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Why
Explore the Seven Sacred Directions?
By CinnamonMoon
Well the more you explore the deeper
you go into understanding them for one thing. The path they
lead you along is so beautiful, even when you have to put light
on your shadows, you'll find they'll clean up real nice and
the path gets brighter, your light starts to shine on it too.
There's nothing to fear but the feeding
of it. We don't need to do that, but we do need to be alert
to things. The Seven Sacred Directions teach us many things
but the main thing they teach is to see clearly and to use our
senses beyond their mundane functions. When we use all our sensory
input that's what we're doing. We see ahead enough to understand
where we're going at the moment. Then we see the course we're
taking to get there and in that we avoid a lot of mistakes,
our challenges suddenly aren't so overwhelming and obstacles
aren't so hard to overcome.
Sure, we're going to be challenged
to see this way at first; after all it's hard to believe that's
what we're doing, but it's real and it does prove itself if
you allow it to. When that happens, when you understand the
elements at play in an intimate way like this, then you tap
your *Knowing* and the Oneness, and the duality and through
that duality you walk in Oneness, aware, watching for the signs
that are there to guide the way. The Seven Sacred Directions
teach this. We can have as much guidance as we're willing to
open to. It's up to us. Some people are very heavy sleepers
(spiritually speaking) while others are awake … our awareness
is what we need to wake up. The Seven Sacred Directions wake
you up when you explore them with your senses. In this you will
find you are heightening your senses and raising your conscious
awareness and are able to understand more of what they're telling
you. They are the connective points to bringing the spiritual
realities into the physical realities. They teach you to walk
between the worlds.
There will come tests to see if you'll
use what you're learning, if you'll follow the ways of this
guidance or if you'll let temptation rule, and we are going
to be tempted sometimes. Life loves to do that to us. So we
need to accept that no one's perfect and we're going to make
mistakes but when you make them with your eyes open you learn
from them and you don't make them again. You know better don't
you? Of course you do. You saw it coming and chose to ignore
it and look what happened. You say to yourself "I knew
that was going to happen and I ignored it anyway!" Then
you say: "I won't do that next time" and you don't.
Why repeat our own foolishness? It doesn't make sense to do
that and so you move past it learning your lesson and you grow…a
step at a time.
Eagle is Spirit's Messenger, the
Spirit Keeper of Air, and if we begin to explore this element
Eagle will (at some point) appear to us and show the way. This
element provides the grasp you need to understand and define
the pattern for everything else that will follow. The Guides
you seek will begin to appear in Air, as you encounter them
they are going to teach you even more…it gets deep…how
deep you go is up to you, how open is your mind? How willing
are you to learn and accept that mistakes happen? How willing
are you to explore your own spiritual nature and the Spirit
Helpers that will aid you? Sure, we get confused, but if we
trust in Spirit and learn how to see, learn to work with our
guidance then we can see where we're going and how we get there.
This is an important part of what the Seven Sacred Directions
will help you to grasp.
Study just those seven perspectives
and the next step is understanding the Medicine Wheel. Why?
Because they are the axis on which it turns…and that which
spins around the axis spins as the gyroscope of life. When we
are centered amid that we are in the Oneness, eyes open, feet
solid, walking our path with clear vision. We're walking with
those who are going our way. We are in the flow and we are in
the Web of Life, we are in the world but not of it, not of the
awareness that sleeps but of the awareness that's awake. The
Seven Sacred Directions will be the doors to perception that
will teach you the way to all of that. The doors are open to
anyone who wants to explore them so it's up to you. If you're
interested in learning more I encourage you to read the material
in the Medicine Wheel Library on these topics, and then if you
want to know for yourself begin your Dance with Air as you start
that journey. Share your experiences with us and we'll help
you sort through them…grow with us if you like, all are
welcome to do so. No matter where you stand it's a good place
to be standing right here and now. But instead of hopping around
from topic to topic, start with the basics and get a feel for
the foundations you're going to build your knowledge base from.
