Journey 12 - Hurricane Isabel Track

9/16/03: My first Journey involved using the Shaman Drumming CD. I had asked via Pendulum if I might try to determine the true course of Hurricane Isabel via a Journey. Telling the future is an advanced technique, and I figured even if it didn’t work it was worth the training. So I smudged the room with Sage and Sweetgrass and went to it. I rode a Peace Eagle up into the sky, digging my fingers comfortably into his side as we flew. He turned and smiled. We rapidly ended up in a place in the coastal south, with lots of trees and brush which reminded me of scenes I’d seen from Virginia, so I figured I was in the right place. Suddenly, it turned dark, and I was on a large field with different colored, shining fire piles, with dark figures sitting around them. As I walked, I looked back at one and it seemed to remind me of Two Feather’s shape. Ahead of me was a very brightly shining, tan –colored Tipi, and I knew I was meant to go for that. As I got to it, I looked up. In the sky was my new Shaman symbol, with the S and parenthesis made of clouds, and the two dots made of stars. Suddenly, the two stars erupted in very bright beams of white light, shining straight down like narrow tubes, which turned the Tipi very bright. I went in, taking this as an invitation. The floor was covered with a very elegant bearskin throw, which covered the interior floor. Rains Again, the new Shaman Helper I met in my Journey behind the shed, came toward me slowly with my Pipe. We suddenly both shape-shifted to very small beings, and walked into the Bowl on the Stem side. As I walked, I could see that every Smoke I had done with this Pipe was recorded in full detail (3-D and in motion) on the sides. As we reached the center of the Bowl, we reached a Clearing. Rains’s 5-sided Altar was there, but the 5 Stone People were ablaze with light, and the interior was made up of blue sky with connecting strands of Clouds. We immersed ourselves into this part of the Altar. Suddenly, I was alone and flying above the hurricane. I saw it move into the southern half North Carolina versus the very northern section currently forecast, and from there northward into SE Ontario. Then, I came back to the Altar. Rains Again and I looked up the chimney part of my Bowl at this point, and saw stars in a large universe. So that is where my Prayer Smoke and Prayers go..into the Star Nation! I then asked Rains if there were anymore to be learned, and he said no. As the imagery went to black (several phone calls interrupted me a bit at this point anyway), I concentrated on images crossing the “screen” of my mind’s eye. I saw a Native approaching with two bright and small inverted triangles in his belt. I also saw a face of a being with large eyes and a trunk-like projection for a nose. I felt discomfort with this being, so asked for Two Feathers to come to me for protection. After that, I fell into more random dreams patterns and knew the journey was over, so I came back early and stopped the CD.