Moose Medicine

Today I pulled Moose from my Medicine cards. So, I am sharing with all my accomlishment this week. After a six year journey, I am now a Reiki Master-Teacher. I am so excited, and I know the journey is just beginning.

Love, Light, and Sensuality to all!

New plans and smoldering ashes

It's been an eventful summer so far... at least in the way of getting my life organized (loosely speaking). My original plan was to be leaving this August and traveling into the world to explore and grow... mmm. Well, seems I haven't completed the journey I started here in Washington.

I am simplifying my life... My last day at Starbucks is Sunday. I am still doing hair, but it will be the only schedule I have to follow, outside of my own. I'm very excited about this. I have a sweet schedule, and my manager has given me the freedom to have the time off when I need it... for things such as Fall Gathering, Burning Man, Barter Fair... etc. So, although my plans to move have changed, I will still be able to get to all the place I want to go.

Reiki is a huge force in my life. I will be receiving my Master/Teacher attunement on Monday. I'm Extremely EXCITED about it!!! It still feels a little surreal to me. I've been working towards this for six years. YEA!!!

The flames may have quieted down, but the ashes are smoldering waiting for the right moment to re-ignite!

Love to all,

Labyrinth

LOVE & MISS YOU

Time is such a interesting phenomena. Sometimes it seems infinite and everlasting, and then at times it speeds by so fast I can't seem to catch up. Lately, it's been on the latter track, which I won't change... it's rushing towards the time of my new adventures. However, one of the things about having time speed through my days is that I miss the chance to tell my friends and Faemily how much I miss them as often as I feel it.

So this is a post to tell all of you who are in my heart and mind that I miss you, I miss you very much, and LOVE YOU even more! And to let you all know how much your love and support are helping me to move through my current experience.

So if I don't call, or write, or what have you, please know I love you, I miss you, and you are in my heart and thoughts.

Love, Light, and Harmony... and big wet kisses!

Love in Moments

It's been almost two weeks since returning from SMS... seems like forever. I slipped right into the muggle world, however it's different this time. It hasn't crowded in on me this time, no heaviness in my heart that has always accompanied leaving the mountain. There was a new feeling this year. A lightness and joy that started early on in the gathering, and has become a welcome and exciting part of my being.

This was my first year that I was single, so it was, in many ways, a first time. Not to minimize my past experiences, but what I learned this year has changed my perspective on myself and how I process feelings and so on. Previously, my challenges seem to be orientated with my environment and interactions with others. This year has been very intimate and personal. I had gone into Spring gathering with some minor expectations... mostly dealing with having sex... but I was soon to discover that sex wasn't what I was really interested in. I had a few good sexual experiences in the first couple of days, and although enjoyable, it was a reminder of the type of connections that I'm truly interested.

A few days into my stay, I began to spend some time alone. Thinking about what kind of experience I wanted to create for Beltane this year. And easily enough I realized that it was love and honest connections with other Faeries. And even though it should have been no surprise, that exactly what my Beltane experience became. I learned about the nature of love as I feel it.

I learned to fall in love in a moment, experience the connection, and then let it be just what it is. Previously, I tried to 'manufacture' these moments without the understanding of being in the moment. I also learned that it isn't as important that both of feel the same, but to enjoy the moment of bliss as I feel it. Oddly enough, it wasn't nearly as difficult to make the transition. Fantastically, I believe that it was mutual on most occasions. I fell in love with several Faeries, and they are now a part of my experience of love... a positive and blissful experience.

This is a part of what being a Faerie means to me. To feel and communicate love at all levels of my being. I look forward to a future of love, connection, and bliss.

Love, Light, and Health to all.

A Beltane "Dream"

I walked throught the dense woods, drawn forward by a pull at my thoughts. I'd never ventured into this forest. The sun barely penetrated the green umbrella of the canopy above. The air around shifted, seeming to move around me and push at me from behind. The trees and underbrush took on an air of presence, as though they were observing me. I knew I had entered Faerie space. The magic swirled all around me, and the branches and bush bent to show me my path. A brumous haze gathered around me, seemingly at first a fog, but I sensed the beings hidden just out of perception within its protection.

A serene luminescence grew brighter through the mistiness. I stumbled over the trees, and caught myself on a humongous sculpted pole. I gazed upward to follow the line of it, to discover it was part of a large archway... an entrance of sorts. Through this portal the origin of the illumintation was becoming visible as the mystical brume retreated into the woodlands. A majesctic blaze of green and violet flames arose from a immense balefire. There seem to be no route around this maginficent eruption of magic. The radiance of it hid anything beyond from sight.

