Journey 128 - Understanding my Teen Son

11/19/04: A second Journey taken at both my wife’s and my own suggestion, to see if we can help our son, whose recent grades were the worst yet, despite his big start-of-year plans to do better and buckle down. The room was still open, Sacred Space-wise, and so I re-smudged and went off on a short, 10-minute Drum Journey. As the Journey opened, I was sitting over the huge Waterfall I had seen in prior Journeys. I knew immediately that this meant we were dealing with very powerful emotional forces with my son, almost a torrent. Owl and I were sitting together on a Branch sticking out well over and a bit back from the edge. I found we both then shrank down to the point that the Branch became a very wide log, and we sat down to speak together. Owl became Eagle Claw, my Guide in Human Form, and I asked him what I should do to lead Kenny past this time, to help him succeed. EC told me that the most important thing I should do right now is to speak with my son in fatherly seriousness, and impress upon him how much we love and support him. He needs to hear that no matter what he does in terms of “failing”, he knows he is totally loved and has his parents on his side. He must be told that we have faith that he will make the right choices as he moves forward. The emotional turmoil is such that only such positive faith will; have a good effect on him. EC told me my son is a lot like I was at that age, searching for what is right for him, and that he will have to take risks and experiment with Life for a while. I asked what he might end up doing, and EC told me to look down at the rushing torrent beneath us. How can one expect to find anything firm coming out of that powerful Waterfall? It is too soon to know, he said. He had me focus on a point well down the River, and I saw an older son still living in our house, my wife’s greatest fear about him. But EC told me to assure her that he will actually take a lot of the economic pressure off us as he pays some of the bills (electric, water) as part of his rent. He will be working full time, and will eventually find his true calling. I asked when this would be. EC told me that the heavy rains upstream (all the issues in his young life right now) will cease, and the Water flow will become gentle. At this point, he said, look for a yellow Daffodil growing up out of the water..this will be the sign that he is ready to settle down for good. I also asked about my son's Power Animal, Horse. EC told me that since he was not working with Horse at all, that I should take a picture of a Horse and breathe Mana into it every day to keep his Power Animal galloping on his behalf. This is similar to my tasking to help my granddaughter with her weakened Aura with the nightly Raven chant. It is like saying your daily prayers for others. Eventually my son will seek Horse on his own and realize how much stronger he is with a firm knowledge of his presence. I then began contemplating what would happen if we started taking privileges away from him. The emotional turmoil is already too great, I was told, and at this point the Journey Call Back sounded, and I was brought back to the Room. I thanked Eagle Claw as I rose.