Litterbug Medicine: eat, sh!t, and die

"don't litter" by Shenghung Lin on Flickr

I took a shamanic earthwalk the other day (~ a walkabout vision quest in nature), and afterwards, as part of 'being the change I want to see in the world', I was guided to ask, “Why do people litter?”

(Although I realize the better question might be, “Why does it bother me so much?”)

Symbolically, tossing litter is motivated by an unconscious impulse to clear one's mind. Funny enough, nature can help us with that, but many of us don't know how to take advantage of what She offers.

What is it that people are trying to clear by doing it? ...frustrations, disappointments, defeats we harbour, borne from feelings of how little control we feel we have in life; self-beliefs about being ineffectual, unworthy, or (fill in the blank).

As the saying goes (and I'm paraphrasing here), 'give Spirit a laugh; present Him/Her with your plans'.
When our lifedream delivers us a surprise and screws up arrangements we've made for ourselves, the feelings these challenges can induce are not something many of us can bear to acknowledge. Inept and frustrated, we toss them (or try to).

Hey, from personal experience, we can get pretty sucky when life gives us something our soul Needs, instead of what we think we (should) want. It's not always easy to take an observer's perspective. Being human and all, rather than deal with our shadows, we'll more likely try to exorcise our feelings by externalizing them in the physical, like pitching a mind-less hissy-fit and throwing trash, for instance (spoiler alert: it doesn't really help. It's like a pacifier – an artificial substitute for an actual connection).

Ironically, actions like these are our soul's way of trying to make us aware of what's going on within us. And in that sense, (on a Divine level at least,) there's no judgement for doing it. Really. The problem is that it doesn't solve – or even come close to acknowledging – the actual issue.

So what is the issue? ...being able to have the presence of mind to realize that it's all 'Good', what happens to us.

We take everything (events that induce disappointment, especially) personally, when actually, it isn't. So often, it's the case that we're actually reacting to someone's expectation or behaviours as prompted by their own wounds. Perhaps our boundaries have been violated, and it doesn't seem we can do anything to remedy it. We inadvertently create Goblins for ourselves, and allow them to perpetuate our hurts, influence our behaviour.

What's the answer? Eat, sh!t, and die (except in a way that's infinitely more fulfilling than that sounds;). Take in what our lifedream is serving up. Let go, and let Spirit lead. Allow what doesn't serve us to pass.

Let Nature take Her course, and appreciate (or at least entertain the idea) that what appears is in our Highest, best interests. In other words, 'get out of our own way'. Let your lifedream reveal its intended Desires for you, rather than the other way around. Watch for miracles to unfold, without having to control or force anything.

What 'results' can you expect? Love. Absolutely. Everything else is trash.

Big Medicine Love to You
David 'Black Feather' Nagy

Abundance 'attrackts': winning the frugality war

At one point in this life's journey, having quit a well-paying job with the intention of attracting /manifesting what dreams I thought I needed, I (instead?) found myself collecting cans and bottles off the beach. I'd use the return refund to buy enough rice from the bulk food bin to keep from starving (and I'd overspent, even, until the cashier took off the few cents' credit for my having brought my own bag). It was also around that time that I'd been asked to participate in an intuitive arts festival to present the work I'd started doing as a psychic illustrator, and found twenty dollars on the sidewalk; exactly what I needed to cover the fee.

Conversely, at a time when I was heavy into a lucid dreaming practice, I sought out and dreamt winning lottery numbers. But (unfortunately?), I only dreamt that I'd woken up to write them down. After eventually waking (for 'real'), I played the three numbers I knew for sure, as well as as many variations of what I thought I'd seen of the rest (and that I could ostensibly afford). Checking the official results after the draw date, I recognized in hindsight that the winning numbers were in fact the ones I'd originally dreamt. Go figure.

So, (after the expletives took flight,) did I loose /gain any Insights from those experiences?...

With my beachcombing, for instance, I let go of some outmoded ideals I had about humility and 'value'. While in the moment I interpreted what I was doing as humiliating, that self-judgement wasn't necessary. If someone were doing the same activity but had a truck with a professional-looking sign on it, was picking up cans wearing a reflective vest, a hardhat, and demonstrating a kicky, entrepreneurial attitude, I'd have viewed them totally differently than I was viewing myself (the admirable, 'smart', vs. the self-deprecating, 'loser', for the very same activity). It was a great lesson in how to Receive without self-criticism or judgement.

Regardless of how life's conditions appear, I have no doubt whatsoever that financial abundance is at our fingertips any time we Divinely choose, and /but I also have an appreciation for the idea that the experience I'm having is providing Exactly what I Need. While I have every confidence that I can manifest winning lottery numbers again using the same method, I haven't since felt motivated to. It's not a path I'm Choosing in this incarnation.

I ask myself the question, “what's more valuable to my soul's growth, cash in hand, or insight into how I'm sabotaging my own sense of value”? Not that it's an either-or question (and if monetary abundance is your journey, kudos to you), but I consider the release of the karma I'd built up around this immeasurably valuable. After all, why did I only dream that I woke up and wrote the numbers down? I'm only realizing as I write this that I can be sure it was not an accident. I figure that the lesson I got out of all of this is kind of like 'teaching a soul to fish'; money, I (hope I) would spend and it'd be gone, but this is a Gift that keeps on Giving.

I also learned not to force anything (and, no, it hasn't escaped me that prematurely quitting a good paying job to do what it is I'm 'really' here to do might have been a tad forced;). Some brilliant person since gave me the advice that if I'm in a situation that I'm feeling considerable resistance to, 'go limp'. That doesn't mean to be flaccid and not 'do' anything; by all means, do whatever you're Divinely guided to do (I personally received no less than 3 unmistakable signs suggesting I apply for a job in my previous line of work). What I mean is, if you find you're having an experience that your mind doesn't prefer or – at its extreme – is traumatic, go loose. Hey, you're more likely to survive a car accident that way – 'go limp' at your (work). Consider that the karma you're clearing is opening things up for you on your Direct path.

Regardless of the apparently haphazard decisions I made, I was and Am on the proverb-ial fast track, and everything is in proper balance, karmically speaking. As much as it seemed mine might not have been the most sensible route to take, Spirit's overview provided me with The most direct route. For myself, that wouldn't have been better facilitated by loads of cash.

As to how this all relates to what I'm 'really' here to do, well, I'm doing it. I was 'there', and now I'm 'here'. My dream was to work as /be a psychic illustrator and healer, to receive requests both for my services and to teach, and – as part-and-parcel – to be provided for. It was a Dream then, and it's my Life now. Then as now, it was as 'real' a part of my lifedream as what I'm experiencing at present. It was just a little challenging to recognize the value in it.

Wishing you Love, Light, Luck, Lucidity and Laughter

David 'Black Feather' Nagy is among other things a healer and psychic illustrator who believes that the best insurance against not living your dreams is living your Life. Your lifedream is the Biggest and most valuable Dream there is. Big Medicine Love to YOU

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