The Centaur, a creature half-human and half-horse, represents Sagittarius in the Zodiac. Centaurs were believed to be great wizards, healers and philosophers. This is because their knowledge spans both the human and the animal realm. They are the only sign having this breadth of knowledge. The constellation was historically linked to Diana and to Epona, a Celtic mare-goddess who was the bringer of prophetic dreams as well as nightmares. Sagittarius is a fire sign and therefore has yang or masculine energy.

How many Sagittarians does it take to change a light bulb? 

The sun is shining, the day is young, and we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned-out light bulb? 

November 22^nd is Thanksgiving Day and the Sun Enters Sagittarius. It is also the 38^th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.

Jupiter rules Sagittarius so this is the time of year for prosperity rituals. An old rhyme declares “Burning a bayberry candle down to its socket puts food in the larder and gold in the pocket.” Here are some more money traditions:  If you find money, spend it or give it away quickly and tell no one where it came from. If you find or drop a coin, always step on it before you pick it up. This insures that more will come to you. Fold your bills toward you rather than away from you.

November 30^th is a Full Moon. The Moon and Sun are opposite each other in the sky. The Moon reflects all of the Sun's light. This is the time to perform rituals for protection, clarity of vision and consecration.

No party on Dec 7^th. Instead, we'll be hosting our get together on Saturday, December 15th, starting at 6 PM. Please RSVP via e-mail to Inga or give her a call at 206-459-6963. Come and see what we've done to our bedroom as part of our continuing feng shui house project!!

December 10th – 17th is Hanukkah, which means "dedication". It commemorates the victory of the Maccabees (led by Judah) over the Hellenistic Syrians in a revolt that took place around 165 BCE (note: Jews use BCE--Before the Common Era and CE--the Common Era instead of BC and AD). Once the Temple Mount in Jerusalem had been reclaimed, the Temple had to be rededicated. According to legend, only one jar of sacramental oil was found, enough for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days, thus the eight days of Hanukkah.  

December 14th is a New Moon and a Solar Eclipse. The Moon and Sun are conjunct in the sky. The moon is dark and gradually increases to a crescent. This is the time to begin a ritual involving a new project, to ask for new vision. 

December 21^st is Yule, the Winter Solstice and the Sun enters into Capricorn.

Turquoise is possibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral in the jewelry trade. It was prized by the Egyptians, Persians and Native Americans as early as 8000 years ago and is still desirable today.  Although we associate the name turquoise with its distinct blue-green color, the name really derives from the French language and means Stone of Turkey. It can be found all over the world with notable concentrations in Arizona and New Mexico; Australia; Iran and Afghanistan.

Wear Turquoise for making eloquent speeches, for philosophizing, for teaching. It is a sacred stone in many cultures due to its color-affiliation with the sky gods and has been used traditionally for protection while traveling.

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Myst: The Book of Atrus by Robyn Miller and Rand Miller

Yes, Inga needed a Fantasy Break last week! I wasn’t expecting much from this tie-in to the computer game but this story was a pleasant surprise. I saw it as a philosophical exploration of manifest destiny vs. stewardship that we all need to think about these days. It is well written and the characters are compelling. I found myself looking at things differently as if everything in my environment was a possible clue to a puzzle I hadn’t found yet. I love this perceptual change, which is why I play these games in the first place. 

This begins the saga and acts as prequel to the PC/MAC game Myst. We meet our protagonist when he is a child being raised by his grandmother, Anna. She teaches him to observe the world around him and to become sensitive to the underlying structures or causes of things and events. They live in a desert at the edge of an old volcano and his scientific skills are put to use in making the poor soil more productive. Anna tells stories of an ancient civilization called D’ni, which Atrus accepts as myth until his father, Gehn, shows up and states his intention to take Atrus to D’ni to assist him in his work. Atrus learns that his father is obsessed with the restoration of the D’ni culture especially their art or technology of writing worlds in special books.

