 | Venus Transit: Calling In The Divine Feminine Through Keeping The Sky Paths OpenBy Jim Ewing (Blueskywaters)
Across the world on June 8, people around the globe will be focusing on an unusual celestial event that people of Spirit will honor as a point of revelation. It is the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. And it offers profound possibilities that we can call in to illuminate our lives and give meaning to the course of our world, and the way in which we wish to live.
This offers a tremendous opportunity for people to help shift our planet toward a balance of Spirit – honoring the Female Power that has been dominated by the Male Power for thousands of years, and open inner doorways for healing self, others and our world.
There is much synchronicity to this timing.
On May 8, exactly one month before the Venus transit, Native American peoples in the Americas and others of Spirit joined to honor the Earthly Mother through a giant Medicine Wheel, 600 miles in diameter.
It was the vision of Bennie LeBeau, a Shoshone member of The Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth, to bring balance to the Grand Tetons area of Wyoming by making this Medicine Wheel, composed of groups drumming, singing and holding ceremony in 20 sites – titled The Magnificent 19 + 1 =20 ceremony.
Although well beyond the 600-mile parameter, it was a great pleasure and honor that I conducted the ceremonies on that day as the designated "ambassador" at Ocean Springs, Miss. The intent was to bring the water element to the wheel far to the West, to cool the fires of that region, and help bring it into balance.
It is my belief that by using the elements of the Native American protocol of that day, the wonderful energies that were brought forth can be carried forward to manifest even greater blessings with the Venus doorway June 8 and a second great energetic Earth accelerator, the Summer Solstice on June 20.
Here are the elements of the protocol and how you may adapt them to your own "dance" with Spirit. It was crafted by Grandfather Martin Martinez of the Navajo, from a vision, carried out on Turquoise Mountain in New Mexico, and adapted to the other sites. They can be used to usher Spirit into the world, with gratitude and grace.
WHEN THE MORNING STAR APPEARS IN THE EAST (4:00 AM) the mounds for staffs will be marked and put in a circle with an opening to the east. All nations represented with a staff will circle around the center fire for the entrance of the sacred pipes, to be placed in the four directions with prayer and song. After the sacred pipes are placed in the mounds, the cleansing for the people and their medicine bundles will begin.
Try arising well before dawn. Prepare yourself the day before, through prayer and intent – what energies do you wish to bring forth, in yourself, in others, into the world?
You may have a special place for ceremony, outdoors. If so, consider building a sacred fire. You can do this by digging a pit, three feet by three feet by one foot deep. The earth removed can be mounded to the East, as an altar, upon which you may put objects to be blessed – crystals, feathers, beads, sacred bundles, anything you keep with you or want to hold the energy you care calling forth, or that you will be gifting the Earthly Mother.
Build your fire with intent: select the woods you wish to use, each one as an offering of the Earthly Mother, freely given by the plant people. That is their contribution to your work, and they are blessed by this giving, just as you are. Thank them, both in selected the wood (seeing which dead wood on the ground, or that just "appears" to pick up) and after they are burned. Their spirit will go to the Heavenly Father, carrying your prayers.
Digging the fire pit itself is an act of honoring the Female Power. You are creating a receptacle for the fire of Spirit, with which to transmute not only material things – wood, papers on which you have written prayers or intents – but energy, all the negativities that are in your aura, or those who join with you around the fire. You are One with the fire; it is outside of you, as a reflection of you, but it is within, as well. Honor it.
If you have a staff or wand, implant it in the mound. That establishes you as a "stakeholder" in what you are doing. It sets your intent, by grounding it and sending it upward toward the Heavenly Father, and acts as a beacon for all angels, guides and celestial beings that you have set an intent for Higher Service at this time.
Note that the staff or wand is the Male Power. When it unites with the Female Power, all Power is united, and anything is possible. Be careful of your intents, keeping them on the highest level.
It is best to choose a morning time to do this, as the protocol suggests, when you can walk with the stars, and be brave enough to venture into the void to bring your dreams into manifestation.
MORNING SONGS will be sung until dawn. Everyone will come together with his or her prayer offerings as traditional music is played to welcome the sun as it appears upon the horizon.
Honoring the Sun as it arises unites your energy with that of the coming day and that of all Creation which is awakening at this moment. I like to drum while the Sun rises, a ceremony called "Drumming up the sun." It helps put me in sync with the energy and allows me to "see" the Spirits of the Land and call in all beings who wish to join in ceremony. Practice what is comfortable for you; it may be meditation, or prayer, or singing.
Honoring and joining with the energy of the East to greet the Sun allows you to use the Sun’s power toward nurturing your dream of Oneness of Heaven on Earth. That also unites your Female Power with your Male Power (men and women have both within them; when they are honored equally and allowed to come forward in true partnership, one is truly empowered).
