10/18/07
I was once again standing on my familiar path that leads to my waterfall entry point. It was warm, humid, the soil cool and moist. The air held the fragrance of over ripe strawberry guava and jasmine. I walked along this path to the small clearing where my waterfall and entry pool await. Jumping in, I make larger ripples than are already there. Taking a breath I flip over swimming down, down, down, head first through the narrow opening and on into the pool on the other side. As I come to the surface I pause looking at the crystal lined cavern. After pulling myself out of the pool I walk to the cave opening and find Wascar in his usual location, sitting by his small campfire.
This evening, he greets me with a warm “Aho” as I walk over and give him a Kukui nut lei. Without saying a word, he motions for me to sit. We converse in silence for what seemed like a long time, until he raises his head, saying “go through the gate.” I look up from the fire and see a fence with a willow gate and an arbor like trellis, which was made of willow too, which had not been there before. The fence and gate are on the far edge of Wascar’s camp.
Getting up, I walked over to the gate and opened it. As soon as I opened it a beam of light cam down from the sky illuminating a large boulder that was just through the gate. A lizard was sitting on top of the rock. I walked over and asked him if he has anything to teach me and he replied, saying, I will teach you about change. I asked him if he wanted to go with me and he said yes so I placed him in my shirt pocket. I continued walking down the path leading from the gate. As I was walking a hawk began circling high overhead, spiraling down, down, down until eventually she landed on my outstretched arm. She said she is here to teach me about “clarity of vision.” With that she climbed onto my shoulder and said I am coming with you, continue your journey.
Resuming my trek, I noticed the path now meandered through some thin groves of trees that reached out into the meadow just before the edge of a very dense forest. As we reached the first grove of trees, we heard rustling and, suddenly a very large, and old white buffalo appeared speaking from inside one of the thin bunches of trees. In her firm and regal voice she said “my son I am here to teach you about the future, but not quite yet. When the time is right I will be at your side for the remainder of your journey. You must go back and begin remembering all that you already know.” Immediately I turned around, hurrying back to Wascar’s camp.
When we reached the fire he gave me a brilliant blue and green bear totem amulet with a vibrant red heart line running through the center of the bears side. I thanked Wascar for the gift and walked into the cave with brother lizard, sister hawk, and the bear amulet.
