Kindred Spirits Lodges - Self Mastery

SELF MASTERY

I want you to consider the concept of self-mastery and become more conscious of your work in this area.  Self-mastery is the ability to master your reactions to all experiences.  My book, Love and Power, is all about self-mastery.  It would be good for you to reread it this year.  To help you further with self-mastery, I am introducing the Mastery Lodges for Kindred Spirits. These are lodges of endeavor and experience that are specific for mastery in a particular area of life experience. I want you to focus on one of the lodges this year.  You will need to consider which one you would like to work in for the year.  In future years, I would like you to move through each of the lodges so that you gain the most from this teaching. 

 

THE MASTERY LODGES

 

The Dreaming Bear Lodge

The Dreaming Bear Lodge is concerned with mastery of your ability to manifest your dream in the world.  
 
This lodge serves to create greater mastery of the physical and spiritual aspects of life while gaining more skill and awareness about how we manifest and balance “Love and Power” in the world.  Activities and tasks may include working with The Love and Power Journal, studying your dreams, working with guardians and the Dream Master and doing a specifically related act of power.
 
This lodge is especially helpful for apprentices who want to gain more mastery and balance between the spiritual realm and the physical world, i.e., one’s work and relationships.  Translating one’s own dream symbols, unconscious content, moods, fantasies, and feelings as ways to gain more knowledge about how one lives in the world will be closely examined.
 
DREAMING BEAR LODGE IS CURRENTLY:
Practicing weekly, the Arts of Synchronized Dream-Ins and Image Divination. Specific Power sites are also visited in the Dream Time weekly.  Apprentices have been storing Power in their Dreaming Bear Lodge to use in times of change or to heal themselves and others.

 

The Golden Eagle Lodge

The Golden Eagle Lodge is concerned with mastery of the artistic experience.
 
This lodge serves to hold the energy for creative expression. Activities and experiences help to facilitate creative effort and may include: creating various works of art, enticing the muses to join you, developing therapies using creativity and working on an act of power.  
 
This lodge is especially helpful for artists and for those apprentices working on specific creative projects, such as writing.
 
GOLDEN EAGLE LODGE IS CURRENTLY:
Drawing individuals who are seeking support for their artistic endeavors or perhaps just a nudge toward manifesting that which they have imagined but may have held at bay for some time.  Over the course of several years, this lodge has routinely stalked two concepts in particular: the definition of creativity and manifesting acts of power.  Although creativity has generally been defined as being an artist--pen, paint, tap shoe and so on--the definition of creativity has become much broader in our lodge.  Golden Eagles have been deconstructing and finding their individual recipes and definitions of creativity, creation, create. In this lodge, we have been pursuing non-doing versus doing or not-doing and in turn have often found the bravery and the heat in our bellies to move toward and through acts of power we had not imagined before.
 
The Golden Eagle Lodge is an elaborate nest made up of branches from each of our trees of life, speckled with everyone’s sparkling treasures that beckon the muses. Our nest manifests both the nectar and the perimeter from which we can gather our luminous fibers and then with eagle vision, fly toward our acts of power on the luminous fiber of our intent.
 
Like the other lodges, we come together in circle at both the Joshua Tree and Ghost Ranch gatherings. Then, in between gatherings, we connect on monthly conference calls.  And last, if you have the technology, there is always the immediacy of e-mail, that is encouraged as another means of connection and sharing.

 

The Snowy Owl Lodge

The Snowy Owl Lodge is concerned with the mastery of the transition experience.  

This lodge serves to hold the energy for blending the physical and the spirit. Activities and experiences help to facilitate an integration of the physical and spirit and may include: working with the Wise Woman gateway, developing ideas for working with death and dying, developing tools to work with completion and rebirth, developing tools for working with transitions and change and working on an act of power.  
 
This lodge is especially helpful for those apprentices who are experiencing menopause or another significant gateway.
 
SNOWY OWL LODGE IS CURRENTLY:
 
On a mission to assist both ourselves and others in moving through the transitions in our lives with awareness and intent, resulting in our consciously experiencing transformation.
 
The purpose of this lodge is to provide a place where one can retreat and regroup.  It is a place of “ being”, versus a place of action or achievement. It is a place where the movement is slow and purposeful as one learns how to move through a life   transition. Such transitions may be chronological in nature (such as birth, puberty, menopause, death), or they may be situational (a job change, a move to a different location, an act of power). The amount of time spent in this place of respite depends upon the needs of the individual; some may only stay a short time, until they feel prepared to move to another direction on the wheel.  Others may stay longer, needing the time to look within, to initiate or complete an act of power or to simply rest.  
 
