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"Song of the Twenty Powers"
Thunder Strikes: Many years ago, the Grandmothers came to me in a dream and guided me in this Chant of the Twenty Sacred Powers. They instructed me to write the chant down and share it. It weaves the interconnection of the elements, the Powers of the Four Directions that you will learn about later, and our energy connections to many things on the directions of the sacred Wheel of Life. It sings the joy and celebration of the sacred interconnection, interdependence, and interreliabiity of all things in the Everything, including humans.
It is like an Orchestra whose members have played together Since Always. Each member of this
Orchestra has its instrument, its sound, its light, its energy, its harmonic vibration called orende. Each has its give-away to the collective sound even though it has its separate, distinct sound.
Within this Orchestra called the Everything there are twenty sections or parts, the Twenty Sacred
Powers. This Everything Orchestra has a Great Spirit within every member and within every instrument. The way it plays the sound and songs of Beauty and Light is indeed a Mystery. This
Great Mystery has existed Since Always and will continue For Always, even as it is playing now.
This Great Mystery, this Everything Orchestra and its twenty sections, is the Great Wheel, the Universal
Medicine Wheel of the Twenty Sacred Powers. Each power has its sitting place on the wheel within the Orchestra so that its vibratory energy can contribute in a perfect harmonic way to all the songs
and sounds that resonate within the wheel as well as those that go out from it in an ever-increasing circle of Light. Let me sing to you the Song of the Twenty Powers within the Song of the
Universe.
The first part of this song also contains all other parts. It is the Zero, the Nothing That Is Everything,
the Great Mystery, the Great Spirit of this Everything Orchestra. Light is an energy or power which includes cycles of four as it manifests itself into this sacred Twenty Count Medicine Wheel.
The first power is Grandfather Sun, who sings his song of Illumination and Enlightenment from his
sitting place in the East on this great Medicine Wheel. The Sacred Fire burns here, singing of our Fire From Within.
Across from him in the West is his mate, the second power, Grandmother Earth. She sings the
song of Introspection and Intuition and chants the Mysteries of Death, Life, Rebirth, and Movement. Hers is the song of the Beauty of Change.
To her right is the third power and her first children, the Sacred Plants. They are sitting
in the South, singing the songs of Trust and Innocence, the songs of the Give-Away. The Waters are singing the songs of Carrying the Myths of Our Lives, of the joy of having Pleasure Within Our
Emotions in everything we do.
Sitting in the North across from the Plants and the Waters are the Sacred Animals. They are
the fourth power and the second children of the Sun and the Earth. The song they sing is one of Balance and Harmony, and they carry the sacred chant of Wisdom and Logic. This is the chant
that is carried on the sacred Winds, which sometimes blow fiercely through our minds like hurricanes bringing awakening, and at other times blow gently, whispering Clarity.
These Powers of the Four Directions are dancing with the Four Elements, carrying the song into the South
of the Center of the wheel, where we Sacred Humans sit, playing our instruments and dancing our Dance of Life as the fifth power. Sometimes our instruments, our bodies, are out of tune, and our song and dance become disharmonious.
So we turn to the Southeast, where the sixth power sits, singing the power of the Spiritual Ancestors song.
Their song is of the Beauty of the Concepts of Self as a Spirit, as a Soul, who can sing and play in harmony if we will learn the Enlightenment chant and begin to SunDance. They teach us this
SunDance in order that we might learn the songs of Self-Acceptance, Self-Appreciation, Self-Pleasure, and Self-Love.
As they sing their song and play their music, we begin to hear from the seventh power of the
Southwest. This is the power that is the most difficult to hear because it comes from within us and yet is outside us. Here sits the power of the Sacred Dream. It sings to us the
songs of the Beauty of Symbol, of the Beauty of Experiencing Life and chants of the Memory Circle. And if we hear this chant, we begin to Awaken. We begin to realize the Past, the Present,
and the Future may appear to be different songs, but they are really different lyrics within the same song.
To know all the lyrics and melodies of this song, we turn to the Northwest, to the eighth power, for
here sings the Book of Life or Circle of Law. At first we seem confused. There appears to be more than one instrument playing, and we hear many different songs. They seem
almost dissonant, so we listen more closely. They are playing about the Laws of Cycles and about Patterns and Paradox. Here resonate the Sacred Image and Rules and Laws chants. We begin
to see and hear that within this Circle of Law chant is our Book of Life and all the songs that we have ever sung and all those that will be our future songs.
We are playing and dancing almost in perfect harmony, but we are a little bit out of rhythm. We
are drawn to the cadence of the ninth power in the Northeast, the song of the Design and Choreography of Energy in Motion. This ninth power is dancing and flowing with the rhythm of all the
other sounds, catching them and turning them like a Great Choreography. Change is here as well as the beautiful harmony of Male/Female Balance. We begin to perceive that maybe our song is
written here.
It seems as though the Circle is complete, but then we awaken further. We are pulled, spinning and
whirling, as though the winds of a tornado are sweeping us towards the North of the Center of this Great Orchestra! This tenth power is elusive; the sound on a very high scale emanates from it. For
a brief moment as we are singing our song, playing our music, and dancing our dance, we fall into perfect rhythm and harmony and realize that this tenth power is the Great Measure of Intellect, the totality of our Potential and Self-Worth,
which lies within ourselves. It lies within every note, song, sound, light, presence, and power within this Great Orchestra. We are conscious of it and yet unconscious of it. We seem to
be part of it and yet not part of it. We struggle to remain in harmony, for we know intuitively that it is here that all of the energies, all of the instruments, sounds, and songs, are collected
and blended together into a Collective Unified Circle.
