25.12.24 - Where to start?

 

Guess here be good a place as any.

This is Rostrevor. When I tell you I had a life changing experience here, I kid you not. For the first time in years I went on my own journey, supported by another journeyer and it was incredible. Mostly because I received, in that journey, a new heart. It was quite something else.

The question was, what did I need to heal and I for the life of my did not know what I needed to heal because I had done all the healing I needed to do. I suppose it was true, because, the most important journey which I did, had me in Kinnego Bay, among the stones, and I was taken into the other realm. There I met Macha's Twins, there is no question it was the two of them, and I was given a new heart. My old heart was taken out, and this new heart, glowing, clean, alight, in a beautiful filigreed lantern was placed in my chest. At once, my hands which had been damaged in Pulau Ubin, were healed and there was no more pain. I want to say it was instantaneous, and it might as well have been. It was the start of October and I really did think that my carrying things days were over. 

No surgery, nothing, just healing using the energy of the heart.

A month after that, after the next new moon, I began to write daily. At first I was worried... did I only have this limited number of stories in me? It turns out, that as soon as I start writing, and I write through the pass, the story then comes.

If I can describe it, I start, often with a detailed description of something, anchoring the experience in the moment as firmly as I possibly can, then I let it take me, as if I am watching a film, then often there comes this point, when I think, arrrgh, I don't know what happens next.... but I keep on writing and then.... the story occurs. It is pretty cool.

Then the story just writes itself and after around 45 mins or an hour to an hour and a half, I am done and the story is complete.

In this was I have written 25 stories. I have stopped and promised myself that I will start transcribing them in December. This was supposed to occur when school stopped but I found myself here and so, I am transcribing these stories now.

The stories have a working title called Uncomfortable Reading. There is everything in it. It is inspired by the Goddess in the cards which I am reading and while they may not be directly about the Goddess which inspired them, they have something of her spirit.

So yes, that was that which has been... I'm trying to get my thoughts from the last few days and weeks down so that I can start doing stuff again...well the writing and the journeying are linked, I have no doubt. But age is also a factor and there is only delight I feel that all those words were in there and were just waiting to emerge.

Finally, I went for a storytelling master class and managed to improve my storytelling drastically. I now tell them with confidence. The story telling, the writing and the strength I feel about the drumming and journeying... it feels that the groundwork which was laid all those years ago is now finally leading to another new phase of my life...