Crystal Gazing

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What’s one thing you want to do this year that you haven't done before?

This question was posed in a contest hosted by @thepassenger, and I happen to have responded with an answer that was brief, considering responses were only to be left in the comment section. This writing will give a much more in depth explanation of what I will be doing this year that will be extraordinary.

Last year - 2017

Every year I do something spiritual, and eventful. Last year I went to Taos for my birthday to look for my Native American drum. By the way, I am half Native American and I had searched for a drum for three years prior to finding the one that was right for me. I did not find my drum in Taos, but the search led me to the right drum maker. Last year, I also made it to Santa Fe, New Mexico and a lovely hot spring located on ancient Native American lands. The trip was very healing and centering.

I realized that I wanted a buffalo skin hand made drum using the ancient method without the use of chemicals, and scraping using a special tool. Typically, this way of making drums is handed down generation to generation. I was not sure of the size or color, but I did know I wanted something dark in color. Through my tribal network I was able to locate an amazing drum maker and she is amazing.

Birthday 2017 Drum & Tears.

This year - 2018

This year is going to be spectacular, not that I attempt to beat every year with something better, but I do happen to love adventure. So, you never know what I have planned.

For the year 2018, I have been invited to the Flagstaff and Sedona areas to learn Crystal Gazing by a Navajo Chief. It has been over 20 years since I visited Sedona so I am very excited. You might wonder what is Crystal Gazing? Well, it is a Navajo traditional healing practice. Yes, I am a healer as well from a long line of Medicine people so to be invited by a different tribe altogether and learn a different modality is quite an honor.

Navajo Medicine Man preparing ceremony.

According to the Navajo and many First Nation, the cause of illness is an imbalance in the Universe. A ceremony is done in order to restore the imbalance. Once a diagnosis is made, then a 'sing' is conducted by the medicine man. In many tribes, it is believed that our body can heal itself and along the way we lost the knowledge to actuate this process.

One of the many teachings that I give as well as many of the Medicine people I associate with share the way to actually heal one self. It is only through belief and sometimes the help of song that we are able to reach within our self to do what we have the power to do. The real human history has been robbed from us, that to even think that this is possible is commonplace. However, there are more people coming to the realization that self healing is not only possible, but a natural process of regeneration.

Navajo Medicine man healing a young boy.

After the Crystal Gazing teachings, I will also take a trip to one of Mother Earth's ley lines found in Sedona, AZ. If you do not know what an earth ley line is, they are vibrational vortexes that can be found throughout earth. Sedona has different types of vortexes, which is what makes it special. There are magnetic, electrical, and balanced vortexes.

Ley line and chakra map of Sedona, Arizona.

According to Native American tradition, places such as Sedona, Arizona are only used for sacred space and ceremony. People technically should not live in a location where ceremony is taking place, especially a location that has such high energy vibrations as Sedona.

Some of the physical symptoms one will feel when near a high vortex location is dizziness, nauseous, energy vibrations, tingling in the hands and feet, hot and cold temperatures, buzzing, and/or a sense of energy shift or awareness. A person such as myself, who is a high sensitive may feel everything.

A word of caution is that any vortex location is an amplifier. This means that emotions will be amplified. If a person is depressed, irritated, or agitated these feeling will be magnified.

The Navajo Chief and I will travel to Sedona to hold a closing ceremony with a blessing to Mother Earth and her inhabitants. Yes, this will be an extraordinary year. Blessings.

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