2.4 North - White or Red - Winter - Night

• White for snow from the North, for winter storms
  • Great white cleansing wind
• Red for blood of life, blood of the people
  • Blood for strength to face the storms - physical, sociological, psychological, spiritual, etc.
  • Earth, pipestone, blood of the people

2.4.1 Medicine Wheels

2.4.1.1 Wilson's Medicine Wheel (Wilson MW 57-61)

• Cougar - climbs high; female huntress
• Door of Search for Truth
  • Cougar - "theological and philosophical heights"
  • Hawk - "great vision, great hunter"
  • Goose - "perceptive, vision, insight, and long flight"
  • Wolf - "pathfinder and protector"
• Moons of the North
  • Earth Renewal Moon, December 22 - January 19
  • Rest and Cleansing Moon, January 20 - February 18
  • Big Winds Moon, February 19 - March 20
• Winter Solstice - December 21, the shortest day of the year - after which the sun is "reborn"

2.4.1.2 Sun Bear's Medicine Wheel

• Waboose, Spirit Keeper of the North
  • Season is Winter
  • Time of day is Night
  • Animal association is Buffalo
  • Color is white
• Moons of the North
  • Earth Renewal Moon, December 22 - January 19
  • Rest and Cleansing Moon, January 20 - February 18
  • Big Winds Moon, February 19 - March 20

2.4.2 Correlations for North

• 2.4.2.1 Direction of Search for Truth

  • Stress or Tension: lessons learned from storms
    • Winter storms test life; strength, tenacity endures, overcomes
    • Courage, wisdom to face, weather; good, provide path for growth
    • Rare for one to enjoy being out in storm, buffeted
    • None escapes storms of life: home, job, market place - not enjoyable
    • Storms cleanse the air
  • Two Trees
    • One sheltered in valley: large, soft rings
      • Useful for sheathing, to be covered over
    • Other grows on high mountain ridge facing tremendous windstorms, little moisture
      • Small, tight rings; useful for bridge timbers
    • Greatest leaders grow from storm-filled life
      • Surviving to give strength of leadership and wisdom
  • All cycles completed; completion, fulfillment
    • Life cycle, old age and elders
      • Eschatological lessons, end times
      • Ability to finish what is begun
      • Realizing how it all fits together
    • Instruction, guidance, moderation; justice, understanding, speculation
    • Discrimination, prediction, interpretation
    • Imagination, integration of all intellectual capabilities
    • Capability to dwell at the center; see and take the middle way
    • Freedom - from fear, hate, love, knowledge; problem solving, detachment
    • Intuition made conscious - calculating, organizing, criticizing, categorizing
    • All things come together - traditions, ceremonies
      • Remind us to learn from, respect traditions and learning of elders

• 2.4.2.2 Spirit of Courage, Spirit of Wisdom

  • Thank Creator for yesterday's conflict/lesson
  • Petition for strength and wisdom to face today's storms

• 2.4.2.3 The Ages of Humankind

  • What is next? How will it come to "winter" in this cycle?

• 2.4.2.4 Chinese Sages place a black Tortoise in the North

• 2.4.2.5 Of the Cougar Totem for the North

  • Cougar is North American mountain lion
    • Fourth of revelations of the attributes of the Great Spirit
    • Fourth of the aspects of the powers of the universe, or powers of the Great Spirit
    • Best feline climber, climbs highest
      • Climb to hour highest potential in our personal lives
      • Add to lesson of Eagle, which soars the highest of the wingeds
    • Great Spirit is the Great Chief-of-the-Above, God of the Heavens
      • Two-leggeds who respect the indwelling place of the Great Spirit
        • Allow deity within to manifest power of Sacred Mystery through them
        • Find ability to soar high, climb high - philosophically and spiritually
    • God of the heavens - God of the Earth
      • Learn much about Great Spirit from Mother Earth
      • Good balance between Spiritual highs, earthiness
      • From understanding sought of Great Mystery indwelling
    • Hunter (or "fishers of men")
      • Seek spiritual, philosophical, sociological truths in life
      • The feminine nature of God - the goddess
      • Female Cougar is a better hunter than male
      • Biologically male humans more aware of feminine side when hunting for truths
      • God spoken of as a woman in Isaiah 42:14, 66:13; born of God = a womb?

• 2.4.2.7 from the Cycle Teachings (WILSON MW 65-99)

  • Elders of the Life Cycle
  • Winter of the Annual Cycle
  • The Red Race (Amerindians)
  • Earth of the Elements
  • Crawlers of Things that Breathe
  • Plants above the Earth
  • Fruit of Green Things
  • Year in Divisions of Time

• 2.4.2.8 from the Sets of Four

  • Mark of the Gospels
  • Tradition of John Wesley's Quadrilateral test
  • The Via Transformativa of Matthew Fox's Four Paths:
    • Path Four, Befriending New Creation: "compassion, celebration, erotic justice"; the way of transformation
  • Pale Horseman of the Apocalypse
    • Named Death, Hades followed
    • They were given power to destroy 1/4 of earth with sword, famine, pestilence and wild beasts
  • Spiritual (Philosophical) Area of Life
  • Nature (Aboriginal) Philosophies, dealing with heart, feelings
  • "The one I adore" - fourth leaf in four-leaf clover
  • Blue of Petra's Coloring Song:
    • Blue is the color of a heart so cold that will not bend when the story's told
    • Of the love of God for a sinful race, of the blood that flowed down Jesus' face
    • That can give us life, that can make us grow, that can keep our hearts from growing cold
  • The Moksha of the Four Philosophies of India:
    • Culmination of cycle, fulfillment of individual's life
    • Attained by going out into forest
      • "To some heritage to wipe out through yoga every last trace of 'I want' and, with that, every echo of 'Thou shalt!' (Campbell)

2.4.3 Symbology of the Animals of the North (Wilson VFEM)

• 2.4.3.1 Cougar (Wilson VFEM 23)

  • Highest climbing of all the cat family, but at home on the ground
  • Female is the dominant hunter ("huntress")
  
  

• 2.4.3.2 Hawk (Wilson VFEM 28)

  • Flies high; soars and circles for long periods
  • Fantastic acrobats, especially when mating; keenness of vision
  • Hunter, loves rattlesnake meat, will tear their heads off
  • Known as the "little eagle"; attacked by smaller birds
  • Tribes use feathers in ceremonies for rain, gifts of vision, deliberation, foresight
  
  

• 2.4.3.3 Goose (Wilson VFEM 37)

  • Gregarious; fly 5000 miles from arctic nesting grounds to the Gulf
  • Fly in loose V pattern, usually with a feamle in the lead
  • Show honor and respect for their elders
    • Wait until all elders have found their nesting sites before they take their own
  • Honk continuously when in flight
  • They are nitpickers, picking mosquitoes and other insects off each other
  
  

• 2.4.3.4 Wolf (Wilson VFEM 39-40)

  • A pathfinder and protector
  • They are family oriented and hierarchal; dominant wolf takes complete control

2.4.4 Other Associations

• Native American Associations:
  • Wilson: Cougar, Winter
  • Sun Bear: Waboose, Buffalo

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