Labyrinth Walk

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at Red Mountain Spa in Southern Utah.

Kristian and I decide to make the Labyrinth journey the destination of our walk this morning. Kristian enters first at a quick and steady pace. I enter with the intention of connecting to my center, my source. As I begin my clockwise journey towards the center, my focus is down, looking at the path and connecting with the essence of all who have walked before me. I connect to Mother earth and thank her for the abundance, resources and energy she provides. I notice the frost on the different colored rocks, especially the jade colored river rock. I decide to call in the color of Jade into my being, appreciating my connection to the blend of blue and green. As I walk in silence, noticing my awareness of symbolism and search for insight, my attention begins to connect to the energy of the rising sun. The air is brisk and chilly yet refreshingly clear. I feel called to stop, and take my hands out of my jacket pockets, raising them up towards the brightening light coming from the ascending sun behind the red cliffs. Immediately, my hands begin to vibrate, tuning into the energy of father sun. The left hand begins to pulsate with larger vibrations while the right hand is more subtle. Kristian stops his gate and faces the sun too. He is standing about fifty feet in front of me and slightly off to the right. As my hands continue to vibrate, the pulsations become larger in patterns with the left one taking the lead. I allow whatever is coming through to happen, releasing judgment. I smile in memory and gratitude for one of my spiritual teachers, Joyce, who passed this gift onto me through the culmination of about sixty plus morning meditations. It seems that after about 10 years since studying with her, the energies come through during my sunrise meditation in a similar way they did for her. I chuckle, because I think it is ironic that after all this time, my reception of energy seems similar to her. So, here I stand, over a decade later in red rock land invoking energies in harmony with the sunrise.

A force outside of myself was moving through my vibrating hands, connecting me to the sun. It was as if my hands were receiving and sending energy to mother earth, all beings seen and unseen, and myself. There I stood with my arms raised in the position of a conductor. A feeling of deep joy, complete contentment, connection, and happiness filled every cell of my body. Tears of gratefulness flowed out of my eyes and down my cheeks. All of this happened as I anticipated and welcomed the sun to rise above the red cliffs. As I said the Divine Invocation, I felt a deep connection to consciousness and a larger movement taking place on our planet at this time in history. In some small way, I felt I was doing my part to invoke more love and light into the world, into all beings, and into mother earth.

My awareness shifted back to my hands. They were still rhythmically vibrating about shoulder height, but now I could feel that they were freezing cold. I knew I could hold on by keeping my focus on the sun that seemed to take its time to show its face. Then, with sudden observation, Kristian moved and began walking again. Immediately, I saw a silhouette of his energy body left behind as an imprint to the space he was previously occupying. I could see a detailed outline and portrait of his figure where he was standing, yet instead of it being his physical body, it was all white light and energy. The lighted silhouette remained in my peripheral vision for several minutes. I was reminded with this image that we are all energy, we all have energy body's and we are so much more than what we see with our physical bodies. This sight was so beautiful. I could see Kristian's aura and light body perfectly. As he walked on, I could see that although it remained in the place he once occupied, it also remained with him.

Within a couple of minutes, the sun began to rise, creating a soft glow of illumination. I was filled with compassion, love and presence of light. I repeated the Divine Invocation as the energy now switched from the left hand to the right hand. Then, both hands pulsated in harmony of alternating unison. The vibration seemed to move down my body and concentrate around my solar plexus and waist. The sun was now fully up over the red cliffs. I placed my hands together over my heart, giving thanks to the sun for its gift of light, love, vitality, and nourishment of life.

I then placed my hands in my pockets and they welcomed the warmth of my jacket. I continued my journey toward the center of the Labyrinth, feeling more alive and connected with each step. In the center, I picked up a stick and placed it on top of the rock pile, sticking straight up in honor of my source and all that is within me. I then walked around the center and began my journey out. With each step, I felt more confident, more deliberate, more powerful and more graceful than ever before. I began to say to myself, "I am love. I am light. I am courage. I am wisdom. I am knowledge. I am acceptance. I am compassion. I am grace. I am truth. I am hope. I am healing. I am earth. I am the sun. I am freedom. I am joy. I am happiness. I am truth. I am awareness. I am all these things and they are me."