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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy:
Lynn Andrews and The Path of the Heart
Power Deck Card
of the Month: Strentgh
Card #27,
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Power Deck Card
"The person who upsets you most in your lie is one of your best teachers. If that person can get inside your head, turn you around, and confuse you, you know that you still don't understand what you are doing. You need more strength. Learn by seeing that your life is a teaching. Like the red lotus healing its pain in inner solitude, gain strength from entering your wounds, and learn from them. The magician remembers the trail and takes a different one, even if it is more difficult. In this way, you build strength.”
“Strength,” Card 27, The Power Deck
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Message from Lynn:
“Inner strength is found through deep inner search and meditation, especially in times of change and transition. It takes courage and strength to risk shape-shifting ourselves, our vision of life, and our sacred dream In the shaman tradition, we move into the pain that we experience in life to find the possibilities for learning and growth that are hidden there. When you experience your pain in all of its aspects, you can move through it, emerging as a more powerful and strengthened person. You release the pain, yet keep the lessons.
One day, I was sitting with my friend, Twin Dreamers. She is very old, a shape-shifter, healer, and member of the Sisterhood of the Shields. Twin Dreamer often uses humor to heal. She told me a story about a young lioness who gave birth to a cub. The lioness died while giving birth. The young cub was near a herd of sheep, and the sheep adopted him. He grew up believing he was a sheep! Years passed, and the young lion, believing he was a sheep, went with the herd to graze on grass near a river. An old grandfather lion was taking a drink at this same river. He looked up, and couldn't believe his eyes! He saw the young lion, behaving like the sheep herd. Well, that old grandfather marched right over to that young lion, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and dragged him over to the water to see his reflection. And then the young lion couldn't believe it. He looked exactly like the old grandfather lion! Realizing he wasn't a sheep at all, the young lion accepted his original nature and went off with the grandfather to learn how to hunt and be a real lion.
Imagine yourself sitting with Twin Dreamers, me, Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs. As Twin Dreamers tells you this story, she takes her drum and begins to play a slow, steady beat. You lie down on her medicine blanket and close your eyes, and you begin to dream. You see yourself and Twin Dreamers walking next to a wide river in a foreign land. You see green fields being tilled by people in white linen robes and loincloths.
The sun is setting, and the people leave and head off to their adobe homes. You hear a sound behind you in the twilight and look around. Twin Dreamers giggles, then she hugs the Goddess being who approaches you. This woman is tall and stately. She has the face of a lioness, and you recognize the Goddess, Sekhmet.
Sehkmet and Twin Dreamers take you to a lovely temple, glowing white and blue in the rising moonlight. You enter the quiet temple and move through columns to a large courtyard. You see a fountain surrounded by lit torches. Sehkmet instructs you to sit on a golden pillow next to the silvery pool of water. She and Twin Dreamers sit nearby, allowing you to look into the reflecting pool. In the pool's still surface, you see your reflection. You watch as you begin to shape-shift, seeing parts of yourself, both light and dark, that you have or have not been aware of before. You are calm and this experience is not unpleasant. You feel safe and at peace. You are simply witnessing aspects of yourself, as well as the personas you adopt in your daily life. Finally, the moon has moved overhead, and in the face of Grandmother Moon, you see your original nature looking back at you with unconditional love.
After some time, Twin Dreamers and Sehkmet hand you a refreshment and a small gift. You wake up from this dream in the meadow next to Twin Dreamers. It is dawn, and she is preparing breakfast for you at her campfire.
"Here," she says with a twinkle in her eyes, "you dropped this while you were sleeping". You look with amazement, as you hold the gift you'd received in your dreaming!
You hear Ruby laughing as Twin Dreamers says, “We were all born wild like a mountain lion, and to live in civilization we become sheep at a very young age. We become tame. But we are not house pets. We are fierce and wild by nature. Movement between one life situation and another is essential. Movement or action is the key that unlocks the door to understanding. Dream on this. Consider what is left of your instinctual nature. Remember that action is not a reaction. It has a lodge of its own. When you see a horse, you become both happy and sad. That horse represents the wildness within yourself that you have never dared to become.”
