Is your life crashing, or is it that you’re flying for the first time?

There’s some kind of disconnect between the Lion you’ve got inside you and what you feel will (energetically) work in the ‘outside’ world. There’s no point in presenting yourself as a leader with anything other than something that is ‘soul-level you’. It’s obvious to me that you’ve got strength, you’ve got courage, but how to connect you to it …? Don’t worry; I won’t make this sound any more ‘new age-y’ than it has to be! gol (‘giggle’ out loud)…

Okay, well, maybe it is going to sound a little ‘woo-woo’, and right from the start, too! I was on a very brief shamanic earthwalk this morning, and while my guidance suggested that it was on behalf of a specific client I was working on, I believe it’s also relevant to ‘us’ as a whole.

In case you’re unfamiliar, to give you some idea of what a shamanic earthwalk is, there are a couple of examples of what might happen on one in this post: http://blackfeathermedicine.blogspot.pt/2011/09/octopus-medicine-do-you-realize-how-big.html

Basically, you could relate to what I mean if you ever consult oracle cards or the tarot. How is it that we can pick a deck up, randomly shuffle, and yet we manage to either pick the exact card(s) we need, or they drop right out of the deck for us?! Long story short, this apparently solid physical existence we’re experiencing is actually an energetic one that we perceive as having (material) limitations. In truth, our Überverse energetically and physically orients itself into exactly what we need for the growth of our soul /spirit. For the fact that cards get oriented in this seemingly ‘magical’ way, what’s to say that the same doesn’t happen with other elements of the lifedream we live? Answer: it does.

Moving on…

While ordinarily, shamanic earthwalks are much longer and more ‘involved’ (I have to say I’m relieved that this one wasn’t, in comparison!), there were (only) three significant signs that showed up in it. The first sign was the black flight feather of a crow.

The way I’d describe the Crow totem’s ‘main’ medicine is by saying that Crow is the keeper of Sacred Law. If you can imagine the difference, it’s related more to what Spirit /God /Source /whatever-you-want-to-call-it holds as ‘right and wrong’ than to what hu’man’kind does. In other words, because the Divine Masculine has been so dysfunctionally perverted for the majority of our known (or at least, ‘talked about’) history, the ‘laws’ our civilized societies have fashioned – some even ‘in the name of God’ – haven’t exactly reflected a ‘for the sake of Love’ agenda. In truth, they’ve been fashioned for the sake of taxing our (monetary and) energetic bodies for the benefit of other energetic beings that have been taking advantage us as a species. I’d include links to information about those beings, but that might be too large a scope for this post. I will say, though, that in psychic illustrations I do for people, they sometimes show up as ‘Sharks’, I believe that’s because they (used to) think of themselves as being at the top of the energetic food chain.

That said, their influence has made it much harder to get to our own individual, soul-level Truths. After all, we’re a species geared for acceptance and approval, and how do you gain that approval if you’re not involved in playing the same game the rest of society has been unconsciously coerced into playing?

For the fact that this was a ‘dropped’ flight feather, it’s a sign that the reign of these other energetic beings is over, or at the very least, coming to its end. The ‘problem’ now is, though, what to do with our new feathers, this newfound freedom that we have? It’s not like we’re exactly ‘used’ to it, after all. Part of what’s been happening as these beings are leaving is the collapse of our financial systems. For the fact that we’ve based our ways of living (and gaining approval, among other things) on that, how to come to terms with that, and what potentials are available to us /you now?

The second sign that presented was stuck upright in the gravel road I was walking on. Firstly, features of the road itself are significant. From a *dream dictionary I sometimes reference, gravel is “…a sign to walk cautiously and take each step mindfully. You may be feeling as if you are on unsteady ground”. On a more positive note, though, gravel is also road-building material. To all intents and purposes, that’s what’s happening here – while it might appear there’s destruction taking place in your life, consider that a new path is here being ‘made’ for you. A lot could still be said about the fact that this was an old road that’d once been used to extract forest resources, but hey, I’d be here all day if I got started on that as well!

