Thursday, August 22, 2013

What does it mean to be a care-taker of our ayllu community sacred drum, windwalker?

We, as ayllu blessed windwalker with our love and she blessed us...
note... please know the below are suggestions... i don't ever claim to 'know' everything when it comes to working with sacred drums and what is involved with care-taking a sacred drum let alone one grand community ayllu sacred drum like windwalker... i share from my own experience from walking the path of the sacred drum.... and i always welcome all who wish to share and offer their learnings with us... please do.... :o)

...know this is a path like any path... i invite you to engage on a level that is mindful... and to walk from heart.... 

...if you are sooo called - we welcome you... and we hear your voice!  
- with much munay... weaver x (((o)))


Some suggestions on what it means to become a care-taker of windwalker, our ayllu community sacred drum... 

- a desire to be of service to our beautiful ayllu plus take care of windwalker... to mindfully connect with her and our blessed earth mother from a spiritual perspective... including the physical care.

- to offer a safe, sacred space within your home/place to take care of and honour her – place her somewhere special and out of the way of everyday life... out of direct sunlight, heaters or any extreme temperatures – away from pets who could damage her... dogs particularly are very fond of rawhide and will chew on the hides or wood.  

Cats love to exercise their claws on wood and are often drawn to the medicine of the sacred drum and will want to hang out holding space... when not in use or in transporting, keep the top hide covered with her special honouring cloth to avoid scratching and also to allow the drum to rest – big drums are resonators and also very open ‘containers’ open to energy and/or will take on energy, thus ‘working’ and available continually when uncovered.  

Children are very drawn to drums and will naturally want to enthusiastically ‘beat’ a drum without knowing  – they also offer wonderful light energy to the drum too – so, please supervise children to ‘play’ the drum – teach them the difference of playing vs beating her... our ‘mother’ has been beaten enough...  also, never ‘use’ a sacred drum as a coffee table or a place to lay things on because it’s convenient... please offer respect...

- offerings of regular or daily feedings... connection and engaging with windwalker honours her and our blessed earth mother... as we acknowledge and ‘feed’ our mesas with love, we feed ourselves with love... by feeding and honouring windwalker we are mindfully feeding and honouring our ayllu/community..... doing this every day is good... though if your schedule doesn’t allow every day – find what fits within your schedule on a consistent basis – every other day – 3 times a week, etc... find what fits for you – it’s consistency that is important – it is sacred practice... 

- this can be done by connecting with her in prayer... offering of flowers, seeds, draping with dry cedar boughs dry and smoke smudge... our songs... prayers... sounding of bells, chimes and simply giving her a sweet hug... be mindful of her as spirit and as sacred voice of our blessed earth mother... play her, lay your hands on her, feel her energy, tap her gently, enjoy her... call her by her sacred name... 

- sit and be still with her, sit and lean your back on her and she will support you in whatever way you need to be supported... know that what you are ‘feeling’ and ‘thinking’ when you play her is energetically going out into the world and returning to you ten-fold... listen deeply... when we engage with spirit – spirit will engage with us – the spirit are patiently waiting for us to engage with them first... windwalker and our blessed earth mother have much to teach us if we will only listen.... when we honour her, we honour ourselves as ayllu.... as one...

- if you receive 'messages' from her or through her... please be mindful of where those messages come from... are they from the heart?.... from the light?...  please check in deeply within your being that they are not your own 'projections'.... do these messages feel good... do they support you...? ...do they benefit all?... ...if not, know that messages that come from true divine light, that are aligned with infinite source are never controlling, manipulative, bossy or judgemental in any way....... if you feel this - do not engage with this energy - as they are not of the light or source....  release them back from where they came....... as they are not helpful nor useful.....

- windwalker is a community drum and available to our community - our ayllu – this is her journey and her commitment to us... we ask what our commitment is to her?  ...she can’t get to events and ceremonies on her own... being care-taker is choosing to be responsible and making a commitment to being available to the call of the ayllu community and windwalker... ie:  making arrangements for windwalker to be transported to and from the event or ceremony – if you can’t do it then to make sure someone can be available and to also arrange help/transportation if needed.

- given freely to all of you my beautiful ayllu...  
with love and light from weaver x (((o)))

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