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Vision: Raven’s Nest is the accumulation of years of study and practice in mentoring women in life enhancing techniques using various modalities. Patti Two Ravens has over 30 years’ experience in mentoring women and men in discovery of self through various healing modalities.

The vision of Raven’s Nest is to provide a safe and non-judgmental healing space for those seeking to heal and gather with likeminded people.

Article 05: The Talking Stick
The story of the talking stick originated from five Native American tribes: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, and the Onondaga. These tribes all live in what is now upper New York state. But, in those days, these tribes were all fighting each other, having terrible wars. People were dying and suffering from starvation. A great man named Deganawidah, with Hiawatha, finally helped them learn to make a peace agreement among the five tribes. He became known as the Great Peacemaker. (A further history of Deganawidah and Hiawatha will be written in a future article.)

The peace agreement took a very long time, years! After much talking and listening to each other, they formed the Iroquois Confederacy. It was such an important agreement that it inspired other agreements such as the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter.

The Peacemaker believed that it was very important for each person wishing to speak to be carefully listened to because everyone’s ideas were valuable. When they listened carefully from their hearts, and spoke truthfully from their hearts, the people were able to make peace. Today we call that special listening active listening.

One tradition was to pass something important around the circle to show who was speaking from his or her heart. Some Native Americans began to use a talking stick. They passed the talking stick around the circle when they had a council.

A council was, and still is, a time, like a special meeting, to share thoughts and feelings about an important subject. The listening with respect and caring for everyone is the important part of using the talking stick to help solve problems. The Peacemaker knew the power of listening with respect and he brought us to this way to solve problems without fighting.

Why Use the Talking Stick?

Everyone has an opportunity to speak.
The process encourages everyone to listen more carefully.
When everyone has a turn, it reduces competition for time and attention.
It builds trust and safety in community.
Respect for the ideas and contributions of others is the process.
Many Blessings to you, Patti Two Ravens

Article 06: Raven’s Nest 13 Clan Mother Lodge

We have created a new 13 Clan Mother Lodge for women. This Women’s Medicine Lodge is created with a circle of 13 women dedicated to attend and participate in the teachings once a month during the 13-month cycle. Each monthly session focuses on the Lunar Clan Mother assigned to that month, representing the 13 moons of a lunar year. Based on Jamie Sams, The 13 Original Clan Mothers, we explore ancient indigenous teachings taught by the Kiowa grandmothers and their correlation to the Seneca 13 Cycles of Truth. Indigenous peoples across the globe have their own, similar teachings relating to Clan Mothers, Goddesses, First Elders, etc. and so the teachings, themselves, are global Sacred Truths as presented in this particular manner.

Each woman has been chosen to learn and represent a clan mother and present her to the group from her own perspective while also giving the others an experiential taste of her clan mother’s attributes. A transformative experience for all.

The current Clan Mother Lodge is closed to new registrants, but, if you are interested in participating in a new lodge, contact me. We will need another 13 dedicated to begin.

I will be posting on our Facebook Group at different times during the year, snips from each clan mother’s readings.

Contact me if you wish to become a part of the Facebook Group. The page “Patti Two Ravens” will have to be liked in order for me to add you to the group.

Happenings:

Reiki Shares
We will be having Reiki Share Sessions Scheduled for Every Third Thursday of the Month beginning at 6 pm
I have a private Reiki Share group connected to my Patti Two Ravens page. All of these dates are posted as events. If you wish to be included in this group, contact me: [email protected].
Current Dates:
January 19
February 23
March 16
April 20
May 18
June 22
Must be Reiki Level I or higher
Please RSVP

Drum Circle
January 15: Mid New and Full Moon 1-4 pm
Please RSVP with Patti Two Ravens

Peruvian Whistling Vessels
Peruvian whistling vessels are not musical instruments. They are pre-Columbian artifacts (or replicas) which have recently been discovered to be highly effective psychoacoustical instruments, capable of rapidly inducing a profound, positive, beautiful, and beneficial altered state of consciousness which lasts as long as the vessels are being blown. The clearing will stay with you for some time.
Join Patti in this high frequency session and experience the profound healing and clearing of heavy energy in your mind, body, and spirit. Good for clearing persons and places of lower frequencies that block you from achieving a significantly expanded state of consciousness.
January 29, 1-4 pm
Inquire with Patti Two Ravens

Mother Moose Big Drum gathering
February 5: Noon-4 pm
Drum protocols are required.
Inquire with Patti Two Ravens

Reiki Classes – If you are interested in a class (Reiki I, II, or III are offered)
Reiki Level I
February 12 10 am – 3pm
Inquire with Patti Two Ravens

Reiki Level II
March 12 10 am – 3pm
Inquire with Patti Two Ravens

Nibi Wabo Women’s Water Healing Ceremony
February 26 1-4
To be held at Raven’s Nest due to weather concerns (cold)
Inquire/RSVP with Patti Two Ravens
Upcoming to be scheduled: if you have an interest, contact Patti Two Ravens

Men’s Circle Sacred Teachings – Seven Arrows
Later this year after Spring. If you have an interest, please contact Patti Two Ravens. This is in preparation for the Summer Solstice in June and to help the men in our circle relate to their own sacred teachings.

