“Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle. The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls, birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tipis were round like the nests of birds and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop, a nest of many nests where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.“

~Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)~

we are one interconnected circle of interbeing, blessed bee… a sacred hoop belonging to each other eternally…

today is a day of outer clouds with rain on the way and i’m reveling in the energy of rainmaker who journeyed to an unknown land of drought, went into her tipi sweat lodge and came out 3 days later when the rains came restoring the land into harmony by going inside and coming into balance, into harmony and joining with the commonunity to celebrate the circle, the sacred hoop of regeneration…

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