Dragonfly flew out of the deck while I shuffled Doubling your Daily Dose of Animal Medicine
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Dragonfly
Illusion
Dragonfly . . .
Breaks illusion,
Breaks illusion,
Brings visions of power,
No need to prove it,
Now is the hour!
Know it, believe it,
Great Spirit intercedes,
Feeding you, blessing you,
Filling all your needs.
Contrary:
Are you trying to prove to yourself or someone else that you have power?
Are you caught in an illusion that weakens your true feelings or minimizes your abilities?
If so, you may have contracted "Dragonfly dive-bombing." Is this the final "crash and burn" for
some pipe-dream that had no real purpose?
Look within and feel the sense-of-self energy
within yourself.
Notice if it is ebbing, and find the point in time when you were deluded into believing that you would be happier if you changed because someone else wanted you to.
Misery is a prime clue that you lost your will and personal vitality when you bought into someone else's idea of who or what you should be.
The illusion was that you would be happier if you did it their way.
In forfeiting what you know is right and true for you personally, you give away your power.
It is time to take it back.
Follow Dragonfly to the place inside your body where magic is still alive, and drink deeply of its power.
This strength belongs to you.
It is the power of becoming the illusion.
This ability is every changing, and contains within it the knowledge that you are creating it all.
Overview:
Confront denials.
Break through illusions.
Honour inner truths.
Non-Contrary:
Grouse once flocked in abundance throughout North America, but now, even on the plains, where these birds were so plentiful, there is an absence of them.
Non-Contrary:
Grouse once flocked in abundance throughout North America, but now, even on the plains, where these birds were so plentiful, there is an absence of them.
Many Plains Indian tribes dance the Grouse Dance to honour these birds.
The movement of the dance follows a spiral, which is the ancient symbol of birth and rebirth, the ribbed tunnel of
eternal return.
The Sacred Spiral is also one of the oldest know symbols for personal power.
When you think of Grouse medicine, visualize a whirlpool or even a tornado, for the Sacred Spiral will take you to the Centre.
The spiral is a metaphor for personal vision
and enlightenment.
Many initiates on Vision Quests paint spirals on their bodies and believe that the Great Mystery will favour them with visions of power and purpose because of this symbol.
The whirling dervishes of certain Sufi orders are masters of the spiral dance and can transcend to higher states of awareness through the repetition of this sacred movement.
It is said that dervishes can travel to the centre of the spiral and return with any magical power they choose.
In the dervish state, on enters the Great Silence and has direct communication with the Creator.
By spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise, the
dervish draws or repulses specific energies.
Sufi dancing is a system which connects one with the Divine Source through ritual treatment of motion.
If you have Grouse Medicine, undertake a meditation on the various qualities of movement within your world.
Begin by visualizing the sun as one member of a huge group of stars swirling in the massive pinwheel shape of the Milky Way.
Then draw yourself out of this pinwheel of light and into the spiralling of your own DNA's double helix, an arrangement similar to a rope ladder coiled like a corkscrew.
Analyze the way you move through your world.
How do you picture yourself in the act of locomotion?
What kind of reaction do you create with the energy you send into the universe?
What words would you use to describe the way you move through both the material and spiritual worlds?
In the final analysis, is your movement compatible with your greatest desires and goals?
Many spiritual disciplines ask that you cease all external movement in order to recognize the inner life. Grouse medicine, however, is an invitation to the dance.
Grouse celebrates the Divine Source through its sacred spiral dance, and offers this dance to you
as a gift.
You can spend a lifetime learning Grouse's lesson on how to harmonize your dance with Mother Earth's cycles, and how to offer the dance as a creation of selfless beauty.
Source:
Sams, Jamie and Carson, David.
Medicine Cards
Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988
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