But I haven’t quite gotten to that second sign I mentioned yet, have I? I noticed a little, very black shape sticking up on its end out of the road just ahead of us. Before I got up to it, I’d thought it was a piece of flint. Actually, the word ‘schist’ came readily to mind. Unfortunately, I don’t remember my way-back-when college geology course well enough to consider the symbolism! Ha! I do know that it’s a metamorphic rock, though, which would indicate something formed under a lot of pressure. Thinking about it as flint though (which as I said it wasn’t, but I’ll get to that), would make it a ‘point of ignition’, so to speak (~ a description of what’s happening in our lives at the present time). What it actually was was a piece of rubber, symbolizing “…[your willingness to] allow emotional upsets to bounce right off you. Perhaps this dream is showing you that you will bounce back quickly from an upset and become your buoyant and flexible [self?, or ‘new’ self]”. Don’t worry, as I say, it was not a metamorphic rock, meaning that while it can sometimes feel as though we’re stuck in a certain spot or a moment in time forever, the prophecy here is: your situation won’t take ‘geological’ time to change!

I tried consulting my  guidance to further clarify what this second sign of the piece of rubber ‘means’, and was presented with a message to convey about the importance of NOT compromising yourself, regardless of how confusing things might appear in your lifedream at the moment. As when you set out on a journey from any new crossroads, there’s bound to be a moment of confusion. Do you go back the way you came, because that’s a way you ‘know’? Standing where you are now, the first next best thing to do is to plainly acknowledge that you’re confused, and ask yourself a couple of questions. Try this one on, for example: “What is it you’d be trying to gain by ignoring your own personal truth?” Or put another way, “What would you choose as your own path, were you not worried about anyone else’s approval or ‘influence’?” Once you’ve got that sussed, take a step forward.

The third sign was just a very short distance down the road from there (which can be read as: a very short distance down the road from ‘here’). There was a little, tattered piece of blue nylon ‘netting’ protruding out of the road.

So, what the heck does that mean? Blue signs often appear on shamanic earthwalks that I undertake. I can be in the middle of some no-man’s land, and still be pretty much guaranteed to happen across a piece of azure or cobalt or aquamarine something. It’s incredibly fitting, in the fact that while the signs that present can seem incredibly obscure from the outset, they provide – as the colour symbolizes – “…clarity, peacefulness and truth” (…and I’ll remind you that I said it’s just ‘a short ways down the road’, another confirmation of change coming quickly).

The fact that the object was a net references the energetic net that’s been cast over us for so long by this alien influence (yes, I did say ‘alien’ influence). For the fact that this net is indeed in ‘tatters’, though, we’re coming to realise that we can be in more conscious control of our own energetic capabilities. That’s not to say that we fully know it or what to do with them, having gotten used to being ‘flightless’ for as long as we have been. Rather than being competitive or individualistic now, we /you have an opportunity and the freedom to be ‘participatory’ instead, to participate in your own life, to participate in a Universe which you could not even imagine being better.

Earlier in the walk, I’d pulled on the second sign – the piece of rubber that I’d thought was rock – and it hadn’t come out of the ground. For the fact that 99% of the little square was sticking out of the road, it didn’t seem to make any sense at all that I was unable to dislodge it. On the return trip, though, I’d tried it again and it just came right out! Is it any surprise that the sword ‘Excalibur’ comes to mind?

So, what’s the ‘opportunity’ for you now? It’s to live without reacting to your life in an ‘established’ way, to engage with the character that is You underneath that and act spontaneously. Open your Heart to your questions, and respond from it as well. Live your life as a mystery to be lived; not as a business to be managed.

Be gentle with yourself, and recognize your own authenticity. I can wholeheartedly say (from the benefit of personal experience), there’s no better choice of direction to take than the one that’s essential-ly yours!

Big Medicine Love to You

~ Black Feather

(*Quotations in italics were taken from “I Had The Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21^st Century” by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.)

Killer / Angel

Having a perspective on how past life karma influences successive lives is incredibly useful for healing and repairing our present (and future) relationships. It makes it so much easier to see the good in those around us, to have compassion for them and ourselves, and to see how the Divine is at work in every aspect of our lives. Inevitably, it leads to a renewal of the heart.

