The Warrior's Wheel-A Tool of Transformation

Working the Warrior Wheel


The definition of a warrior is an awakened human, fighting for peace, harmony, and individual, autonomous freedom to bring the Gold Horse to victory.

The Goal of the enlightened warrior is to use their tools to fight ignorance, slavery, bigotry, to bring about a world of individual freedom and autonomy.


Wheels are ways of learning bodies of information in the medicine path.

In the Sweet Medicine Sundance Path they are a lot of wheels. Our mind learns easily in circles so things are over layed that way to help us integrate the teachings and compare them to other wheels for multiple over lays of information.
When I began to train in martial arts I learned about The Warrior Wheel.

I had the opportunity to put the wheel into use when I studied martial arts and began to compete. Being a show-me girl, I always like to see some thing work before I really give it much merit or thought.
If I hadn’t started coming up with issues in my training I might not have tried it, but things started coming up in my program that I had a hard time over coming. One of my good friends who was also in the medicine path suggested that I learn the wheel and put it in to action. You can use this same wheel in a lot of your own day-to-day life situations.
That is why I am sharing it here. This is also a good way for me to empty my cup symbolically. The cup cannot be filled again until it is emptied. By sharing what has worked for you, you are emptying your cup. The universe responds by giving you more to learn.

My first issue was having a hard time judging my space and distance. When you are preparing an attack, it is crucial that you be able to know where you are and what is your opponents kicking distance as well. The idea is to get into their space and score your point with out them seeing it coming. It is like you are on the edge, creep onin then-boom you are in and you score. I was having challegences knowing how close I could get and when I was at my distance to score.
Space and Distance is a South West issue. The counter to that issue is to do personal ceremony and give your self WTA’s to push your edge on all levels.
A WTA is a (warrior task assignment). My interest in martial arts was originally a WTA from the man that I apprenticed to. He challenged me to study a martial art to help me gain a better sense of self in the physical body. So I did, starting in 1999.
The WTA suggested to find ways to push your personal edge or personal comfort zone.
What I did to push my edge was to sign up and take black belt classes that were training for State Competitions and Nationals. I was the only colored belt in the class; every one else was already a Black belt. So every class I took was over my head, really hard but when you train over your head for a project you really gain from a higher level. When I was actually with some one my own belt level I was more than ready to compete with them. They were easy compared to what I trained with every day. It also helped me that I was one of two women in the class, so the intensity of training was really high. That then became my natural level. I thought every woman across the country was training for Nationals the same way I was. Turns out that was not so. My natural level was hands down more intense than any one I competed with. Which was great for me.
To counter my problem gauging space and distance I gave my self the job of training with better and higher ranked martial artist than I was. I also did personal ceremonies to stay connected with spirit. Some times I would just light some incense and sit under a tree out side and pray. In the SW, the symbolical idea to be gained here is my willingness to engage with the unknown. I was afraid of the unknown in a match, would I get kicked really hard, maybe I would lose, how would I feel about that? Do I have the stamina to go three rounds? I had all these little unanswered questions to my self. This was causing me to loose my abilities to judge. As I began to train and really push my personal edge by training above my belt rank, I gained solid strength and understanding about my abilities and limits. This gave me confidence. I did my personal ceremonies to gain a sense of inner strength; this gave me that calm and understanding of (it is a good day to die). When you are really ready to bring it on, that energy and power is so awesome. It really helps support your play.
It seemed that I was getting better at gauging my space and distance with in a few weeks of implementing the new approach. What I think is weird is that as soon as that challenge cleared up I began to have a problem with my timing. Timing is crucial in a martial artist, it is important for all of us and we may not realize it. For a martial artist who is competing it is an important factor. My timing was off; I was missing opportunities and starting to attack to late. So on the wheel I looked it up and discovered the cure was to keep and plot the naturals. What is that? It is the moon phases, cycles, the tides, where are the planets now. What is going on in the heavens? So I bought my self an almanac and begin to read it every morning, where is the moon, what are the times for sun rise and sun set, are any planets in retrograde? I began to get up in the morning to go watch the sunrise; I made sure I watched the sun go down at night. I kept track of when the moon would rise and would watch that. By getting in harmony with the heavens and nature I was in better harmony with my self and all that is. This allowed me to see better and know when to move, when to wait. You can also affect one place of the wheel by working across the wheel. So when I was trying to build my strength and power I not only did the exercise in the west but the east also. In the east it says to pursue knowledge, so I studied the great martial artists especially Bruce Lee, who I think is a Master energy who incarnated. I also studied other spiritual teaching from other schools in the Eight Great Powers. This helped me have a good attitude and approach to my training, and to develop my power and sense of self, and connectedness to all that is.
I used all of this for martial arts, you could use this same wheel to rejuvenate a business, re- build your own physical body, there are a lot of ways of using this teaching to empower your own life.
I took my martial arts to two state competitions and won two gold medals, then to Nationals and won two more golf medals sparring, then to earn my first-degree black belt and my second degree down the road.

