animate or inanimate which a woman has come to believe to have an existence intimately with her own. The world tamaniu may be taken to be properly ‘likeness’ and the noun form of had her tamaniu; only some women fancied that they had this relationship to a snake or a stone. It was watched but not fed or worshipped; the Mota believed that it came at call, and that the life of a woman was bound up with the life of her tamaniu, if a living thing, or with its safety; should it die, or if not living get broken or be lost, the woman would die’. This idea of sameness or likeness between a person and his or her soul image as externalized in a thing or animal is very relevant here, since it forces us to ask what quality in which would persuade her, or those observing her, to associate her soul or self with a living hare. We must, I think, be careful t distinguish between these two kinds of observation since there very differently exists in certain cases a form of what is called participation mystique between humans and animals, whereby they do indeed to some extent partake of one anther’s natures. Such a phenomenon exists in somewhat attenuated form among us today in the relationship between cats and dogs and their owners. Most people not being connected wit nature, chose to have a safe close relationships with cats and the cats themselves, those most independent of animals, develop a taste for human company. 1. (Angelo de Gubernatis: Zoological Mythology London 1872. </div> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:34:43 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/9f7c6882-e21c-4c2f-8826-4c0b06218a53 DreamKeeper 2009-09-15T05:34:43Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e05945a4-343c-4c16-b3b3-d63c6539720e <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e05945a4-343c-4c16-b3b3-d63c6539720e"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/0ae/90a/0ae90a45-803f-4056-a115-881c91efa4c1.thumb" width="65" height="43" alt="" /> </a> <div>Sunday my apprentice Greer and I were on Cahokia Mounds enacting out a dream exactly as it occurred there. When we finally got to the top she went off and did her work. I sat in an open eyed meditation watching the deep red sun, that was soft behind the dark sky and the lush dark green forests in the distance fill me as the in between time began to rise. On several occasions when the magic is revealed by mother earth, I have seen with eyes open the time shifts, the light and dark of sun rise and sun set on the grass blades that are sharper than real life and day after day after day goes by and then my spirit and soul can leave my body as my mental and physical body remain behind. I've done this a few times on the mound in a quantum reality. The first stages were occurring and with opened eyes my eyes dilated as my brain shifts from beta to theta and the colors of the grass and environment become super colors, like a really lucid dreaming or if you pushed the contrast up on photoshop. So i waited to see what would happen... I was still, with zero thought and body relaxed, but I didn't see the day night progression happen, so I just observed. With eyes open my vision relaxed I could see my legs below me as i stared ahead at the grass. I began to notice that my legs were turning transparent (for astrologers this is Neptune activity in this world). The entire time I saw my legs disappeared with both full conscious and consciousness awareness of the second or higher observer self.... and then I decided that was enough for now. Since I've never done shamanic drugs and stay away from all medicine, even aspirin, i am very much atoned to the workings of my four bodies working together. Greer and I got up and as we were walking across the top of the mound to the steps, and an Osprey flies from the distance and stop in mid air above me and stayed there for a bit of time ... enough for me to really see him and acknowledged his great presence. I know it was a male because it was larger. OSPREY TOTEM I learn my personal totems, by the activities and progressions spiritually that I personally go through... Since Osprey came to me at the in-between time in the evening, this is what I shall keep it as... The Osprey readily builds its nest on trees, and modern structures, such as telephone poles, channel markers, duck blinds, and nest platforms designed especially for it. Such platforms have become an important tool in reestablishing Ospreys in areas where they had disappeared. In some areas nests are placed almost exclusively on artificial structures. Osprey eggs do not hatch all at once, but instead the first chick hatches out up to five days before the last one. This means that once something is revealed as new, as in my case with the transparency of my body, or the spirit soccer ball in broad daylight in Cusco, this will be developing over time rather than a quick advancement. The Osprey is a fish-eating specialist, with live fish accounting for about 99% of its diet. And this means to add more fresh fish to ones diet. Osprey - The Beacon of Truth Mythology: The osprey's scientific name is Pandion, but osprey is better associated with Tereus, the man who was transformed into a raptor. In Greek mythology, Tereus was the son of Ares and husband of Procne. Tereus desired his wife's sister, Philomela. He forced himself upon her, then cut her tongue out and held her captive so she could never tell anyone. He told his wife that her sister had died. Philomela wove letters in a tapestry depicting Tereus's crime and sent it secretly to Procne. In revenge, Procne killed her child Itys and served his flesh in a meal to his father Tereus. When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Goddesses into birds. TOTEM FROM: www.wildspeak.com An osprey doesn't wait for the fish (truth) to jump out of the water to meet him, instead he splashes in headfirst into an element that he could not survive within. He even places his head under the water unlike sea-eagles. Osprey teaches us to take greater risks, and to not be frightened of grasping opportunities because they seem out of our reach. An appearance of osprey in your life can indicate an appearance of a Spirit in the form of the Beacon, coming to guide you back to a place of safety or security, or to a feeling of groundedness. In terms of working on an energy or elemental level, osprey energy can be called upon when working with the elements of Water and Wind. Osprey comes into our lives to specifically teach us that those we want to treat with disdain or contempt, should be treated with respect regardless of how we feel. Others maybe drawn to your fierce personality and then clash with you, osprey energy teaches us that we are able to maintain our integrity but taking a step back and practicing boundaries with them. - Ospreys come into our life to teach us how to hone our senses, on both a physical and spiritual level. We might have to resurge some old meditations, or a physical endeavor we used to enjoy. Osprey claws us back into shape, so that we learn that we nourish ourselves when we're honed. Osprey teaches us precise timing, and if osprey has come into your life, you are either able to spot opportunities and seize them as soon as they're noticed, or you are learning this trait. People with this animal as a totem will often manifest traits similar to the animal itself. I work on the philosophy that we only have one totem, and it teaches us lessons as well as representing the core aspects of our personality. Therefore - People with osprey as their totem tend to be quite ambitious and predator and aren't afraid of using the resources of their department or area as completely as possible to get to a higher position or spiritually higher at the next step which is not visible to humans. You will benefit from basking in the sun, running sports, and from daily naps will teach others how to aim for the stars. Contacting Osprey: I find the osprey tends to - like all winged messengers - visit only those it wants to share its energy with, rather than be visited. This bird tends to contact people more often in daydreams than in dreams that occur at night-time. </div> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:47:34 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e05945a4-343c-4c16-b3b3-d63c6539720e DreamKeeper 2009-09-15T02:47:34Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e25a7572-cf73-4fa6-9f5b-18a8fd20c910 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e25a7572-cf73-4fa6-9f5b-18a8fd20c910"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/aee/63e/aee63e70-bd78-426d-b8fe-290ff994187a.thumb" width="57" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>PART 1: As a shamans apprentices of Spirit, I have had red tail hawk for a totem for 21 years, everyday, and when I reached a certain level of initiations, then the hawks began to give their life for me. Then Golden Eagle began to appear last July 2008 when I was almost completed with my 13 years of in-between the worlds to complete this work for 2012. Last July I was driving home from Memphis where my apprentice lived, and i see this huge white bird, so big i thought it was a white crane. As i was driving out of the blue it just flies into the ground and dies up ahead. I was driving about 70 mph and had to go to the next exit and turn around. When i pulled over, it was a pure white hawk with blue eyes and blood all over it from the dive. I just looked at it not knowing of white hawks with blue eyes, never having seen them before. It was so sacred as i was standing there alone in the early misty morning and with no cars on the highway, i just stood for a long time knowing that spirit had spoken again. So i just gently picked a few white feathers and lifted it up to take it over to a large tree a few hundred feet away and say prayers and thanks. When i lifted it up.... there was a huge dead owl right underneath it... I picked this one up also and with two large birds in both hands walked and sat in silence and gave thanks to great spirit near the huge tree a few hundred yards away. I got back in my car and about 2 hours later i see another dead white hawk with blue eyes and I pull over and did the same and then 2 hours further down the highway a 3rd and final white hawk was along the roadside all of them giving their life because the blood was fresh. As I squatted there, bowing my head to great spirit, knowing when it speaks loudly more than other times i must listen with my heart and my heart knew that my long 28 year death initiations had come to its welcomed final end... Squatted down, I look over to my right and I see a small cave that i had never noticed along the highway of all my trips to Memphis. Again i picked just a few feathers and then took him or her to the cave and went into prayer. When i got home from Memphis with the 13 white feathers, i was still feeling the powerful experience that night sitting alone and i reached over to a huge stack of shaman drum magazines that i had never looked at for six months because I don't do and have never done shamanic drugs, I was given all of these magazines from one of the centers I do work at sometimes. I just randomly pick one that night after the three white hawks and there in front of me was a story about the Iroquois dreamers... and their words ... It said: "When one is inducted into the Iroquois dreaming society by the ancient ancestors, white feathers with blood on it shall be given to the dreamer when they pass initiation". The white feathers all had blood on them. I accepted this last year the continuation of all ancestor spirits from every place on earth or red, black, white and yellow peoples that their ancestors had blessed me with and accepted the Iroquois Spirit Ancestors gift to me as an Iroquois Dreamer.... all that I have had to work under such intense initiations in the dreaming and this waking dream which i survived my eight deaths and horrid life up to this point. Now it is done, my world shifted from mastering the underworld, reclaiming all my eight lives back to one million bc and now I begin the third and final initiations for the next seven years of the Condor. PART 2: ASTRAL SEX PART OF THE STORY And why I was to meet my Iroquois Dreamer I needed a warrior for my work in South America and Mexico and one appeared. In the tradition of Elk Dancer and Dreaming Woman, I had found my Dancer, an Iroquois Dreamer I wanted a relationship in the physical world and real after our work was completed, but he did not believe in the dream that Spirit put us together for a reason which I had met his ancient Elk Cave Dancer that I am sure, since he never shared with me when I told him, at that level of his unconscious, so he let me go after our work for Chichen Itza and I let go with grace and I spoke to Spirit that he had shifted fate by his choice. Our story was in the astral sex arena, in which I chose consciously never to do as a female Shaman and tell my apprentices they are forbidden until their entire initiations are completed and if its their partner. When I was done in South America and Mexico to finish and complete the final year of Temple work, Elk Dancer was very helpful since our energies were entwined. After he let me go, I began to have astral incarnated sexual perpetrators come to my space in my dreaming. Men who have sex issues over here and then roam as predictors with dreamers. This had never happened to me before and it was because i opened myself up at 51 to do this temple work with more power and was necessary to have an Elk Dancer Warrior to help me. There were three stages of energy over two months and as an energy healer it was very powerful. First it was sensual and sexual, then it increased to waves of energy about a month later and then Elk Dancer came fully into my womb energetic, it was the strangest feeling, like being pregnant in reverse and having a baby inside. Once I cried when he said he did not want anything to do with me anymore, I spontaneously released his energy within me thought the tears, but then I could feel his emotional body lift with my intention to do so and it began to move out of my body... Immediately the complete feelings of loss and pain were gone, in an instant, it was amazing. I let go, but yesterday about three weeks of no contact with him, I was in the kitchen and his energy body came into my space and up to my body. I have been doing my daily practices that anytime I have a thought of him, I let it go, so when he came into my kitchen, I just sat still and focused on what I was doing. He might or might not be aware that this has happened, and I have no way to know unless he chose to tell me. So I wrote him and said I have a feeling, even if he has one thought; it breaks the boundaries of me keeping out of his physical reality (although we had never met in the physical world and tht was my problem to make it real between us or not at all) and him to keep out of astral energetics as I wrote and asked him to. I have not been sleeping, although I am very peaceful and happy. This is not my mind body doing this, but my Souls dominance now. Around 3:30 AM last night, I went to bed and between that time till around 5:00 am, I was in Armenia doing shamanic work in my dreamtime. Five young men around 30 years old walked up to me and encircled me and I just stood there. I looked at all their faces and they were incarnated humans on the astral planes. I did not see the man directly behind me. He then got really close to my body, my backside and I could feel him shaking as he pressed up against my body, and then he pressed his penis up against me and it was hard… I was lucid dream walking so I was in full consciousness, I did not want to turn around and popped out of the dream and woke up. I have never felt solid physical touch on the other side in my dreaming before until that moment. As I woke up, I quietly let the wisdom come and I realized he was shaking because wherever he was physically in his bed he was probably in orgasm. I know nothing of astral sex of what happens to a male or how a man even does this and Elk Dancer never really wrote me much after the first week of his personal intimate life or how many times he's done this in his life. This was not the first that week. I was at a Russian Facility doing Shamanic work in dreamtime and a Russian man tried to have astral sex with me and again I popped out of the dream and woke up, realizing having astral sex with Elk Dancer opened me up to something on the middle world plans that would effect my work that I have been doing all these years and now I have to content with 3 billion men on the astral plane at night without a warrior partner and having buried my shamans sword when my initiations were finally complete after the temple work in Mexico and Peru in August of this year. This has been a whole new path and although I would have no more astral sex other than Elk Dancer for the rest of my life, it does present some problems for a female shaman. I wrote Elk Dancer after these two incidents, and told him that him being in my dreaming, had a direct effect of my dreaming experience with these Armenian men and work over there. I kindly asked that anytime a thought comes to him of me - to banish it in a practice so this does not arise again. I have learned much from our time together, and one that is not an accident and one that I honor as a master energy healer... this scanning level of new astral sex (kundalini) information for my experiencing, is also gift from him, and as a shaman I am not like other women who would have no way to even be at this level of understanding, much less believe that it exits or heal themselves or protect themselves if they didn't want it, if they were aware. So he gave me a teaching and I highly respect it and could have gotten it no where else. I have to keep my energy pure and with boundaries because of the nature of who I am and what I do for humanity. He never wrote me again not even to reply to my concerns now that I was prey for all the sexual astral predators who are unconscious in the middle world. A friend of mine, also a Dreaming Woman, when I told her my Shark Dream (on this website) appeared right after Elk Dancer abandoned me and she wrote this. I have been through at this new level with the information that fits perfectly... with what happen to me with Elk Dancer. From KT..."wow what a powerful dream. What a powerful choice. Male shark medicine swimming in the womb of Yemanja, circling far below you in the deep ocean waters, I see DNA the double strands and the chromosomes for sex in the cell's nucleus there, the X and Y... something in the shark holding full moon, male + female energy and genesis. And yet "swimming with shark" ready for the company of such ruthless predators, aggressive survival lessons, a strange and powerful protection to be working with. It feels like it has an edge to it I can't quite put words to. The shark devours the Moon and some kind of transmutation of energy takes place. Destruction / Creation. Ciao - kt FINAL 3 of the story.... I buried my death shamans sword in Cusco on August 24th and did it with great honor and no longer carry one. This I thought would be dangerous because of the projects of the darkest astral bodies that linger in spiritual people in which I can see, but they cannot. Spirit initiated primordial female shamans of the underworld like myself are privelaged to see such dangerous aspects of ordinary persons incarnated and in the middle world in between of non-incarnated and incarnated souls. This is why i love and respect animals and animal spirits so much as my helpers. Last weekend I was giving a rattle workshop with my apprentices and only one person who signed up. Normally i would not do it with only one, but my soul said do it... we all made the rattles, did ceremony at the sacred fire and they all returned to sleep in their tents. I slept in the open in the meadow next to the fire all night with the rattles drying near the fire and kept the fire going. All night on my back i watched nine falling stars and nine were there for me and I asks the Gods who left before the new gods (ancestors came) to grant me my nine prayers. About 3 am, still awake, the person who was the one who came, i see walking in the meadow near me ... i was in-between the worlds, both awake and asleep at the same time seeing everything around me... a few seconds later he jumps on top of me and pinned me down. I tried to struggle but i could not move even one millimeter. I tried again, nothing. What was different for the first time, was he was invisible. Now, after all I have been through since 1987 I can see everything, ever energy, emotional energy, every being, every ET, every dead human, every movement of energy all these years. Everything.... but him right on top of me at that moment. At that moment, i knew his past life energetic body was separate from his physical body who was asleep in the tent, he was a sorcerer and a very powerful one. And a shape shifter with a cloak over him. I learn as i go and that second, i just automatically completely surrendered. I had battled my 13 years of daemon and shadow attacks and reclaimed all of mine in my healing work and initiations as a shaman, and this was a total surrender naturally, my sword was in Cucso symbolically and I knew it at that second. The second i naturally surrendered (unconditional love)... swoosh, he was completely gone. Instantly. In the morning I shared the story with him and he confirmed his night terrors as a child in his dreams that had not stopped in his adult life. I counseled him on what to now begin and he listened. For me, my door had finally clicked. I am free as a shaman now and can walk in all worlds untouched.