What attracts Gehn is the creating of hundreds of worlds all subservient to him alone. What repels Atrus is his father’s shoddy writing habits that are concerned only with the quantity, rather than the quality or sustainability of the worlds or “Ages” as they are termed. Atrus wrestles with the existential concepts of: Are we creating new worlds or are we linking to worlds that already exist thereby permanently altering them? This is when the politics, romance and intrigue begin. The book ends with the very lines that begin MYST: the game. -- Inga Duncan Thornell >^..^<

Scott needed a fantasy break, too! I've never played the Myst game so I was going in cold but the book stands on its own as an excellent fantasy novel. I like how the book explores the challenges and dangers of the power of creation. If done with humility, integrity, creativity and love, miraculous worlds can be created. With human will alone, creativity and stability are severely limited and the issues of ego, pride and madness become the foundational issues. I also found the dichotomy between the wisdom of the crone, Atrus' elderly grandmother, and his father, Gehn, very instructional and enlightening. Anna represents Water and Earth energies while Gehn represents Fire and Air. Without alignment, both are very limited in what they can create but Gehn, without that female Water and Earth, is ultimately destructive on a global scale. -- Scott Bruce Duncan */:-)

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The Infinite Loop Design Lunar Calendar 2002 by Trevor Trifiro

This is a beautiful and useful item that you can use every day, created by Trevor Trefiro of Seattle! Scott and I have them next to our desks. Sensitivity to the moon’s phase and cycle thru the zodiac can do wonders for the effectiveness of your projects and rituals plus they just look cool on your wall! These obviously will also make distinctive and unique gifts for those special people in your life.

The 2002 version features the Date, Time & Astrological Sign of every new, full and quarter (waxing & waning) moon, plus all the Pagan Holidays.

I have information sheets on Using the Phases of the Moon and on The Moon thru the Signs posted in the Library on this website.

Trevor is selling them for $8 each if you pick one up from him locally or add $4.50 for shipping in a Priority Mail tube. You can now order online via his website at www.infiniteloopdesign.com. -- Inga Duncan Thornell

• We each have our ways and techniques for achieving our goals. Most of these methods involve some form of affirming, planning, daydreaming, programming and acting. But first must come choosing the goal itself. Sometimes the most difficult part of getting what you want is deciding just what it is that you want. A goal should be a real desire, simple, achievable and not complicated by other entwining goals.
  
• Choose something you actually want, not just something that sounds good. A client says: I want to be a straight A student. I ask: Why?  She says: because my mother wants me to. The real goal is Mother’s approval. Not the grades at all.  An ambiguous goal like this can be very difficult to achieve. What if you become so focused on good grades that you neglect the other things that win mother’s approval? Then you achieve your stated goal but your true goal is unsatisfied. Along the same lines is: I want to be a millionaire. But when I ask why? He says:  So my colleagues will look up to me. I say:  If what you really want is their respect you should focus on rapport and teamwork and forming relationships. Another person may wish to be a millionaire because she really wants to be independent of authority and she thinks that wealth will achieve this. So try to get to the core of your desire to find the true goal.
  
• Choose something doable. In the most basic sense, this means that if you weigh 265 don’t choose as your goal: I will weigh 120. That may be your ultimate goal but your achievable goal would be to reduce your weight by 10 or 20 pounds. Then you can make a new goal to reduce another 20. In the same vein, if you never get up in the AM to exercise, don’t set: I will get up every morning and exercise as your goal. Your achievable goal could be: I will get up and exercise three mornings a week.
  
• Reward yourself for your achievements. When you successfully reach a goal you must reward yourself and then make a new goal. Not rewarding yourself for a success is cruel and will only sabotage the process. In the same way, punishing yourself for not reaching a goal can sabotage your future success. Examine both your successes and failures to study what works and what does not work to motivate you.
  
• To be successful, your goal must be in accord with your values and self-image. If, after trying a few different approaches, you cannot reach success in a certain area then it may be that what you are trying to achieve contradicts some of your basic personal programming. A male client was seeking insight about his repeated business failures. He had a good history of starting and nurturing his projects but just when it looked like the hard work was about to pay off he would start drinking, or gamble his money away. When regressed with hypnosis he saw himself, in a 15^th century lifetime, committing to a religious order and taking a vow of poverty. This vow was still operating like a hidden computer program in his life. He was able to see that he had already lived out that promise and that there were other ways to serve his view of God now. He said afterward that he felt free to commit to the success of his projects rather than just to the hard work.
  
• For further research: see The Mind Tools website.

We think of this newsletter as a community forum. You, our friends and clients, are welcome to participate. We celebrate diversity and we'll print whatever you send in be it Wiccan, Christian, Pagan, New Age, etc., as long as it reflects Love. You may choose a one-time holiday to write about or have a regular column. We'll give you space and a byline! Please send in your own book reviews, ideas for rituals, ideas about stones, your journal excerpts, your experiences and most of all, ask us questions. We love answering questions!