If you need a little blue print for success this would be it!

When we learn to live with in sacred law, we can step into our power and shinning in a beauty way.

Here is the warrior wheel starting in the North:

In the North:Intent and Coordination
In the North East: Relaxation and Focus
In the East:Self Development & Speed
In the South East:Attitude & Approach
In the South:Balance & Control
In the South West: Space & Distance
In the West: Power and Strength
In the North West: Pattern and Timing


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Thank you for spending some time here with me! May you walk in beauty!
(c) MarVeena Meek, August 9, 2009

For more on the warrior wheel,
See "The Song of the Deer" by Thunder Strikes with Jan Orsi
Check out www.dtmms.org
Also see my blog for information on the Gold Horse at www.marveena.blogspot.com

Sundance for Freedom

As the sun grows stronger and the days get longer I feel the call of the Sundance Ceremony.
Sundance is one of the seven sacred ceremonies given to us to help us live in balance. To not just survive here but to thrive.

Every year there are hundreds of Sundance ceremonies scattered all over the US and out side too. You hardly ever hear of them, if you are invited consider your self special. They have been very protected for a long time to keep the ceremony sacred and allow the dancers the privacy to really focus on their prayers.

Traditionally the ceremony was used as a way to manifest a prayer for either the tribe/community or a loved one. For instance a son goes to war, the father or some one close would Sundance to help send the son energy, wisdom, power and even luck. Maybe a tribe was experiencing drought, they would Sundance for water and bountiful crops.

Every community sets up their dance according to their own system. There are few things they all have in common. The dance is set up like a big pie. We go in the East quadrant, the east represents enlightenment. We are dancing for this. The childrens fire is located here and it burns the entire four days of the ceremony.

The dancers stay in arbors(dreaming-sleep space) that are small like 2 foot by 7 foot. This represents our own Box of limitations. The belief systems and ideals we put on our self. This is to help us understand that we create our own limitations here and we can dance our way out of them.
Each dancers designs a special shield that speaks of our dreams and what we want to make manifest in the next year especially.
There is tree in the middle of the dance, the tree represents the bridge between the worlds. It has deep roots in the earth but the limbs stretch out to the heavens. The tree carries our prayers out to the universe, to Great Spirit or Wakan Tanka.
The tree is decorated with special animal totems that help carry our vision out to the heavens.
We never turn our back on the tree the entire four days in the Sundance.
In our Sundance we dance 20 hours a day, sleep 4 hours then get up do a sunrise pipe ceremony and then we dance some more.
When your body is physically exhausted you are able to get out of the little me picture and sometimes have visions of your souls dream for this journey. Not always though. I Sundanced two years before I had a vision.
You can pray for self, life and others. This is a good year to pray for our country, for our community. For the freedom that our fore fathers fought for and declared in our own declaration of independence.
When the sun is at it's zenith, the energy of the sun can be channeled to our prayers for our country.
This is great year to dance and dream for Freedom, for personal autonomy, for peace, for a world who honers all teachers and all teachings and the freedom to follow our own path of heart.

May you walk in Beauty, may America the Beautiful continue to walk in Beauty and Freedom.

Aho
MarVeena-Ghost Queen

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Bardo-Journey of the Soul

By MarVeena Meek -Ghost Queen

The cycle of life, death and rebirth is the process of evolving our selves to higher and higher levels of consciousness and awareness.
To fear death is a primordial instinct for the Western man.

It is the supreme punishment we give our criminals and the worst we think could happen to someone is to die before their time.
Working as a medium has given me some insight as to what goes on after the heart stops.

In my conversations with spirits, I asked them why they thought a loving, caring, wise God would let harm come to the innocent and let them die very young or before their time.

They told me that as far as God is concerned the person who dies is merely walking out of one movie and into another. There is no loss of life.

The personality may lose consciousness for a brief time, but will wake up to continued life on a plane close to this one.
The death process is fascinating and is really a birth into the spirit world.
When a new baby is born they are dying to the spirit world to be born here. Just as every birth is an individual process, some are faster, easier than others, so are deaths. Before I explain the bardo journey I will need to talk about the layers of energy surrounding your physical body. Your light body or astral body.
Our body has layers of energy that extend beyond what we can see with our physical eyes.
We actually have layers of light bodies that have different functions. Our Physical body is to function with in the physical realm.
Next we have an emotional body that extends three to eight inches beyond our physical. We express our emotions through this energy field.
Then we have the mental body, it has a higher and finer vibration than the previous layer, our mental body expresses through the physical brain.

It is concerned with everyday thoughts-our conscious mind. The mental layer is associated with the solar plexus chakra and issues of will power. The mental layer extends beyond the emotional layer.
After the mental layer is the soul layer, this layer is connected to the heart chakra and is associated with love. This layer is about a foot from your physical body.
The next layer is the soul emotional layer, the soul mental layer which registers ideas on an abstract level.

This layer is several inches beyond the soul body.
And finally the casual body. This layer can be several feet from your physical body.
All of these layers are intertwined with each other.
There are three cords that are invisible to the physical eye, they connect us to our oversoul. They represent the three aspects of man-physical, soul, and spirit. Each cord is connected to a seed atom.
One seed atom is in your brain, the mental seed atom. It records your thoughts good and bad.
The next is your heart seed atom.
And the third is the emotional atom. It contains the emotions felt by your soul. All of the things in your life that made an impact on you are recorded there. Your Book of Life. The emotional seed atom is in the solar plexus area.
These atoms are like tape recorders that have been running your whole life. There is a built in timer in your heart seed atom that knows how much time your soul has allotted you in this physical body.

Remember the soul likes to get lots of experience in lots of different bodies even in other realities. All of this experience is absorbed back in to All That Is Or God.

When this timer goes off the life force starts to pull away from the body.
As the cords are pulled up the life force goes with them, the brain starts to become aware of scenes from her life.

Most of the time the soul will depart through the crown chakra. As the areas in the brain open up to allow the soul to depart energizing the crown the area around the crown will begin to glow.
Now the mental seed atom is loosened and that cord breaks.

When the mental seed atom breaks the person would be in a coma like state. As the mental seed atom travels up and out of the physical body it is now residing in the astral body. Which will be an appropriate body for the astral realm.
Next the emotional seed cord is broken and it travels up the spinal column from the solar plexus area taking the emotional seed atom with it.
Now it will reside in the solar plexus area of the astral body. The last cord to break is the heart, as it travels up the spine through the medulla oblongata and out the crown finding a new home in the astral body's heart.

Now the life force is completely out of the physical body. All of the light bodies are together in an astral body which is now perfect for residing on an astral realm.

We still have everything we did have but now we are focused in the nonphysical energy rather than being focused through a physical format.

The time is variable usually two to three hours. This would describe a natural death.
In the case of an accident or a violent death, the cords would all snap together and immediately transfer the seed atoms into the astral shell. The personality might not even know they had died.

Usually they realize it when they see their physical body lying prone. Sometimes they cannot accept their demise and refuse to continue the Bardo process. This would be an earth bound soul or ghost.
After the cords snap the process of the Bardo trance begins. Every Bardo journey will be unique. What happens in the tunnel depends on the spiritual life or lack of the personality who is dying. The Tunnel is the personality going up the spine and out the crown.

As they travel they are made aware of things that happened in their life. If they had a very fearful nature of death and thought they would surely go to hell, then they will likely see images of hell as they envisioned it.

They may hear horrible sounds and feel great winds. They will likely see three judges standing before them condemning them for their life. They will be shown a movie of their life and when they caused hurt or pain to another they will be in the position of the person and feel the pain they had caused.

They will feel great remorse and anguish for the self centered life they had led.
At some point they will be shown a great light and if they can merge with this light they will be released from the wheel of death and rebirth.

Normally if the personality had no spiritual training or experience they will be frightened by this brilliant light. This is the clear light or Christ light. This is where the term saved by the light comes from.

If an individual had led a good life but did not really pursue spiritual growth, they will also see the video of their life and where they had chances to evolve and missed the opportunity. They will be greeted by loved ones already in spirit.

These loved ones will help them to complete the journey. They will see the Ascended Master they had revered and worshiped in this life time. Jesus Christ greets Christians, The Buddha will meet many, as well Moses, Mohamed, Isis, Mother Mary. There will be much Angelic presence about the soul.