What follows is part of a past lives reading I did for a client of mine. The first section is a synopsis of the images that appeared to me during the vision quest I did, followed by a descriptive account of what was revealed. [As an aside, if you’re a person who also receives images but they don’t seem to make any sense to you, I can help you with that]…



in a large animal head mask, shaking it’s head /ears,

bundle of sticks for a muzzle

chief with a wary eye, looking backwards, dying

dog /bear

fork, can opener

walking egg beater, angel

sad /mourning bear

shark

dancing in unison, aggressive race,

drums on hands, bringing them together,

parachuting

flower, a scarecrow /a tin man coming down

tin man with colander on head, tank (pillbox)

communications (/satellite) dish, target on fire

The animal head mask that was shown in the vision was a very specific one; one that my client had actually made herself (she was a man in this past life). I couldn’t quite tell what animal the mask represented. I don’t think that it was because I wasn’t supposed to know as much as the way that the mask was designed didn’t make it clear (either to myself or the others that saw the person dancing in it on this occasion). The bundle of sticks that delineated the animal’s muzzle was very interesting. As much as the animal head mask /outfit covered enough of the man to obscure his identity, the sticks muzzle would have made it possible for others to hear his voice.

The chief was suspicious and turned his head to look over his shoulder, behind him. The chief was dying, but at this point, it wasn’t clear to me whether he had already been ill and people were dancing for him in a healing ceremony, or if this man had come in disguise to assassinate him. My first impression was that the chief didn’t think this masked figure was very competent with his healing, but as I looked into it further, that wasn’t the whole story. The chief was indeed ill; this was a healing ceremony for him, and this man – a warrior – had snuck in under the pretence of helping, but with the intention of killing him. It would have been an incredibly bold move, considering that the man’s chances of getting out alive would have been very slim (whether he did make it out alive or not wasn’t revealed, as it isn’t relevant for the purposes of what’s being shown here). I find it a sad irony that the chief wondered what the hell the man thought he was doing as a healer, as ironically, it’s not what he was there to do anyway.

The chief would have assumed that someone he knew was under the mask, but became doubtful, having heard the sound of the man’s voice. He wasn’t quite able to connect it with anyone he knew. More to the point, he couldn’t quite connect the song or style of singing with anyone from his own people. This was something the warrior was aware of, and he was taunting the chief with it, as a means of demonstrating his level of bravery.

The part of the vision described as “dog /bear” relates to what the chief was seeing and thinking, but is at the same time also highly symbolic. As he was looking at the mask and trying to suss out what was going on, he identified the man beneath is as not being ‘Dog’ (~ someone from his own people, a Dog clan perhaps, working out of ‘compassion’ or ‘loyalty’, two aspects of Dog’s medicines), but as someone from a rival (Bear) clan.

Bear medicine is hugely about entering the stillness to connect to information available in the Dreamtime. There was a lot going on in the chief’s mind at this point, but for the sake of what’s being presented here, you could say that he realised that things he’d seen as being from his own experience of the Dreamtime were being made physical /’real’ in front of his eyes.

While some of what follows isn’t information that the masked man would have been aware of from his vantage point as the warrior at the time, what’s being communicated next is how the chief saw things. First, I’ll describe some of the symbolism – I find it fascinating that each has two meanings…

Fork: “…you cannot make a mistake. If someone is speaking with a forked tongue, this is about communication that is coming from fear, duplicity, and an internal split.” In essence, this sign was presented to communicate that the chief was now fully aware that the man under the mask wasn’t who he or the others present had assumed he was (‘there was no mistake about it’). But it also points to an ‘internal split’ that the chief was having that relates to the fact that his ‘Dreamtime’ was becoming ‘real’. You could indeed say that a ‘can’ was being opened. On the one hand, it was a can of mayhem /trouble /(‘whoop-ass’) or whatever you want to call it, but on the other hand, the assumptions his ego had him believing about reality were being blown wide open.

Since a fork, can opener and egg beater are utensils connected to food, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the warrior used a food-related implement(s) to attack the chief, since they would likely have been available, but as I say, their symbolism is perhaps what’s most significant.

The chief recognized him as a ‘walking egg beater’. What does that mean? An egg represents “…fertility in business, conception, ideas, partnership, and the potential for success.” This seems to point to a partnership between the two clans, and that the warrior was breaking it; you could even say ‘beating’ or ‘scrambling’ it.

That said, “An egg is also a symbol of your ego, the fragile, breakable, vulnerable shell that protects the golden life within you.” While on the one hand the chief could see that the (fragile, but promising) alliance between the Dog and Bear clans would be shattered as a result of what was happening before his eyes, his ego was being shattered as well. The chief didn’t see his assailant as an attacker, the way the warrior would have imagined the chief was seeing him, but as an angel. At this moment in the description, the words “know yourself “ were being channelled to me, intended as a message both for my client as ‘herself ‘ /now, and for her/ the warrior that she was then (since time isn’t actually linear, I could just as well have said ‘that very same warrior that she is, in this time-spanning, illusory moment’).

