The Legend of the Dream Catcher

Long ago, in a dream, a young Indian
maiden was shown how Spider Woman
had spun her web. She was then shown
how to weave the web in to a dream
catcher , and told it would be a special
way for creation to catch the good
dreams and strengthen the connection
between creation (Mother Earth) and
the spirit world ... so she began to
weave the dream catcher .

When she had finished
the weaving,she decorated it
and hung it from a willow branch
above the place where she was to sleep
on her blankets. As she fell asleep, during
what she called startime,she began having
b e a u t i f u l d r e a m s .

When she awoke the next morning to greet
Mother Sun,she saw colored beads caught
in the strands of her web. As she gently
touched one of the beads, Mother Sun
spoke to her saying the beads were
good dreams she had caught in her
dream catcher during star time,
and that unwelldreams had
also been caught in the
strands of the web,
but had vanished
in the warm,
loving light
of Mother Sun. The unwell dreams
were gone and creation began to heal itself.
Many others now look forward to star time
because of this young Indian maiden.