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Spiritual and Totem Insights for the Day – the Butterfly

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Today the Butterfly takes to flight stopping in to share with us some things that some of us are perhaps unaware of. In all my encounters with Spirit over the years, one thing has reoccurred over and over…. Butterflies have appeared to me carrying ‘Souls of Loved Ones”, whether it be Friends or Family or sometimes people I am working with that have transitioned from Human to the next chapter in the “Souls” journey. The visit may be brief, but the result and messages are astounding.

So when the Butterfly stops to say hello, or simply seems to follow… pay close attention and be open to what ever messages they are sharing with you in that moment. Even if you pay attention and later the synchronicity of that moment you shared with it becomes clearer sometime down the line. So Pay attention to detail… Pay attention to the beauty of the moment you share with life that floats around you today, for we never should underestimate the power of the Soul’s determination to send a message that is needed!

The Butterfly is connected to the elemental Air. It represents to many cultures the story of Transformation. It teaches us how to shift, change and move with whatever life brings to our paths. This helps us to learn how to work through events and situations that we encounter in our lives so that we can move through changes in what appears to be effortless with grace allowing our Sacred Hoops to come into and stay balanced.

Butterfly shares with us the gift of understanding that we all have purpose, we are all part of a grander plan, that we all exist to complete the balance needed in the world we live in. Without each of us inputting our energies, our purposes… other things would not come to fruition. Such as the pollen that is collected when they land in a grouping of flowers, when they move from place to place they assist the species in continuing to exist. We too are much like the Butterfly, for without each of us to contribute our efforts, our knowledge sharing it with our young people, with each other… ideas and cultures would eventually cease to exist.

Butterfly teaches us that we need to quiet our minds to hear the echoes of our souls, to look around you and appreciate all that is Sacred. Teachings are also about how we move through our lives transforming and constantly changing. As we are seeded into the womb where we begin our earth journeys growing and nurturing to prepare to enter the world, we are much like the Butterfly in the cocoon until we emerge slowly transforming into what and who we are to become.

Throughout our lives this occurs as we move through the changes in our life. So don’t fight the changes, rather honor the process of it as your Soul grows and expands into all that it can be… the beautiful soul that is an intricate part of the Human Race.
So today take time and honor who you are, remembering that you and all that you are is meant to be for a purpose and wonderful reason…. Take a moment to breathe, take a moment to revel in becoming understanding that you are important to all life!

 

 

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I am bear Medicinewalker and I am dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”

“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”
Mitakuye O’yasin!

 

 

music provided by Chris Ferree and is available on Itunes and at http://www.chrisferree.com

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Spiritual and Totem Insights for the Day – the Raccoon

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Today the Raccoon peeks out of the box and states it is time to get real! Time to stop hiding in the shadows because it may not be comfortable to speak your truths or to go against the norm. Be strong in your convictions… as long as they are things that will guide you to move forward in positives, with Respect and Honor.

We have sat watching long enough with out saying a word… We have gathered the proper intel so to speak on how to move while still maintaining that protective barrier we often set around ourselves, so now MOVE it! You have got this! Just because the world around us is in chaos, does not mean we also have to move the same way! We are in control of our own Choices… so make the right ones that are good ones, that strengthen your own Sacred Hoops foundation and sets good examples for others to follow.

Raccoon teaches us to re-connect with our inner warrior, to become both provider and protector for ourselves and possibly others within our Sacred Hoop. However while assisting others, Raccoon teaches us that we must in this process, learn to do this in a way that does not make those you are helping become dependent on your help.

When dealing with issues the Raccoon leaves no stone unturned. Patiently and diligently seek the solution by taking the time needed to observe the whole picture, both the seen and the unseen to find a positive solution.

Raccoons are also the masters of curiosity, adaptability, resourcefulness, masks or illusion. They also speak of hiding behind and not being open an honest with your self. Learn to be more open and accept the gifts being offered to you right now by the universe.  Be more versatile and watch for opportunity by being more aware of your surroundings and what is happening in and around your own Sacred Hoop.

Raccoon teaches us that as human we wear many masks in life and sometimes feel the need to hide our true self as protection or to hide from the reality of a situation. Just remember it is okay to do that for a short time, but do not get lost behind that mask, for we all have purpose, we all have meaning in this walk we are on.

 

 

I am bear Medicinewalker and I am dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”

“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”
Mitakuye O’yasin!

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music provided by Chris Ferree and is available on Itunes and at http://www.chrisferree.com as part of the Wolf and the bear Network

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What is My Totem Again?

