Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge, 1249 Dozois Road, Ottawa, ON (2026)

Not-For-Profit that offers a safe, sacred and inclusive space for Indigenous healing ceremonies, and learning opportunities for reconciliation and reparation efforts. A sacred space to rent to All (Misiwe) My (Ni) Relations ~ to support holistic and healing services. Please visit our website www.misiwenirelations.ca for a more indepth description of the rooms available. All My Relations recognizes our interconnection to each other, and is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life. I believe the below writing by author Richard Wagamese beautifully describes what the expression All My Relations means.

"From our deck the world reveals itself slowly detail by detail these summer mornings when morning becomes the ultimate painter. There's a sublime elegance to the way things come together. Light chases shadow into recess and what emerges stands stock still in the slow spill of sunlight as though surprised at its properties and definition. To be here as morning breaks is to feel unity. It's to feel connected to everything around you and to absorb it, bring it into the very fiber your being, like learning to breathe all over again. It's to come to understand that you are alive because everything else is. It is to comprehend what your people mean when they say "All my relations." It means everything. It's not uttered in a casual way nor is it meant to be. In its solemnity it is meant as a benediction, a blessing and a call to this unity you feel all around you in the depth of morning. This phrase, this articulation of spirit, is a clarion call to consciousness. It means that you recognize everything as alive and elemental to your being. There is nothing that matters less than anything else. By virtue of its being, all things are vital, necessary and a part of the grand whole, because unity cannot exist where exclusion is allowed to happen. This is the great teaching of this statement. "All my relations," means all. When a speaker makes this statement it's meant as recognition of the principles of harmony, unity and equality. It's a way of saying that you recognize your place in the universe and that you recognize the place of others and of other things in the realm of the real and the living. In that it is a powerful evocation of truth. Because when you say those words you mean everything that you are kin to. Not just those people who look like you, talk like you, act like you, sing, dance, celebrate, worship or pray like you. You also mean everything that relies on air, water, sunlight and the power of the Earth and the universe itself for sustenance and perpetuation. It's recognition of the fact that we are all one body moving through time and space together. To say these words is to offer a doorway to that understanding to those who hear you. It's to proclaim in one sentence that this experience of living is a process of coming together and that it was always meant to be. When you offer that doorway, you offer the most sublime truth. You offer the essential teaching. Your people say these words as an act of ceremony and here in this majestic light of morning you feel that ritual glow within you like an ember from a fire. All things connected. All things related. All things grown equally out of the one single act of Creation that spawned us. This is what you feel and this is what you mean. You come to realize too, that if we could all glean the power of this one short statement, we could change the world. We could evoke brotherhood and sisterhood. We could remind ourselves and each other that we need each other, that there is not a single life that is not important to the whole or a single thing that is not worth protecting and honoring. Here in the splendid light of morning you come to this truth again and seek to breathe it into you, to become it even for a fraction of a second. Truth requires only an instant from which to grow."

Journey well in the Spirit world Richard. My condolences to his loved ones for his recent passing.

09/22/2026

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09/20/2026

SACRED SUNDAY ORACLE: September 20, 2026
🍂 Welcome Autumn 🍂
"𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓸 𝓭𝓸 𝔀𝓮!"
Seasons do not need to explain themselves or give warning of their impending change, they just do the groundwork and arrive when they get here. They don't abide by appropriate timeliness and often slip back into old habits, become temperamental, every now and then before completely transitioning...
Winter ❄️ still feels beautiful whether you like the cold or not. Spring 🌱 continues to bloom through mud and muck. Summer ☀️ knows it's hot as hell and doesn't ask for permission. And Fall 🍂 shows it's true colours and what it means to let go.
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Human...You can show up as you are and one day decide to do some work and change, then show up again in a different state. As long as you're aligned with who you are right now and where you're at, then own that change and let your true colours shine like the changing leaves. 🍂

***We bid farewell to Summer and welcome the Autumnal Equinox on Tuesday, September 22, at 8:04 P.M. est
Equinox marks equal day and night as the Sun crosses the celestial equator.
Astronomical fall starts at the equinox; meteorological fall began on September 1. The equinox occurs precisely when the Sun’s center passes through this line.
Days become shorter than nights as the Sun continues to rise later and nightfall arrives earlier. The word “equinox” comes from Latin aequus, meaning “equal,” and nox, “night.” On the equinox, day and night are roughly equal in length.***

Today we have a mix of cards from our favourite decks to choose from:
𝟏) 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬 🌿
𝟐) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 🐍
𝟑) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 🪡 🕸
𝟒) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞 🐺

To receive a reading, choose a Card/Number that resonates.
The card that you choose will speak to you on a personal level, offering guidance and support.

*𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.*

Find the one that corresponds to the number you chose, and may it offer clarity & guidance on your journey.
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I am honoured to have taken over offering the Sacred Sunday Oracle & Tarot these last two years and I am honoured to help you on your journey of self-discovery.
xo Mel aka BlakByrd

REMINDER:
Sacred Sunday Tarot/Oracle is offered the 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month.

09/19/2026

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https://www.facebook.com/share/19b7xkUeS4/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Indigenous Pacific leaders are reshaping how the law can recognize whales.

He Whakaputanga Moana, the Declaration for the Ocean, was signed in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on March 28, 2024, by Indigenous leaders including the late Māori King Tūheitia and Cook Islands leader Tou Travel Ariki. It recognizes whales as legal persons with inherent rights, including the right to migrate freely, express natural behaviors, and live in healthy oceans.

The declaration is Indigenous-led and grounded in Te Ao Māori and wider Polynesian values. For Māori, whales, or tohorā, are often understood as ancestors and kin, connected to whakapapa, voyaging traditions, and responsibilities of guardianship. The declaration reflects that relationship by calling for representatives who could speak for whale interests in decisions affecting their survival.

It is important to note that He Whakaputanga Moana is not a binding international treaty and does not automatically change national laws. For its protections to become enforceable, governments would need to develop legal frameworks within their own systems.

The declaration calls for protected breeding grounds, feeding areas, and migration routes. It also supports rāhui, customary restrictions used to protect places and species, and encourages conservation guided by both Indigenous knowledge and science.

Whales continue to face threats from ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, pollution, noise, climate change, and other human pressures. Since the signing, Hinemoana Halo has partnered with New York University’s More-Than-Human Life Program and Project CETI, which studies whale communication, to explore how the declaration’s principles could be put into practice.

How do you think Indigenous legal traditions and science can work together in ocean conservation?

Sources: Earth Law Center, Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, The Conversation, Himemoana Halo He Whakaputanga Moana, Atmos, Native Land Digital, Kawaiola, Explorer's Web

09/18/2026

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🧡 Make time for learning and reflection.

From September 21 to 25, join the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation for free public Lunch and Learn webinars.

Topics include:
✅ Protecting Survivor truths
✅ Residential school denialism and misinformation
✅ Economic reconciliation
✅ Indigenous-newcomer solidarity
✅ Indigenous leadership and lived experiences
✅ Indigenous youth health and well-being

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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

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