SNOW LEOPARD'S CLAW--
THE GREAT CONTAINED WITHIN THE SMALL
(C)1998 by Donna Cunningham
and Gretchen Lawlor
This is the tale of the making of a remarkable vibrational remedy, Snow Leopard's Claw. When Donna's beloved cat-companion died, circumstances forced her to wait six months for a kitten. She went to a spiritual retreat and came home with a new set of spirit guides, Buddhist monks from a monastery in Tibet that had been destroyed by the Chinese.
The very next day, she trekked to the Humane Society and adopted a tiny, two-month old silver tabby kitten, who informed her telepathically that this was her first lifetime with humans. She had most recently been a snow leopard in Nepal, but their near extinction made the switch to a domestic cat necessary. Raising this strikingly beautiful and bright kitten, fondly and foolishly known as Pumpkin, was a challenge, for she was nearly feral. The Tibetan guides counseled that she must always be handled with the utmost gentleness.
Among the crises was the point in time when Pumpkin reached her full growth. Lying on the pillow next to
Donna, she conveyed her sorrow at being so small. She was accustomed to being large and powerful, to running
free, drinking from snow-fed rivers, so being in a tiny body cooped up in a house was very difficult.
Just at that time, Gretchen acquired a snow leopard's claw through her connection with some Tibetan shamans. She came to visit, and she and Donna decided to make a vibrational remedy with the claw in the hopes it would help Pumpkin adjust. (Pumpkin has taken remedies since the age of two months, with good effect. When the dropper bottle appears, she comes running and lifts the corner of her lip for a dose.)
To the Tibetans, burgundy is the color of impeccability. Acting on the guides' instructions, Gretchen and Donna both dressed in burgundy, draped a footstool in burgundy to act as an alter, and used a ruby glass bowl. They filled it with spring water and several drops of an essence Gretchen had made of water from the Ganges River. The Ganges, which begins up in the Himalyas, is considered sacred. In India, it is believed that if you bathe in the Ganges, you need not ever incarnate again.
Pumpkin sat erect on her haunches on the footstool, peering intently into the bowl. She kept trying to get into the bowl, with first one paw and then another. She dipped into the water and sucked on her paw, as she often did with water running in the sink. She seemed to believe that this was a river. As they invoked the help of the Tibetans and the overriding spirit of the snow leopard in making the remedy, Pumpkin watched in fascination. She kept trying to fish the leopard's claw from the bowl and to run away with it.
During the meditation, the Tibetan guides shared some very sad and moving stories about the destruction of their monastery by the Chinese soldiers. They said that they would soon be as nearly extinct as the snow leopards which had wandered freely through the courtyards of their monastries.
Like Pumpkin, many of the monks will be reborn in the west, to families who study Buddhism. Though Caucasian, their features will have a distinctly Tibetan cast, and they will begin their spirtual practices early. Others, taking on a more difficult challenge, will be born to crack addicted mothers.
After the remedy felt "set," bottles were filled with the mother essence, and then Donna, Gretchen, and Pumpkin all drank from the bowl and were visited by a feeling of bliss.
In all the time Pumpkin had been living with her, Donna had never seen a picture of a snow leopard and mistakenly assumed they were white.
The evening after the remedy was made, she was given a card with snow leopards on it. They were sunning themselves on a mountainside, clearly acting as sentinels for the Buddhist monastery atop the mountain. Although Pumpkin was darker, her markings were
remarkably like the picture.
THE ESSENCE OF SNOW LEOPARD'S CLAW: The essence contains not only the vibrations of the snow leopard and of the holy Ganges river, but of Buddhist monks with centuries of practice now coming to incarnate in the west, and even of Pumpkin, struggling to adapt to a small and limited body. The information later received about the remedy was that it was for power contained within gentleness, for the great soul which has to manifest in small circumstances. The blissful sensation continued through the course of taking the essence. As for Pumpkin, the experience did seem to mellow her out.
GRETCHEN LAWLOR, an astrologer and naturopath of many years experience,
can be reached at P.O. Box 753, Langley, WA 98260, or
e-mail light@whidbey.com.
DONNA CUNNINGHAM, Gretchen's friend and mentor for many years, is a well-known astrologer and author of books and columns on astrology and other metaphysical topics. (To see more of her writing, visit her web page.) She is co-editor of Vibration, the on-line remedy journal, which Gretchen contributes to regularly.
Design Sources: The photo of the monks is part of an extraordinary collection at Images Aquarone of the work of Monica Oportat. The source of the snow leopards and background, HDW Enterprises, has compiled an awesome array of pictures of rare and endangered great cats. For the line that looks just like Pumpkin, visit the utterly enchanting cats at Cats'n Kittens' Designs. Pumpkin's baby picture was contributed by her doting aunt, Joyce Liechenstein. The prayer wheel is from the Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, which no longer seems to have a web site. Nancy's Place is the source of the animated kitties.
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