The power of the Moon time/Traveling Ceremony for Texas

Hello Friends,
As we move into the begining of this Traveling Ceremony, it is important to remember that we do not direct how it is to go, it is up to the spirit of the Pipe to do that. It is our job to be sensitive to the shifts of the current of spirit and make sure we follow the instructions given. If we do, the results of the ceremony no longer are our responsability, (they never were) but that of the director of the spirit of the Pipe, the Great Mystery. Its good to know that the results of this endevore are in capable "hands". ; )

So Yesterday I received a direction for this ceremony. It was from the spirit of the Grandmothers, the ones we Tsalagi call our "Beloved Women", the wisdom of our Grandmothers, the holy/spiritual wise ones.
First I need to explain a bit about what we call the Moon time of a woman, her time of menses. We recognize that this time is when a woman is at her highest power or "medicine", at this time, with the right attitude and ceremony, women can create anything, for it is the time of their regeneration of the gift to create life. Something us men will never be able to do, and probably for good reason! So, this time is the most honored time of any humans power, the peak of creativity which is the reflection of the Divine.

The main thing to understand is that there is a key to this power in ceremony, it is called "compassion." Just as humility is the key to unleashing the power of ceremony, (did you listen to recording #4 from my web site?) the key to releasing the ultimate power of a moon time ceremony is compassion, if attempted without it, things can go badly for those doing the ceremony.

I was told last night that in order for this traveling ceremony to have full effect it needed the balance of a moon time ceremony. I was shown that the power of the full moon tomorrow night was to play an important roll in the outcome of it. (I am thinking tides, gravity, cycles, etc.)
So This Morning I enlisted the help of 5 women who happen to have "Moon Pipes", Pipes that were created specifically for use by women on their moon. For this ceremony to work, it requires one woman who is past her moon time (Mature) and four that are still in their creative cycle of life.

It just so happens that the Grandmother Moon Pipe that many of you know about is in the hands of a woman who is not only spiritual mature, wise and sensitive, but also moves in all her life with compassion to others. (Yes, Donna, I am talking about you!) She lives in Arizona and will be directing the energy of the other 4 Pipes/ladies. The other 4 are Cat, in Arizona as well and interestingly enough, Angelica and Hermie over in Austria. I am not sure why but there seems to be a pattern her...hmmm? Oh, and I forgot to add that a 5th moon Pipe will join is from Montana. This one is a wild card, sort of the ace in the hole, so to speak. I was told that the medicine from this Pipe/woman was going to bring a surprise. (Not a surprise eh Lora? The 5th Pipe...the 5th wind?? Can you say Hohokum?)

Anyway, I have asked them to join in spirit and ceremony Saturday night and join with the power of the intelegent living being up in the sky, Grandmother Moon, and with compassion create effects on this planet that will bring relief to the drought and heat wave in Texas and hopefully other places experiencing the same.

So, as we work with the 5th wind this evening on the Gulf of Mexico, a very masculine energy/being, tomorrow night we will work with the feminine energy of the Moon. On Sunday we will be joined by some other Pipe holders at the sink hole for the final step of the ceremony, the joining of the sea water, the sky water and the earth water. I wonder what energy/spirit we will find assisting us on Sunday?
Lets all join together in humility, compassion and harmony with the great circle of life, lets find our unique place in that circle and fulfill our function in it.
Until later, Jim

Karens post

Good Day everyone,
Below is a post from Karen in preparation for the Traveling Ceremony that starts tomorrow. I am excited that we will be joined by Jeff, a member of the Keepers and a Tsalagi friend, Will Omara, at the sink hole for the final part of the ceremony on Sunday morning. I have continued to get stories from folks that are confirmations of the call to do this ceremony, some are in the form of dreams others are in the form of natural events, all pointing to a powerful time of interaction with the Creator and the 5th wind.
So, give a read to the insights Karen has and apply them to this journey, and to life in general.
Blue sky, Jim

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Weather: The new Normal

As we get ready to start on our journey across parts of Texas in response to a call for ceremony, to hopefully get assistance for the extended heat wave and drought that is currently scorching much of the central United States, I wanted to share some of the information with you all that will help you in your participation in this event.

First, why are we doing it? It is not just because there is a desperate need for relief here, that would apply to much of the US right now for many reasons. Drought, flooding, extended heat waves, (today we are at day 38 of continuous plus 100 deg. F in this area of Texas) destruction from winds, storm, tornadoes…and soon hurricanes. So, once again, why here and why now?

