About the Author
I was born in the month of the Snow Moon, on Christmas Eve. When my mother was in the hospital the morning I was to enter this earthen vessel, she looked out her window and saw a Christmas Tree someone had placed on the surface of a flat roof across the street. Crowning the top of the Tree was the Morning Star. When I was born, my name was given to me by my Spiritual Parents, and made manifest through my physical parents. My father gave me one name (Cheyenne) and my mother the other name (Morning Star), neither one realizing that both names meant the same thing (the Cheyenne were known as the Morning Star people) and this naming was marked with a sign by Great Spirit and Sacred Mother.
My mother had always felt she would have a girl child and said a prayer that she told me many times. “Great Spirit, thank you for allowing me to care for this child. I will love her and care for her, yet I know she is yours from beginning to end. Let her feet walk the path you have placed before her in grace and beauty. Truly I thank you for this gift.”
Never in any portion of this life would I have consciously planned or written the journey I have had. Neither my mother nor myself ever thought we would end up caring for each other, as mother-daughter, sisters, or woman to woman on such a heart wrenching, intense, and beautiful path. Just as she told Great Spirit that she would care for me in my beginning, I told Him before I came into this world, I would care for her in the end. Life is circles within circles of beginnings and endings, births and deaths. This experience is but one of them.
And now, I too, can say, “Truly, Great Father, Great Mother, I thank you for this gift.”
My mother had always felt she would have a girl child and said a prayer that she told me many times. “Great Spirit, thank you for allowing me to care for this child. I will love her and care for her, yet I know she is yours from beginning to end. Let her feet walk the path you have placed before her in grace and beauty. Truly I thank you for this gift.”
Never in any portion of this life would I have consciously planned or written the journey I have had. Neither my mother nor myself ever thought we would end up caring for each other, as mother-daughter, sisters, or woman to woman on such a heart wrenching, intense, and beautiful path. Just as she told Great Spirit that she would care for me in my beginning, I told Him before I came into this world, I would care for her in the end. Life is circles within circles of beginnings and endings, births and deaths. This experience is but one of them.
And now, I too, can say, “Truly, Great Father, Great Mother, I thank you for this gift.”
Chyenne Morning Star and her husband, Thomas Whiteeagle, live with their dog, a Newfoundland named Bear, in the beautiful Ozark Mountains. She is a Peacemaker, www.chyennemorningstar.com writer, and artist.
She and Thomas own and operate an internet hosting company, Adtastic Hosting, www.adtastichosting.net
She and Thomas own and operate an internet hosting company, Adtastic Hosting, www.adtastichosting.net
Sunset on the lake
photo by Chyenne Morning Star
A nation is not defeated until the hearts of its Women are on the ground.
Cheyenne proverb
Cheyenne proverb
For Good Medicine Society lessons go to www.goodmedicinesociety.com All Good Medicine Society courses are based on material spoken, written, and taught by Eli Gatoga (Cherokee, 1916-1983), who dedicated his life to teaching others how to search for and apply Good Medicine to all aspects of their lives. His wife, Alloday, and others who support his efforts, continue the school he founded.
Each course consists of a series of lessons that are accompanied by a list of questions. Students are asked to spend at least one week on each lesson, to give them time to absorb the concepts presented, and observe how the lesson pertains to their personal lives. Students then send in their answers and one of the authorized teachers will review and return them with comments.
This is a wonderful introductory course for helping you to create a positive thought life and understanding of the relatedness and oneness of all things.
Each course consists of a series of lessons that are accompanied by a list of questions. Students are asked to spend at least one week on each lesson, to give them time to absorb the concepts presented, and observe how the lesson pertains to their personal lives. Students then send in their answers and one of the authorized teachers will review and return them with comments.
This is a wonderful introductory course for helping you to create a positive thought life and understanding of the relatedness and oneness of all things.
Chyenne Morning Star is an authorized Good Medicine Society Teacher
copyright 1986-2009 - all rights reserved. No part may be copied without permission from the author. Chyenne Morning Star