Happy New Year to all... tho' this post feels a tad late...
It's always a bit of a challenge to get packed up to go to our ayllu (community) shamanic healing intensive weekend(s) as i always seem to have too much stuff to take and attempt to get into our car for the 4-5 hour trip up to Sorrento... (in the interior of BC just north of Kamloops)...
This past November, again, i was preparing to go and assist offering the music and also help out with the healing work... and be in our loving shamanic healing community...
This past November, we were going up for a North Direction and knowing that i can't take too many drums because of limited space - i always ask the drums "which ones want or need to come?"... and i usally get an answer of some sort... this time tho', too many wanted to come and so i had to draw a line somewhere...
What was cool is that two sacred drums that i had recently created wanted to come... i wasn't sure as they are quite large at 22 inches in diameter and are also "art" drums... ones that i had painted as well - both specifically (as one piece) for a juried art show i was a part of last summer. I had had hopes that maybe at least one of them may have sold during the show but neither did...
The two shamanic drums i'm talking about are the same two i've mentioned on this blog in an earlier post (see below)... The "Red Labrys Shield Protection" drum and the "Visioning Celebration" drum...
After much humming and hawing, i decided that they both could come even tho' i wasn't really sure why and hoped there would be room in the car... and i really didn't feel that they would sell either... but, that didn't really matter - that didn't feel like the reason they were to come... what was important or felt right is that it seemed that both needed to go...
I did manage to get them and everything else and ourselves in the car and off we went...
When we arrived at the Centre and were setting up the room for the workshop for that weekend... at first we weren't sure where to put or display the drums - when someone suggested hanging them high up on one wall...
That suggestion was kind of cool as they really looked nice and seemed to set the energy of the room in a nice way... i still wondered why they were there but thought there must be a reason of some sort... i was also feeling a tad uneasy about them both being there as the "medicine" that was a part of these drums - particularly the shield one held alot of energy with regards to my own personal healing journey... and that felt a bit vulnerable on a few levels...
From the beginning, i had often felt funny about this one drum with offering it "for sale" and wondered if anyone would ever feel called to caretake and care for this drum... Should i really sell it or not?... this question often nagged at me... but something kept telling me to trust that this drum was not for me to caretake... i knew this on a deep level even tho' i really didn't understand it...
This weekend, we were working with the energy of the masculine and feminine and i suddenly realized that one drum was female and the other male... i had to smile to myself with much thanks that spirit had totally guided this one - what a riot!
The next thing that happened really surprised me... later that afternoon, i had someone ask about purchasing the shield drum for her grandson as a gift... i totally wasn't expecting that!
A female drum for her grandson?... wow, hadn't thought of that option and how special would that be?... we had an interesting discussion about that for a bit - which was very cool for me... at one point later, i let go of what i initially judged about that and asked spirit to guide the process and let my whatever attachment of that go...
And... then... i had another person tell me that Michelle was interested in buying the same drum! I couldn't believe it.. that now, two folk were being called to this one drum... I never thought that dear Michelle would be called to that drum... or maybe that drum was calling her?
Michelle and i had a nice chat about her interest in the drum and told me she would "sleep" on it and let me know in the morning her decision...
First thing on Sunday morning, Michelle came up to me saying that she would like to be the drum's caretaker and handed me a deposit towards it... i was sooo thrilled for her and so honoured of all this...
Later that morning during session... at one point Valerie (one of our teachers and a dear friend) stood up, went up over to the drum and took it down from the wall and asked her sister Michelle to stand and walked over and dedicated and gifted the shield drum to her... thanking her for all the work she does to make our wonderful weekends happen... as these weekends would never happen without her...
I was sooo moved with what was happening... the moment was so touching to witness such honouring between two sisters... with the passing of this sacred big drum to it's loving caretaker... i will never forget that moment and realized right then, that yes.. this sacred drum did indeed have someone out there waiting for her - for both of them... and here it was happening right now!
At the moment the drum was passed to Michelle, a very special thing happened... i felt such an immediate letting go of all that was a part of the healing journey connected to that drum for me and the medicine instantly shifted and the drum became the healer for Michelle - these two were definitely meant to be together...
I cried tears of such joy in that moment...
Holy cow batman! It was one of, if not, the most moving experience of my life to witness such sacredness, healing and power connected to my art and creation... a beautiful give-away in so many ways... actually hard to describe...
