Cherokee Medicine Society training Week Two

Cherokee Medicine Society training Week Two

• Practice communicating and experiencing the energy from each of the 4 directions.

               i.      making first contact, similar to introducing yourself to the guardian spirits of each direction.

• East has the Eagle and the power of the healing sun. Its color is yellow, and Its element is Air, and one can deal with the future from here.
• South has the power of the sun that comes up from the south and brings growth and passion, desire, and will power  to us. It is the colors of Red (and Green on occasion but in the medicine wheel it is red.) One can draw prosperity from the south.
• The west is where darkness begins. The color is blue and can become black. It is the direction where weather comes as cleansing rain and more such as affecting the weather. You can deal with retrospect here.  Ancestor connections are strong in the west. The Bear spirit lives here. Element is water.
• North has the color of white, the image of the Buffalo, Its element is the Earth. It is the connection to the Earth Mother herself, with Elders wisdom stability, strength to persevere life’s challenges.
• First teaching is of MaKayRu.
  • Take control of your mind and mouth.
  • Speak no words that you do not wish to literally be true. Is soon as you realize you have, take it out of the law of cause and effect by saying “Not for the Law”.  Begin now for as a student, you will be working with the ability to create the world around you.
• Become aware of the moon cycles
  • When the moon is increasing, it is called waxing and it is a time that we focus on drawing beneficial things into our lives.
  • When the moon is getting smaller, waning, we are concentrating on pushing things away from our lives. Or dissolving things we no longer want or need in our lives. Removing Bad habits is a good example of waning work.
• Begin collecting books:
  • Animal Speaks
  • The way of the Shaman – Harner
  • Positive Magic – Weinstein
  • Shamanism by Cowan
  • Teachings around the Sacred Wheel By Lynn Andrews.
• Add walk in the woods to your meditations:
  • Walk in someplace wooded, possibly someplace you can repeat visits easily.

                               i.      Find a tree and bring a dime.

                               ii.      Set up next to your chosen tree and go inside it and explore the bonding with the tree.

                                iii.      Speak to the tree, listen to what the tree wishes to tell you.

                                iv.      Before leaving, put the silver in the ground and thank the tree and the Earth Mother for the experience.

                                v.      Record your experience in your lesson book.

 

Two hours of discussion covering these points.