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Fall 2006 Seasonal Message #1

“You are not filled with the physicalness of your earthwalk,�?Ruby stated. “When you are like Sin Corazón, you are filled with ideas, rigidity, envy, grief, and a stupefied mind that thinks it knows all there is to know. The basket represents that kind of fullness. It’s one reason people gather the insignificant waste products of the psychic world into themselves to fill themselves, so they no longer have to confront who they are. Do you see, Little Wolf?�?/FONT>

A number of years ago, I was up in Canada working with Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs when suddenly one morning Agnes announced that we were leaving that day for southern Mexico. Thus began my journey into the world of Sin Corazón, a beautiful and engaging woman who was a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields but who had made a personal decision to embark on a pathway into darkness, which I wrote about in Dark Sister: A Sorcerer’s Love Story.

After we returned to Canada, Agnes, Ruby and I were sitting around mending some of our ceremonial items and talking about the recent events. Specifically, we were talking about darkness and the light, and I realized how, until my experience of Sin Corazón, I had been “almost a Pollyanna�?about working only in the light. After Red Dog, I hadn’t wanted to explore thoughts or acts of evil. I didn’t want any part of the world of pain and treachery. And yet I knew it was something that I needed to understand. Otherwise, how could I guide anyone who was lost in those dimensions? How could I teach anyone about the road towards enlightenment in the midst of the chaos and confusion of every day life today?

Finally, Ruby put down the moccasin which she had been beading and emptied out the old basket where she kept her beading and needlework. She handed the empty basket to me and said, “Fill this up with rocks, your moccasins, anything. Now,�?she ordered.

After I had filled the basket with everything I could find around us, Ruby walked around me and said, “Now that basket looks like Sin Corazón when she was most lost.�?/FONT>

“But I thought you said Sin Corazón was empty and lonely and had a huge hole inside her. That’s how I perceived her,�?I said.

“Well, that’s one side of perception. And yes, it’s true, she was empty,�?Ruby said. “But she was empty because she was so full.�?/FONT>

We sat down by the basket and I contemplated it for several minutes, trying to imagine Sin Corazón �?or myself for that matter �?filled with rocks and things.

And then Ruby said to me, “You are not filled with the physicalness of your earthwalk�? When you are like Sin Corazón, you are filled with ideas, rigidity, envy, grief, and a stupefied mind that thinks it knows all there is to know. The basket represents that kind of fullness. It’s one reason people gather the insignificant waste products of the psychic world into themselves to fill themselves, so they no longer have to confront who they are.�?/FONT>

The season of Fall is a time of gathering; it is the season of reckoning, a time of great beauty and a time of change and letting go. Fall is the time when all that you have sown and all that has blossomed is now to be reaped. So often we are terrified of change, not only because of the mystery of the unknown but because change implies letting go of what we know and what we have always held as a kind of security in our lives. Even bad habits can provide a kind of security.

Is it not time to empty your basket of all the rocks you have been carrying around, the ideas, fears and bad habits born from rigidity, envy and grief? Life happens to all of us, and sometimes life brings us very hard times. But we do not have to fill our baskets with the negativity that so often rides in on the back of hardship. The conditioning of abuse and loss -- from childhood and from other experiences in our lives -- can create within us decisions that truly do not serve us. But just as you can make the agreement to adopt those bad habits, you can unmake that agreement any time that you want to. Anyone of us can choose bad habits; we can also choose to heal and come out of it

This Fall more than ever, it is time to take a good look at what is in the basket that you are carrying around. Take everything out of your basket and examine it carefully. Then you can fill your basket back up with prayers for understanding and for the strength to reap what serves you and to discard what holds you back from your enlightenment and your true power in the world. During this season of Fall, may you find the strength to be all that you are. May you reap all the abundance of the universe that is meant for you, and may you let go of what is no longer essential to your life process. Ho!

