Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. Intuitive Sensitivity-
Listen-Reflect- Receive
Looking to Our Ancestors for the Answers
Andean & Mesoamerican Sky Watching-
***For translation of the text of the blog: touch the Blue Globe on the top right-hand corner
“Great Spirit, open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, and soften our hearts to receive what cannot be spoken.”
I think it is important at this point to give a little more context to why I feel “Great Spirit” has put this series in my spirit. I have been feeling the need to reflect on what ancient cultures understood about the living relationship between our humanity, nature, Spirit, the sky, and the Earth. As I am learning, many Indigenous traditions had an intuition that clouds were about more than just the “weather”. They understood and saw that clouds were living messengers, carriers of memory, ancestors, omens, blessings or communications between realms.
This resonates with something deep within my soul as a memory. There is a reason the Indigenous cultures like for instance the Andean culture, the Inca Empire, the Quechua peoples, Aymara peoples and even earlier cultures like the Chavin and Tiwanaku cultures of South America had a relationship to the clouds. Clouds were sacred living spirits. Beyond the practical life necessity of providing rain for their agricultural needs, clouds represented fertility, renewal, divine provision and ancestral presence. Unlike us today, they believed unusual cloud formations reflected imbalance between humans and nature. There was a need for harmony which they saw as sacred and reciprocal between people and creation. I think this is an element that is missing in our lives today.
Looking back at the Mesoamerican cultures like the Maya and Aztec people, they interpreted clouds as being sacred because they carried water from the heavens to Earth. Clouds were seen as symbols of mercy, warning, blessings, and cosmic balance. They saw everything as interconnected so that clouds could signal seasonal changes, ceremonial timing, agricultural preparation and spiritual transitions.
These cultures and traditions saw humanity as part of nature, not separate from it. These traditions were rooted in the understanding that clouds were relational, spiritual, communicative and alive with meaning to take notice of.
I think the point today is that we have separated ourselves from the real relationship we should have with nature and “Great Spirit”. We have become too “Civilized”- please take note that I feel the word civilized is an attribute that is rapidly vanishing from the character of what humanity should hold. My intention today is to bring to light that we need to help ourselves and our humanity recover its sacred sensitivity again.
Children still operate and possess those sensitivities of -wonder, observation, intuitive connection, symbolic imagination and an emotional relationship with nature. We need to protect that sensitivity instead of suppressing it. We would be much healthier adults, and our world would stand a better chance of sustainability if we valued that gift of sensitivity to the divine messages that are being sent our way.
Remember- “that we are never separate from the sky above us, only invited to notice.”
So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression. May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.
**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit. The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”. I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.
Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.
Thank you Nicole Añgel Evans- Photography
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