She Who Heals: The Clan Mother Of The Eighth Moon Cycle

Mother, sing me a song that will ease my pain, mend broken bones, bring wholeness again. Catch my babies when they are born, sing my death song, teach me how to mourn. Show me the Medicine of the healing herbs, the value of spirit, the way I can serve. Mother, heal my heart so that I can see the gifts of yours that can live through me. 

She Who Heals is the Clan Mother of the Eighth Moon Cycle in August and is the Guardian of “SERVING THE TRUTH.” She serves the Children of Earth by being the Keeper of the Healing Arts, Mother of all Rites of Passage, Guardian of the mysteries of Life and Death, and Singer of the Death Song. She is a midwife, herbalist, Medicine Woman, spirit healer, and teacher of the cycles of the Earth Walk. Her color is blue, representing intuition, truth, water, and feelings. 

As Guardian of the Healing Plants and Roots, she is closely connected to all of the Plant Spirits who comprise the Tribe of all things green and growing. This Tribe is sometimes called the Earth Blanket Tribe because together the Plant and Tree People form the covering that protects the Earth Mother's soil from erosion and keeps the cycles of regeneration in balance. She is the Keeper of all the healing uses of every plant in the Earth Blanket Tribe. She knows which parts of each plant to use in her healing remedies as well as how and when they are to be gathered. 

As Keeper of the Life and Death Mysteries, she welcomes new spirits into the world when they take their human bodies. When an individual Earth Walk is complete, she sings the beings who are Dropping Their Robes, or dying, into the Spirit World. She also serves the Children of Earth by sewing their cuts, setting their bones, birthing their babies, and doctoring their bodies and spirits during their Earth Walks. 

She Who Heals is also the Keeper of the growing cycles of the Medicine Wheel and all Rites of Passage. She teaches us the steps of gestation, birth, growth, death, and rebirth. She shows us how the Great Medicine Wheel of life turns; when to fight for life, when to let go, when to allow our spirits to make the choice, and how to accept death as another step that leads to rebirth. She invests every human being she teaches with the ability to drop fear of death and accept the change as a new adventure in living. Whether the death is the end of a relationship, the end of a job, or the end of physical life, she shows us how to see beyond the illusion of finality and to celebrate each turn in the road as another step that leads to wholeness. 

This Eighth Clan Mother is the embodiment of the feminine principle that serves the Children of Earth in truth by assisting them through the healing process of being human. She sees their Orendas or Spiritual Essences come inside their bodies at birth. She sees the illnesses created when they lose connection to their Spiritual Essence during their lives. She helps them reconnect to the Eternal Flame of Love when they decide to heal their physical forms and continue walking the Earth. She shows them how to know when their missions on the Earth are complete and when they are ready to move on by becoming one with the Orenda and preparing for rebirth in the Spirit World. Her Medicine Story is one way we can understand the vastness of the wisdom she freely gives us all.