In Love and Spirit,

Lynn Andrews

Dark Sister, A Sorcerer’s Love Story

Walk in Spirit, Prayers for the Seasons of Life

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FALL SEASONAL MESSAGE #2

October 14, 2006

“Never forget that life is a process of waking up from a

long and ancient sleep of the soul. Each of us has to

fill up the emptiness inside us in different ways.�?BR>

Agnes Whistling Elk, Dark Sister

In our first Seasonal Message for this Fall of 2006, I told you about the time Ruby Plenty Chiefs had me fill up an empty basket with rocks, twigs, my moccasins, any old thing I could find on the ground around me.

Then she compared my basket filled with miscellaneous stuff that I had gathered solely for the sake of filling up the basket, to Sin Corazón when she was in her darkest time: “When you are like Sin Corazón, you are filled with ideas, rigidity, envy, grief, and a stupefied mind that thinks it knows all there is to know. [Your] basket represents that kind of fullness. It’s one reason people gather the insignificant waste products of the psychic world into themselves to fill themselves, so they no longer have to confront who they are.�?/FONT>

What is it that you have chosen to fill the emptiness inside of you? Does it serve you well? Does it empower you? Take the time now to empty out the basket that is you and really look at what it is you have chosen to fill your life with. Then you can discard what holds you back from your enlightenment and your true power in the world. Are you living your own truth? Is your life filled with joy and the great satisfaction of living from your own sacred vision?

“Vision�?is a card of the East in The Power Deck: “There are times when you will have less vision, and because of that dimness you will become unbalanced in your seeing; you will see everything �?every stone, every machine, every tree �?as dead rather than alive. As your vision grows, sit still within the city, and begin to develop and to see that stones and plants and even machines are alive. Even the dead trees have passed through the gateway in the west. Their spirit carries the Dreaming Shield. Begin to see the life within every object. Begin to see the sacredness in things, their energy, their colors, their luminous forms �?their shadow beings. Then you will become strong. See power all around you; it is you. You have developed true vision.�?/I>

Then you stay centered in your vision of sacredness, and rise above the ordinary pains of life.

Great Spirit, Mother Earth, Powers of the four Directions,

My allies, my medicine animal, my ancestors and those who love me,

Be here with me now, and hear my prayer.

Beyond the landscapes of ordinary life lie dimensions of higher consciousness and perfected reality. Somewhere in your dimension, oh Great Spirit, the Great Mother opens her arms and receives your spirit shields, which spin for all eternity.

This earthly life is a gift from you, Great Mother. I honor your presence in my life, Great Spirit, and your gift of eternal life. I know that my spirit shield is in need of balancing, that in this lifetime I have the opportunity to tear away the veils of ignorance and walk the earth in my sacred androgynous form, balanced equally between the male and female energies, within myself and within the cosmos.

I will manifest within this lifetime my true destiny by finding the hidden passions that live within my heart and my soul, those hidden passions for truth, for harmony and balance and goodness, that live within me. I will not be afraid to look at the dark side of my being. That dark side is my instinctual nature, which I have denied in some way in my life. To repress who I really am is to live a lie, and to live my life through the eyes of others, not through my own eyes.

I pledge, Great Mother, to take responsibility for who I am in this life, for my weaknesses and my strengths. I pledge to walk the path as a spiritual warrior of heart. As I see the many mirrors around me in my life, I will not be afraid to look in them. And I will realize that no matter what reflection I see, it is the reflection of some aspect of you Great Spirit, and for that I will love all that I see. Ho!

In Love and Spirit,




We are registering now for my next Online Course, “The Oracle of the Talking Stick: Transforming Your Fears with the Four Sacred Laws of the Painted Feather,�?/B> October 27 �?November 24, 2006. In this Course, we will use the magic and the wisdom of the Talking Stick to look at the dark side of our beings, that dark side which is our instinctual nature, which we have denied in some way in our lives. Click here to register.

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