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DESCRIPTION: Six tobacco ties hang in a pine tree under the moonlit evening sky. The youth depicted in the Eight of Sacred Circles plans to offer them to his teacher (Medicine Woman of the Nine of Sacred Circles) as a petition for a vision quest. Tobacco ties were also offered to the Earth Mother, the spirits, or to a guardian to thank them for answering petitions.
Native Americans considered tobacco to be a special gift of the guardian spirits and it was treated with particular reverence. Its leaves were offered to the spirit of plants about to be harvested. When dried, it was sprinkled in holy places as an offering to the resident spirits. It was cast in an open fire or smoked in pipes to open communication with the spirit world. Its widespread use made it a nearly universal custom of North American tribes south of the Arctic Circle, and thus there are many accounts of its origin. In general, Woodland tribes considered it to be a gift of trust and communication from the creator deity.
A full moon, like that in the Ten of Sacred Circles card, shines above the tobacco-laden tree. Its light reveals human footprints leading away from the tree; wolf prints are noticeable in the distance. A sacred grove of evergreens (white pine and spruce) is also exposed by the moonlight.
MEANINGS: Reciprocation; sharing prosperity with those who helped you become prosperous. The giving or receiving of a gift. Passing on of wealth in the Native American custom of potlatch. On a higher level, indicates an offering to the gods, the sacred, or whatever you consider to be a higher power. A propitiation, an invocation, a prayer, a novena-any act that opens a communication line to the sacred.
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