Rewdan
Rewdan: ... I am just not really entirely sure what you want me to say However, I googled Native American Tarot and the only Strength card that came up on my search is labelled as card 11 and the picture had a Native American man pictured with a wolf and their eyes were locked into one another's. I do not really know if that helps or not though.
Good to hear from you . And, certainly no worries please about not knowing what to say. I am simply expressing what comes through me. Believe me, I am learning a great deal here through your current experience with Strength. To explain this (before I get on to the American Indian story):
I am in a fulfilling marriage/partnership - as are some others on this thread. So why are we here, identifying with you, as if involved & participating in your partnership issue? Simple psychological answer: it is not simply a partnership issue, but something more profoundly unresolved in the psyche. You carry and reflect to us a wider unresolved issue: of inner strength and inner will - in each of us. Speaking for myself I do feel powerless (without strength or will) about a lot of things - especially in the wider world.
MandMaud: thanks for links to Native American Tarot decks. I looked through these, and did a few hours of study on the web about American Indian Mythology. So I have a greater perspective on:
A Dark and Denied side of America
Where to start with facing up to the American underbelly (definition of underbelly: a hidden unpleasant or criminal part of society) - its American Indian dark side? How to make the American Indian darkness in the American psyche conscious, and bring its strength and will into our own lives. [For those psychologically inclined: How does one confront this American Shadow?].
I believe we need to confront the American Indian unconscious in its starkest and most absolute (Shadow) form: where its greatest hidden inner STRENGTH lies. For now, identifying, naming and acknowledging this inner STRENGTH and power is, I believe, sufficient.
Where does the greatest power and strength reside in the American Indian psyche? As can be seen below, the all powerfulness of the American lands for the Indians across America was held by:
The Great Spirit.
Tribal Names:
"Ababinili" is the Chickasaw name for the Great Spirit
"Apistotoke" is the Blackfoot name for the Great Spirit
"Caddi-Ayo" is the name of the Caddo Great Spirit
"Chebbeniathan" is the name of the Arapaho Great Spirit
"Gici Niwaskw" is the name of the Abenaki Great Spirit
"Gitchi Manitou" is the name of the Ojibwe Great Spirit
"Gudatrigakwitl" is a name of the Wiyot Indian Great Spirit
"Ha-Wen-Neyu" is the name of the Huron Indian Great Spirit
"Kisulkw" is the name of the Micmac Indian Great Spirit
"Ketanitowet" is the Lenape Indian Great Spirit
"Maheo" is the Cheyenne Indian Great Spirit
"Orenda" is the Iroquois Indian Great Spirit
Sky-Chief (Carib Indian Great Spirit)
Spider of Heaven (Gros Ventre Great Spirit)
"Tam Apo" is the Shoshone name for the Great Spirit - meaning "Our Father"!
"Tirawa Atius" is the Pawnee Indian Great Spirit
"Utakke" is the Carrier Great Spirit
"Wakan Tanka": the Sioux name for the Great Spirit, 'Wakan Tanka', translates as the Great Mystery and referred to as the "Great Incomprehensibility" The Sioux believed that every object was spirit, or "wakan."
"Wakonda" is the Omaha Indian Great Spirit
The differences in the beliefs connected to the Great Spirit are demonstrated by the variety of different names given by tribes in reference to the Great Spirit. Note: The above is made/copied from some sources on the web. The list may have errors, and may not be complete.
The above is, simply, an effort to:
- acknowledge the American Indian in us across the world; because America as a nation has extended its influence across the globe, it has brought into many other nations, and their psyches, the influence of the unconscious American Indian
- begin a dialogue with the American Indian Spirit in us
- establish contact and communication with the American Indian Spirit in us; this can then begin to work within us, in our different ways.