"AS THE CROW FLIES": Forming New Tribal Unions

      I am profoundly moved after the culmination of this pow-wow season as it (sort of) ends at the sacred grounds of Mother Earth’s Creations in Ossipee, New Hampshire. It feels as if a new tribal movement has started. This one won’t be based on the governmental standards of blood quantum. This one isn’t going to rely on the government or politics. This movement is based on love and respect for each other and our Mother Earth. This movement is based on native spirituality in that it is Earth based. The native people gleaned ancient knowledge and wisdom by living close to the Earth and listening to Her rhythms, following dreams and creating a sanctuary of ceremonies and music.

     Today, many first peoples are trying to preserve the old ways and this should be honored and adhered to but many more, unfortunately, are lost in modern culture and the dysfunction of substance abuse and sexual abuse. What I see happening now is native, non-native and mixed bloods alike are reaching to retrieve the visions. These are new and old visions but they are not the sole property of any one people. You cannot own visions any more than you can own the air.       Visions are free to anyone who has a heart for creation. Any one who has a love for seed, a full heart because of a blue sky, a peace just to feel Mother Earth’s soft grass on their feet or  awe in the wisdom of an eagle. The gifts of the Earth are for all. We don’t live in a blood quantum world. The politics of government lives there. We live in a world where everyone has a gift to give. Everyone. Gifts are received so that they can be given. Freely I have received, freely I give.

     These new tribes could be scattered all over but we are a mobile people and we can work with it. Names, labels, hate and fear are illusions perpetrated by the separatists. Masks put on whole cultures in order to measure one against the other. Measurements based on race, height, age, wealth, gender or any surface stuff is a form of insanity. It is crazy making and pure nonsense. Bigotry needs to be buried in ceremony. The bear does not think of itself as better than anything else. It just thinks of itself as a bear. Think of yourself as you.

     These tribes are being formed to help preserve what we have left in humanity and with our Mother. We will return to the Earth. We have to do so for our children and grandchildren. Return to a culture of sanctity, sanity, cooperation, caring, support and love.   Aho.    

"AS THE CROW FLIES": Pray for the Seeds

                  

          Today the crows reminded me to pray for the seeds as I faced the south, the direction of Summer. The crow is able to straddle both the physical and spiritual worlds, therefore bringing messages both ways. We have so many things to pray about, so much immediacy. It seems like one thing after another. Sometimes it feels like some kind of a wall is slowly being closed around us in this country and its getting a little claustrophobic. I don’t think we realize how surveilled we are. But without seeds we are doomed. All of us. The crows too. It should be obvious why we cannot sustain life if companies like Monsanto are able to control the seeds and then create seeds that do not reproduce. Sterile seeds do nothing to further life. They do not sustain creation and eventually will not sustain Monsanto, so this is insanity. Insanity for profits’ sake. This is like a James Bond movie, old Superman comic, or a Robert Ludlum novel, only this is real and Superman won’t save us. This is real and we have to rescue ourselves, the next generation, not to mention the next seven generations. We need to accept our responsibility and stop the insanity. Politics won’t help us. Politicians are paid representatives of business, aka, corporations. Politicians allowed corporations to obtain the same rights as a person and recently, the right to support political campaigns with unlimited money (as if they didn’t before?). So we need to pray for the seeds of Mother Earth. They belong to Her!!    aho   

"AS THE CROW FLIES": Politics not the answer

                                          

     Healing does start one person at a time. It has to be done that way because if someone is not healed on a personal basis, then even a parting of the Red Sea won’t change them. The next day will be the same thing. Each person must be healed on a personal level in order for interventions by the Creator to have any real meaning for them. That is why explosions of oil rigs in the gulf along with the annihilation of life there will only signify that more safety measures are needed and , for some, still more drilling. They won’t see the bigger picture that we need to stop the insanity and do something else entirely or all will be lost. It is addictive behavior which blinds one to the truth of destruction. So people need to be healed from greed, fear, abuse, false security, Stockholm

"AS THE CROW FLIES": The Seventh Direction

     The seventh direction is the Great Within. It is the direction where all of the other directions become known to us. We feel there. We become centered there. We are exposed there.

     We are part of all of creation. The Earth is in us and the breath of life of the Creator is in us. Our lives are lived and flow from the East (birth) to the South (growth) to the West (maturity) and to the North (eldership). We are the walking blueprint of a full year. We were born from the love between the Creator and Mother Earth and every season is gifted to us. This is all contained in the Great Within. We can become the center of the universe when we pray and do ceremony because of this. That is why we can attract the messages and helps of any of the creatures on Earth because we are all connected and we are all brothers and sisters joined in the center. The seventh direction is where we learn the art and languages of any other life form, including water and stone. We catch up to life there. The seventh direction is us and it is everything else.