Red Tail Hawk is the 7th card today bringing with it a lesson of patience and calm. Remember to harness just that as we walk through our day as emotions of others might be a bit edgy. So we need to learn to roll with it like the Hawk rolls with the air currents. The energy coming off from the past weekend of Grandmother Moon is still sweeping past us all and not quite settled as of yet.
We will see things rise up and down over the upcoming week and it is best if we keep to what we need to rather than be distracted and caught up in it. Step forward in positives, we own our walk no one else so remind yourself that we are not any negative idea that others may project… we are worthy of being us. So we need to own that.
Red Tail Hawk shows up to help us understand the meaning in ordinary experiences if open and become aware of our surroundings. The Red Tail Hawk is awakening our souls so that we may begin the journey of our spirituality, preparing us for those Life Lessons that will soon show up.
Red Tail Hawks are messengers of the between, sharing insights and knowledge extended to us from the Ancestors and the world of Spirit. They speak to us of looking from a different vantage point and thus giving us a broader view of any given situation, helping us to not only be aware that a message awaits us, but also helping us to understand those messages.
Red Tailed Hawks are sacred and as they enter our presence, we must honor them by opening our minds and keeping them sharp while we look for wisdom and answers as we walk the human.
The Red Tailed Hawk’s red tail feathers distinguish it from other hawks, and remember that it does not receive their red feathers until at a later point in life after it has matured and experienced life around it. These feathers must be earned. The color Red represents Power and Energy that will lie dormant until it is awakened by our Souls as they walk and journey life and honor its own Sacred Hoop.
“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the 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…” Many Blessings to ya’ll ~bear Medicinewalker
Music provided to the Wolf and the bear Network@2020 by Chris Ferree and is available at http://www.chrisferree.com and on Itunes
Time to look at the teaching of the Medicine Wheel. I have been asked over and over about them, so as I have been taught I will now share those teachings with you. Please know that there are various interpretations of the teachings, but what I share is what I have been taught by my Teachers and my Elders over the years. So let us enter this journey today in the time of the Snow Goose, the Time of Renewal as it sits on the Top of the Medicine Wheel beginning December 22nd through January 19th.
Being born at this time puts you into the Time of Renewal with the main influencing wind being the North Winds! The Totem that walks with this birth sign is that of the Buffalo, it rests within the Turtle Clan. The polarity totem that shares balance for the Snow Goose is the Woodpecker.
The Plant Totem for Snow Goose is Bramble. also known as “Blackberry” This is commonly used by the native people in healing work by helping deal with cholic, diarrhea in tea forms and berry form, and also the leaves are used to assist with bleeding gums. This bush also has thorns for protection and yet represents also the renewal and transforming aspects of the Snow Goose People. It represents Courage, Inspiration and Persistence assisting with them getting what needs to get done taken care of. It also blends well with the Earth aspect of this totem.
The Mineral/Crystal is Peridot. This is a stone thought to be sent directly by the Ancestors and the Creator as it sparkles and has a heavenly radiance that helps with clarity of thoughts. It assists with the Spiritual side of things as well and adding strength when needed.
The Snow Goose Affinity color is White. White is the reflection of all other colors. It also in this case represents psychic energies. It represents the Snow Goose Peoples pure intent and the fact they simply do what they say they will, without a second thought.
Elements that influence the Snow Goose as born to the Time of Renewal are that of both Earth and Air
air is strongly associated with our minds, thought patterns and new ideas. this assists Snow Goose people to achieve their dreams and goals by transforming their creativity, their ideas into reality. The Element of Earth continues to ground and help balance them and also cause almost a pattern of predictability and dependability. Making them stable and conscientious people.
Snow Goose People are hard workers that when in that mode do not like to be disturbed. They are mostly healthy except have tendencies to have knee and spinal problems and arthritis. You will find that they do not go down easily however when suffering form these ailments, and often will be found pushing through the pain and getting it done, long after others would have stopped.
Relationship compatibilities are best with those born under the signs of the Beaver, Brown Bears or that of the Raven.
Their Life Path is all about Adaptation and Completion; to complete and develop new things, new ways of doing things.
Being of the Turtle Clan they are born into and effected by the Earth’s stability. Word and Deed represent the same to people of this clan, so they are dependable, reliable and can become extremely agitated when things do not get done what had been promised. They are most often extremely self sacrificing once they decide the path they will walk.
