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A Peek At The Gifts Of The Four Pathways	Air…Exploring The Element And Its Impact On Me	Center Stones Of The Wheel Discussion	Dance Of The Elemental Forces Exercise 2 And Discussion (2 pages)	Dance Of The Elemental Properties Exercise	Dancing The Wheel And More Discussion (2 pages)	Dancing The Wheels Raw Elements Exercise 4	How You Approach The Study Of The Medicine Wheel Matters
Interactive Dance Of The Wheel Exercise 3 And Discussion	Introduction To Dancing The Wheel	Ojibway Medicine Wheel	Overview Of The Elemental Forces, Three Worlds And Their Attributes	Overview Of The Seven Sacred Directions	Pocket Medicine Wheel	Raven Moon	Stones Of The Medicine Wheel
Sundance Discussion	The Element Of Water	The Kvnaikati Tsulawi…Cherokee East Texas…Medicine Wheel	The Medicine Wheel And The Ruach	The Medicine Wheel Made Easy	The Star Nation Medicine Wheel Journey Discussion…Lesson	Walking Between The Worlds Discussion	Why Explore The Seven Sacred Directions

The Star Nation Medicine Wheel Journey Discussion... Lesson
By WolfSpirit

Hey All I wanted to open up a discussion about the Star Nation...following a recent meditation....

This came to me after a discussion in the portals thread here in the Shamanism forum, but not wanting to take that thread off course, I have started this one.

Having gotten a little confused by what I was dealing with as regards the different columns of light I was seeing, wanted to know about the columns I see, so decided to meditate on this. I took a fair bit of time yesterday before starting this meditation. I spent the day at a couple of my favorite local energy sites and found another site close to home where the energy is just great - with views down my valley of all the Standing People (who appear to be a strong source of inspiration/energy to me).

Anyway when I got back in I had a thorough smudge around the house, settled myself in my garden and chilled for half an hour. The Star Nation were already shining brightly and a couple of them in particular really caught my attention. This was nothing strange as for the last few months I have been very aware of the Star Nation.

Ok I went back inside and prepared myself to meditate (too chilly outside I decided!), brought down my protection, lit my candles for the 7 main directions of the medicine wheel, undertook my grounding and settled myself down.

I found myself looking out onto a vast plain as far as the eye could see and low mountains were on either side of me that reached out to the edges of the horizon: I was aware of mountains behind me and it felt like I was protected: I was looking east. The landscape became darker and faded from view. A figure appeared in front of me - a luminous body of multi-colored lights discernable from the darkness by a light from behind - almost backlit - in an Oriental/Egyptian pose i.e. it was stood very straight with its arms stretched out but with elbows bent downwards and its palms flat up - from each hand were two very bright rays of light. The arms moved down and the light beams crossed a few times in front of the figure before going upright again.

A dolphin jumped in between the figure and myself and I was pulled upwards to the stars, is seemed to be there a little while - but no light came as it usually does when I go up to space.

Then six more animal helpers came and joined me to make up the 7 directions of the medicine wheel and I was pulled till I was horizontal (as opposed to standing) in the middle of the "animal" wheel.

Then a light did come - right towards me - but it was not a column but a ball of light - like a little ball of molten rock - then six more came. The animals had now disappeared and I was told to place the balls in the four sacred directions plus one below and one above me, the seventh ball I was to pick up and feel - play with - I could pull it out or I could shrink it at will.

At that point I was taken outside the Wheel and I could see myself at the center as the balls of light became like an old fashioned compass of some kind - the horizontal balls became like a ring of gold colored metal then the remaining two vertical balls did the same - joining up with the horizontal ring.

The vertical ring then started spinning all around the horizontal ring: to me this signified the above and below worlds being in constant interaction with the four directions of the physical plane. I then found myself back inside the rings and as the vertical ring span it seemed to stop and start very quickly but still remained spinning: like time did not exist but if you could stop time the angles of the two disks made windows you could see through. I could not actually see anything through the windows as the disks were still moving too quickly - but it was like I was being made aware that the windows were there.

Then that image disappeared and I was back in the west (looking east) again - but this time in a clearing and part of a circle of 10 others but with the east position remaining open. Presently a guide who returned to me after a period of absence appeared and came into the circle to take up the east position. I was mimicking the actions of the Oriental figure at the start of the journey with my own hands before a camp fire that was now burning in the center of the circle. My guide myself and two other people - one from north and one from south, each walked towards the center of the circle and stood on the edges of the fire before walking into the fire and joining. I was left with the image of a large tree surrounded by multitudes of very bright stars.

Now I can figure out most of these symbols on their own - and with the changes that are going on for me right now I think I can understand why dolphin took me to the Stars - as a link to prove my doubts in what I see, what I feel I know, are unfounded?? Doubt has been put in my mind quite recently - but Jamie Sams speaks of Dolphin and the Great Star Nation and I don't entirely understand why these two are related other than the link to breath. I was told in a meditation group I was in last year that I go "too deep" when meditating and hardly breath - my system seems to sometimes almost shut down - but I don't think that's the link here.

The balls of fire - are these stars? And why was I dragged horizontal? Why did I have to put these in the seven directions and why was I told to play with the center one? I use fire as a means of cleansing most of the time and sometimes as a means of protection but stars are quite a recent thing. Is the link to stars a link to fire again?

The main thing that has me baffled here is the Egyptian-like figure with the light coming from its hands. Never had that kind of imagery before.

So can anyone help unravel this with me? I can't place this too well in relation to the columns I see.

CinnamonMoon:
Hi Wolfie,

First I just wanted to say thanks for starting a new thread on this. It helps so much when we're logging posts to the different libraries or archives.

“A figure appeared in front of me - a luminous body of multi-colored lights discernable from the darkness by a light from behind - almost backlit - in an Oriental/Egyptian pose i.e. it was stood very straight with its arms stretched out but with elbows bent downwards and its palms flat up - from each hand were two very bright rays of light. The arms moved down and the light beams crossed a few times in front of the figure before going upright again.”

The palms and soles of the feet are places where we can take in or release energy we run through us so we can direct it. We tend to receive through the left side and release through the right side of the body (when we are right handed, the opposite is true if someone is left handed). I believe you were being shown how to do this in a balanced manner where both sides are in harmony with the will.

“Then six more animal helpers came and joined me to make up the 7 directions of the medicine wheel and I was pulled till I was horizontal (as opposed to standing) in the middle of the "animal" wheel.”

The animal helpers were the Spirit Keepers of those 6 directions. You became the 7th. The pull to a horizontal position would be a form of grounding you in that dimension. Aligning you so that you could attune to those energies. Sort of like laying prone on Mother Earth to ground the energies you've taken on and release them to her.

“Then a light did come - right towards me - but it was not a column but a ball of light - like a little ball of molten rock - then six more came.”

These would be the natural energy form of the spirit animals that you had just met. They simply shapeshifted to show you this.

“The animals had now disappeared and I was told to place the balls in the four sacred directions plus one below and one above me, the seventh ball I was to pick up and feel - play with - I could pull it out or I could shrink it at will.”

Did you notice that the stretching or shrinking took place at a pace with your breathing?

“At that point I was taken outside the Wheel and I could see myself at the center as the balls of light became like an old fashioned compass of some kind - the horizontal balls became like a ring of gold colored metal then the remaining two vertical balls did the same - joining up with the horizontal ring. The vertical ring then started spinning all around the horizontal ring: to me this signified the above and below worlds being in constant interaction with the four directions of the physical plane.”

The Medicine Wheel functions in its flow like a gyroscope.

“I then found myself back inside the rings and as the vertical ring span it seemed to stop and start very quickly but still remained spinning: like time did not exist but if you could stop time the angles of the two disks made windows you could see through. I could not actually see anything through the windows as the disks were still moving too quickly - but it was like I was being made aware that the windows were there.”

Within the center of the Wheel time does not exist. It is a place that is not a place, a time that is not a time. It all folds in on itself there in that sacred space. The cross-quarters of the Wheel are points of transition to the next vortex, stone, and each stone is a doorway marker. You could have slowed the spin with your willing it to do so.

“Then that image disappeared and I was back in the west (looking east) again - but this time in a clearing and part of a circle of 10 others but with the east position remaining open. Presently a guide who returned to me after a period of absence appeared and came into the circle to take up the east position.”

The Eastern Door was left open (the way you enter the Medicine Wheel as a rule) until your Guide arrived to close that door by taking his position. The council had gathered.

“I was mimicking the actions of the Oriental figure at the start of the journey with my own hands before a camp fire that was now burning in the center of the circle. My guide myself and two other people - one from north and one from south, each walked towards the center of the circle and stood on the edges of the fire before walking into the fire and joining. I was left with the image of a large tree surrounded by multitudes of very bright stars.”

I believe they demonstrated the axis of the shamanic tree to you.

“- but Jamie Sams speaks of Dolphin and the Great Star Nation and I don't entirely understand why these two are related other than the link to breath.”

Breathing is a very important part of Dolphin Medicine and it can be used to release the physical body so you can project from it with your spirit. It is within the breathing process that we speed up or slow down our vibratory rate which allows us to match the rates of different directions/dimensions and thereby align with them. At that point we can see into them or journey and explore because we pass through the portals/doorways/windows in this way.

The breath opens them to us and allows us to pass through the Veils. We can release our emotions through Dolphin breath and doubt does give rise to some negative emotions. By using the pop style breathing of Dolphin we can release tension and quickly achieve a very relaxed state. Dolphin also teaches us how to use the essence of Mana, the life force. And so it swims in the cosmic sea of the universe and shows us how to dive deep into our own breath and rise to the surface of the cosmic realms to take in more Mana. In this way we revitalize our body, mind, and spirit because Mana penetrates to the cellular level. It also allows us to merge with the Mana so that we can shift dimensions.

