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"As I get older, I burrow more and more into the hills. The Great Spirit made them for us, for me. I want to blend with them, shrink into them, and finally disappear in them. All of nature is in us, all of us is nature. That is as it should be."
--Pete Catches, Sioux Medicine Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The interior landscape resonds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape: the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes."
--Barry Lopez

 

Sacred Journeys on the Earth Path

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Have you heard the call to connect with the sacred in your life?

Listen to that call with a mythic Rite of Passage

Contemporized Rites of Passage:

Vision Quest

 The Four Shields Rites of Passage

Medicine Walk

Bring your vision into the world.

Expand your awareness of your multi-dimensional nature.

Access wisdom.

Begin the journey of the stages of your initiation.

Reconnect to your natural rhythms.

Align with your own power and creative force.

"Have you heard the call to your Sacred Journey and still have not given your consent?"

With Rites of Passage and Rituals:

sacred mountain of the vision questYou will take your mythic rite of passage and bring your vision into the world.

You will expand your awareness of your multi-dimensional nature and access your wisdom.

You will have a gatekeeper and guide as you pass through the stages of your initiation.

You will reconnect to your natural rhythms so that you are in alignment with your own power and creative force.

Answering the Call

Bring the sacred into your everyday life.
Take the journey back to yourself.
Bring forth your vision.

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There will be times in your life when you will be called to take a Sacred Journey. You may answer "Yes" right away. Or you may resist and pretend that you did not hear the call.

You may think you don't know where to start the journey.

When you hear and acknowledge the call to embark on a Sacred Journey you know in your heart that you must prepare to leave your people and life behind, at least symbolically.

In order for you to become the doctor, mother, hairdresser, stockbroker that you are, you may have had to bear the separation of your inner and outer selves. And an aware person can not bear for long this split between the inner life - your deepest needs - and your worldly requirements.

Somewhere you know you have paid too high a price.

alone in the desertSooner or later, you'll find that your spirit calls to you to come back to yourself and take the journey home again to yourrself.

Your biggest fear perhaps is leaving your people behind while you travel by yourself along unknown paths to the Sacred Mountains. Worry about the baby. Worries about the children in school. Worries about responsibilities at work. Worries about your mate. Deadlines. Money. Making partner. Surely, those days that you are alone in the wilderness of the journey will cost you this life you has spent so long building.

When a person is separated from any aspect of theirself, they are wounded. The wound may be fresh and bright and bleeding. Or the wound may be old and dry and brittle. Traveling while wounded can get weary and fearful.

But there is a remedy at hand.

There is the power and the grace of journeying to the depths of yourself that will hold, support and bring you whole again. It is this elegant presence of the wholeness that calls your name again and again. This call may come as a subtle whisper, a loud and unmistakable blast, or a persistent and annoying nagging. However it comes, eventually you will - at long last - give consent for the journey to be taken.

Your consent to begin your Sacred Journey requires courage and steadfastness - for you are traveling in the dark without road markers or a map. However, no woman is ever called to journey without aid and assistance. You will be guided by your ancestors and by a midwife who has taken the journey before and who now stands and holds the space for you.

winter rites of passageThe Rites of Passage that are guided here are fashioned around timeless initiations since ancient times. Each journey is crafted to honor the traditional rites and bring them into the modern life. You will be held and honored by the heart and hands of a knowing and skilled journey midwife who can assist you in giving birth to yourself again.

If you hear the call to leave your people and wish to embark on your Sacred Journey back to yourself know that without your vision your people can not live whole and free. It is your task to bring your vision back to your people so that they may live and prosper. To receive this vision you must answer the call you hear. During your Rites of Passage , you will be gifted with your power and your grace which will enable you to carry your vision into the world.

One woman, journeying to the sacred mountains, says that for 10 years she has avoided giving her consent to her call to her Vision Quest. Even when prompted she skirted around the consent, walking in a maze of knowing she is being called and wishing that she did not hear the call. With tears in her eyes, she at last says, "Yes". And she gives her consent for the process to take her into the wilderness.

If your time has come to give your consent to your Sacred Journey, then this is the place to begin it. I welcome you and invite you to embrace the journey.

All Rites of Passage are contemporized to be manageable within your normal routine.

Renew Your Spiritual Energy with these Sacred Earth Path Contemporized Rites of Passage:

Vision Quest
 The Four Shields Rites of Passage
Medicine Walk