Snow Goose people are people that are practical and ambitious. They like being around people but rarely allow people to get to close. They hold fear that if they allow people in too far they will be emotionally hurt. If they do and it occurs, they will find it difficult to allow anyone else in and often keep more to themselves.
Best times of the year for people born to the Sign of the Snow Goose are from December 22 to the 19th of January, April 20th through May 20th and august 22 through September 21st.
The strongest day of the week when they can accomplish much is Saturday.
Best times of the day to accomplish things are 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Hope you enjoy the insight and it is helpful within your daily life!
Blessings,
~ bear Medicinewalker
“Discovering Years” from Pathway to Destiny: Songs of Healing and Contemplation by Louie Gonnie. Available at http://www.canyonrecords.com
So today as I Shuffled the Deck, before I could choose two cards dropped together, Tobacco and White Sage. For me those are very powerful cards that speak to healing, balance and honoring and accepting Blessings. Something that I was reminded of yesterday in a very unexpected way. I had a candle of Tobacco burning in my room and had just lit some sage to cleanse my space unknowingly opening a portal of a lesson that was going to be delivered to me up close and personal.
I as some may know or not have been recovering from Spinal Surgery that I had last summer. It has been a tough journey that I waited for over 40 years. What was accomplished was not only amazing but short of a miracle. I had to wait a long time for the right surgeons and the right technology, but all in all the outcome was well worth it. My spine is normal again and I have gained 2 1/2 inches back… so I am happy no more back pain. Oh but wait, fast forward and I am dealing with excruciating nerve pain in my legs as the nerves that were dead for so long…are now being reborn. So needless to say the journey has been one of patience which I do not have and readily admit, and the other of taking care of self… putting me first something I have rarely done in my life.
So yesterday was a lesson of trust and opening to what others can do to help. Enter Bonnie Lou FG Rodriguez and her husband and my friend, Walks with Thunder https://walkswiththunder.com/. I have not been acquainted with Bonnie Lou up close and personal, and to be quite honest other than people I have worked with or know I don’t let many people in that close. Doing the work I do sometimes not only pushes people away but draws people in like a moth to a flame, and sometimes that is not a good thing. So I put up barriers and protection plain and simple. Not to say Ms. Bonnie Lou was not to be trusted, I simply did not know her. However yesterday I was caught of guard as my phone rang on Messenger and when I answered it Bonnie Lou was on the other end.
It was not a particular good moment for me as I was feeling very ill because of my pain levels, to which she saw immediately when she asked me to turn my video on. When I saw myself which is not something I do, look at myself in the mirror…I was not happy at the image I saw. I was deathly gray in color looked withdrawn and well lets just say I didn’t look good. Immediately she offered to work on sending me healing and working to pull our the stuff that was not helping me. To help reset my balance. As she did so I could feel the energy swirling and felt dizzy and pressure in my head and sinus area popping. The more I let my walls down, the more I trusted the source, the more what she was doing was working. Lesson received and noted.
I have also received Theta healing from another friend over the course of this journey from Julie Sullivan, an also amazing Healer. Again it is about opening up and trusting. So I learned a powerful lesson yet again. I am grateful and thankful to have these ad others like them in my life.
So I have to pause and give thanks to these wonderful people who have done healing work on me over this past year… to all of you who have put up prayers and sent healing energy to me. For those of you that do not believe that this works… I encourage you to open to the possibilities, to trust in the Universe as it will provide all that is needed at just the right moment.
So my prayer for us all today is that we simply open to all those possibilities, that we learn to trust even when we are possibly at our weakest moment… for us all to remember there are good people out there that are willing to help and be there when we need them to be perhaps as we have been there for others. So as we do our rituals, as perhaps we light some sage and tobacco to cleanse and offer prayer… we add some for ourselves to be healed and brought to balance as is needed.
White Sage is the sacred herb of the West, used in smudging to purify, and to send prayers to the Creator. White Sage speaks all about the Sacred Within each of us! We need to take the time to honor that and all that is Sacred in and around our lives. Time to recognize it and send thanks and gratitude up to the Creator and Ancestors, keeping us strong of mind, heart, body and keeping our intents positive. White Sage shows us that it is time to change the path of the negatives that surround us in the world today by shielding ourselves with positives! Sometimes we need to look deep within ourselves to see the destructive cycles that we have placed ourselves in most of the time without even realizing it, and then set about releasing them. Thus changing our very thought patterns. Learn to look in the mirror and see the reflection understanding that we are in deed human and have flaws. But that those flaws do not mean we are unlovable, incapable, unwanted, rather they mean we have opportunity to grow, to expand to better ourselves, and heal.