Dolphin works with me in regard to the Star Nation/Sky Nation/Above World dimensions acting as a Guide. Through various rhythmic breathing exercises you will find the pace of your breathing opens different doors. Dolphin also teaches about communication through sound patterns and rhythms that create their own vibrations. Think pitch of voice, it's how we communicate our emotional state of being calm or in a rage, of being at peace or confused or upset. We can use our voices to soothe or to stir to action. Dolphin teaches these sounds so that we understand their harmonies. It is the rhythm of sound (chanting or singing or speaking our requests and thoughts) and the breath that allows us to communicate and determines the reactions others have to us (sonar/echo location) when we express ourselves. I believe you were being shown a method of communication for the dimension you were visiting. Sort of like learning a language.

“I was told in a meditation group I was in last year that I go "too deep" when meditating and hardly breath - my system seems to sometimes almost shut down - but I don't think that's the link here.”

I don't know who told you this, but that happens when we go into deep trance states. No. I don't think it pertains to this experience either.

“The balls of fire - are these stars?”

They were the spirit bodies.

“And why was I dragged horizontal?”

To help you ground and align yourself with the energies of the dimension.

“Why did I have to put these in the seven directions and why was I told to play with the center one?

A deeper centering with the Spirit Keepers and you were to play with the one in the center because it is the shaman/ess that becomes the 7th Sacred Direction by bringing all others into alignment and centering with them. In essence, you take it all *in* before you project yourself. This is true centering.

“I use fire as a means of cleansing most of the time and sometimes as a means of protection but stars are quite a recent thing. Is the link to stars a link to fire again?”

I suppose in some fashion it could be but I don't feel that's what was happening here at all. You were being introduced to the vehicle of the Wheel itself, it is like a ship that can take you to different dimensions but once there you need to align to go deeper into them. This was being demonstrated. If you don't do this you tend to make a lot of noise when moving in that dimension and it can hold you to the entrance portion making it difficult to explore much further. Each time we center as we shift dimensions we realign ourselves to the realms we visit and allow greater oneness with them....greater understanding.

“So can anyone help unravel this with me? I can't place this too well in relation to the columns I see.”

Two columns of light or two pillars of light always represent the balance between the masculine and feminine forces that is necessary to tap, channel, and direct Source Energy. Hope I've helped clarify some of this for you. I'm sure others will be able to add more for you too.

WolfSpirit:
Cinn, Thanks for your reply! Well this did not come easy to me – hence the time in responding…some aspects like the palms and soles (I use the soles of my feet when grounding) I was fine with. Dolphin did not make sense to me at the time of the meditation–as he is not a creature that has come to me often recently (although he used to come a lot when I first kicked off a spiritual path - him and whale), but I can understand what you say about Dolphin and can understand now why he came...it just seems strange to have a creature I associate with the sea up amongst the stars! But now I can see all the aspects of Dolphin and why he has come at this time.

The part of Dolphin about learning about different vibrations really struck a chord with me, as I feel that I have been experiencing different physical vibrations over the last couple of years: particularly from the Earth Mother: this could be part of a lesson to learn about vibrations and would explain a lot. At this time I am also becoming much more aware of the vibrations different people have and their effect on me: I have felt these vibrations for a long time, but only recently started to understand their purpose and what they can teach me: in Chinese medicine, diseases (and in fact people) are classed according to the elements - is there a similar correlation in NA teachings? The vibrations from Mother Earth at different sites is also becoming a lot clearer- which could be the link to portals thread (I asked to be shown about my own portal in this meditation and one of the things that threw me in your reply was that there was no obvious link to the portals thread) and it would make sense to have to learn something more of vibrations first!

Over the weekend I was up at my favorite Sacred Site – the pike near where I live – and have noticed.... the last few times I have been there that is has been quite windy- despite the area around being calm with virtually no wind (which was particularly noticeable this weekend as it was a warm sunny day). Having read far enough in the ley lines thread in the library to read about the Voice of the Land, it made me wonder if Sacred Sites are spoken of according to the elements: in which case my favorite site would be an Air site.

Moving on....with regards to the figure with the light coming out of its hands, two things go me here and I saw this in two different ways - you said:

“I believe you were being shown how to do this in a balanced manner where both sides are in harmony with the will.”

I feel that this has in the first place to do with intuition and rational mind – the male and female attributes. On some level I feel that I am resisting what I feel as something inside me that is very powerful: like I am realizing that there is something there that is bigger than the physical “me” and that it brings with it a lot of responsibility, a responsibility bigger than anything the physical can bring: it feels like “am I ready to unleash this power” : my rational mind has been holding back, yet at the same time I seem to be learning about this responsibility: big improvements in my ability to stay centered in the physical seem to be telling me that it is time to let these fears go…that as long as you keep in balance there is nothing to fear and the Wheel seems to help that.

(My other question on this section is at the end)

Ok I missed typing the part about the animal: they were not the traditional animals of the directions: East: (illumination) Dog (loyalty). South: (trust) Horse (journeys) (the one who pulled me prone) North: (wisdom, gratitude) Dolphin (Life Force), West: (introspection) Rabbit (fear-caller), Below: (past) Crow (Illusion) Above: (future) Raven (magic) Centre: me (the brackets around the attributes are for my benefit in trying to figure out why the particular animal is there!). Dog could be teaching me that loyalty to my path will lead to illumination, Horse: that trust is required to carry on this journey, Dolphin: that Wisdom can be gained by seeking and that Gratitude should be given for the Mana to sustain the journey, and Rabbit: that my inner fears are a barrier to the journey to be overcome. But with Crow I get lost – unless this is supposed to be a reference to past lifetimes where I was on a Journey; an ancestry of journeying or Ancestors: that can all assist the journey.

I don’t understand Crow in the Below direction! Crow is the great shape-shifter and I feel this is important here – but do not understand Crow in the Below direction! Raven in the Above direction does make sense to me – and must be showing me that that which is not yet in form can be used on the journey. That Magic is available to assist the Journey. I am curious, as somewhere recently you said that Raven and Crow were tricksters or did I misunderstand….

“Did you notice that the stretching or shrinking took place at a pace with your breathing?”

I was not aware of this, but it may have been - I was just “playing” with it “feeling” it – it felt like I was to see I could expand it or shrink it at will.

“The Medicine Wheel functions in its flow like a gyroscope.”

Now I have seen you mention the Gyroscope w.r.t. the Wheel before – and whilst I feel I should know, I can’t remember what a gyroscope is: my dictionary says it is a "wheel spinning fast to preserve the equilibrium of the thing in which it is fixed" this is confusing to me as the "spinning circles" were floating in space: in “nothingness”: The Void? The wheel therefore would be spinning fast to keep The Void in equilibrium which kinda doesn’t make sense to me as surely Great Mystery is already in perfect Equilibrium. The statement leaves me questioning if “nothingness” and the Void are the same. For this to make sense the “nothingness” would have to be that part of us: that part of us that is linked to Great Mystery perhaps: this would then make sense as the Wheel would be spinning to keep our connection to Great Mystery in Equilibrium.

“The cross-quarters of the Wheel are points of transition to the next vortex, stone, and each stone is a doorway marker.”

As in: the north is the entrance to the south of the next ring and the south to the north of the one before? Death and rebirth, phases, lessons - The East: the Goldren Door - path to the illumination of other dimensions? but West: internal journeys?

“You could have slowed the spin with your willing it to do so.”

I did that is how I saw that there were “windows” there, and I do understand about time When I was talking about the me mimicking the figure with the lights, walking into the fire and then being left with the vision of the tree and the stars behind, you said: “I believe they demonstrated the axis of the shamanic tree to you.”

I do not understand the term “axis of the shamanic tree”. When we go journeying we enter the middle world and reach a tree: is this the Shamanic Tree? If so I am confused by the word "axis" here. Is this a reference to the fact that the tree is the route between the Below, Middle and Above worlds? Going back to the figure with the light coming out of its hands: and what we call in Spiritualism "taking" and "giving" hands, I understand this to be a healing thing, so in relation to the rest of the meditation the statement I mentioned earlier threw me a little with respect to you mentioning receiving and giving..

“The palms and soles of the feet are places where we can take in or release energy we run through us so we can direct it. We tend to receive through the left side and release through the right side of the body (when we are right handed, the opposite is true if someone is left handed). I believe you were being shown how to do this in a balanced manner where both sides are in harmony with the will.”

Unless I have misinterpreted your reply in what I have written above I am confused! To me this whole meditation is about feeling vibrations...and I could understand the receiving aspect of this how we get the information: we receive it - but not the giving - unless this is to do with gratitude for the information received? Or has this something to do with giving healing? Like I said Cinn, this has taken a lot of sitting with. Usually when you reply I get something pretty easily - but this time...(Wolfie sat sweating from all the hard work! ) Thanks Cinn!

CinnamonMoon:
Hi Wolfie, You're always more than welcome for any insights I can lend you. Wow, has your head been spinning on this one though. LOL I'm going to try to simplify things for you and hopefully clear up the areas that are causing some confusion. Sorry for making you wait on the reply but I needed time to sit with where you were going on things and not be interrupted.

“…it just seems strange to have a creature I associate with the sea up amongst the stars!”

LOL...it's a sea of sorts there too, my friend! Vibrations are part of learning the energy signatures of people, places and things. They let you "feel" them. Later, when you encounter that same vibration elsewhere it will speak to you of what you are coming into. In this way we learn to read them and know things others don't recognize. You're learning to see, hear, and feel as the shaman does, that's all. When you get comfortable with it then you are doing what we call walking between the worlds. You go about your daily business but when an energy signature appears you pause and note it and act accordingly. Guidance is all around us when we learn to recognize it.