MIDMORNING (10:00 AM) the participating groups will bring their prayer sticks, with their own designs and colors, to the center west of the central fire.
Fashioning a prayer strick is a powerful way to set your intent in prayer and allow the Spirits of the Earth to carry these intents into manifestation.
An example: Before being invited to conduct the ceremony in Ocean Springs, I did research on the area. It turns out that this point is precisely where D’Iberville set foot on the Coast in 1699 – the first contact of the white man with Native Peoples in the area. Coincidentally (and I am well aware there are no coincidences), the Native peoples who were living there were called the Biloxi Indians. The word Biloxi is believed to be Choctaw and means "First Peoples."
Alas, as a tribe, the Biloxi are no more. They were wiped out by the white man, through disease, settlement, resettlement, etc. The last reference to them as a unit that I could find was a remnant in Louisiana in 1925. So, when making the prayer sticks that would serve as the boundaries for the circle of our ceremony, I sent the intent to honor the First Peoples.
Imagine my surprise when the ceremonies were under way, a man came forward "out of the blue," so to speak, to say that a friend of his was a Biloxi descendent and had fashioned a prayer stick as a prayer for healing and unity for all. As per his instruction, we burned it in the sacred fire so the prayer could honor us all and be taken to Spirit on the wings of the wind.
As we did this, I related a great truth given me by my friend Lee Standing Bear Moore of the Manataka American Indian Council (www.manataka.org). He said there is no good to be angry at the white man or what was done. "For thousands of years," he said "Indians had ‘little circles.’ When the white man came, it blew them all away. You don’t get angry at the hurricane. Now we have the opportunity to make big circles."
At Ocean Springs that day, we had a big circle.
In the making of prayer sticks, they do not need to be "fancy." They can be just a stick or piece of wood either that is carved or woven with fabric or yarn, each turning of the material being a prayer for the Earthly Mother from your heart.
Note that the colors of the directions of the Medicine Wheel have power. And by giving your energy in prayer, while fashioning the prayer stick, and offering it in the Medicine Wheel, you are receiving energy, too. It is a sharing. All is a circle. If you fashion a prayer stick, the colors are:
East, red – Newness, beginnings, new awareness, dawn;
South, yellow – Healing, growing, vigor, youth;
West, black – Inner vision, reflection, soul-searching, endings;
North, white – Wisdom of ancestors, Higher Power, guidance.
Thus, all the colors of all peoples are represented: black, white, red, yellow ... one people, all children of the Earthly Mother, all bound together in the Sacred Hoop of Life.
Each tradition has its own colors for the directions, so do as you are guided.
Many also fashion prayer sticks by tying items they are gifted -- feathers, sea shells, crystals and the like. Or, they may be carved with simple or intricate designs.If you choose to fashion a prayer stick, there is no need to feel self-conscious; there is no "better than." Your prayer stick is your own and has its own power and it is welcome, as part of the rainbow of colors and peoples who make the "all" of the children of the Earthly Mother.
It is best if they are gifted to the Earthly Mother (left behind); but if that's not possible, they can be burned in a sacred fire. If burned, their energy is gifted as smoke; if left behind, the ribbons act as prayer flags, letting the wind carry the prayers; also, the Earthly Mother will receive them, after the Sun has blessed them, the rains consecrated them....
THE SKY PATH OF THE HOLY ONES is connected at noon when the energy is most powerful and direct. All the people to join in the healing dance. This is for Mother Earth to acknowledge you and you to acknowledge Mother Earth in renewing your sacred relationship with her.
By holding your vision in the most powerful part of the day, through ceremony, the full light of the sun shines on your commitment, strength, and openness to Spiritual Wisdom.
Our experience at Ocean Springs was only one of many that touched lives around the world, thanks to Bennie LeBeau (see his website: http://www.tetons-rainbow.com), Steven McFadden of Santa Fe, N.M. (see his website: http://www.chiron-communications.com/), and others. It was the product of a vision by Grandfather Martin Martinez of New Mexico.
In the vision, the ancestors came to tell him it was time for the people to help open The Sky Paths of the Holy Ones for the sacred purpose of reconnecting the Mother Earth with her children. When Grandfather came down from the mountain, he called the people together to tell them of this vision and that a spiritual gathering was required to fulfill it. The Great Medicine Wheel was that vision manifested in ceremony.
During our noon ceremony, which was one of silent meditation, I saw the Sky Paths. They looked like crooked, blinding lightning frozen in the sky. I saw they are like neural pathways in the Earth Mind. And stretching out to the tips far away, they connect with the Great Mind. They are pathways to new thinking, new being, transformation of our Earthly Logos – the Being of Gaia. And we are connected, when we base our root chakras to the Earth, our crown chakras open to this white energy, each of us opening Sky Paths To The Holy Ones by our thoughts and actions in the world.
But the story didn’t stop there, nor the visions.
