Who is Morning Star?
Morning Star was born Lindy - in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Living near a dairy farm and the bush, she would spend her time at the dairy or wandering through the bush tracks of an old brick works. At 11 she received her first horse, after spending years buggig her parents to take her to riding schools and horse camps. Now she could explore the bush further and enjoy dawn rides before school. At 12 and with 4 horses in the family, her family moved to a hundred year old farmhouse and 30 acre property at the base of a mountain on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, where both parents gained employment at the Wingham tannery.
She spent many hours after school and in the holidays wandering the tannery, observing the processes of turning skins into leather and leather into useable products. Her parents brought home from the tannery, a tandy catalogue from the USA and Al Stohlman books printed in the 50's and 60's, with these she taught herself to carve and work leather. These years taught her to create her own bridles, reins, breast plates, halters, belts, wallets and the myriad of items that can be constructed from leather.
On this mountain property, she spent many hours on horseback observing the wildlife, with her favourite places being on the tops of the mountains and in nature. As she grew and matured, she never lost her fascination with the natural world and with the many forms of creation with leather, undertaking a self imposed discipline to learn and study all she could about animal skins and the alchemical changes which lead to leather. Living in the bush has its advantages, as natures roadkill supermarket has much to offer, so there were always plenty to experiment with.
After finishing school she moved to the city to gain employment, never losing her love of creating with leather. The bright lights of the city where no match for the allure and magic of the bush, as it called to continue her apprenticeship with nature, inviting her deeper into the mountains. By this time she was a mother of 2 children and felt it necessary to teach them the importance of self sufficiency. Deep in the mountains with solar power, a spring fed creek, vegetable garden, milking cow and her own mountain, she began to study nature in a deeper way - roadkill were numerous in the forms of birds, snakes and wallabies (small varieties of kangaroo), which she dilligently practiced different types of tanning techniques, supporting herself and her family with her creations and teaching of Aboriginal Students. Over the next few years she studied Aboriginal Studies, Remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, Oriental Therapies, Pranic Healing, Reiki, Crystal Healing, Medicial Intuition, Head, Neck and Shoulder Massage and other modalities as she faciltated healings in her own healing practice - The Living Light Healing Centre in Wingham, New South Wales, Australia. She founded the Manning Association for Craft & Arts, assisted in the set up of the Mid North Coast Arts Council and co-founded the Wingham Festival of Light.
These studies deepened her understanding of the energetic world around her and of the importance of ceremony and ritual in working with the skins of animals. So much so, that the animals once honoured and blessed, began to share their medicine secrets and wisdom with her, opening up an understanding of animals as Stargates of Information and knowledge, assisting us to re-member our roles as stewards and custodians of this blessed planet.
Morning Star spent 10 years meditating on the mountain and beside the creek, while her children were at school, until there came a time, where the cosmic boot came out and she found herself closer to town on 10 acres. At the end of 2003, she was asked by the Divine within to forsake all material possessions, leave her husband, children and animals behind and begin her earthwalk of inner growth and understanding of the Divine within.
In 2004, while visiting in Alaska, she was given her name while on a whale watching tour in Seward - Her name 'Whitehawk Singing the Morning Star' came through in front of a colony of Sea Lions and she was asked to tone the name into the great sea mother to feel if it was hers. On doing so a dozen grey whales apeared and stayed with the whale boat for several hours - this happened outside of Resurrection Bay, after a time it was necessary to leave the grey whales to return to port, where in Resurrection Bay itself a pair of humpback whales breached together as a Bald Eagle flew over them. Feeling this was a positive sign from the Earth of a new energy and a new journey Lindy has used the name Whitehawk and Morning Star separately - as the vibration of these names at different times assists her to let go of her old life and move out into the world to be the Being she came to this beautiful planet to be.
Since that time she has called the Earth 'home', and up until mid 2007, has travelled to New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Peru, Egypt, Turkey and Guatemala, often travelling with medicine items to further understand the use of the drum, rattles and animal medicine throughout history and in different cultures. Morning Star left Australia in May 2008 to continue her travels wherever the Divine within beckons and where there are those who are interested in hosting and sharing with her.
In 2006/7, she spent a year with the Grandmother Drum and the Whirling Rainbow Project. Spending 7 months in Alaska - her duties consisted of cleaning and making rawhide from 3 buffalo (1 head skinned), 2 musk ox, 2 reindeer and several goats. From these she made over 200 drums and 80 rattles, she also made hundreds of medicine bags, before heading out with the team of the Grandmother Drum on 2nd January 2007 to drive from Alaska to Guatemala, where her role was as Performance and Ceremonial Artist.
Morning Star leaves the land down under May 7th 2008 to go walk about with her 'Wings Around the World' book launch and workshop tour. She will be sharing the skills she has learnt from a lifetime of learning and dedication to her craft and invites you to learn with her as she offers several fun, informative and creative workshops in Making Medicine Tools and Ceremonial Art!
Morning Star is also the keeper of several snake head medicine items, obtained from roadkill snakes and often times other items that bless her earthwalk. The snake heads have a journey, for which Morning Star is the carrier to visit sacred sites, planetary gateways and dragon lines across the planet in preparation for the changing of the earth in these days of great change and transformation.
The information, power and ways are given to us to share with others - to do anything else is pure selfishness!
Frank Fools Crow