Tea Leaves

Last evening, I had my tea leaves read. I have "let go" of being a skeptic and the proof of it was in the accuracy of the reading. The message was I have had several months of an awakening. It has been revealed that I am a shaman and that I am just beginning to realize my power. I traveled, she said, and connected with a group and the place where part of the transition occurred was in "a natural setting." I knew she was talking about my first faerie gathering! I am a seeker of peace, she continued to say, and I realized... I have been awakening over my lifetime to the realization that the strongest power is the power of love."

I carry the cross "within me" with all of my chakras in perfect alignment. I love life, I love all of life! I know the truth of this and I always will know the truth of this love because it is in me and I am able to offer it to the others as though it were a bouquet of beautifully scented red roses! She told me, I learned this from my spirit guides, my teachers, my angels over the course of my lifetime!!!! I was astounded when she said, " you have a lot of power, but you are very gentle and kind in the way you use it."

She did not know, I had recently attained the status of "radical faerie" or that I am gay or HIV positive. I knew, however, the truth of her words and knew they were not her words, but.... the words of the Divine in her! I undersood it as a recognition of "my ordination," through the experience of living to a life of service.

It was a culmination, a recognition of all my experience during the preceding months of this year. I organized a discussion group around the book, Soul Beneath the Skin by David Nimmons. Then a friend and I took the Group Facilitators training at Gayway in Vancouver and we are presently offering the same discussion to another group at Gayway! Each venture has been a journey in creating communnity and helping others to name/ envision the community they want to create!

I am now reading, Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature; Author and Editor, Mark Thompson. Both of these books are resonating with my entire being as I continue the process of "becoming." I, also, became aware this morning of the power of faerie energy at the reconstitution of faerie coffee in Vancouver. So....what will you find on this blog? This blog will follow the "birthing" of a faerie shaman from the womb of the Divine Mother. What does this mean?

You will have to stay posted to find out as I will have to keep writing to find out as well.

If you desire, you can be a companion with me on this journey, my hope and my destination is a "letting go of fear." I hope to live and speak more directly from heart. I will observe life, death, politics, and religion/spirituality all the while giving voice to the power of the sacred sexual..eros, which is "the centre" of my being grounded in my body. How are you grounded in your body? Do you celebrate sexuality as a spiritual practice?

This is a personal journey and yet it is a journey lived out in the context of my community, my country, my world, my planet and so inevitably it is connected to you. Welcome to the awakening of a faerie shaman!