How are you like the young mountain lion who thinks he's a sheep? What masks do you wear in life? What in your life's dreams are you ready to change and shape-shift? Think about your dreams and what you would like to manifest in the coming months. This is the gift Sehkmet gave to you.
In love and spirit,
Lynn
Prayer:
"Great Spirit, Mother Earth, powers of the four directions, my allies, my medicine animal, my ancestors, the Sisterhood of the Shields, and those who love me, be with me now and hear my prayer.
“ I will manifest within this lifetime my true destiny by finding the hidden passions that live within my heart and soul, those hidden passions for truth, for harmony and balance an 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 strengths. I pledge to walk the path as a Spiritual warrior of heart.
“As I see the many mirrors I have created 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.
“To take my power in this lifetime is to understand that I am made of power, and that power is the reflection of you, Great Spirit. I understand that the first lesson of power is that we are alone in the struggle toward enlightenment. I also understand that the last lesson of power is that we are indeed all one. You are my light and my love and my way, Oh Great Spirit, and I honor you all the days of my life! HO!"
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Lynn Andrews,
Shaman, Author & Lecturer
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Internationally acclaimed author, preeminent teacher and 21st century shaman, Lynn Andrews has written 18 books and created The Power Deck, audio meditations, and videos.
Lynn Andrews offers a variety of opportunities to work with her at her annual events and through online courses She also offers a degree program and a 4-year mystery school. CE credit is available for nurses and therapists. Lynn is available for private phone sessions.
For information about Lynn Andrews' Mystery School, events including Joshua Tree and Hawaii, Online Courses, or to schedule a phone call with Lynn please call:
1-800-554-7414 (US),
or 1-213-683-3804 (international),
or visit Lynn's website at http://www.lynnandrews.
com/.
Upcoming opportunities to study with Lynn Andrews:
Dream with Lynn in her 2007 series of online courses, “Dreaming the Tapestry of Your Life.” The 3rd course in this series is August 2-29, 2007.
Attend three powerful and enlightening workshops by Lynn at the “Celebrate Your Life Conference” in Scottsdale, AZ, from November 9-11, 2007.
Join Lynn at her 9th annual Hawaii Retreat for Rest, Rejuvenation and Renewal at Mauna Lani Bay, “Free Your Dreams,” from November 28 – December 1, 2007. Come dream with Lynn, swim with the dolphins, and learn from the lost Spirits of Mu, who shared their knowledge and ancient wisdom with the Sisterhood of the Shields.
Mystical Earth Walk with Lynn Andrews in Egypt: “Egypt Revealed Through Shamanic Dreaming,” March 30 – April 13, 2008.
Set your intent now and join Lynn’s 4-year “Mystery School,” the Lynn Andrews Center for Sacred Arts and Training, beginning February 2008,
Please come to Lynn’s website at www.lynnandrews.com to learn more about these and more special opportunities to study and work with Lynn. Who knows when you will come back to this earth plane and have these opportunities again?
Opportunities:
20th anniversary celebration of the Lynn Andrews Joshua Tree Spring Gathering – Joshua Tree on the Mesa: Shapeshifting Into Power, May 29-June 1, 2008 at Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, New Mexico. Please go to www.lynnandrews.com and click on the “Joshua Tree” link to learn more, register, and discover the benefits and rewards of becoming a volunteer. Enter the Joshua Tree essay contest to receive free tuition for this event.
“Crystal Dreaming,” an Online Course with Lynn Andrews, May 1 – May 28, 2008: Learn how to use crystal wisdom to let go of what does not serve you, instead of simply paying it lip service, as you heal your relationship with the past. Course #2 in the 2008 series of Online Dreaming Courses, “Daydreaming Bear, The Way of the Dream Talker.” Please go to www.lynnandrews.com and click on “Online Courses” for more information and to register. You do not have to have taken the 1st course in this series to participate fully in this course.
To schedule a private telephone session with Lynn Andrews, please go to www.lynnandrews.com, and click on “Opportunities/Schedule a Phone Session.”
Kindred Spirit Radio Show, with host Lynn Andrews. Tuesday, 4/22, 9-10 a.m. PDST. Listen at www.HealthyLife.net.
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