North

Of all of the medicine pieces that I have gathered together over the years; feathers, rocks, shells, crystals, an assortment of totems and talisman and other random tangible tracers of time and place, perhaps the most important one is my compass. I am not short on sacred medicine pieces, I have a full supply. I want to call myself a Spiritual Pharmacist and I laugh as I wonder if I am some form of a sacred medicine hypochondriac.

During the Spiritually dry spell in my life when I acted more like a rock than a sponge, when I allowed an entity other than Spirit to try to define me I took down my altar and I hid or cloaked my goods. During that time I forgot for a vital second who I was and then choose to continue to forget for awhile longer. I maintained contact with one piece that seemed to hold me to my truth. That one piece was a compass, a cheap plastic and aluminum fifty cent piece sized compass.

I was lost.

I called on that compass hundreds of times to simply line me up with the direction of “North”. “North” is the direction of all directions. I believed that somehow if I knew where North was I would be able to get back on path somehow. Some days all I needed to know was that North was “that way”. Other days I would stand in the direction facing North and ask that “the direction of all directions lead me”. There were days when I would have to stand with the compass and make sure for certain that the needle lined up perfectly with the capital “N” placed at quarter mark in the circle.

One day long after I was found, I looked at my compass that sat front and center at my altar … my prayer space. It sat with a number of other sacred items and I realized with great gratitude that it was “North”, the direction of all directions that placed me at center. “North” and all of the directions that co-create center with the “North” brought me home again.

Here is a suggestion … the next time you are out shopping for a new crystal or talisman, scavenging the shore lines and the hillsides for a stone or rock or the next time you need connection to Source go to a local sporting goods store and buy a compass. It’s hard to find a good cheap compass but it is worth the money to have one. You would spend $25 on a nice crystal, spend $20 on a good land compass.

Take the compass home and stand in your yard or on your deck or balcony. Lay the compass flat in your palm and spin around in circles until you line up that needle with the direction “North”. When you find “North” look out into the northern realm of your life and say thank you. Turn to the “East” and look out into the eastern realm of your life and say thank you again. Repeat this with “South” and “West”. Yes there is an order to follow while calling in the great circle around you.

When you have completed your gratitude circle of the four directions, don’t forget there are a few more. Look up into the vast sky realm of your life and say thank you. Look down and imagine that you can see the molten core of our Mother Earth realm and say thank you.

Now take another moment or ten, to connect to all of these directions “N, E, S, W, above and below and call in the energy of this sanctuary that you have just built. Call the energy in to the seventh direction. This seventh direction is the direction that takes you within. The direction of within is centered in your heart and soul. Your heart and soul is centered in all of these other directions. When you are at the center realm of your life say thank you to yourself.