{"id":1022,"date":"2011-01-28T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2011-01-29T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:18:34","slug":"manik-says-i-hope-you-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Manik says: I Hope You Dance in the Arbor of Wellness and Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance….Orpah Winfrey<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tzolkin Date: 13 Manik. Ruler is Blue. Blocker is Purple. Gatekeeper is Mercury.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Meaning: Deer, grasp. Sign of the Lord of the Hunt.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Associated Qualities: Completion, Beauty, the Craft of Life, accomplishment, gateway, dance, spiritual tools, priest\/priestess.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/strong>

MANIK<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

My mother was thrilled yesterday to catch a glimpse of four deer streaking through our back yard. Deer have that effect on people. Living in the woods in West Virginia, seeing deer is almost an every day occurrence, particularly if you are traveling on the roads at dusk. Nevertheless, the sight of them is stirring. They are truly beautiful animals, graceful, elegant, powerful yet peaceful. Following a well-lived day of Cimi, the day of Death, discipline and transmutation, we can arrive at Manik with a new level of Beauty, Grace and Balance.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s at first curious that this glyph represents both the hunter and the hunted.\u00a0 The hand pulls back the bow and let\u2019s fly the arrow. But of course, there is great wisdom in this.\u00a0 The hunt is a metaphor for life. And in the spirit of <\/span>Zen and the Art of Archery<\/span><\/em>, we must become One with the prey in order to truly become the quintessential hunter. In other words, we must be as elegant, graceful and powerful as the deer in order to be the true hunter, a master of the craft of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or master of the Dance of life?\u00a0 Oh what power there lies in the Dance! James Brown said, \u201cThe one thing that can solve most of our problems is Dancing.\u201d\u00a0 If only humanity took this wisdom to heart and understood the Truth of it.\u00a0 But maybe we are on our way!\u00a0 My local community center has just begun Zumba classes and they are filled to overflowing! Dance is like a magnet. As a Dancer of the Sun, I look forward to the day, sometime in the Golden Age after 2012, when swarms of people clamor to learn this Sacred ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n

I participate each summer in a Sun Ceremony at <\/span>Friendship Village in Ohio<\/span><\/a>, under the leadership of my, Grandmother Pa\u2019Ris\u2019Ha. Although the Ceremony has a quite uniform, proscribed tradition of regalia and dance steps to which we strictly adhere, there are times during the four day event when \u201cfree form\u201d dancing is also enjoyed. It is then that Grandmother always plays one of her and our favorite songs, <\/span>I Hope You Dance<\/span><\/em>, by Lee Ann Womack. We all really \u201cget into\u201d the lyrics. We enter the dance arbor and flow gracefully round and round, happy and smiling at each other as we image our lives as fulfilling the words:<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
\nYou get your fill to eat,
\nBut always keep that hunger
\nMay you never take one single breath for granted
\nGod forbid love ever leave you empty handed
\nI hope you still feel small
\nWhen you stand by the ocean
\nWhenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
\nPromise me you’ll give faith a fighting chance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
\nI hope you dance
\nI hope you dance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
\nNever settle for the path of least resistance
\nLiving might mean taking chances
\nBut they’re worth taking
\nLovin’ might be a mistake
\nBut it’s worth making
\nDon’t let some hell bent heart.
\nWhen you come close to selling out
\nReconsider
\nGive the heavens above
\nMore than just a passing glance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
\nI hope you dance
\n(Time is a real and constant motion always)
\nI hope you dance
\n(Rolling us along)
\nI hope you dance
\n(Tell me who)
\nI hope you dance
\n(Wants to look back on their youth and wonder)
\n(Where those years have gone)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I hope you still feel small
\nWhen you stand by the ocean
\nWhenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
\nPromise me you’ll give faith a fighting chance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
\nDance
\nI hope you dance
\nI hope you dance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In honor of the Deer, the Dance and the Hunter in your Heart,
\nToday, I hope you Dance!<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth\/Du\u2019Tsu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance….Orpah Winfrey Tzolkin Date: 13 Manik. Ruler is Blue. Blocker is Purple. Gatekeeper is Mercury. Meaning: Deer, grasp. Sign of the Lord of the Hunt. Associated Qualities: Completion, Beauty, the Craft of Life, accomplishment, gateway, dance, spiritual tools, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[109,8,111,60,110],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-dance","tag-grandmother-parisha","tag-manik","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-sun-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}