A Heart Song to All My Relations

A Heart Song

to

All my Relations

 of the 

Heart of the West  

Heart of the East

Heart of the North

Heart of the South

All Around the Sacred Hoop of Life

 to the Beloved Heart of All Beings,

 to the Heart of Beloved Pachamama

to the Heart of 

Beloved Luna and Beloved Taawa

to the Beloved Heart of Cosmos

to Beloved Heart Within

In 2009

the 

Rainbow Arborealis, Spirit Fire

was Born

to melt the Hearts of Masculine

In 2012

The Rainbow Borealis Serpent Fire 

was Born

to restore 

the Creative Life Source

of the Feminine

Both now merged as

One

Grandmother's

Long Ride Home

healing generational trauma

in the Heart of the West

Grandmother's

Clarity of Mind

in the Heart of the East

ushering new beginnings

for generations to come

Mind, Heart, Body and Spirit

a world in balance

wanowa ka ta se

resilient

Spiritual Wisdom and Knowledge

Eternal Cosmic Law

A Heart Song

to 

All my relations

you are the Messengers

the Midwives 

Wisdom Keepers

Dream Keepers

Mother Earth and Father Sky's

Children

Now is our Time

the Dreamtime restored

Listen to the Living

Heart Song

Seed Our Traditions

Cultivate

Being

Practice

Generosity

Compassion

Speak Truth and Wisdom

Re-teach the Language of Beauty

to Every Being

Peace

Now is our Time

Collaborate

Celebrate

this Brings

Good Health and Strength

Prophecies fullfilling 

Now

Answered by

Living them

within

Love

© ~ April Mondragon

Winyon Woniya

My musings today only reflect that which has been taking place in the very recent past or at this moment. In writing, which becomes the past as soon as it is written, I can only convey and draw upon that which I am living.  It is for this reason that all Indigenous Peoples have Oral Traditions of which are shared while living them. This is why we consider the Oral Traditions as being living and the written, dead. This is not to say that one is better than the other. Both Life and Death have their purpose in Being. 

Being, is only accessible in the now. All matters of healing are accessible in any given moment, depending on the capacity one has to receive it. What each of us choose to do, think, feel, attach or detach from, heal, sing, be,  in the present moment is a choice one makes. This morning I chose to write this song, as my dreaming heart song wanted to speak to you with love. ~ BearSense

What do you think of Our Lady of Guadalupe?

Dear BearSense, 

What do you think of this FB Site? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guadalupanas-and-Guadalupanos-Unite-in-Prayer-to-Tear-Down-the-Wall/471200326236355

hmmm, can't answer your inquiry with a short answer....but if I did

I would ask why are they hanging onto a paradigm shaped by the last world?

Long answer:

http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?one=azt&two=god&id=519&typ=reg

in the Temezcal, even today we sing to Tonantzin, and we did this at a recent Gathering as well...another thoughtful comment http://www.xispas.com/archives/virgin/virgin.htm * with a short

exception that Quezalcoatl is not a "he"...lol

In considering how the "Church's worldview" has greatly influenced interpretations

of the wisdom and knowledge of Indigenous mind-heart and history, I would agree

that Our Lady indeed made a bridge between the Indigenous and Colonizers, 

in that she pledged that they would survive the genocide if they understood her role. 

I have said that the feminine went to great lengths to insure the survival of her

children, including but not limited to willingly adopting the dominant culture's religions, language, life ways ( patriarchal mind), and marrying or being sold into families with power and to lighten their skin. This in fact was in part what my mothers did in the attempt to insure the survival of our linage after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo. 

Larry M. said that "our ancestors knew that much would be smashed in the feminine and so kept hidden much knowledge and wisdom". If I were to write today about the appearance of Coatlaxopeuh I might suggest that she was giving the message about the destruction to Coatl (feminine/serpent/earth) that has come to pass and is being healed in at this very moment. I would also add the message that Hohongwitutiwa shared from Hopi

"no matter what happens or how much destruction you see or experience stay true to our Mother Earth (Tonantzin). Do not be afraid to die, she loves you, you are her children."...

We are children of the marriage between Earth and Sky.

There are many faces of the Feminine, yet each play a distinctive role in the life, death, rebirth process, healing arts, the art of dialogue (language) and the sciences. It is for this reason that the masculine goes to great lengths to protect, nourish and revere her. When he could not do so the loss was great for him in so many ways during the last world...and for many has left them still struggling

to understand their relationship with the feminine.

However the masculine I have recently come to know in the Condor half of the world are incredibly beautiful in their shift and open process

from patriarchal imprinted behavior/mind to one of balance with the feminine as they embody the depth of love, courage, gentle strength, willing generosity and necessary providing for her at this time. I think that some never really left their roots with Mother Earth. For others I found their willingness and relationship with the feminine within themselves, swift in shifting their fears, insecurities, anger, ego, and mis-placed blame to coming into balance with the haven of feminine love, compassion, and forgiveness. Many are also working tirelessly to

provide for women, and make venues available for them to do their work.

