LOOKS FAR WOMAN BEGINS HER MAGIC

Sunday afternoon, I sat in a small circle with my friend and herbalist, Megan, and with my husband, Carter. I pulled my dear pipe out of its wolf skin sack, smudged myself and all the smoking implements, and smudged the pipe. I placed my laptop computer on a stool beside me, and opened up a page to all the prayers for this month. I read each one aloud holding a small pinch of tobacco in my fingers as I did this. At the end of each prayer, I said, “Spirit, hear this prayer.” A tiny pile of tobacco grew next to my pipe bowl.

Carter and Megan smudged themselves as I offered up these prayers. It was a sunny afternoon, cool, springlike and beautiful. Then, I loaded the pipe with the prayer-filled tobacco and some extra and invited in the seven sacred directions and their spirits to join us…

 

SPRINGTIME PRAYERS

Where does the time go? The new moon ran right past me! I’ll be sending prayers with my medicine pipe on Sunday, in the early afternoon. For those of you new to the blog, see here. So, I invite your prayers for yourself and others. Send them along, and I will—as usual—keep them private.

The Clan Mother for the Fourth Moon cycle is Looks Far Woman. She is the keeper of visions, prophesies, dreams, and the Keeper of the Golden Door and the Crack in the Universe. She teaches us how to understand our visions, dreams, feelings and impressions. How to Enter the Dreamtime, to into other realms, and through the Crack in the Universe. She teaches us how to use our psychic abilities and gives of prophecy for humanity. Through her, we learn hot to set spiritual boundaries. Looks Far Woman teaches us how to use our inner potential to become healed healers.

For those of you who are gifted with psychic abilities, this Clan Mother would seem to be of special significance to you. Perhaps she may serve as a helping spirit to you, and a mentor.

I’m thanking you in advance for trusting me with your prayers, and for the honor of sending them out into the Mother’s sacred arms.

 

LISTEN

I find myself returning to the same topics over and over again. For awhile, I thought that I was just too boring a person to keep thinking up lots of new, fresh ideas. But these days, I am kinder to myself and I believe that there are just a few basic things life really needs us to know: How to love, how to forgive, how to grieve, and how to listen. That’s my short list for today. I’ll probably add a few more things tomorrow. But probably a very few more things.

This afternoon, I’m returning yet again to the subject of listening. I’ve been a great talker all my life, and only in the last few years am I learning about the importance of listening. Nature has been my mentor in this, and she is a good teacher. Subtle, but exacting.

Our weather has been so unsettled here lately, swinging wildly up and down on the temperature scales. The maple trees don’t know what they are supposed to do, so ours just decided to forget the sap thing this year. They muttered about it for awhile and spit out a few quarts of sap here and there, but then our maple taps dried out like empty stream beds, and that was the end of our syrup making…