Another unusual experience here in the Andes yesterday. I was tagging along for the ride thinking that we were just going to visit some family, but we ended up visiting a medicine woman. It was a bit of an unusual experience, but only because I didn’t understand what she was saying. Also the environment was not what I am used to, her yard a virtual jungle full of plants that she used for medicine. It was a bit like my experience with Grandma Grizzly who I had visited several years ago when I started this journey of discovering who I am. It seems so long ago now and at the same ime, like it was just last week that I saw Grandma.
This woman asked me where I was from through Willak who was translating for us. I told her Canada. She said that Canada has very bad karma and would be facing some very hard times. She said it was good that I had left there.
She had also offered to teach me about the medicines and getting connected with all things in nature. This took me a bit by surprise, but I realized this was something I should accept as an honour. I said yes, but of course it might have to wait awhile because I would have to be able to understand what she was saying first. As part of the deal I would have to cook for her. Laughing she said that she was not a good woman because she did not cook. So this would be a first for me to be sure. To cook for someone in this kind of situation while learning about being a true healer. Definitely not what I expected when I got up yesterday. It seems that each day here has something unique to offer me and I realize that although she told me that I was not connected (to the universe) I must have some small part of me that is hearing the spirits who have been guiding me to this place at this time.
Excerpt from “Finding Home”
….When it was over and we left the lodge I explained what happened and was cleansed again and led immediately to the moon lodge where I would have to spend the rest of my time at the wheel. They brought me into the great teepee that had been set up for the other woman. This separation was actually regarded as a privilege. It was a time when the woman were respected for the cycle which allowed them to carry a child and so they were given the time and space to rest from daily tasks. Quite a wonderful idea really, not a part of the modern woman’s busy schedule!
I was exhausted and had to lie down. I could hear two women talking quietly, one of whom had also participated in the sweat with me. She was visiting her mother who was staying in the moon lodge. They were talking about me, although I don’t think they realized that I could hear them. The younger woman who had been in the sweat was explaining to her mom that she learned from the sweat that I was to be respected because I was a great healer. I remember feeling uncomfortable with this statement. I could not understand how that was possible. To this day, it is something I struggle to understand…..
So, as I sat there I had to wonder if this was what Grandma Grizzly had seen so many years ago, the potential to learn from this woman or someone like her. As we were getting ready to leave, this medicine woman explained that she did not know where I would live, but she saw me in a place with lots of plants and a home beautifully constructed. I was pleased of course to think that I could have a nice home of my own one day, a place that was comfortable. Pretty amazing gift to receive all in all.
I found I did not really want to spend time with anyone for the rest of the day, needing time to process the confirmation of things told to me years ago. I believe when I first decided to come here, it was first of all figure out who I was and why I had been given information over the years that I could make no sense of. I think I believed that I would find out that I was crazy to think that any of it could be true. I have always been just a simple, ordinary person, trying to live a simple life. Now I am beginning to realize that perhaps all the dreams and memories were in fact true and I will have to face a different me than I believed I was my whole life. This put me in a strange frame of mind and I was very glad that I was able to be in a quiet place to accept this possibility.
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