Certain things catch your eye, But pursue only those that capture your heart.

To the Winds of the South,
Great Serpent,
Wrap your coils of light around me.
Teach me to shed the past the way you shed your skin,
To walk softly on the earth. Teach me the beauty way.

To the Winds of the West,
Mother Jaguar,
Protect my medicine space.
Teach me the way of peace, to live impeccably.
Show me the way beyond death.

To the Winds of the North,
Hummingbird, Grandmothers and Grandfathers,
Ancient Ones,
Come and warm your hands by our fires.
Whisper to me in the wind.
I honor you who have come before me,
And those who will come after me, my children’s children.

To the Winds of the East,
Great Eagle,
Come to me from the place of the rising sun.
Keep me under your wing.
Show me the mountains I only dare to dream of.
Teach me to fly wing to wing with the Great Spirit.

Mother Earth.
I pray for the healing of all your children,
The Stone People, The Plant People.
The four-legged, the two-legged, the creepy-crawlers,
The finned, the furred, and the winged ones,
All my relations.

Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, to the Star Nations,
Great Spirit, you who are known by a thousand names,
And you who are the Unnamable One,
Thank you for allowing me to sing the Song of Life another day.

~ Alberto Villoldo ~
from "Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval"