That night, 10, 12, whatever many years ago, still so new to awareness of....blogs....i came to Spirit Cloth. I looked. read. stared at the screen, saw a place for
comments
read comments
and could not believe my eyes. Eventually, i found my courage and typed it in. I said something like....i wander down this road and see this house, its windows alight with a soft glow. Inside, women sit stitching. It's as if i've looked for this place all my life. I stand, looking in, wanting to be a part of this. And Jude, in her inimitable way said something like, Well, you're here.
Acey was one of those women. I think she was there from the beginning of Jude's blogging. Long before i arrived. I came to know her more during Jude's online interactive workshops and then through a blog she no longer has. She has a profound DEEP Knowledge of Place, Earth, Plant Spirits that live in her Gardens and the woodland. With them she co~creates Essenses "vibrational/electrical (energetic) remedies that heal and balance the subtle bodies and general atmosphere." Her presence online comes and goes. You've read her words here in comments. She is deeply Knowledgable and beyond articulate. She is Joyous. When beginning making the Cloth of the Plant Spirit, writing about that on Aug 30 post, writing about Asking, Asking the plants here to teach me how to live, The initial Ask was plain. Help me. And somewhere in a comment she mentioned how she had long ago sent me Joyous Warrior for the land in New Mexico. so...i asked again. Joyous Warrior, for now, that i feel i have become ready to Learn.
Joyous Warrior arrived. Accompanied by two others in Essense form and many plant gifts, 2 stones. This is how they were packed. Just this was so much enough.
There is no plan. I will just ASK. Ask this Hill and the familiars from her Place. Listen. Maybe write about it here? or maybe that won't be possible. I have no idea. But this is how We have begun. I took the Magic Diaries Cloth, the package, Out at First Light to the Young Manzanita on the hill that overlooks B, the point that is central to all three campsites here. Spread it out and unpacked the box. Then sat.
Do i go on? or no, ?, i think it's ok.
Without Any Forthought at all.....
i uncapped Joyous Warrior and put 2 drops on the place of pulse of my left wrist, recapped, rubbed it in with index finger of right hand.
Two stones were included in the package. I picked up what i identified as a Doing stone a tool, with my left hand, the hand of Imagining. Then the imagining stone with my right hand, the hand of doing. and sat again.
That was yesterday and as i've thought about it today, it's a clear answer to that Asking of mine...of How to live, how to have the Energy to live as i know i can, as benefits the Whole. Just this much would be enough
Acey....any thoughts would be so loved. Thank You, beyond Thank You