</div> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:36:08 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/e25a7572-cf73-4fa6-9f5b-18a8fd20c910 DreamKeeper 2009-09-13T16:36:08Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c3a1aa58-5c2e-4aed-ab5c-7eac90d4f88d <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c3a1aa58-5c2e-4aed-ab5c-7eac90d4f88d"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/5f5/234/5f5234b2-b2e1-443d-a40c-eb80fef35bbd.thumb" width="65" height="47" alt="" /> </a> <div>This past Tuesday was the Full Moon in Pisces and I asked my higher self to show me in my dream with the Jaguar Medicines ended and the Condor just beginning.... I wanted wisdom from a deeper source within.... since my elk dancer dreamer has left me alone in the astral worlds after opening up my astral kundalini, i felt very alone on the astral planes in my dreaming. But last night the Spirit of the Great White Shark came into my dream. I now feel that I can navigate these waters as my warrior abandoned me in a spiritual way. THE DREAMING: I am dreaming and I am at a farm with the ocean in the back yard. Shark is standing in the distance holding the full moon in his hand. A girl who is me at the age of 17 when I had long blond hair and I used to wear it in two long braids; comes down the driveway on a sled in the snow and stops, looks up and says: "Shark wants to know if you want to go swimming in the ocean with him? I looked down at her innocence and fresh face and then look up the hill at the shark holding the full moon and thought in serious contemplation. I replied, Yes, I am ready to go there. So I went and as i was swimming i looked deep below and shark was swimming below me and then i woke up. *** Shark totem is an interim between the ending of my jaguar medicines and before the beginning of the condor, I am completely initiated now and from here forth it is between me and the great spirit. l As shark appears, there are no surprises, it must also be how others feel me when they are in my personal space, because the mirrors are all around me and most avoid spiritual people avoid me like the shark. On a more collective level of my shaman self... Three years ago when I finished my dark shamanic four year initiations and that level of healing on self as well, I was dream walking a lot then, moving about the three worlds of earth in the black shamans tunnels and then i was given grace to access the golden tunnel and chose to go, I ended up completing the initiations of the mental universe and the physical universe and I stood before the gate of the water universe... I stood there for a long time in my vision back then and said no, i can't step through now, i was exhausted, alone in retreat , empty and homeless. When i came back from that vision, i did not know if the water universe would ever open up to me but it was where i was at and i accepted that. With the shark coming, after resting for three years and the jaguar medicines complete it was the vision that showed me through sharks spirit, that this gate is coming again and the universe will open her womb for the great ocean (condor medicine) and now i am rested and ready. SHARK TOTEM to be continued....</div> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:46:08 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/c3a1aa58-5c2e-4aed-ab5c-7eac90d4f88d DreamKeeper 2009-09-12T05:46:08Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/121fdc6e-ff4c-4921-b899-e964c3fce695 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/121fdc6e-ff4c-4921-b899-e964c3fce695"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/e01/617/e0161744-52ad-42ef-a36d-16553f1df1ed.thumb" width="65" height="45" alt="" /> </a> <div>I went to sweat lodge today to prepare for my shamanic work in Chichen and Peru and a black otter ran right across the field near the wood pile next to the sweat lodge. I was the only one to see it and it made me smile because otter is my birth totem and I love otters and weasels who are the same family! OTTER: Rest and Cleansing Moon... Otter is the animal totem associate with rest and cleansing. The otter is one of the most playful animals in the wild, both river and sea otters. Because of otters exemplary home life, nobility, curiosity, inventiveness and playfulness tribes recognize the power of the otter and say its one of the most powerful medicine bags in certain tribes and these were made of otter skins. Otter medicine is so strong in some totems that it is secret until have reached a certain degree of initiation from spirit. When black otter appears, the initiations are completed. Because of otters exemplary home life they are associated with female shamans and medicine women and her initiations because they stem from the place women teach with playfulness, humanitarianism, companionship and child and grandchild love and rearing. For the shaman and medicine woman have both the heart of strength with children and compassionate gentleness. Otters are members of the weasel family and weasel totems are great listeners of wisdom. Weasel family has been known to watch circles and groups of spiritual endeavors and to see who carries true power and which leaders do not and weasel family knows the difference and does not necessarily spy, but has great understanding of falseness in such leadership. All otters have large appetites for both life, fun, laughter and food and they have a very large vocal range of communication consisting of chips, chirps, squeals, screeches, hiccups, chuckles, and hiss when they are very angry. Otters are also ardent companions to each other and a mate will morn very deeply at the loss of a partner or mate and other community members. Working with otter and otter people, teaches us about originality, curiosity, fun and playfulness, and keeping a very watchful eye of those who do not live their truth or are asleep and unconscious. </div> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:22:52 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/121fdc6e-ff4c-4921-b899-e964c3fce695 DreamKeeper 2009-08-01T21:22:52Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/84befd6f-0ee7-42bf-ae86-5f0f337bc786 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/84befd6f-0ee7-42bf-ae86-5f0f337bc786"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/0a3/351/0a3351e6-bcc3-4a5c-914b-b6d616b74506.thumb" width="52" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>I said a prayer to spirit this morning and said I need help for my collective healing work and this trip coming soon in August and if the divine could please help me... About noon, a kind man came when I was at a center and just gave me out of the blue, a very old "Thangka of Guru Rinpoche" it is old because its an oil painting and naturally yellowish from age, which I felt was a gift from the Buddha and l want to sell to help me pay for some of my stay in Chichen Itza &amp; Peru in August since a female shaman without a tribe is on her own in this world. I came home tonight and immediately went to look Guru Rinpoche up on the internet, and found a beautiful photo and copied it to my desktop, I then went to add a few things to my website but it was already open to a page on its own, of a member that i do not belong to here one tribe.net. It was the same exact picture of the Guru I had just copied, I closed my eyes and said thank you Guru Rinpoche. If you would like to see it and possibly buy from me to complete my 12 years of work on my last Temple in Chichen Itza, I can send you some pictures of it. Thank you Buddha ... In Divine Service, Mary Story from some members site: In Tibetan Bhuddism, today is considered Guru Rinpoche Day. Also known as Padmasambhava, he was recognized as the 2nd incarnation of Buddha. Buddha Padmasambhava, along with Yeshe Tsogyal (his consort, who was called the "Great Dakini" or "Bliss Queen") founded the Tibetan/Tantric school of Buddhism, and also spread these teachings across India, Bhutan ,and Nepal. Buddha Padmasambhava is also one of the lineage holders and root gurus of SkyDancing Tantra (my spiritual path), and so today we celebrate Buddha Padmasambhava and honor his teachings and presence on this earth. "Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum" (Vajra Guru Mantra) Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (former head of the Nyingma Lineage, deceased) explains the meaning of the Vajra Guru Mantra: "It is said that the twelve syllables Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum carry the entire blessing of the twelve types of teaching taught by Buddha, which are the essence of His Eighty-Four Thousand Dharmas. Therefore to recite the Vajra Guru mantra once is the equivalent to the blessing of reciting.... or practicing... the whole teaching of the Buddha. The wisdom mind of Padmasambhava is manifested in the form of this mantra; these twelve syllables are actually the emanation of His wisdom mind, and they are endowed with His entire blessing. The Vajra Guru mantra is Padmasambhava in the form of sound. So when you invoke Him with the recitation of the twelve syllables, the blessing and merit you obtain is tremendous. In these difficult times, just as there is no Buddha or refuge we can call upon who is more powerful than Padmasambhava, so there is no mantra that is more fitting than the Vajra Guru Mantra." Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum </div> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:24:30 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/84befd6f-0ee7-42bf-ae86-5f0f337bc786 DreamKeeper 2009-07-23T23:24:30Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0167e9fd-09db-4465-9361-256b797878c3 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0167e9fd-09db-4465-9361-256b797878c3"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/746/bf3/746bf370-f8f7-4f5e-a3a1-cc0540e40c79.thumb" width="55" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>Now i know why my neighbors Akita went wild last night. Akita's are part worlf and part Alaskan Husky ... WHERE: The bottom Volcanic Islands of Alaska. The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming a volcanic arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,931 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and by one definition the easternmost; see Extreme points of the United States). Nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska and usually considered as being in the "Alaskan Bush", but at the extreme western end the small, geologically-related, and remote Commander Islands are in Russia. The islands, with their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Alaska Marine Highway passes through the islands. THE PEOPLE Cultural history The majority of Chukchi reside within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, but some also reside in the neighboring Sakha Republic to the west, Magadan Oblast to the southwest, and Koryak Autonomous Okrug to the south. Some Chukchi also reside in other parts of Russia, as well as in Europe and North America. The total number of Chukchi in the world slightly exceeds 15,000. The Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who nomadised in the inland tundra region with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name "Chukchi" is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu ("rich in reindeer"), which was used by the 'Reindeer Chukchi' to distinguish themselves from the 'Maritime Chukchi,' called Anqallyt ("the sea people"). The indigenous name for a member of the Chukchi ethnic group as a whole is Luoravetlan (literally 'true person'). In Chukchi religion, every object, whether animate or inanimate, is assigned a spirit. This spirit can be either harmful or beneficial. Some of Chukchi myths reveal a dualistic cosmology.[1][2] Chukchi religious practices were prohibited by the Soviet Union in the 1920s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state-run farms were reorganized and nominally privatized. This process was ultimately destructive to the village-based economy in Chukotka, and the region has still not fully recovered. Many rural Chukchi, as well as Russians in Chukotka's villages, have survived in recent years only with the help of direct humanitarian aid. Some Chukchi have attained university degrees, becoming poets, writers, politicians, teachers, and doctors. Subsistence In prehistoric times the Chukchi engaged in nomadic hunter gatherer modes of existence. In current times there continue to be some elements of subsistence hunting, including that of Polar Bears,[3] marine mammals and reindeer. Beginning in the 1920s, the Soviets organized the economic activities of both coastal and inland Chukchi and eventually established 28 collectively run, state-owned enterprises in Chukotka. All of these were based on reindeer herding, with the addition of sea mammal hunting and walrus ivory carving in the coastal areas. Chukchi were educated in Soviet schools and today are almost 100% literate and fluent in the Russian language. Only a portion of them today work directly in reindeer herding or sea mammal hunting. ******************************* THE MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE RING OF FIRE </div> Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:13:16 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0167e9fd-09db-4465-9361-256b797878c3 DreamKeeper 2009-07-18T00:13:16Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4b35f267-cbb1-4d08-9296-4b19e550fb55 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4b35f267-cbb1-4d08-9296-4b19e550fb55"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/e71/436/e7143673-6ca3-4dbd-981f-6a31c9efcd13.thumb" width="32" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a pioneering woman in the field of Maya archaeology. She devoted her career to interpreting the art, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing system of the ancient Maya. Several films have explored her impact on this field: one by National Geographic titled "Code of the Maya Kings," and more recently, "Breaking the Maya Code," by Nightfire Films. In May 2009, California State University hosted a Mesoamerican conference as an homage to Proskouriakoff. It honored the centennial of her birth in Tomsk, Siberia January 23, 1909. The Ix Tabay or X'Tabay Mayan Legend - (Pronounce as "sch-tabai") is a fallen ancient Mayan goddess, before Christianity she was referred to as "Ixtab" the Death Goddess, pre-columbian female Death Shaman tradition before the Maya. The Ix Tabay legend in its watered down Christian versions, remains only supersticion, in the Maya communities of today as an "existing and very real deadly spirit of the night. Such spirit takes the form of an attractive woman, sensuous and beautiful, that appears to solitary males especially during full moon. She awaits the male near a Ceiba tree trunk; where she seats and combs with sensuous delicate strokes her long dark beautiful hair, so long that it falls beyond her hips. This sensual Goddess awaits and calls upon the male, whether he is drunk or not, old or young she has no preference; her voice is so inviting, her body so sensual, and her eyes so fascinating that the men have a hard time resisting her advances; most of them give in to her seduction, as she moves smiling and joyfully giggling into the dark forest. Ix Tabay Mayan Legend and Goddess of Death. A sensual game of hide and seek is played for a few minutes by the male and she mirrors his deceitful dark soul with increasing tones of sexuality until the X'Tabay lets him embrace her; at that moment, her sensual game turns into deadly terror as he tries in vain to free himself from her arms now in the form of thorny branches and her face full of spines, hate, and a vivid desire to devour him alive. Few males have encounter the X'tabay and have lived to tell their story; most of them are found dead next morning at the trunk or roots of the Ceiba tree, wrapped with thorny branches and terror showing in their distorted faces. The X'Tabay is the Queen Goddess of Death in the Pantheon of ancient Mayan gods, deities and the underworld Goddess. The Maya culture is unique in its inclusion of a Goddess of Death in its embracing and honoring both male and female deadly deities and gods. A FEW NOTABLE MAYAN GODS &amp; GODDESSES The Popol Vuh speaks of the First Mother Ix Chel and First Father Hun Nal Ye, as the Creator Couple whose offspring are all the other gods. She was born six years before the First Father, also known as Junab K’uj the God of Maize, who is responsible creating the cosmos and wo/mankind as we know. Ah muzencab - God of Bees and Honey - intimately associated with the four bacabs Ah Puch - also known as Hun ahua is a God of Death and dwells in the underworld; normally epicted as a human skeleton with an awl head. Bacab - The Four Guardian Deities (see above article) they related to the Cardinal points, carrying the sky in the center of them is the sacred tree of life "Ceiba". Holly bees are associated with these four deities as well as the armadillo, spider web, snail, and the turtle. Chaac - God of Rain, it is one god and manifold gods including the God of Thunder (God K) and the four Chaacs in relation to the four Bacabs. In Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Chaac was a highly venerated God. Chak Chel – Wife of Itzamnaaj, a red rainbow warrior young goddess with jaguar ears and claws; she is thought to be the young version of Ixchel, a weaver and patron of women in the underworld. Camazotz - Bat god, tries to kill the mythological Mayan Hero Twins (PV). The bat-like god is also a monster deity of the underwold. Gukumatz - Feathered Snake God and one of the God Creators of humanity (PV) this God is intimately associated in Yucatec Maya as Kukulkan – Messenger of Venus; the Sovereign Feathered Serpent Deity revered in Chichen Itza and Mayapan (believed to be Quetzalcoalt for the Aztecs). Hun-Hunahpu – also known as Jumnajpu (PV) Hun Nal Ye- Father of the Mayan Hero Twins and of the patrons of artisans and writers in Mayan mythology. He is the Sacred Maize Deity according to the most popular academic theory of today. He is the Mayan ideal of beauty and youth. Hunahpu - (One of Popol Vuh’s mythological Mayan Hero Twins, . A ballplayer deity characterized as a hunter of birds; he is more important than his twin brother in Mayan calendar iconography. Huracan - God of Storm (extreme bad weather) Wind and Fire, one of the creator deities (PV); one of the God Creators of humanity always depicted with one snake foot and a long nose. Nowadays our Atlantic weather storms are Hurricanes word that comes from this Maya God’s own name. Itzamnaaj - The Supreme God Creator (God D) ruled the skies and invented writing; associated with the Sun, this god is depicted with sun goggles. He is also known as the God of Kakaw or Cacao Ixchel - Aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine, also known as Ix Chel; she is associated with the Moon (L) water, fertility and childbirth. The patron of healers and J-Men and Ix’Men as well as those that work in the sacred healing arts. Ixtab - Goddess of Honorable Suicide (L). depicted as the “rope woman” for hanging was to the Maya an honorable way to die; she will take the brave soul to paradise, Ixtab is depicted in the Desdren Codex as a symbol of Lunar and Sun Eclipses. K’awiil (God K) – a God of Lighting; he is characterized by a snake foot often seem on kings’ scepters. The is also the Jaguar God of the underworld. Moon Goddess – depicted as a woman sitting in the edged of a crescent moon holding a rabbit. In Maya mythology, the moon phases symbolize women’s life cycles. She is associated with water, rainfall, rainy season and deep fresh cenote water (underworld version of the goddess). Xbalanque - One of the mythological Mayan Hero Twins (PV) a ballplayer deity whose name means Jaguar Son or Hidden Sun. Xochiquetzal goddess of Xocolatl – a sacred godly beverage prepare only for the upper Maya royalty; its sound comes form the Maya Chocol ha meaning “bitter water” a beverage dedicated to the Maya Goddess of Kakaw and fertility; the Nahualt language adopted the sound to Xocolatl and the Spaniards created the term chocolate when they brought this precious bean to their monarchs. Zipacna - Underworld Demon Deity with great sexual appetite symbolized by his favorite food: crabs (PV); son of Seven Macaw and brother of the Earthquake God. A very arrogant and powerful deity believed to have created the mountains; he is depicted often as an alligator; he is a mythological figure related to the legend of the Twin Heros in the Popol Vuh.