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Sacred Spirituality |
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What is Women's Medicine? |
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Womens Medicine includes the lessons of the West. Let's compare it with what we consider masculine on the Medicine Wheel, or East/Air: |
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East
Air
Masculine
Mental Abilities
Clarity/Focus
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West
Water
Feminine
Emotions
Intuition
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Looking at it in this manner, it is easy to see the differences. |
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West is where Mother Bear dwells. One important lessons she teaches us is about going within, into the blackness of the cave, to hibernate, or for introspection within our own minds. This helps us to develop all of our gifts, and to incorporate everything we have learned into our lives. Women traditionally went into the Black Lodges for their monthly cycles, where they had time for introspection, to work on crafts, to converse and commune with other women, to take time off
from their duties, and have time to spend on themselves. Many things would be discussed in these Moon Lodges, such as Women's Gifts. Intuition is one of these gifts. It can lead to exploring all of our many gifts, when properly developed.
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Women used their time in the Moon Lodge
to develop their gifts, and their feminine intuition, for the good of all. Dreams and visions were discussed, as well as different means of divination, and its outcome. This
was a time of nurturing oneself and one's abilities and gifts, a time set aside from
caring for others, to focus on oneself.
Today's women have lost this connection to their womanhood, and this spirit of sisterhood, developed in the Moon Lodges of old. To bring this back, will enable us all to heal and to become balanced once more, by recognizing
and honoring our feminine side. |
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Our emotional body is also located in the West. Our emotions help us to feel others through our intuition and other abilities. This is how emotions and intuition are tied together.Mother Bear brings her own lessons to our lives. She teaches us about protecting and caring for our young, and personal strength. These, too, are feminine gifts. Women are, first and foremost, mothers, protecting and caring for their young. Women bring life into the world, and carry the life force into the future. For this, women need to develop their personal strength, to know their worth, and to stand up for themselves, and their rights,
in the family, in the tribe, and in the world.
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Women have become second class citizens in this male-dominated, violence-ridden society. War and aggression are not womens gifts or abilities, and we find that, for the most part, it goes against our nature of reproducing and sustaining the life force. We women need to find it within ourselves to take back our rightful place in society, for our voices need to be heard, the world needs to know that those who bring life into the world would not have it killed needlessly. This useless killing has overrun our society, from other humans, to animals, to plants and trees. And it takes all of these to keep the world propagating into the future, and to keep the cycle of life in balance. When we overkill, we destroy that delicate balance.
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This is where Womens Medicine is sorely missing in this world. Their gifts are not valued, their abilities are not used, their voices are not heard. To restore the balance in the world will take healing on all levels. Women represent this healing, Women have this medicine. We need to begin to listen to them and respect them again. It is only when each woman decides to take her rightful place in society, to embrace her womanness, and her abilities, and to use them for the good of us all, that we will begin to recover, and to heal.
And that is why Womens Medicine is a very important subject, an important teaching, and an invaluable resource for us all, for now, and for the future. |
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To return to
Women's Medicine main page,
Click Here:: |
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To return to
Sacred Spirituality Home Page,
Click Here: |
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*Updated Tuesday 03 February 2009* |
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