Yes, there is classification of different elemental aspect to the NA teachings of the wheel. It's very indepth. I suggest you acquire a copy of SunBear's "Dancing With the Wheel Workbook" (available quite cheaply on Amazon) it's got all the charted correspondences for animal, plant, mineral, etc. and it's invaluable as a study reference to understand the elements as well as the Medicine Wheel. You'd love it! I've covered some in the various Wheel teachings in the library as well as other forums, but it's concise there for you to cross reference things I've shared. His ways are just slightly different than mine, but that's due to the traditions we stem from, basically they are the same.

“The vibrations from Mother Earth at different sites is also becoming a lot clearer- which could be the link to portals thread (I asked to be shown about my own portal in this meditation and one of the things that threw me in your reply was that there was no obvious link to the portals thread) and it would make sense to have to learn something more of vibrations first!”

Absolutely!

“Having read far enough in the ley lines thread in the library to read about the Voice of the Land, it made me wonder if Sacred Sites are spoken of according to the elements: in which case my favorite site would be an Air site.”

Yes, Air locations are the hilltops, mountains and mesas, places of height for a greater span of over view and understanding "seeing the big picture". But that does only add some to the energy of the site, the site itself has many aspects to it that determine what work it is conducive to. Keep reading that article. It's extensive and you'll gain a tremendous amount from it. I'd only be repeating it here.

“Moving on....with regards to the figure with the light coming out of its hands....<snip>...I feel that this has in the first place to do with intuition and rational mind – the male and female attributes.”

Yes. You're on track with this and the feeling that there is something very powerful inside you. That's the connection to Spirit and the balance we have to establish to maintain it properly. You're sensing the empowerment of Source Energy when it's tapped and the responsibility that it calls for when wielded. Gaining respect for it and becoming humbled by being shown these things. We learn fast when this starts to happen. Go with it, we tend to fight the unknown, but seeing it in this light you can give yourself permission to go with the flow easily. You'll be shown a great deal then. You're being prepared (made ready to accept) what will follow. Absolutely the Wheel helps this understanding. It is the foundation of all that I teach for it contains the paths to all the answers.

Learning the Seven Sacred Directions first will give you your basic cornerstones. From there the routes you take are further expanded upon. A wheel has 36 stones/arenas of understanding. Each of them has various levels based on the 3 Worlds (Above, Middle, Below) so different levels of access to understand them better. Further sub-divided by the kingdoms: Animal, Mineral, Color vibration, etc. So there's a wealth of knowledge with each stone that signifies a certain teaching.

There is also cosmic correspondences that become a NA astrology, based on moon cycles and animals to encrypt the wisdom. I don't want to get too far ahead of you here, this is a lot to take in, but the point I want to make is that the Wheel serves a dual purpose, it is a vehicle to take you into dimensional travel, and it is also a storehouse/library of wisdom. With in these contexts it is sacred space, a place that is not a place, a time that is not a time, for past, present, and future (contained in the three worlds) fold in on each other and become one. You have access to all this when centered properly within it. Focus and intent take you wherever you want to go. Your placement and interpretation of the animals and their directions may not be *typical* but they were there in those placements to speak to you.

Understanding the elemental teachings and the directions they rule tells you much. The animal added to that combines further focus on those issues, attributes added to attributes for a clearer picture. Then the actions of the animal deliver a message based on that combined energy signature.

Dog/loyalty/East means to attend with focus your higher mind/self/intentions of the path you seek to find your answers. In the South, you say Horse represents trust but that's the symbol of the South itself, Horse represents passion, power, and movement/journeys toward growth. Being pulled prone could indicate you need to stay there for a bit and understand more before going on. I would think so. By this you were put in a horizontal position...spread yourself, broaden your horizons in this area so you see more and grow. In the North, yes, this is wisdom (of a life lived/experience) and the gratitude for the lessons learned and bounty of the Earth. It is also our heart and what we are willing to share and give to others. It is also the place of transformation for it is death and rebirth and the space to transcend. With Dolphin being there and that as life force, it is also about attunement and the sonar to locate what you need.

Earth is our sustenance on all levels. The bounty we can draw from when we know how. West is introspection to understand our relationship to self and others. With Rabbit who is indeed the fear-caller (but also reproducing and fertility), it indicated the self. Your fears being in the way of what you can grow into. It is the element of Water so therefore cosmic consciousness, the flow of life, and our intuitive as well as emotional states are all involved.

Below is the past/history and home of things lost or hidden so there are your illusions that Crow was showing you. It's where you go to understand the reason for ceremony, magic, ritual, and how it will serve you personally. Crow is a trickster, and would draw you into that perhaps through experience rather than spelling it out. *S* Crow is much more than illusion though so please read up on it in the library.

Above is the future, yes and with Raven who teaches us of magic/our Medicine you were being shown that there are lessons coming your way to understand your abilities. Raven will bring them to you.

Centre is you, but it is also the present, the Now of the moment, and all that surrounds you in it...All Your Relations. It is where you bring all other aspects together and apply them in the physical reality while attuned to the spiritual reality. Manifestation takes place there, seeded in the co-operative energies and soils of the other dimensions you have moved through to get to the center. This is at the heart of all ritual, ceremony, and rites of passage.

Everything must pass through each of the 4 elements, everything must be anchored (drawing nourishment) in the Below World, be tapped into the Above World for the energy (Source Energy) to give it life and and manifestation takes place through you in the Middle World. No matter what you are doing these are constants in the elemental make up. I feel you're starting to grasp this with your interpretations but hopefully I've cleared that up a little more now. You're right, there's just more to it than that. Can you see where you can expand your interpretations to add clarity? As for Raven and Crow being Tricksters, yes they are, and thieves too. *Smile* (Totem articles.)

“I was not aware of this, but it may have been - I was just “playing” with it “feeling” it – it felt like I was to see I could expand it or shrink it at will.”

Next time pay attention to the corresponding breaths. Shrink/inhale, expand/exhale. *S* When you blow your breath you expand it outward in projection. When you inhale you draw things within. How you breathe will speed it up or slow it down accordingly. It gives life to the will/intent and sets things in motion.

The Medicine Wheel functions in its flow like a gyroscope. I see I have you confused. A gyroscope is like a circle within a circle crossed and each spinning in slightly different directions but in harmony to keep it balanced so one circle of energy flow does not throw the other off. In the case of the Wheel one of those circles is horizontal (symbolically) with the 4 elemental directions and their kingdoms of East/Air, South/Fire, West/Water, North/Earth.

Air and Fire are considered masculine energy...active and aggressive.

Water and Earth are considered feminine energy...receptive and passive.

Now draw a circle and mark them as such. With lines drawn through the center of each element you see they cross at the center where we take (in centering ourselves) the union within these directions and Spirit. To balance the masculine and feminine energies of these elements we need to see what those lines (roads) do when in opposition. I.E.: Air and Water balance the masculine and feminine energy of the Blue Road (spiritual perspectives in life) while Fire and Earth balance the masculine and feminine energy of the Red Road (physical reality and experience in life). So there we have the delicate balance we need.

Also as we travel the elements in a clockwise process we hit the transitions of these energies and their transition points of change (storms as one passes away and another is brought in) at the SE, SW, NW, and NE junctions/cusps. These are also portals and dimensional veils when you get into the more advanced work. Now, you take this circle that is balanced but how does it spin? It needs an axis to balance on...an axel that is going to turn the circles into wheels of sorts (unicycle) and create your vertical. This is the path that leads between the Three Worlds.

The road there takes you from the past, present, and into the future or vs/vs. It also becomes a circle as it expands so the gyroscope is a stem with two circles that it supports and each circle spins in its own clockwise direction, vertical, horizontal, and transitory wobbles that are kept smooth by the function of the access pole/road. I hope I did okay with that. I'm no engineer, but these are the same concept as the tool aboard an airplane or rocket ship that keeps it stable in flight.

The Wheel in this sense becomes mobile, a vehicle to take you places based on this balance. Out of balance you will crash and get nowhere. The "nothingness" is the time warp you felt...the place that is not a place, and the time that is not a time. The Void is different. It does connect us to Great Mystery which is the Void. Yes. Speaking of the transition points (the windows you saw looking into various dimensions), you said: "As in: the north is the entrance to the south of the next ring and the south to the north of the one before? Death and rebirth, phases, lessons - The East: the Golden Door - path to the illumination of other dimensions? but West: internal journeys?" Close but not quite.

The Golden Door of the East opens our minds and illuminates or enlightens. Taking us to the South where we find our passion, trust, and growth and the shattering of any illusions in that process. Next we move to the West and the internal journeys and exploration of developed relationships where we nurture or heal as needed and defend at times too...either with self or others. Then we harvest the rewards of the journey and move to the North where we store that experience in our hearts, share it as wisdom with others to sustain their lives as well.

East is the infant, South is the child, West is the adult, North is old age. The cycle ends and begins again there. In-between you can see that the cross sections of East-West and South-North bring stability in the masculine and feminine energy they provide. One supports the other. Then we have the axis (the Shamanic Tree) that is the road between the Three Worlds. Where we see from the past why and how to do things, act on that in the present, and look to the future to see what will result.

“Unless I have misinterpreted your reply in what I have written above I am confused! To me this whole meditation is about feeling vibrations...and I could understand the receiving aspect of this how we get the information: we receive it - but not the giving - unless this is to do with gratitude for the information received? Or has this something to do with giving healing?”

I believe they were showing you how to summon and send and wanted you to see it took a balanced approach receiving and sending it at the same time with focused will to *run* the energy through yourself and direct it anywhere you wanted.

