Sacred, ancient, prophecies do not come true every year; but when one of them does, it is a cause for introspection and quiet reflection. And, maybe, just a little bit of freaking out as well. The prophecy that I am talking about is the Sioux prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman that came true, quite unexpectedly, in the month of June this year. The news received widespread coverage on both mainstream and social media, which prompted me to explore the possible implications of this event for our out-of-balance world.
The Sioux tribes of North America live in the Great Plains around Lake Superior and are composed of two linguistic groups – the Lakota and Dakota. It is no secret that the lives of the Native American tribes were inextricably linked with the buffalo, which provided them with food, clothing, habitat and nearly every material need. That’s the reason why, their ancient legends and sacred prophecies are also intimately related to the buffalo.
Like so many other ancient cultures, the Sioux people also believe in a Cycle of Four Ages, in the course of which there is a gradual deterioration in our morals and environment. They say that, at the beginning of the current Cycle of Four Ages, a buffalo was placed in the west in order to hold back the waters that inundate the earth at the end of every cycle. Every year, the buffalo loses a hair, and at the end of an Age he loses a leg. When all its hair and the four legs are gone, the waters will rush in and the Cycle of Four Ages will come to a rather watery end.
Interestingly, as per their beliefs, the buffalo is now nearly bald and is standing on only one leg. This means that the end of the Cycle of Four Ages, is not far away.[1] We are living in a world that is teetering at the brink of a major transformation! But when exactly will this cycle come to an end? What kind of signs, if any, will appear beforehand to warn us of the impending changes, and provide guidance for the great shift? This is precisely where the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman comes in.
The story goes back some 2000 year ago, when the White Buffalo Calf Woman gave the Sioux people their sacred bundle and sacred prayer pipe. Joseph Chasing Horse offers us the story.
“The story goes that she appeared to 2 warriors at the moment. These two warriors had been out searching buffalo, trying to find meals within the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota, and so they noticed a giant physique coming towards them. They usually noticed that it was a white buffalo calf. Because it got here nearer to them, it changed into a stupendous younger Indian lady.
That point one of many warriors had a foul thought in his thoughts, and so the younger lady instructed him to step ahead. And when he did step ahead, a black cloud came to visit his physique, and when the black cloud disappeared, the warrior who had dangerous ideas was left with no flesh or blood on his bones. The opposite warrior kneeled and commenced to wish.
And when he prayed, the white buffalo calf who was now an Indian lady instructed him to return to his folks and warn them that in 4 days she was going to convey a sacred bundle.
So the warrior did as he was instructed. He went again to his folks and he gathered all of the elders and all of the leaders and all of the folks in a circle and instructed them what she had instructed him to do. And positive sufficient, simply as she mentioned she would, on the fourth day she got here.
They are saying a cloud got here down from the sky, and off of the cloud stepped the white buffalo calf. Because it rolled onto the earth, the calf stood up and have become this stunning younger girl who was carrying the sacred bundle in her hand.
As she entered into the circle of the nation, she sang a sacred music and took the sacred bundle to the individuals who had been there to take of her. She spent 4 days amongst our folks and taught them concerning the sacred bundle, the which means of it…She introduced us the seven sacred ceremonies and taught our folks the songs and the normal methods. And she or he instructed our those who so long as we carried out these ceremonies we might at all times stay caretakers and guardians of sacred land. She instructed us that so long as we took care of it and revered it that our folks would by no means die and would at all times reside.
When she was performed instructing all our folks, she left the way in which she got here. She went out of the circle, and as she was leaving she turned and instructed our those who she would return sooner or later for the sacred bundle. And she or he left the sacred bundle, which we nonetheless must this very day.
The sacred bundle is called the White Buffalo Calf Pipe as a result of it was introduced by the White Buffalo Calf Lady. It’s stored in a sacred place (Inexperienced Grass) on the Cheyenne River Indian reservation in South Dakota. It is stored by a person who is called the keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, Arvol Trying Horse.
When White Buffalo Calf Lady promised to return once more, she made some prophecies at the moment. A kind of prophesies was that the beginning of a white buffalo calf could be an indication that it might be close to the time when she would return once more to purify the world. What she meant by that was that she would convey again concord once more and steadiness, spiritually.”[2]
Evidently, so far as the Sioux are involved, the beginning of the white buffalo calf is the foolproof signal that the present World Cycle is on the verge of ending, and the White Buffalo Calf Lady is about to return to purify the world and restore concord and steadiness in our lives and the whole ecosphere.
