Hot August days and nights brings to mind the old adage Dog Days of Summer. Now, I don’t know about you but I never really knew what that meant other than it is hot outside. I never really knew what dogs had to do with this saying much less if it could be linked to ascension work.

In my studies of sacred geometry, 12 strand DNA, and soul clearing for Rainbow, 12 Gifts and A Song, I found that in Egypt when the planet Sirus comes up over the horizon in July that marks the “new year”.  According to the book, The Sirus Mystery, the Egyptian New Year was when the Nile flooded bringing fertile soil to the region. It also meant brought warmer weather.

The planet Sirius is known as the Dog Star by many people including the Dogon Tribe in Africa. I am not entirely sure how the Dog Star was brought into English language and Western culture. The Dog Days of Summer relate to the Dog Star, planet Sirius. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

In Anne Brewer’s book, Power of 12, she states that Beings from the planet Sirius and the Pleiades brought the 12 strand DNA to planet Earth. As Being from Planet Earth we share our history with both Sirius and the Plaides. At first I was not sure if I believed this information. But, then if we are all truly connected through out the Universe then why couldn’t our 12 strand DNA information come from somewhere else.

It isn’t all that far fetched as most Americans attribute their genetic DNA from other continents, like Europe. As I studied 12 strand DNA material and also went through the process of reconnecting my 10 strands into my eneretic bodies 5 years ago, I realized that this is another creation story. A galatic creation story.

This past winter I found a picture in a local newspaper from Fort McCoy. The fort has many hundreds of acres of land. They placed motion cameras out in the “wild”.  A few winters ago the cameras photographed a wolf pack. Since we are in the Dog Days of Summer, I thought it would be nice to share a cool winter scene along with a look at wolves.  Enjoy.

Two Wolves at night

Blessings, Neshi.

All Rights Reserved. Copyright, Yvette Neshi Lokotz, August 2008.

At the Great Lakes Retreat held at Olivet College in July, I presented the first class on Medicine Wheel Feng Shui and Space Clearing. This was a overview class that laid out the basics.

I covered the characteristics of the four directions of the Medicine Wheel using my Potwatomi culture and also drawing from my Interior Alignment training. Since we had a short 2 hours to cover the information, I felt like I was a stone thrown to skip on a lake. I could only hit so many hit spots within the material I brought with me.

I laid a Medicine Wheel drawing over a drawing of my property and home to show how the areas of the Medicine Wheel effect the different areas of my property. Using the compass directions to locate east, south, west and north to lay the medicine down. My drive way (mouth of life force of the property) lays in the southeast as well as the front door of my home. The energies of the east are air, new beginnings, birth, spring, male, and yellow.

As we walked the Medicine Wheel in a clockwise fashion, we walk to toward the south. The energies of the South carry abundance, fast growth, youth, water, summer, female and black. Walking toward the West energies we come to adulthood, harvest, fire, male and red. The energies of the North are about completion, elderly, death, rebirth, earth, female and white.

I had so much fun showing how the Medicine Wheel energies line up with different parts of my property. We also talked about the similiarities to Chinese feng shui. In Medicine Wheel Feng Shui we still have life force energy or chi moving in a clockwise fashion through a space, we still have clutter effecting the flow of the life force energy, we still have to balance the nature elements, we still have the mouth of chi or life force energy, and we still have the balancing of male/female energies (yin/yang). The major differences are between the use of the 5 element theory (air, water, wood earth, metal) and 4 element (air, water, fire and earth), locating how the energetic map (bagua or Medicine Wheel) is laid over a property, and the qualities of the four directions rather than the guas of the bagua.

I can’t wait to teach this course again and to use Medicine Wheel feng shui with my next client.

Blessings, Neshi.

All Rights Reserved. Copyright, Yvette Neshi Lokotz, August 2008.

As the New Moon Solar Eclipse comes and goes today, leaving behind the energy of going from darkness to light and from old to new, I too feel a sense of completion.

I returned home from a week of teaching at the annual Great Lakes Retreat in Olivet Michigan. I taught a drum making workshop, I also taught a single session about Medicine Wheel Feng Shui and Space Clearing – Harmonizing, and also presented a lecture about my Medicine Dress. I love to teach, to share information and be a witness to others spiritual growth.

I have actually been off line for a month to six weeks. As I prepared for the Beauty Space and Balance Advance Space Clearing course which I co-taught with Deb Swingholm and Minnie Kansman in June, I took a week to finish preparations for the Great Lakes Retreat travel and course material. I had held energetic space for both teaching venues for almost a year and now that both are completed, I feel a huge sense of personal completion. Today, I am cleaning off my desk (yes, I can finally see the top of my desk) feeling like I should be doing something, much like when I finished my Masters degree course. After a few years of juggling a full time job, family, and an accelerated Master’s degree course, I had lots of time to myself when I completed the degree — time on my hands.

This sense of completion reminds of the journey through the Medicine Wheel. I began both teaching projects in the Eastern portion of the Wheel where birth and new beginnings occure. As the projects began to come together, building energy, I walked the Wheel through the south and young adulthood. As I moved the teaching projects to the West energies and experiencing the abundance of the south with the sense of harvest from the west energies, the courses came to fruition and completion. As I file away notes and copies of course information, I feel the energies of the North and dormancy as we begin to gathering energies to begin germinating seeds for the next teaching dates for both Beauty Space and Balance and also the Great Lake Retreat for 2009.

Its good to be home and turning my energy towards the upcoming Feng Shui and Space Clearing certification courses I am teaching in September, turning my enery toward the short story I am writing about the Drum Mother for a new book called The Wisdom We Gained, and also spending time with my family.

I am looking forward to writing blog posts both for Two Feathers and Where Energy Flows.

Migwiitch for reading Between the Beats. Blessings, Neshi.

All Rights Reserved. Copyright, Yvette Neshi Lokotz, August 2008.