Nibi Wabo Women’s Water Healing Teachings TBD
Teachings and birch clapper preparing is a prerequisite to the ceremony

Crystal Singing Bowls
if you have an interest, contact Patti Two Ravens
We travel locally to do groups

Medicine Wheel Teachings
Introduction to Shamanic Journeying (2 Day class)
Psychic Protection and Personal Empowerment
Rattle Making
Drum Making

Contact Us:
Email: [email protected]
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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."

-- William Shatner, actor

The point here is not about how or why he went to the edge of space, if he’s wealthy or his life story but how we all ignore the great loss of species and habitats, how we consume and destroy this beautiful earth and resources in our endless rampaging desire to fulfil sone crazy idea that we find happiness in things.

If we look deeply and closely at our own true nature, we are both the deep emptiness and the vivid alive appearance of this incredible life.
We are nature, we are from this earth.

To really see this is to feel deep grief for what is being lost, which is 70% of all wild animals in the last 30 years alone, never mind what we have lost for ever through our greed and ignorance.

If you read about the slaughter of the great herds of buffalo, of the genocide of the great Whales, of the dolphin massacres in the Faroes or the extinction of Wolves and bear in Scotland, how would we not feel immense grief?

If we truly faced it then we would dedicate our lives to saving the wild animals, birds, ocean beings, the oceans, mountains, rivers and great forests that we destroy at our own peril.

We won’t find salvation on other planets, the very miracle is right here, right now!

It is up to us.

If you care and understand then find out more.

Join the Wild revolution!

www.wildrevolution.com

If you miss the point then move on, there’s plenty of celebrity news to focus on 🙂

Mexican Dia de Mu***os has its roots in Indigenous cosmology, philosophy, and spirituality and since the 1900s, La Calavera Garbancera known today as La Catrina formed an important part of calls for social justice reforms in Mexico. It is not Halloween.

(Dia de Mu***os encompasses all the days celebrated: October 27 through November 2.)

Maestra Grace
Curanderismo, the Healing Art of Mexico

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Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy with Sandra Ingerman, Volume 2, Video #7, July, 2022 In the July 2022 Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy, Sandra Ingerman takes viewers through a ceremony to reconnect with the Divine Feminine, something that is m...

it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is on this platform for people to sit in judgement of others and to talk about others behind their backs in order to justify their own insecurities and bias.
it is quite disturbing to watch.
While I am totally for stating your opinions, the negative connotations behind some of these come through are apparent and quite the opposite of what we should be doing in regards of how we should be treating each other.
It is especially disturbing to see it in those who are supposed to be friends and companions on this journey.
It is counter-productive to raising the vibrations of the collective consciousness to be spewing this negativity and spreading discourse through the written or spoken word.
Words matter, thoughts matter. Both can make a difference one way or the other.
I find it better to just be who I am and try to make a difference where I can.
A lion does not have to announce they are a lion, they are knowledgeable and comfortable in who they are. They don't have to prove anything to anyone.
And neither do I nor most of the people in my circle.
But we are human and we falter, at times. Our words and thoughts are not always pure. Just striving to be better is the most any of us can do.
I saw a couple of posts over the last couple of days and it got me thinking. Life is not all "love and light" there is a balance that must be achieved.
We appreciate more walking in gratitude, rather than anger and hurt. We don't have to announce it, we just need to feel it and be it.
In recovery, I was once told that "gratitude" is an action word. My actions show my gratitude, not my words. Words are easy to say.
Life is too short to live in hatred, anger, jealousy, hurt, and sadness.
So, walk in gratitude....
for our sameness, for our differences, for our collective sanity in order to make a real difference in this world.
Aho,
Two Ravens

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

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I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them;
I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back;
I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
I’ve learned that you can get by on charm, for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you’d better know something;
I’ve learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I’ve learned that no matter how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take it’s place.
I’ve learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re downhill are the ones to help you get back up.
I’ve learned that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry.
I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I’ve learned that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean that they don’t love you with all they have.
I’ve learned that maturity had more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
I’ve learned that your family won’t always be there for you.
I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while.
I’ve learned that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes you have to forgive yourself.
I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
I’ve learned that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.
I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I’ve learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will get hurt in the process.
I’ve learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don’t even know you.
I’ve learned that it’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s feelings and standing up for what you believe.

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Sacred Wild Woman Medicine

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