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Change in the ‘Good Sense’

Posted by ike
/ April 14, 2012 / Leave a comment

Often we hear the Chinese symbol for ‘change’ also means ‘opportunity’. I’m sure the Chinese are not talking about slight, superficial changes, like one spring day deciding to wear a green shirt instead of a brown sweater. No, it is major life-altering changes that present us with opportunities. Change in...
Speaking (Astro-) LOGICALLY about 2012

Posted by ike
/ February 15, 2012 / 2 Comments

For years now the media has indulged in a feeding frenzy over what archaeologists and others have interpreted from ancient Maya glyphs as mathematical calculations surrendering this current year as ‘the end of time’. The common masses eat it up. But the Maya I know and respect for their wisdom do not look on 2012 as particularly significant. What they anticipate is not the end of any time cycle, but the beginning of a new calendar bestowed by Spirits sometime in the decades ahead. So, when looking for an Eagle’s Eye view of 2012, I turn to Donna Woodwell of Four Moon Astrology. She bases her computations for the year on the activities of Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids and stars. So what flash from the sky does Donna consider paramount? A sense the current year continues to unfold somewhat like the Great Depression coupled with the 1960’s, when revolution wafted through the air. Apparently Uranus and Pluto are already putting pressure on people to change—and change a lot—by discarding old social paradigms. Well, hallelujah and welcome Spirits of 2012!
Achieving a New-Found Unity

Posted by ike
/ December 5, 2011 / 3 Comments

In the Dakota tribe there is no word, “goodbye.” Even when loved ones go to the other side of astral veil and into the light, relationships are maintained. And at more levels of consciousness than those we are limited to while on Earth. Here, we constantly take in and process emotional, mental and physical data from inside our bodily systems. When close friends or family members die, and especially in the early part of the transition from physical form to astral/light, we also have the ability to receive and process bits of their emotions, thoughts and even remnants of their physical aches and pains. We are just learning what the ancients already understood: extending our attention to people in transition, and developing telepathic interplay between souls, does not take special skills. Instead these are common, ordinary human abilities.
Brother Sky, Sister Earth and Grandmother Moon

Posted by ike
/ August 8, 2011 / 3 Comments

Recently I paged through a spiritual book in which the author’s channeled Guides claimed that the moon is dead, as in devoid of spirit. So, okay, no sound and light are given off by the moon, but in cultures where feminine divinity is still very much alive, they recognize the moon is also very much alive. A repository of womanly spirit, she’s awash with soft and gentle waves of devic vibration that emanate below the threshold of our senses and the most refined scientific equipment. When the moon reflects no sunlight, her own spirit is purely creative (creator). At that time, her spirit functions in a manner similar to a ‘black hole’ or what tribal people might consider a ‘womb.’ In the dark phase, moon as creative force is intimately involved in the birth—and rebirth—of every life in our cosmic neighborhood. As such, the moon serves as Grand(est) Mother to the two youthful powers who animate all the rest of us: Brother Sky and Sister Earth.
Christine’s Potent Prayers

Posted by ike
/ July 18, 2011 / 2 Comments

Many students from my European Circles are now doing prayers as part of the astral preparation for our meetings in their countries. I recently heard from a Forum member, Christine Cleobury that her prayers have resulted in certain magic. People may wonder what gives prayer its muscle. In the tribal way, there are as many answers to that as there are Spirits on the Cosmic Web or Wheel. I will limit myself to exploring just one possibility. Primarily, I want to share Christine’s mystical experience, a blessing related to her prayers. With any luck, hearing her story will keep the rest of us enthusiastically in prayer-mode.
In the Midst of Divine Distillation

Posted by ike
/ June 14, 2011 / Leave a comment

According to the French Spiritist, Laurant Mulelet this year, 2011, is the year of spiritual distillation. Teaching Aquarian Alchemy, I know that traditionally, distillation is the sixth major operation in the alchemy of transformation. Chemically, distillation involves boiling and condensing the solution created in the first five alchemical steps. It is undertaken in order to increase purity. Distillation is represented by a compound of two substances that once pressed together make what alchemists called a "bezoar." In humans this is like binding the intestines and brain together as one. In spiritual terms this means during the year of distillation, it is going to take guts (or courage from the gut level) to challenge the mind to go forth and finish the seventh and final stage of the planetary and cosmic transformations underway.
Wisdom as a Leadership Trait

Posted by ike
/ April 15, 2011 / 1 Comment

In an article last year, the term “the psychic door” was explained in some depth. Now I’d like to clarify “wisdom,” giving it further meaning. In the Introduction to the Medicine Wheel class, wisdom is presented as more than mere knowledge. Just because a person knows a lot, doesn’t make them wise. I heard many times living in the tribe, wisdom is knowledge and compassion. In actuality, wisdom is ‘high level’ heart chakra activity, the most finely-crafted manifestation of that center’s energy. Similarly, service-to-others is the ‘highest’ form of action in the chakra below the heart—the will or power center. And when high heart activity (wisdom) is coupled with high will chakra activity (service), the soul proves wholly attractive to “the wise-ones,” those intelligences guiding the transformation of Earth from the Piscean to Aquarian times. Such guides find wisdom and service an irresistible combination.
The Shape-Shifting Deer Reflect Life to Come

Posted by ike
/ August 15, 2010 / 4 Comments

The Dakota share stories about deer as spiritual shape-shifters. If a human spirit wants to change astral form, it is easy to take that of a deer. As a deer the shifted soul can quickly run across the prairie or sneak forward to eavesdrop on other humans who may not suspect that inside the animal form sits a temporarily altered human consciousness. For westerners, the process of shape-shifting is way beyond the parameters of what is comprehensible. Still, such mind-stretching and spirit-morphing are the exact abilities expected of us during the transformative times ahead. At some point, we must discover the means to navigate not only the physical or material realms we’ve grown used to, but also the multitude of astral dimensions surrounding earth. This requires adapting in the shape-shifting sense of the word.
The Gold at Rainbow’s End

Posted by ike
/ August 9, 2010 / 3 Comments

Because we are steeped in the solid physical realm, Westerners do not recognize that each stripe of a rainbow represents one of many astral spheres. And the two arches of a double rainbow offer us the faint light of even more otherworldly dimensions. Of course the rainbow itself is often chosen to represent the astral aspects of ourselves we are familiar with: the chakra or energy centers, and the aura with its meridians. And like everything else, the aura and meridians with their hubs of action will also transform during the times ahead.
Bear Awakens Us from the Slumbering Past

Posted by ike
/ August 3, 2010 / Leave a comment

As ‘time travelers’ able to render the future familiar, Ancient Americans had to know that we who would live during this current transition time would get stuck in our ‘modern’ approach to pretty much everything. What I am talking about is the kind of societal glamorizing that sounds like this: “What we currently have, do and know is the best or only way to go. We must never surrender who and what we are, do and know—especially for what is unknown.”