The little red drum came through in a dream I had two years ago. A few months later I bumped into the same drum in a shop in Glastonbury, England. It was evidently to come back up to Scotland with me. It’s a Nepalese Buddhist drum. The first time I used it out in a public space, I wanted to tell the proprietor how blessed with Buddhist monks the building was. I can be quite slow sometimes! I obviously later twigged they were connected with the drum when they seemed to follow me and the drum everywhere we went!
I love this drum. I love its spirit, its guardians and what it reminds me of. I have enormous gratitude for this drum. I love the fact that I dreamt about it and then found it. I love the shop I found it in in Glastonbury (The Colour of Sound).
Searching the archives of my soul for a guardian and name for the Shamanic practice and gallery I was eventually alerted to the realisation that it was probably to be called the little red drum. I found this was also the title of a poem about the heart.
The little red drum is the living heart. This is its message and its guide - along with all the wonderful spirits which it calls in. The intention of the practice and the beautiful gallery space is that the heart guides the way in all that we do. The heart chakra is the place where spiritual and earthly energies merge and cross. It is the place of alchemy. It is also a place of purity. The heart requires constant purification and focus on what is true and inspired by unconditional love to bring spiritual effectiveness. What a beautiful reminder day by day!
The little red drum works as the Shaman’s drum - calling out a beat and resonating with the universal pulse, to the spirit in all things. I hope that you will find what you need to resonate with in the little red drum’s blog, and that your heart will find the nourishment or confirmation it truly deserves.