“Like I said Cinn, this has taken a lot of sitting with Usually when you reply I get something pretty easily - but this time...(Wolfie sat sweating from all the hard work! )”

LOL...that's because you got caught in the spin of things (gyroscope) and couldn't focus on the windows! Hopefully I helped more this time and was clearer.

WolfSpirit:
Cinn, Thanks! There was a lot in there thatI was struggling with and I shall be busy for a few days with your reply. I am still struggling a bit with the Gyroscope - but I think what you are describing is what I saw... and have seen this before...but i am going to do a search on the web for it - the dictionary was confusing as it just had gyro and lots of different endings! Sounds like I picked the wrong one! No wonder I was struggling! Last night as I was slipping off to the dreamtime the discs figure I saw came again - a horizontal ring and a vertical ring - and the vertical ring was again spinning but not as fast and I could stop it altogether (though I did take a lot of concentration!) At one point the vertical ring slowed and stopped spinning and was flat adjacent the other ring - and at that point both rings became much brighter - then it started spinning again. Anyway I am going to spend some time with this so it may be a few days before you here from me again! Thanks again!

CinnamonMoon:
That's fine. Get the gyroscope definition down. You'll grab this fast then. Look for an encyclopedia picture.

WolfSpirit:
Now, where did I put that Encarta disk LOL

I found this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope . Now if you take away the axis (and its disk) and the symbol this is exactly what I saw - just the two rings - so now I have somewhere to read about a gyroscope too!

Tink:
Wolf, I can't say this will necessarily help any but antique compasses used to also look exactly like that. With the 2 rings.

WolfSpirit:
Thanks Tink, I kept thinking of one of those old compasses too! Gyroscopes are used as compasses on metal ships, I feel that these rings I see are a framework...the wheel of the gyroscope/compass is missing in my meditations - maybe trying to show that we are each the center of our own wheel - but that the framework guides us like a compass would or keeps us in motion like a gyroscope does . So yes Tink I do think there is a connection! Also all the gyroscope discussions I have looked at all talk about precession - and I think this is important to my meditation! But I have yet to figure that one out.

Cinn, Thank You! Excited Wolfie!

“LOL...it's a sea of sorts there too, my friend!” As I’ve sat with this over the last few days it does not seem as strange now at all: why this all occurred in the Star Nation and why the Stars have held such a fixation for me of late: The Star Nation are our guides and teachers? They live in the Above world: the Future: the Future is where all things not yet formed live: my knowledge was not yet formed so had to be brought from the future into the present: and the past was required to make sense of the teaching: thus showing why I am seeing different overlays: to get me used to looking at things from different perspectives...

“Vibrations are part of learning the energy signatures of people, places and things. They let you "feel" them. *S* Later, when you encounter that same vibration elsewhere it will speak to you of what you are coming into. In this way we learn to read them and know things others don't recognize. You're learning to see, hear, and feel as the shaman does, that's all.”

Yes this makes sense to me. Over the last few weekends I have been tending to walk out a little in nature – driving to different places, stopping and spending a time in different places and feeling the energy. My meditations have taken me to new places and i have had to "feel" my way more than i usually have to do.

“When you get comfortable with it then you are doing what we call walking between the worlds. You go about your daily business but when an energy signature appears you pause and note it and act accordingly. Guidance is all around us when we learn to recognize it. *Smile*”

I am and have been very aware of different energies in different places for a long time now – places I feel comfortable, uncomfortable etc. – but now I am “looking” with new senses - trying to find the underlying energy sources that makes me feel this way and what it is trying to say to me.

“I suggest you acquire a copy of SunBear's "Dancing With the Wheel Workbook".

I’ll be off to try and buy this when I have finished here!

“…the site itself has many aspects to it that determine what work it is conducive to.”

Now this still leaves me with a question: as it sounds like the energy in the environment be different from the energy of the site which I do not understand…

“You're sensing the empowerment of Source Energy when it's tapped and the responsibility that it calls for when wielded.”

I feel I have sensed Source Energy for some time – but yes, tapping at a deeper level of understanding – where I can learn how to use it to greater benefit is new.

“Gaining respect for it and becoming humbled by being shown these things. We learn fast when this starts to happen.”

Yes! *Grins*

“Go with it, we tend to fight the unknown, but seeing it in this light you can give yourself permission to go with the flow easily. You'll be shown a great deal then.”

Yes! *grin gets wider*

“You're being prepared (made ready to accept) what will follow.”

Hmm and now I feel I can understand the signs better and be able to respond better to the future

“Learning the Seven Sacred Directions first will give you your basic cornerstones.”

I am beginning to feel comfortable with the seven directions and how to work with them

“A wheel has 36 stones/arenas of understanding.”

Consciously my focus is on trying to stick to the 7 for the time being!

“Each of them has various levels based on the 3 Worlds (Above, Middle, Below) so different levels of access to understand them better.”

Yes I am beginning to sense this.

“Further sub-divided by the kingdoms: Animal, Mineral, Color vibration, etc. So there's a wealth of knowledge with each stone that signifies a certain teaching. There is also cosmic correspondences that become a NA astrology, based on moon cycles and animals to encrypt the wisdom. I don't want to get too far ahead of you here, this is a lot to take in,”

Thanks!! Like I said for the time being I will stick to what I am being shown! Seems the safest bet –but I understand what you are saying!

“…but the point I want to make is that the Wheel serves a dual purpose, it is a vehicle to take you into dimensional travel, and it is also a storehouse/library of wisdom.”

I kinda knew it was a library, but it is only in the last few months I have really started to understand it as a vehicle.

“Within these contexts it is sacred space, a place that is not a place, a time that is not a time, for past, present, and future (contained in the three worlds) fold in on each other and become one. You have access to all this when centered properly within it. Focus and intent take you wherever you want to go.”

At this time I am letting the Wheel take me where it wants me to go – I feel that this is the best way to learn what it wants to show me. My focus and intent is to work with it (other than perhaps keeping my focus on the basics (as opposed to the 36 directions)) – but I am trying to let it show me the way on the basis that it knows a lot more than I do! Funnily enough when Dolphin first came, he did want to take me to the North East - but I did not follow as I did not understand.

“Your placement and interpretation of the animals and their directions may not be *typical* but they were there in those placements to speak to you.”

Yes I understand this

“Dog/loyalty/East means to attend with focus your higher mind/self/intentions of the path you seek to find your answers.”

Ok and this has come from this meditation, and a further one yesterday.

“In the South, you say Horse represents trust but that's the symbol of the South itself, Horse represents passion, power, and movement/journeys toward growth.”

What I meant here was that horse was showing me that I had to have trust in my own forward movement/growth: I do have the passion now as learning increases, but i have not had it as much in the past: and the power to work seems to be coming through: time (in the physical) is the only constraint with so many things to figure out!: I do understand why horse is there though. One thing I am curious about is that you say that horse is a tool in the ley-lines/vortex posts…(Chapter six). Having read Ted Andrew's points about horse and Jamie Sams's, I can see how Horse meant a lot in the physical in terms of “progress”– is this reflected as a tool? If so how is horse used as a tool? Plus, just thought: a new NA guide came through with a horse name a few weeks ago - or at least his name was mentioned (I had forgotten about that!). Horse must be important to me right now!

“Being pulled prone could indicate you need to stay there for a bit and understand more before going on. I would think so. By this you were put in a horizontal position...spread yourself, broaden your horizons in this area so you see more and grow.”

Yep, I feel that I need to spend some more time with this too

“In the North <snip> With Dolphin being there and that as life force, it is also about attunement and the sonar to locate what you need. Earth is our sustenance on all levels. The bounty we can draw from when we know how.”

I feel that this would be why Dolphin came to me then: as it does feel like I am being taught a lot about what the Earth Mother can offer both in terms of learning and the sustenance that brings for forward movement. The part about sharing with others also rings true at this time.

“West is introspection to understand our relationship to self and others. With Rabbit who is indeed the fear-caller (but also reproducing and fertility), it indicated the self. Your fears being in the way of what you can grow into. It is the element of Water so therefore cosmic consciousness, the flow of life, and our intuitive as well as emotional states are all involved.”

I feel that my initial assumptions about rabbit are wrong at least in the present and the future: I feel Rabbit was here to show me how the three worlds overlap and interact: in the past I was fearful, fertility lies in the present and leaps and bounds are the pregnant possibilities of the future: based on cycles, in the past I was able to stop and move swiftly at will and had the ability to extricate myself from situations that were not beneficial by doing so: in the present there is a certain stillness (for protection whilst learning), a sharp change in direction is occurring that will serve progress in the future: all Rabbit Medicine: but the main thing is that the cycles from my own experience are present which helps me understand a lot about the Wheel. It is interesting that Rabbit represents fertility…yesterday I went with a friend to a Sacred Site in Derbyshire (a stone circle) and we both felt that fertility and the Earth Mother’s abundance was important there (is this what you meant about the environment and the site being different: because the sight was again high on a hill yet it felt like and earth site).

Going within to find fertile ground for new beginnings would make sense to me right now. My past fears are beginning to melt away: so maybe I should be looking at this appearance of Rabbit as the fertility within that is now occurring for me and being reflected in the physical (as life gets a little easier), and the cycles that perhaps portend further movement in the future, after a prolonged period of hibernation through the autumn and winter of certain lessons that have been running through my life (ie. the last 7-9 years).

