Native American Readings

Apache Blessings

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. 
Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you; his life, her life and your life together. 
Go now to your dwelling place, to enter into the days of your life together. 
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. 
May happiness be your companion to the place where the river meets the sun. 
And may your days together be good and long upon this earth.

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May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being,
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.

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Cherokee Prayer

God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. 
We honour all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. 
We honour mother earth - and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger through the seasons;
We honour fire - and ask that our union be warm and glowing with love
in our hearts.
We honour wind - and ask we sail through life safe and calm as in our father's arms.
We honour water - to clean and soothe our relationship - that it may never thirst for love .
With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and true happiness
as we forever grow young together. Amen.

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Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.

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To Walk the Red Road

Long road winding began in the stars,
spilled onto the mountain tops,
was carried in the snow to the streams,
to the rivers, to the ocean
It covers Canada, Alaska, America,
Mexico to Guatemala,
and keeps winding around
the indigenous.

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The Red Road is a circle of people
standing hand in hand,
people in this world, people between
people in the Spirit world.
Star people, animal people, stone people,
river people, tree people
The Sacred Hoop.

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To walk the Red Road
is to know sacrifice, suffering.
It is to understand humility.
It is the ability to stand naked before
the Creator in all things for your
wrong doings, for your lack of strength,
for your discompassionate way,
for your arrogance - because to walk
the Red Road, you always know
you can do better. And you know,
when you do good things,
it is through the Creator, and you
are grateful.

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To walk the Red Road
is to know you stand on equal ground
with all living things.  It is to know that
because you were born human,
it gives you superiority over nothing.
It is to know that every creation carries
a Spirit, and the river knows more
than you do, the mountains know
more than you do, the stone people
know more than you do,
the trees know more than you do,
the wind is wiser than you are,
and animal people carry wisdom.
You can learn from every one of them,
because they have something you don't:

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They are void of evil thoughts.

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They wish vengeance on no one,
they seek Justice.

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To Walk the Red Road,
you have God given rights,
you have the right to pray,
you have the right to dance,
you have the right to think,
you have the right to protect,
you have the right to know Mother,
you have the right to dream,
you have the right to vision,
you have the right to teach,
you have the right to learn,
you have a right to grieve,
you have a right to happiness,
you have the right to fix the wrongs,
You have the right to truth,
you have a right to the Spirit World.

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To Walk the Red Road
is to know your Ancestors,
to call to them for assistance
It is to know that there is good medicine,
and there is bad medicine
It is to know that Evil exists,
but is cowardly as it is often in disguise.
It is to know there are evil spirits
who are in constant watch
for a way to gain strength for themselves
at the expense of you.

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To Walk the Red Road,
you have less fear of being wrong,
because you know that life is a journey,
a continuous circle, a sacred hoop.
Mistakes will be made,
and mistakes can be corrected -
if you will be humble,
for if you cannot be humble,
you will never know
when you have made a mistake.

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If you walk the Red Road,
you know that every sorrow
leads to a better understanding,
every horror cannot be explained,
but can offer growth.

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To Walk the Red Road
is to look for beauty in all things.

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To Walk the Red Road
is to know you will one day
cross to the Spirit World,
and you will not be afraid