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Choosing a Path – Part 9

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Today we will hold our full moon and equinox ceremony as a tribe. It’s been a while since I’ve written as life here got busy due to the harvest rush to gather all we can before the snow flies. When living on the land, we must live within the cycles of nature, not the fictional cycles of man’s calendar and clocks. We live on bush time and that allows us to rest and relax when we want, but also demands that we work when needed. I continued to bring in fire wood for the tribe and have it nicely stacked for winter. But I also noticed that a couple within our tribe was at risk of not having their shelter built before winter. I shared that risk as mine has been delayed too.

I decided that it is within the tribes best interests if I stopped working on my built and helped them get their build done. By helping them I am also helping myself as they could move into their home and I could use the transport trailer converted into a shelter that they are currently in. So I get a shelter for winter by helping them build their shelter. That buys me some time to then finish my build in the spring. I’m okay with that and they appreciate the help too. Many tears where shared over the past number of weeks.

We also held the UNGRIP boot camp, which I’m now calling the UNGRIP Decolonization Ceremony. It was a full week of absolute magic, miracles, intimacy, connection, learning, healing and profound change for all involved. Tribes are built this way and to me that was very clear as nearly everyone will be returning to help with the next ceremony being held here October 4-8, 2021. People are returning to hold space, help facilitate, organize and do what ever it takes to help others have a wonderful experience and to help the tribe here as it is a daunting task doing this with just a few people.

What strikes me about what is starting to flow is how many people are suddenly interested in my work. This next ceremony was full weeks ago through word of mouth only. I have people contacting me wanting to get into the third one and I’ve not even held the second ceremony yet. Spirit requires motion and people are now starting to move and resonate with my teachings. This has been a long and lonely road for the last 16 years. It feels surreal and overwhelming to suddenly have such interest. Spirit is helping by forming a tribe around me able and willing to help as they also resonate and connect with the spirit of decolonization.

This is no longer about me. Actually, it never was about me. I shared my story in the hopes that people could relate to what I was saying, but this has always been about an idea. An idea shared for thousands of years but who’s time has come to be expressed and realized. This is about healing, reconciliation, decolonization, sovereignty, peace, freedom, prosperity, joy and love. This path is not easy but it has profound implications to our spiritual health and standing as well as the physical too!

This morning I woke up to another Liberal minority government in Canada. Saskatchewan has declared a state of emergency which gives them powers to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and many jurisdictions are implementing vaccine passports. The narrative in Canada continues to deteriorate with the support of the majority of people. Fear is a powerful weapon. I’ve been in the extreme minority for nearly 20 years as a result of my journey towards healing, freedom and balance between the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I’m used to having the majority rebuke or dismiss me. I will continue my work despite what others think. I don’t base my decisions on the opinions of others. I base my decisions on what my heart feels, spirit directs and my body & mind can accomplish.

Out of all my training, the phrase I learned from TaeKwonDo comes to mind clearly: Indomitable Spirit! This is the work that I’ve done for 20 years, to have a spirit that is impossible to subdue or defeat. Doubt and disbelief can trip one up quickly, as it has a few times in my life. But as I witness the deterioration of social order outside of my realm, it brings even higher resolve to hold space for an alternative. I care not what others thinks or say, I will continue to do my work because it feels right, spirit orchestrated it all and I’m willing to keep moving forward despite the attacks and violence.

I was told yesterday that when it comes to creating safe space for people, I ‘nailed it’. This observation hit my heart deeply and it came from someone that I love dearly. I pray that this knowledge and ability can spread quickly so that others can experience this type of peace and freedom to fully express the masculine and feminine energies that we need to heal, replenish this world and bring prosperity for ALL life on Mother Earth. May this tribe help spread this idea to home fires far and wide. I love you all. I really do!