The answer is simple, but also the key to understanding the nature of all effective ceremony. This intervention was not instigated by me or any other human, but by Spirit through the messenger of the Sacred Pipe. As with all ceremonies that I conduct with this ancient Sacred Pipe, I wait until I receive directions and information before I attempt to set out on such a course. I began to feel the tug of the messenger about a month ago, a tug that I have become familiar with. Trust me, the last thing I wanted to do during August was to take a trip to Huston Texas…I live in the mountains of N.W. Montana where today the temperatures are in the high 70’s…not the 108 plus we are experiencing here today. But, when the boss says go I go.

So I began to pray and ask for guidance as to the timing of the trip and through circumstance, coupled with inspiration, bought the ticket to fly down. There have been several confirmations to encourage me that we are at the right place at the right time to do this ceremony. (I want to invite you if you have not already heard it, to listen to my teaching about how to release the full power of ceremony. You can find a free recording to download or listen to at this web site, http://www.jimtree.com/booksandrecordings.html just scroll down to recording # 4 and enjoy)

So now that you know what is required to have a powerful and effective ceremony, let me give you some more understanding of the history and workings of a “Traveling Pipe Ceremony.” Remember, Nicholas Black Elk of the Lakota said decades ago, “The power of a ceremony is in the understanding of it.”

There are many different kinds of Sacred Pipe ceremonies; most where you smoke the Pipe right after you fill it. But there are some where you fill it and then put a plug in the bowl to protect the prayers that have been put into it because you will not be finishing the ceremony by smoking it until sometime later. Examples of this kind of ceremony would be during a Sundance, some sweat lodges and what we call a traveling ceremony. (In the old days it was called a walking ceremony because after filling the Pipe it would be carried to the final destination by someone who took special care to not let the Pipe come apart or that any of the mix in the bowl might spill out. The Pipe was not carried on horseback because of the increased chance of a mishap.)

In this particular traveling ceremony, we will fill the Black Thunder Pipe, a Pipe that is directly connected the the Thunder Beings who control the weather for the Great Mystery, at the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, TX., where the bowl will be plugged with sage after it has been touched to the ocean. This is to connect the ocean water with the Pipe which will, as we travel on, connect to the sky water and then to the earth water. (The ceremony ends after we smoke the Pipe near Austin on Sunday morning and touch the tip of the bowl to water that comes up from the aquifer there in a special sink hole that has been a sacred site for centuries.)

It is important that we know who we are teamed up with in the spirit realm when we are doing ceremonies like this. In this case the spirit that has been assigned by the Great Mystery to assist us is one known as the 5^th wind, or the whirlwind. The Thunder Beings are in several different forms, all being what are often called contrary spirits. There is a name for them in every tribe, The Lakota call them Heyoka, the southwest tribes call them Hohocum, the Tsalagi (Cherokee) call them the "Ayvdaqualosgv". No matter what the name, they all work with the weather in various capacities. The whirlwind is the younger brother to the 4 winds of the 4 cardinal directions. Those winds are stable and only come with specific jobs from their assigned direction. i.e North wind brings the winter wind, etc.

The 5^th wind however has no assigned direction or defined action. He comes in the form of the dust devil, the tornado, the cyclone and the hurricane. He comes from where ever he wants and travels in whatever direction he wants. I believe this is why he has been assigned to help us. We need unusual intervention with the weather. We need gentle continuous rains and winds to cleans and refresh the scorched land. We do not need, from our human perspective, a hurricane but it is not up to us what to even pray for. This is directed by Spirit as well. So, we do not come to the ceremony with preconceived ideas of the outcome, but to take our part along side of the spirits that will attend, the 5^th wind in particular, and add our part of being in harmony with the great circle of life.

As a form of confirmation and encouragement from the Great mystery, there is a group of people up in Montana that held a drumming group last Sunday. At my request they drummed the prayers for the ground water in Texas and asked for assistance from the 5^th wind. They were in a teepee up in the mountains and there was no wind outside. As they drummed the prayers into our mother earth there was a dust devil suddenly just outside the door of the Teepee, a very good sign.

So as you prepare to join in on the privilege of being part of the traveling ceremony I want to remind you to have a humble attitude and be sensitive to nature for direction in your individual part of this ceremony. Follow your intuition and the confirmations shown through nature all around you. It takes all of us doing and saying the right thing at the right time to have a good effect on this situation. Please be encouraged to write in your comments and massages received to this blog site so we all can share in your contribution.

