Dreamcatchers are not just weaving beautiful colours and patterns, but it is weaving of your dreams and new possibilities of life when we make it with sacred rituals. The count of knots, the direction of weaving and focusing on our breath work while weaving it makes it master piece. A powerful tool to make our dream come true.
You’ve probably heard about dream catchers. You may even have one or seen one hanging from a tree branch or on a wall. However there’s a lot about dream catchers that you probably don’t know. Let's explore their origins, legends and how they're used today.
You’ve probably heard about dream catchers. You may even have one or seen one hanging from a tree branch or on a wall. However there’s a lot about dream catchers that you probably don’t know. Let's explore their origins, legends and how they're used today.
What is a dream catcher?
People mostly use them for decoration today but dream catchers have a long history among First Nations people. They were given to children to hang over their beds to ward off bad dreams.
Where did dream catchers come from?
Explorers reported that the Ojibwa people were using dream catchers to protect children while they slept — they were sometimes called "Sacred Hoops." Dream catchers have also been used by Cree and other First Nations people.
Dreamcatchers were adopted in the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and gained popularity as a widely marketed "Native crafts items" in the 1980s.
People mostly use them for decoration today but dream catchers have a long history among First Nations people. They were given to children to hang over their beds to ward off bad dreams.
Where did dream catchers come from?
Explorers reported that the Ojibwa people were using dream catchers to protect children while they slept — they were sometimes called "Sacred Hoops." Dream catchers have also been used by Cree and other First Nations people.
Dreamcatchers were adopted in the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and gained popularity as a widely marketed "Native crafts items" in the 1980s.
Catcher of bad dreams
One legend tells the story of a chief whose child becomes sick with a fever that causes terrible nightmares. A medicine woman makes a dream catcher by copying the pattern of a spider web. Instead of catching flies, the dream catcher will catch bad dreams. When nightmares came for the child, they were caught in the strands of sinew. But good dreams were able to pass through the web and follow the feather down to the child. In the morning, the sun would hit the dream catcher and burn away the bad dreams.
The spider in the window.
Another legend tells the tale of a spider weaving its web in a window while a grandmother watched from her bed. When her grandson tried to squash the spider, the woman stopped him. The spider, grateful that her life was spared, gifted the grandmother with the web and told her that it would catch all of her bad dreams but let the good dreams through.
What are they made of?
Dream catchers were made with a willow branch that was bent into a hoop or teardrop shape. The artist would use animal sinew — the strong tissue or tendon that connects muscle to bone — to weave a web-like pattern. Feathers — usually from a hawk — would be used for decoration and trailed down the bottom. There's a lot of meaning in the dream catcher: their shape is the circle of life and according to some legends, the beads represent the spider who wove the dream catcher.
However as we make the dreamcatcher we realise that it is not just to ward off bad dreams, but it works on any given issue of our life.
As we weave the patterns, the blockages from our physical, mental and emotional bodies start releasing with each knots we unwind and create new positive patterns as we weave it.
Today, dream catchers are much fancier and use different materials. They can be decorated with beads, shells and coloured threads.
Want to make one?
If you want to have a dream catcher in your room to help trap any bad dreams you might have, or for any of purposes like to clear and balance your chakras, abundance, grounding, focusing on work or studies, health, attract true love in your life, bring peace and harmony in your life and anything you can think of. While making your dreamcatcher you will start getting clarity about your issues and you will start seeing clear picture of what you are weaving. Next, it will clear off all your obstacles once you complete your work. Sometimes you may drop the original idea of or reason for which you are making your dreamcatcher.
How we work on your specific Dreamcatcher order
At Divine Light Healing Centre we make it a point that everything we use for your dreamcatcher is sacred. We clear the residual energy of feathers we are using as the source of feathers are mostly unknown or sometimes we are not aware how it is derived. If required we create a light portals to clear the energies and also receive the blessings from birds who have contributed to our dreamcatcher.
We also clear unwanted energies from products used in dreamcatcher, say for example if a worker while weaving thread or making beads is going thru some strong negative thoughts or emotions, that energy gets trapped in thread or beads. We make it sure that only pure love and blessings remain in those raw material we use.
We conduct special ritual to clear all unwanted thoughts, emotions and energies from the material we use for you.
Our team on receiving your order, create sacred space and environment followed by meditation on your purpose for dreamcatcher. We Invoke specific Angels and Masters to work on your given issue or purpose and then channel specific design, colour and pattern and crystals for your dreamcatcher with intention of invoking highest good for you and all involved.
So what are you waiting for?
Join our dreamcatcher art workshop or order one for your specific purpose.
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