Some of my ancestors come from a place where the Sacred Reindeer protect the women and children while the men are away. They especially protect the children during long travels. If some of your blood comes from these same parts of the world, your whole body might shiver with codes of remembrance when you watch this.
Man and animal have lived in symbiosis with one another throughout the epochs. Current day modern living has disconnected people from nature, so much so, that most don’t even remember how interdependently we lived with animals for survival. Even to this day, they’re a part of us and yet not many seem to understand how or why.
We need to continue to restore our connection with the natural world if we are to bridge into a new level of “consciousness”. A higher state of consciousness is no other than one that can correctly correspond to that which is below and above it. It all happens within the centre.
What most know of the shamans from our indigenous cultures is that they are often the ones whom have the ability to speak to the Animal Spirits directly. They often act as the liaison between their clan and the animals they live with and depend upon.
As disconnected as many of us may feel from our recent indigenous life-styles, when looking at someone’s Human Design Chart for example, I’m able to pin point the exact Gate which indicates this particular gift. This ability within specific people living in modern settings has not gone away, it’s simply used in other capacities. If these people were to start living more closely to nature again this ability would naturally reignite leading to all sorts of solutions to modern-day problems.
All the people I’ve met whom have this Gift/Gate are aware to some extent of their ability to communicate with nature and animals. Despite such inner acknowledgements, most don’t know how to apply their abilities within the modern world nor do they know how their abilities may be sensed by the people around them.
I sense things directly at an instinctual level but with the use of different tools such as Astrology and Human Design I’ve been able to chart a way of confirming such gifts in another. An important factor in determining how such people may be applying this specific ability in their lives, is to look to which planetary body it’s streaming through.
There’s a huge difference between such codes filtering through Mars, Saturn or Jupiter!
When the Sacred Reindeer dies, it’s up to the one who can communicate with Nature Spirits to go on a vision quest to find a new protector to take it’s place in the Clan.
In the short documentary linked above that has popularized the Mystical Tsaatan Reindeer People, the man whom the documentary is about has never been tasked with this duty before. He’s not an animal communicator, his Father now passed was the Shaman who would take care of such things. Albeit his Father is gone and he has no choice but to trust the abilities within him to complete this task. He tries to remember what his Father showed him long ago.
He cuts down a tree who’s soul has left (he honours the dead and invites renewal). He crafts an object from that tree wood in the like of a sacred reindeer (he focuses his will power and intent). He goes to speak to the Mountain Spirit his Father would talk to and makes an offering of antlers from the last Sacred Reindeer (the mountain top brings clarity, the antlers quite valuable, allow him to give in order to receive). He makes a connection with the Mountain Spirit and asks for guidance (he goes within).
Throughout his quest he pays extra attention to all the messages being shown to him by nature in a language only the soul can understand.
In a last desperate attempt to induce the vision to know which reindeer will become the Sacred One, he fathoms that he must take the soul of a mountain reindeer. He creeps up on it at the foot of the mountain and aims his gun. As he shoots it jolts him awake and into a vision.
The image of his youngest daughter appears before him and is walking towards one of the reindeers in the herd, she has sustenance in her hands and is feeding him. The gun fires and misses the reindeer. He smiles and catches his breath.
Now that he has been shown exactly which reindeer to consecrate, he must complete a special ritual to confirm his vision. The soul of the reindeer on the mountain wasn’t needed. It was the intensity of the moment that called forth the right state of mind for him to see.
The chemicals pumping through his blood in combination with his will force and focus created just the right ingredients to finally induce the vision. A vision that would have occurred naturally for his Father without such a dramatic push.
Upon his arrival home, as taught, he places a wooden bowl filled with reindeer milk on the chosen reindeer’s back. If the bowl falls facing down, his visions were simply fanciful thoughts running through his mind. If the bowl falls facing up, his visions were correct.
After this is confirmed he walks the Reindeer, not once, not twice, but three times around the family’s tent to consecrate him as the new Sacred Reindeer of the Clan. A white ribbon is tied around his neck to signify his spiritual authority.
During this cycle, it is in the dead cold of the Northern Winter that we are being called to renew our vows. We are being asked by spirit to grow closer to the animals and to hear the call of nature.
We are in search of a new Sacred Mascot, not just to protect the clam but to help us reclaim all that is great and innocent in the world.
It’s time to combine forces to gain greater clarity. It is time once again to listen to the spirits of the forests, the lakes and rivers, the birds and the fire. It’s time to hear the messages of both our ancestors and descendant, though the stars and trees.
If we heed our duties we’ll be able see the truth of what the world is becoming and move beyond the obstacles currently set before us. It is time to reignite our gifts and use them in the way they were intended to be used during these times. Here, now, in the dead cold of Winter, in Two Thousand Twenty Four.
Cover Photography Silk & Willow
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