Vijali beginning her world wheel in the first ceremony in Malibu

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Two hours before the ceremony I started to prepare myself. I rubbed rich brown earth and colors onto my skin. My limbs became dark turning into the charcoal of burnt matter. My hands and face were earth brown turning red, the heat of bubbling lava. In my hair I tied a tumble weed I had found on my walks at Boney Mountain and then wove my long brown hair into the dried branches. It looked like my hair was standing on end and was part of the flames of my face. The preparation was important for me and a ritual of transformation, not only physically but of my consciousness. By the time I had finished, I truly felt I was not Vijali but made of the elements of earth. I was Gaia.

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Art and healing is often not what our culture supports. It is new, often revolutionary, and many time our family members don't fully understand why we are dancing as bears, picking up roadkill and going into the hospital with paints and feathers......so

Being a healing artist requires trust. Trust that the path of art and healing is real, powerful, and that you are HER.

When you have a spiritual experience, a shift, a visionary experience the first requirement is trust in the experience as real, powerful and you.

This is not so easy, with the ordinary  world being formed in three dimensional space and the culture we live in not seeing spirits.

When you pray, you ask for what you want, or what is wanted for you comes to you in the prayer. Spirit guides spirit animals ancestors teachers speak to you when you make the consciousness shift and go into sacred ceremonial space, wherever however it is.

In art and healing many artist healers have had a vision, of themselves and what they are to do. Then….the issue is trust.

First trust the vision… is it real, where did it come from, whose voice? Etc.

Then trust the actions necessary to implement the life of the vision…

Trust is helped by seeing what happens as you begin to act, evaluating how your life and the lives of others around you are changing, is it compassion????

Ummmm

I often use Vijali as an example, because she went on a vision quest sort of, left everything and lived as a hermit, had a vision and then…… acted big time with the world wheel. But …. She was not a mother, with children, made it easier I think, but all else was.

In these times, it may be lifesaving for yourself, others, community and earth to trust these visions and may be necessary to change your life big time……