This past Sunday I
took my friends Kathleen and Ann out to some of the very special sites in SE
Utah that I have been visiting with another friend, Virginia, for the past
several years. The first stop we made
was to the site that I wrote about in “The Latest Adventure”. Since there are no written records about the
people who occupied these archeological sites, or even how old the sites may
be, other skills are needed to gather information. With ancient stone structures or megaliths in
particular, I like to put my hands on the stone and just see what impressions I
can gather. Now, even though this method
may not be too scientific, I do get a lot of information. Most of the local rock here is sandstone,
which is primarily made up of quartz.
Quartz is known to be able to store and transmit information, so that a
sacred activity or ceremony that has taken place in these locations season upon
season, year upon year, imprints that
energy on the large stones that are the
anchors or focus for those ceremonies.
Gathering that
information is often like peeling the layers of an onion. You do not get all of the information right
off the bat. I had been to this first
site a few weeks ago with a group of people, and was able to put my hands on
the megalith there that is lined up with the Summer Solstice sunrise. The energy of that massive stone is very
masculine, dynamic and explosive.
Because I was with a group, there were distractions that prevented me
from delving any deeper into the megalith’s story.
On Sunday, with just
2 others there, I was able to gather more.
It had been raining sporadically that morning, so the stone was
wet. As a recap, this stone has a very
sharp ridge that runs along the top with a rounded surface on the end that is
opposite to the end that points to the far horizon and the location of the
solstice sunrise. The sharp edge along
the top has the energy of lightening.
As I put my hand on
the rounded end I realized that the moisture from that morning’s rain had
pooled in the small craters of the roughly rounded surface. Then it hit me. In our area, the seasonal monsoon rains start
some time after the Summer Solstice. The
crops that the ancient people planted were dry land crops and were not watered
by hand. The monsoon rains were required
to bring the crops to maturity in our dry and somewhat arid climate.
So I see the
ceremony that may have been done at that location like this. I imagine that there would be a great
gathering of people for this event.
Those who were participating in the ceremony, perhaps shamans or holy
people, would gather before sunrise on that longest day of the year, having
been preparing for this event with fasting or meditating. Right before the moment of sunrise, water would
be poured on that rounded end of the megalith.
At sunrise, a stream of light beaming over from the opposite horizon
would travel down the sharp upper edge of the megalith like lightening and ignite
the water that had been poured on the back end of the stone. The sacred space for this would be held with
great honor and reverence. The goal
would be to ignite the seasonal monsoons so as to water the crops and promote
abundance and fertility for the tribe or clan.
This is where we
come to the act of communing with nature.
These ancient people knew how to
do this. Imagine living a life where you
were in direct communication with the plants, animals and all of the forces of
nature like wind and rain. In a world
like this, there would be no scarcity or lack, as the nature kingdoms would be
worked with as allies in the creative process for the benefit of all sentient
beings on this planet.
I encourage all of
you to develop some sort of relationship with the natural kingdoms. Spend time outdoors every day. Appreciate and have gratitude for what our
Earth Mother has provided for us. Be
quiet and listen. As I write this it is
evening here. The frogs on my neighbor’s
pond are singing away. What a delight. I will write more about the second location
that we visited in my next post. It was
equally as magical as the first!
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