HOLMES
two days ago I went to a funeral and watched as my uncle did his rituals for the funeral ceremony.
we talked over the years about dancers adding things to their outfits for they had dreams, or a vision. also about sometimes doing sweat lodges for he had a dream about it.
i know a singer who sometimes get up and talks about a song he just sang at the pow, or funerals on his traditional drum. he talks about the song coming to him in a dream or vision.
so as I watched the funeral I noticed something i didnt' see at my own brother funeral 2 years ago,, or other funerals before that.
my uncle pulled out a multi colour braid and smudge it and my mind i saw it like when a priest pulls out his purple cloth that you see on movies, (I haven't been around priests that much so movies is all i see) and I saw him put it around his head.
after the funeral as I caught a ride to the funeral with him,, i had the luxury of asking him about it on the way home.
there is a subculture or hidden ojbiwe traditional cutlure called mandowin (i really don't know it is spelt, that is how it sounds to me) where they put the red cloth around their heads while they do their work.
So I asked him if he got it from that.. he said no,, he had it come to him . (which means in a vision or dream) when he was doing ceromony about six months ago.
i got the sense that, was all i was going to be told so i let it dropped.
one thing to keep in mind here,, is he been at this for years, doing funerals, sweat lodges, as well as talking to older teachers when he was younger (so these older teachers passed on as well ). he didn't just adhere to ojibwe but when he was in 50s he traveled to the states and other places to witiness some cermonies . the point I am making is he just didnt' arbitartily add it to his ritual without some deep thought and checking with his spirit helpers.
so as I got up to get a drink of ice tea,, I had the thought perhaps that is why some of the old traditions was lost in the past so we can begin adding new things to keep with the new era.
I know in my own rituals, my tarot reading style changed from throwing down the soul message at the beginning to the ending, yet when it came to cutting the cards to 4 times like i wanted for the 4 direction i just found it worked better for me to keep to 3 times for the past, present and future. one thing that occured naturally about a year and half ago was the cleint praying with the tarot in their hands for guidance, to have the creator bless the cards, and giving thanks for the guidance, that just occured natural it seemed to me.
and my own sitting in power, charging up/vibration excerises has added and simplifed over the years, but that has come from knowledge, and not dreams or visions.
i guess if it was to apply to the tarot perhaps a reader had a mental insight flash that could be a quick clairavision, or a dream about perhaps the moon card.
at some point,, these rituals must of come from visions, or dream (at least the ones i am talking about where it comes to the native traditions and what people call shamanism ).
i don't know about wicca but some of it must of came from a dream or vision or perhaps channeling back in the day.
I suspect this is true for wiccans , and other people who do some sort of rituals ? that they after praticing some years get a dream, or vision and add to the ritual. which would make more personal and stronger for them come to think of it.
we talked over the years about dancers adding things to their outfits for they had dreams, or a vision. also about sometimes doing sweat lodges for he had a dream about it.
i know a singer who sometimes get up and talks about a song he just sang at the pow, or funerals on his traditional drum. he talks about the song coming to him in a dream or vision.
so as I watched the funeral I noticed something i didnt' see at my own brother funeral 2 years ago,, or other funerals before that.
my uncle pulled out a multi colour braid and smudge it and my mind i saw it like when a priest pulls out his purple cloth that you see on movies, (I haven't been around priests that much so movies is all i see) and I saw him put it around his head.
after the funeral as I caught a ride to the funeral with him,, i had the luxury of asking him about it on the way home.
there is a subculture or hidden ojbiwe traditional cutlure called mandowin (i really don't know it is spelt, that is how it sounds to me) where they put the red cloth around their heads while they do their work.
So I asked him if he got it from that.. he said no,, he had it come to him . (which means in a vision or dream) when he was doing ceromony about six months ago.
i got the sense that, was all i was going to be told so i let it dropped.
one thing to keep in mind here,, is he been at this for years, doing funerals, sweat lodges, as well as talking to older teachers when he was younger (so these older teachers passed on as well ). he didn't just adhere to ojibwe but when he was in 50s he traveled to the states and other places to witiness some cermonies . the point I am making is he just didnt' arbitartily add it to his ritual without some deep thought and checking with his spirit helpers.
so as I got up to get a drink of ice tea,, I had the thought perhaps that is why some of the old traditions was lost in the past so we can begin adding new things to keep with the new era.
I know in my own rituals, my tarot reading style changed from throwing down the soul message at the beginning to the ending, yet when it came to cutting the cards to 4 times like i wanted for the 4 direction i just found it worked better for me to keep to 3 times for the past, present and future. one thing that occured naturally about a year and half ago was the cleint praying with the tarot in their hands for guidance, to have the creator bless the cards, and giving thanks for the guidance, that just occured natural it seemed to me.
and my own sitting in power, charging up/vibration excerises has added and simplifed over the years, but that has come from knowledge, and not dreams or visions.
i guess if it was to apply to the tarot perhaps a reader had a mental insight flash that could be a quick clairavision, or a dream about perhaps the moon card.
at some point,, these rituals must of come from visions, or dream (at least the ones i am talking about where it comes to the native traditions and what people call shamanism ).
i don't know about wicca but some of it must of came from a dream or vision or perhaps channeling back in the day.
I suspect this is true for wiccans , and other people who do some sort of rituals ? that they after praticing some years get a dream, or vision and add to the ritual. which would make more personal and stronger for them come to think of it.