God Bless America !
Caught up in the spontaneity of the moment a couple of weeks ago (anybody wanting to try this, get some calcite, it helps remind us that spontaneity is the spice of Life !), I bought a ticket to Phoenix to attend a mineral fair in Tucson some two hours south, about 60 miles from the Mexican border.
For me, travelling to Phoenix was also a metaphor for releasing old energies and relationships that weren't serving my highest and best good. A Phoenix is a mythical bird with a tail of beautiful gold and red or purple and blue feathers with a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young Phoenix arises, reborn anew to live again. The new Phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self and the bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe. The phoenix is a symbol of fire and divinity.
The city was named because in was sited on land occupied by the Hohokam peoples who created 135 miles of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable many thousands of years before, hence the Phoenix arising from an old civilisation and being reborn.
I hired a camper van and headed south to Tucson where I spent 5 days going around the most amazing mineral fair I have ever attended, sprawled out over hundreds of venues, hotels, parks and civic centres. In the evenings I would head out to the absolute silence of the surrounding desert, meditating, writing and sorting through my crystal friends. I had heard that it was snowing back in the UK and whilst the temperature dropped considerably at night, during the day it was in the early 80's !
Everything I saw in America was big, the cars, the people, the towns, the camper vans and above all the welcome smiles and friendly hello's. It was great to get there so soon after the election of Barack Obama, a beacon of Light and a force for Good, born in a particularly good year (the same as mine, an Ox !) from the land that epitomizes Healing, Love and the New Age that is Hawaii. Baraka is a middle eastern word meaning Blessings and amabo (Obama backwards) means 'I will Love' in Latin. These are indeed exciting and challenging times but what a wonderful endorsement of all that is great for the American people to elect a man of this kind at this time !
Love and Blessings
Cosmo
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