Journey 40 - California Entanglement

3/27: I took a Journey today to visit with my dear friend and co-worker’s brother and sister-in-law out in Sylmar, CA. Apparently, there are relationship problems and he additionally has an injury that is keeping him at home for a while. I told my friend I would try to visit via Journey and see if I could do something to enlighten the situation. I went into the Red Maple via imagination and awaited my Owl escort, who came almost instantly. There was a golden Hole up in the Clouds, and we went for it. As we passed through the Tunnel, we both turned a bright, shimmering gold ourselves. We exited the Tunnel into a Sky of white, puffy clouds. We flew over the Grand Canyon and on into California in a matter of seconds. We landed in a tree next to the house, which appeared to me to be single story with a red, shingled/clay tablet roof. I did not see the whole structure, though, so I cannot be sure of its actual footprint and size. I saw the brother slumped on a couch watching TV. The wife was doing something, but I can no longer translate my post-Journey scribble. It reads like “eslinder” but I’m not sure what it was/is supposed to say. I spotted a huge Black Snake encompassing the entire house, coiled around it and within it. I also noticed both people’s Auras. Brother’s was almost all gray with just hints of color here and there. Wife’s was very dark gray to black and totally without color. Both are therefore almost totally shut down spiritually. I handed Brother a copy of my healing Rainbow Energy Feather, but he did not react as I put it in his hand. It had no effect. This was another of those unusual Journeys during which I spent most of it asleep. I WAS very tired, and so that is not surprising. Several very powerful images did present themselves, though, during the 20 minutes. I saw a young schoolgirl who was very smart and with great potential, a sense that came to me from things going on around her that did not come back with me, but the impressions did. I also saw someone (was it me?) reaching up into a pregnant girl’s womb to help extract a baby. I was also aware that during a large part of this trip I had grabbed the bedding next to me with my right hand and was holding onto it in a very tight bunch..almost like I was keeping myself grounded to Mother Earth. It felt just like a mound of dirt. Perhaps I was seeking Fire Medicine for strength. I recall returning to the house long enough to see a Salamander seemingly on its back next to Brother, which I took to be his equally unresponsive Power Animal. The next thing I knew the Journey was over, the drumming had ceased. I quickly self-drummed back to the room through a nearly instantaneously trip back from CA to bedroom. But I felt very uneasy that I had not traveled back correctly. Therefore, after about 5 minutes I took my Drum and drummed back correctly. During this time, Owl came to me and said it was not my fault that I had not been able to help, and that I could try again later. I derived comfort from that. But when I lay down again I and closed my eyes, I saw Owl’s face, then two dark eyes peering at me, looking a lot like the Snake’s. I then felt a huge tingling feeling run up my entire body, and I could sense the Snake coiling up around the center of my energy spine. As this was occurring, I felt so very alive and aware, and many memories of past events ran past me in great clarity and emotion. I had had the strong feeling ever since I came back that I had brought the Snake back with me. I have since thought that perhaps the Snake Medicine alone came. In any case, several books reference the uncoiling on the Kundalini Energy in the Base Chakra as a major step forward in Shamanism. I truly believe this is what happened to me as I lay there and felt the energy snaking up my spine. I felt SO enlivened and well from that. It would seem on further reflection that the Snake was there to enliven Brother and his wife, but when I came along it decided to give me that gift instead. So now I am really in the mode of shedding all the old skin, the former me, and in a new and profound way. Apparently, the Spirits decided that I need some work before I begin working on very difficult situations such as that on CA. So this Journey ended up with me unleashing my own Kundalini Energy..a great gift indeed.