Fall/Winter and the Medicine Wheel

For the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about creating a schedule, so I have time for painting, and hiking, and reading, and writing; things beyond working & caring for our home.  However, we have had such a beautiful fall season here in Sedona, and with temps near 70 degrees today I decided to go for a walk by the creek instead. I figured two hours at the creek, come home work on schedule and write blog.  I spent 5 hours at the creek.  Talk about a lesson in going with the flow.

While at the creek I meditated asking:  “What should I write about this month?”  I saw an image of myself creating a schedule and then realized I could not follow it.  It is not how I live my life anymore.  It is not how I want to live my life.  I shook it off and listened; to the water flow in the creek, the rapids a bit down stream, the soft breeze flowing through the trees; and I felt the sun caressing my face with it’s warm rays. 

Then I began hearing words, I heard a voice say “Talk about the seasons, the 4 directions, the flow of life.  We are transitioning from fall to winter, talk about what impact the change in season may have on how we feel, think and spend our time…”  Whoa, okay, I'll do my best. 

FALL, as the days get shorter and colder there is a tendency to slow down.  It is the time of the West.  It is the place where the sun sets, the home of the Bear, the keeper of the sacred dream.  “The Bear goes to into her cave and hibernates, taking some time to digest her year and her life so far.  So it is with our lives.  We must stop and see where we’ve been, receiving the lesson before we begin again.” Desert Tuesdays, David J. Davis

This is the time for us to quiet our mind, as we quiet our bodies.  The days are shorter indicating a natural tendency to spend more time at home, indoors, away from others.  Our need for sleep increases and our entire system really wants to slow down.  This is the time to look back at our goals, our accomplishments, our disappointments; it is a time of self-reflection, examination, hibernation.  The West, the Bear, says slow down, go with your flow of energy, do not allow the outside world to dictate what you do and when you do it.

December 21, is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, this occurs annually between Dec. 20-23 when the sun reaches its most southerly declination.  This is the time we move into the North to winter. 

In the North we have, the White Buffalo and the Hummingbird.  It is about wisdom, prayer and gratitude.  It is the place of our ancestors, Grandmothers and Grandfathers, ancient memories, ancient wisdom.  The White Buffalo, representative of prayer and gratitude. The Hummingbird, who drinks directly from the nectar of life, not built for flight yet accomplishes the impossible journey. 

WINTER, beginning around December 22^nd, the days slowly begin to get longer.  While still in hibernation like the Bear, White Buffalo says, it is a time to connect with your Spirit, your ancestors, your inner wisdom.  Hummingbird says it is the time to imagine the possibilities and dream the future into being.  It is the time to build on what has been working for you and let go of what hasn’t.  It is the time to prepare for the spring, when we plant our seeds and begin anew. 

This is the natural cycle of life. The seasons change and so should the expectations we have of ourselves of others.  Fall and winter are a time to slow down, assess where we’ve been.  To relax and be who we are.  It is a time to look inward for higher guidance and to begin the preparation for a new year, a new life, a new time. 

During this season of long nights and short days take time for you.  Time to remember who you are and what you desire.  Then prepare for the spring when life is new and fresh.  What do you want to plant in your future?  Take the time, listen to yourself, your higher guidance, your dream.  

Have Happy Love Filled December.

Linda G

Wake-up Call

A wake-up call from “Spirit”

It has been two years since I wrote in this blog.  I hadn’t realized how close it was to that time until I finished what I wanted to write.  I decided to post on the exact date two years later.  The goal is to write once per month.  This month I will talk about what happened to me this year.

When you do not listen to Spirit, something will happen to get your attention.  Usually, it is not something you desire, but it is something you have created.

What a year 2012 has been.  It all began when I was fired last February.  I knew it was time for me to go, I had been feeling it for weeks, but I never expected to be fired, nor for it to hurt so much.  I consider myself a responsible person, a valued employee, a person with integrity, someone who can be trusted.  But being fired, when I helped open the business and build the business and was thought of by the customers as one of the owners, was unthinkable to me.  I was devastated, I needed time to recover.  It was not my business.  It was not my dream.  It was time for me to let go and find my dream, my desire.  

