Eleven Elders
This blog is based on a dream I had in Sweden, on the night of Sunday October 28th in 2018. The Big Bear Mother in the night sky (asterism Ursa Major) observed the spiritual darkness cloaking` Earth and decided to send down her seven lights as falling (or shooting) stars. I decided to type up this dream as a blog honouring the lives of the people who died in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Eleven Elders
The Big Bear Mother in the Night Sky
Watches
Children starve in Yemen
Suffering inhumane violations in Syria
Child prostitutes in Sri Lanka
She sees Eleven Elders shot
At the Tree of Life Synagogue
In Pittsburgh
She tells her daughter
Little She Bear
To stay on watch
But she sends her own Seven Stars
Down to Earth
Shooting stars
Falling stars honouring the Fallen
Lighting other lights
They take the shape of Snow Flakes
Blanketing the cold shivering Earth
Like an infant seeking comfort
As The World Tree shudders
And quakes in grief
Over the wounding of her child
The Tree of Life
Seven Stars
Seven Lights
Of the seven-branched
Golden candelabra
Are lit
In the Tabernacle:
The Menorah
(Hammered out of
A single chunk of gold)
For eleven nights
A ferociously protective
Divine Bear Mother
Lends her lights to earthlings
Seven lights burn
In spiritual darkness
Guiding souls Home
And awakening the Elder
In Others
Imelda Almqvist, Kärrshagen, Sweden 29 October 2018
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About the Author:
Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of shamanism and sacred art. Her book Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages) was published by Moon Books in 2016 and her second book Sacred art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where art Meets Shamanism) will be published in March 2019. She was a presenter on the Shamanism Global Summit in both 2016 and 2017 and is a presenter on Year of Ceremony with Sounds True. She divides her time between the UK, Sweden and the US. She is currently in the editing stages of her third book “Medicine of the Imagination” and has started her fourth book “Evolving Gods: The Sacred Marriage of Tradition and Innovation”
www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk (website)
https://imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com/ (blog)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=imelda+almqvist
(YouTube channel: interviews, presentations and art videos)