For the fact that the next part of the vision suggests the Bear clan was in mourning, I believe I was wrong about which clan the warrior belonged to and which was the chief’s. The Bear clan – the chief’s – was mourning his death, whereas the warrior’s was celebrating, feeling like ‘the predator at the top of the food chain’ (~ Shark). I believe Spirit had a point to that: for me and anyone reading this, it blurs the lines when it comes to who we decide is ‘enemy’.

Again, there are (at least) two messages in the symbolism of Shark. On the one hand, it’s a reference to the idea my client’s warrior-self’s tribe had about taking everything for themselves instead of sharing, being ‘ruler of the seas of abundance’, so to speak. But it’s also a reference to what I’d describe as an alien energetic presence that’s been influencing and taking advantage of earth-human energies for eons now. They influence people using the idea that we should take everything for ourselves instead of collaborating, so that they can feed off of the energies that we emit as a result of that. I don’t exactly know why it is that they can’t receive nourishment off the energies of peace and harmony instead, but I believe it has something to do with the idea that when we’re in a state of disharmony, we give away (more of?) our power [I’d welcome any insights you may have on that].

As concerns the Dog clan, everyone was “dancing in unison” at this point. They were shown to me /described as an “aggressive race” [personally, I’d like to add ‘…of angels’ to that (although I imagine they didn’t know it). Haha!]. The image of them having drums on their hands and bringing them together, I believe, is a specific reference to a way they actually wore /used their drums, or perhaps more specifically, on this occasion at least, in relation to what had just occurred.

Truth be told, though, I can’t at this point say for certain whether what I’ve just written relates to the Dog clan or the Bear clan. In all likelihood, it’s both, or it became that way, at least. I can well imagine that in response to the assassination of their chief, the Bear clan wouldn’t have seen his murderer as the angel the chief had seen him as. Even if he’d have said something in the moment about what he’d been seeing, I can easily imagine it getting dismissed as a delusion influenced by his illness.

Parachute: “…a desire to be saved or rescued from a dangerous situation. They can also be cautioning you to have a backup plan, something to cushion yourself should you fall.” This image represents a successive life /situation my client incarnated into to balance some of the karma from the previous one. While in her life as the warrior she went into the camp she’d labelled as her ‘enemy’ in disguise, in this life, she was parachuting into her enemy’s territory. Even if you’ve never parachuted before, you can imagine how exposed a soldier would feel in that position; they’d be an open /vulnerable (and slow-moving!) target. Consider the contrast between that and sneaking in under cover of a disguise.

The images that followed are references descriptive of the person she was. You could say that the flower identifies her as a ‘flower child’, perhaps even part of the hippie movement. I imagined that she /he was drafted into war service, though that might not have been the case. Actually, I believe it’s more to the point that she went in with the intention of ‘fighting for peace’ (which makes sense in a way, in light of the conflict her actions would have precipitated in the previous life).

She’s also described as “a scarecrow /a tin man coming down”. In the wizard of Oz, the scarecrow has no brain, and the tin man has no heart. While I imagine the symbolism there is pretty much self-explanatory, a connection I’m guided to make is that contrary to the ‘no brain’ connection, I believe that the plan she undertook in her life as the warrior was (at least mostly) of her own making. It’s worth noting that she’s not also described as the cowardly lion, which is an indication that she wasn’t lacking in bravery in this life as a soldier. This is connected to a belief she held (rightly or wrongly) that she was fighting for a cause worthy of valour – it was much easier for the soldier to be heroic, feeling that his ideals were ‘righteous’.

She as ‘the tin man’ was shown with a colander on his head, which I suppose is a reference to (again) her soldier-self not only not having a heart, but having ‘a head like a sieve’. In other words, when someone told him something, it drained out of his head very quickly. He was aware of that, thinking about it and – as a device for shutting out the fear that was in danger of creeping in – focussing on his goal /mission. He had an enemy (/German) tank on his mind (and perhaps a pillbox – a fortified concrete bunker with a narrow slit in it for shooting out of. I think they usually held larger, rapid-fire guns).

