There's far too much ridiculous bullshit in our daily life. We're constantly lied to and manipulated. Branding is more important than actual authenticity. Money is the reference point for everything. This stream of bullshit acts as a corrosive on our most important spiritual energy: trust. We cannot take any step forward in anything meaningful without first summoning trust, and our trust is under constant assault.
So it's good that we are now in the direction West on the Medicine Wheel, because the West is a powerful ally in a world of corrosive bullshit. If there is a single word that defines the Celtic direction West, it is: Great Mystery. Mystery cleans the bullshit.
The world is bursting with forces wanting to shrink our natural immensity - forces that try to convince us we are defined by our fears, lusts, and insults. When we stay small like that, our energy leaks out, and then we are more easily controlled. The most dangerous thing to the ruling powers is spiritually alive, energetically protected, shame-free, trust-filled human beings. This is what the West teaches us to become. This is why working with the medicine wheel is so powerful.
So it's good that we are now in the direction West on the Medicine Wheel, because the West is a powerful ally in a world of corrosive bullshit. If there is a single word that defines the Celtic direction West, it is: Great Mystery. Mystery cleans the bullshit.
The world is bursting with forces wanting to shrink our natural immensity - forces that try to convince us we are defined by our fears, lusts, and insults. When we stay small like that, our energy leaks out, and then we are more easily controlled. The most dangerous thing to the ruling powers is spiritually alive, energetically protected, shame-free, trust-filled human beings. This is what the West teaches us to become. This is why working with the medicine wheel is so powerful.
Here's a simple meditation with the West. You can actually do this meditation at dusk outside, or you can merely visualize it. The image is this: that moment when the blue sky of day begins to fade toward indigo, and the first star appears. Dusk comes to evaporate that illusory blue veil that we love so much, and that comforts us. The blue sky fades away to reveal the truth: there is no sky, no blue shell of day. We are traveling through a sea of immensity, unspeakably beautiful and unfathomably vast. We are sailing on a sea of Mystery. Be present with his image. Breathe. Breathe the powers of the West into you. With each breath ask the power of the West, the living Spirit of the West, to come into you and heal your battered trust from the inside. Say the words: "I will trust Spirit." This may be difficult. It may bring up grieving, which is another healing power of the West. Ask the West to evaporate the illusions that make you too small and that keep you from seeing – and participating in – the Immensity of Mystery that is our world's natural state. (We will do this meditation at the Equinox drum circle on the 17th.)
The West is associated with the element water: that element that travels unceasingly between the three realms - under the earth, across the body earth, and into the sky, known shamanically as the underworld, the middle world and upper world, or energetically as the belly center, the heart center and the head center. Water is an image of humility, for it submits to the shape into which it flows. And yet, water wears away mountains and in this way it is an image of patient power- and trust in patient, measured action that results in tectonic change. Water is an image of faith, for onward it flows – continually falling, actually - toward an unseen sea whose song it hears within itself; flowing over and around countless obstacles, wandering, wending and winding, searching for home, drawn onward by the haunting music of the soul. (Like us!) When we feel the powers of grief, joy, awe and intimacy, they are carried by water out of our body and into the world. Water is an image of transformation, for it shapeshifts into ice and steam, wave crest and whirlpool, droplet and tide.
I hope you can allow the West to wash over you, and through you, to live you and heal and cleanse you.
Blessings,
Jaime
The West is associated with the element water: that element that travels unceasingly between the three realms - under the earth, across the body earth, and into the sky, known shamanically as the underworld, the middle world and upper world, or energetically as the belly center, the heart center and the head center. Water is an image of humility, for it submits to the shape into which it flows. And yet, water wears away mountains and in this way it is an image of patient power- and trust in patient, measured action that results in tectonic change. Water is an image of faith, for onward it flows – continually falling, actually - toward an unseen sea whose song it hears within itself; flowing over and around countless obstacles, wandering, wending and winding, searching for home, drawn onward by the haunting music of the soul. (Like us!) When we feel the powers of grief, joy, awe and intimacy, they are carried by water out of our body and into the world. Water is an image of transformation, for it shapeshifts into ice and steam, wave crest and whirlpool, droplet and tide.
I hope you can allow the West to wash over you, and through you, to live you and heal and cleanse you.
Blessings,
Jaime
RSS Feed
