Journey 37 - Badly Ill Aunt

3/12: Inspired by Mike H’s book and the treatment on Shamanic Healing from a distance, I undertook a Journey today to try to heal an elderly woman, aunt of a person I speak with daily at one of my deliveries. She is badly ill in a nursing home and the last remaining relative of this person, and so I felt compelled to use my Shaman’s Powers to help. I smudged the room as usual and breathed to relax. Snake was soon with me in the back yard, and we bypassed the usual Chipmunk hole near the feeding area and went slithering off together into the woods. We arrived at a tree stump with a thick branch sticking out at the bottom, into which an Animal had bored a large enough hole for us to go down through. Down we went. We passed the immediate layer underground where Roots can be seen as if suspended in Air. We soon went deeper, and ended up in a Clearing near a Forest. There was a bay of Water off to our right. Above us, the Stars shone brightly in the bright blue afternoon Sky, so I knew we were in the Lower World. We sat on a Stump and talked. Snake actually talked to me for the first time and said we should wait, for the Power Animal we were looking for was quite a distance away yet, and we would do well to be patient. This was the first conversation I have had with Snake, and shows we are getting much closer as a team. At my feet was a perfectly round Stone Person, and I picked this up and held it in my hands as I kept repeating the purpose of my Journey (holding a Stone Person during Prayers is part of my morning Ritual). Snake then suggested I stand up and use the Rattle that was suddenly beside me to beseech each of the Directions. Beginning in the East, I did so. As I finished up in the West, a very large Turtle was suddenly before me. It had a thin layer of rainbow-speckled light surrounding its head and shell, so I knew it was a Power Animal. I asked if it was the woman’s PA, and it nodded yes. I knew Turtle was representative of Mother Earth, and was a great example of Feminine Medicine. I asked her to return to the aunt and bring healing to her by re-energizing her aura. At that point, Turtle and snake BOTH took off and FLEW through the air left of and over the bay and disappeared. As I sat there, the Woman in a Grass Dress (hangs on my wall as a Shaman’s doll) walked up in the flesh and sat down beside me. She still wore her mask and grass skirt, but had nicely brown arms and legs. She told me to use my Sheshi chant she had given me many Journeys ago to invoke the Rainbow Rays of Healing, which I did over and over. Suddenly, we were in the aunt’s room at the nursing home. I watched as Turtle climbed into the Aunt’s Chakra and subsequently as her Aura turned into a brilliant rainbow hue, totally re-energized. I spoke to the Aunt and told her to accept the Power Animal and to heal herself with it. I told her the niece wanted her to live longer, and she should heal and remain with her as long as her Sacred Path allowed. Get better and live, I said. Then, I was back in the clearing. Woman in a Grass Dress was with me. I thanked her and told her there were other females to heal...and she put her finger on my lips and said, “Shhh..I know. You’ll be back. Let’s heal one person at a time.” Snake the returned to me as I sat on the Stump, and we rapidly came back up the Tunnel, through the Woods and into my room. I grounded myself to Mother Earth and drummed back to this time and place.