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Healing Ceremony with the Grandmothers

healing with the grandmothersLast night just before bed, I decided to take a long, hot shower and guess who showed up… the Grandmothers! For those of you who may not know who the Grandmothers are, they are 3 native elder women who come to me in spirit and perform healing ceremonies with me as they see needed. They are my spirit guides but not in a general way… they bring me healing.

Most often they show up when showering because that is always done before ceremony… a cleanse before the healing begins.

They poured a mixture of milk, honey and clover flower over me and as I was washing it off the head elder steps in front of me and takes a needle and thread to my heart and started stitching me up. I began to cry instantly at the pain I felt. The pain wasn’t coming from the needle and thread but more from the act itself. I know that must sound odd, it was the awareness of what has been done to my heart that created the pain. When she started stitching me up, it made me take a good look at the damage and I was so aware of everything my heart had been through up to this point. The tears flowed for a while. I found myself pressed against the shower all… just trying to keep myself standing. I then pulled myself together and finished in the shower.

I grabbed some palo santo smudge and smudged my entire body with billows of smoke and lit a green prayer candle and made my way to the bedroom to lay down and allow the grandmothers to finish their work.

Now that I am laying down the head elder starts sprinkling me with blessed water and then begins to rub my body down with an herbal salve. I asked her what this was for and she responded with; this will draw out all that is no longer needed. There is so much not good that has attached itself to you in many ways. These little demons get in every nook and cranny and we forget they are there and are sometimes blind to them. They know how to hide, but they can not hide from this medicine…. it will pull them all out.

I could feel my skin tightening. She only spread this salve over the top of my body, she left the sides and back alone. I asked why she did it that way and she said that she was drawing them out, so it was only needed on top, if covered from all sides there would be no movement the salve would be drawing from all sides and the demons would then just be brought to my center. I said, oh okay.. then lets not do that.. get them out! She chuckled at me and continued with the other two elders… praying over me. I noticed that she left a circle around my heart open and no slave was placed there.

When I noticed the opening around my heart I saw a bright light forming right in the center of my heart. I was completely captured by this light and watched as it continued to grow. It was very with in the center surrounded by a creamy off white light. The light grew and grew and then sent off a tractor beam straight up into the universe. I asked the grandmothers what was happening and they said; healing my child, relax. I lay there then and observed. This beam of light was so strong and I could feel this pull within me… the salve over me was starting to dissolve and as it was the beam started to retract. As this light was coming back into me I felt it filling me up on the inside. It was like ocean waves how it moved inside me as my body was filling up. Imagine water coming into your house and spreading from room to room. It spread to the ends of my body, my toes and my and and down my arms to my fingers and filled me. As I was filling up it created a seal, and finally in that place just over my heart the last bits of light filled my body and my entire being felt like it had been sealed in a skin tight capsule.

I asked why no ointment was over my heart and the head elder said; the heart has no demons, nothing impure can ever live in the heart so it needed no salve. I then asked about why my heart needed stitches and she replied; sometimes the heart takes on so much that it cracks… the more love we fill our hearts with and the more love we give, our hearts expand to the point of cracking. I could see that there were two specific cracks she stitched up. One crack quite large and the other much smaller. She said; so I stitched you up so that the heart can mend better and continue taking on and giving as much love as your soul wishes. Tears filled my eyes once again. She placed her hand on my forehead and said; I know child.. I know. It will be okay. Now rest, you will remain in this seal for 7 days and then we will return for another ceremony to prepare you for the journey ahead. I looked at her with a little bit of fear and uncertainty and she assured me that it was going to be a journey that I would enjoy and with a funny little smirk and a twinkle in her eye she gave me a wink and walked away.

 

 

Many Blessings,
ravensig

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A New Journey

I love it when I go into meditation and a ceremony takes place that I get to experience.  This morning as I began my meditation I felt the presence of my grandmother right away. Quickly I was thrust into a ceremony with a group of elder women. I’ll share with you my experience now:

I found myself in my traditional natural fiber ceremonial clothing, a lightweight linen in natural color. I will refer to the elder women from here on out as “grandmothers”. One grandmother was brushing my hair, while another two were rubbing down my arms, hands, legs and feet with an ointment or oil. A fourth grandmother was speaking, telling me what was going on and doing energy work as the other 3 grandmothers continued their physical work on me. They were preparing me for the ceremony. One does not just go into ceremony without first being cleansed and prepared.

I was full of questions and they told me to be quiet. They told me I must quiet my mind and body as they continue their work. So I did my best to let them do what they needed to do, however curious my mind was and no matter how badly I wanted to question everything that was happening.

One grandmother was working on my feet and it reminded me of Peter Pan, when Wendy was trying to sew his shadow to the bottom of his feet. The grandmother that was working on my feet must have known my thoughts, for she spoke and told me that she was preparing me for a new journey. It looked and felt as if she was spiritually sewing new soles onto the bottom of my feet. It seemed like this took her forever to do.

Once they were done rubbing my legs and arms with the oil, I was layed down on a solid surface. One grandmother worked on my hands while the other continued working on my feet. The grandmother that had been brushing my hair is now working on my head and has layed a couple of coin looking medallions over my eyes. They were cold like coins but not made of metal. I’m not sure what they were made of, but they were hand carved and made for the sole purpose of giving one new vision. The fourth grandmother continued to talk to me as she did energy work over my entire body.

Suddenly I am transported to many places. It looks like the world keeps shifting around me as I visit various places. The first was the base of a mountain, then to a waterfall. I wanted to get up and explore but they knocked me back down. The grandmother at my feet said to the others, you are right this one is very impatient. Relax child, this journey is not like the many you have had before. You must lay still to experience this one. Oh, how hard it was to lay there with all of this going on around me. I found it so hard to focus as everything continued to change. Just as I would see clearly the world around me, it would change into something else.  From the waterfall, I was transported to the seaside. It was cloudy and cold as if I were somewhere in Europe, very rocky and the waves were crashing into the beach and onto the rocks. I was then sent to a hillside where I could see over the ocean and the grandmothers continued their work.

Then I was shown the standing stones. I felt the energy from each. All similar but different. I was shown one place that was grand. Very tall stone structure that symbolized a city. It was a  very large, massive scaled version of a city or meeting place. I then saw as the structure fell and the stones scattered. I saw people taking stones away and placing them all over the Earth. I questioned about the stones not being ridged, since they had fallen it seemed like they should have had sharp edges, but they all seemed far too smooth to have just fallen. I was then shown that they were once underwater after they had fallen. They were under that water for a long time before they were then moved. The water flowing over  them for so many years was what gave them their new shapes. I was shown the stone people.. they were the guardians of the city and they wrapped around it in protection. I was shown people over the years gathering at the different stone areas of the world. Only a few really felt the true energy of the stones. Many gathered, but most were unaware of their true purpose or energy. These were seekers that were not ready for that kind of understanding. Those that are ready will soak up the energy like a sponge but say nothing or at least very little of their experiences for  the experience alone were too intricate to describe with words. The experience for those were also so very personal, many not fully understanding it themselves. Left not knowing how to begin to tell their own stories.

This is how my meditation, my experience this morning ended. I am full of questions, but also an understanding and a knowing of something new to me. I feel there will be more to this journey… but for now I must be patient and wait until it is time for the next chapter to be revealed.

Many Blessings,
Raventalker