Native American Medicine

The medicine of the Red God teaches us how to live. This medicine teaches us how to live in harmony with nature, with our world- and with one another.

Once we had medicine bundles, the collective unconscious of our tribes were carried in these. To the outsider they were a curiosity, to us they were our soul.

The ways of the animals mimic our own ways, we learn much by watching, by doing, by working- together.

We are not separate from the world, we are one with our world. We are the earth, we are the water, we are the air we breathe.

When we are grateful, with gratitude in our hearts, Mother Earth senses our vibrations and sends to us a teacher. This teacher can take many forms, the rocks, the sea, the clouds. Mother Earth sends to us the woodpecker, the snake and the trees.

Woodpecker medicine shows us how to drum the heartbeat of Mother Earth. To sing the sweet song of thanksgiving so that Mother Earth may speak to us and guide us on our path.

Sickness begins when the body is not whole. The trees, the birds, the animals, all speak to us of trust in one another, in sharing and providing for each other.

Just as the woodpecker tree provides for the woodpecker so too so the leaves provide for the snake.

The snake is the symbol of transformation. Healing and new life are a signature trait of the serpent. The snake has the ability to shed it's skin, as do we, and to renew itself into life once again. The snake turns poison into medicine but we, the people, must make that transition with the snake. We can not make the medicine bundle alone. We must heal, renew, transform.
 
   

 


 
 
eyesthebye on
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So many good points especially "We can not make the medicine bundle alone:

so many comments could be made on that line alone mostly that we need others... other people..other creatures.. the very elements and the Spirit by whatever name that ties it all together.
noelle67 on
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So this reads well then?
eyesthebye on
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Yes it does.. it inspired some thought. I put it on desktop which i do with blogs i want to reread in a time when i can reflect. Blogs put in there make it into my collection. I started doing that a month ago because I would remember reading a blog but could never find it later.

I tend to think out loud when i respond to you so this might seem disjointed..an example of generous thought was your section on woodpeckers. I could now take that and think of woodpecker memories and drumming memories and then bring them all together somehow do a response blog which would make you and others carry the thought along.

Now i am rambling..

To make a long story short..yes it made sense even if i do not.
noelle67 on
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You make sense, lol. Lots of it, I'm your kind of crazy.
eyesthebye on
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Good. i have so much fun here switching back and forth between your blogs. I had a rotten day but you wash it all away and no i am not going to talk about it this is too positive. Now over to "Something
astro1701 on
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I'm trying "too hard"..
as usual, YOUR words are timely and appropriate
delaying departure for (yet) another day

 
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