— Great White Roundup —

The drums of war beat tumultuously through this parched season of lengthening days, yet for those who are listening carefully subtle notes of hope arise amidst the din.

One resonant note of hope over the last eight years has been the emergence of the White Buffaloes. According to ancient understandings of North America, the white buffalo is deemed a sign of great importance. In our time of immense global woe, to have 10 such buffaloes come into the world — a veritable herd — amplifies the ray of hope the buffalo represent.

Here’s a roundup of news on these remarkable harbingers.
On March 19, the Chicago Tribune featured a story updating the news on Miracle, the first white buffalo, who was born August 20, 1994 in Janesville, WI.

Tribune reporter William Hageman wrote that since Miracle’s birth almost a half-million people have visited the Heider farm. The visitors come in such large numbers because, as related in Chapter 9 of Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, Miracle was said to be a sign of the fulfillment of a centuries-old Native American prophecy: the return of the spirit of Pte San Win (White Buffalo Calf Maiden).

One Lakota spiritual interpreter, Floyd Hand from Pine Ridge, S.D., likens the white buffalo legend to other spiritual teachings such as the Seminoles' Corn Lady and the folk traditions surrounding Our Lady of Guadeloupe and other apparitions of the Virgin Mary. "They're all kind of the same focus," Hand said. "She (White Buffalo Woman) is an avatar, a starperson. Jesus was one of them, and so is this mother who came home to us again."

White Buffalo Calf Maiden, who came among the Indian people 19 generations ago to teach, promised she would someday return. She told the people that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that her return was imminent, at which time she would help to purify the world.

A year before the birth of Miracle, Mr. Hand told the Tribune, White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared to him in a vision and told him the sign would soon come. She also prophesied several events: turbulent times in the United States starting in 2003, water becoming "as rare as gold," war and natural disasters -- all meant to get America back on a more spiritual path, according to Mr. Hand.

Since1994 Miracle has matured and become a mother herself. She had calves in 1998 and 2000, neither of them white. She could live, and produce calves, for another couple of decades.

The Tribune story ends with a quote from farmer Dave Heider about the teachings of the white buffalo: "…there's still another part of the legend to be fulfilled. The prophecy said she'd turn white again when there was peace in the world…"

For the full Chicago Tribune story, try this link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0203190247mar19.story?coll=chi%2Dhomepageleisure%2Dutl

To learn more about Miracle directly from the Heider farm, visit: http://www.homestead.com/WhiteBuffaloMiracle/

Among the nine other white buffaloes born since Miracle came on the scene, are three who are part of a herd managed by Jim and Dena Riley. The Rileys and their herd relocated over the winter from South Dakota to what is familiar territory for them: Flagstaff, AZ, just south of the Grand Canyon.

Thus, from now on as visitors head for one of the natural wonders of the world, they will drive by the front gate to Spirit Mountain Ranch and, hopefully, have an opportunity to visit Miracle Moon, Rainbow Spirit, and Peace Pilgrim — three related white buffalo.

Miracle Moon and daughter Rainbow Spirit -Two of the three white buffaloes at Spirit Mountain Ranch near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. (Photo by Dena Riley)

However, all is not well. The Planning and Zoning Commission of Coconino County, AZ, has denied a request from the Rileys to open the gates of Spirit Mountain Ranch to the public. Their ruling stated that the buffalo don't belong there, and that their presence would create a "carnival" atmosphere. The Rileys have appealed to the board of supervisors and a hearing — deciding the fate of the white buffalo in Northern Arizona — has been set for April 16th, 2002. The Rileys are asking for help. They need people to show support for the ranch. If you have questions or would like to be in contact to lend support, call Barry at 928-649-8509 or e-mail him: ASBARRY@aol.com

If you are visiting in Arizona, you can get to the ranch by heading from Flagstaff toward the Grand Canyon on Hwy 180. After 20 miles you’ll reach a prairie called Kendrick Park. On the right you will see a brown building with a picture of the white buffalo on the side. The white buffalo are living, fenced in, on the North side of the building.
For more information visit the ranch’s web site:
http://www.sacredwhitebuffalo.org

At the ranch’s web site you can sign up on a free list to get news updates in your email.

The ninth white buffalo calf was born less than a year ago on August 7, 2001 Double E Buffalo Ranch in Vanderbilt, MI, the ranch of Beth and Ron O'Rourke and their daughter, Emily.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Original Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations named the ninth calf Wahos'I, which in English means "Messenger."

To learn more about Wahos'l, try connecting from this link:
http://www.homestead.com/whitebuffalomiracle/index.html

Chief Looking Horse sent the following message to the O’Rourke family: "We were told that White Buffalo Calf Woman's spirit would make her presence known, a sign of great changes signifying the Crossroads (for humanity). I never dreamed I would live to witness this momentous time…White Buffalo Calf Woman's spirit has announced her message of support in this time of great danger, and she continues to announce the message in the birth of each White Buffalo -- each one of them a sign, each one a fulfillment of ancient prophecy as well as a new prophecy for our times."

