Fine Art Print – Standing Bear

K326-G Standing Bear

This image is a personal expression of shamanic West energies that I work with within the Feminist Shamanic Medicine Wheel Mandala®. Grizzly is at home in the shamanic West, a place of perpetual twilight, a desert landscape marked by dark, looming mountains above which thunderheads rumble, releasing continual flashes of lightning as the sun sinks behind the mountains, illuminating the entire landscape in its rich, dark light. Grizzly teaches us about roots and certain plants and herbs, and about the paradoxes of its medicine: on the one hand it has the capacity to heal the heart’s sorrows through loving touch and intent; on the other hand, it holds the position of being Chief among animal medicines. Like grizzlies in the wild, grizzly medicine is not a medicine one would want to confront with challenges to its sense of justice or its territorial or Mother rights. It has been my personal experience that grizzly medicine is capable of healing the wounds inflicted by the element of fire as it purifies and calls us to a shamanic path. Thus I also associate grizzly medicine with fire and with to knowledge of how to heal that which fire has purified.

When purchasing this print framed, you’ll also receive a 1 oz. pouch of my personally gathered and mixed herbs for shamanic offerings, which contains desert sage gathered in Nevada, white sage I grow, Native American tobacco and eastern white cedar gathered in Maine’s coastal forest, and blossoms from a variety of flowering plants I grow especially for this purpose (while supplies last).​​

IMAGE SIZE: 16”w X 17”h