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DESCRIPTION: A huge Sacred Circle overshadows a graceful Ojibway dream dance drum. Both sit on a snow-covered frozen lake under a midnight sky. The North Star dominates the starscape. A guardian spirit in buffalo form appears next to the Sacred Circle. The dream dance drum is banded with intricate beadwork. Pouches decorated with protective, talismanic images hang from its sides. The drum stand is bounded by four branches that curve outward; at the end of each branch hangs a feather, symbolizing one of the four directions.
The design on the faces of Sacred Circle and drum is identical: yellow stripes bisecting blue and red halves of their surface symbolize the Ancestral Path-the Sun trail from east to west that each individual walks from birth to death. The blue and red halves represent spirits of duality (like thunderbircd and his enemy, the underwater panther, each half of a duality exists because its opposite also exists).
MEANINGS: In traditional Tarot terms, the Ace of Sacred Circles is called the Root of the Powers of Earth, a fitting title for this Ancestral Path Tarot image. This ace speaks of the gifts of the earth, such as plants, metals, fertile soil, precious stones, and minerals. The earth is indeed a sacred circle. In the words of a tradilional Native American song: "We circle around, we circle around the boundaries of the earth..."
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