Braiding Roots
We cannot Belong to this Land without coming into relationship with the Original People of this Land. We cannot root into this Place without braiding our Celtic roots with the Land and the People who have been in relationship with this Land since time immemorial.
There is no healing for us here without learning from Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers willing to share their teachings with Settlers. Why relearn thousands and thousands of years of Belonging to this Land, when we can come into loving relationship with the First Nations and be taught by them instead?
Our Celtic Ancestors were People of the Land and they demand of us respect and loving relationship with the Original People of this Land.
Becoming an Honourable descendant of Celtic Ancestors requires coming into respectful and honourable relationship with the Land that sustains us and the People who belong to the Land.
Click the link below to download the Teaching audio to your device.
Now I can sing “The Ancestors telling me I got worth.” without crying - most days.
Lol! It’s a process.
Anishinaabeg Source - a collection of Indigenous resources for language and cultural learning.
Please identify the Nation, Lands + Treaties of the Land on which you live.
Ho'oponopono (Ho Oh Pono Pono) - Hawaiian Forgiveness and Reconciliation Meditation. I recommend coming into relationship with Indigenous Spiritual practice only after you have re-connected to your own Ancestral roots, Cultural and Spiritual ground.
The return to our cultural roots and healing our Ancestral connections is the return to the past that this prophecy foretold.
we are learning how to be today by returning to those who went before.
How FAR before is dependent on when the cut off from Land occurred.
The Tapping Solution app added a Daily Guidance card deck that will randomly choose a Tapping sequence for you.
This seems entirely appropriate. :D
Indigenous TikTok Creators:
I joined TikTok to follow “Native Reacts” from YouTube, and my first follows were all Indigenous. In no particular order:
Che Jim - (for the lols)
Uncle Salty - (more lols)
All of these Creators have added to my knowledge and encouraged further education. This is a start. You will be guided to teachings that resonate with your own Spiritual Path and Place.
Truth and Reconciliation
I believe strongly that everyone who calls Mishiike Minisi (Turtle Island, North America) home, is required to learn about the true history of Colonization and the creation of our current socio-political nation states. We weren’t taught the true history of our countries or the actual treatment of the Original Peoples.
The least we can do is learn the truth.
These courses were fundamental and transformational learning for me. Professor Willie Ermine, in 4 Seasons of Reconciliation suggested that Settlers reconnect to our roots and connect to our own language and culture - so I did, and it changed my life.
UNDRIP - The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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This is a great way to re-connect to our body when we're spiraling into anxiety or future fears or overwhelm.
All fears are alleviated to some degree by coming back into our bodies and being here now. Come back into our body and Belong to the Earth again. Tapping helps.
You are encouraged to create your own script - one that resonates with you and creates an emotional connection to your body.
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This is harder than it looks. I try to bring awareness to my body and where I'm holding in as often as I can remember in a day. It's amazing how tight and contorted we are on a regular basis.
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That's all. I just wanted you to know.
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Visit Land to which you feel heart connected.
Ask the Land to offer &/or permit you take an item with which you can make art ceremony.
Take what you feel in your heart, soul and roots that you have been offered.
Give thanks and reciprocity for the gift from Land.
ask Land what they would like to receive in reciprocity.
my own experiences are seed, feed, compost, water, song, dance… there are an infinite number of ways to show gratitude to the land. If it is from your heart it will be received.
get into the mothachadh state and make art marks with the item the land has given you.
only you can know how those things need to be used.
trust your guidance.
allow the process to happen.
allow yourself to be taught by Spirit through the form of the gift object given by Land.
Have at least one sleep.
Return to the art ceremony and listen for the next steps:
do you need to rework the art?
do prayers or spells need to be said into the World of Form?
does the piece require a state change? Does it need to be burned or buried or drowned?
What is Land + Spirit asking for you to do next?
Do that thing.
Give thanks and reciprocity.
Record the results… because you know what will happen.