From Kim:

Feminist.org is a great source for socially responsible Christmas Gifts: http://www.feminist.org/store/ProductAfghanClothing.asp

From Trevor:

He says: “Astrology, Numerology, Hyper dimensions, Freemasons...All the right ingredients for a great Conspiracy Theory.... or is it? (Really, though, it's worth the lengthy read.” http://www.enterprisemission.com/tower2.htm

From Beth:

Sit down.

If you come to my table with hostility,
you can expect to be treated hostily.
If you come to my table with lies,
you can expect to be lied to or sent away.
If you come to my table with arms crossed,
you can expect to be met with crossed arms.
If you come to my table with nothing,
you should expect nothing, and be grateful for what you get.
If you come to my table with everything that you have,
you will benefit from everything I have, and then some.
If you come to my table with love, respect and compassion,
you will walk away with gifts of the same and a full belly.

Scott sent all of these in:

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits"

John Cunningham Lilly, M.D

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A young woman was pulled over for speeding, on a VFR, of course. As the motorcycle officer walked over to her bike, flipping open his ticket book, she said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the Highway Patrolmen's Ball." He replied, "Highway patrolmen don't have balls." There was a moment of silence while she smiled, and he realized what he'd just said. He then closed his book, got back on his motorcycle and left. She was laughing too hard to put her helmet on for several minutes.

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You've all heard of the Air Force's ultra-high-security, super-secret base in Nevada, known simply as "Area 51?"

Well, late one afternoon, the Air Force folks out at Area 51 were very surprised to see a Cessna landing at their "secret" base. They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room.

The pilot's story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost, and spotted the Base just as he was about to run out of fuel. The Air Force started a full FBI background check on the pilot and held him overnight during the investigation.

By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot really was lost and wasn't a spy. They gassed up his airplane, gave him a terrifying "you-did-not-see-a-base" briefing, complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in prison, told him Vegas was that-a-way on such-and-such a heading, and sent him on his way.

The next day, to the total disbelief of the Air Force, the same Cessna showed up again. Once again, the MP's surrounded the plane... only this time there were two people in the plane. The same pilot jumped out and said, "Do anything you want to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her where I was last night!"

Wicca by Donald Neel

Many hundreds of years ago, (long before Christianity was even established), amongst the magical green hills of the modern day United Kingdom of Great Britain, thrived the roots of a religion known of today as Wicca.  Also known as “The Old Ways”, this belief system was a Pagan tradition that consisted of acknowledgement of the seasons, sun and moon, nature, and magic.  Luckily, this whimsical, beautiful, and mysterious tradition still lives on today.  However, through out so many years, it has unfortunately been given many false and perverted stereotypes, and is viewed by the Christian church as a direct link to “the devil”.  This is simply not true.  Despite popular belief, Wicca and many other Neo-Pagan belief systems are not “Satanic”; they do not worship “the devil” or “Satan”.  Many people have recently begun to follow Wicca, because it offers an accepting, loving alternative to other mainstream religions.

Wicca is a simple and beautiful religion.  Although “Wicca” is the most common name used, there are other names.  A few of these are: “The Old Ways”, “The Old Folk Ways”, “Witta”, “Wicce”, “Witte”, and sometimes “Witchcraft”.  Unlike Christianity and a few other religions, Wicca does not have a male god as the primary god being worshipped.  Instead, Wicca has a god and a goddess, and the Goddess actually seems to have a little more significance.  This is probably due to the fact that women give birth, and carry-on such a large workload caring for children.  The Goddess is represented by many things.  “The Mother Earth” is a reference to the Goddess that has been around for quite some time.  However, the Goddess is primarily associated with night and the moon, and its phases.  When the moon is waxing, the Goddess is said to be in her “maiden” state. When it is full, She is in her “mother” phase, and when the moon is waning, the Goddess is in her “crone” or “grandmother” state.  Isn’t it ironic that many women give birth during the full moon?  The god of Wicca is referred to as “the horned Green Man of the forest”.  This could be where the depiction of the Christian “devil” came from.  The God is traditionally half man and half deer, and so is depicted with antlers like those of a deer, and hooves of a deer, but a man’s face, hair, and arms.  The depiction of “the devil” in Christianity is probably a stereotypical perversion of this.  The God is also represented by many things, but primarily the Sun and day.

