Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge

12/28/2025

SACRED SUNDAY ORACLE: December 28, 2025
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On the precipice of the calendar New Year I thought I'd do something a little different today; an offering of 'Little Rituals for the New Year'.
Rooted in old traditions, superstitions & folklore, they are a fun, simple, contemplative & Magickal way to welcome the New Year...just as you are.
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While I personally honour the Lunar & Seasonal New Year, there is a collective energy around the calendar New Year that is palpable.
*We can tap into that while honouring our own rhythm & ways.*
Rituals around this time are grounded and often rooted in cultural beliefs about luck, prosperity, and spiritual renewal, connecting generations through shared symbolic acts like cleaning, feasting or making offerings for good fortune. These traditions provide a psychological "reset," helping focus energy on goals and leaving behind old burdens for a clearer path ahead.
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These Little Rituals can provide a space for self-reflection and offer guidance, clarity and a fresh perspective and a little Magick as one calendar cycle ends and a new one begins.
Take as you will.
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To receive a ritual reading, simply comment below with the number that resonates with you.

*𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲.*

The number that you choose will speak to you on a personal level, offering guidance and support. Be open to the magic the Little Ritual has to offer, and allow its message to shift things in unexpected ways.

Readings will be passed along later today.

*Please note: we only offer readings on Sundays, as our work schedules take over during the week.

**Sacred Sunday Oracle is offered each week by BlakByrd (Melissa Rai) if you'd like further clarity or to delve deeper please feel welcome to reach out.
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*These Little Rituals were created by

12/28/2025

12/28/2025

12/26/2025

“When Night Speaks to Dawn

Beneath the listening moon
they face one another—
Raven of the first shadow,
Owl of the final light.

Between them, the world holds its breath.

Raven carries the memory of beginnings,
ink-dark wings etched with stories
older than fire.
He remembers when the stars
were still deciding where to sit,
when names were not yet spoken
but already understood.

Owl arrives wrapped in quiet gold,
feathers pale as ancestral bone,
eyes full of endings that are not deaths
but doorways.
She knows how truth softens
when spoken slowly,
how wisdom waits
until the heart is ready.

The moon above them is not a witness—
it is a drum.
Each circle a rhythm of becoming,
each mark a vow
the universe once made
and never forgot.

Raven asks the question
that begins the journey.
Owl answers with silence,
which completes it.

Mountains lean closer.
Pines bow their heads.
The ground remembers your footsteps
even before you arrive.

If you stand between these two spirits,
do not choose sides.
You were meant to carry both—
the courage to enter the dark
and the patience to wait for light.

This is the teaching they share
without words:
Life is not the struggle
between night and day,
but the sacred moment
when they recognize each other
and agree to keep the world turning.”
🎨Artist and the storyteller : Elvis Becker

Reposted Warriors - Miigwech

12/26/2025

12/26/2025

Such an honour to be featured among incredible Matriarchs 🤍

And timely, as it honours the 13 Moons and Winter Solstice… 🦉 🌕 ❄️ 🤍, which align with the vision of our Lodge.

Miigwech to the Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) for All they are and do. It’s been an honour to hold your Ceremonies.

The 13th edition of She is Wise magazine is here!

This season, we honour the teachings of the 13 Grandmother Moons by uplifting the voices of 13 Indigenous women whose leadership, love, and lived wisdom continue to guide our Nations forward. From justice advocates to community healers, matriarchs, storytellers, and changemakers — each woman carries heart work that strengthens generations.

Join us as we walk with their stories, learn from their journeys, and celebrate the power of Indigenous women’s leadership.

📖 Read the full edition: onwa.ca/she-is-wise-magazine

12/23/2025

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Reposted from our friend Judy, miigwech! Not sure who the art belongs to.

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

SACRED SUNDAY ORACLE: December 21, 2025
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𝕎𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕖 & 𝕐𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝔹𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤, 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕟𝕖𝕤
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“May the longest night shroud you in an exquisite cloak woven from raven feathers, hope, wolf fur, and mistletoe, carefully stitched by a faithful, heathen crone who invites you to sit for a spell beside her solstice fire. May you find a midnight home there, steeped in clove-and-evergreen belonging, deep in the dark and holy womb where the yet-to-come is nested.
May she bid you bless the Yule log with your breath and a rosemary sprig, and may you bring her an offering of story in return, telling her of those quiet moments from the last year when joy found you and made you suddenly whole, when grief tenderized your rough and forgotten places, when you wept for innocence and the innocents, and when you woke with a mysterious and unnameable hope in your heart.
Just then, may she brew you a home-cooked remedy for your human aches from pine smoke, elder wisdom, and cinnamon, and may she sing you soft songs in a language some part of your ancient soul remembers. Together, may you dream each other into a forgotten faith in the Healing Light’s Return.”
A wintertide blessing for you, my friends"
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"The Spirit Animal Oracle is a Canadian made deck which features a host of beautiful animal and nature guides and their medicine. It is a tool to connect you to something bigger and more primal than your thinking mind; that something bigger and more primal? It is often your very own intuition; your own animal instinct.
These Guides, This Medicine, This land.
Both southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia; where this deck was created, it is important to acknowledge and pay tribute to the traditional territories and oral practices of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai, the Tsuut'ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations, and the Métis Nation (Region 3) of southern Alberta, as well as the Ktunaxa Nation of southeastern British Columbia; the first people of this land."

To receive a reading, simply comment below with the number of the card that resonates with you.

*Please choose ONE card only.*

The card that you choose will speak to you on a personal level, offering guidance and support. Be open to what the card has to say, and allow its message to transform your day & week ahead.

Readings will be passed along later today.

*Please note: we only offer readings on Sundays, as our work schedules take over during the week.

**If you'd like to go deeper, reach out to me (Melissa Rai)
I am honoured to have taken over offering the Sacred Sunday Oracle & Tarot for Misiwe and I would be happy to help you on your journey of self-discovery.

12/21/2025

Belief was never meant to strip you of empathy or turn you against other human beings. Its true purpose is to soften the heart, expand understanding, and help you recognize the shared pain and dignity in all lives.

Any path that hardens the heart,
justifies cruelty,
or breeds a sense of superiority
has lost its way.

There is nothing sacred about hatred.
Nothing holy about humiliation.
Nothing divine about harming others in the name of being “right.”

🍃 True wisdom does not separate — it connects.
🍃 True faith does not dominate — it humbles.
🍃 True spirituality does not shout — it listens.

Buddhist wisdom teaches that compassion is the highest form of intelligence. When we truly understand suffering — our own and others’ — cruelty becomes impossible. Kindness becomes natural.

Humanity comes before every label.
Before every doctrine.
Before every ideology.

If a belief costs you empathy,
if it makes you cold where you once were kind,
if it asks you to silence your conscience —

👉 it is not worth keeping.

🌱 Keep what makes you more human.
🌱 Walk away from what teaches you to forget that others are too.

Compassion is not weakness.
It is the deepest strength we have.