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Dolphin
Manna
Dolphin . . .
Breathe with me
Breath of the Divine.
Manna of the Universe,
In Oneness we entwine.
Dolphin speaks to us of the breath of life, the only thing that humans cannot go without for more than a few minutes.
We can live without water and food for days, but oxygen is the source of our sustenance.
Within the breath we encounter the rhythm of energy that all life emits.
In changing the rate or rhythmic texture of our breath, we can tap into any other life form or creature.
This is a very easy way to connect with divine energy coming from the Great Spirit, as well as with your own personal rhythms.
Dolphin is the keeper of the sacred breath of life, and teaches us how to release emotions through Dolphin breath.
Dolphin creates rhythm, swimming through the water and breathing before submerging, then holding its breath for the duration of underwater travel.
As Dolphin comes above the water again, it blows its breath out in a manner resembling the popping of a cork.
We can use this same technique to pull the stopper on our tensions and create total relaxation.
This is a good exercise to use before entering the silence.
Manna is life force. Manna is present in every atom, and is Great Spirit's essence.
Dolphin teaches us how to use life-manna through our breath.
It revitalizes each cell and organ, and breaks the limits and dimensions of physical reality so that we may enter the Dreamtime.
Dolphin was traveling the oceans one day as Grandmother Moon was weaving the patterns of the tides.
Grandmother Moon asked Dolphin to learn her rhythms so that he could open his female side to her silvery light.
Dolphin began to swim to the rhythm of her tide weaving, and learned to breathe in a new way.
As Dolphin continued to use this new rhythm, he entered the Dreamtime.
This reality was a new and different place from the seas he had known.
Dolphin came to discover underwater cities in the Dreamtime, and was given the gift of primordial tongue.
This new language was the sound-language that was brought by Spider from the Great Star Nation.
Dolphin learned that all communication was pattern and rhythm, and that the new aspect of communication was sound; he carries this original pattern to this day.
Dolphin returned to the ocean of the Great Mother, and was very sad until Whale came by and told Dolphin that he could return to be a messenger to the Dreamtime dwellers anytime he felt the rhythm and used his breath.
Dolphin was given a new job.
He became the carrier of messages of our progress.
The Dreamtime dwellers were curious about the children of Earth, and wanted us to grow to be at one with Great Spirit.
Dolphin was to be the link.
If Dolphin has appeared to you today, frothing through the waves of your spread, you are to be a link to some solution for the Children of Earth.
This can be a time when you are to link with Great Spirit and bring answers to your own question or to those of others.
In addition, this can mean a time of communication with the rhythms of nature.
You are put on notice to be mindful of your body rhythms and the pattern of energy being
fed to you from the Creator.
Imitate Dolphin and ride the waves of laughter, spreading joy in the world. Breathe and experience the manna so freely given.
Break existing barriers and connect to the Dreamtime or Great Star Nation.
Know that we are all whole in the eyes of the Ever Living One.
Contrary:
If Dolphin appears reversed, know that you are forgetting to breathe.
You may be under stress, and your body may need manna.
You may be starving your cells and organs no matter how many vitamins you are taking.
Your natural cycles may be fouling up.
Pay close attention to your health, and your feelings.
If you are on edge or just tense, take time to relax and breathe the life force into your muscles.
Focus on releasing old breath at the bottom of your lungs and refilling your respiratory system with regenerative manna.
Breathe from the diaphragm and fill the lungs to capacity.
Then exhale from the chest to the belly, allowing your body to totally relax as you breathe out.
Another message of contrary Dolphin is that many signals are carried through universal tides or waves, and you may be failing to use your sonar.
To detect these wave patterns you may need to realign yourself with natural rhythms within your own body.
The it is necessary to use the dolphin breath to connect to universal awareness and signals.
Dolphin says to dive deeply into the water, to play be the coral reef, and to discover the beauty of the rhythm of breath.
Overview:
Dolphin is a beautiful, gregarious mammal with a beaked mouth, and is found in all the oceans of the world.
In American Indian cosmology Dolphin is the Keeper of the Sacred Breath which contains the prana / mana life force, which is the Essence of Great Spirit.
As a power animal therefore, Dolphin is associated with the rhythm of energy within Nature and with your own body, and with revitalization.
Dolphin is symbolic of breath.
By changing the rhythm of our breathing, we can tune into other living things in the universe.
This is why rhythmic breathing is so important.
Dolphin is concerned also with communication which, again, involves pattern and
rhythm, and especially with sonics and with sonic harmonization.
It is also associated with dreams and dreaming, and indicates that you should explore the oceans of your own dreaming and examine carefully what you see there.
Dolphin will help you to decipher their meanings.
The breath of life.
Breathe.
Take in life force.
Accept the gift of usable energy.
Touch the invisible.
Lizard flipped out of the card today while shuffling ;doubling today's animal medicine.