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Okay so this is the most frequent question I get asked… and I am simply going to give you the response….”We don’t choose our totems. Our totems choose us!” This is one of the first basic concepts of Totems.

Totems are hard to explain at times, but what we need to understand is what a totem is before we can comprehend what it means to follow their teachings. Once we understand the concept, it helps us to learn the messages they then have to offer and teach us.

A totem shows up to us as a spiritual sign or entity. They come to share and teach the knowledge they hold to help and assist us with our own lives, how to relate to others and the world around us. Totems are not worshiped, we follow the teachings they offer, we incorporate the way they deal with life into our own to help us move in positive steps on our paths.  We don’t control them and often it is difficult to explain our draw or affinity to them… yet there is a deep connection inside of us that responds to them when the show up in our lives. Why we ask ourselves… because it simply is.

Walking with a totem will put certain disciplines in place for us that are not always easy to walk. The knowledge and lessons they share with us are rather set as goals to be like or a way of life to aspire to.  They come in many forms and will often show up at just the right time in our lives, and sometimes they will walk with us our entire life cycle, keeping spiritual watch over us. They will show up in our lives as an animal we are drawn to, such as a wolf, a bear, an eagle, lion or elephant, a tiger.

People often ask what is my animal totem? How do I know if I have one?  My reply is to open yourself up to the possibilities, look around your life at the pictures or items you collect, we all have them whether it is a honey bee or a bear, a snake or a turtle…. They are all there to share with us wisdom that will help enrich our life and challenge our souls to grow into the positives that are possible. Teaching us to cope, deal, create and live happy and productive lives.

“I am bear Medicinewalker and I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders.
We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”

Blessings

~ bear

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Music provided by Chris Ferree and available on Itunes and at http://www.chrisferree.com and is part of the Wolf and the bear Network 2016

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Spiritual and Totem Insights for the Day – the Raven

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Well the Raven stops in today to share with us, no I take it back to squawk in our ears and tell us to get with the program! We need to begin to listen to our inner voice, our soul’s very echo in order to make the right choices. It is not to late to fix things, whether it be with people or the way we walk.
People mistake darkness all darkness as bad, yet it is not for darkness shows us what light is, it brings balance to us just as our days are split between morning and evening… Grandfather Sun with Grandmother Moon… the Great Mother Earth and Father Sky… it is a balance that we live within our Sacred Hoops. But it is choice that makes it good or bad, positive or negative.

Magical …Mystical… Slipping to time beyond time … Often I hear people say, where are the miracles, where is the magic? And I tell them it is but at your fingertips if you will but open your eyes! We need to remember that we all have abilities and they are all unique. Yet with saying that we are all part of the puzzle and without us, life would not be complete. Remember that the next time you look into a mirror, or start to doubt what and who you are. Embrace yourselves in positives, and if you don’t the Ravens will pop in and start squawking at yah until you do.

Raven is here to tell us that we are exactly where we need to be at the precise moment in time. We are also being shown things that are in and around our Sacred Hoops are reflecting back to us what we need to learn about ourselves in order to move in positive motion ahead on our paths.

Raven teaches us about rebirth, recovery, renew and recycling, self reflection and healing our inner spiritual. Shine our light into the dark as we transition in to the change we are facing. Open our thought process to help us understand that there needs to be balance between light and the dark … that one does not occur without the other. To know one is to know the other, to understand them is to balance self.

Raven teaches us to listen closer to the world of spirit, for they are guiding us forward, helping us to remember what is important, what is sacred. That our souls can not take the material with us as we move and transition through life, but rather that it is the intangible things that imprint on us and we imprint on others that are most important. Allow that magic to spread to your soul and enlighten your spiritual.

 

 

“I am bear Medicinewalker and I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders.

We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”
“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”

Mitakuye O’yasin

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Music provided by Chris Ferree and is available on Itunes or at http://www.chrisferree.com as part of the Wolf and the bear Network 2016

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Spiritual and Totem Insights for the Day – the Frog

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This morning as I went outside to take Boone for his morning walk about, as I stepped onto the pathway it was covered in FROGS! This was awesome because I had just pulled the Frog card as the Totem Insight for the DAY! Funny how nature reflects back on life isn’t it?
So Frog has a lot to say obviously since there were so many at my feet , “Listen closely,” they said, “because it is time for renewal of spirit for all. All must learn to let go of how things have been done in the past and embrace a new way, a better way of being. .. both Spiritually and as Human.”