The Snowy Owl Lodge is a place of transformation. It holds the energy for the blending of the physical and the spirit.

 

The Star Woman Lodge

The Star Woman Lodge is concerned with the mastery of self-fulfillment.
 
This lodge serves to hold the energy for personal growth.  Our activities and experiences help to facilitate growth and fulfillment and may include: making a personal power shield, beading, making sacred baskets, working with crystal gazing and hand trembling and working on an act of power.
 
This lodge is especially helpful for those apprentices who are committed to family and/or professional life and those who are on a path for personal growth, not necessarily for a professional career.  

STAR WOMAN LODGE IS CURRENTLY:
 
The Star Woman Lodge is in the Center of the Sacred Wheel.  We work with the energies and teachings of White Star Woman.  This lodge is also known as “the Clay Pot Lodge”.  Our focus is on the mastery of self-fulfillment.  We define our passion and our bliss and manifest our deepest desires through our Acts of Power. Our circle empowers and blesses our path with love, deep sisterhood, pleasure and comfort (and fun)!  The Star Woman Lodge blessing is, "I honor you and support you in your Act of Power."

 

The Lodge of the Sacred Fire

The Lodge of the Sacred Fire is concerned with the mastery of maintaining your connection with Great Spirit.  
 
This lodge serves to hold the sacred fire for healers.  Activities and experiences help to facilitate connection with the Divine and may include: working with elementals, making healing medicine bags, making altars, building a dreaming sweat and/or working on an act of power.  
 
This lodge is especially helpful for those apprentices who are working as healers or aspiring to healing work.
 
LODGE OF THE SACRED FIRE CURRENTLY:
 

The Sacred Fire is a place where all elements come together for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment, healing and prayer.  

  By working within the sacred fire through our prayers and visions we create a space for purity, clearing by burning away discord and dis-ease and transformation.  

  Agnes Whistling Elk is our elder from the Sisterhood who helps direct and guide us. often sending messages through the heat of the fire, the flames or the smoke.   

  Our lodge work includes holding a container for healing and transformation for all in Kindred Spirits, the Mystery School, first year students, ourselves, our families, our communities and our planet. through our ceremonies and our prayers we create a safe place for clearing, energizing transformation and promoting new points of view free of obstacles that may drag, burden or hinder one for their truth.

New Moon

    This call is mostly an open forum. using messages from Agnes and the Sisterhood and reading the energy of the moment, pulling cards and working with words. A tapestry of learning, reflection and healing is woven to support the Divinity of our earth walk. 

Full Moon Healing Dance

    A ceremony created many years ago by the first fire lodge members. It is a take away from the Sundance which is a powerful dance for healing. In this we whomp up the energy by dancing and each of us brings prayers for healing, prayer requests are spoken, individual prayers and prayers for Kindred Spirits, the Mystery School and first year students are supported. By dancing around the fire the flames and energy builds and creates a powerful setting for healing . People of prayer requests are energetically placed in the fire for healing and transformation as we pray for them dancing in the flames.  

Standing in the Fire Ceremony - (A Dreaming Ceremony)

   There is another ceremony that is for lodge members for healing and support of things they may be doing and need the help of the fire energy. Of course if someone in KS needs extra support this is a place to add them for the month. This ceremony is Standing in the Fire. From full moon to full moon several people stand in the fire and four others are direction holders holding the energy. The other lodge members stoke this fire with prayers and support of these people. Each month the people in the fire step out and others step in, the direction holders shift positions and hold the energy. .

Clearing Mother Earth  - (A Dreaming Ceremony)

   Is a ceremony for cleaning and clearing the earth grid through the sacred fire. We are focusing on those places that are under great assault from those who are trying to place their imprint for control on others. Clearing the luminous fibers in a special way that frees everyone of the clutter, assault prints and discord. The focus right now is on Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and the United States. As these are cleared with the intention of allowing them to find their own destiny. The idea is to continue around the world. The intention is to support the energies of the Earth assisting in clearing debris and balancing the energy for greater good.

  Our work is through the fire and that shifts constantly. It is not always such high energy. 

Everyone in Kindred Spirits is invited to join us at any time, leave requests for prayers and support for projects or just sitting by the embers of the fire.

Namaste