As in all things as the Grandmother's ask us to be the love that we are. If you go to my FB page there is a post by a woman who asked them (when she saw them in Nepal) : "what are we to do right now?" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4715069070789&set=a.1130096968727.2020851.1116303179&type=1&theater

So what are you willing to let go of to stand in the light and love of who you are?

Much Love and Peace, 

BearSense

Earth Mother's Message to Her Children: Preparing for the Coming Fifth World

I shared a Hopi message: "Earth Mother's Message to Her Children: Preparing for the Coming Fifth World" at the Yarrabah elder's gathering in Australia. There was much discussion and questions due to it's nature. The instructions that came to me with the message as it was placed in my care were as follows: 
"Listen with your heart. There will be things they hear that will be contrary to anything they have heard or learned before. Therefore, if you share this message, please make yourself available for counsel to those that need help to process the information." 
Also, "This is to be shared freely only by those who are willing to take responsibility in it's care-taking, others should refer others to you to let you know who it is shared with. The Elder's who gave and taught this message do not want this to turn into money making schemes or to create fear by those without enough cultural knowledge to understand the message." 

I am now posting this blog, so that you, may contact me with a brief sentence stating your spiritual & cultural background and awareness and relationship with feminine knowledge. 
~ Woniya Winyan

Morningstar's Blessings

Morning Star dawns in the Rainforest....Wongali sings humans from night dreaming into the day dreamtime. I have spent many days listening, feeling, tasting, and touching both the heart love and the pain of the People's. I write this morning to my Relatives, keepers of the ancestral Morningstar traditions and original language. Deeply the prayers both spoken and unspoken are carried in the heart-mind connections of those that gathered recently to usher in the New Fire of the New Sun.

There is a collective pain crying to be healed among all the People's who gathered and continue to gather worldwide. The simple version is generational trauma, grief and loss of language, culture and Way of Life. This feeling of loss comes from the potent, genetic memories we all share of living in balance and harmony with all Life, as children made of Earth and Sky - love for this Way of Life. The comprehension of the loss  and it's vast and interwoven fabric that lay it's shadow upon the human heart is being unraveled and dispelled by the willingness to Be Love, fully and deeply, the Love of the Wakan and Divine that is and can never be extinguished, for this is how we are made. I only speak from my own knowing, and the little I have learned by the Elders that have generously shared their teachings, so that the People may Live. Dawahongva taught me: "do your best each day to live by the original instructions".

Nothing can be extinguished forever. In the dreaming, which for me is the dialogue, the communication the creationing with the Sentience of All Life, anything "lost" can be re-dreamed, re-membered. "Lost" is only the feeling of dis-connection from Source Love - Wakan Dream....ing. The Way of Life we all cherish and long for can only be rewoven, by living it....with Love during this transitional time into the 5th Sun.

So, my Kungangi Relatives, I carry you in my heart and send you strength and courage to teach your children all you know. Live the ceremonies, speak language that was passed to you....dream your Life Ways back into existence. All the money in the world will not take the place of living the Wakan Dream. We will do the best we know how each day....we have gathered shared and and affirmed our knowing of the inner and inter-connectedness with each other and All Life. We are our mothers Rainbow Serpent children.

Rainforest dawn
Wakan Wongali talks
Dancing with  Inipi stones
tones of wisdom from
her ancestral bones
Permissions and Blessings
from the original seeded Beings

Frangipani scented lotus
painting
the One Language
Beauty Way Alter
connecting heart of fire
to heart of womb
with the hearts
of Mother's Children

Water of Life
Earth of Life
Air of Life
Fire of Life
One Love
Dreamseeding
Creation

Pilamayalo, with gratitude to my Morning Star relations.....

Kungangi Rainforest

2012

Dream Flight

A twenty four plus hour journey to Australia began from the New Mexico Sunport in Albuquerque. Within the terminal is a crossroad, and at this juncture is a statue called: the Lincoln Fox Bronze Statue: Dream of Flight.

Our first morning sunrise. I am told by Indigenous Elder Riko, that this place we are, is where the heart, head and tail of the Serpent originate and end in it's never ending cycle of giving love, protection and care for the People's.

The core group of volunteers, which are the backbone of any ceremony or gathering of intention, have built huts made of bamboo and tarps. The Kitchen is over seen by Lavina who is love, grace and prayer in motion.  

International and regional Elders and Youth Leaders are coming in and getting settled into their huts.  Ceremony begins tomorrow. During the next 4 days we will also have Talking Circles to share our oral traditions, inter-generational dialogues and continue to make relationship agreements with each other and our intentions for the collective Dream that brings us all together. The abundance of love within and shared with everyone is nourishing, peaceful, and with much happiness.

Many Blessings to All My Relations,  ~ April

Why support "The Digital Message Stick" ?

Why is the "The Digital Message Stick" important?

When I think about Robert Chavez of H.O.P.E.'s message to 

educate our families and our communities about the reality of LANL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rHQLigPRQ

and our Traditional and Indigenous Wisdom that teaches us 

All Life is Sacred...