Frog steps in to teach us about cycles! We all have them, we all travel them whether we know it or not. Sometimes we wind up getting caught up in cycles that hold us back from being who we are supposed to really be, cycles that have negative impact on our growth as Humans. It may be outside factors that influence us, events, people or even our own emotions that throw us into this continuing loop that plays over and over again, because somehow we loose sight of the outside world and the lessons from the continued cycle.

So today it is time to step outside our selves… take a good look back and see into our very cores, then step back in and repair with TRUTH and Love what needs to be set in place to change the cycle to more positive steps so our growth as Humans, as Spiritual People can once again continue forward. This is not as easy to do as it is to write, believe me… been there done this, but the change is worth the effort I promise you.
So Step up and Transform Yourselves in order to become the best version of self… allowing your changes to be examples to others. Manifest your dreams and desires for your path in life!

The Frog teaches us of transition and transformation, supporting us as we walk through times of change. Connecting us with the our deepest emotions and assisting us with the process of cleansing our physical, emotional, spiritual selves to attain balance. The frog represents the cycles of life, birth and rebirth. If we take a glimpse at the Frogs own journey through life from a tadpole to the adult state it mirrors the many cycles of transformation and rebirth in our own lives.  It can assist us with the process of owning our own personal power. Recognizing it by cleansing ourselves of what no longer need and embracing with open arms what is now possible.

“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”

“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”

Mitakuye O’yasin
~bear Medicinewalker

 

 

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July 7 2016 Spiritual and Totem Insights For the Day – the Skunk

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Today the Skunk stops into share some lessons with us all. It is time to deal with it, whatever the “It” is so we can move forward. Why wait and procrastinate? It does not make the “It” go away; rather it helps to add fears, anger and/or negatives to our lives. So get it done, you’ve got this! Meet it head on and be done with it. Whether it is something that we need to set straight, or something we need to atone for… we will simply feel better if we embrace ourselves as Human and that like everyone and everything else we have faults. OMG did Spirit just say we are not perfect? Well sorta, for we are all perfect in our individuality with all our imperfections.

The Skunk teaches us all about RESPECT….. Both giving it and receiving it. If you talk the talk, then walk the walk and you will get the respect you deserve. But it is also saying respect the space of others, for there is always much to learn and we do not know everything there is to know.

It also shares that it is time to set ego aside, don’t think your sh#t don’t stink, cause we are all the same in the ability to choose negative or positive steps in our lives, hopefully we step in positives with that truth and understanding. Be resourceful and use what is available to you, do not waste but only take what is needed to survive.

 

 

 

 

“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the Native culture with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”
Mitakuye O’yasin
~bear Medicinewalker

“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”

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Music provided by Chris Ferree and is available at http://www.chrisferree.com

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July 6 2016 Spiritual and Totem Insights for the Day – the Ancestors

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The Ancestors

That little voice in our heads, the tingle we may feel as we walk through our days, that knowing we have and stop for a second to say hmmm how did I know that? All little ways that our Ancestors reach out to us through time /no time itself to assist and guide us as we walk our human. Yes we are not going crazy; we are simply tapping into lessons and teachings of long ago… things that resonate to the very core of our souls as truths and understandings.

So what does that have to do with today you are thinking? Well it has everything to do with today, for as we move forward…as we take each step… with each thought and action we take… we must remember we too are imprinting and leaving our own mark on the world. One day the people from tribes of the future will look back on us as the Ancestors, so let us make sure when they do they are thanking us.

If we make that conscious effort to stay in positives within and outside our own Sacred Hoops… perhaps we can influence positive change and movement that will echo through time/no time and strengthen the basic teachings, the very foundations which we come from. Whether you are Baptist, Buddhist, Aboriginal, Islamic, Born Again, Catholic, or Jew… whether you are gay, heterosexual, yellow, black, brown or white… poor or rich, young or old… we all imprint, we all can choose to promote positive over negatives.

So today choose to honor our Ancestors as they support us…Today share a story from old times gone by so they are not lost. Today stop and say a prayer or even simply whisper a quiet thank you for all they have done for us in order to make the world a better place for each and every one of us. Honor the work.. the sacrifice… and all they contributed as they walked the human before us.

 

 

“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the Native culture with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”
Mitakuye O’yasin
~bear Medicinewalker

 

“Join Me as I continue the Sacred Hoop Project into this Year 2016…the year of Truths!”

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