My Dream Catcher
My Dream Catchers
All my dream catchers are unique and one of a kind. I make them in 9', 14', 19' and 24' diameter sizes. I make traditional dream catchers with traditional materials, but my specialty is to further embellish with weaving to add earth elements. Each dream catcher is a work of art! Visit the For Sale page to purchase or contact me to request a custom made dream catcher as a special order
More than Just a Dream
Dream catchers follow the Native American legends that your bad dreams are caught in the web and in the first rays of sunlight they perish. Your good dreams filter through the web and enter your mind. Only good dreams will be remembered. The dream catcher is made in a circle to represent how the sun and the moon travel across the sky. Feathers on the dream catcher represent air or breath, essential for life, Gem stones represent the four directions.
The Artist
I am of Native Athabaskan Koyukon and Yaqui Apache Indian descent.
I have been making dream catchers for over 30 years. My father made dream catchers for many years crafting many intricate designs and my sister Kathy was a weaver. Both talents inspired me to create what I do.
Question: 'Is it wrong for a Christian to have a dream catcher?'Answer: Dream catchers have long been a part of Native American religion, lore, and art, originating with the Ojibwe, or Chippewa, and the Lakota, a confederation of seven Sioux tribes. Dream catchers are webbed and beaded circles hung with feathers from the base of the circle. As one might suspect, the purpose of a dream catcher is to catch dreams—that is, to trap bad or evil dreams and channel good dreams to the sleeper. Dream catchers are usually placed in a window or above the bed, allowing the good dreams to drip down the feathers onto the sleeper below.
Essentially, a dream catcher is intended to manipulate the spirit world. Some people believe in the efficacy of dream catchers. Others are unsure but are superstitious enough to keep one in the bedroom. Still others see dream catchers as part of a cultural history or a piece of art that looks good dangling from a rear-view mirror.
Dream Catchers 1. Start with a 2 - 6 ft. Length of fresh Red Willow (Red Osier Dogwood), or soaked Grapevine (dried grapevine is available in the craft department of many stores) Carefully bend the vine around to form a circle with a 3 - 8 in. You decide on the diameter, but traditionally dreamcatchers are no wider than adult's hand. Want to work with the best hair extensions? Join us and get the best education for all DreamCatchers hair extensions systems, special pro benefits, and an exclusive DreamCatchers suitcase full of items and tools, valued at over $1000! Dreamcatchers have a great historic past which is having roots coming from the Ojibwe Native American people who are considered the very first farmers of the dreamcatcher! They had been seen using the dreamcatchers as a miraculous tool or sign that helps filter out bad dreams and bad spirits and only allows the positive dreams to reach to sleepers!
Knowing the background of dream catchers and their talisman-like use, many Christians want nothing to do with them. Is such concern warranted? A passage in 1 Corinthians 8 may be helpful. Paul is speaking to Christians living in an extremely pagan culture ruled by superstition, magic, and sacrifices, all done in the name of various idols. The sacrifices were a particular concern, for the meat sacrificed was then sold at market. Some Christians felt eating sacrificed meat was endorsing the sacrifice and therefore inappropriate for a Christian; others believed that, since they were not worshiping the idol themselves, it was not wrong.My Dream Car Is
Paul’s guidance was this: “There may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—yet for us there is one God. . . . However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled” (1 Corinthians 8:5–7). Ultimately, “food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do,” yet we must be careful “that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak” (1 Corinthians 8:8, 9). Just as it was with meat associated with idolatry in the 1st century, so it is with superstitious objects in the 21st.
Where Do I Put My Dream Catcher
The Christian understands that false gods are nothing and that a dream catcher has no power in itself. The believer in Christ could easily see a dream catcher as nothing more than a craft or a cultural expression. However, before he buys a dream catcher and hangs it in the window, he should consider other people’s reactions to it. Will others see it as a charm to manipulate the spirit world? Will someone assume the one in possession of a dream catcher approves of Indian religions? Keeping a dream catcher is a matter of conscience; as long as it is not used as a good luck charm, it is innocent enough. But consideration must be given to those we seek to minister to.