after the quake.

After the Earthquake, Chile

Dear Four Winds Community,

Walking this Medicine Way is not always easy. Yet, it is very fulfilling. Sending all of you there in North America my love and understanding of these times we are looking at, during the Earthquake here in Chile and the aftershocks.

For me, I have always seen the Americas as one great serpent shaped land, connected and continuous. The tail of this Great Mother is down here in Chile and Argentina and its tongue stretches out at its tip (which is frozen, unable to speak) in the Aleutian Islands way to the North.

They say in many creation stories, which might sound like a fable, this Mother is to all of us here on the body of this connected body of lands called the Americas. This Great Mother is called by many names, for me she is the "feathered serpent," which means the mystery of the earth in this serpentine form, which was formed of the fire, and this fire being the feathers. Fire is also, in this case, the spirit fire of creation. Always creating something new. This is her power, her ability and her fearful capability.

Mother, has shown us all in the past few days here in Chile, her ability to get our attention. Also, part of this is so we will "listen" even deeper to the ways she tells us to pay attention. Who's agenda we really need to be following? This is not a time for Man's plans, but that of the Greater Planner our Mother & the Great Mystery...

We might have had many plans for our events, lodges and gatherings. Yet, she might be telling us we are on-the fast track of the planning of our human schedule.

These past few days while aftershocks still move this rattle tail of hers, we are being notified to stop all that we had planned and get on her timetable and listen to the greater agenda. Being here during this tremendous timing to feel her shake this tail of hers, the Mother Earth is asking us to wake up from our numbness, our folly and not to fall asleep.. Not to keep going on as usual, as if nothing has happened, but to look at what is important to us.

Who is important to us? Let them know. What are you waiting for? We have the ability to change our outcomes. I could see this in all the emails of concerns for my welfare and the relief from our loved ones. This is confirmation to what is Real!

Shaman's of old used such times to predict what would come next. They carved impressions on cave walls and danced to honor the mother with drums and foot beats. Today a person hardly knows what to do to care for ones self/soul. I believe we are in a time to be introspective, be still and pay attention. There has been much I have learned from doing just this in the last 28 hours. When we ask the Great Mother to show us the way, and ask with cannupa and tobacco to be shown what it is we are to be doing, I do not believe it is our own plans....but those plans that come following these prayers that require us to listen.

My suggestion is instead of driving all over the city we gather in small groups that do not require so much travel to practice what we believe. Make a tobacco, for this goes beyond any Form, Dogma or Road. Yet it honors all the holy first medicine, tobacco and corn. Then, share this prayer with your family or those in your neighborhood - nearby. Let Gratitude be the prayer. Assistance with our requests. Then to Know, through requests, what the Will of the Great Mystery, rather than Our own might be?

This power of the Great Mystery has shown us again, we are not in control here, but the Greater Planner is. So, slow down, stop all the doing and LISTEN. Respond and be Humble to the tasks at hand,

It is time to practice what we know how to do. This Earthquake might have felt a long way off for many of you in the North American or Europe areas...but all is connected. Sending mostly, that " you matter to me" and a "I love you all". And I am missing you. Your never out of my mind and heart.