Now, it’s price noting that various white buffaloes have been born within the Sioux farmlands over the previous century – which prompted some extent of pleasure of their group – however the elders and the keepers of sacred prophecies didn’t look upon them because the success of the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Lady, since all these calves had been born in captivity the place cross-breeding of species is quite common. The Sioux have been patiently ready for the looks of a white buffalo calf within the wild, and that occasion occurred within the month of June, this yr. On thirteenth June, 2024, the BBC reported that,
“An extremely uncommon white bison calf has been photographed in Yellowstone Nationwide Park, thrilling Native American tribes who view it as a non secular signal heralding main change. It was noticed within the Lamar Valley space, and is the primary white bison to be born within the final wild herd within the US, in keeping with trendy information…
Montana photographer Erin Braaten took pictures of the younger buffalo within the Lamar Valley on 4 June whereas visiting the park with three of her eight youngsters….
Chief Arvol Trying Horse, who’s the nineteenth era keeper of the pipe believed to have been given by the white buffalo girl, mentioned that the calf’s arrival was an indication “we should do extra”.
“All nations ought to come collectively at their sacred locations and unify with us in prayer,” he mentioned. He referred to as the calf’s arrival “a blessing and a warning”. “I am so overwhelmed. It is a miracle,” the religious chief instructed BBC Information on Thursday. “It makes my hairs arise simply to even speak about it, as a result of I can not consider that is occurring – the spirit of the white buffalo calf girl sending a message to us.””[3]
A couple of days later, on January 26, the beginning of the white buffalo calf was celebrated in a tribal ceremony that was organized on the north shore of Hebgen Lake, simply west of Yellowstone Nationwide Park. It was attended by practically 500 tribal members, vacationers, and others, who had been addressed by representatives from the Shoshone-Bannock, Lakota, Sioux, Northern Arapaho and Colville tribes.[4]
The overarching feeling of the elders was that the beginning of the white calf, “was a foreboding message that the world is in a foul place in the intervening time, but in addition that it might assist convey forth steerage on how to make things better… folks want to acknowledge that its coming means they should change their behaviors with one another and with nature as a way to save Mom Earth.”
“It’s as much as each considered one of you to make it occur for the way forward for our kids. We should come collectively and convey that good vitality again,” mentioned Chief Arvol Trying Horse, who presided over the ceremony, and referred to as the calf’s beginning a “momentous time in our historical past.”
Trying Horse mentioned when he was chosen in 1966 at 12 years previous to be the sacred pipe and bundle keeper, his grandmother who preceded him in that function had a warning about Mom Earth and the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Lady. “She additionally instructed the those who if folks don’t straighten up, then I shall be the final sacred bundle keeper, and that’s at all times in my coronary heart.”
I used to be questioning what may need gone by means of my thoughts if, on the age of 12, I used to be handed a sacred relic of our group by my grandma, that has handed fingers in an unbroken succession for 2000 years. “What on earth did I try this made you suppose that I’ll preserve it protected, Grandma?” would have in all probability been my first response. “Haven’t you observed all of the stuff that I’ve misplaced, damaged, or exchanged with my buddies? That stuff belongs in a financial institution locker, Grandma!” Maybe not in as many phrases, however wanting again, my sentiments may need been alongside these strains.
However Chief Arvol Trying Horse was clearly of a special breed, and he may need felt a way of duty, marvel and pleasure in equal measure when the objects had been entrusted to him. Because the keeper of the sacred pipe for such a very long time, his ideas on the importance of this prophecy being fulfilled are of the best significance to us.
A few phrases Trying Horse mentioned caught in my thoughts. He mentioned that the looks of the white calf is a “blessing and a warning”. As I considered it, I began to comprehend why. It’s a blessing as a result of it implies that the energies of the Planetary Mom or Divine Female are being activated on our planet after a protracted interval of dormancy. Due to this fact, it can now grow to be simpler for anybody who chooses to take action, to faucet into this vitality discipline for solace, steerage and illumination. It additionally means that there will likely be gradual restoration and rebalancing of the atmosphere, resulting in extra fertility and abundance.
