Listening Woman
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Echos of the Ancestors
Ride the Winds of Change,
Voices of the Creatures
Calling out my name.
Singing Spirits on the breeze,
The crashing of waves to shore,
The pounding of Earth Mother's heart,
Teach me what to listen for.
In stillness, before dusk and dawn,
Hidden messages are set free.
Like the chants of my People,
Their rythms speak to me.
My ears can hear this music,
And my heart can understand.
Clan Mother of Tiyoweh,
I am yours to command.
I listen for your whispers
On a course you will chart,
Searching for the still voice
That lives within my heart.
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Listening Woman, the Clan Mother of the Fifth Moon Cycle, teaches us that
all human beings have the potential to hear the still voice within their
hearts. We know this voice by the serenity it makes us feel and the joy that
fills us when we follow the messages it gives. The heart's voice leads us to
the place of inner peace where we are in harmony with who and what we are.
This place of inner knowing and at-one-ment cannot be taken away. When we
seek the heart's voice, we reside in the safety of being serenely balanced
and feeling marvelously alive. The Ancestors called it Tiyoweh, the
Stillness. Those who seek it will always find it within.
Jamie Samms~Earth Medicine