So as I sat this morning to pull the 7th card from the Deck, to gain insight it struck me to my core when the Medicine Wheel fell from it before I could pull one single card. It is very fitting for the day, for the times. Many people at this moment are feeling shifts and reeling from energy that has them confused in the chaos of the world.
People who do spiritual work whether they are Clergy or Healers, Doctors or Counselors… we all have our hands full. Not only with the people that seek us out but for ourselves trying to balance and make sense out of things. Negatives are splashed all over social media, news reports and even in everyday life. People are turning on each other out of rage and hatred… compassion is slipping away and our connection to our very humanity is seemingly lost through a deep dark crevice that seems to be swallowing up everything that is good in the world whole.
Fires in Australia no words to speak over the loss of life and species that are being consumed in this angry fire that is like hell fire reigning down on the land. Politicians seeking to fill their own pockets and not caring about the people they serve. They may say they all are but not really. Neighbor against neighbor… religions against religions… fighting against the man in religion not the religion itself, for Creator and the Heavens weep at our foolishness as Mankind has forgotten how to e kind. All this and a Lunar Eclipse at the end of the week has us all in a flux. People are doubting their own convictions and paths. We are tired, we are lost, we are feeling useless.
But we must ALL remain strong… if that means we take a moment for our self, that is okay. We are all Human and we need to remember that, we need to know it is okay if we stop to take a breath, okay if we fall and need help getting back up, okay to question things for it is all part of the Human Journey. It is our human existence to push through, to fail and then learn from those failings. There is no such thing as perfect. There is only Human… and with Human there is always error and growth. Yet it is up to each of us to determine if that growth will be negative or positive. Us it is up to us… we control the outcome of how things effect us… no one else… we choose how we react to life’s chaotic moments that flow around us, no one else.
So the next time you are sitting on your phone or computer and you are set to perhaps write a nasty response… or the next time you get angry at something that occurs in or around your life… perhaps Take a Little…Give a Little… Pray a Little or Maybe Pray a Lot that things will get better, that we as a human race will learn a little more from our mistakes… that we will all learn to care a little more. That is what I pray for every day… every moment I can breathe and I hope you will all join me in that thought.
So the Circle has meant similar things to many various cultures throughout time and continues to do so. So no matter what culture we are standing in, what Spiritual Side we utilize in our lives, we are more alike than perhaps many are willing to admit.
Whether it is the Winged Ones, the Four Leggeds, the Plant People, the Crystal and Rock Keepers, the Swimmers or Creepers we all evolve together in the harmony that we were born to. The four lines in the Wheel speak to us of the four directions, the four colors to the cultures and the four parts of our human, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. To understand the Medicine Wheel is to understand self.
This is what we need to understand, that the strengths, the creative, the spiritual, the faults, the imperfections all lie with in each of us. They are all part of who we are, constantly evolving. As a wheel is circular and continues in a constant state of birth to death constantly moving through change, so are we. To understand that about ourselves is how we are to attain balance.
To understand that we are All Connected that we All imprint on the world, the energy that we exist in is to understand the nature of how things co-exist. That there has to be opposites for balance…light and dark. rain and heat, night and day, birth and death… All a intricate part of the Human experience.
Ask yourself what is it that you need to day to add to the positives in your own life, what is it you need in order to set your mind to in order to keep the negative at bay? So today, look to yourself and think about how each word, each action, each breath you take is part of a bigger Hoop, then think what it is You need to do to put your own Circles into a place of balance with all that is Sacred honoring who you are meant to be.
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 by Chris Ferre and is available at http://www.chrisferree.com and on Itunes
Earth Dance – Chris Ferree as part of the Wolf and the bear Network 2020
