Chief Red Cloud/Wisdom guide

In this archive page from my old website the pic of the water wash background did not come through, but I will leave the text as written.

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In the water wash you can clearly see the buffalo and the outline of the feather headdress as well as other images that represent Chief Red Cloud. He is my Spirit Guide of Wisdom and I found out about him two years ago in 2002 when I was in meditation and I kept hearing his name.

At the Catalpa Tree, a metaphysical store in Grabill, Indiana, I was doing my psychometry readings with the 11”x17” colored ink portrait drawing of the vision, when I had some down time and decided to read myself, so I held my necklace in my hands and I saw Chief Red Cloud straightening his beaded breast plate and arranging his feathers on his headdress. It was almost comical (he has a great sense of humor). So I asked him “What do you want?” and he replied, “Paint me!” and I humored him by saying “Now!” “No, not now.” He said, but he left it that I should do it as soon as possible. So I left it go and pretty much forgot about it.

They, your Spirit Guides, don’t let you forget something important and things that they want you to do, because there is always a bigger picture than what we are seeing. So he comes to me again a couple of weeks later and said again “Paint me!!” and I told him that I didn’t have the money to go buy a good canvas to honor him on. He informed me that I had already painted the water wash background that his portrait was to go on. And I said, “ Oh, really. Which one is it?” He led me to the one you see above in the photo on the left and of course, I knew right away he was right (as usual) and that his portrait was to go on this canvas.

When a Spirit Guide appears to you in a vision in your mind’s eye, it is only there seconds. It’s not like I can take a picture and have it to look at to get the portrait exact to their likeness. So he told me to go on the Internet and I would find a photo of him as the great warrior and chief of the Lakota Tribe of the Sioux Nation. When I started the portrait of Chief Red Cloud it went very swiftly. I had it started and finished in a day! I know he was guiding my hands through the whole process of painting him. He has been guiding me through many healing processes and he brings me messages through others.

I was reading a lady at Camp Chesterfield, Indiana, a Spiritualistic Camp since the 1800’s, (I’m there once a month, 1st Saturday of the month Psychic Fair), and she told me she was Mohican and her husband is a Lakota Sun Dancer and she wanted to know what tribe I was from. There are no written records, but my Grandmother Lily on my father’s side said that her Grandmother was from a tribe in West Virginia, that would be back in the late 1700’s early 1800’s. She informed me that I was to go to the Lakota Sun Dance that was to be held in southern Indiana and since it was a 10 day spiritual event that I should be there on the ‘Healing Day’.

I drove 4 hours on the 9th of July, 2004 and witnessed a traditional Lakota Sun Dance. There were over 100 dancers and many wore the chest scars proudly and there were 4 Sun Dancers still attached to the ropes that were attached to the sacred tree. All Dancers wore red skirts, mostly men of all ages, but a few women.

The spiritual vibrations coming from the grounds where they had been dancing and sending prayers out to all peoples and the earth was aweinspiring. I gave of the flesh, which was 3 cuts on my left arm as I held one of the sacred pipes and as I held the sacred pipe in my hands and aimed it at the Sacred Tree in the center of the Arbor I was immediately gone, out of body, where I’m not sure and is really not for me to know, because Great Spirit did some serious healing in me during those few minutes. When I opened my eyes I could see the people around me staring at me and they all seemed to know and understand what had just happened. The lady that had invited me to the Sun Dance was the wife of the Sun Dancer who did the 3 cuts in my arm.

Giving of the flesh is the Lakota way of asking for healing through the sacred ceremonies and they believe that our flesh is the only possession that is truly ours. I want to add that after you choose between 1 through 7 cuts to be taken and once they are taken they are put in a red cloth and tied to a braided rope that will be hung on the Sacred Tree. I understood the ceremony and was glad that my Spirit Guide, Chief Red Cloud, had honored me by letting me be part of his spiritual house.

This is another example of how, once we have surrendered ourselves over to God, that we are guided to healing and learning. As you go through the Spirit Paintings pages you will see just how my Native American Spirit Guides have been working with me in my Art.

Thank You for letting me share this experience with you.
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