The seasons are also important in Wicca.  There are traditionally eight Wiccan holidays.  A few of these are Yule (December 21, celebrates rebirth of the Sun), Samhain (October 31, celebrates remembrance of ancestors, and the mysteries of, and rebirth through death), Ostara (March 21, celebrates life and rebirth), and Beltane (April 30, celebrates fertility and life).  Nature is obviously an important aspect of the Wiccan religion, as well as magic (“magick”) or “the ability to manipulate one’s environment through the use of tools, use of the Elements, prayer, meditation, divination, etc.”  The Five Elements are: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and these all combine to form the Fifth Element, Spirit.  There is, naturally, a belief in a human soul, and an afterlife resting place called “Summerland”.  Once a soul rests, it then reincarnates.

Through out the years, Wicca has been unfortunately and falsely linked to “the devil”.  Two major things that are used to try to link Wicca to the [Christian] “devil” are the misuse of the image of the Wiccan God, and the stereotyped pentagram.  Wiccans use an upward-pointing star (usually drawn inside a circle to show protection) to represent the Five Elements.  Satanists, or those who actually worship “Satan”/ “the devil”, use a downward-pointing star.  Upward-pointing, the star represents Spirit ruling the Elements; downward pointing, the star shows elements ruling the spirit, which goes against Wiccan belief, and is deemed as evil.  Wicca and Satanism are two completely different things.  Wicca has no direct or indirect link to “Satan”.  According to Christian belief, all religions other than Christianity are “Satanist”, or “of Satan”.  This means that Wicca, Buddhism, Hindu, etc., are all “Satanist” religions.  This is not true; only Satanism is Satanist.

New-Age belief, especially Wicca, is becoming more and more popular each day.  Over the past five to ten years, researchers have noticed a vast increase in the number of followers of Neo-Pagan religions, especially Wicca.  Evidence of the rise of interest in The Old Ways is visible in recent books, movies, and television shows such as “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, “Charmed”, Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the popular Harry Potter book series.  One reason that Wicca has spread so much so fast recently, is because of the great communication capabilities we now have because of the Internet.  There are thousands upon thousands of websites all about Wicca; its history, principles, traditions, and more.  Many people follow Wicca because it is an accepting, loving, beautiful, and mysteriously magical alternative to the mainstream religions.  Followers of Wicca give many reasons why they follow.  Some Wiccans say that they were simply not being spiritually satisfied with a previous religion (if they had one), or that Wicca’s morals of love, light, and goodness are so simple and beautiful.  Others state that they just feel “at home” with Wicca.  I personally decided to follow Wicca, because I was completely bored with Christianity, and felt a more “magickal” spark inside me that needed to be fed.  I didn’t and don’t agree completely with all of Christianity, and I didn’t want to follow Christianity in vain.  I decided to follow something that I do agree with, feel good about, and that makes me happy.  I was completely raised in Protestant Christianity.  I went to church every Sunday, Sunday night, and Wednesday night until the age of sixteen.  For reasons that I will not go in depth about, I have found that Christianity is not for me.  If Christianity is for you, then I respect that totally; I simply ask that you respect the Wiccan religion for what it truly is, as well as the many people who sincerely follow it.

Through much miscommunication and stereotypes, and through the large spread of Christianity through Pagan Europe long ago, Wicca, for so many years, has had a bad image.  Hopefully now however, that will change.  Misconceptions about Wicca have been regarded as true for so many years, that everyone [still] assumes that they are.  The purpose of this essay is not to “convert” people or “win people over” to the Wiccan religion; unlike Christianity, conversion is not a factor in Wicca.  The purpose rather is to inform people that there is another side to the story.  Please don’t create stereotypes or set your own biases about anything until you know the entire truth of a matter.  Wicca is a positive, loving, and beautiful religion that I am proud to follow.

More Astrology from Robert Blaschke

Islamic Fanaticism & the Neptune in Sagittarius Generation (10 October 2001)

One dimension of the Saturn in Gemini opposition to Pluto in Sagittarius can be found in the effect that rigidified primary education (Saturn in Gemini) has had on the extreme religious beliefs (Pluto in Sagittarius) of the Taliban members and supporters. The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in 1995, just as Pluto ingressed into Sagittarius.

The fundamentalist radicalism of the youthful supporters of this entity can be traced to the children of Afghan refugees, escaping the war with the Soviets, and who were educated during the 1980's in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan by the JUI (Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islam), a religious political party. These children, born into the Neptune in Sagittarius generation (1970 to 1984), were pre-wired for religious zealotry, confusion and distortion by the placement of Neptune in the sign of organized religion (Sagittarius).