“Below is the past/history and home of things lost or hidden so there are your illusions that Crow was showing you. It's where you go to understand the reason for ceremony, magic, ritual, and how it will serve you personally. Crow is a trickster, and would draw you into that perhaps through experience rather than spelling it out. *Smiles*

I have read crow many times as Magpie/Crow and Raven are always around me in the Physical and Raven in the Dreamtime. I have looked at Ted Andrews to try and figure this out as i really could not understand why Crow was in the Below world. What this has showed me is that the Below world is our past as well as the past (as in Ancestors etc.) and that is can bring us the tools needed for forward movement in the present and future: I have summarized some of Andrews's words in the parenthesis below: "Ruling in hell rather than serving in heaven"

This is the my distant past (when i would have walked over anyone to achieve my goals) that Crow has been showing me…

"Black is the color of creation – the womb out of which the new is born: and the night, maternal – the black night out of which the new day is born: represents Nigredo – the universal state of substance – unformed but with full potential"

Going back to fertility with Rabbit, and also the Star Nation, but also to bring my attention to not fearing a place that is not "light", as a matter of course; but to "feel it" and use experience (the past) to ascertain the energy (vibrational) portends.

"Strong connection to watchfulness – a reminder of what can happen if we are not watching for magic and creation every day. Watchfulness for intruders, warning others of the intrusion, recognizing possible dangers and a reminder to post lookouts"

This may be telling me to keep an eye on all the situations in the physical that don’t appear yet fully formed – like the overlays I see in the physical of different images – the “pops” we have discussed in Earthwalker’s thread…but also to remind me to keep my totems close at hand…to bring me the information I need and to warn of those who are there to show my shadow lessons (past and present/future) "Abilities with voice" Possibly about speaking my truth - but i am being drawn more to communication and listening to the voice of the Below world: the reason why Crow came in this direction.

"Crow has great intelligence, is adaptable to its environment,, eats almost anything – Omnivorous: guarantees survival"

I can read these aspects of Crow to remind me that in the past I have used intelligence, in the present to remain adaptable and in the future not to dismiss any teaching (as i have done in the past) without feeling it.

"Unique ability to communicate with each other and work together."

This is happening in the present and portended in the future, both spiritually and in the physical

"Can imprint the image of their teacher, be trained: yet in the wild it is hard to get near them. Representing the lack of awareness of or realization of the magic necessary to create or re-create their lives"

This could refer to teachers and others who have been a part of my life and of myself: why I have been reluctant to let go of fears: not trusting inner guidance but blindly following others: the past again.

"Crows are very clean and even young Crows do not foul their nest: health home and respect"

Well I have been clearing out the house! Health is something I need to work on however! Past, Present and Future! "Crows can reflect past-life connections to those times and cultures: but also “archetypal forces that it can connect with us” Now this is where I really feel a connection to Crow in the Below direction- the connection I was missing: increasingly of late I have been spending time in the areas my Ancestors have inhabited (ie. the photo’s I put up on the web page). But I can also relate how this can be interpreted in the Below world in using the Ancestors etc and a connection to them as a means to attain knowledge on a variety of subjects, both spiritual and physical. The Ancestors have been calling: along with my totems and other Below teachers and i have refused to listen.

"Symbols of creation and spiritual strength: they remind us to look for opportunities to create and manifest the magic of life: calling to us of this in the everyday world and available to us."

Again I feel that this could be a reference to the overlays I am seeing, but also to create in the physical world. This does give me a great sense of strength in both these areas – the kinda strength that does move you to forward movement!

“They are our protectors and teach of mysteries lost or hidden. It is here those that meet us on the shamanic journey will rise up and greet us.”

I understand!

“Elders will come and teach of ceremony, ritual, song and dance. They will teach the right way of things for each individual and gift them with these teachings so that they may serve others.”

Again I understand!

“We may be shown harsh and fearful things in relation to these teachings, history may play itself out before our eyes, but we will not physically suffer from it.”

Ok I will watch for this…

“The lesson is one that touches our inner spirit and the wounds caused there give us strength to act, purpose to our deeds, and enlightenment as to why our integrity is so important.”

This has been happening for some time – but only now have I realized why!

“Above is the future, yes and with Raven who teaches us of magic/our Medicine you were being shown that there are lessons coming your way to understand your abilities. Raven will bring them to you.”

Raven has been with me for some time, but I have not entirely understood why and I have been reluctant to really follow him. Both with Raven and with Crow there has been an element of trickery going on and I can see that now – with Magpie as an accomplice to bring that lesson into the physical*: I have been “dabbling” here and there, but not really committed to my path. This all makes perfect sense now! But this has come from being shown more. Also, I have had plenty of people to show me how the Power can be abused and I have abused it myself. Magpie has been trying to show me the error of my ways but also showing me how to do things properly, and the greater Power that can be available if we use our power wisely and for the benefit of others and not just ourselves. I feel that my Ancestors, totems and the Spirit of Place of where I live have being trying to show me this. This may be why I had a fear of the below world: at some level I knew what I would see, but did not wish to see it. Once the message started getting through they allowed me to see what I should be doing: but I had to learn what I shouldn’t first before the new knowledge could come through: the mistakes my Ancestors had made: the mistakes those around me had made: the mistakes I had made. *One totem I come across in the physical a lot is Magpie: who speaks of the lessons I am learning right now – not assuming I know more than I do (the past) but learning the right way to do things (the present) and moving forward and not denying the knowledge I have (the future) – he is a scavenger and a thief – and this could be representative of my dabbling in things but not really getting to grips with it myself- preferring to read than to do the work myself: something else that is being shown to me by those I meet in the physical. Today Magpie was walking on the ground – almost calling me to the Below world.

“Centre is you, <snip> It is where you bring all other aspects together and apply them in the physical reality while attuned to the spiritual reality.”

Again this brings me to mind the “pops” we have been discussing in Earthwalker’s thread. Overlays being presented. Lesson on the cusp of physical being brought into the physical to be opened up and played with: like the way I played with the balls of molten rock: close to reality but not yet there: they have to be sought in the alternative realities of the above and below worlds. Vibrations being the key to access the alternative realities: being aware of them and how to access them fully.

“Manifestation takes place there, seeded in the co-operative energies and soils of the other dimensions you have moved through to get to the center.”

Bringing possibility into the present.

“This is at the heart of all ritual, ceremony, and rites of passage. Everything must pass through each of the 4 elements, everything must be anchored (drawing nourishment) in the Below World, be tapped into the Above World for the energy (Source Energy) to give it life and manifestation takes place through you in the Middle World. No matter what you are doing these are constants in the elemental make up.”

To me this is like bringing all worlds into the moment, and could be why the Y axis of the two circles I saw became flat and joined together – synchronicity between the three worlds that allows manifestation to happen. Showing that we really do “Create” when our purpose and intent is good: but also where we are going wrong if this manifestation does not occur.

“Can you see where you can expand your interpretations to add clarity?”

Ohhh Yes!

“As for Raven and Crow being Tricksters, yes they are, and thieves too. *Smile* (Totem articles.)”

Now does this mean that they are thieves in that they take-away that manifestation if our focus and intent is not good? This would ring true with my experience.

“Next time pay attention to the corresponding breaths. Shrink/inhale, expand/exhale. *S* When you blow your breath you expand it outward in projection. When you inhale you draw things within. How you breathe will speed it up or slow it down accordingly. It gives life to the will/intent and sets things in motion.”

I became aware of this yesterday in the Stone Circle. As I inhaled my chest expanded like a

balloon and I moved upward as the energy of the circle filled my chest. By becoming lighter I moved more easily.

“The Medicine Wheel functions in its flow like a gyroscope.”

Well after a lot of thought and the experience in the circle yesterday I can now see how all this fits together!

“The Wheel in this sense becomes mobile, a vehicle to take you places based on this balance. Out of balance you will crash and get nowhere.”

I do understand the journey around the wheel – from the card spread I undertook a few weeks ago – it was the interaction with the other worlds that was puzzling me – but now I feel I understand that – and need to work with it some more to practice my intent to work with the different directions in the different worlds. Re the figure with the lights from the palms: “I believe they were showing you how to summon and send and wanted you to see it took a balanced approach receiving and sending it at the same time with focused will to *run* the energy through yourself and direct it anywhere you wanted.”

This feels right!

“LOL...that's because you got caught in the spin of things (gyroscope) and couldn't focus on the windows! Hopefully I helped more this time and was clearer.”

Yep I feel much more comfortable with this now!

“You were being introduced to the vehicle of the Wheel itself, it is like a ship that can take you to different dimensions but once there you need to align to go deeper into them.”

OK The “Aha” took a little time in coming this time, but it feels like it has come!

“A deeper centering with the Spirit Keepers.”

This does make sense as I have been using the Directions as a focus prior to entering a meditation for a few months now - not fully understanding why: just lighting candles for each direction and inviting them to join the meditation. As I work with it more, more learning seems to come.

“In essence, you take it all *in* before you project yourself. This is true centering.”

This explains why the visions I have when I undertake this process are more vivid – but maybe also why I have become a lot calmer in the mundane over the last few months. New comment: As I have sat trying to understand all this something came to me: There are different aspects of each animal – do these different aspect apply in the different realms at different times: take for instance Rabbit in the west in the meditation: in the past I have been fearful, the present is creating fertile ground, the future could represent great leaps and bounds

So Rabbit was there to show me Cycles, tides of movement and fertility as I could see each of these from my own experience of his Medicine. Almost a mirror of the wheel itself that lay inside me: brought out by introspection: the West. Now how all this goes back to portals: yep i can still see the connection which i thought i had lost again - it is still all about feeling different energies - maybe the energy in my home was my guides and teachers trying to catch my attention to finally start working with the Wheel in a more committed way.

CinnamonMoon:
Wolfie, I'm interjecting here that I've just put an article up on him in the Totem Library for you to look at. Remember there are depths and that holding of breath is what you do when you go deep. See the correlation of that and work with it. You're not going too deep you're slowing your breath to go under. This can be to delve deep within yourself or to expand outward into the universe. That expanding and contracting you are getting is tied to this I'm sure. That said let me reply to your post.