Begin by giving yourself the love you deserve… Self Love. All the time understanding and knowing that the Creator and the Ancestors that walked before us support and assist us if we are open to it. We simply have to believe and have faith. Life does not work by pushing the “Easy” button… it is all about the journey and the process we go through to make us whole, balanced and walking in positives.
White Sage speaks to honoring family, friends, all people and creatures that have walked with you and that have yet to enter your path. Honor your Guides, the Spirit that assist you each day. Honor the Elementals, the Directions, the Great Mother Earth and Father Sky. Honor Grandmother Moon and Grandfather Sun.
This is what the Sacred Sage reminds us of, this is the tone it sets for us to follow. Â Remember it is not owned by anyone, it is one of the Great Mother Earth’s many gifts to us and it is up to all of us to keep all that is Sacred safe and thriving.
White Sage assists in clearing our energy fields, driving out the negative and strengthening the positives. White Sage is held Sacred because of it’s effective purifying energies. It heals by bringing us back to balance cleansing the body and mind of negative spirits and impurities. Leaves are at times burned to drive away bad spirits, evil influences, bad dreams, bad thoughts, and illness.
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Tobacco is the sacred herb of the East, the direction of Grandfather Sun, Eagle, and the Creator. We send our prayers up in its smoke, and Eagle takes them to the Creator. Tobacco is sacred, therefore it is to be respected and comes with responsibility to use it properly. It is both a powerful tool of healing and honoring our spirit and our Ancestors that walked before us.
The Anishinaabe use a form of Tobacco known as kinikinik, or a red willow mix. Because it opens the door to the Creator, When Tobacco is used to make smoke, it is one of the most sacred of plants for Native people. Tobacco is also one of the four sacred plants. It represents the Eastern Direction and the mind.
The Elders say that tobacco is used to connect the Spirit World as the plant’s very roots penetrate deeply into the the Great Mother Earth, and its smoke rises high into the sky to reach the Creator’s gaze. This plant is highly respected and highly honored. The gifting of tobacco is a beautiful way the people show respect and honor to others. Ceremonies using tobacco invokes a connection to universal energies and to the Creator, a connection made between earthly and spiritual realms is to be considered sacred.
Prayer, Offerings, Purification and Respect... remember these for meanings as you use the Sacred Tobacco plant.
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 learn 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…”
Today the Badger shows itself in the seventh spot as it tells us to start digging out all the crap that no longer serves us. Clean it out like a festering wound for all it will do if we do not is fester and add sickness and negativity to our lives. Which makes no sense at all when we have the ability to release it. Why should we walk forward carrying what can not be changed? Why should we walk forward carrying other peoples negatives? If we are honest with ourselves we would see it does not help us but rather hinders our own growth.
It stills our possibility to become a more powerful being. So take the time needed today and bring about balance to yourself… I guarantee you it will be a huge weight that will be unburdened from your lives.
Badger also reminds us that guilt is a human factor that for some crazy reason even if we don’t need to hold on to it, we do. So time to release it, fix it, apologize for it…. whatever it takes to re-balance ourselves in positive manners!
Badger shows up reminding us that we all must trust in our abilities utilize them to take on challenges that show up in our journeys. It is time to step away from our hiding places we have created and show the world what we are made of. Remember what is important to us and who we are as unique individuals that have a place in this world.
The message Badger brings is loud and clear… walk your own path to the beat of your own drum. Have faith in yourself and your talents and abilities. Know that you handle any challenge that shows up. Who cares what others say. Come out from hiding and start taking names and numbers.
Aggressiveness and the willingness to fight for what you want in this life and that is what Badger has to teach us. Just how to temper it and apply the right kid of pressure when needed and when to make a stand. Badger teaches us to use our healing abilities to push forward in positives in life and to aggressively move the obstacles that are in our way even if we are the ones that have placed them there.
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 learn 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 to you All!
~ bear
Music provided by Chris Ferree and available at http://www.chrisferree.com as part of the Wolf and the bear Network @2019
So today in the 7th spot Frog hops in to share that the energies should be cool and calm around you, simply take a moment to catch your breath. Excitement should fill you with all the new opportunities that are at each of our fingertips if we only have the initiative and strength to reach for them. Today is the 2nd day of the new year, enjoy the newness that we can create! WE all have got this.