Now we dance at a Gateway. We see, hear, and sense the experience of this great SunDance. We
realize that if we can dance through this Gateway, an even greater song is being played. This song is coming from within the Circle and from outside the Circle at the same time. A Double
Energy is coming from each of these powers on this Wheel of Life.
We turn again to the East, and we hear many voices, many songs, and many instruments harmonizing with
Grandfather Sun's song. These are the Grandfather Stars, the eleventh power. They are singing the song of Inspiration and the chant of the Heyoehkahs. Everything is sparked by
the masculine energy. These songs are Sacred Teachers, and the Light coming from them begins to reveal to us our own Illusions.
We have sung many songs and danced many dances in many lives, and we had thought there was but
one. That was our feeling of separation. We turn to the West so we might hear the Looking Within chant that is coming from the twelfth power, the Grandmother Planets. All the songs
and dances from this power speak of many lives, of all our brothers and sisters, throughout the planets and worlds of this Universe and of all the other Great Orchestras. They are singing to us the
Grandmother songs of the Power of Woman. Especially, they sing the Everything Is Born of Woman chant, so we begin to spin and dance with this Beauty.
We seem to be playing faster now, more smoothly. We can no longer separate the instruments from
ourselves, the sound from the music. It is a part of us. Deep within our hearts we realize that the song and dance have always been there, and we sing for joy as we turn towards the
South. We hear beautiful lyrics, a sweet gentle voice singing to us from the Heart of the Plants. We realize their Spirit is singing to us the song of Nature. This is the thirteenth
power, our Earth Mother. Her song is amazingly beautiful, for it carries the Light and the Spirit of All the Plants straight into the fibers of our Being, traveling the light paths of the Umbilical Cord of Life straight into our Hearts. Here is the beautiful song of the Blessed Beauty Way chant.
Our hearts begin to soar like an eagle as we spin towards the North to become the dance within the Winds
of the fourteenth power. We see that this fourteenth power swims as the dolphin carrying us through the rivers of life and flows into the great Lakes of Memory, for this power is Earth Father.
He teaches us the dance of the Snake so that we might be close to the ground and hear the songs of the Rock People. He teaches us how to dance with the four-leggeds, the animals, to dance among the
flowers and the trees and hear the songs of the Plant People in a world of magick. We feel the Medicine of this sacred chant, and we realize that this is indeed the Sweet Medicine chant, and that
within it are the songs of the Spirits of all our brother and sister Sacred Animals.
We dance with joy. We begin to
see through the eyes and hear through the ears of all our brother and sister humans, now realizing they are our Mirrors. In fact, everything around us, every power within this Orchestra, is a
Mirror, reflecting back to us our own Inner Light, which is carrying the songs of Our Soul on the Sacred Winds. We can see this Great Mirror reflected back to us from the East of the Center of the
Circle. It is the fifteenth power, the Souls of All Humans. It sings the Gathering Together Circle song and chants the Sacred Rainbow of the SunDance Way. It sings to us: "Little
Sister, Little Brother, sing the Look Within Yourself songs, see the Beauty of All That Is. Open your eyes and look around you and see the many Mirrors and the many powers. When we look
through the eyes of our brothers and sisters, we can see the Whole Universe."
We can play all the songs, know all the music, dance all the dances. They sing to us to go beyond
all that appears to be by going within the song of the sixteenth power of the Southeast. These are the Enlightened Souls, or Akalohtah-hey, and they sing a song and carry a Light that
is a Great Rainbow. They sing the Many Paths chant. Their powerful song says: "You, Little Brother, Little Sister, are the Way, the Light, the Truth. Look within yourself and find
the Light. Know that Truth can be found from anywhere on the wheel and that towards the Center of the wheel is the Way." They begin to teach us how to find our Way. They sing the Honor
Your Brothers' and Sisters' Way chant. They play the sounds of All the Ways Will Gather Together Within the Rainbow Circle Dance. You must Dream. You must awaken within the song of the
seventeenth power of the Southwest. Hear the Kachina-hey, the Great Kachina Powers, the Dream Teachers. They are singing the Dance Your Dream Awake and Walk in Beauty
chant, the Dance to the Sacred Medicine Way chant, and the Sacred SunDance Way chant.
Their chants are as infinite as the Stars within the Great Sky, and all of them are Sacred Chants of
Great Power. They point the way to the Sacred Dream of the eighteenth power of the Northwest. In this place on the Great Wheel, we hear the Great Magick chant, for within this power are the Chuluamahdah-hey,
the Keepers of the Keys to the Books of Life of All Humans. Their most sacred chant is the Children's Fire chant, which sings that "Nothing Must Be Done to Harm the Children." They
sing gently to us that within us as within all Humans, is a Child. They sing the Become as a Child song. They sing the Honor the Child Within song.
As they sing, they point to the Northeast to the Light That Speaks With a Voice of Thunder, the
nineteenth power. Here are the Great Hokkshideh-hey, and they are singing the Cosmic Chant, the chant of Total Balance and Harmony of All Things Within the Everything. They sing to our
Highest Spirit Selves. You Are, they chant. You Are.
There is a Flash of Lightning and a Clap of Thunder. In an instant that becomes infinity, we are
imploded into the Sound of the Lightning and exploded into the Light of the Thunder. We soar through the Gateway of Infinity, flowing through time, space, and dimension, awakening finally in the
West of the Center of the Circle. We have met the twentieth power, the Great Mystery, the Great Spirit,Wakan Tanka. You and I and all things have now become One With the
Everything. The song is finished.
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