“The Star Nation are our guides and teachers? They live in the Above world: the Future: the Future is where all things not yet formed live: my knowledge was not yet formed so had to be brought from the future into the present: and the past was required to make sense of the teaching: thus showing why I am seeing different overlays: to get me used to looking at things from different perspectives...”

“Yes this makes sense to me. Over the last few weekends I have been tending to walk out a little in nature – driving to different places, stopping and spending a time in different places and feeling the energy. My meditations have taken me to new places and i have had to "feel" my way more than i usually have to do.”

“Now this still leaves me with a question: as it sounds like the energy in the environment be different from the energy of the site which I do not understand…”

Okay, look at it this way, the energy of the environment has a spirit present as well and the Spirit of Place, the Guardian of the Sacred Site is the Gatekeeper to that portal. You need to learn to read its nature too. Does that help? Like stepping into a room within a house that is occupied by someone. You introduce yourself, get a feel for the room, even though the house has its own feel.

“Hmm and now I feel I can understand the signs better and be able to respond better to the future.”

Great!

“I am beginning to feel comfortable with the seven directions and how to work with them.”

Excellent!

“Consciously my focus is on trying to stick to the 7 for the time being!”

Yes, that's what you should do, I only mentioned that there are 36 so you can see the vastness of the knowledge accessible to you as time passes and your understanding of tapping into it grows. Naturally the 7 are the foundational basis from which you will always bring in the others. You may want to read Earthwalker's posts to those threads carefully, she shared her initial experiences and a lot of details were discussed that may serve you very well.

“I kinda knew it was a library, but it is only in the last few months I have really started to understand it as a vehicle.”

You'll love it!

“At this time I am letting the Wheel take me where it wants me to go – I feel that this is the best way to learn what it wants to show me. My focus and intent is to work with it (other than perhaps keeping my focus on the basics (as opposed to the 36 directions)) – but I am trying to let it show me the way on the basis that it knows a lot more than I do! Funnily enough when Dolphin first came, he did want to take me to the North East - but i did not follow as i did not understand.”

As it should be. Observe and then move with that rhythm. Let Dolphin teach you the dance.

“One thing I am curious about is that you say that horse is a tool in the ley-lines/vortex posts…(Chapter six). Having read Ted Andrew's points about horse and Jamie Sans's, I can see how Horse meant a lot in the physical in terms of “progress”– is this reflected as a tool? If so how is horse used as a tool? Plus, just thought: a new NA guide came through with a horse name a few weeks ago - or at least his name was mentioned (I had forgotten about that!). Horse must be important to me right now!”

I'm sure it is. *Smiles* Horse is the shamanic steed, each hoof-fall being a beat of the heart to which the shaman matches his own breathing and heart rate. As this happens it is between the beats that the shaman enters the silence, it is between the beats of the physical life and the death of the pause that we find the union. The horse in this aspect represents that journey and the shaman is said to ride the horse. Often you will see a white horse skin used as a blanket within the sacred space on which the shaman is seated. It is a form of merging and shapeshifting to journey. Horse will teach this to you.

“I feel that my initial assumptions about rabbit are wrong at least in the present and the future: I feel Rabbit was here to show me how the three worlds overlap and interact: in the past I was fearful, fertility lies in the present and leaps and bounds are the pregnant possibilities of the future: based on cycles, in the past I was able to stop and move swiftly at will and had the ability to extricate myself from situations that were not beneficial by doing so: in the present there is a certain stillness (for protection whilst learning), a sharp change in direction is occurring that

will serve progress in the future: all Rabbit Medicine: but the main thing is that the cycles from my own experience are present which helps me understand a lot about the Wheel.”

Wonderful!

“It is interesting that Rabbit represents fertility…yesterday I went with a friend to a Sacred Site in Derbyshire (a stone circle) and we both felt that fertility and the Earth Mother’s abundance was important there (is this what you meant about the environment and the site being different: because the sight was again high on a hill yet it felt like and earth site).”

Yes.

“Going within to find fertile ground for new beginnings would make sense to me right now. My past fears are beginning to melt away: so maybe I should be looking at this appearance of Rabbit as the fertility within that is now occurring for me and being reflected in the physical (as life gets a little easier), and the cycles that perhaps portend further movement in the future, after a prolonged period of hibernation through the autumn and winter of certain lessons that have been running through my life (ie. the last 7-9 years).”

I should think so.

“What this has showed me is that the Below world is our past as well as the past (as in Ancestors etc.) and that is can bring us the tools needed for forward movement in the present and future: I have summarized some of Andrews's words in the parenthesis below: "Ruling in hell rather than serving in heaven" This is the my distant past (when i would have walked over anyone to achieve my goals) that Crow has been showing me…”

“Going back to fertility with Rabbit, and also the Star Nation, but also to bring my attention to not fearing a place that is not "light", as a matter of course; but to "feel it" and use experience (the past) to ascertain the energy (vibrational) portends.”

Also remember that what is black is like a canvas for us, it is unformed and allows us to co-create the future with Spirit. Note: you have a lot of good analysis and where you are correct I'm not going to comment for the sake of the length of this post. However if I can shed more light for you I will. I do want to say that you are drawing a wealth of insight from your journey and current resulting study perspectives and summations are excellent!

“Raven has been with me for some time, but I have not entirely understood why and I have been reluctant to really follow him. Both with Raven and with Crow there has been an element of trickery going on and I can see that now – with Magpie as an accomplice to bring that lesson into the physical*: I have been “dabbling” here and there, but not really committed to my path.”

And so Dog has come forward to remind you that you need to be loyal to it. *Smiles* As for the abuse of power, this is common to all pathwalkers initially, it's part of the testing and lessons of responsibility--the ability to respond properly. Do not be critical of yourself for this, you needed

to learn and in this case it was a Shadow Lesson but you have learned. Embrace that, love it for what it was, and let it go. Move on now. Our past mistakes will also be the mistakes of others who may cross our paths, in this way we see the lessons that remain before them, and we can be tolerant that they need to learn them through experience too. We can choose to walk with them and help them if they ask us, or we can choose to walk away if they don't. We need not stay around if it is not going to help us achieve our pathwork. That is what each of us must respond to.

“Now does this mean that they are thieves in that they take-away that manifestation if our focus and intent is not good? This would ring true with my experience.”

In some instances that's true. But they steal our attention and draw it elsewhere and trick us through their antics to watch. You see? It's not all bad. They will play tricks on you if you ignore them. That can be a real pain in the butt. I've got a big butt for a target myself sometimes.

“I have sat trying to understand all this something came to me: There are different aspects of each animal – do these different aspect apply in the different realms at different times: take for instance Rabbit in the west in the meditation: in the past I have been fearful, the present is creating fertile ground, the future could represent great leaps and bounds.”

Oh certainly. Understanding those aspects, the directions and their symbology, then the interaction the Guide brings to play all melds to deliver the message. It's all interconnected. Not all aspects will apply at all times, but they will be pronounced enough to decipher which ones are important at the moment.

“So Rabbit was there to show me Cycles, tides of movement and fertility as I could see each of these from my own experience of his Medicine. Almost a mirror of the wheel itself that lay inside me: brought out by introspection: the West.”

Yes, and because Rabbit did not fear you were to let go of your fears.

WolfSpirit:
Cinn, Yep this certainly has turned out to be quite an adventure - and I will take a look at the Dolphin thread.

“Okay, look at it this way, the energy of the environment has a spirit present as well and the Spirit of Place, the Guardian of the Sacred Site is the Gatekeeper to that portal. You need to learn to read its nature too. Does that help? Like stepping into a room within a house that is occupied by someone. You introduce yourself, get a feel for the room, even though the house has its own feel.”

Yep I felt this when I went to the Stone Circle, but your analogy of a room and its occupants really helped!

“You may want to read Earthwalker's posts to those threads carefully, she shared her initial experiences and a lot of details were discussed that may serve you very well.”

I don’t recall seeing them…in the library?

“…it is between the beats of the physical life and the death of the pause that we find the union. The horse in this aspect represents that journey and the shaman is said to ride the horse.”

“It is a form of merging and shapeshifting to journey. Horse will teach this to you.”

Ahh! I will go back to this…I want to try and return to this meditation and do some more work through it being that it seems to already have shown me so much!

“Also remember that what is black is like a canvas for us, it is unformed and allows us to co-create the future with Spirit.”

Yes this certainly has helped to break down my fear of the "blackness": i never thought of this as my canvas!

“As for the abuse of power, this is common to all pathwalkers initially, it's part of the testing and lessons of responsibility--the ability to respond properly. Do not be critical of yourself for this, you needed to learn and in this case it was a Shadow Lesson but you have learned. Embrace that, love it for what it was, and let it go. Move on now.”

Yes I know – the fact I can admit those mistakes is in itself forward movement and very healing and I do embrace the lessons those mistakes have taught me!

“Our past mistakes will also be the mistakes of others who may cross our paths, in this way we see the lessons that remain before them, and we can be tolerant that they need to learn them through experience too.”

Yes, and this is around me in a number of situations at this time – both on a personal level and in my own thoughts on a number of global issues!

“We can choose to walk with them and help them if they ask us, or we can choose to walk away if they don't. We need not stay around if it is not going to help us achieve our pathwork. That is what each of us must respond to.”

Hmm and it is a difficult one – I think by far the hardest one is when someone is obviously suffering, they know that we can help them, they seek our help, but are not willing to change their perceptions and we have to walk away. But looking back on how I had to learn my lessons shows me that that is what we must do…but having seen our own story unfold: the “with hind-sight” view, does make walking away very hard as we know what the person will have to endure. But, that is their path…not ours.