The fierce absolutism of the Deobandi Islam that they learned was also being spread throughout the Muslim world, reaching Egypt, Indonesia, East Africa and elsewhere. As transit Pluto now conjuncts these individual's natal Neptune from 1995 through 2008, we are seeing the tip of an iceberg of the suicidal religious holy war that has been declared on the USA and Israel. (For more detail about this, please see The Economist, issue 29 September to 5 October, pages 20-22).

The sober astrologer can see that it may not be until the next Saturn-Uranus conjunction on 28 June 2032, opposing the 1988 conjunctions of late Sagittarius from 28 Gemini, that we can undo the educational damage done to the formative belief systems of this generation. The world may have to endure, and try to re-educate those with this religious zealotry for another 30 years.

The Gemini-Sagittarius polarity means many things, not the least of which is the educational process, and these current global events are a profound lesson in the power of primary education to influence adult religious belief.

© 2001 Robert P Blaschke

We've always wondered what would happen if we got the friends we've made through Inga's Earth Magic (IEM) into a room together. Why? Because every one of us has a unique gift to offer to the world. And if we get enough of us in one place at the same time, something magical is bound to occur.

• When: The 1st Friday of every month. Please join us for dinner. We start eating around 6:30 PM. Or join us for dessert later on!
• NOTICE: We are moving our December 2001 get together to Saturday, December 15.
• Where: Our place (click on LIBRARY in the navigation bar at the top of the screen and then MAP ROOM for directions)
• What to bring: Just your enthusiasm and love! There's a big pot of pasta on the stove, salad, bread and plenty of microbrews and red wine. If you have specific preferences, please bring whatever you'd like.
• How long: Until the good conversation ends! If you'd like, you can spend the night on one of the couches with the kitties or bring your sleeping bag and mat and camp out on the floor of Inga's office.
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If you have visited our website, you’ve seen the phase “personal and planetary transformation” on our home page. Do you wonder what we mean by that? I ponder it often as I look for ways to act upon it in my daily life. To shed some light on it, let’s start with the definition of transformation:

From Dictionary.com, it is defined as: To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert or metamorphose.

We’re implying that in order to transform the world in which we live, one must first undergo a personal transformation. Secondly, we are stating that we humans and Earth have the potential to be transformed into a more powerful and harmonious state. Assuming that you are as dissatisfied as I am with war, corruption, famine, poverty, disease, repression of personal freedoms, pollution, etc., we can build consensus around the absolute need for such transformation.

It is very easy to get sucked up into the many external issues that we see in our families, neighborhoods, workplaces and in the media and therefore, neglect our own personal transformation. I have to keep reminding myself that I’ll play a far more powerful and effective role in the healing and transformation of Earth as I heal and transform myself first. Inga takes it a step further as she firmly believes that as we heal and transform ourselves, our societies and the planet itself will automatically reflect that transformation.

Assuming that we can agree that we could all use some transformation, that raises the question of into what and how. At this point in time, I imagine or visualize myself as a human being that can bring the Earthly, Astral and Spirit realms into alignment within my body. That alignment creates a space that transcends human and physical laws and allows a much richer and more powerful expression of our creativity, firmly grounded in Divine Love, instead of human will alone.

As I practice that alignment of my body, mind and spirit and experience the resulting changes in myself, I witness subtle corresponding changes in those that I interact with on a daily basis: co-workers, friends, associates, strangers, animals, plants, unseen entities and Inga. When my state of alignment progresses to a point and levels out, I’ve learned to recognize that I’ve reached an internal block to greater alignment. And that’s where the hard work comes in. It means turning away from the external and looking within for the block. It means being so committed to the cause of personal and planetary transformation, that I’ll quiet myself and journey within in order to locate and face the fear causing the blockage, no matter how painful, and then heal it with love. As you’ve read in this newsletter, I’ve found blockages buried in my childhood and I’ve found them in past lives.

