Brooke Medicine Eagle with comments about our current times and the feminine rising
(I myself do not know if it is true or not, that we are in a new era of the feminine rising, but I so wish it to be true. I could not believe we elected Donald Trump. He is only about making money and supremacy. I mourned for Hillary).
About Brooke Medicine Eagle (I read her book Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and was a great fan of her since then).
Brooke Medicine Eagle, (Chalise*) is a legendary Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, healer, visionary, singer/songwriter, catalyst for wholeness, and ceremonial leader. She is the best selling author of the Native American literary classic, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and of The Last Ghost Dance.
March 30, 2017
Dear friends and family,
Wow, what a time! I feel almost speechless…..
First a few brief comments on the current situation, and then a recap of my journeys since last summer and plans/events for this teaching season :
Shocking events have been taking place regularly in the past few months, and no matter what the surface happenings, the most heart-breaking experience is of the pain, anger, hatred, bigotry, and ignorance being openly displayed! I was in England just as Brexit happened and shocked my UK friends, then back for our own presidential election.
My highest guidance reminded me of what I had been teaching - that primary cultures all over the world have, within the last decades, given the wands of power to the grandmothers, acknowledging our passage out of the long epoch of the Masculine and into the rising Feminine.
Even the Dalai Lama has said that western women will be the saving of the world, and my wise friend Vicki Noble and colleagues remind us that matri-focal (mother and child focused) values and culture are what will bring nurturing, balance, harmony and renewal to this sweet Earth. So the Feminine, rising from where it has lain deep and quiet, is arising - pushing above it and up to be seen, all the darkness and negativity which has been unexpressed and hidden. And is it ever!!
This perspective, which indicates that the horrendous negativity must come up to be seen and cleared, is a hopeful one for us all, even though it means we will endure a period of great challenge and darkness. I had hoped it would pass with the election, but it seems we are just truly diving into the real craziness that has lain simmering under the surface. Now it is bubbling up and bursting forth like a volcano and its scalding lava searing everything it touches.
AND our work, our charge, is to become active in making our voice and loving hearts heard and felt in every realm from our families to our communities to our world. It’s hopeful in the midst of government chaos to see constituencies calling their elected representatives home to demand that they will be represented. And loving support being offered in so many ways — from the Women’ march around the world and the international support for the water protectors at Standing Rock, to people in my home community responding to Neo-Nazi hassling of Jewish families: the local newspaper printed a menorah and everyone put it in the windows! Montana said “NO” in personal and political ways to that kind of energy. So many good things…..
So at whatever level you feel despair and sadness, acknowledge the reality of that. THEN it is vitally important to choose and cultivate a feeling of love and positive energy IN YOUR BODY that creates resilience and the baseline for useful action. I’m teaching about the powerful Path of the Heart and Buffalo Woman’s holy ways in my work - practical and powerful ways to live well and create a world of beauty around us.
If you feel righteous anger and depression about what is occurring, clear it in an appropriate way - by expressing in a safe environment or beating it out on pillows, etc. so that when your energy moves out into the world, you are not adding to the darkness there. Choose powerful and positive energy and action. Go in peaceful confrontation to those in power, like folks are doing at town meetings around the USA where they are making their voices clearly and personally heard! Gather together for prayer, ritual and positive ceremony. The Mother Earth and All Our Relations are counting on those of us who can consciously and actively do the work of Love and Light as we move through this dark passage!
On to more mundane things, I have been enjoying the opportunity to became a world citizen and share teaching in many places that are new and exciting to me. I’m blessed with those who welcome, sponsor and support me on this amazing pilgrimage!
I spent last summer in Europe and the British Isles, and will be doing the same this summer.
(More at link)
http://www.medicineeagle.com/newsletter/
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