It is a month before the Autumn Equinox and Thanksgiving Time on or around the 23rd September. Now is a good time to start thinking about the real meaning of this time. Our ancestors who were close to the natural cycles of the year would start gearing up for this and preparing in their own ways for the important ceremony ahead. I am posting one way we today can take stock of our the past year and get ready for the year ahead. Although it is said we have to live in the moment we can make the moments ahead more realistic and attainable by some forward planning while still keeping an open mind about expecting the unexpected.
When we talk about the Medicine Wheel we should remember that Medicine means "Power", and Wheel means "Spiritual". Not spiritual in any religious sense but any place that is in balance and harmony as a wheel is. This Medicine Wheel or place of spiritual power can be anywhere you can be aware of the balance of the four directions, four elements, four seasons etc. it is just a place where one can be aware of the four directions around us from the perspective from our centre. So best of luck and I pray that each and everyone of us have a great year ahead.
GRANDFATHER PETER
When we talk about the Medicine Wheel we should remember that Medicine means "Power", and Wheel means "Spiritual". Not spiritual in any religious sense but any place that is in balance and harmony as a wheel is. This Medicine Wheel or place of spiritual power can be anywhere you can be aware of the balance of the four directions, four elements, four seasons etc. it is just a place where one can be aware of the four directions around us from the perspective from our centre. So best of luck and I pray that each and everyone of us have a great year ahead.
GRANDFATHER PETER
DA NAHO AWEO (It has been said and it is as it should be)
Thanksgiving and give-away Ceremony around the Medicine Wheel.
We gather around the Medicine Wheel at this time sitting on our power spot or our birth moon position to contemplate and review all the things that have happened to us over the year past. We look at the things we have been given and achieved and give thanks for them. We look at the things that have not grown corn and be prepared to give them away, as we do not need to carry them with us into the coming year. With the gifts we have we now look at the things we need to carry forward to sustain us over the coming winter months and the things we need to achieve in the coming twelve months of the year.
Have four pieces of paper and write down on them in turn.
1 On the first piece of paper write the things you have achieved and been given and wish to give thanks for, from the year gone by.
Approach the centre of the wheel, the place of the Creator which will be adorned with the harvested fruits of the three sisters, corn beans and squash, and symbolically burn the sheet of paper. The smoke carries your prayers of gratitude to the Creator and the ash scatters to the four winds.
2. On the second piece of paper write down those thing you wish to give-away and have not grown corn over the past year. These can be things from many years’ back which you are now ready to give-away and you now feel ready at last to give them away. Approach the Creator( The Centre) position again, burn the paper and bury the ashes in Mother Earth around the Creator position.
3. On the third piece of paper write down those things you wish to carry forward with you and to work on in the coming winter months. Raise the paper to the sky and the Earth and to each of the four directions and put it safely away so you can refer to it any time over the winter.
4. On the last piece of paper write down those things you wish to achieve over the coming year and offer it to the four directions and the sky and earth and bury it under the West position in the Medicine Wheel. This piece of paper can be moved to each of the positions on the wheel representing the coming eight festivals, close to their relevant dates to be looked at and reviewed.
NOTE: It is said one should not make definite plans further than one year ahead just as the Natural World does. It relies on the seeds it plants in one year to carry it forward into the next year. We can all have an overall vision for future years but by planning and setting goals year by year it makes it more attainable
Thanksgiving and give-away Ceremony around the Medicine Wheel.
We gather around the Medicine Wheel at this time sitting on our power spot or our birth moon position to contemplate and review all the things that have happened to us over the year past. We look at the things we have been given and achieved and give thanks for them. We look at the things that have not grown corn and be prepared to give them away, as we do not need to carry them with us into the coming year. With the gifts we have we now look at the things we need to carry forward to sustain us over the coming winter months and the things we need to achieve in the coming twelve months of the year.
Have four pieces of paper and write down on them in turn.
1 On the first piece of paper write the things you have achieved and been given and wish to give thanks for, from the year gone by.
Approach the centre of the wheel, the place of the Creator which will be adorned with the harvested fruits of the three sisters, corn beans and squash, and symbolically burn the sheet of paper. The smoke carries your prayers of gratitude to the Creator and the ash scatters to the four winds.
2. On the second piece of paper write down those thing you wish to give-away and have not grown corn over the past year. These can be things from many years’ back which you are now ready to give-away and you now feel ready at last to give them away. Approach the Creator( The Centre) position again, burn the paper and bury the ashes in Mother Earth around the Creator position.
3. On the third piece of paper write down those things you wish to carry forward with you and to work on in the coming winter months. Raise the paper to the sky and the Earth and to each of the four directions and put it safely away so you can refer to it any time over the winter.
4. On the last piece of paper write down those things you wish to achieve over the coming year and offer it to the four directions and the sky and earth and bury it under the West position in the Medicine Wheel. This piece of paper can be moved to each of the positions on the wheel representing the coming eight festivals, close to their relevant dates to be looked at and reviewed.
NOTE: It is said one should not make definite plans further than one year ahead just as the Natural World does. It relies on the seeds it plants in one year to carry it forward into the next year. We can all have an overall vision for future years but by planning and setting goals year by year it makes it more attainable
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