Chief Looking Horse has written a book entitled "White Buffalo Teachings." The book is published by Dreamkeepers Press: www.dreamkeepers.net

I have no news to report yet on the tenth white buffalo, but I’ll be on the lookout

— Update on Hiroshima Peace Flame Walk —

As reported in the March edition of the Chiron Communiqué, a small band of pilgrims is carrying a spark of the Hiroshima Peace Flame across the US, planning to conclude their prayer walk in New York City on May 12, 2002.

The flame they carry was ignited 57 years ago from the embers of the atomic bomb blast that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The flame has been kept steadily burning ever since, nurtured with prayer for forgiveness, understanding, and world peace.

The walkers and the flame they carry are now in Virginia and heading north toward the nation’s capital for what promises to be a momentous weekend, April 20–23. At that time Washington will be teeming with thousands upon thousands of people in a mass demonstration for peace. Officials estimate there will be 20,000+ peace activists, anti–nuclear supporters and many more people of various political persuasions.

The walk’s intention to be in Washington on this weekend has caused a split. Tom Dostou (Nabesse Pishum) and Jerzy Kokurewicz left the walk at the end of March. Tom has been part of the walk since the beginning. He began planning this walk while he was in Japan in 2000. There he was entrusted with the Hiroshima Flame, and he conceived the vision of returning it to where it had come from — not as a protest, but as a deed of spiritual redemption.

He passed on his vision to the Japanese people he felt were best suited to carry out this mission. When that vision was accepted by Jun-san of the Nipponzan Miyohoji Order of Buddhist Monks and Nuns, the responsibility for care of the flame and for conduct around the flame was also passed to her.

Tom and Jerzy came to regard the decision to be part of this larger gathering in Washington as dangerous and unwise. They see potential for violence and arrest. According to letters written by Tom and Jerzy, Jun-san's decision to go to Washington on April 20 effectively changed the walk, for them, from a prayer action to a political action.

In a telephone interview Jun–san said she sees the situation another way. She made the determination to bring the walk and the flame to Washington long ago, and she feels the Hiroshima Flame pilgrims will be bringing a spirit of peace and illumination with them, and that it is essential that they be there to anchor those qualities.

The Hiroshima Peace Flame Walk will continue north from Washington to New York City, arriving on May 12, 2002, where the walkers and supporters will hold vigils in New York at UN headquarters and at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center. Then the pilgrims will carry the fire to Arizona, and return it ceremonially to the Earth at the Red Rock mine where the uranium for the Hiroshima bomb was dug from the soil.

To learn more about the walk and its schedule, visit this website: http://www.dharmawalk.org/

— Saturn–Pluto Opposition 2002 —

From now until the end of May — and likely well beyond that time — the world will feel the building tension of a basic but powerful astrological pattern: the opposition of the planets Saturn and Pluto.
It’s well worth paying attention to this opposition, which has been in effect for nearly a year already.

Most professional astrologers agree that the opposition is the dominant cosmic signature of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, and all the troubles — national and international — that have proceeded therefrom, including the ominous and growing restriction of basic Constitutional freedoms in America, and the Arab–Israeli conflagration in the Middle East.

The basic themes represented by this planetary opposition are a clash of worldviews, crises of power, and open conflict, such as the Unholy Global War now mounting. There is a tendency — on both global and personal levels — to see things as black and white: "they" (whoever they might be) are evil and unprincipled, "we" are noble and "absolutely right." We have the "truth."

Yet life is rarely so unambiguous. The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn once observed: "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being..."

As above, so below. In accordance with the movement of the planets, energy accentuating this primary theme will build from now until the final exact opposition of Saturn (in Gemini) and Pluto (in Sagittarius) on May 25. Then it will be cranked up and extended by a powerful eclipse the very next day — a celestial event that will likely propel the force of the opposition for months.

According to the general thread of thought among astrologers, we are likely to see more of the following: Economic recession. Rise in oil prices for the long–term. War (Rob Hand — http://www.robhand.com/ — a well–known astrologer, has written that it is possible China will be involved before the year 2002 is over). Earthquakes and general upheaval (astrologer Alan Oken — http://www.thewisdomschool.org/ — has observed of the opposition process now underway: "The towers have fallen; the towers will continue to fall). The continuing rise of global fascism, including tightening governmental restrictions in the US (Traditional Hopi elders say martial law is coming soon to America; they pronounced this well before 9/11).

