Across all time and in every culture, persons of power have traveled to alternate realities on the vibrations of a journey drum.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A drum to join Heaven and Earth



This new drum from the Journey Oracle is tied with an octagon interlacement pattern.  This is the first time I have used this eight pointed design in a journey drum, and I'm discovering that the meaning of an octagon is quite special.


The combination of the circle, representing Heaven, and the square, representing Earth, are joined together as a symbol of transition to rebirth: the regeneration of new life from old.  What a perfect symbol for  a new shamanic drum made during these last days of winter as we transition into a new spring.


The smoke-tan doe skin hitching covering the octagon seemed to glow in the still cool almost spring sunshine, and the drum felt a good fit between the cedar touching heaven, and the moss  growing over our rocky earth.  



A DRUM TO JOIN HEAVEN AND EARTH

17" BC Spruce wood frame
Cortes Island blacktail deer hide
Octagon interlacement holdfast wrapped with smoke-tan hitching

$350.00
shipping additional 

Receive the CD:
 Ride a Good Horse to the Spirit World
 containing shamanic journey drumming rhythms plus
instructions for learning to travel to the alternate realities
with my compliments when you purchase this drum.

If this is your drum contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com

Friday, March 1, 2013

How to hold a drum



How to hold a drum?  This was an important question when I first became a drum maker since I understood that the fastening at the drum back was in fact the drum maker's signature.  My inspiration was this cedar withe found in an old style lobster trap in Nova Scotia, when I was first thinking about making a drum.


The ring became my signature for many years, until I noticed that the space inside the ring is like a bead.  I learned from Martin Prechtel that a bead is really the hole and not the material surrounding it to show its shape and size.  So what to do with the hole that is a bead?


Fill it with something magical.





Every space is an Oracle of potential meaning, and its journey is never-ending.
Even the simplest thing ends up involving the Universe.