"EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS"

                                                  Spirit Horse series
                                   Acrylic paint by Clau Crow

                                       HORSE (EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS)

                           Spirit Horse Series - Art by Clau Crow

SPIRIT HORSE SERIES

 Horses (Equus ferus caballus) - power, energy, freedom of spirit, as also strength and endurance.
They speed like the wind, speed is their biggest ability. The power to move around for humans started with the coming of the horse. Not only they have all these special gifts, but also are beautiful animals, being of many different types: Apaaloosa, Arabian, Friesian, Ponies, Pinto, Mustang, Palomino, etc.
For the Native American people, the horse represents the power of the tribe; their introduction to the peoples' culture transformed their lives from being slow moving to powerful mounted warriors.

Spirit Horse series - Art by Clau Crow

SPIRIT HORSE SERIES

                             HORSE (EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS)

                                         Spirit Horse Series - Art by Clau Crow

MEDICINE BAGS OR POUCHES

Medicine bags or pouches are usually worn to bring good luck, or "good medicine", according to Native American beliefs. Inside the bag the owner will have some personal stone or crystal which was found in an unusual way, and it may have some special herbs or tobacco. The design painted or beaded on the bag usually has some special meaning for the owner of the bag, like for instance, a butterfly could mean transformation, that could be a search for a transformation needed to a better situation. Or maybe a bear, which means strength and power. It all depends on the owner's needs and what kind of animal or any other element of Nature he/she feels inclined to. It may also be given to the owner by a medicine person, someone that deals with the spiritual and medicinal ways.

paints and beadwork by Clau Crow

CATHEDRAL ROCK - SEDONA AZ

The city of Sedona, Arizona, is considered a spiritual place having many spots believed to be vortex of energy. One of them is the pictured above, Cathedral Rock. It's a belief that there are many giant crystals under the main rock formations, mainly clear and rose quartz. For those that believe, a good way to tune into the energies of the place is sitting right there and go to a deep meditation. If you are sensitive or awake enough, you will feel the energies and have some kind of spiritual experience, and maybe even see something related to the place. It's also believed that Sedona is some kind of portal for extraterrestrial communication, and other dimensions.

                      Cathedral Rock - watercolor by Clau Crow

BLUE STAR SHIELD

Blue star; very distant in time and space, its bright blue is bursting with ethereal energy. You can reach to that star, perhaps not physically, but going through the invisible door which awaits for the adventurous soul searching for worlds beyond our eyes can see!

According to the Eastern philosophy, the chakra, or energy center which we have in our third eye, which is called the brow or ajna chakra, has a beautiful indigo color. In the center of this chakra there is a star. This chakra's attributes are intuition, clairvoyance, inner-vision, clarity, knowledge. It's connected to the pituitary and pineal glands. The mantra to open up the third vision chakra is the mantra OM.

                                                    
                                                   Acrylic art by Clau Crow