On Black Friday, I woke to find a Facebook post from the City of Staunton acknowledging the observance of Native American Heritage Day.
“… a time to reflect on the deep cultural, historical, and comtemporary contributions of Native Americans.”
And as they also said, “Staunton sits within the ancestral homelands of the Monacan Indian Nation, one of Virginia’s federally recognized tribes.”
After reading this, realized it felt right to conduct a prayer ceremony with the Sunstone Pipe, honoring the First Peoples of this land and their ancestors.
This was the first time Sunstone was used in a ceremony all of its own without any other Pipe present.
And it was as powerful if not more so than the awakening ceremony a few nights before.
As a sidenote, it has been a while since the names of gods representing specific traits associated with specific directions was used during the prayers of the ceremony.
It was something I had not done in a long time because I did not wish to cross the cultural streams … but this Pipe is of Norse design …. Norse Spirit.
Spirits of Pipes are beyond our world, beyond this realm.
And as the day it awoke, the energy of this Pipe is of what feels like a different vibration than the other Pipes I’ve worked with in the past.
Not better, not worse. …. Simply different.
~ The Pathfinder