“We need not stay around if it is not going to help us achieve our pathwork.”

Yep Cinn, I have caught this one!

“But they steal our attention and draw it elsewhere and trick us through their antics to watch. You see? It's not all bad.”

Ah I see what you mean

“They will play tricks on you if you ignore them. That can be a real pain in the butt.”

Next time I will make sure I ask what they want…I can see a few blind allies they have dragged me down and kicked my butt as I fumbled on all fours trying to find clues that were not really there! So with them two both being around I shouldn’t expect my butt to stop being used as target practice just yet (where is my copy of The Beano!?!) if I do keep ignoring them!

“It's all interconnected.”

Now I could see this before – and I could understand “levels” and the different worlds – but not all coming together the way it did in this meditation.

“Yes, and because Rabbit did not fear you were to let go of your fears.”

…..Yeh…<sits tapping fingers slowly on the desk in contemplation> …yeh, he stuck around this time…he has come in the past but only fleetingly – this time he stayed until I got his message! Yeh! Thanks for your help here Cinn – I "rabbitted on" I know - but i got there in the end! Thanks for staying with me on this one.

CinnamonMoon:
Anytime my friend! If Earthwalker's discussions are not in the library under the wheel or elements then they may be in the archives. Hmmmmm I'll see and come back and let you know what happened to them. Edited to say: Okay in the Library look at Elementals--Learning From, there's a little in that. Otherwise it looks like they are in the archives and most of the posts are titled with the word *dance* because she was learning the different stones and to dance with them. We were discussing things pretty much like we are here and a lot of information and insight were shared both from the experience of someone just starting out and those that have been there. It may be a bit of work to find them. Sorry I don't have the time to look each one up. I know there are a lot of pages there but work backwards not forwards, this was a while ago.

Earthwalker:
Wolf et al., Just some additional thoughts:

“Okay, look at it this way, the energy of the environment has a spirit present as well and the Spirit of Place, the Guardian of the Sacred Site is the Gatekeeper to that portal. You need to learn to read its nature too. Does that help? Like stepping into a room within a house that is occupied by someone. You introduce yourself, get a feel for the room, even though the house has its own feel.”

I think there are other more subtle energies as well; to me as you walk the land you can feel different micro chasms. I have never really labeled this as SOP but it could be(???). I live on about 3 acres of woods with pastures behind.

As I walk this land in one corner of the property on a raised shelf you can see the mountains in the distance; the feel there is always a connection with air.

There is a little mound of Bloodroot that sits in the woods to another side and the feel of that place is of a happiness yet fragile therein.

There is place beneath a huge curved but almost uproot tree where there are mixed feelings of pain but beauty as well.

There is another area lower but very damp due to the run off; it grows heavy vegetation much like a rain forest with huge trees and lush growth underneath. The feel there is of sanctity.

I have a favorite place on the side of my house where I can see both forward and backward and side-wards and it is a place of curved energies; energies to journeys.

In the front yard, there is a member of the stone nation rising from but attached to earth, the rock below. On its surface grows lichens and mosses. He stands proudly in and part of a flower bed that surround him which softens his presence while enhancing it. Sweet woodruff and lily of the valley surround him in curves which give the feel of movement and protection.

At night I look upward at stars; the opening to them surrounded is by 50-100 foot trees. One cannot help feel they are all giving praise of thanks to Spirit. The forest gives back to the larger environment.

The land is a very special place and a wonderful gift to share. I cannot say if this is the SOP or just the Sacred in nature but it is everywhere. When I lived in NYC I could feel the land there in Central Park and on roof tops gardens, (not mine). I do hope someday to travel to a sacred place but then again although more subtle there is a never ending connection to Mother Earth. We are part of her and can feel her if we just listen.

CinnamonMoon:
Earthwalker, This is the sacred in nature, the voice of the land itself and it's attributes being expressed to you. A SOP is going to feel different, like a persona, a presence of being, a spirit. It is simply the resident spirit of that place. Not all locations will have one, they generally reside as GateKeepers where two Ley Lines intersect. The merging of those energies creates a portal and if it is large enough it would warrant a guardian spirit. This is what you feel presiding over your mountain that you are seeking. It may be that your whole mountain is the vortex. This happens. That's why Sedona is so attractive as it is a cluster of sites (mesas) within the landscape and each one is a different kind of portal that unifies the entire landscape. Like a gathering of people would unify a room. (Though there are changes taking place there now and some are leaving and moving elsewhere, it's as if a counsel were held and is now breaking up to go attend to business IMHO). Anyway, I'm speculating here, and probably shouldn't, but it gives you an idea of the expanse these issues can take.

A SOP feels like the presence of another person, but there is a power to that presence that commands attention and respect. It is a dimensional area that the SOP inhabits and it is felt, defined, and it has purpose. When you encounter this you will know it. It's as if one of your Guides were present. Not just the voice of the land, but a union with it exists between the SOP and Land, and then you enter into that with permission. Introduction is required or they will make you feel very uncomfortable and push you away.

WolfSpirit:
Earthwalker, Although I do not have such a big part of Mother Earth to call my own (as you will have seen from my photo's!) I am at the point the town meets a country park. A few hundred yards walk and i am in open countryside.

I have "my places": the bend in the slowly almost silently meandering river (which near my home is little more than a stream) with overhanging trees on the low far bank: where I sit on the bank and let my feet dangle in the water as it gently passes through, almost unified in its traverse of the landscape: the trees and lush, broad-leaved undergrowth seem to be bowing their heads as if to drink from the river's cool calming waters.

A bit further upstream, near a small bridge, there are no trees or undergrowth overlapping the bank as the bank is much higher and only trees and stout bushes seem to grow: the river is faster and tumbles a little as the ground changes level slightly, and small rocks stick their head above the waterline foaming the water as if each drop of water has its own jostling destination as it scurries through: the river's voice a little louder this time.

Further upstream where the land rises sharply, the voice of the river positively shouts at you as it tries to find a way through the desolate landscape: no trees and no undergrowth can grow on this ground, just rough grass and rocks: as if the stream has already taken all the fertility out of the soil leaving just the bare rock beneath a thin layer of rougher soil where no deep roots can grow: the river seems to have no definite course here as if each drop of water appears to fight to find a way through. All this within a quarter of a mile stretch of river.

From the higher land just above the bridge you can look down to your right on the lush part of the valley with its crowds of Standing People standing shoulder to shoulder as far as the eye can see until the valley changes direction. In front you see the remains of the mill built into the more rocky landscape: the remains of the quarry where the Earth Mother's convulsions can be clearly seen in the 30 degree angle of the rock strata. To the left beyond the rooves of the single storey mill sheds: all that remains of a great mill that once sent cotton all over the world: you can look out onto the more baron hillside and beyond the hill with the Pike and the start of the Pennine Moors.

And within all these landscapes there are little pockets of land that have a totally different feel: a row of cottages seemingly in the middle of nowhere: a tree sapling sprouting from the vertical rock face: an area where oddly nothing grows in the lusher areas. Shady spots, cold spots, spots basking in Grandfather Sun's rays: all come together in less than a square mile

But then there are the areas where you know something has happened: the spot by the river where a guy died late at night in some kind of ritual a few years back and no-one was prosecuted: the entrances to the many mines in the area: where children were put to labor and many lost their lives when a seam fell in or the heavily reported disaster that killed many (which I only found out about last week).

Then there are the areas where you can follow a line of energy: and the places it was broken by the mining or the quarrying. Then there are the places where the energy is very strong: sometimes overpowering: that seems to pull you in: like the energy around my house… where energy seems to be being pulled in .or places like the Pike where the energy seems to being scattered in all directions: barely staying in one place long enough to actually feel what is it up to! I have come to know this landscape well in the last few years I seem to know when to sit awhile and when to let the landscape be with itself: maybe the landscape tells me where I need to sit today because often I will go down to the bank to let my feet dangle and it won't feel right and I will go to the bridge or up the hill or sometimes I will not sit at all but keep walking sometimes I will to get a move on and sometimes just have a leisurely wander: I could be in the same mood but yet my reactions to the land might be different: so maybe I know what you mean about the Voice of the Land!

Maybe the diversity in this landscape is why I have stayed here when common sense would have told me I should have left a long time ago! Maybe it had something to teach me!

Over the weekend I went to a Sacred Site, a small stone circle high in the Peak Moors in Derbyshire. I have been there once before last year, but the weather was not that good and I arrived a little flustered, so did not feel that I got that much from the experience, so I wanted to go again, especially after all the recent discussions on portals. Last time I was there I felt quite happy to have found the place: it is reputedly difficult to find although I had no problem, so I put the calm I felt down to having found it last time. This time it was a great day, I had as much time as I needed and knew where I was going. At first I sat away from the circle for a while (having brought down energy to the circle) soaking up the energy and admiring the great view. Despite the circle being high and almost on the edge of a huge hill, there was little wind, and even less noise.

After a while of sitting away from the circle I walked the outside of the circle and went to the East "entrance" and sat a while longer. As I did I became aware of a feminine energy around me: not discernable as a particular spirit as a guide would come, although the energy was similar to the gentle loving energy of a female guide I have who comes irregularly these days but was prominent when I first started a spiritual path.

As I sat at the east of, but outside the circle, a feeling of joyousness came over me (as distinct from Joy: I say this as I felt that the Joy was outwith me but that I was being touched by it) I asked if it was Ok to enter the circle and was given a yes. After walking around the circle a couple of more times, I sat in the center and grounded myself in the Earth, bringing earth energy back up as I did: at home when I do this a small amount of energy comes up (more energy usually come down than comes up!), but here the circle immediately filled with energy in three distinct colored bands.

