End Of The Road, Day 17.

This is a reprint from a previous piece about my vision quest on Hawaii Island, or Big Island, in 2015 after a serious health diagnosis. I hope all find, especially those who are recovering, a slice of solace in knowing personal redemption and peace are possible even in the face of loss and tragedy.

Day 17: my BIRTHDAY!

Trek to Mauna Kea. Ceremony atop Altar Crater.

My DNA returns to before time as I ascend the Mother Kea and I come out anew. Feels like worries from any cancer mention are gone.

Joy joy joy, Mauna Kea gives direction to share and not hold back what we love to do. 

I'm so blessed and wish I could fully express the gratitude and love for all the blessings, friendship, and love shown me on my birthday today. Maybe I will dance it for you someday!

On the day of my birth, atop Mauna Kea at the altar there, I did a medicine dance. A dance on top of the highest mountain in the world wow! Such electrifying energy and so much childlike spontaneity came through. We were 5 in number but only 3 of us made it to the altar, still, each of us wildly spontaneously in prayer of spirit's own design, in our own unique expression. There were no filters in the way to hold back so all that emerged was pure spontaneous expression of the light. Authenticity. Love! A really beautiful experience of a lifetime.

I felt held in the womb and my DNA unraveling back to before "time" as we made the ascent from 9000 feet at the visitor center to 13,796. There are even signs that mark areas of "prehistoric iceage" along the ascent. Mother energy is strong and intense there and permeates the island. If you visit be open to shed any limiting conditioning. Same for the Big Island in general. She is so lovingly healing.

I offered Gayatri Mantra as we walked the trail from the observatories to the sacred altar. What "juxtapositioning": Felt with every trudging, lung-crunching slow step that I was being pulled toward the light and pushed to drop the unnecessary baggage. So be it.

A Ho.