While this is a stunning and depressing litany of probabilities, the ultimate outcome of the Saturn–Pluto opposition need not be negative. The stars impel, they do not compel. We have free will, and always the opportunity to exercise it from a place of insight and strength. When approached wisely, an opposition yields a partnership, a complement, not a clash or a crash.

An obvious observation: it’s time to face our shadows: personal, national, and global. Denial and projection lead inevitably to conflict. It’s just the way the energy pattern works. Become conscious of the polarities and you are empowered to transcend them. Remain willfully ignorant, and suffer the pain of harsh awakenings.
In our current global predicament, one might say there is an absolute and urgent demand for objectivity; otherwise all the likely consequences enumerated above will come to pass. The hour is late.

Prayer and ceremonial work of all kinds are of tremendous importance in the weeks ahead. It is no time to be asleep, or cut off from the spirit by virtue of fear, alcohol, strong drugs or other escape pathways. The opposition pattern insists upon alertness, consciousness.

The entire cycle of Saturn and Pluto, which is now at the half–way point (opposition) began in 1982 with their conjunction (coming together at the same place in the zodiac) at 28 degrees of Libra. The Sabian symbol, or word picture, for this particular degree of the Zodiac is ultimately very positive: "A man becoming aware of the spiritual forces surrounding and assisting him. Realization of the invisible community in the subtle realm, and from that the development of inner assurance." But, perhaps needless to say, it’s not so easy getting to this point of realization. The opposition is bringing the opportunity, however, and also creating an opportunity to grasp the distance we have to travel to get to this level of awareness

.— Help of the Spiritual World —

"We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards the human being out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future.

"We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world directive full of wisdom. It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust… Trust in the ever–present help of the spiritual world.

"Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. And let us seek the awakening from within, every morning and evening."
- Rudolf Steiner

Commentary on Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

"Mr. McFadden has filled this book with so much information from so many points of view you will want to reread it often and keep it handy for reference. I feel it’s a valuable read for our turmoil–filled lives in the times since Sept 11…I especially like that this book gives us hope for the future, that we will come together as fellow beings on this planet -- rainbow warriors in the good sense -- and bring peace and health to our world at last." - A reviewer at Amazon.com

Legend of the Rainbow Warriors (2001 — Chiron Communications, ISBN # 0–9665234–6–6 can be ordered many ways: through your local bookstore, by calling toll–free 1–888–285–2710, or online through the Chiron website, URL at the end of the newsletter).

Chiron Communications 2002 SCHEDULE

April 12 - Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - Evening Circle at Yeoho Grove in Parkton, MD. All are welcome. By donation. For information call Jacki Hayward Gauger at 410-343-0856 or send e-mail to Yeoho8@aol.com.

April 13-14 - Reiki I Training: Healing with Heart and Hands - Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy — the energy that flows through all living things. It is also the name of a simple, effective technique for healing via the laying-on of hands. Reiki is a natural method of healing with the use of basic life energy.

Reiki Masters Steven McFadden and Jacki Hayward Gauger have a combined 35 years experience with Reiki. They have traveled the Four Directions on pilgrimage, and met with elders from many cultures to discuss and experience life, ceremony, and healing. Steven is director of Chiron Communications and the author of Legend of the Rainbow Warriors; Farms of Tomorrow Revisited; and Profiles in Wisdom. Jacki is a nationally certified practitioner of therapeutic massage, a certified practitioner of Cranio–Sacral therapy, and a certified facilitator of Transformational Breath. Both Steven and Jacki are also certified yoga instructors.

Students must register in advance. $150 tuition. All who complete the course will be presented with Reiki I Certificates.

For information or to register contact Jacki at 410-343-0856 or e-mail: Yeoho8@aol.com

April 26 - Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - Evening Circle in the conference room at the Unity Church in Sedona, Arizona. All are welcome. By donation. For information call Kathie Gabriel at Owl Feather Studio in Sedona at 928-204-1344 or send e-mail to Gabe@kachina.netGabe@kachina.net

April 27 - Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - All-day intensive workshop and circle in the conference room at the Unity Church in Sedona, AZ. All are welcome. By donation. For information call Kathie Gabriel at Owl Feather Studio in Sedona at 928-204-1344 or send e-mail to Gabe@kachina.netGabe@kachina.net

May 11- Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - Evening Circle in Crestone, Colorado. Saturday. 7:00 p.m. at the White Eagle Hotel. Contact: Chris O'Brien at tmv@ctelco.net or 719-256-4407.

May 30- Legend of the Rainbow Warriors - Evening Circle at Longevity Cafe, 112 West San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM. All are welcome. Starts at 7 pm. For information contact Longevity Cafe at 505-986-0403, or visit their web site: http://www.LongevityCafe.com

Late July - Early August - Personal retreat, Maniwaki Lake, Quebec.

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