Merely playing with the possibilities of materials and new ideas, I was shown new forms and com-binations. I tied a small Dream-Catcher inside an incomplete ring shaped like a "C."  It was very simple yet beautiful.  Of contrasting colors, it looked like a sun with a moon suspended inside it, connected by a thin, nearly invisible thread.  I wrote its name and its story. 

Sun and Moon Dream-Catchers--The sun and moon represent the marriage of the duality that we create from the underlying oneness of the universe.  The moon changes, the sun is changeless, they are as different as day and night, and yet they are One in the seamlessness of reality.  They teach us that we, too, are connected to everything else in the Web of Life.   That which is outside the world of time and space is also within it because it is not limited.  This is the Dance of the Spiral, the All that is every-where and no-where at the same time and is not, spiralling into and out of existence, within time and timeless, defined in space and undefinable.

I thought I had created this Dream-Catcher and its story, and I was very pleased with my creations.  Two years later I discovered that thousands of years ago Native American people from the Southwest told the story almost exactly the same way--the Marriage of the Sun and Moon.  For the first time, I realized that I was not creating these stories by myself.  I had a lot of help.  I was tuned to a Dream-Catchers "channel," receiving designs and stories intuitively from beyond the world of time and space.  Three years later I learned about the Ojibwe tradition of manidoog', which is receiving spiritual guidance directly from spirit.  This is how all spiritual teachings begin.  They will be told and retold from generation to generation in stories, kept alive by cultural memory and tradition.  But they came first from manidoog'.

When I was about 10 years old I experienced a total eclipse of the sun from the farmyard in southern Minnesota, To protect my eyes, I viewed the grand event through my dad's welding helmet.  For the duration of the eclipse I saw flames not only dancing around the sun and moon as they came together,but in the trees and on the farm buildings.  Turning to look at my favorite barn I thrilled at the flames dancing mysteriously across its walls. The whole scene was a grand wonderment. It still lives in my memory and I described this a few years ago:

 Sun and Moon Dream-Catchers also represent the relationship between a man and a woman. The man is represented by the sun and the woman by moon. In true relationship they are linked into a seamless union of fully aware individuals. There is no subservience or hierarchy, just true partnership. 

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