</div> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:59:42 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4b35f267-cbb1-4d08-9296-4b19e550fb55 DreamKeeper 2009-07-13T22:59:42Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/647b735b-8d15-47b4-a1af-bd829cfb4340 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/647b735b-8d15-47b4-a1af-bd829cfb4340"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/6c1/e86/6c1e86a6-5b7a-45ca-a3ed-69d960c0b6f6.thumb" width="65" height="48" alt="" /> </a> <div>Story sent to me from my friend Pawel in Warsaw Warsaw story about monster Bazyliszek shoemaker Dratewka and gold treasure. Once long long time ago in Warsaw there was a story about legendary gold treasures what was keep it in underground deep under the earth near river. Many people waned to get that gold but it was very dangerous to go to that tunnels because the guardian of treasure was scary monster Bazyliszek who looks so terrifying that if somebody look at him he immediately die because how Bazyliszek looks. But there was same brave greedy man who tried they took fire with them and they go down to get a gold. But nobody comes back. And there was very smart shoemaker Dratewka he decided to go for gold he took fire and something else. He walk very long time through underground and in same moment he comes to the place where there was gold.. In the light fire he saw so much gold but in the same moment monster Bazyliszek from darkness. Dratewka very rapidly cover himself with a mirror and when Bazyliszek saw his terrifying face he died immediately. Dratewka took gold and he lives long time in happiness.</div> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:44:12 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/647b735b-8d15-47b4-a1af-bd829cfb4340 DreamKeeper 2009-07-08T07:44:12Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/7e82a4ed-9d10-47be-9517-c25e2c3cfbb9 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/7e82a4ed-9d10-47be-9517-c25e2c3cfbb9"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/9db/384/9db384f1-e9c8-4031-90b8-50035a80fbbc.thumb" width="62" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>"The Natural Predator of the Psyche" Developing a relationship with the wild nature is an essential part of woman's individuation. In order to accomplish this, a woman must go into the dark, but at the same time she must not be irreparably trapped, captured, or killed on her way there and back. The Bluebeard story is about that captor, the dark man who inhabits all woman's psyches, the innate predator. --- To restrain the natural predator of the psyche it is necessary for women to remain in possession of all their instinctual emotional powers. Some of these are insight, intuition, endurance, tenacious loving, keen sensing, far vision, acute hearing, singing over the dead, intuitive healing, and tending to their own creative fires. One of the least discussed issues of individuation is that as one shines light into the dark of the psyche as strongly as one can, the shadows, where the light is not, grow even darker. So when we illuminate some part of the psyche, there is a resultant deeper dark to contend with. This dark cannot be let alone. The key, the questions, cannot be hidden or forgotten. They must be asked. They must be answered. The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So don't be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew. It is in this psychic kind of land development that Wild Woman shines. She is not afraid of the darkest dark, in fact she can see in the dark. She is not afraid of offal, refuse, decay, stink, blood, cold bones, dying girls, or murderous husbands. She can see it, she can take it, she can help. And this is what the youngest sister of the bluebeard tale is learning. The dark man in woman's dreams appears when an initiation - a psychic change from one level of knowing or behavior to another more mature or more energetic level of knowledge and action - is imminent. This dream occurs to the as-yet-to-be-initiated, as wll as to those who are veterans of several rites of passage, for there is always more initiation. Dreams are portals, entrances, preparations, and practices for the next step in consciousness, the 'next day' in the individuation process. --- Additionally, dark man dreams area also wake-up calls. They say: Pay attention! At a very mundane level, it is important for a woman having dark man and Bluebeardian sort of dreams to cleanse her life of as much negativity as she can. It is crucial for us to remember that when we have dark man dreams there is always an opposing, that is, a balancing power, poised and waiting to help us. When we initiate wildish energy in order to balance the predator, guess who immediately shows up? Wild Woman comes diving over whatever fences, walls, or obstructions the predator has erected. She is not an icon, to be hung on the wall like a retablo, religious painting. She is a living being who comes to us anywhere, under any conditions. She and the predator have known each other a long, long time. She tracks him through dreams, through stories, through tales, and through women's entire lives. Wherever he is, she is, for she is the one who balances his predations. Wild Woman teaches women when not to act 'nice' about protecting their soulful lives. The wildi nature knows that being 'sweet' in these instances only makes the predator smile. When the soulful life is being threatened, it is not only acceptable to draw the line and mean it, it is required. When a woman does this, her life cannot be interfered with for long, for she knows immediately what is wrong and can push the predator back where it belongs. She is no longer naive. She is no longer a target. And this is the medicine that causes the key* - the little one with the scrollwork on top - to finally, cease its bleeding." * about the bleeding key in the story: "The blood in this story is not menstrual blood, but arterial blood from the soul. ... the key also acts as container; it consists the blood which is the memory of what one has seen and now knows. ...the key with blood could be said to also represent a woman's female bloodlines, those who have gone before them." It is important to know how to protect oneself, one's soul, and be whole, like an unbreakable circle.</div> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:49:26 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/7e82a4ed-9d10-47be-9517-c25e2c3cfbb9 DreamKeeper 2009-07-07T06:49:26Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3c82f129-8644-45c8-a18a-98f636bf5d66 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3c82f129-8644-45c8-a18a-98f636bf5d66"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/e8a/d20/e8ad20f3-63a6-408f-a617-c3bc40fe488a.thumb" width="65" height="64" alt="" /> </a> <div>Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in its original form http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ALLEGORY.HTM So far, we have discussed many of the principles of reality and magic. We have discussed the importance of our childhood training, our belief system, our perception of reality and the importance of what our reality does and does not include. These are all vital parts of our everyday lives and determine very specifically what our lives will hold in store for us. But, as one of my dear friends pointed out after reading this website, everything to this point has created the illusion that Shamanism and the occult practices are little more than the sleight of hand of a well practiced magician. Nothing could, of course, be farther from the truth. A magician, using sleight of hand, appears to make things happen with no pretense that his/her magical tricks actually altered reality, while a trained occult practitioner, using tried and proven methods, actually changes the fabric of reality in accordance with his/her will and plainly states to have done so. This being true, I would like to begin to touch at the heart of the matter of Shamanism and its practice. To do this, I am going to refer to an allegory, or a metaphoric story, derived from the renowned Greek philosopher, Plato. The "Allegory of the Cave", as it is commonly known, clearly describes the Shamanic experience from the shaman's initiation through the full spectrum of the life and challenges of the trained, practicing shaman. It is for this reason that I have chosen the title Shaman's Cave for this site. Let's begin with the Allegory of the Cave. In this allegory, Socrates is in a conversation with another man named Glaucon. Socrates is using this allegory to describe the extent to which human nature is "enlightened or unenlightened". The allegory begins with a description of a group of people, who from their childhood have been imprisoned in a cave, chained to the cave wall directly opposite the mouth of the cave, such that the cave's mouth was constantly at their back. Because of the manner in which they were chained, no one is able to move their head or body to see anything except the cave wall directly ahead. Just outside the mouth of the cave is a large, constantly burning fire which casts its light through the mouth of the cave and illuminates the interior of the cave. As people and animals pass between the fire and the cave entrance, their shadows are cast onto the cave wall directly in front of the cave's prisoners, including the shadows of the prisoners themselves. The shadows within the cave thus constitute the entire understanding the prisoners have of the outside world. Thus, it is also the basis for their knowledge, their beliefs, and their consensus reality. Should they hear an echo within the cave, they might suppose it to be the voice of one of the shadows passing by. But this is their world, it comprises all that they have ever known, all that they have ever experienced. They have nothing else to compare to their world; thus, their world is the finite end of their existence, there is nothing else. But what would happen should a single prisoner be liberated from his chains? The prisoner could stand up, turn around, and face the mouth of the cave. Do you suppose this sudden liberation might cause some apprehension or fear in this person? Would you return back to your place and pretend you were still chained? What about the illusion of reality of the liberated prisoner vs. the consensus reality of the group? Now suppose the liberated captive is now guided outside the cave to the source of the shadows. Would you not be blinded by the glare of the light and bewildered by your strange environment? What if you were asked to name all the things which now passed before you that were the source of the shadows before. Would you recognize anything passing by and give it the same name it had in the cave? Now suppose that you were guided up a steep and difficult ascent to a hilltop and compelled to look at the sun. How much pain and fear would that create? Would you believe that all the things you see are real? And, alas, should you remain and adapt to the outside world, would you not ponder your friends and relatives who are yet prisoners in the cave? Should you ever return to the cave and tell them all that you have experienced, how would you be received? "The Allegory of the Cave". What does all this have to do with Shamanism? Just suppose for a moment that we, modern woman, are the ones who live in the cave. It would be totally undetectable, because our illusion of reality would be complete. Whatever we can experience is what there is. If enough people experience the same thing then we begin to construct a consensus reality. From the point that consensus reality solidifies, the cycle is complete and thoughts, beliefs and behavior will be dictated from then on by those beliefs. If we do, in fact, live in the cave chained as prisoners staring at the wall, then what becomes of the one who is liberated and wanders outside the cave? Mind you, the liberated captive is not trying to escape. You cannot escape from a prison that you do not know that you are in. The liberated captive is being forced beyond his/her (in the remainder of the text, the male gender noun will imply either gender) illusion of reality and his consensus reality. Through no choice of his own, he is thrown into a new world completely foreign to any of his previous experience or understanding. The liberated captive is the Shaman. As I stated earlier, Shamanism is most frequently initiated by a traumatic physical or psychological events over long periods of time. Why is this true? Well, maybe the more correct question to ask is; why is it necessary to undergo a traumatic, life - altering event in order to accept new levels of insight? That question seems almost self- answering. When everything in our lives is going well, we have no need for change, especially radical change. The Shamanic event must be sufficient to leave the recipient open to radical new possibilities. Take the instance of an individual with terminal disease. I would like to begin with the premise that every illness is the result of an imbalance (or internal conflict) within the overall body or the consciousness of the individual. Furthermore, that every illness is an attempt at healing, and every healing is an attempt to arrive at a new state of balance. I would, further, like to expound that, by virtue of this new equilibrium, a new and higher state of consciousness is achieved. If the person fails to heed the message of the illness and arrive at a new balance, the condition of imbalance continues to expand and amplify until the life-force of the individual can no longer sustain the mortal experience and the physical body dies. Any imbalance that is severe enough to propel an individual into such traumatic physical illness is also severe enough to create a psychological imbalance sufficient enough to force the perception of insights which the conscious mind would have never previously allowed. Such is the situation of many terminally ill individuals, who, upon realizing the finality of their situation will resort to any treatment, regardless of the apparent absurdity. Desperation, the attempt to escape unbearable physical, mental, emotional, or psychological pain and suffering forces the conscious mind to expand and allow for the acceptance of radical new insights. It is no wonder then that people in these situation are the ones who most frequently have miraculous insights and experiences. They are the ones most emotionally tied to their lives and high emotion coupled with a clearly defined blueprint produces results. Notice, throughout the above text, that I constantly refer to reaching a point where the conscious mind must let go of its illusion of reality and over-ride all or limiting parts of consensus reality. This should be a significant insight into how our illusion of reality and consensus reality are created and maintained. The conscious mind operates like a computer. It takes the empirical data that it receives and analyzes, associates and stores it. The conscious mind is also synonymous with the logical mind. The conscious mind is not your high or spiritual self, nor is it your lower or emotional self. It is the middle, logical self. Most occult practitioners will tell you that the training and discipline of the logical, conscious mind is the single most difficult and vital factor in occult work. The conscious mind works constantly, generating information, usually anticipating the future or rehashing the past. Having said all that, it is not a far stretch of the imagination to find the correlation between illness and the first steps on the shamanic path. Is a traumatic event or illness a prerequisite to shamanism? Definitely not! But the degree to which one's illusion of reality must be fluid usually demands some interruption of normal consciousness. As one of the prisoners still in the cave, you might ask, is it not possible that all the experiences which the supposedly liberated captive had are not simply a stress induced self-hallucination? This question is one of the most difficult questions ever asked. That depends on the individual, the verifiable validity of that individual's experiences (to the extent possible) and the extra-ordinary abilities the individual exhibits which were not present previously. Please remember, for all intents and purposes, the only person you are trying to convince is you. If that person believes themselves to be "divinely endowed", your skepticism is not going to affect them. Back to the cave! There are several possible outcomes. How that liberated captive deals with this aspect of freedom is critical. The first possibility is to run back into the cave, reassume his original place and pretend that nothing ever happened, despite the fact that he's no longer chained to the wall. In this case, the original illusion of reality and learned consensus reality have prevailed. The second option is, of course, that he remain outside the cave. This second path forks quickly once you're on it. The first option is to simply accept your new environment and form a new illusion of reality based on your experiences there and accept the consensus reality found there. Option #2 is to realize that the cave was but one reality and now I am experiencing another, and there may be an infinite number of other possibilities. On this basis, the individual maintains a very fluid illusion of reality and abides the present consensus reality without buying into it. This last option is the path of the Shaman. It is also the most vulnerable path. It is my firm belief that mental institutions around the world are full of individuals who have experienced this last option and are floating about in realms and possibilities like a ship without an anchor. In many traditions around the world where shamans, witches, sorcerers, and healers are an accepted part of consensus reality, the "Wise Ones" observe the general population for signs of "Shaman's Disease" (one who is not oriented or tied to normal reality) or in fact, pick a particular individual according to their criteria for an apprentice, and deliberately induce "Shaman's Disease" as part of their training. The learning experiences of the captive in his new world simulate the learning experiences of the aspiring shaman as he is introduced into the his new world as well. For both the captive and the aspiring shaman, the presence of a guide, mentor, or teacher becomes a critical aspect of the time and effort required to adapt and master their new world and their role in it. Having achieved a level of proficiency in his particular art, the aspiring shaman will receive recognition within the society, group or culture as a practicing shaman and begin receiving visits from the population for his specific help. In societies or cultures where the supernatural or shamanism is not socially acceptable, an entirely new set of challenges begin. That pretty much brings us back to the captive's choice of returning to his fellow prisoners still in the cave. How does anyone who has experienced extra-ordinary events present the story of those events and the changes that the events effected on that individual back to their fellow man. The captive has braved to move outside the cave, learned and adapted to a broader awareness, successfully navigated unfamiliar terrain, and the last challenge is to take what has gained back where it can be of use to others. This challenge can be more threatening than any previous challenge the captive or shaman has previously faced. Social acceptance does make a shaman any more or less a shaman, but it will set the precedent for how the shaman or captive will interact with society and the extent to which the knowledge, wisdom, and gifts gained will be shared with that society. As humans, we are multi-dimensional beings. We consciously tap into only a very few. I cannot stress enough how our childhood training and experiences, our learned illusion of reality and our prevailing consensus reality affect what we will experience in this lifetime and countless lifetimes to come. The more fluid our belief system, the less anchored our conscious mind set, the greater our potential to experience a much broader spectrum of reality. Once you have been guided outside of the cave, you can pretend that you never left, but you will never be the same person that you were before!!!