At this point I became aware of a single strand of white Above energy entering my crown chakra: that had come automatically before i had chance to pull it down. After sitting for a few moments, it felt like I has raised off the ground- bodily not just my spirit - and a tunnel of white light appeared at the east entrance to the circle with a male figure at the door of the circle: again the figure was not discernable - just a "figure" or outline of "light" with male energy within the light. The energy from the tunnel came from the tunnel into the circle in a clockwise spiral. As the spiral hit the center of the circle I felt a "bump" up. This time I was looking down on my body as I am when I meditate at home. I asked the spirit stood in the tunnel his name and he told me: Casephin or Ceraphin or something like that: I know he was speaking English (ie. that he was from this country) but I could not make out his words very well. After a short time I felt myself moving back to the ground and the ground seemed to start moving in a clockwise direction and lots of green light came down in short "tubes". The spiral receded again to the east and I came back from my meditation.

I thanked the Directions and the Land and sent all the energies back before leaving the space, walking outside around in an anticlockwise direction. I have had similar (although a lot weaker) experiences to the experiences in the circle at home. I feel I can sense the Spirit of the Land, so I am interested to hear what anyone thinks of the experiences in the circle!

Earthwalker:
Wolf, Thank you for sharing the beauty of the land where you live. Your descriptions can certainly bring to mind images of your journey. The land feels very serene and beautiful. I think I know what you mean about it leading you in your wanderings. Thanks again for the wonderful descriptions and images.

WolfSpirit:
Earthwalker, I don't know why I wrote all that actually: my intention for posting was to say I understand what you mean: but it turned into something more: I am feeling very inspired by nature at the moment. To think of the land around me is to me a deeply humbling experience: its beauty and its struggles - it's beauty in spite of its struggles maybe: it's ability to transcend the physical demands of the environment maybe. I wanted to share for some reason and your post inspired me: maybe I needed to sense the land: I have walked those paths often and it's like I can have all the experiences of going there just by thinking of the places. Writing the post was like going on a Medicine Walk through the different seasons as I sat at my desk. The river seems important too: maybe this is to do with a need for me to remain fluid. This would make sense right now. I have experienced so many wonderful expressions of nature out there and just looking at a leaf right now seems to awaken a very intense spark, and then i look a whole bush or a whole tree

and.. you helped me understand this somehow so Thanks! There was another point to the thread and that was to question the experience at the Stone Circle, and that was an open question. This was a new experience. I have had many experiences in my own environment and at other Sacred Sites, mainly calm feelings: like I had at Glastonbury at the Convergence, but not quite like the experience at the circle, but then again I have never undertaken a meditation at a Sacred Site before, so that part of the post was open to anyone who had.

Earthwalker:
Wolf, I cannot imagine the intensity of sitting with the spirit of the land since the feel of the land is so strong when just wandering. Yes there is struggle for the land but part of understanding and feeling I believe comes from experiencing the Pain and I believe we heal at times from recognition. In other words giving recognition (our energy) to the problem. So often pain is healed or the start of healing occurs just by recognition of the abuse. Maybe someday I will have some of your experiences with the SOP [Spirit of Place]but I cannot comment since I haven't experienced it yet. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Most of all thank you for taking us on your wanderings

CinnamonMoon:
Hi Wolfie, I don't have a lot of time to address your circle experience but at least I can give you some things to ponder since I strongly feel you did meet the SOP being that feminine energy you felt. It moved in to accept you. That's what a SOP feels like initially, a *presence*. At that point what we experience is going to be in terms that make sense to us. The fact that you feel more energy coming to you from above than below is not unusual. Your crown chakra is wide open when you enter this state, your base chakra already grounded and we do take Earth for granted as it's so much a part of us.

Your kinship and bond to the Earth itself and the land are clearly *established*. Awareness being your focus, where you direct it determines the direction the energy is going to be more active. If seeking enlightenment from above the flow would be stronger from that direction.

The levitation experience I've had are all directly related to interaction with SOP too. Just as you describe in your sensations, albeit our visions were different, naturally.

"Casephin or Ceraphin"…Seraphin is one of the Choirs of Angels. Not bad for a first attempt at this!

WolfSpirit:
Earthwalker

“I cannot imagine the intensity of sitting with the spirit of the land since the feel of the land is so strong when just wandering.” Yes I understand what you are saying. Just walking does "fill me up". A couple of weeks back I had a new experience. There are lots of little lanes in my area and a couple of weeks back I took a drive around them. I have walked them many times, but somehow I got a different perspective driving them, think this was because, being higher up in the Jeep, i could see over dry stone walls and hedgerows, so the landscape looked different: I had a wider view. I think I am learning about perspectives right now, I am seeing lots of things with different eyes. Driving around, seeing from a different perspective, the feeling of was the same as when walking even though, being in the car, I was not as physically connected to the landscape (although I do have the dreamcatcher SEDD made for me in the car. Ahh! )

“Yes there is struggle for the land but part of understanding and feeling I believe comes from experiencing the Pain and I believe we heal at times from recognition” So this would be the land reflecting our own journey for us to show us where we need to focus?

“In other words giving recognition (our energy) to the problem. So often pain is healed or the start of healing occurs just by recognition of the abuse.”

OK. I feel I have an inkling of what the land is trying to tell me and it would tie in with meditation very much: about not being so set in thoughts: the original meditation now seems to be about opening up to different perspectives and not being so rigid and I can see where this could help me heal. This is obviously something i need to spend more time with, but I can feel that there aspects of my life where rigid thinking has held me back: the fluidity of the river again. Ahh yes, the more I think about this the more obvious it becomes and in how many areas of my life it pervades, even to my reaction when Dolphin came in the original meditation. Hmm Thanks Earthwalker, this thread is certainly an eye-opener for me! Boy I can even see now where my health has been effected by my inability to bend...wow!

Cinn, I think the levitation feeling and the circle appearing to spin where the two things that bothered me. I could explain them both, but I just wanted to check. It was a great experience, but I wanted to check my reactions: that i was not experiencing anything I shouldn't! The big difference for me in this circle was that the land appeared to bring the Above energy to me as opposed to the other way around which is how I usually experience things. The chord of light from above came as soon as the Below energy came: without me summoning Above energy.

“Awareness being your focus, where you direct it determines the direction the energy is going to be more active.”

On this occasion I did not have a particular focus other than to establish a contact if an SOP was there: to learn how that would feel: I figured that if a place did have an SOP it would be that Circle and that would help me "feel" the SOP of other places I visited: it was a "feeling" exercise. As I write this I am wondering if this connection with the earth would be a means to confirm to me that I am more grounded now than I have been in the past. This would be a big help in me being able to journey: knowing that my earth connection is strong gives me reassurance that I will not get lost on a journey and not be able to get back: this has been a fear that has stopped me in the past, part of the rigidity I mentioned above. This aspect combined with the different perspectives I am seeing right now and how these can be expanded through journeying seem to be saying that the time has come to leave those old fears behind: that by sensing the vibrations of a place I will find my way around: and also showing me that my sensing the vibrations of people at different levels will show me where my energies should be directed and where I should leave alone.

The female energy did "feel" like and SOP, but not having contacted one before I could not be sure, so I just wanted to check the experiences. Ceraphin does not appear in my Angel cards so I will have a hunt around and see if this appearance has something to show me! Thanks Cinn!

CinnamonMoon:
Wolfie, In a vortex there is a spin of energy, clockwise or counterclockwise indicating if it is electric (outgoing) or magnetic (incoming). I believe the levitation I have experienced at such times is being lifted up by the energy and enfolded by it. It was not my will that lifted me, but the energy I Danced with. "The big difference for me in this circle was that the land appeared to bring the Above energy to me as opposed to the other way around which is how i usually experience things. The chord of light from above came as soon as the Below energy came: without me summoning Above energy." The activation of the site when you entered it to work, with permission. "On this occasion I did not have a particular focus other than to establish a contact if an SOP [Spirit Of Place] was there: to learn how that would feel: I figured that if a place did have an SOP it would be that Circle and that would help me "feel" the SOP of other places I visited: it was a "feeling" exercise." The SOP takes up residence at the heart of the site and is its Guardian/Keeper. It was the feminine presence you felt in the heart of the location.

"As I write this I am wondering if this connection with the earth would be a means to confirm to me that I am more grounded now than I have been in the past. This would be a big help in me being able to journey: knowing that my earth connection is strong gives me reassurance that I will not get lost on a journey and not be able to get back: this has been a fear that has stopped me in the past, part of the rigidity I mentioned above."

I would say you are right. The SOP would want you feeling the truth of what was troubling you. They know what our questions are; connected instantly to our thoughts we cannot hide our intent from them. In such instances we are connected to the collective consciousness where all is available to all and so it understood your needs. When I first began working with such locations I would address the SOP asking:

"Take me as I am, show me what you will, and help me to understand."

Then I opened myself with the intent to hide nothing. The rest seemed to take care of itself very well. *Smile* "This aspect combined with the different perspectives Ii am seeing right now and how these can be expanded through journeying seem to be saying that the time has come to leave those old fears behind: that by sensing the vibrations of a place I will find my way around: and also showing me that my sensing the vibrations of people at different levels will show me where my energies should be directed and where I should leave alone." I couldn't agree more. "Ceraphin does not appear in my Angel cards so i will have a hunt around and see if this appearance has something to show me!" Spell it with an *S* and there is an article in the library on the ranks. I forget the title but it's about spirits in different traditions. They are in there. Sorry, I don't have time to look it up for you. If you can't find it let me know, maybe I can look tomorrow.

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