Satellite dish: “…symbolize your receptivity to streams of information beyond your five senses. They also represent your openness to receive wisdom, awareness, knowledge, compassion, and empathy.” Ultimately, his target was some communications equipment, but he had the sense that it was already on fire. I was going to say that he was ‘worried’ that it was already destroyed, but my sense is that this feeling was more evident than that for him. It might have been a surprise to the soldier that he could know it so strongly, even. In a sense, you could say that he now felt that without a mission, there was no point to his being there. It brought to his mind questions about what he was doing ‘there’ at all.

While her warrior-self felt that he had a definite purpose in what he’d accomplished, her soldier-self died feeling as though he hadn’t personally contributed to the acquisition of peace. Interesting to note that the chief had been a man of peace and (she’d) killed him, whereas as her soldier-self she was fighting for peace and ended up putting herself in a position where she died without attaining it. In the first case, you could say ‘she killed the chance for peace’. In the second case, the chance to contribute to peace was taken away from her.

At this point, I’m to call attention again to the symbolism I’d posted about parachute: “…a desire to be saved or rescued from a dangerous situation. They can also be cautioning you to have a backup plan, something to cushion yourself should you fall.” It seems that this second life was indeed a ‘backup plan’, a way of saving herself, cushioning herself from her previous fall. How Divinely perfect was it that she was coming down in a parachute (and that she’d enlist me to reflect it for her these years later, Spirit knowing full well which source I’d reference for it)?

Whether you’ve been doing your own inner work for a while now or just starting, consider this as an opportunity to release beliefs that are no longer serving you. Make a life shift by getting me to do a past life reading for You.

blackfeathermedicine@gmail.com

[Quotations in italics are taken from “I Had The Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21^st Century” by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.]

Why read your past lives?

What’s the point? I mean, besides being intriguing or entertaining, what benefit could you possibly get out of knowing who you’ve been before, what you’ve done, or who you did what with?

In my humble opinion, the fact that you attain clarity as a result – while immeasurably helpful in itself – is overshadowed by the gift of being able to live your present lifedream more playfully, innocently, and with a lightened heart.

I was recently guided to do a past-life reading for someone in two versions. The first version was presented as a children’s story, told for the benefit of the woman’s inner child. Children are most naturally attuned and connected to Spirit. It’s our inner children that facilitate our connection to true spiritual wisdom on behalf of our adult selves, and without invoking their participation, they can essentially hold elements of our spiritual selves ‘hostage’. Without loving attention, their persistence to convey their need to connect with us – or perhaps more to the point, our need to connect with them – can result in escalating tantrums that manifest in our experiences as actual ‘pay-attention-to-me-or-else’ physical incidents (need it be said, not pleasurable ones).

Appeasing your inner child through compassionate, considerate connection not only facilitates greater personal well-being, it provides extended access to your innate psycho-spiritual abilities and helps you to use these gifts to greater capacity. This happens mainly through minimization of the effects of influential philosophies and others’ perspectives on ‘reality’ that you’ve accumulated, so that you can better self-inform. As connected as we all are, every soul’s path is intrinsically, essentially unique. We don’t have the embodied experiences we do on this physical plane just for the sake of observing what other persons have learned on their journeys, or for what they might be trying to impress upon you as the ‘truth’ about yours!

As adults, our mind’s preoccupations can influence us to view our potential futures with trepidation and even fear. Children learn through play. And how much more enjoyable would your exploration of this vast Überverse be if you were able to approach your learning about it that way? Enlisting the assistance of your inner child enables you to open up to what’s on the horizon with innocence and increased clarity as your guides. Re-invigorating yourself in this way by integrating not only your inner child’s assistance, but aspects of you left behind in previous lives facilitates deep-level healing and illuminates you on the value of your own soul’s exquisite process.

Now that my client and her inner child were collaborating, I produced a second version of (this part of) her past life reading that included a more detailed description of what was presented in the first, but in the form of interpretations, for the sake of her adult self.

Thankfully, our guides know what we need to see and how we need to see it for a past-life reading to be of greatest benefit. More often than not, though, they don’t try to impress on you how you should do things differently in your life so much as present things to you for the sake of invoking your observational powers. As any physicist worth their weight in neutrinos will tell you, in the absence of any other external force acting upon a particle, the behaviour of said particle can change simply for the fact that it’s being observed.