</div> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:32:34 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3c82f129-8644-45c8-a18a-98f636bf5d66 DreamKeeper 2009-07-06T01:32:34Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3a204d88-0e4b-48dc-a120-1af84e5316dd <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3a204d88-0e4b-48dc-a120-1af84e5316dd"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/976/34c/97634cd7-ee43-4531-984b-816477a33edf.thumb" width="65" height="77" alt="" /> </a> <div>My apprentice Kathy found this on Shamans Cave which is no longer around. I found my path very similar in duration and dedication to the Shamans Consciousness path through healing personal illusion, intimacy and karma this lifetime and then entered the dimensional realms into past life karma. It took a long time stone by stone. Enjoy, whichever your path... Shaman Mary ****** I am frequently asked about the use of mind-altering substances in shamanism to access the spiritual realms. Anthropologists have found, scattered throughout the world, numerous indigenous cultures in which shamanism is a vital part of society. In many of these shamanic cultures, anthropologists discovered that the shamans use hallucinogenic plants as a routine part of the shaman's path. Many of you are, no doubt, familiar with the writings of anthropologists, researchers and shamans, such as Michael Harner, who have seen and experienced the use of hallucinogenic plants and substances while studying these cultures. From the South American tribes such as the Conibo Indians of the Rio Ucayali River, who use the ayahuasca sap and cawa plant leaves in their shamanic experience, to the Native Southwestern Indians of North America who use peyote in their rituals, the use of such substances are well documented. Hallucinogic substances are a natural part of many indigenous cultures. To answer the question about my experience with mind-altering drugs as part of my shamanic journey, I must truthfully answer that my shamanic path does not include the use of any mind-altering substances at all. I have never taken a mind altering substance of any kind, whether for shamanic purposes or otherwise. In over three and a half decades of dedicated study and practice, I have never found it necessary to take any natural planet drugs in order to achieve my desired ends. From my earliest childhood memories, I knew very clearly that before this life was over I wanted three things: 1.) a clear understanding of what this life was really about 2.) a personal intimate, working relationships with the world of the spirit and the divine, and 3.) to understand the physical laws or principles that were used by a relatively select few humans to manipulate the forces and powers of this world to their bidding. I believe that I have now accomplished these three desires quite successfully with hard work, dedication, personal healing work that was difficult, and I have done it without the use of any mind altering substances. This is not to say that I do not enter into an altered state of consciousness to accomplish my work. It simply means that with the guidance of my mentor, and through my own dedicated efforts, I have learned to do it without drugs. The entire formula that I was taught, and that I still use to this day, is found among the various pages of this website. For those of you who are in places where the use of drugs is not prohibited by law, and your culture supports a shamanic practice that uses mind-altering drugs, and you can still find a qualified mentor to apprentice you, that's your decision. For those of you who live in places where the possession and use of drugs is illegal, and/or a culture that does not recognize the value of shamanic practice, much less the use of drugs in connection with that practice, you may very well be looking for serious consequences, even if you can find a mentor. You may be able to hide the use of drugs for your own quiet, personal use. But it is highly unlikely that you will be able to hide the use of drugs in connection with a shamanic practice in which you are using them to aid total strangers who might come to you. If you are aware of the number of medical malpractice suits filed against legally, medically licensed physicians by unhappy patients, realize the western social mindset when you are accused the public use of illegal drugs in connection with an occult practice while attempting to help people by practicing medicine illegally. For those of you who believe that you can use mind altering substances as an easy access to the spirit world and gain its knowledge and power, especially without a mentor, I seriously question either your understanding of the spirit realms or your true intent. I, personally, would consider you to be self-delusional. Before you embark on a quest of any nature, your spiritual growth being one, you must have some idea of what you hope to accomplish. Next comes patience, perseverance and dedication to the intent that you have chosen. Ideally, you will search and discover some the landmarks, by the way of the thoughts and actions, of others already doing what you are trying to do. There are a few rare individuals who have gone to these cultures and been trained by qualified shamans, and some of them have passed on the information they learned, either to apprentices of their own, or through books, classes and seminars. However, there are also many individuals who have not been trained, who think they can learn on their own from reading a book, attending a class, or being priviledged to attend a ritual. These people are flirting with danger. Once again, their true motives and connection to the spirit world must be questioned. To prove this latter point, I contacted a very close friend who has used mind altering drugs. I asked him to express his thoughts about his drug use and the effects that the drugs have had on his life and upon his attempt to achieve higher levels of consciousness. For obvious reasons, we shall call him Darin. I have known Darin for nearly eight years now. During those eight years, we have been very close friends, and at times I have acted as Darin's unofficial mentor and sounding board. The following are his words: "First, before writing this topic, I will give you some info on my background. Though I am clean now, I have had numerous experiences with Marijuana, LSD, Peyote, Mushrooms, Mescaline, Methanphetamine, and Vallium. I have taken LSD eight times, Mushrooms six times, Mescaline three times, Peyote once, Ecstasy twice, Methamphetamine eight times, and Valium twelve times. My drug of choice was Marijuana. I had smoked regularly for twenty years. I had quit smoking four times and had stayed clean for up to one year and nine months. I'm sharing all this so that you will get the understanding that I know what I'm talking about. "In my experience, when you use drugs, they create a false sense of spirituality, one in which you don't have to work or make an effort to earn your spiritual experiences. My life's focus has been my spiritual journey. I have constantly strived to gain an understanding of this life, and how it effects our eternal nature. My life's quest is to understand and achieve the highest level of human consciousness. I thought that I could achieve that objective, at least in part, through the use of drugs. When I used drugs, I felt connected to theuniverse and to the God-consciousness. My soul felt alive and connected. When I was using drugs, I was having profound insights routinely. With every epiphany, it felt as I suddenly understood some great and divine concept. My chakras are brilliant with color and energy gushed through me until I felt like I was going to explode. When I was connected, I didn't feel like I had any limitations. I felt like I could use my healing abilities to help almost anyone. I focused my healing abilities on Mother Earth as well. Then, as the moment would pass, I would find myself just as isolated and confused as before. As the high wore off, the outside world that I detested so much would close back in around me. I couldn't relate to the other people around me. Going to work and being around other people was a horrible experience for me. No one could understand or relate to me or the knowledge and power that I possessed. My life was being wasted. I just wanted to heal and to teach. Because of my drug use, I had lost all contact with outside reality. The world of ordinary people became a terrible experience for me. I found that I could no longer relate to women. In fact, I didn't want anything to do with women because they were so unevolved and only wanted to use me for their own ends. Drugs became the crutch that helped me to create and maintain my own reality, and it made me spiritually lazy. In order to continue my enlightened fantasy and escape normal reality, all I needed was another dose or joint to take me to heaven. Each time the I woke up from my heaven, I found that there was still a real world outside. I became so caught up in the reality of the drugs, and all my own fantasies, I never realized just how far away and detached I had become. Before my utopia finally crashed, I had lived almost entirely in my room for over a year and a half, without anyone in my life except the therapist that I saw once a week and the woman that I shared the house with. In the past five years, I have not had a relationship with any woman, sexual or otherwise. I couldn't find a woman that I could relate to and not feel contaminated by their energy. I would masterbate frequently, using that avenue as a frequent release for all the pressure that I felt around me. I haven't worked during that period because of a back injury. The back injury made it real easy for me stay at home, away from people and jobs, where I could just focus on my own spirituality. I kept hoping that I could make a living with my art work so that I wouldn't have to go back out into the world, but that never quite came together. At times, as my unemployment was running out, I would pray for anything to just to keep me going just to stay at home. Once, I went so far as to go back against a previous employer that I hated to force them to give me a severance package just to keep me going. Ron has told me that "Grandfather", a Native Elder, has said that if you take drugs and ask the spirits for guidance, they won't answer you because the drug you took will answer for you. If you go and seek the spirits in the traditional way with a clean mind, they will answer you because you ask in the right way. When you ask for help and rely on the spirits to provide that help, the spirits will respond. When you take the drugs, you get your own answers. You won't really hear the spirits anyway, so they don't come to you. Although it is tough doing it yourself, you will be strengthened by the process. You will also be more inclined to believe in the truth of your experiences if you had them when you were straight. When your visions are drug induced, you tend to think that you need the drugs to always have those experiences. This takes your power away and makes you more dependent on the provider of your visions rather than on yourself. Anything that takes your power away and distracts you from your true self and source of power is a dis-service to you. True enlightenment is the standing apart from all illusions and crutches that we would lean upon. "I, for a time, desired the support and nourishment that the drugs brought me, but now I have grown enough and have become strong enough to stand on my own and experience reality as it really is. It is not always easy but I am finding that it is worth it. My experiences of bliss are much clearer now and my ability to respond and remember are also much greater too. When you are ready to let go of whatever your crutch may be, I believe you will find a great gift waiting for you as I have."</div> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:26:38 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/3a204d88-0e4b-48dc-a120-1af84e5316dd DreamKeeper 2009-07-06T01:26:38Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/1c23e1d6-a972-4e0f-8b9c-d25ca2fc453f <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/1c23e1d6-a972-4e0f-8b9c-d25ca2fc453f"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/33c/368/33c3682b-06ad-4dd2-815b-551e101e1fde.thumb" width="56" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>In my work as a female shaman, I must always work with a more, pre-history understanding to make sense of symbols from my ancient grandmothers original meanings to apply to my work, otherwise current understandings over the past 3000 years make no sense to me in how I experience my work as a shaman healer. In neolithic and paleolithic times, lithic meaning 'stone', neo meaning 'new' and paleo meaning 'old' refers to our remembrance when we lived, did healing work and performed sacred ceremonies as cave women The Uraeus was one of our ancient living healing spirits and was called upon when a shaman woman was in a healing ritual with a group. The oldest shamans on the planet did not use drug plants but worked with the mother earths spirit and her animals, serpents and avian primordial spirits to facilitate healing energy through the shamans power, grounded enough to hold such energy power along with the healing power of our psychic connection as women to mother earth which could never be completely eradicated or totally suppressed or taken over by the repression of grandmothers's mysteries. Used as a symbol of sovereignty, Wadjet the Uraeus represented her royalty, deity and divine authority and its long lost original 'Spirit" that once was present by the Spirit Wadjet herself- wjp long left the earth over the past two thousand years, mainly because the Pharaohs used her for personal gain and personal power. Mother earths cobra thus abandoned her relationship to grandmother. Uraeus is a Greek word which has its origins in ancient Egyptian, meaning "She who rears up" and originated from the grandmother into the goddess cults and then into paganism. Those spiritual women shamans who called upon Wadjet, who is a real living spirit in the form of a serpent totem still to this day manifesting as a cobra of those who remember her before the patriarch rose through Egypt. In my own personal work since I am a collective shaman, I have had the ecstatic privilege to work with Wadjet and other primordial spirits. The first time she appeared in one of my group soul retrievals was back in the late nineties when I was new. I had no teachers so I cautiously took one step at a time guided by mother earth and her spirits such as Wadjet who taught me so much, I was astounded and shocked by Wadjet's powerful appearance compared to Buddhist masters who would appear in the flesh and in spirit. Humans were the only cmparrison during those days and I've soon learned that the animals, avians and animal worlds were much more powerful in spirit. At one particular group soul retrieval during the winter solstice, Wadjet was working with one young woman who I traveled into her journey and I saw her on a bed falling to the deep ocean and then underneath the ocean bound by chains around her wrists. I realize right now as I am writing this, back then I did not have the skill, nor the power to go get her back then, and Wadjet had to show me how it was done. When the journey was over and we were all sharing, this young woman, frightened, said: "I kept hearing and sensing a cobra next to me, but when I opened her eyes a few times, there was nothing there." The young woman pushed back her long white sleeve shirt for the group to see and she had tattooed on both wrists a circle of chains. She shared with us that when she was ten her brother in the bedroom below hers tried to commit suicide and the bullet went through her bed while she was sleeping and she woke up. A classic soul retrieval. She never did return to my circle, meaning, she never did go get her ten year old spirit in that ocean. Maybe Wadjet retrieved it for her and I couldn't see that deep into the dream back then. The Cobra became the patron of the Delta, Lower Egypt, and so was worn by the Pharaohs as a head ornament, in effect part of the crown claiming all healing power from the Queens, Priestesses and Grandmothers, and as a claim over the land. There is evidence for this even in the Old Kingdom (3rd millennium BCE). The pharaoh was seen as a manifestation of the sun-god Re, and in my wisdom of a shaman who has traveled back into the past through the dream portals, they used Uraeus as a spirit slave in order to protect the Pharaohs power and wealth and like black magic us it on their enemies. In some mythological works, the 'eyes' of Re are said to be Uraei. Now that woman will soon reclaim all her gifts with mother earth as the shifts enter deeper into the 2030's, our original co-creators for community, clan will be restored to proper shaman grandmothers utilizing the love with mother earths sovereigns such as Wadget and her sister Nehkbet, the vulture or what is known in Peru as the spirit of the Condor. There are two levels of Uraeus, the Shamans Uraeus and the Golden Uraeus. I have been blessed to have experienced both quite a few times. Last winter solstice my apprentices and I did a death ceremony in the snow and during the middle of the ceremony, when my apprentice was doing a death dance, eight golden Uraeus Cobra's larger than I had ever seen came from all over the forest to encircle us. I was in a shamanic trance and could see and they were like primordial golden cobra's that were huge, at least the length of a tall tree. Each one had come for us to participate. Prior to the 1922 find of Tutankhamun's tomb, this Golden Uraeus was the only ornament ever known to be worn by a Pharaoh and it carried the intended energy of healing. Tuja who was Tutankhamun's grandmother was responsible not only for all the shamans and her priestesses but also the 300,000 year unbroken lineage until Ahknaten murdered her grandson Tutankamun in which the ancient thugs started their Pharoah lineages demoralizing and repressing the original shamans rituals by women and grandmothers, banned from Egypt and earth everywhere. The Golden Uraeus crown and its scepter were made of solid gold, black eyes of granite, a snake head of deep "ultramarine" lapis lazuli, the flared cobra hood of dark carnelian inlays, and also inlays of turquoise. Uraeus, as Hieroglyph After the healing powers of the Uraeus were gone and abandoned, it was then the Cobra Wadjet was only an ornamental, being used as a "Statuary", or as an adornment on the pharaoh as a symbol of victory over the Goddess, it was also used for jewelry and in amulets. However another important usage is as the Hieroglyph. The simplest hieroglyph is the "Cobra" (the Uraeus), however there are subcategories, referring to: goddess, priestess, the goddess Mehnit, shrine of goddess (àter), goddess Isis, and lastly goddess: (Cobra (uraeus) at base of God (ntr) which slowly faded completely. The Rosetta Stone which was the original and first tax laws, uses the plural of the last example, "3-God 'Flags' with Cobra at each base of flag ". The story of the Rosetta Stone has the Pharaoh listing His reasons for being honored, and in return, "The Gods reward Him". The last (2/3) of the Rosetta Stone relates how He will be honored without her, including erecting the Rosetta Stone for all to read. Another example of the hieroglyph usage, is as adornments upon the hieroglyph for "shrine" itself, and also for 'buildings'. Symbolism of the Cobra: * Assistant in healing rituals as a spirit * Emotional Soul Body (psychic) energy * The connection and power of Nature * Intuitive wisdom * Kundalini Charkra' Opening and Rising * New life, rejuvenation and healing * Ouroborous * And Wadjets main Symbolism is: Transformation through letting go and surrender of the Rebirth Medicines- the snake sheds its skin and grows new skin; shedding the old, new growth. In pre-Pharaoh times snakes were associated with Goddess, rain and fertility symbolism. Around the Slavic Nations of Bohemia, Siberia, Poland, Ukraine, and others, during the time period of 6500 BCE. Snake and Bird Goddesses were inseparable in shamanic work. because Bird represents dream flight such as astral travel, dream walking and dreamtime, along with the serpent healing and is necessary for working with Mother Earths helpers unlike today where many humans connect with humans rather than power animal spirits. Both were associated with grandmothers teachings of the Great Cosmic Egg, from which came forth the Universe through the mirror of a womans womb. Symbols associated with Grandmother, Goddesses were dots, lines, shapes, and mazes. All of these dream symbols are water and rain representing the emotional body which is the domain of dreaming, intuition, working beyond the physical in the spiritual worlds. These primal animal deities were for survival for crops and migration purposes. Such symbols appear on pottery. Snake Dance uses this such symbolism. It the Dance of Life, of the twining strands of DNA, of Creation, bringing rain and new growth to the Earth. Hindu Cobra: In Hindu the cobra is associated with Lord Shiva the 'Creator'. The cobra, a symbol of fertility, is often shown together with Shiva in stone sculptures and paintings. Egyptian Cobra Uraeus: Symbol of upper Egypt of new life and resurrection. Symbol of Healing with Power. Uraeus is a real female spirit through the Egyptian snake medicines and was associated from as early as the pre-dynastic period and is often often combined with the sun disk. But before it was stolen, it was always association with the moon disk, and even thought the image of what we have left to see, some misinterpretation of the plain circle for the sun in a solar dominated science of archeology rather than its true round disc of the lunar healing medicines of woman. Sekhmet, who is a lion-headed goddess carrying the lunar disk and uraeus above her head and even though she is a solar goddess, she represents in her image as a protective function of women's mysteries making the once thought of solar disc above her head as invalid and the true symbolism of her as protectress of the lunar symbol above her head because the scenes come from the Book of the Dead, associating Uraeus with the underworld and the Emotional body called the Soul. A gilded wooded cobra called netjer-ankh ("living god") was found in the tomb of Tutankhamon. It is representative of the cobra's associations with the afterlife and the sex, death, rebirth medicines of his grandmothers lineage. In funerary the cobra is often depicted spitting fire linking it to the world Fire Goddesses of Kali, Hecate, Bridgid and Vesta and hundreds more. Fire goddesses are the life force energy of the spirit body which communicates directly to the soul and in turn the soul sends its images to the mind and mind interprets into language. Since the grandfather or sun god took over all language of interpreting womans symbols the meanings of todays books and works by authors are completely reversed.