Granddaughter Crow - Wisdom of the Natural World

About the Author

I am here to inspire, encourage, and empower you to be your authentic self.

Joy Granddaughter Crow Gray has received a BS in business management as well as a BS in business administration, an MBA, and a doctorate in leadership. She has several years of experience in corporate America working for an international company and additional time working for the government, and has worked as a college professor. She is here to share and serve under the name of Granddaughter Crow.

Internationally recognized as a Medicine Woman, Granddaughter Crow was born an empath and medium. She comes from a long lineage of spiritual leaders and esoteric wisdom. Raised by spiritual leaders, as a child she was fashioned and trained to serve the people through ministry. She is a member of the Navajo Nation (50 percent) and also has Dutch heritage (50 percent). Granddaughter Crow provides a sense of integration through life experience.

Granddaughter Crow was inducted into the Delta Mu Delta International Honors Society in 2012, was voted Woman of the Year 2015 by the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), and was featured in Native Max Magazine s June/July 2016 issue.

In 2014, Granddaughter Crow founded the Eagle Heart Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to charitable giving and educational enhancement of the Native American population for the purpose of honoring the ancestors and responding to their heartfelt prayers.

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Wisdom of the Natural World: Spiritual and Practical Teachings from Plants, Animals & Mother Earth 2021 by Granddaughter Crow.

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First e-book edition 2021

E-book ISBN: 9780738766553

Book design by Samantha Peterson

Cover design by Shannon McKuhen

Granddaughter Crow Logo on page iv provided by the author

Interior art by Llewellyn Art Department

Vetruvian Man on by Eugene Smith

Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gray, Joy, author.
Title: Wisdom of the natural world : spiritual and practical teachings from
plants, animals & Mother Earth / Granddaughter Crow.
Description: First edition. | Woodbury, MN : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd,
2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Featuring
profound insights from the plant and animal kingdoms and beyond, this
empowering guide uses natural wisdom to help you find balance in life
Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020050978 (print) | LCCN 2020050979 (ebook) | ISBN
9780738766300 | ISBN 9780738766553 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: NatureReligious aspects.
Classification: LCC BL65.N35 G46 2021 (print) | LCC BL65.N35 (ebook) |
DDC 202/.12dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050978
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050979

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This book is dedicated to the past, present, and future. I dedicate this book to my grandfather, a man whom I have never met in the flesh, but I know him through the blood that runs through my veins. Hence, I am Granddaughter Crow. I dedicate this book to my husband, Jeffrey Gray. Without him, I would not be this far along on my journey. I dedicate this book to my son, Michael Major. Without him, I would not be who I am. Do we raise our children, or do they raise us as parents? I dedicate this book to my grandchildren, for they hold our future. Blessings to all.

Contents

List of

: Connecting and Learning through Nature

: The Animal Kingdom

: The Plant Kingdom

: Landscapes

: The Seasons and Weather Cycles

: The Medicine Wheel

: The Shadow Self

: Empowerment

Exercises

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Exercise 14:

The Navajo Beauty Way Prayer

In beauty I walk

With beauty before me I walk

With beauty behind me I walk

With beauty above me I walk

With beauty around me I walk

It has become beauty again

It has become beauty again

It has become beauty again

It has become beauty again

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Hzhogo naasha doo

Shitsij hzhogo naasha doo

Shikd hzhogo naasha doo

Shideigi hzhogo naasha doo

T altso shinaag hzhogo naasha doo

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Foreword

Breathe in. Now breathe out. You have just experienced a complete cycle of life. You have experienced, in that simple moment, a microcosm of the entire universe.

Come take a stroll with me, invites Granddaughter Crow in the pages of this beautiful book, one that will allow you to experience yourself, perhaps for the first time, as an integral and important part of the natural world. As a part of the whole that is needed. Necessaryrequiredin order for the entire Universe to function. In order for the entire Universe to exist. You, yes, YOU, you are that important. And in the following pages, youll see, feel, hear, and know that you are both unique and also similar to many of the other parts of the Universe, the great medicine wheel of creation.