Journey 86 PA for Friend's Friend's Mom

8/24/04: A Journey for my dear friend’s friend’s mom, who is seriously ill. The purpose: to see what can be done to help her and find her a Power Animal to help her walk her Path in Truth and Beauty as she nears the end of the Walk. After Smudging, Rattling and lighting the Sacred Candle, I began the Drum CD. I found my Lower World Guide, Snake (Crosses in Front), winding her way up through my body even as I still lay on the bed. Whereas we usually jump immediately to the Opening, today was different: we slithered across the basement floor as one, passed through the new Screen Door, and went through the pile of construction waste under the deck. We then moved at an accelerated pace into the Woods and came to the Tree with the Opening in its base..a Tunnel we have used at least twice before. As we went into the Opening, the Tunnel to the Lower World was ringed with tiny pink-petal Flowers, with blue centers. They surrounded us in great profusion as we passed down. We came to a halt at two objects, both shiny new: a metal bracelet, and an old-fashioned key (looks like an F standing on its loop). We then continued on through the Flowers. As the Light faded, they took on a glow of their own. We soon arrived at the exit, and were launched into a wooded area, at night, with the strong smell of Lilac, and some water dripping off one of the Trees to my right. There were many Fireflies around, and I soon was one of them. I spotted my Mate among the many, for her emissions were brighter than the others. We danced in Flight for a few moments, then landed together on a Branch. She took her tail and wrote the name of the mother on the Branch, in golden Energy emitted from her Tail. As the name glistened there, I moved over and planted my tail on the name. Suddenly, I saw a Zebra with a horn on its head, standing sideways to me. This image faded quickly, and then a very friendly Squirrel moved up to me along the branch..the mother’s Power Animal. The Squirrel had two gifts for me: an Acorn, for me to eat as sustenance, for I had now become a Squirrel as well, and a large Chestnut. As I looked beyond the Squirrel, I now saw a huge Tree reaching way up to the top of the Sky. I don’t recall eating the Acorn, but watched as golden lightning surges ran up and down the side of the Tree Trunk. I began climbing the Tree with the Chestnut in my mouth, and soon reached a higher Branch with a Woman sitting on it, seeming at once both young and old. She was wearing a light blue hospital gown with a hood over her head. As I handed her the Chestnut, she smiled a thanks at me. While the hood made it hard to see her face, I could again tell that she was at once both young and quite old, as mentioned above. She ate the Chestnut. She then melted into pure gold Energy, which zipped along the Branch and up the Tree Trunk. As it reached the top, huge gold Lightning Bolts came flashing out along the Sky Roof. Five of these Bolts struck the ground of the Forest floor. Where they had hit, 5 small fires began. Soon, little groups of Squirrels were forming around the fires. I concentrated on one of them, second from the left. There, I saw Squirrels dancing around on their hind legs, holding paws, then very soon regrouped to running around the Fire on all fours, with each Tail in trailing Mouth. As they ran in this quick Circle, both they and the Fires faded. I was now a Firefly again, floating in the Forest, with no more singular Tails to invite me, as before. I soon saw some Light Blue Tipis form at the edge of the Forest, and the Drums were coming from there. Clouds soon formed over them, and as they drifted across the area where I was floating, they dropped a mist of Lavender Oil. I then dropped deeper into the Theta State, and recall two images: one in which I was in a discussion concerning the proper way to comb my hair to cover bald areas; a second in which I’m walking along a tall Stone Wall that has small Energy Beings made of different shades of Light hanging from various points. All I recall is being warned that to try to put these “Lights” out would cause them to explode..and on the word “explode”, the Call Back Drum sounded, causing one of the Lights to explode, and I then returned the way I came, through the Tunnel of Flowers.

Squirrels represent preparedness, and “teach us balance within the Circle of Gathering and Giving, Work and Play.” I found out later that the mother had 5 children, the numbers of fires that formed on the ground..one of the children has serious issues to confront as demonstrated by one of the fires being highlighted in my Journey.