It’s been a while! In my last post, I said I was pulling back from posting on a weekly basis to afford myself the luxury of waiting for the appropriate openings into shamanic reality to present themselves, guiding me regarding what I should next post about the shamanic East. As is so often the case when one does this, what one expects will present itself for sharing is something one could never have imagined. I waited. And I waited some more. Then, this morning, the opening appeared, but by now we’ve already entered the time of the shamanic South, and it’s summer. To my great astonishment, what came through for sharing was a painting and story about Red Bird and Sky Woman that I wrote some time ago. At first I was puzzled, since I had all but forgotten about Red Bird’s story. But then I realized that red is the color associated with the shamanic South in feminist shamanism, as is travel back through time, which is how I learned of Red Bird’s fate. Red Bird’s story is also about how a feminist shaman would go about healing past trauma. The guidance I received at the time I wrote the story was that I should share it as widely as possible, so that Red Bird’s descendants might learn what had caused the mysterious disappearance of their ancestor so very long ago. For that reason, I hope you’ll share each installment of his story. It will take four or five weekly posts to tell the whole story here, as it’s longer than what I’ve been posting.
Red Bird and Sky Woman
Red Bird and Sky Woman
Red Bird and Sky Woman
It’s been a while! In my last post, I said I was pulling back from posting on a weekly basis to afford myself the luxury of waiting for the appropriate openings into shamanic reality to present themselves, guiding me regarding what I should next post about the shamanic East. As is so often the case when one does this, what one expects will present itself for sharing is something one could never have imagined. I waited. And I waited some more. Then, this morning, the opening appeared, but by now we’ve already entered the time of the shamanic South, and it’s summer. To my great astonishment, what came through for sharing was a painting and story about Red Bird and Sky Woman that I wrote some time ago. At first I was puzzled, since I had all but forgotten about Red Bird’s story. But then I realized that red is the color associated with the shamanic South in feminist shamanism, as is travel back through time, which is how I learned of Red Bird’s fate. Red Bird’s story is also about how a feminist shaman would go about healing past trauma. The guidance I received at the time I wrote the story was that I should share it as widely as possible, so that Red Bird’s descendants might learn what had caused the mysterious disappearance of their ancestor so very long ago. For that reason, I hope you’ll share each installment of his story. It will take four or five weekly posts to tell the whole story here, as it’s longer than what I’ve been posting.