Frog brings with it the sense of renewal…of rebirth a cleansing of sorts to open us to new and better things. Insights will come clearer if we just slow down enough to understand them. So go out today and embrace the newness of the day filled with opportunity!
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. Â 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.
Frog assists us with the process of owning our own personal power. Recognizing it by cleansing ourselves of what no longer serves us and embracing with open arms what is now possible.
“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the 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…” Many Blessings to ya’ll ~bear Medicinewalker
Today one of my favorite little guys shows up in the 7th spot the Clownfish! Bringing with him lessons of how to become more in tune with your surroundings. The teach us as they swim in and out of the sea anemones grasps, they learn how to work with them to both their advantages. Clownfish are the only fish that do not get stung by the tentacles of the sea anemone! They also are all born males and have a choice to become female which can give them a leadership role within their school.
Symbiosis refers to a living situation between two organisms, from which both the creatures may or may not benefit. In the case of a Clownfish and sea anemone, the symbiosis between them is beneficial for each other. So the Clownfish is telling us all to dig deep into our tool kits and use the tools we have collected along the way or where born with and use them to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves! After all we were not set up to fail… life has set us up to move forward in positives that continue for us to grow. It is by choice we set ourselves up to fail… blaming everyone but the true source, ourselves.
So fall in line, ask for help if you need it …don’t be she about it. You may just find that you have an unlikely someone in your corner poised to assist you! Today is the day… test the waters and just shoot for the moon!
The Clown Fish and Anemone fish share their spiritual guidance with us to assist us in finding and understanding wisdom, knowledge and teachings that can will help us to overcome the challenges that we face in life. The Sea Anemone is known as the flower of the ocean, yet has deadly thorns, yet the Clown Fish fearlessly takes refuge within her grasp.
Bright and vibrant in appearance the Clown Fish is widely known for its bright orange/yellow coloration and bright white stripes. Together they are a formidable pair with the use of beauty as camouflage they teach us the ability to hide within dangerous situations and to move carefully through our lives.
They teach us that things can appear as one thing and be something totally different. Do not be quick to jump to assuming the worst and make sure to watch for hidden obstacles and dangers as you tread through a given situation.  Assisting us with keeping safe from negativity.
None of us are danger proof. All of us are prone to encounter difficult situations that we should/could avoid. Sometimes it is better to move to a safe position than directly confronting something. It doesn’t show weakness, quite the opposite it shows strength of character and wisdom.
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 learn 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 to you All!
~ bear
Music provided by Chris Ferree and available at http://www.chrisferree.com as part of the Wolf and the bear Network @2019
Today the Badger shows itself in the seventh spot as it tells us to stand our ground even when things seem a bit overwhelming. We can handle it, sometimes we just might have to take a breathe. Badger says bring about the changes you need to evolve into a more positive you, thus opening doorways and windows of opportunity that will propel us in the right ways by not getting caught up in all the negativity that is out in the world around us today.
Badger also speaks to checking in with allies to validate your choices when in doubt. So live life to the fullest today ad keep an eye on the prize!
Badger also reminds us that guilt is a human factor that for some crazy reason even if we don’t need to hold on to it, we do. So time to release it, fix it, apologize for it…. whatever it takes to re-balance ourselves in positive manners!
Badger shows up reminding us that we all must trust in our abilities utilize them to take on challenges that show up in our journeys. It is time to step away from our hiding places we have created and show the world what we are made of. Remember what is important to us and who we are as unique individuals that have a place in this world.
The message Badger brings is loud and clear… walk your own path to the beat of your own drum. Have faith in yourself and your talents and abilities. Know that you handle any challenge that shows up. Who cares what others say. Come out from hiding and start taking names and numbers.
Aggressiveness and the willingness to fight for what you want in this life and that is what Badger has to teach us. Just how to temper it and apply the right kid of pressure when needed and when to make a stand. Badger teaches us to use our healing abilities to push forward in positives in life and to aggressively move the obstacles that are in our way even if we are the ones that have placed them there.
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 learn 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 to you All!
~ bear
Music provided by Chris Ferree and available at http://www.chrisferree.com as part of the Wolf and the bear Network @2019
