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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy:
Lynn Andrews and The Path of the Heart
Power Deck Card
of the Month: "Gathering"
from the Power Deck, Cards of Wisdom)
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Power Deck Card
"This life is like the fulcrum on a scale of balance. Your past and future lives determine the need for gathering strength in this life. There is a reason for all the pain. As you gather knowledge from the infinite sea of consciousness and life experience, you begin to evolve. You fill the gourd of your spirit with knowledge, so that one day it can be emptied and you may begin to gather wisdom. Become one with all life, and consider the true importance of what you are gathering. Gathering is a north card and expresses your need to gather knowledge from the universe, from the waters of your subconscious, so that one day in your process of evolving you may empty yourself of knowledge and begin to live in true wisdom. You must partake of all to reach that still point of wisdom within.
Message from Lynn:
Dear Friends,
Imagine that you and I are with my teachers Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs on a great mesa in Arizona. It is a balmy summer evening; there is a gentle, ever-so-slight misting of rain and a warm breeze.We are doing a ceremony to welcome the Thunder Beings and their great wisdom into our circle and into our hearts.
We are each holding our favorite drum or rattle and drumming together as we join with the heartbeat of our Great Mother Earth. Agnes takes your arm and leads you into the center of a circle she has prepared for you. She smudges you and dusts you with her sacred eagle feather fan. Ruby shakes a very special rattle, and I offer my pipe with prayers to Great Spirit and the Thunder Beings.
You sit upon the earth. The rain ceases, but the clouds overhead remain. You look up and you notice one of the clouds moving down, towards you. You see a magnificent figure in the clouds. As this being moves to sit across from you, you feel a slight charge in the air. It is electricity, and it is power.
This being tells you, “It is time, now, for you to redefine your life. It is time to notice everything in your life, everything around you in a new and conscious way. You must learn to define your life story, and then be prepared for your rebirth in 2012.”
You ask, “What do you mean by redefine my life in a new and conscious way?”
“Learn to hold up your own dream as the Great Dreamer awakens,” the Thunder Being replies. “Many calendars talk about the end of time. But this doesn’t mean the end of existence. It is more like a culmination of cycles, all of the cycles of the universe, so that they can begin anew. It is a time of enormous power, and this power must be used for profound aspects of wisdom.”
Suddenly, the Thunder Being spreads its wings and flies up and away from the mesa. Slowly we clear away our circle in the sacred way, leaving no trace of ourselves, as we say our closing prayers and move to Agnes’s cabin.
I see questioning in your eyes, and I say, “Only you know what your life is like and how you would like to see it in the future. Gather what you have learned, all of your experiences, and sit with them. At some point, you have to stop processing and stand on your own two feet. The time to do that is now. Gather your strength and you will have the ability to do just that.”
Summer is a time of mirrors. It is the time to see that within your own reflection is everything that you will ever need: your own sacred truth. All throughout the preceding year, you have been honing your awareness and planting the seeds for your new growth. Now summer is here, the season of full bloom. It is time for you to blossom, as all of the seeds of new growth that you have conceived and planted present themselves to the world.
Standing on your own two feet takes stillness and action at the same time. As you nourish the blossoming of your seeds with movement, you still the storm of mind chatter and the emotional confusion in your heart. You settle the wind inside you so that you can allow yourself to feel the gentle breeze of spirit.
Celebrate your reflection and let it teach you what is needed to complete the cycles of your old life. The summer solstice is a ritual of flowering and pruning. During this summer, may you gather your forces for the reaping of what you have created. May you manifest the sacred weaving of your life into reality. May you celebrate all the beauty and the vibrant colors and light that you are in your own center of truth.
Gathering is an important aspect for your journey to personal power. It is a basic instinct, even among birds and animals, as they gather food and nesting materials for abundant living. You gather your emotional and mental mirrors and look into them. What do you see? How do you define your life as it is now? How can you re-adjust it to define and redefine the bloom of life that is within you?
Walk out of doors somewhere, through a bustling city or a park or out somewhere in nature, or lie down on the ground or on a lounge chair, even. Really look around you. See the nature in your life. You can find nature anywhere, everywhere. Open yourself to it now.
Look at the clouds, if there are any, and envision yourself conversing with one of the Thunder Beings. What can this great being tell you about your life story? Allow yourself to listen to even the smallest sound around you. If you are out in nature, expand your awareness and catch the humming of bees, the chirp of the crickets or frogs, or a lizard skittering through the brush. Wherever you are, what does your world sound like, look, smell and feel like? One of my apprentices did this exercise in the middle of a crowded city, and what she heard were the sounds of a baseball game in progress. When she focused all of her attention on the sounds of that game, she was able to distinguish the joy and excitement and the discovery of so many thousands of people sharing the experience of enjoying being alive on a beautiful summer day. What an extraordinary experience!
Find the beauty that is around you, no matter where you are. Gather in all of the beauty and allow yourself to become it. That beauty is you. For the warrior of spirit, summer is a time to shoot your arrow toward the target you have chosen, and let the arrow take flight. It is your time of power. You do this by finding the Great Spirit in everything.
In love and spirit,
Lynn
Prayer:
Great Mother, as we see you at the heart of our world, we give thanks to you for our life force, and the gifts of our physical being.
With this gift of life, you have presented us with the mirrors of existence that elevate our soul toward the highest light. Every day we are faced with these reflections, and they bring us great pain and great joy. In our pain, we forget we are on a magnificent journey. We struggle within the confines of our ignorance, desperately searching for a way to tear away the veils that cloud our vision, forgetting that all we really need to do is open our eyes.
Great Mother, help us on our journey of discovery. Give us the power to continue to seek. Help us to find joy and courage as we navigate through the dense fog of confusion.
Help us, Great Mother, to understand your needs and what it takes to heal your precious body. In our commitment to you, we make a commitment to ourselves, to our own enlightenment, to our own process of forgiveness and wisdom. In this forgiveness, I make a pledge from my heart to find an end to this weakness and pain, to find a harmony and a balance, so that we may more successfully walk with a foot in the world of the physical and a foot in the world of spirit.
Oh Great Mother, I humble myself to your power. At this moment, I visualize golden white light surrounding me and enabling me to move into my shaman center, my place of power, a perfect reflection of your innocence. I see the shield that you carry shining like a beacon in the darkness. Your shield is made of trust and faith: Trust that each and every one of us will build a rainbow bridge across the abyss of darkness; Faith symbolized by each of us crossing that bridge, held forever in your light.
Great Mother, we give thanks for your blessings. HO!
In love and spirit,
Lynn
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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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