Wisewoman WisdomWalk™

IV. Going Beyond and Within the Self

Direction: North
Element: Earth
Body point: Center of chest
Chakra Color: Green
Medicine Wheel Color: White
Note: F
Sense: Touch
Meaning: Abundance, trust, protection, wisdom
Power Animals: White buffalo, unicorn, whale, dolphin, hummingbird
Gift: Be aware that love is the only authentic power! Truly and genuinely love yourself; be in touch with self and feelings, humanitarian, self-less; offer yourself freely and without conditions (Christ-like)
Sacrament: Marriage
Sefirah: Tif'eret
Symbols: Ankh, Sun, Cross, Tibetan Medicine Buddha
Tarot: The Lovers, The Sun, Strength

The Spiritual Challenge of "Love is Divine Power"

Experiencing the energies and influences of the fourth chakra is to encounter a central power point in the human energy system, a place where spiritual power and physical powers, the body and the soul, unite and combine, one flowing down into the physical container and the other flowing up from the earth and through all the lower chakras to meet it.

The energy that is produced can be called, "unconditional love." It is what Christ brought to the earth plane, and it is an intense, high frequency vibrational modality. It is an incredible powerful transcendental healing force. When activated, it is a ball of fire, of light, a powerball of energy similar to the Sun. It melts all boundaries and fuses all beings into oneness.

Many of us are shut down in this center, or in lower centers, and this energetic furnace is not serving us. It is the seat of our emotions and its main question is: how well do we love ourselves? Violations of the heart will cripple us physically and emotionally, it is vital that we cleanse and clear this center in order to survive and in order to find harmony in life. As Caroline Myss says, "An empty heart creates an empty life."

Exploring and Experiencing Compassion and Healing

Day 4

Morning session:
To explore this center and initiate ourselves to its powers, we will working with drumming the heart beat of life (about 72 beats per minute) and descending into a meditational state to receive guidance about places that need forgiveness and light within our physical self and our individual psyche. We will be expelling poisons and toxins from our bodies, minds and hearts. We will be using the "ham-sa" or "so-hum" mantra (breath of life) to expand our awareness of the heart center and to re-connect fully with the universe and the world outside the physical and energetic layers of our bodies.

We also will be contemplating the source and meaning of synchronicity in our lives. We will be discussing quantum physics and "physical" and material boundaries. The reality of instantaneous manifestation of intention will be experienced in the now. This session will activate and accelerate one's connection to the universal creative pool of energies; we will be keeping a journal of synchronicities for the next four days, and observing how this activation brings about increased self-awareness, and increased telephatic and empathic awareness among us.

Afternoon session:
We will hear the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman and her gift to the world. We will invoke the White Buffalo Father and his presence in our lives, as well as the Archangel Michael, and Christ-consciousness. We will be taking a circular hike in the wilderness of northern New Mexico to a cave and centuries-old sacred space where we will do a ritual activity using corn, tobacco and drumming, and a special ritual object that each of us discovers on our path to acknowledge our connection to all beings, all things, the Great Mother and Father, and the Great Spirit, and the entire universe. Through the expression of our gratitude and our ritual of thanks we will offer blessings and gifts to each other in a special "dance" of gratitude and blessing in a Medicine Circle.

Receiving the Blessing of Marriage

Evening session:
This session culminates with a celebration of the sacred rite of Marriage in which we meld hearts with each of us, the entire group as a whole, all of humanity, and with the Christ-consciousness grid above us and the Earth Mother below us. Invoking the ham-sa mantra and the language of dolphins and whales will be part of this ritual. In our hearts we will marry the Earth Mother to the Sky Father, and expand our heart center through the space/time continuum to prepare to greet the Shining Star People of the Sixth Chakra (this is similar to the Ankh ritual of the ancient Egyptians...read more here).

Positive Effects

Flexibility with energies, open to change and growth. Faith-based thinking, behavior.

Negative Effects

Stuck, afraid to let new things manifest. Fear-based thinking, behavior.