I had Inga guide me in hypnotherapy last night to find such a blockage and I found myself being led back to when I was 14 years old. Before me stood a very troubled young man, completely lost as to what his purpose in life was and on the edge of despair. I could also see all that I had done over the years to clear away that confusion and darkness to find the Light that I live in now. Inga suggested that I think of some way to show this troubled teenager that everything would be okay so I simply reached out and gave him a big hug! As I did, it felt like this part of my identity, as represented by this young man, was left stranded so many years ago when my not knowing how to effectively deal with such uncertainty caused intense fear that splintered my personality. In other words, I experienced de-alignment. By revisiting the past and using love to heal this rift, I reintegrated this teenage boy back into my identity and together, we resolved the issues that caused him to become separated and stranded. The most amazing part was to watch my history, as a result of this healing, become altered, or rewritten, all the way up to the present. So somewhere, in some other reality, life has turned out very different for me. In this reality, the blockage that is preventing further progress in my personal transformation is removed. So the healing has taken place on many levels and affected many others.

As I said, these blockages can be found in this lifetime and prior ones. Here’s an entry from my journal, dated February 17, 2001, that describes such a past lifetime healing:

Inga guides me in achieving a non-ordinary state of consciousness. She then directs me to a meadow. I find myself transported to a place called Windy Gap in Mt. Rainier National Park. I can feel the grass beneath my bare feet and above me is a blue sky with puffy white clouds. I see a mountain goat on the cliff before me. White Elk, my spiritual advisor and old friend from a past lifetime, is standing next to me.

I turn to my left and I see a 30 foot high Malachite obelisk protruding from the Earth energy portal of this place. We move toward it and when we reach it, I place my hands upon the obelisk’s surface. My arms sink into it past my elbows. I move completely within the stone and for a moment, I just float in the stone’s energy field. I feel relaxed and grounded. Inga instructs me to see the chamber within and I find myself in it. I see arched doorways and two flat sections of walls containing live images, like television. Inga asks what I see but the images are blurred. I reach out and as I touch one of them, I’m pulled into it.

I’m standing on a vast prairie with gently rolling hills. A few buffaloes are grazing nearby. I ask where I am and then I instantly know that it is Nebraska in the 1800s. I see an abandoned sod house before me. I know this place. It is where Native Americans ambushed a party that I was leading in 1872. I enter the sod house and it’s dark and dusty. I see a cot against the south wall and I know I’ve slept there. I see a simple table with chairs and there is a lantern on it. I ask why I’ve come back here and then I see the ghosts of four white men outside who where killed in that ambush and have been stuck here since then. I walk outside to greet them and hug them like old friends. As we do so, a tunnel of white light appears to my right and I can feel friends and family of these men coming to take them home.

I then become aware of a Native American man approaching me. I’m surprised at first because it has been my experience that Native American death rituals are very effective in conveying souls to the Light. But then I sense that his anger kept him trapped here after his death during the ambush. We stand face to face and I realize that I know him. He cursed me as he died and as a result, he has haunted me constantly across several lifetimes until I broke his curse in this lifetime. To make a long story short, it was my unconditional love for animals that broke it and showed him that I was not to blame for the situation. We were all angry and scared at the time.

We embrace each other and I see his people coming for him from the Light. As the last party enters the Light, the tunnel closes, leaving just White Elk, the buffaloes and me. He says it is time to let this place and incident go as we all have closure now. I agree and we are transported back to the malachite chamber.

I turn to the other wall image and I touch it. I find myself sitting around a campfire with White Elk and two other Native Americans, a man and a woman. I recognize myself as Lt. Colonel Benjamin S. Roberts of the US Army and I’m in the West working on establishing forts along the Oregon Trail. I have come to know these people through my efforts to better understand the Native Americans and to search for ways for our vastly different cultures to build alignment that will lead to harmonious coexistence.

But I have returned to re-experience the finale of that effort. All four of us are filled with despair. I am leaving soon to go back east to take part in the Civil War. I do not want to go as I feel it is senseless but the Army is my life and my identity so I will obey my orders. The four of us know that this is the end of the opportunity we had to explore a merging of the European and Native American cultures. We also know that things will never be the same after the war as the frequency of fear and anger will be too great to overcome. I somehow realize that I will never see these three people again after the war and it greatly saddens me.

The fog of that sadness is lifted as I find myself with White Elk back in the malachite chamber. He tells me that the time has come again to attempt the merger of the Cross and the Spiral. He shows me the energies of these symbols and how they represent the European culture of science and logic and the Native American culture of Shamanism. I see how this is a representation of the cultural transformation that will come from those that have embarked on their own personal transformations and have joined with others to co-create within that sacred space of aligned body, mind and spirit. White Elk smiles and says to watch for the team to reassemble. Inga instructs me to absorb that Malachite energy to assist me in my transformation and then brings me back to normal consciousness. – Scott Bruce Duncan*/:-)

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