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Elders Series: Eldership
THE SACRED HOOP By Yvette Neshi Lokotz
ELDERS SERIES: Eldership
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I am happy to share with you, my dear reader, that I am returning to writing a monthly column for Star Nations Magazine. I took a long break as I stabilized the Star Nations Organization and went through a personal spiritual growth spurt that some call a Dark Night of the Soul.
As I return to my column “Sacred Hoop”, I am making a small title edit: “The Sacred Hoop”. This alteration reflects the life changes I experienced from 2017 to the present. The Sacred Hoop allows me to share life events that occur on the one hoop of life that we all share.
Recently, I began a new series on my live stream show, Communications from Home on Star Nations Live Stream Shows. The new series is about being an Elder.
In my research, I found Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ books about Elders. I have very little time to spend reading and need to carefully balance my time so, I purchased her writings as audible books; that way I can listen while doing other activities.
Listening to the information about Elders, I realized that I was being guided by my Spiritual Team to attend to my own Elder experience. All this took place as the whole world paused to contend with the pandemic: no coincidence, no fluke, or luck, but rather direction from Spirit.
I want to share my thoughts, insights, and experiences in the hopes that you receive your own moments of awareness about your Eldership. Let’s start at the beginning and build our Elder Path.
What is an Elder? The dictionary describes an Elder as, “any person who is older than you; superior; one having authority by virtue of age and experience”. Of course, the “real” meaning of Elder is far more expansive as we must include our emotions and experiences.
There are several perspectives that define an Elder. The first perspective is by chronological age, meaning the actual number of years you have been alive and experiencing life. Many of the Indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America) who are recognized by a Federal government must define and identify their tribal membership as the services rendered may be subject to an age requirement. I am an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Nation – Prairie Band. The Prairie Band defines an Elder as any tribal member 55 years and older.
I can honestly say, at 55 years old, I didn’t feel like an Elder. I have had life experience, but I
did not include myself in the esteemed fellowship of Elders. That group of people is stereotyped as gray-haired, slow gaited denture wearers. As I look back on that time, I certainly accepted that stereotype.
For me, Eldership is all about sharing your wisdom. I do know that our wisdom comes from our life lessons. Our life lessons are about soul growth. We take what we learn from those life lessons and begin to apply them by weaving them into our everyday lives. The application builds experience and knowledge, which eventually becomes wisdom.
The Native American Medicine Wheel that I live by, The Sacred Hoop, includes the Good Red Road, which runs from the South of the hoop due North. The South is all about energy, Spirit, the fire of our soul, and your young adulthood. The North energy is all about our wisdom, our community, and our Elder years.
We travel the Good Red Road by sharing our wisdom with others, especially those in our community. One could say all of humanity is our community. By sharing our wisdom with others, we are in service to them as they experience their Earth Walk or life journey.
One insight I got from
Clarissa Pinkola Estes was about “Loce Sabe” and “Noce Sabe.”
These terms are in the
Spanish language. Loce Sabe means one who knows, in other words, one who has knowledge. Noce Sabe means one who has little or no knowledge; they have little experience.
I could relate to both Loce Sabe and Noce Sabe. There are many aspects of life about which I have a deep understanding, while there are other aspects of life that I have little or no experience with, so I have little to share with others as I am learning.
The experience of sharing life wisdom and the feeling of others being attentive to what I am saying reminds me of traveling The Good Red Road. For example, my experience with drums and drum making—I often relate how the act of making a hand drum is a snapshot of where you are in life and drum making can help you with understanding the aspects of your life.
Noce Sabe is also a place I recognize. At 60 years old I’m at an age where I have many life experiences, but I still have areas where I have little experience. For instance, I have never lived completely on my own. I married when I was 19 years old and went from my parents’ home to make a home with my new husband. My husband Paul and I have been married for 40 years and have created a good life together, but I have yet to experience life on my own.
I have learned that Elderhood refers to age. Eldership denotes sharing wisdom. An Elder with wisdom can be any age. Elderhood is a state of being. Eldership is a state of giving. In Native America, some young people call those in Elderhood, Oldsters.
Oldsters still live a life filled with drama, much like those in their teenage years. Oldsters demand respect but give little regard to others. They also tend to lecture others rather than using their own life experience (which holds no judgment of others) as an example.
As you begin your exploration of what Eldership means to you and dream about what kind of Elder you would like to be, please remember we are all here for soul growth and to walk each other home. Next month’s article for The Sacred Hoop is about the Reluctant Elder.
Until then, Bama Mine, (until we meet again).