Lizard flipped out of the card today while shuffling ;doubling today's animal medicine.
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Lizard
Dreaming
Lizard . . .
will you dream with me?
Travel across the stars?
Beyond the place of time and space,
There live visions from afar
Lizard sat lolling in the shadow of a big rock, shading himself from the desert sun.
Snake crawled by, looking for some shadow to coil up in and rest.
Snake watched Lizard for awhile as Lizard's eyeballs went side to side behind his enormous closed lids.
Snake hissed to get Lizard's attention.
Slowly Lizard's dreaming eyes opened and he saw snake.
"Snake! You sacred me!
What do you want?"
Lizard calmly replied..
Snake spit his answer from his forked tongue.
"Lizard, you are always getting the
best shadow spots in the heat of the day.
This is the only big rock for miles.
Why don't you share your shade with me?"
Lizard thought for a moment, then agreed.
"Snake, you can share my shade spot, but you have to go to the other side of the rock and you must promise not to interrupt me."
Snake was getting annoyed.
He hissed, "How could I bother you, Lizard?
All you are doing is sleeping."
Lizard smiled knowingly.
"Oh Snake, you are such a silly serpent.
I'm not sleeping.
I'm dreaming."
Snake wanted to know what the difference was, so Lizard explained.
"Dreaming is going into the future, Snake.
I go to where the future lives.
You see, that is why I know you won't eat me today.
I dreamed you and I know you are full of mouse."
Snake was taken aback.
"Why Lizard, you're exactly right.
I wondered why you said you would share your rock."
Lizard laughed to himself.
"Snake," he said,
"You are looking for shade and I am looking for shadow.
Shadow is where the dreams live."
Lizard Medicine is the shadow side of reality where your dreams are reviewed before you decide to manifest them physically.
Lizard could have created getting eaten by Snake if he had so desired.
Lizard is the medicine of dreamers.
Whether dreamers smoke you or dream you,
dreamers can always help you see the shadow.
This shadow can be your fears, your hopes, or the very thing you are resisting.
But it is always following you around like an
obedient dog.
If Lizard dreamed a space in your life this day, it may time to look and see what is following along behind you.
It is your fears, your future trying to catch up to you, or is it the part of you that wants to ignore your weaknesses and humanness?
Lizard may be telling you to pay attention to your dreams and their symbols.
Make a dream log and record all that you remember.
Be sure to pay attention to each individual symbol or recurring pattern.
If you do not remember your dreams upon waking
in the morning, set an alarm for 2:00 or 3:00 Am, or drink a lot of water before you go to bed and allow your bladder to wake you up.
Dreams are very important. Pay attention to
them.
If Lizard has turned up in the contrary position, you may be having a nightmare.
This is a sign of inner conflict.
Look to the nightmare for a clue to the nature of this conflict.
What are the feelings your nightmare causes?
Breathe through these feelings and let the sensations flow out of your body.
See the truth in what your nightmare is suggesting.
It could be the simple message that you are confronting your fears and therefore do not need to experience nightmarish events in your day-to-day life.
Another message of Lizard reversed is that you may need more sleep or dreamtime.
It could also imply that you have a lack of dreams for your future.
Imagination is the door to all new ideas and creations.
As you examine the dreaming process, you will find that the subconscious is processing all of the recorded messages it hold concerning the events you experienced during the day.
These messages can be suppressed feelings bringing inner conflict, or they can be new ideas or goals, other dimensions of awareness, future events, warning signals, or desires and hopes.
In one sense, contrary Lizard is insisting that you look to your imagination for new experience.
This is necessary when life becomes dull or full of boredom.
On the other hand, contrary Lizard may also apply to those who dream too much, refusing to use the dreams as tools to manifest that same vision in their lives.
All levels of awareness are accessible through dreams. Remember, life is not always as it seems.
Are you the dreamer?
Or are you the dreamed?
The lizard is a creature found in shady areas during the heat of the day, and is symbolic of the shadowy side of reality - the plane where that is coming into manifestation is being fashioned.
This plane is sometimes referred to as the "Dreamtime" - the astral plane of constantly changing patterns and shapes.
Lizard is concerned with your dreams of the future and of formulating what you want to become physical realities.
Lizard is thus connected with your subconscious mind, and your hopes and fears.
It can help you to identify those recurrent problems that follow you around like your
shadow; they must be confronted before they will depart from you.
Your aspirations must have emotion breathed into them to make them manifest.
Next time you encounter Lizard on your journey, look carefully behind you.
Record your observations in a log and note especially any symbols and signs so that you
can identify those that are recurring.
Ask Lizard to help you to understand what you see.
Keep a dream log, too, so you can become aware of what is occurring both in your dream state and your shamanic state of consciousness.
Make your dreams come true.
Rekindle lost goals or desires.
Expand your vision.
Honour messages in your dreams.
Source:
Sams, Jamie and Carson, David.
Medicine Cards
(Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988).
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