White Feather Insight About Me

Ever been through a “Phase” where you are classed as one thing, but feel as if though you are something else? This is me all the time!

It is not unknown that I am a Maori woman, who has never stepped foot out of this country and is surrounded by cultural practices daily. I love who I am as a wahine (woman) Maori. I am inspired often by my Maori culture and values. The Maori values are what helped shape me to be who I am to this day and forever more. There is no hiding the fact that Maori culture are influenced by spiritual and universal connections. The bond we have with all things that exist is what inspires us to move forward and become one with the universe – from Io Matua Kore (Divine Source) all the way to the very blade of grass we stand on. I am fortunate to have been raised within these values and surrounded by these beliefs. A belief that I will forever cherish. My whakapapa (Genealogy) will always connect me to the beginning of time. However, at times, I feel as if though something is missing. I have my culture, I know who I am, but what I use to often think about was who I was wanting to be….. My Maoritanga was telling me of my spiritual connection to the universe and all things existing, but what if I told you, my spirituality was leading me somewhere else?

That’s right! my wairuatanga (spirituality) led me to become a Lightworker. It was by divine enlightenment that this happened. Did I see this coming? No! Did I believe I was meant for this pathway? Maybe! I had always been open minded to spirituality in all aspects, supernatural, religious, universal, all of it – so it was a no brainer that this would be the missing link I needed to fill my soul.

Living in a world where society places you in a certain box, because of who you are, where your from, what you do and how you hold yourself in public, isn’t the world I nor many others wish to be in. So you would see how surprised a few of my family members were when I told them I was on a spiritual journey and hoped to become a Tarot Reader. Because of how my background influenced people they had asked me where Io Matua Kore fits in this? or where my Tupuna fit in all of this? At the time I didn’t really have an answer because I was relevantly still a newbie on the journey. However, now looking back with all that I have experienced, Karakia is still a part of my day to day life where I call upon Io Matua Kore and Matua tipuna to protect me. My faith had never stopped – some people will mistaken it for confusion but to me Io Matua Kore and God are one in the same. The difference for me though is that God is a loving God and Io is the creator of all things. But they both are supreme protectors and both have Archangels or Whatukura to help protect different aspects of life. So, to me – they are the same being. Although a lightworker is more on the tauiwi (different culture) approach to spirituality, acknowledging both my wairuatanga and spirituality has been a vibrant journey. Yes – wairuatanga is spirituality, however not many see it that way. It is because of my wairuatanga that I became a Lightworker. It is because my whakapapa birthed a line of matakite, that I became spiritually connected. That is my wairuatanga, that is who I am. I believe in Io Matua Kore, God, Archangels and Whatukura simply because in different languages they are one in the same! My whakapapa calls me Maori, and the Divine call me Lightworker. I call myself a Maori Lightworker on a mission to spread light, insight and divine enlightenment.

Linda Waru-Lackner (White Feather Insight)