In closing I will share a bit of the recent history of the Thunder Pipe and some traveling ceremonies that we have done.

7 year drought in Colorado, Montana and Arizona. In the spring of 2003 I was directed to do a traveling ceremony for Montana because of the drought there. I loaded the Pipe up on the Flathead reservation at the canyon where the Thunder Bird has her nest, plugged the bowl and traveled 200 miles south to a spot on the Bitterroot River just south of the Great Medicine Tree of the Salish. I finished the ceremony there by smoking the Pipe while standing in the river then touching the bowl into the river and pointing the stem to the sky to re-connect the earth water to the sky water. I was told that it would start to rain in 48 hours and would continue until fall. It did.

In the summer of 2005 the Midwest was in a drought. I was told to go to the annual Gathering of the Pipe keepers in Pipestone Minnesota in late July and teach anyone I met who were called by the Thunders the ceremony I was given to seek for rain. Usually at a gathering like this there might be 1 or 2 people who have been called by the Thunders, through dreams or being struck by lightning or who have died and come back. There were 11 there! We gathered by the 3 maidens at the sacred quarries and I passed on the template of the ceremony as it was given to me.

We all filled our thunder pipes and then plugged them to travel back to our home in every direction, one all the way to Hawaii. The clouds formed as we left and it rained for some days in Minnesota, but the clouds also followed every one home except for a woman who lived where they were having flooding. In her area the rains stopped and the floods went away, in every other case the rains came to the drought areas and refreshed the land.

Of course there was the big drought in Australia several years ago, the worst in over 100 years. I suggest you watch the u tube video about that one to save my poor fingers from typing anymore. http://www.jimtree.com/australia_video.html

The point is that this ceremony today is another that the great Mystery has called for and we are being asked to take part. Let’s do our part and contribute the unique gifts that we have been given to bring balance out of ciaos, if it is not too late.

In closing I feel I must say that even though we are asking for rain and cooler temps, also for moderation in the upcoming hurricane season, it must be realized that the weather over the last 2 years in now the new NORMAL! We will have to adapt but this is also a way for us to learn how we as a race can help shape the new normal.

The oil is still here!

Just so we don't allow our minds to forget, just because the media has, here is a quoit from a scientist studying the on going effects of BP's disaster.

"The researchers sometimes needed respirators and protective suits, especially near the site of the blowout, Joye said. Natural seeps of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico emit about 1,000 barrels a day for the whole body of water, but the amount in the plume she investigated was far beyond that.
"The gas concentrations are outrageously high," Joye told the NSF. "We have measured concentrations up to 100,000 times what we typically see in the Gulf of Mexico."

I now have my own computer so hope to be posting regularly. Remember to watch out for the "storm" around the 3rd week of this month. I would advise backing up everything you have electronic.
Blue sky, Jim

Co-creating during natural disasters

I recently returned from a trip to northern Arizona where a huge forest fire had burned over 155000 acres of Mount Humphrey near Flagstaff.

I was staying in Cottonwood doing several classes and a couple of ceremonies. I was born in Flagstaff and love the amazing forests on the mountain there. Needless to say I was very upset about the fire, which had started from an abandon campfire.

I heard the the Hopi were in mourning as well since the Mountain is where they came from and is very sacred to them. I want to mention the there are a group of spirits that live on the mountain for part of the year called Katchinas. The are the protectors and helpers of the Hopi people. They are also in charge of bringing rain to the area.

It was half way through my visit when I felt called to go up on the mountain and see if there was anything I could do. Please understand that I alone cannot do much to help but I do know that I can work with others (co-create) to bring things of good effect. We all have a place in the circle of life, next to the spirits, the animals, the clouds as well.

The reason I am telling you about this is to set an example of how we humans can be of good effect here and in the next few years as we are confronted by what looks like an onslaught of disasters, both natural and man-made.

So, when you are faced with a powerful storm in your back yard, know that you as a human spirit are equipped with unique abilities, and responsibilities, to work hand in hand with the Creator and all the agents of the Devine.

Back to the example. Here I was faced with a Fire so big I could do nothing in the physical realm to be of any effect. But I could listen to my intuition and follow instruction from Spirit. As I said, I felt called to go up on the mountain and see what I could do.

