© - Copyright April, 2004 by Steven McFadden

A fourth earthquake in northwest Wyoming – close to the Grand Teton peaks and Yellowstone National Park – brings into sharp focus the plan for a massive Medicine Wheel ceremony in the American West on May 8.

The Medicine Wheel will be centered precisely on these sacred sites, and is intended to bring healing to them.

The 4.0 shaking on April 7 is the fourth earthquake in northwest Wyoming this year. But those four earthquakes are only part of an overall pattern of distressing Earth changes in the area, changes such as 200-degree ground temperatures, bulging magma, 84-degree water temperatures in the lake, and a massive die off of elk.

"The earth is profoundly disturbed," according to Bennie LeBeau of the Eastern Shoshone tribe. He is the man who first had the vision of the Medicine Wheel. "The Earth needs this ceremony now," he said, "and we need to do it together."

Many individuals and groups have responded positively to the vision articulated by Bennie, to engage in a simultaneous multi-tradition ceremony at 20 sacred sites in an effort to stabilize Yellowstone, heal the Earth, and encourage peace and respect.

Over the last month, the Medicine Wheel ceremony planned for May 8 around the U.S. West has taken on definite shape. Groups near sacred sites to the East, South and West have already committed to participate.

Some points on the Medicine Wheel that have already committed are Lake Mead, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, Mount Whitney, Cimarron River, Arkansas River, Platte River, and Mount Taylor (Turquoise Mountain).

However, Bennie LeBeau is encountering resistance from the administrators of the sacred sites at the center of his Medicine Wheel: the Yellowstone and the Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming. The park administrators have so far refused to give Bennie the necessary campground permits for the May 8 ceremonies.

Bennie says they are not listening. "They don’t understand this at all. They are going to be rebuilding the highways in Yellowstone Park this coming summer, and vibrating the Earth again in that machine way. They are not giving us a permit to be in the campgrounds where we can make our healing ceremony."

Bennie said that the way to get the administrators at Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to pay attention, was not so much to call or to e-mail, but to send faxes. "Please fax a respectful request to the administrators of these parks," Bennie said, "Send a fax now and ask them to allow these ceremonies to happen in the campgrounds where they need to be."

When I spoke with Bennie LeBeau by telephone this week he was in Denver, CO and heading North toward the Dakotas and then on into Canada. He said he was driving hard, and that he needs donations for gas money to stay on the road. He asked interested people to see his Teton Rainbow web site.

Logistically, Bennie is fielding dozens of calls to his cell phone and hundreds of e-mails. That’s more than one person on the road can handle.

Mount Whitney

He said he will soon post updates about the May 8 Medicine Wheel to his Teton Rainbow web site, and also will post specific contact information for the 20 gatherings that constitute the perimeter and center of the May 8 Medicine Wheel, and also for many of the other gatherings happening around the world at that time. It is best if people get the information from his web site.

As for general questions about participating, Bennie said people would be wise to follow their own common sense and intuition. Where will you go? What will you need? What do you wish to share?

Meanwhile, in the South of the Medicine Wheel the traditional Navajo keepers of Turquoise Mountain have published the protocol they will follow on May 8.

RESOURCES

Original Medicine Wheel story with maps and photos
http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-2.html

Medicine Wheel Locations and Contacts

Protocol for the Turquoise Mountain Ceremony

Medicine Wheel Teachings - Two Articles

Bennie LeBeau's Home Page
http://www.shrinesandsacredsites.com

Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth
http://www.spiritualelders.org

National Parks Service contacts:
Grand Teton National Park
Fax (307) 739-3438 - Web comments: http://www.nps.gov/grte/pphtml/contact.html

Yellowstone National Park
Fax: 1-307-344-2005
E-mail: Rosemary_Sucec@nps.gov

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-- 2004 Chiron Schedule --

April 30, 2004 – The Roots of Peace - Peace Paradigm conference in Rudd, Iowa. Steven McFadden to present "What May Grow from the Roots of Peace: A Vision of a Healthy, Sustainable, Free and Fair Nation." For information see http://www.peaceparadigm.com

May 8, 2004 – Medicine Wheel Ceremony for Mother Earth - at various locations around the Earth. Steven McFadden will join the circle in the South at the Turquoise Mountain (Mount Taylor in Grants, NM.)

June 12 – The Election of 2004: Political Astrology – Panel discussion with Arielle Guttman, Marcia Starck, Erin Sullivan, and Heather Roan-Robbins. Steven McFadden will serve as Mercurator for the evening event. Presented by the Sophia Center of Santa Fe. For information, write to Chiron@chiron-communications.com

June 5 -13 - Journey of the Waters – Pilgrimage to some of the holy springs of the American Southwest, guided by Oh Shinnah Fastwolf. To read about the Journey of the Waters, see the March, 2003 edition of the Chiron Communiqué
http://www.communications.com/communique%208-2.html
For information about this year’s Journey, write moonfire@optonline.net

In times to come, more to come...

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