Dragonfly

Ancient Knowledge

Dragonfly carries ancient lineages through the spiraling flow of time, from the past to the now and shaping the future. Dragonfly Medicine is calling you to bring ancestral knowledges into contemporary times to remember the ways of harmony and balance.

Follow your passions and curiosity to find ancient art, stories, food, healing traditions, ceremony, music, structures for family and community, and relationships with the cosmos in diverse cultures, places, and times. Dragonfly Medicine understands ancestral knowledges are also shared by trees, rocks, animals, birds, oceans, and natural cycles of the sun, moon and earth.

Dragonfly Medicine brings ancestral knowledge into everyday life to leave behind the out of balance ways and generate healing, connection, and well-being.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Dung Beetle

Clearing Away

Dung Beetle engages in the sacred task of cleaning up and clearing away. Dung Beetles are purposeful and focused, artful and respectful, as they go about their sacred tasks.

Dung Beetle is calling you to clean up your inner and outer worlds, to clear away the items, emotions, beliefs, and habitual patterns that are toxic, burdening, harmful, and distracting.

Dung Beetle Medicine is regenerative, creative, and healing.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Elk

Council of Grandmothers

Elk Medicine calls in the Council of Grandmothers. The elders have guidance and healing to share. Ask, listen, and receive the elders’ wisdom.

The Council of Grandmothers may be indicating it’s time to take your rightful place in the circle – holding your center, honoring your own and others’ unique gifts, giving and receiving the knowings gathered up through lived experiences.

Elk Medicine shares the ancient feminine knowledge that holds the blueprints for a flourishing web of life.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Fire

Adversary

Humans have long-standing relationships with fire. Fire offers many essential gifts with heat, light, comfort, cooking, land regeneration, and ceremony. Fire also causes injury and death.

How do you regard the challenging circumstances, people, and events in your life? With judgments? Fighting against? Powerlessness? Are you exhausted? Trying to take power over? Befriending? Learning? Aware of the gifts?

Fire Spirits offer transformative energies to regenerate a steady inner foundation, centered and connected, embodied and empowered, when facing a challenge or adversary. Fire Spirits guide the way to purposefully choose what you feed, to respectfully tend to yourself, others, and the circumstance, and see the potentials and gifts.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Flicker

Creativity

Flicker shares the gifts of creativity ~ making, birthing, co-creating, bringing something into existence. Creativity is filled with passion, exploration, relationship, and movement. Creativity is an organic dynamic which flows through all of creation, through all life, through every human being. Flicker Medicine engages in creativity without any judgments of better than or less.

Flicker Medicine holds a wide-open understanding of creativity. Dreaming a new dream for your life and the planet. Co-creating a meal, a relationship, a conversation. Making the flow of a day. Birthing a baby, a project, a death and completion of cycles. Crafting music, poetry, dance, pottery.

Flicker is calling you to welcome, honor, explore, enjoy, and share your natural gifts of creativity.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Lizard

Are You Awake?

Lizards soak in the sun, nourishing their aliveness, relaxed and aware, and responsive to their inner and outer worlds.

Lizard Medicine asks: Are you awake, staying connected with who you really are? Are your senses engaged, gathering information, interacting with the world around you? Are you remembering your power to choose what to say or do or think or feel next? Are you distracted? Numbed out? Disconnected?

Lizard Medicine offers a nourishing call to your awakening, to holding your center, to feeling your aliveness and being who you genuinely are.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Mountain Spirits

Seeing & Being Seen

Mountain Spirits offer guidance for creating genuine relationships by awakening the gifts of seeing and being seen. Seeing others for who they are. Allowing yourself to be seen.

Judgments and fears foster isolation and harm. Seeking others’ approval will only box you in. Requiring sameness and agreement leads to silencing, hiding, and erasure of diversity and uniqueness.

Mountains stand steadily rooted in who and what they are while weaving relationships with the vast web of life. The Spirits of the Mountains invite you to join them there ~ relating heart to heart, respect to respect, empowered being to empowered being with everyone and everything.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson

Sea Turtle

Home

Sea Turtles are home wherever they are and wherever they go. Sea Turtle Medicine is about exploring your relationship with home, beginning on the inside.

Being at home in your own skin. Feeling at home in your life, with your purposes, passions, gifts, and path.

How do you feel in the place where you live? Where on the planet do you feel most at home? Are you at home being part of humanity at this time on the earth?

Sea Turtle is calling you to embark on a healing quest to cultivate your inner home, so you can be at home, create a loving home, wherever you are and wherever you go.

Art by JoAnne Dodgson