The Eagle Feather

The Eagle Feather
by Randy Macey, Mohawk



When the world was new, the Creator made all the birds. He colored their feathers like a bouquet of flowers. The Creator then gave each a distinct song to sing. The Creator instructed the birds to greet each new day with a chorus of their songs. Of all the birds, our Creator chose the Eagle to be the leader.



The Eagle flies the highest and sees the furthest of all creatures. The Eagle is a messenger to the Creator. During the Four Sacred Rituals, we will wear an Eagle Feather in our hair. To wear or to hold the Eagle Feather causes our Creator to take immediate notice. With the Eagle Feather the Creator is honored in the highest.



When one receives an Eagle Feather, that person is being acknowledged with gratitude, with love, and with ultimate respect. Sacred tobacco must be burned for that feather. In this way the Eagle and the Creator are notified of the name of the new Eagle Feather Holder. The holder of the Eagle Feather must ensure that anything that changes the natural state of ones mind (Alcohol and Drugs) must never come in contact with the sacred Eagle Feather. The keeper of the feather then makes a little home where the feather will be kept.



The Eagle feather must be fed. One feeds the Eagle Feather by holding or wearing the feather at sacred ceremonies. By doing this, the Eagle Feather is recharged with sacred energy. One must never abuse, never disrespect, and never contaminate his Eagle Feather.

For more eagle stories, go here.



For your eagle charm, go here.
And for an Eagle Cam, check here.

Buffalo Dusk

Buffalo Dusk

by Carl Sandburg



The buffaloes are gone.



And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

And those who saw buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their great hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a pageant of dusk,

 

Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.



And the buffaloes are gone.  

 


Buffalo charms can be found here.

Confessions of a Bead-Driven Cat, Part I

My human thinks I'm a little bit insane.



Just because I lie in her In Box all day and make strange sounds.  And it's true.  I'm not quite right in the head.  But I'm working on it.  No, I'm not seeing a therapist.  Do you really think VPI would cover that?  Ha!  They barely cover hairballs.  And I don't do meds.  The odds of the Human putting anything down my throat are pretty slim.  She still has a scar from the last time she tried.



But think about it.  I live in a bead room.  When I say I live there, well, I really live there.  Every so often (maybe once a day) I run outside the room like I've been seized with a higher purpose.  I make some noises and then I run back in.  Makes the dog think I'm doing something important.



In the bead room, the Human keeps many beads.  (That's why I call it the bead room.  Of course, I keep a lot of spare fur there and she doesn't call it the Fur Room, but I digress.)  And there are plenty of gemstone beads.  By plenty I mean hundred and thousand of gajillions.  And, as all cats know, different gemstones have different powers.  So I decided I'd treat my neuroses and psychoses with gemstones. 

Last week I was having flashbacks.  I was remembering living under the fig tree, being pelted by overripe figs the squirrels had missed, with my Feral Mama and my two sisters.  This is before the Human rescued us.  (By then my sister was hiding in the wheel well of a parked car.  You can imagine the flashbacks she has.)  I was seeing figs everywhere.  Well, figs and those gigantic squirrels that hang out by the fig tree and the avocado tree.

I'd look at my bowl of Friskies Pate and I see... FIGS!  Nothing but figs!  Clearly something needed to be done.  So I dipped into the gemstones.  It's not the first time I've done that, and it won't be the last.  First I opened the container of Mookaite.  (The Human thought the lid didn't ft any more and muttered something about those friggin' Smart and Final containers but really, it was moi.)  I went for the Mookaite because Mookaite is said to be a stone of the "here and now."  And I needed to be here and now instead of with those figs and squirrels   Mookaite is particularly useful for protecting emotions, and I was on the brink of making some really strange sounds.



Then I found the stash of Tiger's Eye.  The Human has quite a fondness for Tiger's Eye.  It can keep away the evil eye, they say, and I need that because I'm quite lovely.  (Many of the Insanes are.)  But this time I snagged one because it brings clear thinking and insight; it has the power to focus the mind.  I then repeated "There are no figs.  There are no figs.  There are no figs."  I was starting to feel better.





But I was still a little shaky, and starting to make my sounds again.  "Meep.  Meep.  Meep."  The Perky House Human thinks this is cute.  She gets to stay.  Anyway, I went back to the bead stash and this time I pulled out Silver Leaf Jasper.





Silver Leaf Jasper encourages willpower. The Human says it's worn by independent, highly disciplined people, but I think it would be equally useful for someone (say, a Cat) who isn't highly disciplined but would like to be.  That's moi.  I'd like to stop thinking about figs.




While the Human made a necklace and earrings with the gemstones I selected...




I took one of the Tiger's Eye beads...



...and hid it in my cat box.



That way, when The Human cleans the cat box, she'll find it.  Then she'll think there are more beads in there and she'll have to sift through the whole thing.



Bwahahahahahahahaha!

I told you I was crazy.



Oh yes.  If you want the necklace and earring set, The Human listed it here.

Jumpin’ Gem Flash is a Gas, Gas, Gas

I love gemstones. When I was a kid I had an awesome rock collection. I was always dragging home rocks. When my parents went on vacations to far off lands and would ask what they should bring me, the answer was generally “rocks.”

When Chris was in New Mexico, he went to Carlsbad Caverns. I was SO jealous.

As a consolation prize, he took me to a gem shop ion Albuquerque where I promptly became addicted. Today, since my stash had dropped below 50 pounds, I called them and made them hand-select some gemstone strands for me.

There are gemstone treasures in our future.

There are some right now, in fact. I made this necklace from unakite and tiger’s eye.

For those of you who are so inclined:

Tiger's Eye, or Cat's Eye is said to let you see everything. Use the cat's eye for insight and it will bring you luck. When used in jewelry the cat's eye is thought to bring good luck and protection from the evil eye to the wearer. It also thought to bring clear thinking and insight. It is a stone for the mind, not the body; it has the power to focus the mind.

Unakite, aka Unikite or Unakite Jasper, is a stone with gentle but powerful energy that can assist one in finding one’s animal guide. A good protection stone, Unakite brings unconditional love of humanity, connection and reunion. It is thought to be very helpful for pregnancy and childbirth and can help with healing of abandonment and separation issues.

I’m perfectly happy to find an animal guide, but mostly I think these stones are really beautiful.





They’re here: http://stores.ebay.com/Cornerstoregoddess. And eBay can’t hurt me because I have tiger’s eye protection. So there.