Setting Sun Woman: The Clan Mother Of The Ninth Moon Cycle

Keeper of tomorrow's dreams, mother of the star-filled night, show me how to live my truth and bring my dreams to light. Teach me how to use my will, living the truth I find within, discovering all the parts of me where light and shadow blend. Let me sing the song of future with concern for what will be, upholding all of nature's laws for creatures, stones, and trees. Mother, I see you in the sunset and I hear you in the rain. you teach me inner knowing through your heart's sweet refrain.

Setting Sun Woman is the Keeper of Tomorrow’s Goals and Dreams. She is Clan Mother of the Ninth Moon Cycle, which falls in September and is connected to the color green. Green is the color of will, Setting Sun Woman shows us how to properly use our wills to ensure the abundance of the future. She teaches us that the will to live, the will to survive, the will to be impeccable and preserving the Earth Mother's resources are paramount parts of our Earth Walk. 

This Clan Mother teaches us how to “LIVE THE TRUTH” and sits in the West of the Medicine Wheel. The West direction is the home of the feminine principle, the Earth Mother, the setting sun and night sky. The abilities we gain from learning the lessons of the West are concern, dependability, nurturing, inner knowing, achievements, and goals. The West is sometimes called the Looking-within Place because the feminine principle is naturally intuitive and is willing to be receptive. 

As the Guardian of Unborn Generations, she gives us many lessons on how to use only what we need. She teaches us the sacredness of using every part of anything we harvest, never wasting anything usable. This Clan Mother shows us how we can depend upon Mother Earth to provide for our needs if we are also dependable children who honor and give thanks for that abundance. She shows us how to provide for the next Seven Generations by saving seeds for next year's planting. She is the Keeper of Preservation and the Guardian of all species of seeds, plants, creatures, and stones. She guards against the extinction of any part of our Planetary Family by allowing those species that would naturally transmute to evolve into the forms that are more adapted to the world’s conditions. 

This Clan Mother teaches us how to go within and find our personal truths. This Clan Mother shows us how to meet the future without fear because we have taken steps daily to ensure a bright tomorrow. The darkness of the night sky is the Starry Medicine Bowl or womb of the feminine principle that holds all of the potential of our future. The stars are points of light that represent the Sacred Fire of our dreams. When we find our personal truths in the darkness inside ourselves, we determine which visions we will bring to Earth in manifested form. She walks with us across the Milky Way, which is comprised of the campfires of the Ancestors. When we travel with her, we rediscover the ancient truths of preservation and inner knowing that guided those who walked the Red Road before us. Through this Clan Mother, we rediscover the universe as it lives inside our Spiritual Essences. This discovery of worlds within worlds teaches us that we are not our bodies, but that we are vast beings and that our bodies exist inside of the limitless space of our Orendas.