Hello again,
My mind has been drawn away from what I intended to post today because of the current weather news. Our area of the Western Carolinas is in the path of a hurricane coming north from the eastern Gulf coast. It lands as a category 3 and is not expected to lose much of its impact as it passes over the Florida panhandle and southern Georgia. The projected rainfall inches for some of the Upstate SC and Western NC areas is frightening.
It is very unusual for this to happen. But then, so much is unusual now. And the instant response of fear is to be expected. Preparations need to be made. But then what?
All Our Relations
In the late 90s and early 21st century, a group of Native American teachers visited southeast Florida. They were at the tail end of a host of teachers like Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden and Don Miguel Ruiz. But the appearance of this group was the answer to a prayer I’d had since I encountered Native American philosophy in a book that called to me in a St. Louis bookstore, Medicine Woman by Lynn Andrews. I went on to read Voices of our Ancestors by Cherokee teacher, Dhyani Ywahoo.
One of the amazing things I discovered when I had the opportunity to experience and study with this visiting group was that Native Americans considered each part of manifestation to be a ‘nation.’ They were to be honored and revered. We were part of that, the ‘two leggeds.’
The famous Lakota phrase Mitakuye Oyasin, ‘all my relations,’ was not relegated to humans, but realized we are connected to all kingdoms (nations) on earth. That’s a concept Plato and his Hierarchical order of life, the Roman Church, and the Industrial Revolution have successfully removed from our current way of thinking. But it is alive and well in our ancestral consciousness.
The Nations of Weather
I learned a few Lakota prayer songs, which are in essence gratitude and expressions of love. I learned the words for many things, including the ‘nations’ we consider weather elements: water, wind, lightning, and thunder. Gratitude is for the gift of each: the rain that brings water necessary for all of life, the wind that clears the mind and air, the lightning that energizes the air, and thunder that clears emotions.
I discovered over the years that some emotions could increase or quell these weather elements and that they, too, could be addressed with gratitude prayers. I understood that these emotions had impacts on my own body and on the wider energy field surrounding me.
· Fear is related to the Water Element and affects the kidneys and bladder.
· Anger is related to the Fire Element and affects the liver and gall bladder.
· Worry relates to the Air Element and affects the stomach and spleen
Fear calls the scarcity or overabundance of water, Anger creates higher temperatures, dryness, and adds to dynamic activity around us and in weather systems. It is a component of geophysical eruptions. Worry creates either stagnant air or stronger winds. Put them all together and we can have a weather forecast like the one for my area today.
In our modern world, these three emotions are being activated many times a day by the news. We have instinctive reactions, but we can choose to calm these emotions. Bach Flower Remedies are helpful, as are deep breathing and toning. Doing so helps us while it eases the energy field around us. This helps all the conditions in our environment.
How to Ask for What You Want
We can also use our positive relationship to these elements and emotions to call rain-in where needed, to get a breeze to stir, and to feel warm in colder weather.
It’s important to recognize that when we call for something, it must be complete in the description. Just calling for rain without gratitude delineating the qualities we desire can result in downpours and flooding. I have found the best way to make the request includes gratitude that this weather arrives as “a blessing to all things in this area.”
Weather Karma
A very important aspect of working with troubling weather: do not send weather away from you and toward a desired direction. You will see people asking for this in posts on social media and they don’t realize there is huge karma in doing that. Your prayer makes you responsible for anything that may happen because of that weather in those areas. You have ‘wished it’ on them.
It is far better to work on using your relationship to the elements right where you are. You can thank the water and wind nation for giving a blessing and sufficiency there and releasing it to bless other areas who may need it. Then it will go when and where it is drawn.
Of course, we may not always be able to eliminate some weather episodes and there could be a reason for this that is unknown to us. After seeing certain trees go down after a hurricane, where many fell parallel to a home, doing no damage, I asked my teacher if there were arrows in the wind.
He laughed and said, “Yes, and it can have to do with the nature and energy of the people in the homes themselves where and how the arrows hit.”
Being the Guardian
And from both the Native Americans and the training of Anwen, the Muse who inspired the Revealing the Druid Legacy series, I learned we are or can be empowered with tools to work as a guardian of the area where we live. Anwen tells us that the Priestess and Wise Woman of an area were responsible for this task. She said the effects for the region lasted long after these women had to withdraw their presence. But in the current world, without knowing it now, and without having to be a designated Priestess, we are often placed in a location for us to be this steward and stabilizing presence.
And now it’s time for me to begin to practice what I’ve preached here. Wishing all in the path of this and other weather systems safety and a secure space with all that is needed…and clear skies ahead.
If you find this topic interesting, you may wish to read about the ancestral world of Anwen and Merlin. Receive his profound teachings in The Last Priestess and journey with her to the Priestess Isle where she gets the tools of her training in the Elements in Books Two and Three.
I will be looking forward to creating a workshop on these trainings in the future, available at a discount for all paid subscribers.
See you next time!
A wonderful read as we are in the path of yet another storm, Helene. My Fear, Anger, and Worry have been at peak levels today. Thank you for these prayer ideas Shellie!
Stay safe Shell…this looks like a very wide system…🙏🙏🙏❤️🌷