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Chiron Communiqué

Author's Occasional Newsletter

Volume 9 - No. 5

June, 2004

Medicine Wheel Spins in a Sacred Manner
- A Round-up of the May 8 Ceremony -

The massive Medicine Wheel ceremony envisioned by Bennie LeBeau of the Eastern Shoshone Nation took place in a beautiful manner on May 8, 2004.

The ceremonial wheel –- centered in the Grand Teton peaks of Wyoming and extending in a nearly 600 mile radius –- brought many thousands of people together in an effort to help re-set the perturbed energy frequency of the earth.

Ceremonialists of all racial and spiritual origins participated at a synchronized time (High Noon) at sacred sites around the world, and in particular at the 20 sacred sites in the American West marking the center and the perimeter of the Medicine Wheel. Of note, two weeks after the ceremony a white buffalo calf was born in Arizona, at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks, one of the key points on the Medicine Wheel.

According to Bennie LeBeau, the man who envisioned and promoted the massive Medicine Wheel, "the ceremony was a success. With our songs and dances, we relieved the Earth of much stress. This type of ceremony needs to continue."

"The overall Medicine Wheel went well," Bennie said during a phone interview several weeks after the ceremony. "I have received a great number of good reports from people in different places. There was some negativity in three areas, where the Native people and others did not get along. But the ceremonies went on any way. Other than some hurt feelings, nothing really bad happened, and a lot of good happened."

Bennie said, "We gave to the earth a great blessing. As a consequence in return, everyone who took part that day, no matter where they were on the earth, received a great blessing."

Bennie told me that about 300 people participated with him in the ceremony on the Sundance Grounds of the Eastern Shoshone, in Bridger Teton National Park at the Grand Tetons (Four Grandmothers Standing Tall) in Wyoming. This site represented the center of the wheel, and it is close to the profound earth disturbances at Yellowstone National Park.

The Grand Teton ceremony started at sunrise on Saturday, May 8, and went all day following the protocol. In the morning different speakers representing all the colors -- Red, Yellow, White, Brown and Black -- told relevant prophecies and dreams.

At High Noon, as per the protocol, the Grand Teton ceremonialists drummed and sang for about an hour and a half, as did people at the 19 other sites in the wheel, and elsewhere around the world. At the Grand Tetons, people were asked to envision the entire wheel, and all the ceremonial locations. Bennie said that "enormous spiral beams of color and light came in at this time. Many people felt dizzy. The energy was coming in and out strongly." According to Bennie, after the ceremony some people needed to rest for a few days, because the influx of energies was so powerful.

"I certainly needed to rest. I was tired," he said. "I had been driving all around the wheel for months to help get it ready, and I got home to Wyoming just a couple of days before the ceremony. I was really tired on the 8th, and eventually I had to sleep. Other people carried on, and the ceremony unfolded until sunrise on Sunday May 9."

Thinking of the Medicine Wheel overall, Bennie said, "I was very pleased. Everyone was healthy and happy. We did something vital and good. If you consider the larger picture of the Medicine Wheel, you see that mountains (earth) were to the West, and waterways to the East. What the Medicine Wheel did was to help re-connect the earth and the waters with the heavens, through the electro-magnetic energy field. We human beings can impact that field with the energies we express in our songs and dances. I know that Rainbows came later, in the mist created by this connection, and that's a good sign. The rainbow is a bridge between the earth, waters and sky. Seeing it strongly and clearly again is a healthy sign."

Bennie advised people to keep praying and to keep doing ceremony, especially people who live either on the perimeter of the wheel, or inside of it. "That’s really important," he said.

Shortly after May 8, Bennie was inspired to call a Sundance for the Grand Teton area. He announced the "Heart of the Rose Global Sundance" for both women and men, set to start on July 1st and to continue through July 5th. Bennie said all people are invited "to camp, dance, sing, attend sweat ceremonies and pray in rejoicing in harmony for all of humanity and all things related in nature helping out our Mother Earth." See the link below for details.

Something Incredible Happened That Day
Many compelling reports about personal and group experiences of the May 8 Medicine Wheel have come in via e-mail in the weeks following the ceremony. Those reports are posted on the Chiron web site at http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-5a.html

Cynthia Walker of New Mexico, director of the non-profit group Friends of the Indigenous Elders, was involved in planning for the May 8 ceremony from the beginning. On the day of the ceremony she participated at Turquoise Mountain (Mount Taylor) in New Mexico.

"I feel something incredible happened that day," Cynthia said. "We were a small gear making a big gear turn. In the ceremony that happened at Turquoise Mountain, we moved the energy field. It was a very powerful moment. We did something that needed to be done."

The ceremony at Turquoise Mountain was filmed by Sagebrush Productions of Santa Fe, NM, which is producing a video documentary entitled "The Reunion of Mother Earth with Her Children: A Blessing Way." The film is being sponsored and funded by Friends of Indigenous Elders, a private, non-profit group which is also serving as the funding conduit for the intended healing center to be built near Turquoise Mountain under the auspices of Grandfather and Grandmother Martinez, the Navajo elders who are the traditional keepers of the mountain.

The film will be finished and available this Fall. The film will be entered in the Sundance Film Festival, and may be broadcast on PBS. As more information about the film becomes available, I will pass it on through the Chiron Communiqué.

RESOURCES

Original Medicine Wheel story with maps and photos

Reports from Participants in the Medicine Wheel

Turquoise Mountain Protocol

Bennie LeBeau's Home Page
http://www.teton-rainbows.com
http://www.shrinesandsacredsites.com/teton/19plus1.htm

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

Friends of Indigenous Elders
Placitas, NM - Polaris@lobo.net
505-867-8087

White Buffalo
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0524buffalo24.html
http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-7.html

Heart of the Rose Global Sun Dance
Rockin Heart Ranch -- Host and Ambassador:
Jackson, Wyoming
Phone: 877-882-2375 -- E-mail: Christina@rockinheartranch.net

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