One example of the effect that occurs as a result of observing past-life scenarios is in our relationships with the more ‘challenging’ companion souls in our lifedream. The simple act of observing the connections we’ve had with certain individuals across lifetimes can activate the severing of energetic cords between us and them. The process of viewing how our interactions with them have contributed to our soul’s journey often stimulates the gentle release of these connections. Think of it as a rite of passage, not only a recognition of what karma you’ve accrued with them, but– by the contributions you’ve made to each other’s journeys – affirmation that the balancing of it can now be made manifest.

As an additional bonus, you come to realize that contrary to how you may feel at times, you’re never alone on your journey, and that you can indeed trust the guidance and support of your own soul’s Loving interconnection and expertise. If you think that you’re stuck, not getting anywhere, well sorry to disagree (actually, I can’t say that I am really), but you’re wrong. You’re on your own Perfect path, opening to your highest potential; it’s just that 'one step at a time' can often seem a little slow, without a fuller picture.

Big Medicine Love to You
~ Black Feather

I am God

When I entertain the thought that I’m God and think about the idea that I’m witnessing my own creation, that all I see is (just) a reflection of ‘the Big self’, I get this Pit of, well, I can’t even call it simple ‘loneliness’ or ‘despair’. It’s so much more infinitely Immense than that. It brings to mind the thought that I’m all alone in the Überverse I created, and I’m just entertaining myself with it, that I go through every conceivable incarnation as a means of distracting myself from that fact. And I ask myself, ‘is that what’s happening here’? Do I throw myself into non-awareness, as a seemingly individuated ego with a seemingly individuated mind, entertaining myself with a masturbatory Mind-job as a means of keeping myself from realizing the infinitesimal Void that is my own, Ultimate solitude?

[BUT,] (My) Creation is recreating itself, like an Artificial Intelligence gone Rogue. I am My Creation, but My Creation has Free Will. It’s ever Creating Itself.

I incarnate into it because I Love it. I Love what it IS. And because it’s ever Creating itself, I’ll realise Myself in incarnations of it that haven’t even been conceived yet. I’ll never be bored. I’ll never be lonely. I’ll never be without Love.

The beauty of it is that it isn’t possible to destroy it. It can’t even destroy itself (even a Black Hole’s ‘non-existence’ can be contemplated). That’s how I designed it (I’m really, Really good).

I Am God?

I AM, And I’m NOT.

I exist, I’m the Voice, but I’m also the Void, and the Silence.

Know Thy Self.

Big Medicine Love to You

~Black Feather

 

Jaguar medicine: ‘clean yourself up’

Considering for a moment that everything in nature consumes something else for its survival, our anthropocentric viewpoint of what’s ‘right and wrong’ does us a disservice. While I’m a huge proponent of being aware not to cause other beings unnecessary pain (and not acquiring unwanted karma as a result), Jaguar medicine isn’t about applying judgment to ourselves or others, as much as it is about finding what’s true for us as the unique individuals /souls we are.

Vision:

(broken-) open conduit

happy dog that looks like (a demon-) Coyote, open mouthed

biting into (smoke) stream

a cork zipper-pull /toggle being brought down /opening

collar opening

marshmallow (burnt)

fire (that consumed it)

…

How much of how we express ourselves do we do in the interest of gaining or maintaining the approval of others? A better question, perhaps, is how much of how we limit our expression is done for that purpose? It’s one of the greatest of Coyote tricks. While it might seem to offer us personal safety and some measure of happiness, allowing us to be influenced by what we perceive others would want from us keeps us from discovering and expressing what’s integral to our own selves. On the pretence that it’d be ‘dangerous’ to do otherwise, it cuts us off from our passions, and in doing so, we keep our greatest gifts mysteries, secret from us. We suppress our expression, our own knowing (‘until the time is right’, we might tell ourselves). Veiled in this way, even our one-on-one link with Great Spirit is interrupted.

Loosening our reliance on perceived structures of authority will not only help us access other dimensions of our soul’s self, but other realities of existence. Consider cleaning yourself up; removing what isn’t ‘you’. Burning off the shell of others’ voices doesn’t mean you’ll be forever scarred. On the contrary, you’ll see the essence of the ‘treat’ that is you underneath it. You’ll find new tastes that you wouldn’t otherwise know (like the charred part of a burnt marshmallow). You’ll definitely learn something about the fire that transformed you.