On the identical time, additionally it is a warning, for the reason that technique of purification at all times entails a variety of struggling. Not solely will the method of cleaning require the purification of our ecosphere, which has suffered a variety of abuse over the previous few hundred years of the Industrial Revolution, however it can additionally name for the therapeutic and dissolving of our egoic selves, which brings about a lot distress not solely to ourselves however to everybody round us. It’s only by means of the purification of nature and the collective shadow self that we are able to really transfer into a brand new period of divinely guided concord, steadiness and prosperity.
Because of this the White Buffalo Calf Lady could create the circumstances that pressure every considered one of us to look inside and introspect and do some critical inside work in order that we’d discover the knowledge and the sunshine to heal ourselves and information us by means of the portal of initiation to the brand new period. This, primarily, requires us to swim towards the tide of religious darkness that has engulfed the world and is taking us ever nearer to the precipice. Nevertheless, for the reason that divine energies of the Planetary Mom are getting activated on our planet, assistance is at hand, and it is probably not as a lot of an uphill job as earlier.
I used to be questioning who the White Buffalo Calf Lady would possibly signify within the context of the mythology of different historical cultures, and I used to be reminded of the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Hathor, each of whom had been proven sporting a headdress of cow horns. Hathor, particularly, was additionally depicted as a cow, both defending or nursing the pharaoh. Each Isis and Hathor had been goddesses of water, milk, nourishment, fertility, magic, music, love and maternal care. They had been additionally thought to be psychopomps, who roamed between worlds, serving to the souls of the lifeless on their method to the afterlife.
Curiously, the Egyptians related the star Sirius with a goddess referred to as Sopdet who was recognized with Isis and Hathor. Because the heliacal rising of Sirius preceded the annual flooding of the Nile, the goddess Sopdet, and by extension Isis and Hathor, had been additionally related to the Nile floods, which restored fertility to the arid lands. Sopdet was lengthy regarded as represented by the cow on an ivory pill from the reign of Djer (First Dynasty), which ties her strongly to Hathor, Isis and the White Buffalo Calf Lady of Sioux legends.
As I mirrored upon this connection, it occurred to me that, it might be no coincidence that the sighting of the white buffalo calf has been adopted by a spate of worldwide flooding incidents this yr, in locations like Spain, elements of the US, Japanese Europe, UAE, Philippines and elsewhere. Whereas some would possibly attribute such occasions to human-induced local weather change, a few them are conspicuous for his or her excessive rarity.
In September this yr, the Sahara skilled its first floods in half a century, when greater than a yr’s price of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lakes which have been dry for many years. Dramatic photos from the desert city of Merzouga present that the uncommon deluge carved new lakes into the sand dunes. The Guardian reported that,
“Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in a number of areas of south-east Morocco and prompted a deluge…Satellite tv for pc imagery from NASA confirmed Lake Iriqui, a lake mattress between Zagora and Tata that had been dry for 50 years, being crammed up.
“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this a lot rain in such a brief area of time,” Houssine Youabeb, an official of Morocco’s meteorology company instructed the Related Press. Such rains, which meteorologists name an extratropical storm, could change the climate circumstances within the area within the coming months and years.
Celeste Saulo, the secretary basic of the World Meteorological Group, instructed reporters on Monday that water cycles the world over had been altering with growing frequency. “Because of rising temperatures, the hydrological cycle has accelerated. It has additionally grow to be extra erratic and unpredictable, and we face rising issues of both an excessive amount of or too little water,” she mentioned.”[5]
Yet one more weird climatic incident of this yr has taken everybody abruptly. In a scene straight out of the film “Day After Tomorrow”, Saudi Arabia’s desert obtained its first ever recorded snowfall in early November, remodeling the arid area, historically identified for its scorching warmth and golden sand dunes, right into a winter wonderland. Snow blanketed many elements of the Al-Jawf area within the northern Al-Naf’d desert, following a collection of extreme climate occasions that swept by means of the area, together with heavy rain and hailstorms. The occasion despatched waterfalls and rivers flowing by means of the area, making the panorama barely recognizable. In response to a report in Newsweek,
“Meteorologists have linked the weird climate to a low-pressure system that moved from the Arabian Sea to Oman…Climatologists counsel that such atypical climate occasions could improve in frequency attributable to shifting atmospheric circumstances related to world local weather change.”[6]
Whereas watching this YouTube video about this unprecedented climate occasion, I got here throughout various feedback which claimed that the Prophet Muhammad had predicted that Saudi Arabia would flip inexperienced earlier than the top of this age. As per one individual, Muhammad had mentioned, “The Hour (of the top instances) won’t start till the land of the Arabs as soon as once more turns into meadows and rivers.” Plainly this prophecy, too, is perhaps on its method to success.