</div> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:26 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/1c23e1d6-a972-4e0f-8b9c-d25ca2fc453f DreamKeeper 2009-07-03T18:10:26Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0995efb3-3994-4c3a-abb9-6fa841913744 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0995efb3-3994-4c3a-abb9-6fa841913744"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/af3/7e9/af37e9e7-1809-4d02-8993-364f967bc4e4.thumb" width="60" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>The goddess of light and creator goddess of the Karraur, an Australian aboriginal group, she lay asleep in the Dreamtime before this world’s creation, in a world of bone-bare, windless mountains. Suddenly, a whistle startled the goddess. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes, flooding the world with light. The earth stirred under her warm rays. Yhi drifted down to this new land, walking north, south, east, and west. As she did, plants sprang up from her footprints. She walked the world’s surface until she had stepped everywhere, until every inch was covered with green. Then the goddess sat to rest on the treeless plain. As she glanced around, she realized that the new plants could not move, and she desired to see something dance. Seeking that dancing life, she descended beneath the earth, where she found evil spirits who tried to sing her to death. But they were not as powerful as Yhi. Her warmth melted the darkness, and tiny forms began to move there. The forms turned into butterflies and bees and insects that swarmed around her in a dancing mass. She led them forth into the sunny world. But there were still caves of ice, high in the mountains, in which other beings rested. Yhi spread her light into them, one at a time. She stared into the cave’s black interiors until water formed. Then she saw something move-something, and another thing, and another. Fishes and lizards swam forth. Cave after cave she freed from its darkness, and birds and animals poured forth onto the face of the earth. Soon the entire world was dancing with life. Then, in her golden voice, Yhi spoke. She told her creatures she would return to her own world. She blessed them with changing seasons and with the knowledge that when they died they would join her in the sky. Then, turning herself into a ball of light, she sank below the horizon. As she disappeared, darkness fell upon on the earth’s surface. The new creatures were afraid. There was sorrow and mourning, and finally there was sleep. And, soon, there was the first dawn, for Yhi had never intended to abandon her creation. One by one the sleepy creatures woke to see light breaking in the east. A bird chorus greeted their mistress, and the lake and ocean waters that had been rising in mists, trying to reach her, sank down calmly. For eons of Dreamtime the animals lived in peace on Yhi’s earth, but then a vague sadness began to fill them. They ceased to delight in what they were. She had planned never to return to earth, but she felt so sorry for her creatures that she said, “Just once. Just this once.” So she slid down to the earth’s surface and asked the creatures what was wrong. Wombat wanted to wiggle along the ground. Kangaroo wanted to fly. Bat wanted wings. Lizard wanted legs. Seal wanted to swim. And the confused Platypus wanted something of every other animal. And so Yhi gave them what they wanted. From the beautiful regular forms of the early creation came the strange creatures that now walk the earth. Yhi then swept herself up to the sky again. After many millennia of the Dreamtime, Yhi returned and created a sleeping man and then Yhi turned all her power on a flower and soon, the man woke upoined by all the other animals, as they watched her.... And the flower then turned into a woman. </div> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:51:17 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/0995efb3-3994-4c3a-abb9-6fa841913744 DreamKeeper 2009-07-01T04:51:17Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/a25feb2d-7cbc-471c-932d-c8aa0da86169 <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/a25feb2d-7cbc-471c-932d-c8aa0da86169"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/42c/443/42c4431e-16ea-4f0d-9af6-87c3e329d8f1.thumb" width="51" height="78" alt="" /> </a> <div>I have seer and shamanic gifts and their releases from the core of my emotional body (soul) was a long and painful initiation journey will full remembrance not in mental knowledge or mental meditation journeys, but energetic and portal experiences. Since my magnetic field work on temples is almost complete, my higher self is releasing some auditory levels for this world. I didn't need them in the subtle worlds in fact I wouldn't want them now that I look back... but in this world I can use them more meaningfully, and my telepathy and clair-audio seem to be working together. I have never had sounds in my dreams, in fact, until the magnetic fields in my collective shamanic work was almost completed, I had no visuals, no sounds, no color, nothingness, just a great big dream plane void since birth, with everything being scanned by the energy of my finely tuned emotional body called the Soul or the Dreamer in the Dream. I suppose according to mythic and universal law, I came in backwards ... a reverse universe, a black hole medicine of unified polarity, hence my Antiquarian sun opposite Uranus in the 3rd and 9th houses of journeys in every imaginable way. I received all information on and off planet in my dreamtime travels through the energy body of emotion and consistently worked on this lifetime in healing myself and being grounded in this world. In this story, its been two years since it happen, and once the magnetic shamanic temples were shut down, and only the electro ones remaining, my fields shifted from magnetic to electro-magnetic live everyone. I realized energetically, for this adult shamanic work, as a child, teen and young adult, I lived in the chaos of dreaming with a 100% magnetic body. Kind of the gift curse reality. This is the story of me and my friend Bob who not only organizes but travels the world with dream seminars. He is a professor at the University of Virginia and a great man. Bob and I met by phone two years ago when I got back from Guatemala which was also the end of the 13 long years of mystical experiences, shamanic experiences, and then the tests of the underworld and I was about friend, exhausted and in the state of pure 'nothingness' as the Buddhist speak. It took me a year of rest of doing no-thing. It was at this time I met Bob, via my dreamer friend Nick in Australia who kicked me off his dream group because I was fighting with a Vampire. Shamans are always the one's kicked off for seeing what others cannot see. But Bob never judged me and for that I liked him even better. FIRST EMAIL TO BOB: May 25: Hi Bob! Glad your on face book. I did the "Latvian Grandmother Cave Ritual" that you explained for an hour that you experienced... I performed it on one of my Apprentices on a sacred mound in Memphis TN two months ago with all my other apprentices and it shifted a lot of her crisis. It was the story of all the fat naked Latvian Grandmothers in the Cave that rubbed their body all over you in a primal tradition of healing, that you shared with me the day after you returned home from Latvia. It was a very cool ceremony enacted out and I felt its power but of course we were outside and not naked, compared with the intimacy of a private setting like a cave. I decided as a Shaman I would incorporate this Latvian Cave Grandmothers healing more often when my apprentices are further along. I have been also doing a Mayan Myth I read and brought it into my shamanic journeys with men for them to find their female side and I have been doing it every time for the past ten years. BOB to ME: Good to hear from you. I had participated in a summer solstice dream workshop in Latvia about two years ago, but didn’t hear anything about any Latvian Grandmother Cave Ritual nor participate in one when I was there. ME to BOB: Bob, I have realized now, that even though you didn't tell me of it, in this reality, my clair-audio is getting stronger and stronger and I am starting to hear beyond and get information from others who share it from the deeper levels of their souls information body. It works like this Bob: You fly to Latvia for a dream seminar, you attend, go to sleep. Like me, you entered the past, in this case a 25,000 year old cave in Latvia, get a healing from the grandmothers and wake up in the morning feeling good. You come home with no remembrance. Which means you dream traveled very deeply in the past, experienced the healing in that dimension in the primordial past. When you flew back home, since I go to this level of dreamtime all the time, you shared with me clair-audio the entire process and I just listened as if your mind and mouth was speaking. But they were not, my soul translated the information you brought back from the dream worlds. This has been a good review for where my dreamtime level has reached bringing it into this world. Because I have very high ethics around dreaming learned from my own death initiations and being a body, chakra and energy healer, I feel everything now comes because unity came from ethics, consciousness and hard work with self healing the shadow, and the combination of these are mysticism and in my case adding to dreamtime as a shaman. Lucidity is just the first level, take my advice, don't get stuck there for more than a year or two.</div> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:47:39 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/a25feb2d-7cbc-471c-932d-c8aa0da86169 DreamKeeper 2009-06-27T02:47:39Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4a2f98c5-9307-4dfa-80f2-162fdb094b6f <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4a2f98c5-9307-4dfa-80f2-162fdb094b6f"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/630/581/630581f3-402b-412a-9010-66f45ebc2d7d.thumb" width="65" height="26" alt="" /> </a> <div>In the tradition of Shamans, in order to attain the gifts of the all, a certain level of the underworld tests must be passed. Mother earth will give you a sacred stone if you pass a certain level. I passed mine and had a dream during that time. In the dream I was in Montana and a group of seven native men with one chief whose chest was painted with red paint, told me that who I was, would be written on a stone and it will fall from the sky. Six months later it did. A dark stone with an image of a jaguar woman, where her face is semi-transparent on the stone and the only part of the stone you can see light reflect from the other side, lighting up her face when you hold it up to the sun. Even the seven native elders who were in the dream in caves are seen in the stone, just like the dream. Earthy stones rather than gems, are universally available wisdom, having been used since the Goddess Cul(ures) to mark circles of sacred space, circles of protection, labyrinths, direction of spirits and a way to become grounded by mimicking stones presence and destination of being fully present, balance within form. Some like the Inuit call them Obos, a Dreamway, aboriginals call it Dreamtime and still others call it Dream gates. Whatever we call obos, these stones are used as a "Meeting places for fellow Dreamers, Shamans and Shaman Dreamers and Dreamway farers". Symbolically meaning the stone by stone path of self mastery, through a path of healthy eating, sleeping, dreaming that leads to our connection to mother earth in the noble acts of creation without illusions or illusion causing substances. In my dreaming I have seen many things. Like the first time I met my apprentice Kathy. I had a dream circle two years ago in which 13 seats were set up. 12 including mine were taken and one was empty. As a suggestion to the dreamers I wanted to see who was aware in dreamtime and who was not. So i assigned a task to everyone, that at the next dream medicine circle, the night before that following month, we would all meet at the Cahokia Mounds. Six of the twelve showed up that night in dreamtime and I was actually surprised that many did. I met Kathy the next day would had not met me in this world yet, and she told me she heard about my dream circle but could not come to it that night, but ended up dreaming at the Cahokia Mounds with me. This is a real living example of dreamway or dreamtime, when you remember with full awareness and you are on the earths astral planes, in present, future or past and can direct your dreaming reality. I have many more examples, and I thought I would share one.</div> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:57:17 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/4a2f98c5-9307-4dfa-80f2-162fdb094b6f DreamKeeper 2009-06-27T01:57:17Z http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/bb34ed6f-5259-4e32-8206-4c3890901fba <a href="http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/bb34ed6f-5259-4e32-8206-4c3890901fba"> <img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/453/743/453743fa-ad42-4ebc-8dd8-dec945ded9c9.thumb" width="65" height="37" alt="" /> </a> <div>Ever since my apprentice and I booked our flight down to Yucatan and Peru for our August 2009 trip, I have had these Xan spirit creatures in my cottage. They are about the size of a small orb, solid black and come in and out with high speed and sometimes slow. My life as a shaman of the female nature is that some things in sacred text which are enemies of male shamans are my protectors. The yin, night, mother, feminine, color black in a holy way are what shamans not only deal with but work very hard to understand as each deeper layer surfaces within their gifts. I am not an ordinary shaman, though we all have our gifts, I am a shaman which myth comes into form and reality. Since nothing can cross my boundary of my personal spaces in dimensions around me, because of my sacred symbol, I thought it was odd that these little Xan' spirits have been coming and going for the past three days through my cottage. My intention when I seal a space off, is that only the helpers of my highest good of unity, wholeness and balance can enter my home because that keeps me constantly being tested of slaying my own issues, ego and dis-eases, thus what results is not a mirror in dimensional shamanic spaces but helpers of the dark yin female energy in spirit form. Obviously these must be like animal fetches that have shown up to protect me. I have NEVER been a witch, nor pagan, so magic and sorcery was never an interest or drive for power of mine, in the outer world, only my long journey of self enlightenment and healing my intensities and then years of initiations by spirit. This paid off now, and for the first time in my life as a shaman I can ask, without karmic repercussion because I have passed all the earths middle, upper and underworld tests and died my eight deaths and took the path and the vow of awakening in unity of self as any Buddhist, Tibetan, Taoist and Sufi all rolled into one would, except I am free even from those. Obviously these little Xan spirit animal/insect helpers who carry very fierce poison in the underworld as stingers of the spirit world with magnitude, I see that they can help me if I need them, in Mexico and Peru. Before my apprentice Kathy's information below, I found this Deer medicine, because I am of the Slavic Deer Clans and I see that the Mayans slayed my sacred deer, the deer and stag of woman shamans which is karmic repercussion in itself: "Quiche-Cakchiquel, Zapotec and Nahuatl names all signify “Deer,” the difficulty in bringing all into harmony lies in the Maya and Tzental names. Dr Seler’s explanation is substantially as follows: That the word manik is from the root man or mal, which signifies “to pass quickly;” manik may therefore mean “that which passes by,” “that which is fleeting.” Dr Brinton gives the same explanation, and concludes that the Deer is referred to metaphorically. In regard to the Tzental name moxic, Dr Seler suggests that it may be founded on the root max, from which is derived maxan, “swift.” Dr Brinton objects to this derivation, as maxan with the signification “swift” is from ma, “not,” and xan, “slow, tardy,” and suggests that the name is probably a corruption of the Nahuatl mazatl. However, it may be stated in favor of Seler’s explanation, that Henderson gives moxan, “quickly, shortly, without hindrance,” which is apparently another form of maxan. Dr Seler, however, concludes, from a study of the relations in which the character is found in the codices, that it is the symbol of offering, of sacrifice, the deer being esteemed the animal most appropriate for this purpose. Henderson says manik signifies “calm,” evidently considering it to be formed of ma, negative, and ik, “wind.” Kathy sent this to share... Mythology of the Maya - Chapter V: Our knowledge of the mythology of the Maya is by no means so full and comprehensive as in the case of Mexican mythology. Traditions are few and obscure, and the hieroglyphic matter is closed to us. But one great mine of Maya-Kiche mythology exists which furnishes us with much information regarding Kiche cosmogony and pseudo-history, with here and there an interesting allusion to the various deities of the Kiche pantheon. This is the Popol Vuh, a volume in which a little real history is mingled with much mythology. It was composed in the form in which we now possess it by a Christianised native of Guatemala in the seventeenth century, and copied in Kiche, in which it was originally written, by one Francisco Ximenes, a monk, who also added to it a Spanish translation. The Lost "Popol Vuh" For generations antiquarians interested in this wonderful compilation were aware that it existed somewhere in Guatemala, and many were the regrets expressed regarding their inability to unearth it. A certain Don Felix Cabrera had made use of it early in the nineteenth century, but the whereabouts of the copy he had seen could not be discovered. A Dr. C. Scherzer, of Austria, resolved, if possible, to discover it, and paid a visit to Guatemala in 1854 for that purpose. After a diligent search he succeeded in finding the lost manuscript in the University of San Carlos in the city of Guatemala. Ximenes, the copyist, had placed it in the library of the convent of Chichicastenango. whence it passed to the San Carlos library in 1830 Genuine Character of the Work Much doubt has been cast upon the genuine character of the Popol Vuh, principally by persons who were almost if not entirely ignorant of the problems of preColumbian history in America. Its genuine character, however, is by no means difficult to prove. It has been stated that it is a mere réchauffé of the known facts of Maya history coloured by Biblical knowledge, a native version of the Christian Bible. But such a theory will not stand when it is shown that the matter it contains squares with the accepted facts of Mexican mythology, upon which the Popol Vuh throws considerable light. Moreover, the