08/23/2010

 This was an interesting weekend.  

Courtenay got here Thursday and we spent the day just kind of relaxing, the four of us.  Friday and Saturday we worked on unloading his stuff.  He said I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, having him move with his stuff, and he’s right, but I don’t regret it at all.  I just have to make shelves to line all the rooms in the house. ::laughs:: And the garage.

Friday we wandered around downtown and stopped in at Earth Magic, only to find out we just missed Chief.  So we went back Saturday at around noon, after unloading the rest of the trailer, and spent two hours talking with her.  I was kind of afraid of introducing them… Both Court and Chief means the world to me in their own way, and I really wanted them to get along.  I shouldn’t have worried, they got along fine, and Leah showed up too, which was funny.  Leah’s a bit much at times but it was just… it was good.  She made Court drink water from the artesian well and told him that olympia is like Fairyland, in the idea that once you eat the local food, or drink the water, you can’t ever leave.  He was a tad bit put off but he drank it and we all just kind of relaxed and talked, with Court listening.  

We got invited for lunch the next day at the buffet that just opened up down the street from Chief’s house, so yesterday we saw Dad off and then went to the buffet where we met Chief and Leah’s friend Carmen.  I have to admit I didn’t know what to make of the woman at first, but once we got out of the restaurant and at Chief’s house (sitting outside in the sun and shade), we all opened up more and I found I really liked her.  We talked Spiritual things.  Court closed his eyes, relaxed in his chair, and listened while we discussed Lodge and Women’s Lodge and the Clan Mothers.  

I had Leah read my Tarot and it put a lot of things into focus.  The near-sundering was a spirit guide or ancestor who was pushing me towards the path that I’m now walking.. the path that I pushed aside from.  There’s some strong powers surrounding me and the path I’m walking and it basicly said that I was a fool for thinking that Pele would forget me after she marked me as strongly as she did.  I see her as a mother, letting her children play until the very last moment before they had to go inside to wash up, and then commanding them to get into the house, "Right now."

I also pulled a card from the Oracle deck (The Pipe), only to notice that there was a card on both sides of the deck… the pipe was the one I drew, but I merely turned it backwards on the stack, and the bottom card was the drum.  Chief says that she sees me getting my drum soon, and that in the future I’ll be a pipe carrier.  I need to get my shit together.

Hummingbird (Women’s) Lodge is tomorrow, I’m going to be dropped off at Leah’s house at 6 and won’t be home till Midnight or so.  Sweat is on the 28th, That’s from noon (11 am) to whenever, so I’ll prolly be home by 4; plenty of time to go see hempfest or sand in the city or whatever we decide to do that day.  

I think this’ll be good.