Journey 120 - The Bone

11/9/04: A Journey taken discover the Uses and Meaning of the 4-inch by 1.5” section of large Bone that was placed in the crux of my Epiphany Tree a few days ago, not long after the second Hawk landing therein. This piece of Bone just showed up, and was wedged in between two Trunk sections as if placed there by intending hands. I was and still am convinced this was a Gift from the Little People. It is a very old Bone, and has teeth wear marks on one side. I have recently performed my first Soul Retrieval, and have been reading a new book on this subject in which it is mentioned that certain Shamans used to use pieces of Bone for..you guessed it, Soul Retrieval! Moreover, the concept of a Shaman as a Hollow Bone..that is, the transmitter of Spirit Help, not the Cause..has been emphasized recently as well (I’m reading the Sandra Ingerman book), and is a concept I often use in my morning Prayers when asking to be effective in my Shamanism. It’s a concept Fools Crow brought to me several years ago via his books. Anyway, I let the Bone sit there in the Tree a few days, and then asked the Tree if I was meant to actually take it and place it in my Medicine Bundle. I got a resounding “yes”, and did so. That was yesterday, the same day as my visit with the Grandfather of the East. So today I wanted to investigate this precious Gift even more. For all I knew, it might have been a piece of my own leg Bone from 900 years ago, dug up to give me Power. I didn’t really care where it was from, though..what mattered was the Little People had brought it to me as a sign that my Training was going very well, and I was ready for the next, more involved level.

So I smudged the Room, lit the Sacred Candle, Rattled in Sacred Space, and was off. I sensed Owl flying in immediately, wearing a cloak of bright Purple light, Purple being the color of high Spirituality. He took me quickly over to a scene I remember well: my old Altar when I was Rains Again 900 years ago. But he pulled me away almost as quickly and we went into the Woods for a way. There, I found a young Rains Again (former me) bending over his first Deer kill, weeping. I moved into my Rains Again body to get “his” perspective. The Spirit of Deer appeared to my right, tall and graceful, a beautiful Woman with Doe eyes. She told me not to cry, that she was giving me the Gift of Deer Medicine. This meant I would have great sensitivity and gentleness for the rest of my evolutionary Lives. She said this would cause me to suffer a lot of hurt and rejection at the hands of people who would attack me and/or make fun of me..certainly how I felt as a child and young adult in this Life! But Spirit of Deer also told me that when I finally was able to overcome these feelings of hurt by walking the Shaman’s Path of Knowledge concerning how it is the other person’s problem, not mine, that was causing them to so act, she would send me a section of her leg Bone. And this is when I realized that this old Bone I now had in THIS Life was that Gift..a sign of Healing.

Now, Owl quickly took me back to the Altar of long ago, and we looked up. The entire scene..forest, sky, light..was merging into a huge swirl of Color, as if dissolving into a tube. This was our Tunnel to the Upper World, and up we went. We past layers of Light interspersed with periods of dark.. We went way up to a Land of Trees and old, Greek-looking buildings..and then even higher. We were now sitting on the surface of the Sun itself The surface was roiling, waving and boiling with intense white light, and yet it was not hot or blinding. Owl pointed out the face that Grandfather of the East was now approaching..this was his Home! Grandfather spoke to me concerning the Bone. He said I should use it to take mini-Journeys, by either staring into it or holding it up to my ear, depending on the type of info I wanted. He taught me a short Whistle to use to call in the Spirits, which I memorized. He then told me to walk inside the Bone to test it out. I asked him if I could use It to look at a good friend’s son’s Aura..the 12-year-old boy has become a real challenge for my friend, and can barely stay in school due to terrible behavioral problems. He said I could. I looked and soon saw the Boy, and that most of his Aura was depleted. He had been raided and reduced numerous times, and was barely present as a Spirit. I moved in closer and circled around him. I saw three tiny remnants of Power Animals: Frog, Lizard and Spider. This told me he had loads of Female Medicine originally, but his Mom no longer lives with him..only his Dad is at home. He’s lost these. I then saw a large PA hovering over his back, but quite transparent. Giraffe! Again, a strong tie to Motherhood. This boy desperately needs a Mother Spirit. I was then told that I could not intervene in this case unless the Father specifically asked me. I asked Grandfather to send the Father, my friend, emissaries to ask him Spiritually to contact me about this, either through a Dream or a Hunch. I then slipped further into the Mists of Spirit’s Upper World, and came out with two images I remember: an object resembling a Woman’s hand-held make-up mirror with a totally black surface where reflection should have been, and a young boy rolling on a carpet in a bright living room, next to a coffee table. The former tells me he has about zero for self-esteem, the latter that he has somehow lost his childhood too early. I then thanked all the Spirits involved in this Journey, and the Drum Call Back sounded soon thereafter. I hope my friend hears my Helpers’ calls.