The magickal story of my sacred name “DancingWind”…

 

With great love, I share this personal story with you (also shared in my book, “Sacred Possibilities ~ Life in its purest form defies all logic.“), so that you may be inspired and encouraged by how so Divinely miraculous, supportive and magnificent life truly is. (This photo of me was taken 3 months after this experience, in 2011.) 

Regardless of our states of being, we always have infinite support from the Divine and divinity of life—we simply have to ask for it. However, the more we notice and lovingly appreciate the divinity that exists in all of life, the more life also responds to us. We create and nurture sacred relationship with All. We automatically and naturally align with our divine true essences’ high frequency and experience even more of our world’s wonders. All life is more receptive to the frequencies of appreciation, joy, inner peace, reverence, and love. Life is also much more expansive and multi-dimensional than we can imagine (as we ourselves are!).

When we’re in alignment with our true nature, we’re able to recognize the miraculous everywhere. We realize that miracles are a natural occurrence. Our heightened perspective allows us to receive even greater demonstrations of the mystical and the possible. We experience the realm of our sacred hearts.

A few weeks before my great leap of faith and beginning my new life in 2011, I received a wonderful opportunity to fulfill a desire I’d had for some time. I happened to come across a friend whom I’d met at the crystal-healing course in December. I asked her if she knew anyone who could teach me to construct a frame drum. She giggled and informed me that she was about to give such a workshop in only two weeks! Talk about divine timing! I was amazed as she described her workshop to me—it was even better than what I’d desired. I felt so supported and guided on my journey. I made plans to attend with my soul sister Anna.

During her drum-making workshop, my friend taught our group according to her Native American tradition, as taught to her by her elders. She also told us that we might receive our own “spirit name”, so we should pay close attention, especially to our dreams—it was a name given directly from Spirit. Our small group learned wonderful lessons as we created our frame drums together, working with a sense of community. By the end of the workshop none of us had received a “spirit name”, but we all left with beautiful drums and new wisdom.

 

An unexpected gift…

The second weekend of June, I stayed overnight with my little sister at our parents’ country home. On the Sunday morning, they’d all left early for various reasons, leaving me alone at the house. I’d brought my new drum with me, to start the day with my usual morning ritual. It was a glorious sunny day, so I walked outside to a large secluded clearing at the end of the property. It was surrounded by forests made up mostly of trembling aspens and jack pines.

Barefoot on the grass, with the wind blowing in my hair, I drummed while expressing my love and appreciation to All (the Divine and divinely supportive allies of Spirit, Nature and Humanity). The weather was so beautiful, with puffy white clouds floating across the sunny, blue sky. I just kept drumming and dancing for the sheer joy of it. After some time of doing this, I suddenly received my “spirit name”—I intuitively heard the phrase “dancing wind”! At that point, it was rare that I actually received information through my spiritual sense of hearing, so this surprised me. I wondered whether I’d heard right. The wind gusted, making the pine branches whisper and the aspen leaves rustle and shimmer around me. Since it was so unexpected and I loved the name, I wanted to know that it was an authentic sacred name from the Divine, and not just something I’d imagined. I needed a confirmation that my mind couldn’t dismiss, so I asked Spirit to show me a clear sign that day, to let me know without a doubt that DancingWind was in fact my special, divinely given name. By asking Spirit for a sign outside of myself, out of my control, I was ensuring that my mind couldn’t dispute it.                            

Divinely magickal…

Shortly after hearing my “spirit name”, I drove back to my so miraculously-given, new rural home, which was almost two hours northwest of my parents’ property in the country. The weather was now extremely hot, with barely a breeze. When I arrived, I decided to take a walk around my environment with my camera, to photograph Nature’s splendour in full bloom. I loved using photography to share the divine beauty and wonders of Nature with others, as I experienced it with all my senses through infinite love and appreciation. I eventually ended up at a crossroads near the house property, where two gravel roads converged and led to all four directions. I silently stood there for a while, wondering why I’d felt guided to this isolated location. It was away from anything obviously interesting to photograph.

All of a sudden, a beautiful dust whirlwind, approximately my height, appeared directly in front of me on the gravel road “out of thin air”! It twisted around, picking up dust and bits of dried grass and leaves—it seemed so playful! I hadn’t seen a whirlwind for years… I stood mesmerized with awe. Moments later, just as it had mysteriously appeared, it suddenly disappeared. I knew immediately and without a doubt, that I’d just received my (so absolutely perfect!) sign from Spirit, confirming that DancingWind was indeed my sacred name. I smiled wide in my heart, overflowing with love and appreciation. What a truly special gift it was, divinely empowering me on my new life journey into the complete unknown! I was shown once again just how supported we are on our journeys, especially when we have the courage to follow our own hearts and walk our uniquely personal paths.

This experience with my drum and sacred “spirit name” showed me once again how Divinely supported we are, on multi-dimensional levels, where Spirit and Nature, the mystical and physical, aren’t separate but in synergy. The support we have from the Divine and divinity of life (Spirit, Nature and Humanity), far exceeds what we’re aware of. When we’re open enough to invite it into our lives, magick manifests beyond anything we can imagine! The more open you become to the sacred possibilities, the more of it you’re able to experience. No matter how much I experience it in my life, it never ceases to amaze and delight me, with jaw-dropping awe!

 

By Divine design, life, seen and unseen, is always fully aware of us, beyond what can be explained or measured. When we open our hearts in love and appreciation, fully present to experience and receive, it responds. It’s so sacred.

In Autumn of 2012, I honoured my sacred name DancingWind with a legal name change.

If you’d love to journey with countless more extraordinary, real-life examples that reveal and attest to how supportive the Divine and divinity of life truly are, read Sacred Possibilities as so many others have… and more to come in my upcoming Sacred Possibilities book 2!  

Life’s divinity never ceases to amaze me!