Preface
The following interpretation of these 9 Directions reflects but one of my attempts to establish a personal connection with Source. I present it with the hope that you too might be able to use them for your own Sacred Journey, to more fully draw upon that limitless power of the Eternal Consciousness that is Creation. Further, and more importantly, the Native American teaching, with which I am most familiar, comes from the traditions of the Marten Clan of the Red Lake Band of the Anishinabe tribe. In that teaching, the traditional entrance into the Medicine Wheel is from the East, as it animates the Creative fire of a new dawn within. To this end, it presents a unique set of analogies that is intended as an aid in fulfilling your own “prime directive” to Know Thyself.
The metaphors of my Nine Directions are based on the Native American tradition of Seven Directions, augmented by my own understanding and practices in regards to those traditions. Setting out on this path of the Nine offers the chance to become familiar with, and to fully know, the individual elements of our “Whole True Self,” as those elements are represented in these Directions. With such a “knowing,” we are free to fulfill our plan to live up to the optimum of Hu-Man behavior in this—and all other worlds.
The success of these exercises is, of course, premised on our willingness to embrace the individual Directions as each helps us integrate the qualities, aspects, and attributes associated with their metaphorical symbology. In being willing to accept them as guideposts on our paths to Wholeness, we are asked—at each position of the compass—to take on the point of view of that Direction: to see ourselves, as the Direction, as though we are looking into the Medicine Wheel from Its’ specific compass reading (North, South, etc.). It is in consciously embracing each of the Directions that we may open a dialogue with Them. By allowing them to speak with us, in a meditative embrace, we come to understand what it means to say, for example,
“I AM the East. WE ARE the East.”
In the end, owning them All, you realize that You are One with Creator.
In the end, by owning them all, in detail, we come to realize that We are One with Creator, i.e., that each of us is GOD, within our own sliver of Creation.
I hope you enjoy the journey.
Johnny