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By Deer Tribe / In October 15, 2024

What is Sweet Medicine?

The other day, as I was giving a preview for the launching of an Earth Lodge in Australia, one of the guests asked me this question, “What is Sweet Medicine?” Although I answered her question spontaneously at the time, the innocence of her curiosity prompted me to dream on it further and the next morning I woke up with these thoughts.

Sweet Medicine is Knowledge that Works

It works because it is ancient knowledge that has been tested and tried, applied and updated, so that it remains fertile, alive and ready to work again and again. It works because its intent is clear: to heal and restore back to balance, to awaken purpose within our minds and inner knowing within our bodies. It works because we get to do it our way and, in so doing, discover our “medicine”. 

This medicine is unique and individual to each person and each situation we find ourselves in. Just like a beautiful garden is a whole mixture of different plants and creatures of all kinds that are a part of an ecological whole, so each person on this planet is unique and has a gift, a “sweetness”, that no other can bring to life in just that way.

Medicine Heals

Medicine restores us back to balance, calls us return to a coherent authenticity.
Medicine awakens the wisdom that is inherent within the cells of our body, the genes of our being, the desires of our soul.
Medicine offers to self, Life and others the gift that enhances the potential of each to become the best they can be. 
Medicine fosters growth, evolution, and the flourishing of life.
This is pure sweetness, pure love.
Something is sweet when it brings out the flavor of the other. Something is sweet when it makes our heart sing, when it piques our mind with curiosity, stabilizes our bodily functions to do what is theirs to do, and sparks our spirit with joy, passion for the more, and gratitude for being alive.
Medicine that is sweet offers Life, Love, Light. It shows the way, shines a light on our path, and invites us to walk it our way. As true love, it has no attachment to outcome, it simply offers a gift of life

DTMMS BENEFIT
Saturday, December 14, 2024

1pm MST | in person & Online

A fundraising event at the Rainbow Power Center,
Phoenix AZ

Activities include:

  • Musical Entertainment
  • Silent and Live Auction
  • Guest Speakers

We look forward to seeing you in person. There will be tasty food and refreshing beverages.
For those of you unable to attend in person, please Zoom in to watch the streaming feed, where we can say Hello!
and where you are also welcome to participate in the silent auction.

Proceeds go to the general fund, scholarships for longhouses and to support apprentices unable to pay their fees due to financial or medical hardships.

Our Path brings Sweet Medicine to you

It brings knowledge that whets your appetite for the more. Knowledge that awakens within you a knowing of who you are and a desire to find out more of who you are, where you came from, for what purpose you are here and to what end? It sparks the question, “Where am I going? What is MY path with heart? And how can I get there or how can I walk it my way?”

Sweet Medicine is also how we refer to the animals, especially the song or spirit of the animals. The number 14 is called “Sweet Medicine”, Earth Father, Father Sky, Son of the Perfect Dream. Each of us is accompanied at birth with a circle of animal totems that guide, teach, and protect us on our journey through life in this incarnation. They do so with an impeccable loyalty, dedicated to teach us balance, to be in alignment with all of the worlds of Grandmother Earth, and in harmony with Life itself. This is the song of Sweet Medicine. It calls us to pay attention to what we need and desire, to connect with our personal intent and purpose, and to link as one with Great Spirit’s intent.

RETREATS & JOURNEYS

with
Åsa Kullberg
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Our Path brings the Sweet Medicine of the SunDance 

How does our Path do this? It brings us the SunDance, a gathering together circle around the Tree of Life, that welcomes all people of all color, race, and creed. We dance to the Tree of Life, each waking up from within our own space, our own dream, our own past as well as our vision for the future. We dance to end all prejudice, war, separation, and ignorance. We dance to learn together how to restore ourselves back into balance, how to heal our relations with all of God’s children, and how to be part of the solution on this beautiful planet we call home.

As we dance, the Tree of Life takes our prayers (whether they be the wailing of sorrow or the ecstatic joy of gratitude) and draws them into the roots, into the earth, to fertilize the potential of new life for all. As we dance, the Tree of Life takes our individual gifts and sends them up the trunk to the branches that reach up to the sky, transforming each offering, each song, each breath into a magnificent explosion of Beauty. This radiates out to the heavens and sends forth a multitude of fertile seeds, called “Star Seeds of Beauty”, into the hearts and minds of those who seek healing. Anyone, anywhere, and at any time may be touched by this gift of sweet medicine.

This SunDance informs how we do what we do in all aspects of our life. We are each individual, each autonomous, and each free to choose the medicine we bring to our circles. As we mature, as we evolve, this medicine becomes sweeter and sweeter. 

Our path offers knowledge that works – it’s worked before, is working now, and will continue to work for those to come. 

Our path has been walked before and will be walked long after us. It offers stepping stones for those who find the sweetness of our medicine a way to the Light; markers to guide and gateways to move us along the way. Our path is a spiritual path whose way is ceremonial – both for the individual and for the collective.

Our path is the Sweet Medicine of the SunDance, a powerful renewal of hope for all who are willing to hear this song of pure love.

This is what is meant by Sweet Medicine.

By Janneke Koole

Janneke was born in The Netherlands, grew up in Canada, and now lives in the United States as one of our SMSD teachers and member of the Hereditary Lineage Leaders. Writing is one of her creative outlets, expressing her love for learning and exploring perspectives that foster Hope and Courage.

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