Settle down and start with understanding what the first dot
is so you can see how to connect it to the next one. There are
7 dots amid the Seven Sacred Directions…the first 7 steps
in connecting to the whole of the Medicine Wheel (36 dots in
all) and in that to come to your spiritual functionality.
Until we establish an intimate relationship
with each of the Seven Sacred Directions and the Guides who
come to us in that process there is no way to know the value
they hold. All you have is a theory someone is sharing with
you. Experience and the time you invest will bring forth the
Knowing in a very personal way. You begin to grasp the theory
and see the reality behind it and in that you value each direction
and all that it brings you to. Those directions are the foundations
of all Native teachings; they lead you to everything else. Once
you have them in hand you can break them down to their component
sections (through the stone placements of the Wheel) and in
that the Medicine Wheel and it's stones emerge to become your
classrooms…a university to study at; they become a vehicle
to take you through dimensional portals; and you discover the
gyroscopic momentum the Wheel holds…how to let it be your
teacher, your vehicle, and your sacred space. The Seven Sacred
Directions introduce you to all that and more. So if you want
to understand the ways of Native teachings that's where one
begins. The articles in our Medicine Wheel Library are all designed
to help you through this process, to explain what goes on. And
if you get stuck or have questions along the way the forums
are here for you to sort things out deeper. I hope you will
see there is a very good reason to explore the Seven Sacred
Directions.
The overview of these Seven Sacred
Directions is the theory…you'll study each of the elemental
forces, their entities and dimensions and meet Guides who will
become your teachers and guide you along. One element at a time,
introducing you to the Three Worlds and the three levels of
understanding each element rests upon. The Seven Sacred Directions
flow through one another this way because the axis carries through
each element, it's all connected. The study of the directions,
and later the full scope of the stones in the Medicine Wheel
is a course of connecting the dots to understand where each
road/thread/line of connection takes you.
For those interested in Ley Line
energies and what they open us to, you will be able to see why
Medicine Wheels are placed on those Ley Lines…they tap
that energy and give you a way to utilize it or explore it in
sacred space. The potential is infinite when you learn how to
work within the Wheel's matrix.
And it has so many levels to it; we can create a Wheel anywhere…and
in any dimension to explore that deeper too. But before we begin
that kind of advanced work we have to learn how to operate it.
That way we're not shouting out for a mechanic because we didn't
know any better and let our vehicle break down. I invite everyone
to consider why exploration of the Sacred Directions would serve
them now. And I invite you to begin with Air which will serve
to take you deeper into these concepts and get your bearings
in a general overview of higher spiritual concepts. I invite
you to utilize the Medicine Wheel Library and read the articles
there, the threads of discussion too…others explored before
you and they have shared their experiences, that is valuable
insight. As you discover things I hope you will share and contribute
in the other forums, we may just be adding them to the library
for those who follow behind you to gain insight from. Each time
someone shares they contribute to the resources the Lodge has
to offer our members. Share your questions, they draw out answers.
Share your experiences, they draw in the in-sight others need.
And share our libraries by exploring them. Get the theory down
that way and then you're ready to explore it.
The Seven Sacred Directions take
about a year's worth of dedicated study to grasp fully. Be patient
with yourself and don't rush, there's no urgency. At the end
of that year's study you will know them and have your foundations
in place with a depth of spiritual understanding you will be
amazed at. The growth you experience in that short time is tremendous,
and your own abilities will become so enhanced that you look
back in awe at how far you've come. You have your experiences
to validate the teachings, abilities to function spiritually
in other dimensions as well as the mundane world, and you have
the connections that bring it all into unity for you. Steady
on your feet you have the keys you need to open any door you
want to open. I encourage you to explore the Seven Sacred Directions,
you hear me talk about them all the time, I hope now you can
see why.
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INDEX
Page 3
(Main Section, Medicine Wheel, Native Languages &
Nations, Symbology)
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INDEX
Page 5
(Sacred Feminine & Masculine, Stones & Minerals)
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2000-date
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