Crossing the Threshold
These past 9 days I’ve had the honor of supporting a courageous young man, and his beautiful family who are his ground support, prepare for his four day and night Vision Quest in the forest near where he lives.
This morning, just before Dawn, we held a simple ceremony, over the phone, as he crossed the threshold into the liminal space of his fast.
For me, this has been a daily reminder of everything that is right with this world. To witness anothers simple desire to make the world a better place by digging deep within himself to align with that wish. All the while recognising and neither blaming or allowing, his ancestry, societal, cultural and other external influences to corrupt or control his vision - so that he can see that this is still possible to align with.
Turning away from all the noise, is radical. One day he expressed how he never knew that becoming a parent, a father, was the most radical thing that he could do.
Each time I was on social media and saw posts on the Divine Masculine, latest Schumanns resonance and other spiritual commentary … and it reminded me that we were actually doing, living and embodying these energies in a quiet humble way.
And - This is what it looks like.
One mans simple desire to spend deep alone time in a forest so that he can release what no longer serves him, his family, his children, his community in a deeply, held and witnessed way. So he can more fully embody what it is to be a man, and a great partner and father, for these emerging times.
A Rite of Passage.
Each time I read one of these posts I will think of this young man fasting alone in the forest - for that is the reality of what it takes to do this work - strip everything away and return to our Mother to commune with Spirit with the deepest sincerity and humility - to be open enough to be inspired by new purpose and direction.
For four of those days we traversed the Sacred Medicine Wheel. The messages that came through, with the most profound synchronicities throughout all the days - that wove between his land and mine here as facilitator - was truely magical. He knew how deeply welcomed he was by the Land to be doing this work, how much the Elementals were embracing, holding him and witnessing him. How much he was loved by and beyond his beautiful, supportive family.
And. That he was seen, by the unseen.
with much Love,
from my Heart to yours,
Tania Aurora White Crow