When I think about Thomas Banyacya who spoke out publicly

for decades giving permission for both video and audio recordings...

about the mis-use of uranium and it's effects on Traditional Life Ways

and the devastation that it has and continues to have 

on All Life and the One Humanity...and still so many have not heard his

guidance....

When I think about WHY so many people still know nothing about our history, 

about how precious our water, air, land, Life Ways are, for the health and well-being NOW and for the future generations....

When I think about how decades of censorship of our voices in mainstream media, school textbooks, and intentional lack of funding resources to educate people has hindered our region from being heard....

When I think about the loss of language which is the foundation of every culture

and the need to preserve our Traditional and Indigenous Cultural Life Ways

which embody the teachings to guide the One Humanity at this time....

When I think about these things, I am delighted by

the opportunity that has come from an official invitation from the Rare Earth Foundation and the Yabarrah Elders to begin with this first documentary, plus build a global social network, plus guide our Youth with the wisdom from Traditional and Indigenous Elders to be the future Leaders, for a more harmonious Life Way with Mother Earth, through

a global youth media network with a focus on preservation of language and culture...this is truly a big Vision, that Taos and our region

is invited to participate in...all because they invited two "regular" people 

(Eric and I) who love and care for our community, our Life Ways, and our families, who are all inner-and inter-related and connected.

Please Join us for Music from Ruben and Friends, Refreshments, a presentation about the film and 

connected programs, Skype with Melueka from Rare Earth Foundation and Poet Lyla June Johnston, 

Raffle for Art, Door Prizes, and more!

Saturday October 20th 4-9PM BAREISS GALLERY

If you can't make it please go to our fundraiser site : http://www.wisdomkeeperslive.com/

And Please share with others! We have almost reached our goal!!!!

We are grateful and thank all of you for your support of us and this collective vision.

Much Love and Peace, 

April

Support Elder and Youth Collaborative Initiatives: The Digital Message Stick, the Re-generation Festival and H.O.P.E

This summer my son and I attended  a few regional conferences that included inter-generational dialogues about Elders guiding and supporting
our Youth Leader's who are stepping up in answer to the call for active solutions to the many crises caused by generations of abuse to our People's and Mother Earth.
In these two videos Robert Chavez and Marian Naranjo of H.O.P.E : Honoring our Pueblo Existence, speak about the need for more education regarding the ongoing effects toxic uranium dumping from Los Alamos National Lab has on our communities.
Youth Leader Robert Chavez: http://youtu.be/z3rHQLigPRQ
Elder Marian Naranjo: http://youtu.be/FokNYSAqHdI

At the SEED Institute conference in Albuquerque, both Elders and Youth agreed that now is the time to raise awareness, educate, and fund Youth Leader's initiatives for a more harmonious Life Way, through responsible use of media technology as a "tool". This said, we all know that to raise our voices above the din of well funded corporate media, will mean that we need to support each other.
Lyla June Johnston, a Youth Leader from Taos New Mexico, shared "Hozho", one of her spoken word pieces at the fundraising dinner for youth initiatives. http://youtu.be/4tAo9puhnNs . Lyla is the founder of the Re-generation Festival, and asks for world wide participation as a means to help end suicide, drug addiction overdose, and death by the effects of generational trauma from the the colonized world.   
For more information about the Re-Generation Festival: http://regenerationfestival.us/

Now my son and I have been officially invited to attend the Rare Earth and Yabarrah Elders Gathering in November to kickstart the "Digital Message Stick" documentary. 

The Gathering is to ceremonially share in the Yabarrah Elders teachings about the Solar Eclipse and to bring Elders, Youth Leaders and NGO's together to dialogue about the need to bring Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom to the forefront in guiding humanity toward a more harmonious relationship with our Mother Earth. The film will begin in Australia and gather messages from Indigenous and Tribal Peoples around the world by different producers. The documentary will be shared with the world, to give a unified resounding voice for the solutions we all want - to put the up-side down colonized culture, right side up. Elders, Youth Leaders, Tribal Nations and NGO's may contact us to include their messages. Yet this is only the start. Rare Earth wants to be able to continue this dialogue with additional episodes and a social media platform to strengthen our collective voices and calls to action. 

My son Eric, graduated Taos High, New Mexico, and received a scholarship to attend the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He graduated in 2011 with a degree in Film Production. His Tsalagi name is Edoda Dideyo husgi, and his media name is Earthouse Productions: "Mother Earth is my Studio".
Elder's have placed in my care, their messages via audio or video, that they would like to be shared with the Yabarrah Elders and the world. My son and I ask for your support in helping create the Digital Message Stick documentary with the Yabarrah Elders and the Rare Earth Foundation. http://www.indiegogo.com/globaleldersgatheringAprilEric

If you are inspired and would like to support any or all of these Youth Leaders, please follow the links provided. Please contact me for more information about any of these initiatives or sponsoring benefits. Email: liveolakhota@gmail.com or call 575-751-1962 , Thank you ~ April Mondragon