They will be comforting them, helping them to understand the journey and process. The Bardo process can last anywhere from six minutes or two days. It depends on the spiritual evolution of the soul. The clear light of the void, or Christ light, will be shown several times during the Bardo. If a soul were to merge with that light it would be a spiritual ecstasy seeing the face of God/Goddess/All That Is.

It is our goal to merge with that essence that is our creator, but it takes a lot of nerve. You probably fear you will cease to be in the vastness of our creator. I do not think that is the case. To be able to take advantage of this opportunity at death you must prepare for it during this lifetime through prayer, meditation, seeking spiritual growth.

You must not let the Bardo images scare you and keep your mind focused on the light and merging with the light. One of my favorite prayers helps you to visualize the light. "I am surrounded by the clear light of the Christ, nothing but good can come to me, nothing but good can go from me. I give thanks".

This prayer done often, while visualizing the light will help you to be familiar with the light.
If you have sins that need to be repented for you will be counseled by spiritual helpers. They will help you to forgive yourself, which is normally the hardest for you to do. They will explain the importance of forgiving anyone who caused you pain in this lifetime and releasing that pain.
There are many layers we call heaven.

Each layer is higher and finer until you reach the Godhead. You will reside on a layer or area of the astral plane which you are a vibrational match to.

Like is attracted to like. While in spirit, after you have recuperated from your death/rebirth, you can come and go, learn, experience what you desire in the boundaries of that plane. If you wish to move to a higher plane you will have spiritual advisors who can help you.

Expressing the quality of unconditional love is the quickest way to the higher layers. Easier said than done. The more you can stay in that vibration, the faster you will progress.
Purgatory does exist.

It's purpose is not to punish sinners, but is an area in which to give them a chance to " purge" themselves of negative thoughts, beliefs, and fears. There is an opportunity to repent for the pain you might have caused others.

You will be shown how you can obtain forgiveness. Anything that keeps your soul at a lower vibration. The laws of attractions are immutable even in spirit. You will reside on an astral plane of a like vibration and with like minded individuals. Almost everyone in spirit spends some time here in the clear viewing process.

This is so you can see your life from a clear perspective and where you went wrong, where you could have done better. It is for the purpose for your soul growth. This is where you can release beliefs, ideas, fears that do not serve your highest self.
The suicide will first awake from the death coma in an astral hospital.

He will be counseled by his spiritual advisors. He will also go through the reviewing process of purgatory. Since the suicide is usually in an extreme fragile state he will be guided at all phases and shown what he could do to repair the pain and chaos he has left behind. He will remain on this earth plane until he would have died naturally.

His task will be to help, in any way he can, the loved ones he left behind. He will not be offered the Clear Light of the Void or salvation by the Light. This is not to punish him. Every effort will be made to comfort him. He must face his karma. Some spirits will experience a form of hell. It is one of their own creation.

They feel so sure that they deserve to be in hell or that God would never forgive them their sins. Their guides and angels will try to help them purge themselves from these ideas. Their angels at some point will concede and tell the spirit ' when you are ready send a voice and we will come and help you'.

We all have free will even after dying to the physical world. So if the spirit feels so undeserving they create, through their mental field, images they think they deserve that are hell like. Remember we are all creators in training.

An idea that we dwell on, or think about often, combined with emotions will be our point of attraction to the universe and eventually our experience. These hell bound spirits will at some point start to see the light and their angels will come and help them to release the fearful ideas and ties that bind them to lower astral areas.
Bardo rituals or last rites are helpful to the spirit in staying focused on the light and trying to merge with the clear light. If a spirit is distracted by crying relatives it makes it harder to leave and travel this earned journey.

The best thing you can do for a dying loved one is to tell them you love them and you support them on their journey. Praying for them is very helpful. It is like sending them energy for their journey. If you can, have someone come in and verbally walk them across the void, they can hear those in the physical. It is very comforting to the spirit making the transition to have a friend who is knowledgeable and hopefully clairvoyant to explain the images they may see. Part of my training has been in walking spirits across the void. Whatever you do please remove wailing relatives from the room.

It is not fair to be so distracting to the spirit. They will try to comfort them when they should be focused on their own most important rebirth into pure nonphysical energy. As we live and die we take with us our experiences and compare them to the rest of our lives and mature as a result. Even the animals move to higher levels of life forms as a result of life, death and rebirth.

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