A week later, as I was saying my nightly prayers, I was interrupted. I saw a Spiritual Warrior on a horse with many symbols on it, riding toward me. He wore a long headdress of the Plains style, and held a lance covered with eagle feathers. He rode right up and stared fixedly, his face a wordless challenge: "Who are you? And what are you doing?"
I was unafraid. And I opened my heart to him, with all my hopes and fears, my dreams, and my regrets. He was satisfied, and he turned and beckoned me to follow. We followed the Sky Path and, in dreaming that night, I was taken into the Great Womb of Creation.
There, the place from which all things spring, I saw the power of the Divine Feminine and how each of us can manifest what we dream here on the Earthly Mother.
It was a powerful vision. I was told that we have seen many signs of outside portals, gateways, star alignments and the like. But now is the time for inner signs and visions. By opening ourselves, using the Divine Feminine, we can manifest our dreams from this place which is within each of us, The Womb of Creation. By doing ceremony to keep the Sky Paths open, we can usher in the power needed to bring balance to the world.
HONORING MOTHER EARTH (2:00 PM) will begin with a pipe ceremony after the sacred water is brought in. Mother Earth Songs will be sung and offerings will be prepared for her to be placed in the sacred spring or sacred site so her seeds will carry the sacred message to the universe.
In Ocean Springs, we performed a full pipe ceremony using the sacred pipe (canupa). The sacred pipe is incredibly powerful. When the stem (male energy) and bowl (female energy) are joined, all power of Creation is possible. When carrying the pipe, one is holding the universe in one’s hands.
We also performed a full drum ceremony, where each of the directions – north, south, east and west – was honored through drumming.
We danced a sacred dance, women and men in two circles, then joining in one circle to bring our energies together by dancing our prayers of Oneness.
We sang songs – our inner songs, wordless hymns, as well as structured ones – and gave the gifts we had brought to the Earthly Mother by gifting them to her waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is worth noting that as we finished our Drum Circle ceremony, our hearts were uplifted as someone shouted, "Look at the dolphins!" And, sure enough, about 200 yards offshore, dolphins came. They were rolling in the water, and jumping, and splashing. It was a joyous affirmation, and we gratefully received their energy in our circle.
When we finished for the day, after a full pipe (canupa) ceremony, and gifting the waters of the Gulf with seeds, feathers, corn and other offerings, the dolphins came again, much closer, swimming in a circle.
Someone said: "They are making their own Medicine Wheel."
And thus the day’s ceremonies were ended, with the dolphins carrying our prayers out into the waters of the World.
You may perform these ceremonies, or you may craft your own ceremony. The key is to open yourself to Spirit, allow the energy to come in; allow the coming together of energies, with gratitude and joy with the intent of manifestation of healing and wholeness for the Earthly Mother and all within our Sacred Circles.
Open your circle. Open your heart. Accept. Give. Be at one with this energy.
Practice Divine Feminine. Magnetize what you need, letting it come to you. Give with male energy, through will, opening up new ways of manifestation. And accept the gift of grace – Creator’s power.
You are offering the fruits of your prayers to completion, so the cycle can begin anew. You have completed the circle, and are giving it power so that it can continue as a Spiral of Ascension, your vision having its own life in a self-sustaining way, supported by all the Powers of the Universe.
When we envision this, we become The Holy Ones. We connect to this balance between Earth and Sky with our beings, as avatars of bringing a new energy to the world. And thus, their visions become our visions. We bring Spirit into this plane when we align with the Flow of Creation in this way.
The most powerful thing that we can do as spiritual beings in human bodies is bring our visions into the world. When we do so, all the beings of light in all Creation sing in celebration. Our acts of Spirit will live on long after we are gone, for our contribution is much greater than ourselves or anything we could dream it could be.
A Note on Constructing and Deconstructing Your Sacred Space
If you choose to do ceremony, as outlined above, it is a good thing to create the intent to have a sacred space. Before doing any of the ceremonies, stake out the circle with prayer flags or other objects; circle the space offering tobacco or corn meal four times, in prayer, to set a boundary, and to keep it sacred ground. When you are through, deconstruct the circle by removing the objects in a clockwise circular motion, as well, thanking all Spirits, and returning the land to the way you found it (including refilling the fire pit with the earth of the altar you made). In that way, you honor the spot, and give conclusion to the ceremonies in reverence.
Remember, before, during and after, intent is everything. Keep yourself sacred, your intents good, and stay open to the guidance of Spirit, and all will be well.
Aho.
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For more information on the Venus Transit:
http://www.onenesscelebration.com
http://www.globaloneness.com
http://www.spiritualrenaissance.com
http://www.TheStarCenter.org
http://www.starpathways.com
http://www.lunarplanner.com
http://transitofvenus.org
http://www.SacredRoad.org
http://mayanmajix.com
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