entire work bears the stamp of being a purely native compilation, and has a flavour of great antiquity. Our knowledge of the general principles of mythology, too, prepares us for the unqualified acceptance of the material of the Popol Vuh, or we find there the stories and tales, the conceptions and ideas connected with early religion which are the property of no one people, but of all peoples and races in an early social state. Likeness to other Pseudo-Histories We find in this interesting book a likeness to many other works of early times. The Popol Vuh is, indeed, of the same genre and class as the Heimskringla of Snorre, the history of Saxo Grammaticus, the Chinese history in the Five Books, the Japanese Nihongi, and many other similar compilations. But it surpasses all these in pure interest because it is the only native American work that has come down to us from pre-Columbian times. The name "Popol Vuh " means "The Collection of Written Leaves," which proves that the book must have contained traditional matter reduced to writing at a very early period. It is, indeed, a compilation of mythological character, interspersed with pseudo-history, which, as the account reaches modern times, shades off into pure history and tells the deeds of authentic personages. The Ianguage in which it was written, the Kiche, was a dialect of the Maya-Kiche tongue spoken at the time of the conquest in Guatemala, Honduras, and San Salvador, and still the tongue of the native populations in these districts. The Creation Story The beginning of this interesting book is taken up with the Kiche story of the creation, and what occurred directly subsequent to that event. We are told that the god Hurakan, the mighty wind, a deity in whom we can discern a Kiche equivalent to Tezcatlipoca, passed over the universe, still wrapped in gloom. He called out "Earth", and the solid land appeared. Then the chief gods took counsel among themselves as to what should next be made. These were Hurakan, Gucumatz or Quetzalcoatl, and Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the mother and father gods. They agreed that animals should be created. This was accomplished, and they next turned their attention to the framing of man. They made a number of mannikins carved out of wood. But these were irreverent and angered the gods, who resolved to bring about their downfall. Then Hurakan (The Heart of Heaven) caused the waters to be swollen, and a mighty flood came upon the mannikins. Also a thick resinous rain descended upon them. The bird Xecotcovach tore out their eyes, the bird Camulatz cut off their heads, the bird Cotzbalarn devoured their flesh, the bird Tecumbalam broke their bones and sinews and ground them into powder. Then all sorts of beings, great and small, abused the mannikins. The household utensils and domestic animals jeered at them, and made game of them in their plight. The dogs and hens said: "Very badly have you treated us and you have bitten us. Now we bite you in turn." The millstones said: "Very much were we tormented by you, and daily, daily, night and day, it was squeak, screech, screech, holi, holi, huqi, huqi, for your sake. Now you shall feel our strength, and we shall grind your flesh and make meal of your bodies. " And the dogs growled at the unhappy images because they had not been fed, and tore them with their teeth. The cups and platters said: "Pain and misery you gave us, smoking our tops and sides, cooking us over the fire, burning and hurting us as if we had no feeling. Now it is your turn, and you shall burn." The unfortunate mannikins ran hither and thither in their despair. They mounted upon the roofs of the houses, but the houses crumbled beneath their feet; they tried to climb to the tops of the trees, but the trees hurled them down; they were even repulsed by the caves, which closed before them. Thus this ill-starred race was finally destroyed and overthrown, and the only vestiges of them which remain are certain of their progeny, the little monkeys which dwell in the woods. Vukub-Cakix, the Great Macaw Ere the earth was quite recovered from the wrathful flood which had descended upon it there lived a being orgulous and full of pride, called Vukub-Cakix (Seventimes-the-colour-of-fire-the Kiche name for the great macaw bird). His teeth were of emerald, and other parts of him shone with the brilliance of gold and silver. In short, it is evident that he was a sun-and-moon god of prehistoric times. He boasted dreadfully, and his conduct so irritated the other gods that they resolved upon his destruction. His two sons, Zipacna and Cabrakan (Cockspur or Earth-heaper, and Earthquake), were earthquake-gods of the type of the Jotuns of Scandinavian myth or the Titans of Greek legend. These also were prideful and arrogant, and to cause their downfall the gods despatched the heavenly twins Hun-Apu and Xbalanque to earth, with instructions to chastise the trio. Vukub-Cakix prided himself upon his possession of the wonderful nanze-tree, the tapal, bearing a fruit round, yellow, and aromatic, upon which he breakfasted every morning. One morning he mounted to its summit, whence he could best espy the choicest fruits, when he was surprised and infuriated to observe that two strangers had arrived there before him, and had almost denuded the tree of its produce. On seeing Vukub, Hun-Apu raised a blow-pipe to his mouth and blew a dart at the giant. It struck him on the mouth, and he fell from the top of the tree to the ground. Hun-Apu leapt down upon Vukub and grappled with him, but the giant in terrible anger seized the god by the arm and wrenched it from the body. He then returned to his house, where he was met by his wife, Chimalmat, who inquired for what reason he roared with pain. In reply he pointed to his mouth, and so full of anger was he against Hun-Apu that he took the arm he had wrenched from him and hung it over a blazing fire. He then threw himself down to bemoan his injuries, consoling himself, however, with the idea that he had avenged himself upon the disturbers of his peace. Whilst Vukub-Cakix moaned and howled with the dreadful pain which he felt in his jaw and teeth (for the dart which had pierced him was probably poisoned) the arm of Hun-Apu hung over the fire, and was turned round and round and basted by Vukub's spouse, Chimalmat. The sun-god rained bitter imprecations upon the interlopers who had penetrated to his paradise and had caused him such woe, and he gave vent to dire threats of what would happen if he succeeded in getting them into his power. But Hun-Apu and Xbalanque were not minded that Vukub-Cakix should escape so easily, and the recovery of Hun-Apu's arm must be made at all hazards. So they went to consult two great and wise magicians, Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, in whom we see two of the original Kiche creative deities, who advised them to proceed with them in disguise to the dwelling of Vukub, if they wished to recover the lost arm. The old magicians resolved to disguise themselves as doctors, and dressed Hun-Apu and Xbalanque in other garments to represent their sons. Shortly they arrived at the mansion of Vukub, and while still some way off they could hear his groans and cries. Presenting themselves at the door, they accosted him. They told him that they had heard some one crying out in pain, and that as famous doctors they considered it their duty to ask who was suffering. Vukub appeared quite satisfied, but closely questioned the old wizards concerning the two young men who accompanied them. "They are our sons," they replied. "Good," said Vukub. " Do you think you will be able to cure me?" "We have no doubt whatever upon that head." answered Xpiyacoc. "You have sustained very bad injuries to your mouth and eyes." "The demons who shot me with an arrow from their, blow-pipe are the cause of my sufferings," said Vukub. "If you are able to cure me I shall reward you richly." "Your Highness has many bad teeth, which must be removed," said the wily old magician. "Also the balls of your eyes appear to me to be diseased." Vukub appeared highly alarmed, but the magicians speedily reassured him. "It is necessary," said Xpiyacoc, "that we remove your teeth, but we will take care to replace them with grains of maize, which you will find much more agreeable in every way." The unsuspicious giant agreed to the operation, and very quickly Xpiyacoc, with the help of Xmucane, removed his teeth of emerald, and replaced them by grains of white maize. A change quickly came over the Titan. His brilliancy speedily vanished, and when they removed the balls of his eyes he sank into insensibility and died. All this time the wife of Vukub was turning Hun-Apu's arm over the fire, but Hun-Apu snatched the limb from above the brazier, and with the help of the magicians replaced it upon his shoulder. The discomfiture of Vukub was then complete. The party left his dwelling feeling that their mission had been accomplished. The Earth-Giants But in reality it was only partially accomplished, because Vukub's two sons, Zipacna and Cabrakan, still remained to be dealt with. Zipacna was daily employed in heaping up mountains, while Cabrakan, his brother, shook them in earthquake. The vengeance of Hun-Apu and Xbalanque was first directed against Zipacna, and they conspired with a band of young men to bring about his death. The young men, four hundred in number, pretended to be engaged in building a house. They cut down a large tree, which they made believe was to be the rooftree of their dwelling, and waited in a part of the forest through which they knew Zipacna must pass. After a while they could hear the giant crashing through the trees. He came into sight, and when he saw them standing round the giant tree-trunk, which they could not lift, he seemed very much amused. "What have you there, O little ones?" he said laughing. "Only a tree, your Highness, which we have felled for the roof-tree of a new house we are building." "Cannot you carry it?" asked the giant disdainfully. "No, your Highness," they made answer; "it is much too heavy to be lifted even by our united efforts." With a good-natured laugh the Titan stooped and lifted the great trunk upon his shoulder. Then, bidding them lead the way, he trudged through the forest, evidently not disconcerted in the least by his great burden. Now the young men, incited by Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, had dug a great ditch, which they pretended was to serve for the foundation of their new house. Into this they requested Zipacna to descend, and, scenting no mischief, the giant readily complied. On his reaching the bottom his treacherous acquaintances cast huge trunks of trees upon him, but on hearing them coming down he quickly took refuge in a small side tunnel which the youths had constructed to serve as a cellar beneath their house. Imagining the giant to be killed, they began at once to express their delight by singing and dancing, and to lend colour to his stratagem Zipacna despatched several friendly ants to the surface with strands of hair, which the young men concluded had been taken from his dead body. Assured by the seeming proof of his death, the youths proceeded to build their house upon the trec-trunks which they imagined covered Zipacna's body, and, producing a quantity of pulque, they began to make merry over the end of their enemy. For some hours their new dwelling rang with revelry. All this time Zipacna, quietly hidden below, was listening to the hubbub and waiting his chance to revenge himself upon those who had entrapped him. Suddenly arising in his giant might, he cast the house and all its inmates high in the air. The dwelling was utterly demolished, and the band of youths were hurled with such force into the sky that they remained there, and in the stars we call the Pleiades we can still discern them wearily waiting an opportunity to return to earth. The Undoing of Zipacna But Hun-Apu and Xbalanquc, grieved that their comrades had so perished, resolved that Zipacna must not be permitted to escape so easily. He, carrying the mountains by night, sought his food by day on the shore of the river, where he wandered catching fish and crabs. The brothers made a large artificial crab, which they placed in a cavern at the bottom of a ravine. They then cunningly undermined a huge mountain, and awaited events. Very soon they saw Zipacna wandering along the side of the river, and asked him where he was going. "Oh, I am only seeking my daily food," replied the giant. "And what may that consist of asked the brothers. "Only of fish and crabs," replied Zipacna. "Oh, there is a crab down yonder," said the crafty brothers, pointing to the bottom of the ravine. "We espied it as we came along. Truly, it is a great crab, and will furnish you with a capital breakfast." Splendid! " cried Zipacna, with glistening eyes. "I must have it at once," and with one bound he leapt down to where the cunningly contrived crab lay in the cavern. No sooner had he reached it than Hun-Apu and Xbalanque cast the mountain upon him; but so desperate were his efforts to get free that the brothers feared he might rid himself of the immense weight of earth under which he was buried, and to make sure of his fate they turned him into stone. Thus at the foot of Mount Meahuan, near Vera Paz, perished the proud Mountain-Maker. The Discomfiture of Cabrakan Now only the third of this family of boasters remained, and he was the most proud of any. "I am the Overturner of Mountains!" said he. But Hun-Apu and Xbalanque had made up their minds that not one of the race of Vukub should be left alive. At the moment when they were plotting the over. throw of Cabrakan he was occupied in moving mountains. He seized the mountains by their bases and, exerting his mighty strength, cast them into the air; and of the smaller mountains he took no account at all. While he was so employed he met the brothers, who greeted him cordially. "Good day, Cabrakan," said they. " What may you be doing? " "Bah! nothing at all," replied the giant. " Cannot you see that I am throwing the mountains about, which is my usual occupation? And who may you be that ask such stupid questions? What arc your names?" "We have no names " replied they. "We are only hunters, and here we have our blow-pipes, with which we shoot the birds that live in these mountains. So you see that we do not require names, as we meet no one." Cabrakan looked at the brothers disdainfully, and was about to depart when they said to him: "Stay; we should like to behold these mountain-throwing feats of yours. This aroused the pride of Cabrakan. "Well, since you wish it," said he, "I will show you how I can move a really great mountain. Now, choose the one you would like to see me destroy, and before you are aware of it I shall have reduced it to dust." Hun-Apu looked around him, and espyingy a great peak pointed toward it. 11 Do you think you could overthrow that mountain?" he asked. "Without the least difficulty," replied Cabrakan, with a great laugh. "Let us go toward it." "But first you must cat," said Hun-Apu. "You have had no food since morning, and so great a feat can hardly be accomplished fasting." The giant smacked his lips. "You are right" he said, with a hungry look. Cabrakan was one of those people who are always hungry. "But what have you to give me?" "We have nothing with us," said Hun-Apu. "Umph!" growled Cabrakan, "you are a pretty fellow. You ask me what I will have to eat, and then tell me you have nothing," and in his anger he seized one of the smaller mountains and threw it into the sea, so that the waves splashed up to the sky. "Come," said Hun-Apu, "don't get angry. We have our blow-pipes with us, and will shoot a bird for your dinner." On hearing this Cabrakan grew somewhat quieter. "Why did you not say so at first? " he growled. "But be quick, because I am hungry." Just at that moment a large bird passed overhead, and Hun-Apu and Xbalanque raised their blow-pipes to their mouths. The darts sped swiftly upward, and both of them struck the bird, which came tumbling down through the air, falling at the feet of Cabrakan. "Wonderful, wonderful!" cried the giant. "You are clever fellows indeed, and, seizing the dead bird, he was going to eat it raw when Hun-Apu stopped him. Wait a moment, said he. "It will be much nicer when cooked," and, rubbing two sticks together, he ordered Xbalanque to gather some dry wood, so that a fire was soon blazing. The bird was then suspended over the fire, and in a short time a savoury odour mounted to the nostrils of the giant, who stood watching the cooking with hungry eyes and watering lips. Before placing the bird over the fire to cook, however, Hun-Apu had smeared its feathers with a thick coating of mud. The Indians in some parts of Central America still do this, so that when the mud dries with the heat of the fire the feathers will come off with it, leaving the flesh of the bird quite ready to eat. But Hun-Apu had done this with a purpose. The mud that he spread on the feathers was that of a poisoned earth, called tizate, the elements of which sank deeply into the flesh of the bird. When the savoury mess was cooked, he handed it to Cabrakan, who speedily devoured it. "Now" said Hun-Apu, "let us go toward that great mountain and see if you can lift it as you boast." But already Cabrakan began to feel strange pangs. "What is this?" said he, passing his hand across his brow. "I do not seem to see the mountain you mean. "Nonsense," said Hun-Apu. Yonder it is, see, to the east there." "My eyes seem dim this morning," replied the giant. "No, it is not that," said Hun-Apu. "You have boasted that you could lift this mountain, and now you are afraid to try." "I tell you," said Cabrakan, "that I have difficulty in seeing. Will you lead me to the mountain? " "Certainly," said Hun-Apu, giving him his hand, and with several strides they were at the foot of the eminence. " Now," said Hun-Apu, "see what you can do, boaster." Cabrakan gazed stupidly at the great mass in front of him. His knees shook together so that the sound was like the beating of a war-drum, and the sweat poured from his forehead and ran in a little stream down the side of the mountain. "Come," cried Hun-Apu derisively, "are you going to lift the mountain or not?" "He cannot," sneered Xbalanque. "I knew he could not." Cabrakan shook himself into a final effort to regain his senses, but all to no purpose. The poison rushed through his blood, and with a groan he fell dead before the brothers. Thus perished the last of the earth-giants of Guatemala, whom Hun-Apu and Xbalanque had been sent to destroy. The Second Book The second book of the Popol Vuh outlines the history of the hero-gods Hun-Apu and Xbalanque. We are told that Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the father and mother gods, had two sons, Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu, the first of whom had by his wife Xbakiyalo two sons, Hunbatz and Hunchouen. The weakness of the whole family was the native game or ball, possibly the Mexican-Mayan game of tlachtli, a sort of hockey. To this pastime the natives of Central America were greatly addicted, and numerous remains of tlachtli courts are to be found in the ruined cities of Yucatan and Guatemala. The object of the game was to "putt" the ball through a small hole in a circular stone or goal, and the player who succeeded in doing this might demand from the audience all their clothes and jewels. The game, as we have said, was exceedingly popular in ancient Central America, and there is good reason to believe that inter-city matches took place between the various city-states, and were accompanied by a partisanship and rivalry as keen as that which finds expression among the crowd at our principal football matches to-day. A Challenge from Hades On one occasion Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu played a game of ball which in its progress took them into the vicinity of the realm of Xibalba (the Kiche Hades). The rulers of that drear abode, imagining that they had a chance of capturing the brothers, extended a challenge to them to play them at ball, and this challenge Hun-Came and Vukub-Came, the sovereigns of the Kiche Hell, despatched by four messengers in the shape of owls. The brothers accepted the challenge, and, bidding farewell to their mother Xmucane and their respective sons and nephews, followed the feathered messengers down the long hill which led to the Underworld. The Fooling of the Brethren The American Indian is grave and taciturn. If there is one thing he fears and dislikes more than another it is ridicule. To his austere and haughty spirit it appears as something derogratory to his dignity, a slur upon his manhood. The hero-brothers had not been long in Xibalba when they discovered that it was the intention of the Lords of Hades to fool them and subject them to every species of indignity. After crossing a river of blood, they came to the palace of the Lords of