This is what you see on top of Cerro De Oro. This is a friend's picture, he had a steadier eye than I did at this moment. In the right lower corner out of camera view, was the ceremony site. As beautiful as this view is, the real story for me was getting to this spot.

As I alluded to in some of my other conversations and posts, it was a life changing experience. If not for two younger and stronger friends I probably wouldn't have made it. As it was at one point, "I thought I might die". In a way I did, it was taxing to say the least, and the thought did run through my head "I might die here". It was a brief moment, but very peaceful moment as well. I had experienced some years back a journey that took me to a "shaman's death"; This much more intense and real than that. In that moment, as I said there was a peace of knowing that everything would be OK. If that was what happened, it would be OK.
I let go of a lot of "stuff" during the ceremony like some anger, grief, emptiness, all of which was very intense as well. The Shaman wiped our tears with white candles and put them in the fire.

And as I reflect as to what this is all to mean for me moving forward, a lot has come and continues to. What is really interesting is that it looks nothing like I had "pictured it". No Assumptions. I know one thing, I must move at the speed of my guidance. Not the wild thoughts that still come on occasion, but those things that when they come I can "feel" it is the truth.

Wheel Ceremony on the New Moon (to set intention) and the Full Moon (to understand what has been fulfilled). These Ceremonies are to be done on the day of the Moon's at 6:00 PM
The idea of a "school" for the young ones to help them understand the changing world and the need to live more naturally.
And, the possibility of an "off the grid cabin" and to understand the feasibility of living this way even in South Georgia.
So this is my intent for this new year this new time. As much as I want to rush ahead now that I see that picture I also know that Guidance is reining me in so I can keep the focus. I also know that who will come will come and I can have no attachment to that. So all my blog friends out there....LIVE ON!