Sweat Lodge_ Lakota

I received the Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/lakota/
as a gift and my use of those cards has been interesting and enlightening. I am leaving Las Vegas on my journey on the 6th of March. The Indian ways ask you to look at life as a circle. Using the four directions, and four seasons in the circle of life. The following are cards drawn randomly from a deck. I also asked some questions which will follow.

West

1.
Niyan - Spirit of Man (higher self)
Within each breath, I inhale the gift of life and exhale the gift of myself into the world.

2.
Hochoken Waken - reverence
I attend to my life with reverence, reverence that comes from the heart.

3. Stone drawn from my pouch was the Harmony ball.


North

1.
Tatanka Oyote - The Bison Nation (balance)
I know myself within the abundance and diversity of life upon the earth and celebrate our kinship.

2.
Spider - Fear of the Unseen
You are not a victim entangled in a web but someone who can choose to detach yourself from fear by recognizing and renouncing it.
Using the courage gifted to me by my creator, I walk through my fears with honesty and integrity.

3. Stone I drew from my pouch - Pink crystal - Love
Self Love - healing of the heart. Awareness of the beauty of art, music and the written word. Used for the treatment of depression.

East

1.
Wani - The Four Directions
Awaken to the lessons in your life. Open your eyes and take in the messages, coming to you from all directions.
The seed of life brought me forth and resides within me. I create a fertile home for this seed through a life rich in love, beauty, and creativity.

2.
The East - Yellow - (Clarity)
The light has risen - you can now begin to see your life with clarity a new light. A new day dawns and you arise with courage ready to make a fresh start. This is an opportunity to transform the way of looking at things, broaden your view, expand the scope of awareness. Now is the time of inspiration. The prospect before you is clear and unobscured. Understanding all that takes place around you journey onward past limitations.
I honor the spirit of the east. I open myself to the gift of new beginning's, of clarity and illumination.

3. Stone I drew from my pouch - Smoky quartz
Dissolve negative energy it's used as a grounding stone and has healing properties - congestion and disorders of the hands and feet.

South

1.
Yum The Whirlwind - Love
Goddess of the Sea, Goddess of Love, Goddess of Sport, Goddess of Games. Her domain lies within the sea and all bodies of water. Her force governs all living things and presides in the love people feel. She symbolizes all that moves in circles: The Whirlwind, the cycles of the seasons and of life, the planets and the stars.
I provide myself the space to connect with the endless flow of loving energy that sustains me. Thus may I discover the flow of love that surrounds me.

2.
Mini Water - (creativity)
clarity and purity - therefore cleansing
liquid and flowing - therefore cleansing
brings forth life - therefore creativity
sustain life - therefore nurturing
Comfortable in the flow of life, moving fluidly along your path, expressing yourself freely with words, images, sounds, movement or just in the way you want in your life. Now your being given the opportunity to create the future. Leave the past behind, and take with you only what will nourish your future creativity.
I release myself into the moment; into the flow of time, events, cycles, emotions, and I find grace and fertile ground along the way.

3. Stone I drew from my pouch - Blood stone - Grounding and protection
Let go of the victim consciousness - healing - deterioration of internal organs, disorders of kidney, spleen, bladder, liver and stomach.



Questions I have asked:

What if anything I am missing?
Anogete
Woman with Two Faces - Duality
Anogete is a supernatural aspect of Hanwi, Moon. The face of anogete is half beautiful half hideous. Her role is to assist humans in finding their way through perceived negativity to the One who exists behind and within the duality of good and bad, light and dark, positive and negative, male and female.
See the whole picture - Balance your perceptions. I f you have only seen the positive, allow the negative to appear, and accept the existence without dismissing it.
Releasing fear and judgment, I open my perceptions to wholeness to One.


Is there something I should see before leaving here?

Wagle Shun - The Swan - Peace

You are reminded to be at Peace with all things. Find the place of peace within yourself and others. Let love take the place of fear and allow your inner peace to gently come forth. Share this strongest beauty with the world around you. Ask yourself what can you do in your life to bring around peace. As peace grows greater it begins to take flight, touching and uplifting all with whom you come in contact.

I seek and find the state of being where the grace and beauty of all life is known. In this way is my heart filled and at peace.