We go into silence, and the
teacher takes us into a trance journey.
She says to begin somewhere sacred and safe. I often begin trance journeys at Mt. Shasta,
but this time Hawaii showed up. Not such
a safe place, especially right now with new eruptions spilling over the land! But then I thought of Honaunau, City of
Refuge. The ultimate safe place.
I begin at nearby Two-Step, the
most wonderful nearby snorkeling spot, and the Fire Priestess comes and puts
her hands over me, like on my card.
I
plant a small tree in offering. Entering
the sacred ground of the refuge, I need to ask permission from the ali’i to be
there, and to apologize. Because the
Fire Priestess is with me, they grant it, telling me not to take anything and
that I have to give my heart. I am to
touch the water and cleanse myself. I
walk past the heiau, out towards the ocean.
Whale invites me to go in the water.
I might have anticipated Turtle, but it is Whale.
Whale speaks of the radiation from
Fukushima, that they, the whales, take it into their bodies and transform it,
and that I need to as well (or any air pollution). I ask, “Won’t that just make me sick, and
then die quickly before I’m of much use?”
The answer is, “You’re already taking it in, but you’re doing it
unconsciously.”
Whale shows me how what is spewed
into the air falls into the water (or, I suppose, onto the earth), and needs to
sink all the way down into the earth, and then down to the core fires, which
can consume it.
Whale explains that my city is
just like the ocean’s dying coral – pollution and overcrowding has bleached the
life force out of them both. But even
dead, the coral – and my bit of earth – is still sacred. My charge is to re-sacralize, restore,
reinvigorate my home place.
I review my notes afterward and find
that the teacher had said something similar - “When you find what is true, keep
reinvigorating and dedicating it as true.”
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