The Spring talisman's
blessing is "Fulfillment"
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Shaman’s Net Journey #1 for Spring 2008 Season
Intention: Receive gifts, guidance and protections in relationship to the energy of "Fulfillment" for the Spring Shaman's Net and to the Net members.
This was a challenging journey. I started this journey in an ancient and ruined city complex that is deep underground. The buildings are grand, ornate and not human scaled. Nor is the aesthetic human. The culture that built place this is very other worldly.
I have been through this city ruin before and I am always amazed and impressed with the scale and beauty. Visually this city combines buildings and tree root forms -- very organic and architectural at the same time. And it is quite eerie. Much of the city is deep underground in giant caverns.
I was following a avenue I have traveled before. However, instead of following my usual path, which ascends up curving stairs, I was directed to turn left. I traveled through a tunnel and encountered a Peter Pan character. I told him why I was there. He became my guide for this work.
Just as we were beginning our travel I encountered a powerful piece of distraction -- I was wandering through various thoughts and events of my day -- La la la... I would catch myself, re-gather my focus and reform my intention. This would bring me back to my guide, who was waiting patiently for me to return.
This happened multiple times -- to my great frustration though my guide was patient enough.
At last I held my intention powerfully enough that we could begin our journey. We traveled through many avenues, passageways and tunnels. The paths/tunnels reminded me of termite tracings in forest logs. Finally we arrived at a path that was half a tunnel -- one side was a smooth, curved rock wall and the other half was open to a jungle where the vines and trees acted as the other tunnel side.
After traveling the half tunnel for quite a long time, we began to ascend. After more underground, cave/cavern ruins we finally arrived in an outside world. Looking around I realized that we were very tiny beings relative to the rest of this world -- about the size of ants.
Near us was a giant person. I grew our size until we were equally as big. Once we were fully inflated I saw that we were in a restaurant.
We sat at a table waiting and waiting until I became bored and frustrated. I decided that it was time to leave the restaurant and pursue this journey's intention.
As I was leaving the restaurant, I realized that this was the first gift for the Net members -- the gift of actively seeking "Fulfillment". It is not enough to want fulfillment. It is not enough to openly wait for it to be delivered, like Lunch from Spirit. Fulfillment is an active process, an active way of being in your life with the intention of finding fulfillment around some aspect of your life.
Fulfillment is something that you have to seek, it is not something that is delivered. I thanked Spirit for this important insight and package of energy.
We traveled through various landscapes until I found myself in the middle of a huge thunderstorm, roiling clouds, giant zags of lightning -- we were flying through this charged space. As I looked ahead through the wind and lightning I saw columns of energy that connected upper "clouds" with the lower clouds. The clouds were bright, highly charged and glowing in purples, reds and fuchsias. This was no ordinary thunderstorm. It was something out of a science fiction movie. I was a bit reluctant about traveling into this chaos. The charged columns of connecting energy were shifting and randomly (to my eye) moving like hundreds of bright and colorfully glowing tornadoes.
We paused for a moment while I sorted out my options. Then I saw a current, a river of energy that was flowing through this storm. It was pale blue streamers of energy that flowed easily and gracefully around the tornado columns of energy.
The river of energy seemed to anticipate the movement of the tornado-like columns and adjusted itself to easily avoid them. My Power Animals and I immediately attached ourselves to this energy flow. It was much like riding a small boat down a fast moving river (with no whitewater rapids, thank you Spirit!)
I realized as I was floating along that this was the second gift for Net members -- a powerful, graceful path of energy that will take us through the charged energies and perils of actively seeking fulfillment (as we all know, the issues and challenges around finding fulfillment can on occasion be discouraging).
Once out of the thunderstorm we traveled through many different places -- cities, geography, rooms, caves, etc. Much of it lured me out of my intention and off into "Niff-niff" Land -- that is to say I got lost, I got distracted, I thought about what I wanted for lunch, I thought about what I had for lunch yesterday, blah, blah, blah. These sorts of distractions, and thereby the number of times I had to realign my focus and reform my intention, were what made this journey so challenging.
Finally I had sufficient focus and arrived in an Upper World. It was a very curious place that was like being inside of a giant geared mechanism. There were gears of all sizes for miles in all directions.
I asked my Power Animals to explain this part of the journey (or warn me that I was back in Niff-niff Land!). I was told that "Fulfillment" has two forms. One is a state of being, a kind of bliss. The other kind is an action that brings about a completion. It is more related to a harvest.
Some of the harvest-like completions, for which we might be seeking a fulfilling moment, are one shot events -- we start a project, we complete it and feel fulfillment. But much of what we are involved in is cyclical. We might complete and be fulfilled at one point in the process only to have it open on the next level -- this is how fulfillment and growth are linked together.
Also this landscape of gears was speaking to more than just the cyclic nature of some fulfillment processes. It was pointing out the interconnected nature of the events of our lives -- a completion in one arena often will affect many other places in our lives -- many times bringing about other completions/fulfillments as a bonus -- like interlocking gears where one gear's full rotation turns many other gears -- some turning through multiple cycles and others just a gear tooth or two.
This is the third gift -- this field of interlaced gears to help nurture along many different aspects of our lives helping to bring things (projects, dreams, etc.) to a fulfilling completion.
I was told to return.
Many blessings
David
To summarize the gifts, guidance and protections for the Shaman's Net members:
1. The first gift is the energetic support for actively seeking fulfillment in your life. It is the gift of action. Passively waiting for your dreams, etc. to be fulfilled is a ineffective strategy which will offer little chance for fulfillment.
2. The second gift is a graceful and powerful energy "river" that we can ride through the perils, the fear, the charged energies that can often arise as we engage our lives by actively seeking fulfillment.
3. The third gift is a meditative tool for use with the kind of "Fulfillment" that is associated with completion. It can assist, in a nurturing way, by moving along the many different projects, dreams, etc. that we are working to bring to a fulfilling completion. The tool is the field of interlaced gears. It is used by visualizing this field and choosing the gear that represents something for which you are seeking fulfillment and then gently turning that gear one complete cycle. As you do this, watch all the other gears that turn with it and then "absorb" the energies released by the completed cycle.
Shaman’s Net Journey #2 for Spring 2008 Season
Intention: Receive gifts, guidance and protections in relationship to the energy of "Fulfillment" for the Spring Shaman's Net and to the Net members.