It’s fairly a coincidence – if coincidence, in any respect, is the fitting phrase right here – that two extraordinarily uncommon flood and snow occasions, one in Egypt and the opposite in Saudi Arabia, occurred one after the opposite in the identical yr, quickly after the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Lady was fulfilled, who, as we have now mentioned, can also be Isis-Hathor, the goddess of the Nile floods. It’s virtually as if some unknown climatic swap has been all of a sudden activated making everybody scratch their heads in marvel.
There may be another excuse why these two climatic occasions are actually intriguing. Until round 4000 BCE, each the Sahara, in addition to the Arabian Peninsula, was lined with lush inexperienced vegetation, rivers and huge lakes. Massive herds of animals roamed freely throughout the plains. The African Humid Part ended at round 3900 BCE, and by 3500 BCE sand dunes had began reclaiming the Sahara and Saudi Arabia. “The tip of the ‘Inexperienced Sahara’ happened fairly all of a sudden round 5,500 years in the past,”[7] states local weather scientist Gavin Schmidt, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Area Research.
As per the Yuga Cycle framework that I’ve introduced in my ebook Yuga Shift, the time interval from roughly 4000 – 3700 BCE was additionally the time of transition to the Kali Yuga cycle – the bottom level by way of our consciousness, within the Cycle of the Ages. Since then, human civilization has handed by means of two back-to-back Kali Yugas, which span most of recorded historical past. The descending Kali Yuga, which began in 3676 BCE, is what historians discuss with because the Bronze Age, whereas the ascending Kali Yuga, which started in 676 BCE is thought to us because the Iron Age. As per this framework, the ascending Kali Yuga ends in 2025, thereby knocking down the curtains on an prolonged Kali Yuga cycle, when humanity turns into disconnected from its Internal Supply, from one another, and from the atmosphere.
these occasions from the attitude of the Yuga Cycle, evidently, simply as we’re about to emerge from the Kali Yuga cycle, a climatic reversal has been initiated, which may very nicely flip the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula into the sort of lush inexperienced grasslands they had been earlier than the start of the Kali Yuga cycle.
It’s turning into more and more obvious that these giant cycles of time are actual, the shifts are actual, and the scientific information is validating what the ancients have been saying all alongside. The success of the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Lady is a well timed reminder to us that the knowledge and prophecies left behind by our ancestors aren’t merely previous wives’ tales meant for our amusement, however that they encode treasured details about the momentous occasions of the lengthy bygone ages, and supply much-needed steerage concerning the epochal planetary shift that we’re going into proper now.
References
[1] Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, ReadHowYouWant.com, 2010, p. 335.
[2] Joseph Chasing Horse, “WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN Brings The First Pipe”, http://www.kstrom.web/isk/arvol/buffpipe.html
[3] Max Matza and Madeline Halpert, “Native Individuals see omen in Yellowstone’s uncommon white bison”, BBC Information 13 June 2024, https://www.bbc.com/articles/ckrrlpdlzj7o
[4] Blair Miller “‘Sacred Return’: Tribal ceremony honors beginning of prophesied white buffalo calf”, Utah Information Dispatch June 29, 2024, https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/06/29/tribal-ceremony-honors-birth-of-prophesied-white-buffalo-calf/
[5] Eromo Egbejule, “Dramatic photos present the primary floods within the Sahara in half a century”, The Guardian Fri 11 Oct 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/atmosphere/2024/oct/11/dramatic-images-show-the-first-floods-in-the-sahara-in-half-a-century
[6] “Saudi Arabian Desert’s First Ever Snowfall Proven in Pictures”, Newsweek Nov 11, 2024, https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabian-desert-first-ever-snowfall-photos-1983839
[7] Anuradha Okay. Herath, “How Earth’s Orbit Formed the Sahara”, Area.com, 21 December 2010, https://www.area.com/10527-earth-orbit-shaped-sahara.html