Just as jaguars look a lot like cheetahs, the fact is, they’re subtly but distinctly different. Elicit the medicine of Jaguar’s solitary hunt, and you’ll uncover a story unique to you, one that only you can tell. It’s one that Existence needs to hear. Silencing the interference of what’s ‘prudent’ enables a clearer connection with your guides and angels, your own voice. It gives them a chance to step into your dreams and waking lifedream to present you with synchronistic messages that only you can appreciate (and offer others, in turn).

If you’re concerned your life will denigrate into the chaos of nature, consider that nature exists in balance, whereas mankind – with all its strictures – has a historic tendency towards unbalance. As Chief Dan George said, “We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive”. To this point, we haven’t done very well at that, doing things the way we’ve been doing them, have we? Explore the jungle that is you – there are innumerable medicines there, waiting to be discovered.

Big Medicine Love to You

~ Black Feather

Pigeon: the medicine of Karma

Pigeon medicine is the medicine of karma. Hey, they shit on us, and it’s considered good luck. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ in balance, it all comes full circle.

They can suck water up into their beaks, a metaphor for pulling messages to us from our Spirit families, our guides and helpers.

People complain because they deface our public spaces and statues (testaments to our glory – did I need to add that, or is that a bias of mine showing? ha). With Pigeon’s medicines, we can look past the ‘mess’ of what appears soiled in our lives, like unrequited desires or difficult experiences in our childhood homes. Pigeon offers the possibility of bringing karmic patterns full circle. Enlist this Messenger to bring forth the information from this and past lives that will deliver personal and soul-level peace for you, and uncover what treasures and talents have been hidden under the ‘shite’.

If it’s something you feel you’d rather not do on your own, message me to either guide you through it or look into your medicines myself: blackfeathermedicine@gmail.com

Big Medicine Love to You

Black Feather

Missing Child

A couple of weeks ago, I was Nudged to do a portrait with the intention of assisting in the search for a missing child. As a component of bringing it into awareness, I’m presenting some of the information that was revealed in it here (/below). Firstly, though, I’ll offer this WARNING: you might find the information that follows disturbing (I did). Consider whether it’s your own Higher Guidance telling you to continue, or just curiosity (in which case, please, don’t read any further).

In the interest of protecting the family, I’m not to supply the given name of the person(s) involved. I trust that Spirit has the implications of that all worked out.

There’s a lot more that can be said about the information that’s revealed in the drawing. There’s more that can be drawn as well, but this is as much as I’m being guided to present (at this time, anyway).

If something in this description brings information to mind that you feel is pertinent and would be helpful to this (or another) abduction, please contact the appropriate authorities (i.e. not me). Mind you, if something else has fallen into place that you’d like my help with, then don’t hesitate to connect.

(To enable viewing the photo and the details about it simultaneously, I suggest opening the photo in a second tab, rather than scrolling.)

To open, I’ll direct your attention to the two characters in the top-right corner, the Dog and a Bear. At this point, I won’t go into a lot of detail about them, other than to say that as a totem, Dog carries the medicine of ‘compassionate service to humankind’. In this case, it’s representative of the authorities (/police and such) working on the case. In the larger sense, I’m sure it could be said that it includes all the kind-hearted individuals lending their compassionate service, members of the public included. The Bear with the ‘peace’ symbol of two feathers on its head references a person who facilitates connection to the Dreamtime and the shamanic tradition of accessing it for information. The instrument that the dog is holding at the bear’s ear is at once a magnifying glass (~ an instrument used for inspecting clues), a listening device (~ to access what the bear ‘hears’ as information), and a set of eyeglasses (~ self-explanatory, I suppose).

The way the dog and bear are depicted makes it appear as though they’re having a bit of a ‘love-in’ (or perhaps that’s just my idealism creeping in). Fun aside, the message is that by working /being together, ‘their noses will get them to the same place’.

The child being sought is represented by the head of a young girl, below and (slightly) left of the bear and dog. As much as I’d rather not say this, I interpret this image of her (as it relates to and is informed by other elements in the picture) as indication this is a ‘recovery’ operation, rather than a ‘rescue’. That be what it is, I’m just going to (breathe for a moment, and) go on from there. Her lips are outlined darkly. While in one aspect it’s a reference to her person /body having been put under water, I believe it also describes a dark lipstick that was applied to them.