I give thanks for all the gifts in my life - thank you great spirit... for all that i have and all that i do because everything comes from you!
with much gratitude, light and love,
weaver (((o)))
It's always a bit of a challenge to get packed up to go to our ayllu (community) shamanic healing intensive weekend(s) as i always seem to have too much stuff to take and attempt to get into our car for the 4-5 hour trip up to Sorrento... (in the interior of BC just north of Kamloops)...
This past November, again, i was preparing to go and assist offering the music and also help out with the healing work... and be in our loving shamanic healing community...
This past November, we were going up for a North Direction and knowing that i can't take too many drums because of limited space - i always ask the drums "which ones want or need to come?"... and i usally get an answer of some sort... this time tho', too many wanted to come and so i had to draw a line somewhere...
What was cool is that two sacred drums that i had recently created wanted to come... i wasn't sure as they are quite large at 22 inches in diameter and are also "art" drums... ones that i had painted as well - both specifically (as one piece) for a juried art show i was a part of last summer. I had had hopes that maybe at least one of them may have sold during the show but neither did...
The two shamanic drums i'm talking about are the same two i've mentioned on this blog in an earlier post (see below)... The "Red Labrys Shield Protection" drum and the "Visioning Celebration" drum...
After much humming and hawing, i decided that they both could come even tho' i wasn't really sure why and hoped there would be room in the car... and i really didn't feel that they would sell either... but, that didn't really matter - that didn't feel like the reason they were to come... what was important or felt right is that it seemed that both needed to go...
I did manage to get them and everything else and ourselves in the car and off we went...
When we arrived at the Centre and were setting up the room for the workshop for that weekend... at first we weren't sure where to put or display the drums - when someone suggested hanging them high up on one wall...
That suggestion was kind of cool as they really looked nice and seemed to set the energy of the room in a nice way... i still wondered why they were there but thought there must be a reason of some sort... i was also feeling a tad uneasy about them both being there as the "medicine" that was a part of these drums - particularly the shield one held alot of energy with regards to my own personal healing journey... and that felt a bit vulnerable on a few levels...
From the beginning, i had often felt funny about this one drum with offering it "for sale" and wondered if anyone would ever feel called to caretake and care for this drum... Should i really sell it or not?... this question often nagged at me... but something kept telling me to trust that this drum was not for me to caretake... i knew this on a deep level even tho' i really didn't understand it...
It wasn't until about half way through the weekend while looking up at them on the wall during a session that i finally realized that these two drums were both holding the energy of the theme of the weekend...
This weekend, we were working with the energy of the masculine and feminine and i suddenly realized that one drum was female and the other male... i had to smile to myself with much thanks that spirit had totally guided this one - what a riot!
The next thing that happened really surprised me... later that afternoon, i had someone ask about purchasing the shield drum for her grandson as a gift... i totally wasn't expecting that!
A female drum for her grandson?... wow, hadn't thought of that option and how special would that be?... we had an interesting discussion about that for a bit - which was very cool for me... at one point later, i let go of what i initially judged about that and asked spirit to guide the process and let my whatever attachment of that go...
And... then... i had another person tell me that Michelle was interested in buying the same drum! I couldn't believe it.. that now, two folk were being called to this one drum... I never thought that dear Michelle would be called to that drum... or maybe that drum was calling her?
Michelle and i had a nice chat about her interest in the drum and told me she would "sleep" on it and let me know in the morning her decision...
First thing on Sunday morning, Michelle came up to me saying that she would like to be the drum's caretaker and handed me a deposit towards it... i was sooo thrilled for her and so honoured of all this...
Later that morning during session... at one point Valerie (one of our teachers and a dear friend) stood up, went up over to the drum and took it down from the wall and asked her sister Michelle to stand and walked over and dedicated and gifted the shield drum to her... thanking her for all the work she does to make our wonderful weekends happen... as these weekends would never happen without her...
I was sooo moved with what was happening... the moment was so touching to witness such honouring between two sisters... with the passing of this sacred big drum to it's loving caretaker... i will never forget that moment and realized right then, that yes.. this sacred drum did indeed have someone out there waiting for her - for both of them... and here it was happening right now!
At the moment the drum was passed to Michelle, a very special thing happened... i felt such an immediate letting go of all that was a part of the healing journey connected to that drum for me and the medicine instantly shifted and the drum became the healer for Michelle - these two were definitely meant to be together...
I cried tears of such joy in that moment...
Holy cow batman! It was one of, if not, the most moving experience of my life to witness such sacredness, healing and power connected to my art and creation... a beautiful give-away in so many ways... actually hard to describe...
I give thanks for all the gifts in my life - thank you great spirit... for all that i have and all that i do because everything comes from you!
with much gratitude, light and love,
weaver (((o)))
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