Xibalba, where they espied two seated figures in front of them. Thinking that they recognised in them Hun-Came and Vukub-Came, they saluted them in a becoming manner, only to discover to their mortification that they were addressing fifurcs of wood. This incident excited the ribald jeers o the Xibalbans, who scoffed at the brothers. Next they were invited to sit on the seat of honour, which they found to their dismay to be a red-hot stone, a circumstance which caused unbounded amusement to the inhabitants of the Underworld. Then they were imprisoned in the House of Gloom, where they were sacrificed and buried. The head of Hunhun-Apu was, however, suspended from a tree, upon the branches of which grew a crop of gourds so like the dreadful trophy as to be indistinguishable from it. The fiat went forth that no one in Xibalba must eat of the fruit of that tree. But the Lords of Xibalba had reckoned without feminine curiosity and its unconquerable love of the forbidden. The Princess Xquiq One day-if day ever penetrated to that gloomy and unwholesome place-a princess of Xibalba called Xquiq (Blood), daughter of Cuchumaquiq, a notability of Xibalba, passed under the tree, and, observing the desirable fruit with which it was covered, stretched out her hand to pluck one of the gourds. Into the outstretched palm the head of Hunhun-Apu spat, and told Xquiq that she would become a mother. Before she returned home, however, the hero-god assured her that no harm would come to her, and that she must not be afraid. In a few months' time the princess's father heard of her adventure, and she was doomed to be slain, the royal messengers of Xibalba, the owls, receiving commands to despatch her and to bring back her heart in a vase. But on the way she overcame the scruples of the owls by splendid promises, and they substituted for her heart the coagulated sap of the bloodwort plant. The Birth of Hun-Apu and Xbalanque Xmucane, left at home, looked after the welfare of the young Hunbatz and Hunchouen, and thither, at the instigation of the head of Hunhun-Apu, went Xquiq for protection. At first Xmucane would not credit her story, but upon Xquiq appealing to the gods a miracle was performed on her behalf, and she was permitted to gather a basket of maize where no maize grew to prove the authenticity of her claim. As a princess of the Underworld, it is not surprising that she should be connected with such a phenomenon, as it is from deities of that region that we usually expect the phenomena of growth to proceed. Shortly afterwards, when she had won the good graces of the aged Xmucane, her twin sons were born, the Hun-Apu and Xbalanque whom we have already met as the central figures of the first book. The Divine Children But the divine children were both noisy and mischievous. They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour. At last Xmucane, unable to put up with their habits, turned them out of doors. They took to an outdoor life with surprising case, and soon became expert hunters and skilful in the use of the serbatana (blow-pipe), with which they shot birds and small animals. They were badly treated by their half-brothers Hunbatz and Hunchouen, who, jealous of their fame as hunters, annoyed them in every possible manner. But the divine children retaliated by turning their tormentors into hideous apes. The sudden change in the appearn of her grandsons caused Xmucane the most profound grief and dismay, and she begged that they who had brightened her home with their singing and flute-playing might not be condemned to such a dreadful fate. She was informed by the divine brothers that if she could behold their antics unmoved by mirth her wish would be granted. But the capers they cut and their grimaces caused her such merriment that on three separate occasions she was unable to restrain her laughter, and the men-monkeys took their leave. The Magic Tools The childhood of Hun-Apu and Xbalanque was full of such episodes as might be expected from these beings. We find, for example, that on attempting to clear a milpa (maize plantation) they employed magic tools which could be trusted to undertake a good day's work whilst they were absent at the chase. Returning at night, they smeared soil over their hands and faces, for the purpose of deluding Xmucane into the belief that they had been toiling all day in the fields. But the wild beasts met in conclave during the night, and replaced all the roots and shrubs which the magic tools had cleared away. The twins recognised the work of the various animals) and placed a large net on the ground, so that if the creatures came to the spot on the following night they might be caught in its folds. They did come, but all made good their escape save the rat. The rabbit and deer lost their tails, however, and that is why these animals possess no caudal appendages! The rat, in gratitude for their sparing its life, told the brothers the history of their father and uncle, of their heroic efforts against the powers of Xibalba, and of the existence of a set of clubs and balls with which they might play tlachtli on the ballground at Ninxor-Carchah, where Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu had played before them. The Second Challenge But the watchful Hun-Came and Vukub-Came soon heard that the sons and nephews of their first victims had adopted the game which had led these last into the clutches of the cunning Xibalbans, and they resolved to send a similar challenge to Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, thinking that the twins were unaware of the fate of Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu. They therefore despatched messengers to the home of Xmucane with a challenge to play them at the ball-game, and Xmucane, alarmed by the nature of the message, sent a louse to warn her grandsons. The louse, unable to proceed as quickly as he wished, permitted himself to be swallowed by a toad, the toad by a serpent, and the serpent by the bird Voc, the messenger O Hurakan. At the end of the journey the other animals duly liberated each other, but the toad could not rid himself of the louse, who had in reality hidden himself in the toad's gums, and had not been swallowed at all. At last the message was delivered, and the twins returned to the abode of Xmucane, to bid farewell to their grandmother and mother. Before leaving they each planted a cane in the midst of the hut, saying that it would wither if any fatal accident befell them. The Tricksters Tricked They then proceeded to Xibalba, on the road trodden by Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu, and passed the river of blood.as the others had done. But they adopted the precaution of despatching ahead an animal called Xan as a sort of spy or scout. They commanded this animal to prick all the Xibalbans with a hair from Hun-Apu's leg, in order that they might discover which of them were made of wood, and incidentally learn the names of the others as they addressed one another when pricked by the hair. They were thus enabled to ignore the wooden images on their arrival at Xibalba, and they carefully avoided the red-hot stone. Nor did the ordeal of the House of Gloom affright them, and they passed through it scatheless. The inhabitants of the Underworld were both amazed and furious with disappointment. To add to their annoyance, they were badly beaten in the game of ball which followed. The Lords of Hell then requested the twins to bring them four bouquets of flowers from the royal garden of Xibalba, at the same time commanding the gardeners to keep good watch over the flowers so thaf none of them might be removed. But the brothers called to their aid a swarm of ants, who succeeded in returning with the flowers. The anger of the Xibalbans increased to a white fury, and they incarcerated Hun-Apu and Xbalanque in the House of Lances, a dread abode where demons armed with sharp spears thrust at them fiercely. But they bribed the lancers and escaped. The Xibalbans slit the beaks of the owls who guarded the royal gardens, and howled in fury. The Houses of the Ordeals They were next thrust into the House of Cold. Here they escaped a dreadful death from freezing by warming themselves with burning pine-cones. Into the House of Tigers and the House of Fire they were thrown for a night each, but escaped from both. But they were not so lucky in the House of Bats. As they threaded this place of terror, Camazotz, Ruler of the Bats, descended upon them with a whirring of leathern wings, and with one sweep of his sword-like claws cutoff Hun-Apu's head. (See Mictlan, pp. 95, 96.) But a tortoise which chanced to pass the severed neck of the hero's prostrate body and came into contact with it was immediately turned into a head, and Hun-Apu arose from his terrible experience not a whit the worse. These various houses in which the brothers were forced to pass a certain time forcibly recall to our minds the several circles of Dante's Hell. Xibalba was to the Kiche not a place of punishment, but a dark place of horror and myriad dangers. No wonder the Maya had what Landa calls " an immoderate fear of death" if they believed that after it they would be transported to such a dread abode! With the object of proving their immortal nature to their adversaries, Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, first arranging for their resurrection with two sorcerers, Xulu and Pacaw, stretched themselves upon a bier and died. Their bones were ground to powder and thrown into the river. They then went through a kind of evolutionary process, appearing on the fifth day after their deaths as men-fishes and on the sixth as old men, ragged and tatterdemalion in appearance, killing and restoring each other to life. At the request of the princes of Xibalba, they burned the royal palace and restored it to its pristine splendour, killed and resuscitated the king's dog, and cut a man in pieces, bringing him to life again. The Lords of Hell were curious about the sensation of death, and asked to be killed and resuscitated. The first portion of their request the hero-brothers speedily granted, but did not deem it necessary to pay any regard to the second. Throwing off all disguise, the brothers assembled the now thoroughly cowed princes of Xibalba, and announced their intention of punishing them for their animosity against themselves, their father and uncle. They were forbidden to partake in the noble and classic game of ball-a great indignity in the eyes of Maya of the higher caste-they were condemned to menial tasks, and they were to have sway over the beasts of the forest alone. After this their power rapidly waned. These princes of the Underworld are described as being owl-like, with faces painted black and white, as symbolical of their duplicity and faithless disposition. As some reward for the dreadful indignities they had undergone, the souls of Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapu, the first adventurers into the darksome region of Xibalba, were translated to the skies, and became the sun and moon, and with this apotheosis the second book ends. We can have no difficulty, in the light of comparative mythology, in seeing in the matter of this book a version of "the harrying of hell" common to many mythologies. In many primitive faiths a hero or heroes dares the countless dangers of Hades in order to prove to the savage mind that the terrors of death can be overcome. In Algonquian mythology Blue-Jay makes game of the Dead Folk whom his sister Ioi has married, and Balder passes through the Scandinavian Helheim. The god must first descend into the abyss and must emerge triumphant if humble folk are to possess assurance of immortality. The Reality of Myth It is from such matter as that found in the second book of the Popol Vuh that we are enabled to discern how real myth can be on occasion. It is obvious, as has been pointed out, that the dread of death in the savage mind may give rise to such a conception of its vanquishment as appears in the Popol Vuh. But there is reason to suspect that other elements have also entered into the composition of the myth. It is well known that an invading race, driving before them the remnants of a con uered people, are prone to regard these in the course of a few generations as almost supernatural and as denizens of a sphere more or less infernal. Their reasons for this are not difficult of comprehension. To begin with, a difference in ceremonial ritual gives rise to the belief that the inimical race practises magic. The enemy is seldom seen, and, if perceived, quickly takes cover or "vanishes." The majority of aboriginal races were often earth- or cave-dwellers, like the Picts of Scotland, and such the originals of the Xibalbans probably were. The invading Maya-Kiche, encountering such a folk in the cavernous recesses of the hill-slopes of Guatemala, would naturally refer them to the Underworld. The cliff-dwellings of Mexico and Colorado exhibit manifest signs of the existence of such a cave-dwelling race. In the latter state is the Cliff Palace Caflon, a huge natural recess, within which a small city was actually built, which still remains in excellent preservation. In some such semi-subterranean recess, then, may the city of "Xibalba" have stood. The Xibalbans We can see., too, that the Xibalbans were not merely a plutonic race. Xibalba is not a Hell, a place of punishment for sin, but a place of the dead, and its inhabitants were scarcely "devils," nor evil gods. The transcriber of the Popol Vuh says of them: "In the old times they did not have much power. They were but annoyers and opposers of men, and, in truth, they were not regarded as gods." The word Xibalba is derived from a root meaning "to fear," from which comes the name for a ghost or phantom. Xibalba was thus the "Place of Phantoms." The Third Book The opening of the third book finds the gods once more deliberating as to the creation of man. Four men are evolved as the result of these deliberations. These beings were moulded from a paste of yellow and white maize, and were named Balam-Quitze (Tiger with the Sweet Smile), Balam-Agab (Tiger of the Night), Mahacutah (The Distinguished Name), and lqi-Balam (Tiger of the Moon). But the god Hurakan who had formed them was not overpleased with his handiwork, for these beings were too much like the gods themselves. The gods once more took counsel, and agreed that man must be less perfect and possess less knowledge than this new race. He must not become as a god. So Hurakan breathed a cloud over their eyes in order that they might only see a portion of the earth, whereas before they had been able to see the whole round sphere of the world. After this the four men were plunged into a deep sleep, and four women were created, who were given them as wives. These were Caha-Paluma (Falling Water), Choima (Beautiful Water), Tzununiha (House of the Water), and Cakixa (Water of Parrots, or Brilliant Water), who were espoused to the men in the respective order given above. These eight persons were the ancestors of the Kiche only, after which were created the forerunners of the other peoples. At this time there was no sun, and comparative darkness lay over the face of the earth. Men knew not the art of worship, but blindly lifted their eyes to heaven and prayed the Creator to send them quiet lives and the light of day. But no sun came, and dispeace entered their hearts. So they journeyed to a place called Tulan-Zuiva (The Seven Caves)-practically the same as Chicomoztoc in the Aztec mythand there gods were vouchsafed to them. The names of these were Tohil, whom Balam-Quitze recelved; Avilix, whom Balam-Agab received; and Hacavitz, granted to Mahacutah. lqi-Balarn received a god, but as he had no family his worship and knowledge died out. The Granting of Fire Grievously did the Kiche feel the want of fire in the sunless world they inhabited, but this the god Tohil (The Rumbler, the Fire-god) quickly provided them with. However, a mighty rain descended and extinguishcd all the fires in the land. These, however, were always supplied again by Tohil, who had only to strike his feet together to produce fire. In this figure there is no difficulty in seeing a fully developed thunder-god. The Kiche Babel Tulan-Zuiva was a place or great misfortune to the Kiche, for here the race suffered alienation in its different branches by reason of a confounding of their speech, which recalls the story of Babel. Owing to this the first four men were no longer able to comprehend each other, and determined to leave the place of their mischance and to seek the leadership of the god Tohil into another and more fortunate sphere. In this journey they met with innumerable hardships. Theyn had to cross many lofty mountains, and on one occasion had to make a long détour across the bed of the ocean, the waters of which were miraculously divided to permit of their passage. At last they arrived at a mountain which they called Hacavitz, after one of their deities, and here they remained, for it had been foretold that here they should see the sun. At last the luminary appeared. Men and beasts went wild with delight. although his beams were by no means strong, and he appeared more like a reflection in a mirror than the strong sun of later days whose fiery beams speedily sucked up the blood of victims on the altar. As he showed his face the three tribal gods of the Kiche were turned into stone, as were the gods or totems connected with the wild animals. Then arose the first Kiche town, or permanent dwelling-place. The Last Days of the First Men Time passed, and the first men of the Kiche race grew old. Visions came to them, in which they were exhorted by the gods to render human sacrifices, and in order to obey the divine injunctions they raided the neighbouring lands, the folk of which made a spirited resistance. But in a great battle the Kiche were miraculously assisted by a horde of wasps and hornets, which flew in the faces of their foes, stinging and blinding them, so that they could not wield weapon nor see to make any efFectivc resistance. After this battle the surrounding races became tributary to them. Death of the First Men Now the first men felt that their death-day was nigh, and they called their kin and dependents around them to hear their dying words. In the grief of their souls they chanted the song "Kamucu," the song "We see," that they had sung so joyfully when they had first seen the light of day. Then they parted from their wives and sons one by one. And of a sudden they were not, and in their place was a great bundle, which was never opened. It was called the " Majesty Enveloped." So died the first men of the Kiche. In this book it is clear that we have to deal with the problem which the origin and creation of man presented to the Maya-Kiche mind. The several myths connected with it bear a close resemblance to those of other American peoples. In the mythology of the American Indian it is rare to find an Adam, a single figure set solitary in a world without companionship of some sort. Man is almost invariably the child of Mother Earth, and emerges from some cavern or subterranean country fully grown and fully equipped for the upper earth-life. We find this type of myth in the m thologies of the Aztecs, Peruvians, Choctaws, Blackfeet Indians, and those of many other American tribes. American Migrations We also find in the story of the Kiche migration a striking similarity to the migration myths of other American races. But in the Kiche myth we can trace a definite racial movement from the cold north to the warm south. The sun is not at first born. There is darkness. When he does appear he is weak and his beams are dull and watery like those of the luminary in a northern clime. Again, there are allusions to the crossing of rivers by means of "shining sand " which covered them, which might reasonably be held to imply the presence upon them of ice. In this connection we may quote from an Aztec migration myth which appears almost a parallel to the Kiche story. "This is the beginning of the record of the coming of the Mexicans from the place called Aztlan. It is by means of the water that they came this way, being four tribes, and in coming they rowed in boats. They built their huts on piles at the place called the grotto of Quincveyan. It is there from which the eight tribes issued. The first tribe is that of the Huexotzincos., the second the Chalcas, the third the Xochimilcos, the fourth the Cuitlavacas, the fifth the Mallinalcas, the sixth the Chichimecas, the seventh the Tepanecas, the eighth the Matlatzincas. It is there where they were founded in Colhuacan. They were the colonists of it since they landed there, coming from Aztlan. . . . It is there that they soon afterwards went away from, carrying with them their god Vitzillopochtli. . . . There the eight tribes opened up our road by water." The "Wallum Olum," or painted calendar records, of the Leni-Lenape Indians contain a similar myth. "After the flood," says the story,"the