Between the Beats   –    A Rare Meeting              

As summer turns to autumn here in Tomah Wisconsin, I love the maple trees vibrant colors.  The colors are deep reds, bright oranges, and yellow gold.  We have many maple trees on our property and so as I look up into the blue sky through the trees; it is like looking through a kaleidoscope.  There are so many leaves falling off the trees that if you close your eyes, it sounds like rain.

This summer has been an interesting journey for me.  The summer seemed to fly by very quickly this year.  Of course, it feels that way almost every year.  One of my most interesting memories of this summer is my rare meeting with a wolf.  As I sit here and recall this meeting, I am taken back to that July morning when I looked into the eyes of a single wolf.

The July morning was sunny and heavy with dew from the night before.  I was to drive to my parent’s home, about an hour from me, to take my elderly mother to a medical appointment.  I left my home at about 7:00 in the morning.  To drive to my parent’s home, I have to drive through the Necedah Wildlife Refuge.  There were few travelers on Hwy 173 that morning.  The Wildlife Refuge is a straight, lonely stretch of highway.  Both sides of the road are forested with areas of marsh.  It is very likely to see wild turkeys crossing the road as well as fox.  I see many hawks and turkey vultures flying through this area as well.  What I don’t see are a lot of housing and people.  The refuge is beautiful with all its shades of green and browns.

I was about 2 miles from the end of Hwy 173 and in that section of the refuge is where I saw what I thought at first was a dog, come out of a grassy lane.  I slowed way down as I thought this “dog” was going to cross the road in front of me.  Instead the “dog” turns right and began to lope along between the shoulder of the road and the ditch line.  As I watched, I thought maybe it was a coyote.  There are many coyotes in Wisconsin as well.  As I drove closer and very slowing the “dog/coyote” was watching my SUV.

As I came closer, the “dog” and I locked eyes. We looked right into each other’s eyes for what felt like a very long time.  In fact it felt like time stopped.  We looked at each other so long that I had to turn my head to my left until I couldn’t see it anymore unless I turned completely in my car seat.  The “dog/coyote” did the same thing. He watched me, turned his head toward me until the point where in order to see me he would have had to turn around.

I looked in my rearview mirror to see the “dog/coyote” continue to lope down the ditch line and then leap into the woods.  There were no other cars on the highway, just me going about 5 miles an hour.  I wondered why this animal came to me.  I began to think about Animal Totems and Power Animals.

I shared my story with my mother and my husband.  My mother asked me if I was sure it was a coyote.  She said it could have been a wild dog or even a wolf.  I was sure that it was a coyote although, I have not seen a coyote in the wild nor have I seen a wolf in the wild.  My husband asked me the same questions.  I described the size to my husband and he looked for a picture of a wolf on the internet.  When I saw the picture, I realized that it was a wolf that I saw.  It was a wolf that I made direct eye contact with and connected with him in such a mysterious way.

I remember his dark, black eyes.  His stare was unwavering.  His gaze felt like he knew me.  We were so interested in each other.  My personal feelings and thoughts about a Wolf is that they are social with other wolves and they mate for life.  I know that they are territorial and loyal to their family.

I looked up Wolf Medicine in Ted Andrews’ book, Animal Speak.  According to Ted, the wolf represents guardianship, ritual, loyalty, spirit, the full moon, and twilight.  Wolf can be friendly, social, and highly intelligent and live by hierarchical structure.  Wolf Medicine is to know who you are and to develop strength, confidence and surety in that so that you don’t have to demonstrate and prove yourself to all.  Wolf Medicine symbolizes true freedom and discipline.  Ted continues with, “It is time to breathe new life into your life rituals. Find a new path, take a new journey, and take control of your life.  You create it and direct it.  Do so with harmony and discipline, and then you will know the true spirit of freedom.”

In the Medicine Cards, Wolf Medicine is the pathfinder, the forerunner of new ideas who returns to teach and share medicine.  The cards also say that in the Great Star Nation, Wolf is represented by the Dog Star, Sirius, which legend tells us the original home of our teachers in ancient times.  Sirius was thought to be the home of the gods by the ancient Egyptians, and still considered so by the Dogon tribe of Africa. Wolf would not come to you unless you requested the appearance of the tribe’s greatest teacher.

I believe that my rare meeting with Wolf was about finding that new path.  It was about that time that I decided to teach Medicine Wheel Feng Shui and Space Clearing.  I will also be combining Rainbow, 12 Gifts and A Song with the Medicine Wheel Feng Shui and Space Clearing to support ascendees as they consciously walk their path to ascension.  In Rainbow, 12 Gifts and A Song ascension process, we work with the Pleaides/Sirian council, so having an Wolf Totem come to me is very significant as it represents the Sirian aspect of the ascension work and study.

Many Blessings of Peace and Joy.  Neshi.

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