Again I felt the nudging of the wind to continue. I hesitated, afraid of being consumed by the flames. Then an ethereal voice-like sound emanated from beyond the flames... not words, but a calming and encouraging song. I knew I must walk through the wall of glorious fire. I stepped forward cautiously at first, but gathered my determination, and began to walk with purpose. Eyes closed, breathing slow deep breathes, I continued on. After a multitude of long strides, I opened my eyes.

I hadn't moved, or at least the mysterious balefire was still before me. The emanation continued, still comforting, but now a single word seemed to form... "seek". I rolled the word around in my mind, pondering it, asking what it was I was seeking. I focused on the flames again, and asked "May I pass?" Within the torrent of golden green and crimson violet, the flame began to roll into themselves. A moment later a bridge of flame presented itself. I walk toward it, then stepped onto the seemingly intangible walkway. I continued over the emerald and amethyst river of fire and onto the path.

I continued walking for some time, observing various creatures emerge from the magical forest. The forest canopy had thinned, and I could see the sun would be setting in a matter of an hour or two. I stopped to gaze into the distance, the sun blinding me a bit, but I could make out the shape of a tall structure in the near distance. I continued toward the shadowy shape.

As the sun entered final moments before setting, I could see the structure was a tower. It appeared crystalline and organic, and looked as though it had grown in center of a vast valley surrounded by resplendent mountains. Although there was not a cloud in the sky, lightning struck the top of it repeatedly illumintating the path that lead to the entrance, as well as an accompanying wall to each side of the tower stretching as far as I could see. As I approached the lofty column, I could see glistening rods erected at the top of the highest gem-like turrets, each being struck in turn by the nebulous discharges. I walk towared the tower until I could see the fantastic and adorned ingress. Above the the entrance was inscribed "Labyrinth Tower"

As I read the words outloud, the wind swirled all around me. I could sense the strength of it, and without jolt or unease, the gust lifted me into the air. The surface of the tower slid by me as I rose higher. I spun in the gentle cyclone, ascending higher. As the wind calmed and I hung suspended, my equilibrium balanced and my eyes settled up on a pythonic labyrinth sprawling between the peaks. The enchanting hum began to whipser all around me. From within the ethereal song, the voice spoke again, saying only "You are Labyrinth."

OMG

I SPIN FIRE!!!!!

Return From Faerieland

I'm back from SMS, and feeling refreshed and excited. As one might expect, so much has transpired over the last few weeks. Beltane was PHENOMENAL! I'm still processing the information.

One for thing for sure... I'm moving. Yep... I'm moving to TN. Not exactly sure of the timeframe, but within the next few months.

Hope all made it back to the default world safe and sound. I love you all, and look forward to our next meeting.

Off to Beltane I Go

To all my friends and Faemily...

I leave tomorrow on my sojourn to SMS!!!! I am so FREAKING excited I'm not sure I'll sleep tonight... oh, well! So I am so looking forward to so those of you I have been missing all year, or longer. And wish all safe and happy travels. I'll being seeing you soon!

Let the festivities commence!!!

The latest Scoop

Wow, I'm 35... it seems that puberty was just yesterday... I certainly still have the libido of a teen... :) Not much going on with me. Looking forward to two weeks on the mountian. I've been working two jobs, get my first paycheck for both tomorrow... hopefully it will be worth all the effort. Before that I spent all my time studying for a couple of test, had to get my cosmetology license back in order. So one of my jobs is doing hair... I love it. Don't miss the salon drama, but being older and wiser, I just avoid it and do what I enjoy.

I miss all of my faefamily... so know I am thinking of you.

Love, peace, harmony... and mindblowing orgasms to everyone!

Love,
Tower

Grateful.

This weekend marks the 12th anniversary of being diagnosed with HIV. And I am grateful for every moment of that twelve years... not so much of having it, but having lived them without letting HIV/AIDS rule my existence. If you had asked me twelve years ago how I would feel today, I would have been hesitant to answer. I didn't know any long-term survivors then, and even with drugs, 10 to 12 years was the average life span after diagnosis. Thank Goddess thing have progressed some!!!

I am very happy to report, to all who might be curious, that I am healthy, and have not been taking any medications for over 7 years. I go in tomorrow to get my quarterly check up. I expect things to be looking just as good as ever. So having been holding my own for quite awhile... I plan on being around for quite some time to come.

Love to All!