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The Harvest Moon
Brings the Healing Powers of the Grizzly

21st September, 2009 - Posted by Rainbow x7953closeAuthor: Rainbow x7953 Name: Rainbow x7953
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About: Rainbow joined Psychic Source in the autumn of 2008. A member of the ATA and certified as a professional reader by the TCBA, she has over 20 years experience reading Totems, Spirit Guides, and Past Lives. Rainbow is also the Dean of Faculty for an online metaphysical school, where she writes and teaches classes in Shamanism, Tarot, and Lunar Astrology, amongst other subjects. Rainbow is of Cherokee and English descent and is a constant student in the mysterious schools of life. She has studied with Medicine Elders of the Cherokee and Delaware Nations, and is ordained as a shamanic minister. A published author, recorded singer songwriter, accomplished storyteller, and intuitive artist; she is at her happiest when she is creating something. While living in England she studied complementary and alternative healing disciplines, and is a practitioner of aromatic stone massage, crystal healing, herbal preparation, and meditation as medicine. Rainbow has a flair for recycling by finding new uses for discarded items and is keenly interested in organic gardening and cooking and environmental issues. Her leisure hours are spent feeding a passion for needlework including knitting, beading and working with leather. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and four-legged kids.See Authors Posts (13)

The Harvest Moon of September is the Moon which we associate with the coming of the Autumn, in the West of the Wheel of the Year which many Native Americans call the Medicine Wheel.

According to Cherokee beliefs, the guardian of the West of the Medicine Wheel is ‘Yona’, the Grizzly Bear. When the Grizzly hibernates, he does not sleep but rather he dreams; dreams of where the most succulent salmon are to feed him, the juiciest berries are to satisfy his cravings for sweet things, and where the herbs are that will heal him should he take ill. To our people, Bear is the healer, and he heals for the most part by the lesson of introspection. He turns within himself to find greater connection with his world and Creator, and indeed this is what he is encouraging us to do at this time when Nature is turning within, ready for the great slumber of the winter.

Grizzly asks us to seek out the sweetness of the truth, and to remember that each of us have our own truth. Grizzly teaches us not to follow others, nor listen to their truth; one of the personal lessons of our Earth walk is to find our own path to the truth, which is as diverse and unique as we are. The fact that we call to this Truth and seek it means that we are beginning to seek our life goals. Our life goals reside in the West also, so this lesson is doubly strong if you were born at this time of the year.

To accomplish the art of discovering our goals and dreams, it is necessary to use introspection. It might be worded as ‘know thyself.’ If we believe that in life there are many questions to be answered, then we must also believe in ourselves to find the answers within, for the solution always sleeps in the same cave as the question.

Each and every being has the capacity to quiet the spirit and still the mind. Unfortunately, as 21st Century humans, we have lost our way and give little or no time to these moments of stillness that are so valuable to our spiritual health. Perhaps that is indeed where we are going wrong… My people refer to this quiet time as ‘the dreamtime,’ where the illusion of the physical reality yields to the vastness of the whole and eternity. It is here we still ourselves in ‘tohido’ or a ‘zenlike’ peace. It is here we seek counsel with our Higher Selves and the spirits that are around us. It is here we ask for advice regarding alternative pathways that lead to our goals. This is the power and the healing of Bear.

At this time of year, Grizzly is asking us to take his hand, and to learn to meditate as medicine for our Spirit. We are not beings of separation; the mind and body and spirit are not disjointed entities but rather all part of us as a whole being. Bear Medicine is one of wholeness, healing the mind and the body and the spirit.

Take Bear’s hand and walk the path of silence for a time. Calm the internal chatter. Reach the place of your rite of passage. Find your way to the dreamtime and see your own truth shown to you in all its beauty. Making your goals your realities is the strength of Grizzly.

This Year’s Harvest Moon falls on October 4th. Prepare with a Psychic Reading!