Lenape with the manly turtle beings dwelt close together at the cave house and dwelling of Talli. . . . They saw that the snake-land was bright and wealthy. Having all agreed, they went over the water of the frozen sea to possess the land. It was wonderful when they all went over the smooth deep water of the frozen sea at the gap of the snake sea in the great ocean." Do these myths contain any essence of the truth? Do they refer to an actual migration when the ancestors of certain American tribes crossed the frozen ocean of the Kamchatka Strait and descended from the sunless north and the boreal night of these subArctic regions to a more genial clime? Can such a tradition have been preserved throughout the countless ages which must have passed between the arrival of proto-Mongolian man in America and the writing or composition of the several legends cited? Surely not. But may there not have been later migrations from the north? May not hordes of folk distantly akin to the first Americans have swept across the frozen strait, and within a few generations have made their way into the warmer regions, as we know the Nahua did? The Scandinavian vikings who reached north-eastern America in the tenth century found there a race totally distinct from the Red Man, and more approaching the Esquimaux, whom they designated Skrellingr, or "Chips," so small and misshapen were they. Such a description could hardly have been applied to the North American Indian as we know him. From the legends of the Red race of North America we may infer that they remained for a number of generations in the Far West of the North American continent before they migrated eastward. And a guess might be hazarded to the effect that, arriving in America somewhere about the dawn of the Christian era, they spread slowly in a south-easterly direction, arriving in the eastern parts of North America about the end of the eleventh century, or even a little later. This would mean that such a legend as that which we have just perused would only require to have survived a thousand years, provided the Popol Vuh was first composed about the eleventh century, as appears probable. But such speculations are somewhat dangerous in the face of an almost complete lack of evidence, and must be met with the utmost caution and treated as surmises only. Cosmogony of the "Popol Vuh" We have now completed our brief survey of the mythological portion of the Popol Vuh, and it will be well at this point to make some inquiries into the origin and nature of the various gods, heroes, and similar personages who fill its pages. Before doing so, however, let us glance at the creation-myth which we find detailed in the first book. We can see by internal evidence that this must be the result of the fusion of more than one creation-story. We find in the myth that mention is made of a number of beings each of whom appears to exercise in some manner the functions of a creator or "moulder." These beings also appear to have similar attributes. There is evidently here the reconciliation of early rival faiths. We know that this occurred in Peruvian cosmogony, which is notoriously composite, and many another mythology, European and Asiatic, exhibits a like phenomenon. Even in the creation-story as given in Genesis we can discover the fusion of two separate accounts from the allusion to the creative power as both "Jahveh " and " Elohim," the plural ending of the second name proving the presence of polytheistic as well as monotheistic conceptions. Antiquity of the "Popol Vuh" These considerations lead to the assumption that the Popol Vuh is a mythological collection of very considerable antiquity, as the fusion of religious beliefs is a comparatively slow process. It is, of course, in the absence of other data, impossible to fix the date of its origin, even approximately. We possess only the one version of this interesting work, so that we are compelled to confine ourselves to the consideration of that alone, and are without the assistance which philology would lend us by a comparison of two versions of different dates. The Father-Mother Goddess We discover a pair of dual beings concerned in the Kiche creation. These are Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the Father-Mother deities, and are obviously Kiche equivalents to the Mexican Ometecutli-Omeciuatl, whom we have already noticed (pp. 103-4). The former is the male fructifier, whilst the name of the latter signifies " Female Vigour." These deities were probably regarded as hermaphroditic, as numerous North American Indian gods appear to be, and may be analogous to the "Father Sky" and "Mother Earth " of so many mythologies. Gucumatz We also find Gucumatz concerned in the Kiche scheme of creation. He was a Maya-Kiche form of the Mexican Quetzalcoatl, or perhaps the converse was the case. The name signifies, like its Nahua equivalent, "Serpent with Green Feathers." Hurakan Hurakan) the wind-god, " He who hurls below," whose name perhaps signifies "The One-legged," is probably the same as the Nahua Tezcatlipoca. It has been suzeested that the word "hurricane " has been evolved rrom the name of this god, but the derivation seems rather too fortuitous to be real. Hurakan had the assistance of three sub-gods, Cakulha-Hurakan (Lightning), Chipi-Cakulha (Lightning-flash), and Raxa-Cakulha (Track of the Lightning). Hun-Apu and Xbalanque Hun-Apu and Xbalanque, the hero-gods, appear to have the attributes of demi-gods in general. The name Hun-Apu means " Master " or "Magician," and Xbalanque "Little Tiger." We find many such figures in American myth, which is rich in hero-gods. Vukub-Cakix and his Sons Vukub-Cakix and his progeny are, of course, earth-giants like the Titans of Greek mytnology or the Jötuns of Scandinavian story. The removal of the emerald teeth of Vukub-Cakix and their replacement by grains of maize would seem to be a mythical interpretation or allegory of the removal of the virgin turf of the earth and its replacement by maize-seed. Therefore it is possible that Vukub-Cakix is an earth-god, and not a prehistoric sun-and-moon god, as stated by Dr. Seler. Metrical Origin of the "Popol Vuh" There is reason to believe that the Popol Vuh was originally a metrical composition. This would assist the hypothesis of its antiquity, on the ground that it was for generations recited before being reduced to writing. Passages here and there exhibit a decided metrical tendency, and one undoubtedly applies to a descriptive dance symbolical of sunrise. It is as follows: "'Ama x-u ch'ux ri Vuch?' 'Ve,' x-cha ri mama. Ta chi xaquinic. Quate ta chi gecumarchic. Cahmul xaquin ri mama. 'Ca xaquin-Vuch,' ca cha vinak vacamic." This may be rendered freely: "'Is the dawn about to be?' Yes,' answered the old woman. Then she spread apart her legs. Again the darkness appeared. Four times the old woman spread her legs. 'Now the opossum spreads his legs,' Say the people." It is obvious that many of these lines possess the well-known quality of savage dance-poetry, which displays itself in a rhythm of one long foot followed by two short ones. We know that the Kiche were very fond of ceremonial dances, and of repeating long chants which they called nugum tzih, or "garlands of words," and the Popol Vuh, along with other matter, probably contained many of these. Pseudo-History of the Kiche The fourth book of the Popol Vuh contains the pseudo-history of the Kiche kings. It is obviously greatly confused, and it would be difficult to say how much of it originally belonged to the Popol Vuh and how much had been added or invented by its latest compiler. One cannot discriminate between saga and history, or between monarchs and gods, the real and the fabulous. Interminable conflicts are the theme of most of the book, and many migrations are recounted. Queen Móo Whilst dealing with Maya pseudo-history it will be well to glance for a moment at the theories of the late Augustus Le Plongeon, who lived and carried on excavations in Yucatan for many years. Dr. Le Plongeon was obsessed with the idea that the ancient Maya spread their civilisation all over the habitable globe, and that they were the originators of the Egyptian, Palestinian, and Hindu civilisations, besides many others. He furthermore believed himself to be the true elucidator of the Maya system of hieroglyphs, which in his estimation were practically identical with the Egyptian. We will not attempt to refute his theories, as they are based on ignorance of the laws which govern philology, anthropology, and mythology. But he possessed a thorough knowledge of the Maya tongue, and his acquaintance with Maya customs was extensive and peculiar. One of his ideas was that a certain hall among the ruins of Chichen-Itza had been built b a Queen Móo, a Maya princess who after the tragic fate of her brother-husband and the catastrophe which ended in the sinking of the continent of Atlantis fled to Egypt, where she founded the ancient Egyptian civilisation. It would be easy to refute this theory. But the tale as told by Dr. Le Plongeon possesses a sufficiency of romantic interest to warrant its being rescued from the little-known volume in which he published it. [Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx (London, 1896).] We do not learn from Dr. Le Plongeon's book by what course of reasoning he came to discover that the name of his heroine was the rather uneuphonious one of Móo. Probably he arrived at it by the same process as that by which he discovered that certain Mayan architectural ornaments were in reality Egyptian letters. But it will be better to let him tell his story in his own words. It is as follows The Funeral Chamber "As we are about to enter the funeral chamber hallowed by the love of the sister-wife, Queen Móo, the beauty of the carvings on the zapote beam that forms the lintel of the doorway calls our attention. Here is represented the antagonism of the brothers Aac and Coh, that led to the murder ot the latter by the former. Carved on the lintel are the names of these personages, represented by their totem - a leopard head for Coh, and a boar head as well as a turtle for Aac, this word meaning both boar and turtle in Maya. Aac is pictured within the disk of the sun, his protective deity which he worshiped, according to mural inscriptions at Uxmal. Full of anger he faces his brother. In his right hand there is a badge ornamented with feathers and flowers. The threatening way in which this is held suggests a concealed weapon. . . . The face of Coh also expresses anger. With him is the feathered serpent, emblematic of royalty, thence of the country, more often represented as a winged serpent protecting Coh. In his left hand he holds his weapon down, whilst his right hand clasps his badge of authority, with which he covers his breasts as for protection, and demanding the respect due to his rank. . . . "Passing between the figures of armed chieftains sculptured on the iambs of the doorway, and seeming like sentinels guarding the entrance of the funeral chamber, we notice one wearing a headdress similar to the crown of Lower Egypt, which formed part of the pshent of the Egyptian monarchs. The Frescoes "The frescoes in the funeral chamber of Prince Coh's Memorial Hall, painted in water-colours taken from the vegetable kingdom, are divided into a series of tableaux separated by blue lines. The plinths, the angles of the room, and the edges of the ceiling, being likewise painted blue, indicate that this was intended for a funeral chamber. . . . The first scene represents Queen Móo while yet a child. She is seated on the back of a peccary, or American wild boar, under the royal umbrella of feathers, emblem of royalty in Mayach, as it was in India, Chaldea, and other places. She is consulting a h-woman, or wise woman; listening with profound attention to the decrees of fate as revealed by the cracking of the shell of an armadillo exposed to a slow fire on a brazier, the condensing on it of the vapour, and the various tints it assumes. This mode of divination is one of the customs of the Mayas. . . . The Soothsayers Women "In front of the young Queen Móo, and facing her, is seated the soothsayer, evidently a priestess of high rank, judging from the colours, blue and yellow, of the feathers of her ceremonial mantle. She reads the decrees of fate on the snell of the armadillo, and the scroll issuing from her throat says what they are. By her stands the winged serpent, emblem and protective genius of the Maya Empire. Her head is turned towards the royal banner, which she seems to caress. Her satisfaction is reflected in the mild and pleased expression of her face. Behind the priestess, the position of whose hand is the same blessing their clan, and the significance of which is well known to occultists, are the High Priestesses of the young Queen. The Royal Bride "In another tableau we again see Queen Móo, no longer a child, but a comely young woman. She is not seated under the royal umbrella or banner, but she is once more in the presence of the h-women, whose face is concealed by a mask representing an owl's head. She, pretty and coquettish, has many admirers, who vie with each other for the honour of her hand. In company with one of her wooers she comes to consult the priestess, accompanied by the official power of the clan, the Grandmother, and her female priestesses. According to custom the Chief Grandmother is the spokeswoman. She states to the priestess that the young man, he who sits on a low stool between two female Priestesses desires to marry the Queen. The priestess's attendant, seated also on a stool, back of all, acts as crier, and repeats in a loud voice the speech of the grandmother Chief. Móo's Refusal "The young Queen refuses the offer. The refusal is indicated by the direction of the scroll issuing from her mouth. It is turned backward, instead of forward towards the priestess, as would be the case if she assented to the marriage. The h-women explains that Moo, being a daughter of the royal family, by law and custom must marry one of her brothers. The youth listens to the decision with due respect to the priestess, as shown by his arm being placed across his breast, the left hand resting on the right shoulder. He does not accept the refusal in a meek spirit, however. His clenched fist, his foot raised as in the act of stamping, betoken anger and disappointment, while the attendant behind him expostulates, counselling patience and resignation, judging by the position and expression of her lefthand palm upward. The Rejected Suitor "In another tableau we see the same individual whose offer of marriage was rejected by the young Queen in consultation with a nubchi, or prophetess, a priestess grandmother whose exalted rank is indicated by her headdress, and the triple breastplate she wears over her mantle of feathers. The consulter, evidently a person of importance, has come attended by her hachetail, or confidential friend, who sits behind her on a cushion. The expression on the face of the said consulter shows that he does not accept patiently the decrees of fate, although conveyed by the interpreter in as conciliatory a manner as possible. The adverse decision of the goddess is manifested by the sharp projecting center part of the scroll, but it is wrapped in words as persuasive and consoling, preceded by as smooth a preamble as the rich and beautiful Maya language permits and makes easy. Her attendant is addressing the prophetesses assistant. Reflecting the thoughts of her lady, she declares that the nubehi's fine discourse and her pretended reading of the will of the goddess are all nonsense, and exclaims 'Pshaw!' which contemptuous exclamation is pictured by the yellow scroll, pointed at both ends, escaping from her nose like a sneeze. The answer of the priestess's assistant, evidenced by the gravity of her features, the assertive position of her hand, and the bluntness of her speech, is evidently 'It is so!' Prince Cob "Prince Coh sits behind the priest as one of his attendants. He witnesses the scene, hears the calm negative answer, sees the anger of his brother and rival, smiles at his impotence, is happy at his discomfiture. Behind him, however, sits a spy who will repeat his words, report his actions to his enemy. He listens, he watches. The high-priest himself, Cay, their elder brother, sees the storm that is brewing behind the dissensions of Coh and Aac. He trembles at the thought of the misfortunes that will surely befall the dynasty of the Cans, of the ruin and misery of the country that will certainly follow. Divested of his priestly raiment, he comes nude and humble as it is proper for men in the presence of the gods, to ask their advice how best to avoid the impending calamities. The chief of the auspices is in the act of reading their decrees on the palpitating entrails of a fish. The sad expression on his face, that of humble resignation on that of the pontiff of deferential astonishment on that of the assistant, speak of the inevitable misfortunes which are to come in the near future. "We pass over interesting battle scenes . . . in which the defenders have been defeated by the Mayas. Coh will return to his queen loaded with spoils that he will lay at her feet with his glory, which is also hers. The Murder of Cob "We next see him in a terrible altercation with his brother Aac. The figures in that scene are nearly life size, but so much disfigured and broken as to make it impossible to obtain good tracings. Coh is portrayed without weapons, his fists clenched, looking menacingly at his foe, who holds three spears, typical of the three wounds he inflicted in his brother's back when he killed him treacherously. Coh is now laid out, being prepared for cremation. His body has been opened at the ribs to extract the viscera and heart, which, after being charred, are to be preserved in a stone urn with cinnabar, where the writer found them in 18 7 S. His sister-wife, Queen Móo, in sad contemplation of the remain-, of the beloved, . . . kneels at his feet. . . . The winged serpent, protective genius of the country, is pictured without a head. The ruler of the country has been slain. He is dead. The people are without a chief." The Widowhood of Móo The widowhood of Móo is then said to be portrayed in subsequent pictures. Other suitors, among them Aac, make their proposals to her, but she refuses them all. "Aac's pride being humiliated, his love turned to hatred. His only wish henceforth was to usurp the supreme power, to wage war against the friend of his childhood. He made religious disagreement the pretext. He proclaimed that the worship of the sun was to be superior to that of the winged serpent, the genius of the country; also to that of the worship of ancestors, typified by the feathered serpent, with horns and a flame or halo on the head. . . . Prompted by such evil passions, he put himself at the head of his own vassals, and attacked those who had remained faithful to Queen Móo and to Prince Coh's memory. At first Moo's adherents successfully opposed her foes. The contending parties, forgetting in the strife that they were children of the same soil, blinded by their prejudices, let their passions have the better of their reason. At last Queen Móo fell a prisoner in the hands of her enemy. The Manuscript Troano Dr. Le Plongeon here assumes that the story is taken up by the Manuscript Troano. As no one is able to decipher this manuscript completely, he is pretty safe in nis assertion. Here is what the pintura alluded to says regarding Queen Móo, according to our author: "The people of Mayach having been whipped into submission and cowed., no longer opposing much resistance, the lord seized her by the hair, and, in common with others, caused her to suffer from blows. This happened on the ninth day of the tenth month of the year Kan. Being completely routed, she passed to the opposite sea-coast in the southern parts of the country, which had already suffered much injury." Here we shall leave the Queen, and those who have been sufficiently credulous to create and believe in her and her companions. We do not aver that the illustrations on the walls of the temple at Chichen do not allude to some such incident, or series of incidents, as Dr. Le Plongeon describes, but to bestow names upon the dramatis persone in the face of almost complete inability to read the Maya script and a total dearth of accompanying historical manuscripts is merely futile, and we must regard Dr. Le Plongeon's narrative as a quite fanciful rendering of probability. At the same time, the light which he throws-if some obviously unscientific remarks be deducted-on the customs of the Maya renders his account of considerable interest, and that must be our excuse for presenting it here at some length. IMAGE OF XAN FROM: www.sven-gronemeyer.de/research/poopol.html</div> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:31 GMT http://people.tribe.net/dreamkeeper/blog/bb34ed6f-5259-4e32-8206-4c3890901fba DreamKeeper 2009-06-26T22:00:31Z