During my grieving process I looked over each of my astrology reports, my human design system, my destiny reports and any other thing about my psyche I could find to better understand what had been going on.  If there was anything wrong with me?  What my roll was in all of it? And what did I need to do to break the pattern, if there is a pattern.  What I learned is that I did not want “just a job,” I wanted to do something that felt good, that felt right, something that I would love to do and support myself doing it.  Of course I had no clue as to what “it” was.    While at the afore mentioned job, I met many people, however, I took only one person’s phone number with me.  After a few weeks of grieving I called her.  She offered me part-time work that in a very short period of time became very prosperous.  This part-time position allows me the time and energy to build a business with my spiritual/healing work, be out in nature and to get back to painting again.  Spirit led me to take that number and to know when to call this person.  I could not have guessed how important it would be to me.  

Being blessed with a wonderful supportive partner, I had time to explore the possibilities.  I tried to look very deeply into myself and to figure out what it is “I” wanted to do.  I love to paint, but I do not want to rely on that for my income.  I am fairly smart and can do a lot of things, but what is it I want to do.  Then one day I saw an ad for “The Reconnection” with Dr. Eric Pearl.  He was going to be in Sedona, for one evening and then he would be in Phoenix for a weekend seminar, the following week.  I had seen his book before, but there was something about him I didn’t like, that kept me away from buying his book.  This time it was different, I felt a draw to attend his weekend seminar.  After some contemplation I decided to go ahead and get his book, Heal Others, Heal Yourself.  I was instantly enthralled.  I knew I need to go to the weekend seminar.  I did not see him in Sedona.  As it happened, my partner had just received a bonus and we had the cash to pay for the seminar.  I reserved my space, booked a room and began reading the book.

During one of the lectures Dr. Pearl talked about how people chose to attend these seminars.  How things in their life just fell together and allowed them the opportunity to be there.  All of a sudden they have the money, the time and the desire.  “You may have even been fired, thus, opening up the space for you to attend this seminar.”  Wow! That was me.  What a trip.  Was this Spirit led?  I think so, I would not have looked into it if I had not been fired.  While at the seminar, I met a woman, who is now a friend.  She introduced me to a number of other people who are friends as well.  I had been praying for female friends, and now I have them.  

It is now November.  I completed The Reconnection training on April 1, 2012.  Since that time I have remembered I am intimately connected to Spirit.  I realize, that if I quiet my mind and listen, I will have a much clearer idea of what the next step is.  Spirit is always there guiding me, nudging me and when I really don’t listen, allowing me to fall so I can pick myself up.  

I now meditate on an almost daily basis.  I feel like I am more conscious and aware of what is going on in my life.   At times it is difficult to deal with the outside world, with the drama.  Yet it seems important that I get out and share my love, my energy, my “being-ness” with others.  This is the way I can share in the healing of the planet and humanity, by being me, filled with all the love and light I can receive.

I have finally been able to see that I truly am the creator of my life.  That if I take the time to be quiet I can get clear messages that help guide me in ways I had not even thought of.  I have learned how to be still again, I re-kindled my love of nature and my connection to the Earth.  It has been quite a learning process.  First was the Reconnection and Reconnective Healing.  I was guided to rent space to provide these services.  This was only for a few months, just long enough to meet people from my soul family, people who are an important part of my life and learning.  Then I remembered the workshop I had designed and began offering a shorter version of that.  Next G.U.S. showed me how to do intuitive readings using the medicine wheel and gem stones.  Lastly, I was introduced to Munay-Ki, Mayan Rites of Empowerment and Protection.

I am so blessed, so grateful that I have had the opportunity to experience so much.  It seems Spirit knows what the next step is, even when I do not.  As I state this I think, what is it I truly want?  I want to be love, to share love, to give love, to know love…  It’s what I have been saying for years.

I now work at home and have time to paint, play and be.  I give Munay-Ki rites one night per week, offer Reconnective Shamanic Healing, Spiritual Counseling/Coaching and provide Intuitive Nature Readings and  Sacred Stone Medicine Wheel Readings.  

My website is www.healinghandsofsedona.com.  Until Next time, Many Blessings.