by Delphina Nova

Rooted in Native American Tradition

When Turtle dreams Mother Earth is in trouble, Turtle springs into action. Can Turtle come up with a plan to save Turtle Island? With no time to lose, Turtle sets out in the forest to share the Dream. Now, will the Animals and People play their part?

"All of life is part of the Sacred web of creation. Turtle Island, Mother Earth, is now calling for our help." explains Delphina Nova, a member of Ontario's Eastern Woodlands Tribe. Author, spiritual adviser, geo-empath and intuitive healer, she mentors youth and adults to follow their dreams. While staying with Navajo/Dine friends in the Four Corners of the American Southwest, Delphina dreamed Turtle's Dream.

Illustrator Curtis Yanito, a member of the Navajo Nation, has won numerous awards for his art. "It's the Creator who is the artist. I just appreciate what he's created everyday. I love Nature."

Thank you for helping spread Turtle's message to care for our environment.

"If you take care of Mother Earth, she will take care of us and our families." ~ Marshall Golden Eagle Jack, Paiute Spiritual Leader

"I became "childlike" and became a participant in the story. The story of Turtle's Dream is a wonderful means of imparting traditional knowledge to young hearts, minds and spirits. The messages of being One with all of life on this sacred Mother Earth is beautifully delivered. This is a very worthwhile story for use at home, or classrooms and any opportunity to share with children."
~ Grandmother Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi/Tewa, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

"You're the Best. I love Turtle’s Dream." ~ Nathan, 6 yrs.

"I appreciate your passion, love, inspiration, peace-building and HeArtful spirit...We love you!" ~ Shauna McGlamary, Director, Fenster Ranch Summer Camp

"Love is the answer. I'm so happy you are here. You are an amazing person. I have a Tortoise! Turtle's Dream is coming true!" ~ Erika, 6 yrs.

Dreamers—Messengers of the Spirit
by Delphina Nova

Since time immemorial, divine forces have come to people to alert mankind of impending changes on Earth. Many indigenous tribes had Dreaming Societies that came together to share individual and collective dreams to ensure the protection of the village. Dreamers would be given dreams to prepare members of the tribe, spiritually, emotionally and physically to forewarn an up-coming event or a necessary migration. As a child, dreams came to me which were pre-cognitive in nature. It was a natural thing to share my dreams with my family. My mother shared her dreams with me daily; many of her dreams, like mine, were pre-cognitive.

Turtle’s Dream

On October 27, 2009, Turtle’s Dream came to me while visiting the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. The message given to Turtle was meant to be shared with our greater global village.

In the summer of 2010, I shared Turtle’s Dream with 150 children ranging from 5-12 yrs in my Dreaming Turtle Workshop at a summer camp. We talked about Mother Earth’s condition and how we could help Turtle’s Dream for Earth come true. Together we dreamed a New Earth. Dream Journals were created, stories shared and paintings came to life. Each day, I asked the children—what did you dream last night? We listened to one another. We spoke of personal dreams and envisioned ways to help Turtle. The Dreams the children came up with were inspirational and infectious, filled with hope and renewal. At the end of the week, we made Dreamcatchers and gave them to a friend or family member as a gift, a give-away. The children gave me the name Dreaming Woman.

We can dream a bright New Earth for our children. The future belongs to them and to those that follow the power of their Dreams.

What is a Geo-Empath?

Empaths have a natural ability to tap into the emotional nature of people and animals. Geo-empaths also have an antenna akin to animals, birds and aquatic life and feel cosmic influences in their bodies. They sense fluctuation of weather patterns and deep movement within the Earth prior to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Nova’s novel, Heart of Gold, centers on a geo-empath detective hired to work on an archaeological dig. www.delphinanova.com

Can a Turtle’s Dream change the world?
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Delphina Nova is an award-winning author and poet who should be very familiar to those in the North Fork Valley, as she is a former Paonia resident. During a recent visit to her old stomping grounds, Nova shared her latest passion, "Turtle's Dream," a children's book for the younger set, of course, but also for the young child innately within adults as well.
This tale is literally a dream within a dream. On Oct. 27, 2009, Nova was visiting some of her Navajo friends. Her dream was so vivid with such a compelling message she told the dream to children the next morning. Upon hearing the dream of a turtle who had a prophetic dream, the children told her it had to be shared not just with family, but with the world.
Nova wrote the book and contacted illustrator Curtis Yanito to draw some quick sketches and some full color renditions of scenes from the dream. Perhaps sharing a Native American spiritual connection is what made the two such a good team. Nova is from the Algonquin/Abernaki Eastern Woodlands Tribe and Yanito from the Navajo Nation.
"I wanted something childlike. I wanted something the inner child in adults can relate to. But I also wanted some of [the illustrations] to be a little realistic, earth shaking. How the animals tried to talk to the people who did not listen. I was trying to get the impact out. And he did it really well," Nova said.
"It's the creator who is the artist. I just appreciate what he's created everyday. I love nature," Yanito has said of his award-winning illustrations.
In finding a publisher, Nova found a perfect fit with Open Books Press whose children's and educational books are reaching into the world shining a light on environmental, indigenous and earth ecology issues. "Turtle's Dream" was released Dec. 3, 2010.
Since then Nova has been taking the book into Arizona classrooms and summer camps. She has found that children of all ages understand the pictures and teenagers relate to the story and say this is really about what is happening on the earth today.
Native American Wisdom Keepers are giving a green light for the book's message. "There is a way to heal the planet by coming back and listening to the animals," she explained.
"Indigenous people communicate with animals and relate to nature, the trees and water, the plants and birds. And know that the earth is an organic part of us and she is alive. What we do to the earth, we ultimately do to ourselves," Nova said. "We were living in harmony with natural laws but now we are not listening any more."
Through Turtle, Nova encourages people to choose peace as a way of life. "It is not the animals that are out of balance. It is not even nature that is out of balance. It is humans that are out of balance. That imbalance and disharmony is affecting the animals, the water, the air, the earth itself. It is time to listen again."
Nova is spending some time in Italy and Spain. She wants to have "Turtle's Dream" translated into other languages. She is looking for an animator. "Children would really love to see an animated film and I do have a sequel coming after this one."
"Turtle's Dream" has a page on Facebook, where the book can be purchased.
Finally, Nova's advice is the next time an animal speaks to you in a dream or in your waking life, observe and listen to the message it is telling you.