White Walking Feather rob in the pagé family

Death & Wills

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We had a particularly deep and touching class today as we discussed a topic that many find uncomfortable. However, in the end, the class reflected a profound shift in our relationship with death and I found it moving, touching, emotional and absolutely beautiful. I hope you enjoy the class as much as the group who participated and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feelings about how we can grow a much healthier relationship with death and embrace this most sacred ceremony we will experience in our lives.

Recorded December 6, 2020

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Lessons from Nov 14, 2020 Land Ceremony

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Yesterday I was in ceremony and went to introduce myself to the land. That experience went far beyond what I had expected and there were many things that happened. I wrote a post about some of it yesterday and tonight we discussed it further and far deeper than words could express. This was an emotional class for me and I pray it helps others who want to walk this path. I’ve not shared my process with people before. Usually I keep it to myself until I figure stuff out, then share my experiences. I’m not doing that this time. People who attend this school are witnessing my journey, process, trials and tribulations as I explore these principles of freedom, peace and healthy relationships. I have no idea where this is taking me and you are all along the ride with me. <3 Peace and love to you all.

Recorded November 15, 2020

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The Importance of Ceremony

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Meadow – Winter Solstice 2019

One of our dear friends and member of our tribe is having a baby.  She is living off grid and doing a traditional home birth and asked Carey and I to help her.  She is starting labour and could get deep into delivery any moment.  When that happens, we will be called away and could be gone for several days.  Carey’s roll within this beautiful ceremony is to help her with the baby.  My roll is to smudge the perimeter of the house, hold the space and protect them all.  The divine masculine and feminine have specific rolls to fulfill in one of the most beautiful ceremonies any of us could witness and experience.  

Everything in life is sacred and as such, deserves that we approach it as a ceremony.  It reminds us of the sacredness and having protocols to keep its sacredness is equally important.  

I’m humbled as I’ve been asked to hold that sacred space by many people over the past few years.  As I develop ceremonies, spirit moves people to reach out to me.  Some of these ceremonies are new as nobody has ever worked on decolonization protocols since this experience is so new to us all.  Spirit moved me to make a ceremony to four corner the land and I’ve performed this ceremony several times for friends in Alberta and Ontario.  I’ve also performed spiritual ceremonies to help people within their wedding ceremonies too.  

I’ve been working on ceremony in my life for years now.  When ever a slaughter an animal or even harvest a plant, I work hard to ask for permission from their spirit first and I leave tobacco in exchange so that I’m not taking but rather making a trade.  There are small but important things that we can do to bring balance back to our actions and behaviours within our lives.  I grow our own tobacco specifically for this purpose and it was taught to me by the nehewin people of Treaty 6.  The tobacco I use is traditional indigenous ceremonial tobacco from the pueblo people in the southern end of Turtle Island. It is sacred medicine.  The sweetgrass grows on our land and the sage is from around here as well.  We have no cedar here, but people give us cedar to round out the four medicines on the medicine wheel.  

Holding ceremony and space for a baby being born is new to me, but I honour the trust and power of what is unfolding.  The divine masculine energy flows through me stronger than ever before as I start to explore what that actually means.  Holding that space in a healthy way is humbling and inspiring.  It helps the divine feminine feel safe, comfortable and secure so that she can engage in the most powerful transfer of energy ever seen on this planet.  The merging of spirit and land to allow another spiritual being to manifest here THROUGH her body.  She is a portal between the spiritual realm and the physical realm.  The divine feminine is sacred and special to be able to hold the space for such an awesome transformation.  It is my duty to hold the space so that she can do her work!

I will be away from the school for a few days, but I will return.  We will dig into these conversations deeply as we explore the spiritual aspects within the school’s curriculum.  I won’t speak or disclose who are what happens, but instead we will explore the deeper meaning, duty and power associated with ceremony within our lives so that we can hold the space and bring balance back to our existence here.

As we finish the ceremony of the winter solstice, may Creator bless each of you with peace, freedom, prosperity, joy and love as we embark on a new solar year and a period of birth and renewal.  It is all fitting together as you can see!