I noodled this up this afternoon. A larger version is available by request (email me!). Sun Bear was born in 1929 on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. He was founder and Medicine Chief of the Bear Tribe Medicine Society. As a young boy he began having visions which portended his development as a medicine man and teacher. He studied with his uncles – who were medicine men – and continued throughout his life to learn from … Read entire article »

While researching on the web (I am organizing a shamanic weekend) I discovered a simple, but effective set of tables to interpret Sun Bear’s Medicine Wheel Earth Astrology (Sun Bear and Wabun). More information can be found HERE. What I especially liked was this person’s interpretation of the table for the Southern Hemisphere, where they live. Proof again that Shamanism is about adaptation and that we are ALL Rainbow Warriors! The tables are as follows: THE MEDICINE WHEEL REFERENCE CHART – Northern Hemisphere DATES MOON ANIMAL PLANT MINERAL SPIRIT KEEPER COLOUR COMPLEMENT CLAN N Dec.22-Jan.19 Earth Renewal Snow Goose Birch Tree Quartz Waboose White Flicker Turtle Jan.20-Feb.18 Rest & Cleansing Otter Quaking Aspen Silver Waboose Silver Sturgeon Butterfly Feb.19-March 20 Big Winds Cougar Plantain Turquoise Waboose Blue-Green Brown Bear Frog E March 21-April 19 Budding Trees Red Hawk Dandelion Fire Opal Wabun Yellow Raven Thunderbird April 20-May 20 Frogs Return Beaver Blue Camas Chrysocolla Wabun Blue Snake Turtle May 21-June 20 Corn Planting Deer Yarrow Moss Agate Wabun White & Green Elk Butterfly S June 21-July22 Strong Sun Flicker Wild Rose Carnelian Agate Shawnodese Pink Snow Goose Frog July 23-Aug.22 Ripe Berries Sturgeon Raspberry Garnet & Iron Shawnodese Red Otter Thunderbird Aug.23-Sept.22 Harvest Brown Bear Violet Amethyst Shawnodese Purple Cougar Turtle W Sept.23-Oct.23 Ducks Fly Raven Mullein Jasper Mudjekeewis Brown Red Hawk Butterfly Oct.24-Nov.21 Freeze Up Snake Thistle Copper & Malachite Mudjekeewis Orange Beaver Frog Nov.22-Dec.21 Long Snows Elk Black Spruce Obsidian Mudjekeewis Black Deer Thunderbird THE … Read entire article »

It has always been my belief that music is the universal language, why else would a child learn to coo before speaking words? Whether you have perfect pitch or are as tone deaf as a soupcan in the rain Earth Mother loves to hear your songs.  Here are some tonal sounds to get you started. AH (short A) - to open the pathways in your mind. AIO (long A, long I, long O) - ancient chant to connect to the Earth MA (as in Mama) - connection of child to mother A (long A) - to seek illumination - Masculine - Sound of the East Wind - linked to the colours White and Gold - Call to the Ether and Spirit - Sound of divine unity - Call to the intellectual - Call for Truth - In the positive … Read entire article »