Neshi
Communications from Home By Yvette Neshi Lokotz
July 2020 Update
Star Nations Academy News
Law of Attraction Part 1 with Ed Langan, July 25
6 Steps to Manifesting Anything! When you change your thinking your life changes. This workshop will change your thinking. We invite you to join Ed Langan, author of Creating With The Law of Attraction: 10 Principles That Will Change your Life. In this interactive workshop he will show you how to fully understand and use the Law of Attraction. http://starnations.org/ star-nations-academy/
Law of Attraction Part 2 with Ed Langan, August 22
Everything you’re creating in your life starts with what you believe. What you believe about yourself, your value, and your worth. Your beliefs about the world, money, love, your job, relationships, and people. All of that is what you’re creating from. How do you shift that and get past being stuck?
If you have a block in any of the five keys, the Law of Attraction will not work fully for you. It will be hard for you to create, to manifest, and live the life you dream of and desire. The life that you deserve.
Ed will show you how to unlock the five keys to your unlimited potential, using brain research, science, and the latest understanding of the law of attraction. http://starnations.org/ star-nations-academy/ Meeting With The Guides with Ed Langan, August 29
In this interactive workshop, Ed’s Guides will answer questions about finding your way in current times, understanding your relationships in all forms (parental, partnerships, work, yourself) or any aspect of this physical life!
The intention is to uplift, inspire, and awaken; to offer wisdom and guidance from the Guides, and to help you with whatever you are working on as you move along your path. It is about teaching while answering questions. The more focused and powerful the question is the more focused and powerful the answer will be from the Guides.
The Guides refer to the guidance they give as LIFE wisdom: L = Love, I = Inspiration, F = Faith, E = Empowerment. http://starnations. org/star-nations-academy/
Karmic Communication & Conscious Expression with Julie Hedges, Online Course — Sept. 19 and 26
Join Julie Hedges for a 2-part course on Karmic Communication & Conscious Expression to discover your inner Karmic Communicator that was divinely designed within your personal astrology blueprint. Your Soul and the Creator-Of-All knew just the right skills and “spices” to add into the beautiful blueprint of You. Let’s awaken and revitalize your Karmic Communicator, so you know that you are Seen and Heard for Who You Truly Are! http://starnations.org/star-nations-academy/
Special Manifesting Online Class
“Star Nations Deep Dive Manifesting Weekend” is an online weekend workshop on October 3-4, 2020.
The bundled manifesting classes held previously are the foundational work to the weekend class in October. The earlier bundled manifesting online classes were meant to assist students in identifying their blocks and frustrations with creating the best life they would like to live.
In the October online class, the 4 teachers will take this foundational information even deeper for students. The primary classwork in October is about removing or healing what is necessary to bring the student’s manifesting into the physical world.
Our 4 teachers: Maureen Mann, Ed Langan, Polly Jo Labbe and Neshi Lokotz, each have very unique perspectives regarding manifesting.
Join us for Mastery, Manifesting, and Merriment! http://starnations. org/star-nations-academy/
Sacred Drum Making with Neshi
The sacred drum making workshop with Neshi Lokotz on Saturday, September 12, at WoodsEdge Retreat near Hastings, Michigan. The Sacred Hoop column returns! After a long while in hiatus, the monthly column by Star Nations, CEO and Executive Editor, Yvette Neshi Lokotz returns. Native American perspective and information is one of the bedrock elements at Star Nations. Neshi resurrects her column to provide a deeper understanding about the issues of the day and also of the topics provided each month in the Star Nations Magazine from a Native American female perspective. Star Nations proudly partners with Issuu.com for digital (iTunes Star Nations Live Stream Shows are recorded as video and audio. For those who prefer to listen to a recorded show; visit us at our SoundCloud page. Here is the link to the Star Nations Radio Network SoundCloud account. Please “like” and follow us on SoundCloud. https://soundcloud. com/starnationsradionetwork We have archived all of the Star Nations Live Stream Shows on We continue to offer free, miniclasses on the Facebook Star Nations Academy closed group. Join the closed group to have access to the free mini-classes — https://www.facebook.com/ groups/StarNationsAcademy/ & Google), PDF, and web viewer versions of the Star Nations Magazine. Existing digital iTunes Connect and Google Play Store subscriptions will be converted to our new partners. Please contact Deborah, Star Nations Magazine Assistant with your name, email address, Apple ID subscription number. starnationsIssuu.com offers Star Nations Magazine in Digital, PDF and Web Viewer versions. You will need to download their free app to your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. Visit issuu.com Facebook at the Star Nations Organization YouTube channel. Many people in the Star Nations community share the shows’ YouTube video links with others outside of Facebook. We would appreciate it if you would take the time to visit our YouTube channel and click the “like” button to “like” the channel. Here is the link to our Star Nations Organization YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/StarNationsRadio8 Star Nations Academy also offers classes at our physical location in Tomah, Wisconsin. For more information, see the Events page in this issue and visit our star-nations-academy/
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Bama Mine (Potawatomi for Until We See Each Other Again),
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