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Hi EagleSinging,

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I've let my experiences shape my life instead of walking through it with intention. I so easily get caught up in my mundane life.

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Hon, everyone does that from time to time. I think, at least for me, that getting into the habit of centering in the morning helps, it starts the day with intention which generally allows us to stay focused on both the mundane and the spiritual as they weave together. Now I do this morning and evening, the energy changes at dawn and dusk and I like attuning to both, but there are days and we all have them where I'm centering on the hour. Be gentle with yourself...there's no need to make it a difficult journey. There's bumps in the road for all of us to navigate but we don't have to put them there or dig pot holes. Okay?

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I've been sensing that this year has been one of great significance for me....thing is though I'm not seeing just "how". I feel it. I sense it. My body has been in turmoil not knowing what to make of the change of energies within me. My mind is frustrated that I can't figure it out. My Higher Self tells me to be patient, in time.

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Your Higher Self is right. Sometimes what we're feeling is change that runs as deep as to go to the cellular level. When that's happening it takes awhile to settle and come to the surface. We don't always see the changes for what they are, we try and most of the time we do pretty good, but we are human. Working with our Guides and being mindful of "how" we walk our path in life is a big help. These teachings give us a monthly focus, a pattern to follow as it applies to our life and the things we're experiencing, that's the beauty of it, it fits everyone.

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I recently turned 41 and since then I've sensed there will be a culmination, an end in sight, where pieces will fall together. Whether that is related to passing the day of "another year older" or just the energies of the summer I'm not sure, but the timing was clear to me.

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See, now these are things that I find fascinating. You feel something so strongly, if nothing more than the timing of matters and I find it exciting to watch the events unfold and come to those validations. The more you trust the impressions you hold the more you come to see why you hold them. They do guide you, trust your senses, they are your radar. *Soft smile* I hope you find the 13 lessons have benefit to you and bring you through your year of culmination/s.

Earthwalker

Hi BIM,

You've asked good questions...

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Ahhh...What about men? Are the Thirteen Lessons for women only? They get their lessons from Father Sun, don't they?

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Oh yes, they do, but they also get them from the women in their lives (good and bad) that expose them to these things. Most 'public teachings' (for lack of a better term) have been masculine teachings throughout history. Only in the last decade or so have the women begun to put things into written form and address their ways to the public. A sign of changes to come of the balancing natures of masculine and feminine energy as the feminine emerges. (Think feminist movement and when that started...there have been many signs of change along these lines for decades now.) So the old ways are being brought out on both sides, blended into the populace, adapted to the needs of today, and merging into the process of fundamental changes. The old foundations are still strong, but they need some jiggles.

BIM, patriarchal society for a long time chose to ignore the value in the feminine, and to their detriment, they lost those insights of value to them. Today that's shifting and women's voices are being heard. Is it any wonder that there isn't spiritual timing for the energy itself to penetrate ALL our lives?

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Where did you "get" this? Was it a vision or something? The names of the Teachers are interesting ~ they sound like the names of people, but you call them "aspects" of Grandmother Moon.

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The essence of the feminine teachings is within the Moon...reflecting light into the darkness and searching spiritual and sensory truths within ourselves. Inner reflection, basement work. In Native and Nature-based teachings of all traditions I've explored the spiritual essence of all spiritual forces are personified because there is a relationship to humans that when delved seriously into can open a channel to the direct essence and communication with it. When someone says that the Earth Mother came and spoke words to them they are talking about an audible voice they heard, a woman's voice that contains the essence of all motherhood in its unconditional love. They will hear the tone of address, the essence carry with each word spoken, they will be impressed and it is an external experience, it's not a voice in your head. Grandmother Moon has a voice too. We have to learn to communicate with her to come to hear it though. (This is another topic altogether but basically they are spirits so given names according to their nature or role.) Think the phrase: "All Gods Are One God"..."God has a thousand names." Those names are aspects of the whole.

These particular names are from the southwestern Native tradition of the Senecas.

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Each year the lessons are named the same, all about "truth?"

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Yes. Truth has many layers, it opens our eyes to everything around us. The lessons come as they come through many different experiences but with these teachings and the outline of understanding that allows one to process the experiences we continue, year after year after year, to expand our own knowledge, understanding, and therefore our wisdom.

Think about how you learned the placement of the stones in the Medicine Wheel. Think about where you started and how far you've come each time you went back to one of the stones to better understand it; or to the experiences you had as these teachings applied over time...it expanded your understanding and with that you learned new perceptions, deeper meanings, and greater skills in dealing with life and your own process of growth. Patterns form that teach us things and the pattern, like a mathematical matrix, is going to solve any equation you place into it. There is value to the matrix. Women's Medicine has a matrix, Men's Medicine has a matrix, the Medicine Wheel has a matrix. Understanding the matrix lets you understand that aspect of the teachings. Those teachings are being exposed today to all of us, men and women alike...why? Because there is a call to unity....balance...wholeness. We're each experiencing it personally and socially and in our relationships in any capacity. Individually and globally as a whole...We're being made aware of our own evolutionary process and we're trying to find our bearings with that. Native teachings are one avenue to offer a matrix. There are many out there though.

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Haven't they always? Has the male awareness factor been heightened suddenly this year?

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Yes they have but they've chosen (again in generality here because there are many men that do understand these things) not to heed that energy much. And yes, it has become heightened this year specifically. See my article on the Solar Crone for more insight into this, but this is a year of very strong feminine energy being expressed. Grandmother moon appeared at the beginning of January with her first aspect/lesson/personification aligned to the flow of the year...12 lessons, 12 months, alignment that leads to the culmination of the 13th Moon at the end of the year. It's definitely a year of feminine esssence emerging. The lunar cycles aligned and that creates the ebb and flow of life through the tides that affect all life forms. You may be sorry you got me going on this. ROFL

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Why only this year? Why not last year? How about next year?

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I just explained that reason for it happening now. It didn't happen last year because the alignment wasn't there...the timing wasn't right (look to astrology and alignments to understand the flow of the universal energies and to the seasons for the flow of elemental energies)...timing of things is set by Spirit in that way.

Next year will be what it will be. I'm only able to address what I see now and what guidance is giving me to share. Next year has not been addressed to me as yet (I'm generally given an overview at the beginning of the year and a three month window as it unfolds...that's my way of seeing.) I'm very focused on the Now at the moment. I can tell you the lessons will repeat though, and we'll keep studying until we get them right and can expand our understanding further...each in our own way on our own time. I'll share more as it's shown to me and as we go for that reason...but the energy that is present now will carry us and the unfolding will continue as change manifests itself.