The List

As per usual on the Shamanic Path, I am undergoing yet another initiation/rite of passage. This feels like a big one. If such things have beginnings, I can pretty much trace the start of this one back to last summer when I experienced my first Sundance. I had made a skin offering as a dedication to my path, no matter what it looks like or where it leads, and things have been building ever since then. 

But this is the blog for my comics so I don't want to go into too much detail here, however Blogging is definitely on my list that this comic represents. Stay tuned!

My dear friend Rev. Judith Laxer cameos in this comic and had asked me to tweak the wording a bit, some of which was successful. But she pointed out that it is the Wise Woman Tradition, not Way. Try as I might I couldn't squeeze the word tradition into the allocated space.  

Check out Judith's website for Tarot, Hypnotherapy, and Ministerial Services at Judithlaxer.com, and join her congregation celebrating the Divine Feminine at Gaia's Temple, in person or online!

And in case you're curious, here is my actual original list as it appears in my journal...

 

Pipe Song

Another episode from my adventure attending my first Sundance this past summer.

 

Humming Along With Gratitude

I received a huge honor recently when I was invited to my first Lakota Sundance Ceremony. With all the energetic shifts that have taken place in me since then, not only was it an amazing experience, but it was actually life-changing. 

I have other comic pages in the works around my experience there, but this was the first immediate work concerning it. Especially because the song I learned is a Thank You Song, it seemed appropriate to begin with gratitude. 

Here are the lyrics and English translation as best I could gather from various sources:

WOPILA SONG (Thank You Song) 

Wakan Tanka Tunkasila

Great Spirit, Grandfather

Pilamaya yelo he

I thank you

Canunpa wakan cha maya ku welo he

You have given me a sacred pipe

Pilamaya ye, pilamaya yelo he 

Thank you, thank you

Wicozani wa maya ku welo he

You have given me a good healing

Pilamaya ye, pilamaya yelohe

Thank you, thank you