Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge

08/07/2026

The Turtle Who Carried Every Spirit

Before the rivers learned their songs,
the Great Turtle rose from ancient water.
Upon his shell, the world awakened—
claw, feather, hoof, root, and flower.

The Eagle guarded the eastern light,
while Raven listened beyond the veil.
Wolf carried moon-prayers through the forest,
and Horse followed the wandering trail.

Bear held the strength of the mountains,
Owl kept watch where shadows grew.
Elk called softly across the valleys,
as Orca moved through waters of blue.

Each spirit lived within one circle,
no life above and none below.
The smallest seed, the tallest cedar—
all shared the breath the four winds blow.

Beneath the shell, the old drum sounded,
slow as thunder under stone.
It spoke the names of all our relations,
reminding every heart: none walks alone.

And when the stars return to darkness,
the Turtle turns toward sacred dawn—
carrying the dreams of every creature,
even after their footprints are gone.

🎨 Artist and author: Jay Stone

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08/06/2026

Please consider joining us for this very special event next week 🕷️🕸️💗

A Special Fireside Teachings & Healing at Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge on Tuesday August 11th at 6pm-8pm.

08/02/2026

SACRED SUNDAY ORACLE: AUGUST 2, 2026
𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭!
☀️🐝🌻🦉🌙 🕰️ 🌾
As the scorching summer sun peaks, the earth shows signs of transformation. A month of abundance, growth, and preparation for the changing seasons.
Because Indigenous peoples span hundreds of distinct nations and language groups across North America, there is no single universal Indigenous name for August. Instead, traditional lunar and seasonal names reflect local ecology, harvesting, and weather patterns. In Anishinaabemowin (the Ojibwe/Anishinaabe language), August is most commonly referred to as Manoominike-giizis, which translates to the Wild Rice Moon or Ricing Moon.
This time marks a sacred cycle celebrated by various Indigenous and Earth Honouring traditions. It is a time to honor the bountiful gifts of the land and the harvest to ensure abundance through the long winter and acknowledge the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
::𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞:: by Kyle Gray
No matter the culture or tradition, we are surrounded by countless angels, ancestors, and spirit guides who want to share their knowledge with us to bring healing and change.

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.
🪶
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

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

07/28/2026

Miigwech Trinity McDaniel… 🌱 🗣️ 🌱

07/28/2026

Save Chaco Canyon!

There are only 4 days left to stand together for Chaco Canyon!

Chaco Canyon is a sacred ancestral homeland, a living cultural landscape, & a place of prayer, ceremony, & remembrance for many Indigenous Nations. Protecting Chaco means honoring the wisdom of our ancestors & safeguarding these sacred sites for our children, grandchildren, & the generations yet to come 🌎

As Indigenous grandmothers, we know that when we protect the land, we protect our people, our stories, our languages, & our future. Sacred places are not resources to be exploited … they are relatives to be respected.

Please take a few moments to raise your voice. Share this message, encourage others to speak up, & stand in solidarity with the Tribes & communities working tirelessly to protect Chaco Canyon.

Our ancestors are watching. Our grandchildren are depending on us.
Protect Sacred Sites. Protect Chaco Canyon. Protect the future. 🙏🏼

Love,
Grandmother Flordemayo ❤️

(art from pinterest)

🚨 TAKE ACTION! 4 days left

• Watch & share our FREE webinar, A Prayer for Chaco. Watch here: https://youtu.be/xqZe6yO208Y?si=TsZGcLTT4jgI7L0n

• Learn why the Greater Chaco Landscape matters to Indigenous communities, archaeology, & future generations: https://apcg.org/chaco/

• Submit a thoughtful public comment before July 29. Here: https://bit.ly/ChacoCanyonBLM

07/21/2026

🙏🏼🪶

A Prayer for Sacred Sites 🙏🏼

Great Mystery, Creator of All Life,

We come before You with humble hearts, remembering that the Earth is not merely the ground beneath our feet, but a living sanctuary woven with memory, prayer, & love.

We lift before You every sacred mountain, canyon, river, forest, desert, spring, & ancient place that now stands under threat. We remember the lands where our ancestors prayed, where ceremonies have been offered for countless generations, & where the wisdom of the Earth still whispers to those who listen.

May these sacred places be held in Your light.

Strengthen those who protect them with courage that does not grow weary, wisdom that seeks understanding, & compassion that invites others into right relationship with the Earth.

Bless the Indigenous Peoples & traditional caretakers who have faithfully carried these responsibilities across generations. May their voices be heard, their knowledge honored, & their stewardship respected.

Open the hearts of leaders, decision-makers, communities, & all who hold influence. May choices be guided not only by what can be gained today, but by what must be preserved for the children yet to come.

Where there is division, sow understanding.
Where there is fear, awaken courage.
Where there is indifference, kindle reverence.
Where there is harm, inspire healing.

