Real Dream-Catchers teach spirit wisdoms of the Seventh Fire

Real Dream-Catchers teach the wisdoms of the Seventh Fire, an Ojibwe Prophecy, that is being fulfilled at this moment. The Light-skinned Race is being shown the result of the Way of the Mind and the possibilities that reside in the Path of the Spirit. Real Dream-Catchers point the way.

Body Mind Spirit Dream-Catchers of the Seventh Fire

Driving from my parent's home in northern Minnesota I was startled at the brilliant red willow saplings growing along the roadway.  I collected an armload to make into rings for dream-catchers.  A few weeks later I discovered that they had all turned black!  I had a judgment about black. I didn't want to make dream catchers in black!  Then I realized that here was an opportunity to use contrasting colors.  I could combine black with gold, black with red, gold with red.  Why not all three together!  Using a collection of rings of many colors and sizes I played with the possibilities.  By two o'clock in the morning I had a very beautiful three-ring dream catcher.  So what did this dream-catcher teach?  For the smaller, innermost ring I had chosen red, the next was gold, and the largest, outermost ring was black.  Obviously red symbolizes body, gold symbolizes mind, and black symbolizes spirit!  It had told me its name and its story: 

Body/Mind/Spirit Dream-Catchers -- The red ring represents our body.  If we see ourselves as merely body, we limit our recognition of Who We Are.  Although the mind is golden, it too, is much smaller than our Spirit.  The black rings, the color of the spirit world, suggests that our True Self is much larger than a body-mind might suspect.  Not a body with a spirit inside we are a spirit that is using a body and mind.  We are to walk in balance on the dream path as an integrated Body-Mind-Spirit.  We are the universe in full awareness of itself dancing the Spiral. 

How could black represent spirit?  It seems contrary to the common assumption that all holy things are white.  Still, if we accept that spirit speaks to us in our dreams in the darkness of the night it is not so strange to understand the importance of black.  One night we were doing a meditation for an 11:11 stargate and I saw the paradoxical brilliance of black.  Now I accept it as a metaphor for the world of spirit.

I've learned a lot about prejudice and not making judgments

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