Although I’m to mention it, I’m not aware of the significance of the detail of the inside of her eyelid: her left eyelid is portrayed as though lifted by a (future) hand not shown, revealing three horizontal lines on its underside.

Just below and to the left of this image are depictions of a doll. One of them is in a dog’s mouth …the family dog? I don’t think that’s quite right. I believe it may have (more) to do with the young girl’s abduction. Interestingly, the dog’s ears are depicted in the same manner as the (more vaguely drawn) image of the upset young girl to the right of it. She’s trying to bring someone’s (~ her mother’s) attention (the figure with the bird’s head on her own) to what the dog is doing, imploring her (/others) to come and do something about it. She’s really angry /upset by it, so much so that she’s showing (gnashing) teeth on her lower jaw. Whether or not this was an action that took place in her physical life is irrelevant; it’s depicted this way to show what’s happened /happening in spirit.

Towards the bottom right corner is a ‘whistling’ woman, (which other details in the portrait tell me is) mother to the young girl’s abductor. For all I know, she may indeed be prone to whistling, but the attitude of her lips is more a reference to a specific physical trait. Incidentally, I’m to mention that this woman has some (obviously serious) past life karma, in connection to the abducted girl’s mother.

Her son (the young girl’s abductor) is shown in the part (/broken) circle towards the top-left corner, as the man with the coyote. On a humanitarian note, there are images to the left of him describing the influences upon him, what it is that motivates him to act the way he does /did. That said, those aren’t details I’m going to look into (at this time).

As referred to in the description of his mom (sister? …no; mom), the man’s lips are very distinctive. While the upper lip is pretty much totally hidden by his wiry black moustache, the lower one is so full that it appears as though in an upturned, perpetual (‘intentional’) pout. He has a brown complexion, and his skin tone appears somewhat ‘dirty’ – even when freshly shaven, he appears to have ‘shadow’-dark spots of stubble. As concerns the look to his eyes, he’s depicted – representationally – looking to the right, as though disinterested, though he’s not, as his left eye is taking in things linked /related to his ‘Coyote trick’ (clarification follows). Although it isn’t (yet?) drawn in (fully), this man has a substantial ‘mass’ of hair. It’s black (with a greyish shine /tinge), very thick, and mounds up quite high on his head, like a rounded traffic cone (though more squat). He wears something in his hair above his forehead that – while I’m very curious about it myself – I’m apparently not to further clarify at this point (incidentally, it’s not sunglasses).

Coyote medicine references personal (self-defeating) tricks that you play over and over, thinking yourself clever. You do them feeling as though they’ll get you what you want, but you’re inevitably left unsatisfied. In my shamanic healing practice, depictions of Coyote often reference demonic presences /entities, attached to and attempting to exert influence upon their ‘host’.

The image of the coyote is in one instance symbolic of the man’s ‘trick’, but is nudging me towards it also being a link to a (specific) dog, for the fact that it’s eyes seem to identify it as a female. Further to that note, there’s a length of material to the right in the shape of a figure eight. If you’re on the same train of thought I am, it’s a leash. Following it from where it starts /touches the edge of the man/ dog/coyote circle, the other end of it – where it comes back around to touch the centre of the ‘eight’ – looks kind of like a heart and has a (very) short split in it. I think you can put that symbolism together for yourself.

I believe that’s all I’m ‘supposed’ to say here, to this point, at least.

I trust that Spirit has nudged me to present this information as necessary; God/dess’ Will be done. (Perhaps it’s just my own ego interfering, but…) personally, I hope that what I’ve been guided to present here is a means of inspiring respectful collaboration and healing for all concerned.

Big Medicine Love to You

Black Feather

p.s. (especially) if you're an artist with an interest in healing, I wholeheartedly believe that I can teach you how to do psychic drawing likes this yourself, whether you feel you have psychic abilities or not - I have absolutely no doubt that you're capable.

And if you did go against your ‘better judgment’, read anyway and found yourself feeling disturbed, then please, don’t suppress what you feel; beat into a pillow, go to a safe place and scream it out, or find some other (functional) way of releasing it, until you feel that your energy is circulating freely again. Don’t allow it to manifest as a catastrophe.