May we remember that every sacred place is a teacher, every river carries a prayer, every mountain holds a story, & every seed contains hope for generations unborn.

Show each of us how we may serve ... Not only through our prayers, but through our words, our actions, our generosity, & our willingness to stand as guardians of what is holy.

May the Earth know that she is loved.

May the ancestors know they are remembered.

May future generations inherit a world where sacred places still sing their ancient songs.

With gratitude for all life, & with hope for what we can accomplish together, we offer this prayer.

Amen, Aho 🙏🏼

I Thank You,
Grandmother Flordemayo ❤️

07/20/2026

🦉💖🐍

Eastern screech owls kill every animal they bring home to their chicks. Every mouse arrives headless. Every beetle is crushed. Every piece of prey is delivered dead to the nest. The one exception is the Texas blind snake. Owls bring blind snakes home alive, drop them into the nest, and the snakes burrow beneath the chicks and eat the parasitic insect larvae that would otherwise feed on the baby owls. Chicks raised in nests with live-in snakes grew up to 50 percent faster and were 25 percent more likely to survive.

Fred Gehlbach and Robert Baldridge at Baylor University near Waco, Texas, discovered the relationship in the 1970s and 1980s while studying screech owl nesting ecology in more than 70 experimental nest boxes. They published the finding in the journal Oecologia in 1987 under a title that told the entire story in one line: "Live Blind Snakes in Eastern Screech Owl Nests: A Novel Commensalism."

The Texas blind snake looks nothing like a snake. It looks like a shiny earthworm. It is five to eight inches long, pinkish gray, smooth-scaled, and essentially blind, with vestigial eyes reduced to dark spots beneath the head scales. It spends nearly its entire life underground, inside ant colonies and termite nests, eating larvae by the hundreds. Its tightly interlocking scales function as armor against ant bites. A related Australian species was documented eating 1,431 ant larvae in a single feeding. The blind snake is not a predator in any conventional sense. It is a larval vacuum cleaner that lives in the dirt.

An owl nest is a filthy place. The cavity floor fills with pellets, f***s, uneaten scraps of prey, and shed feathers as the breeding season progresses. Flies, beetles, and ants find the debris and lay their eggs in it. The resulting larvae feed on the organic matter and, in some cases, parasitize the owlets themselves, feeding on skin tissue, blood, or stored food that the chicks need. In a nest without blind snakes, the larval population grows unchecked for the duration of the nesting cycle.

In a nest with blind snakes, the larvae disappear. The snakes burrow into the debris layer beneath the chicks and eat every soft-bodied larva they encounter. They do this continuously, around the clock, for as long as the nest is active. Gehlbach and Baldridge found that 14 of their 70-plus nest boxes contained live blind snakes. Some nests had one. Some had as many as 15, all living beneath the chicks, all eating larvae, all apparently unharmed by the owlets sitting on top of them.

The selective behavior is the strangest part. Screech owls kill their prey before bringing it to the nest. They remove heads. They crush exoskeletons. They deliver inert food to helpless chicks that cannot defend themselves against a live animal in the dark. The blind snake is the only prey species they bring home alive. The researchers could not determine whether the owls recognized the snakes as beneficial and deliberately spared them, or whether the blind snake's smooth body and burrowing speed simply made it too difficult to kill in the talons. What they could determine was that the owls captured blind snakes regularly, that they did not kill them the way they killed everything else, and that the surviving snakes performed a measurable service inside the nest.

Some of the snakes were eaten by the chicks. The relationship was not perfectly cooperative. A blind snake dropped into a nest full of hungry owlets had a reasonable chance of being swallowed before it could burrow to safety. The ones that made it beneath the debris survived and fed. The ones that did not became food. Either way, the owl chick benefited.

Gehlbach described the relationship as commensalism, a partnership in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected. Whether the blind snakes benefit from living in an owl nest is unclear. They gain warmth, protection from their own predators, and an unlimited supply of insect larvae. They lose the option of leaving until the owls abandon the cavity. The owl gets a cleaner nest and healthier chicks. The snake gets a job it did not apply for.

Image is for illustration purposes only

Source: Gehlbach and Baldridge (1987), Oecologia / Audubon / BirdNote / Marfa Public Radio / Earth Touch News.

07/19/2026

SACRED SUNDAY ORACLE: JULY 19, 2026
🌺 🌸 🌹 🌻 🌼 🌺 🌸 🌹 🌻 🌼
"𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅."

🦊 WOODLAND WARDENS🌲
Drawing on mythology, folklore, and literature, each card in the Woodland Wardens deck features an animal-plant pairing accompanied by a distinct and thoughtful message. Each unique combination, brought to life in artist Jessica Roux’s detailed, historically evocative style, transports seekers to another time and place, offering insight, guidance, and an invitation to reflect on the natural world.

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.
🪶
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 BlakByrd

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