The road was open but there were restrictions so you could not park or go into the forest at all. I had to park in the ski resort parking lot at the top.

Not a very "spiritual" setting, me sitting there in the parking lot, as I invited the spirits to join me. I specifically ask the Katchinas that were still on the mountain to join in the "counsel meeting". As I felt them arrive I "listened" to the response to my question, "Is there anything I can do?"

One of the Katchinas told me that if I made them a Paho (a prayer stick with a feather on it) they would do something about the fire within 24 hours.

I did as instructed and made the Paho and placed it in the ground. I was then instructed to pour water on it from a bottle of water I carry for ceremony. In it is sacred water from all over the world.

I was then given a prayer from the spirits and told to ask for three things. I asked for a drop in temperature, for rain and for the winds to become favorable to fighting the fire. I found out later that there was less than 10% chance of any clouds let alone rain, and the winds were very high at the time.

When I was finished I left the mountain and all the destruction behind, to head back to Cottonwood. I had a class to teach that night and made it just in time.
As I came out of the class that night I noticed that the Full moon was not very bright. I looked up and saw a huge cloud bank coming from the area where the Hop[i live, heading strait towards the mountain.

Now remember the Hopi were in mourning about the fire. I have no doubt they were doing there part of the circle, they were praying and doing ceremony as well. We all have a part to do when co-creating.

The next morning I heard that it was raining in Flagstaff. A little later I received a notice of a statement from the Forest Service that the fire was over 50% contained and it was due to a sudden drop in temperature, favorable winds and of course, the rain that fell on the mountain, but hardly any place else.

So, we as a race of beings are about to be faced with many challenging situations on our mother earth. How you personally will experience these challenges will be up to you finding your place in the circle, finding out what you can do and then doing it.

We all need each other in this and no one can take your place, you are a unique individual aspect/reflection of a part of the Great Mystery. Start practicing with your intuition and the other gifts you have been, or will be given. All of creation is depending on it.
Blue sky,
Jim

The bear is out of hybernation

Lately there have been so many that are finding that circumstance is dictating moving to a new location. Or, many folks are just feeling restless, wanting to move to a new location. How many people have you run into recently that are relocating, and not always for "logical" reasons.
Well, the migration has begun! We are being rearranged and re-established at a rapid rate. This is because the great foretold "shift of humanity is accelerating not only around us, but in us as well.
What the heck am I talking about? Go west young man, go west...or east or wherever the Great Mystery is promoting you to go.
It is time, we have been hibernating, preparing, for this moment in time. During our hibernation we have been shedding old patterns, beliefs and gaining new understandings. But it is spring now and time to get out of the cave that has served us so well, yet now is confining, even threatening to keep us from our new life.
What have you been dreaming and creating for your future, for the future of us all?
So, like our relative Yona, the great bear, we now are moving about, finding our new home/territory.
One word of caution, don't analyze to much , follow guidance from Spirit that are backed up by conformations. Then don't be surprised if right in the middle of your new relocation, be it on the earth or in some other way, you find a new set of marching orders.
Even things predestined are shifting rapidly now, every decision you make, and the decisions of those effected by it, cause shifts and adjustments in the over all plan.
The oil spill did not have to happen, but since it did, many "plans" have been altered to fit the new set of circumstance's.
What if the bear comes out of its den to find that a fire has destroyed the forest it has lived in over the winter. Change of plans, move on.
So fellow bears, adapt, adjust, evolve and find that challenges are actually Divine guidance to a better, more fulfilling place/life.

If you want to learn more about these things take look at the information on my Teleclass that starts in a few days. Go to this link for a discription of "Creating a "Curtain" future in uncertain times." www.jimtree.com/classinformation.html

Blue sky,
Jim

The oil crisis and the atomic bomb.

After the first two atomic bombs were dropped the world became very aware that human kind had entered a new era. Treaties and decisions about what to do with this new technology came into focus. The world new that this event must never happen again, ever!
Same thing with this oil catastrophe. It is the wake up call to the world that we must never allow this to happen again, ever! Even if it means stopping all off shore drilling.
Our earth is never going to be the same after this event. We have to change policy and economies to see that this never happens again, no matter what it takes.
During ceremony yesterday I saw the unbelievable chain of events unraveling before us from the oil. The earth is being forever changed, even if we can stop the flow tomorrow. We are now going to have to adapt.
Blue sky,
Jim Tree