Journey for Maggie

This is the summary of a journey that I recently took for “Maggie Smith” (name has been changed). Maggie was involved in an accident while driving a friend's parent's new car. Although the accident wasn't her fault her former friend lost her insurance and car (dad refused to pay) and Maggie has been suffering from the negative energy of her former friend who blames her for everything that is now wrong with her life.

My first power animal is Raven who has taken to sitting on my shoulder when I visit the underworld and who sometimes lifts me up to the upperworld, even when I think that I will be visiting below.  Lately I have been greeted by a large brown bear when I exit my tunnel and enter the underworld; now I really know the meaning of receiving a "bear hug".  I was expecting to be met by Raven and Bear this time.  Instead I was met by an excited small rabbit that was hoping up and down.  I introduced myself and asked the rabbit who it was and rather than answering it just kept hoping up and down and saying, “This way! Come this way!”

Maggie's Rabbit

I had formed an expectation, based on Maggie's history, before I journeyed but what I found was not what I had expected.  At least not entirely.  I had expected a problem related to “mal de ojo” or negative energy directed at the client.  I had not expected to find a soul fragment.  I found Maggie, or part of Maggie, sitting in a dark black cage with spiders crawling on the door of the cage.  The door wasn’t locked but the presence of the spiders kept her from pushing the door open.  To me, the spiders represented negative energy directed at Maggie that kept her from finding release.  Negative energy can be directed towards someone either intentionally or unintentionally.

I sat down in front of the cage, and prepared to introduce myself when the rabbit did it for me.  It then hoped into the cage and sat on Maggie’s lap.  I asked Maggie what she was doing in the cage.  Over the course of the discussion it became clear that she had put herself in the cage because she felt guilt, unworthy of her friend’s affection.  She unconsciously felt responsible for the accident and the consequent problems that had beset her friend.  I asked her to relive the accident to see if there was a way that she could have avoided it . . . there wasn’t.  I asked her to view Maggie’s father and relive his decisions and see if there was a way to that she could have changed his actions . . . there wasn't.  I finally asked her if there was anything she could do to change her friends actions . . . there wasn't.  I told her, “See, all of these events were out of your control.  They happened but you didn't cause any of them.  There is no reason for you to be in a cage.  You don’t deserve to be here.  Are you ready to come out and rejoin the rest of Maggie, the Maggie that misses you and needs you?”  Maggie said, “Yes, but the spiders.  There are spiders on the door.”

I told her that I would take care of the spiders.  I looked down at my left hand which had suddenly felt a little heavy and found that I was carrying the long, thin dagger that had been given to me by one of my teachers in Peru.  I moved the dagger to my right hand, swung it and the spiders disappeared.  I told Maggie to open the door and come out.  While I could have opened the door for her I felt like it was important for her to make that move on her own.  We held hands as we returned to the tunnel, walked through it and floated back up to the above world where I blew Maggie back into Maggie.

That ended the trance.  However, I felt that more work needed to be done so I set up my mesa (Bolivian/Peruvian altar) inside a circle of cornmeal.  The base for the mesa is a piece of hand woven cloth that I acquired in Bolivia which I place upon the ground.  The mesa has Pachamama (Mother Earth) on the South represented by a piece of petrified wood (earth + nature), an Abalone shell for Mamakilla (Moon mother) on the East with sage and a Condor feather (air), Intitayta (Father Sky / Sun) to the North representing fire with a citrine globe, and Yakumama (Mother Water) on the West represented with a bottle of spring water.  The dagger is planted into the ground on the North side of the altar grounding Intitayta and connecting Him with Pachamama.  I did this outside and it was cold!  On the mesa I also placed three perfect, dry bay leaves, and egg, and a small bottle of brandy.  I asked Maggie to stand on the North side of the altar facing the altar; I was on the South and we were both within the cornmeal circle.

I explained to Maggie that she was afflicted with strong negative energy that had been sent to her by her former friend.  This negative energy had created snake-like cords that were connected to her and which were slowly sucking, draining her energy.   I began by greeting each of the four directions and playing my welcome tune on my Native American flute.  I then reached down and touched the Earth and thanked Pachamama for her presence, I turned to the North and thanked Intitayta for his life-giving warmth. Turned to the East and West and thanked them for the breeze the cools the earth and brings the storms and for the water that nourishes us and the Earth.  I then invited them to join with us.  I also invited the Apus of the Blue Ridge Mountains to attend with us (Apus are the energies/spirits of high places in the Andes and I have found them in the Blue Ridge Mountains too; the oldest mountains on earth have very old Apus).  I pick up the three perfect bay leaves, fanned them out between my thumb and first two fingers, turned to each direction in turn, blew each on the bay leaves lifted them up as an offering.

I then lit a sage bundle, placed it in the abalone shell and used the feather to blow smoke at each of the four directions.  I then did the same to Maggie, wafting the smoke over her to cleanse her while she slowly turned around.  I put the abalone back on the mesa and withdrew the dagger from the earth, held it in my left hand, picked up the abalone shell with my right hand and with by breath blew smoke on both sides of the blade to purify it. Changing hands I then used the blade to cut the cords that were attached to Maggie.  The smoke made it easier for me to see where the cords were located. I blew smoke at Maggie and the subtle movements in the smoke indicated the locations of etheric cords which I could then sever with the dagger.

Once all of the cords had been cut I used my hands to “comb” Maggie’s energy field, shaking the energy off my fingers after each pass:   head, shoulders, arms, torso, legs, and feet.  I then passed the egg over her body.  This is an Andean technique where the egg is rubbed on a person to absorb negative energy.  I did this to remove any residual negative energy.  Finally  I took a mouthful of spring water and aspirated it on Maggie for a final cleansing.  I asked Maggie to envision a bright silver orb above her head and then to see the orb growing and encompassing her body.  I explained that this was a protective orb, her silver egg shield, that would keep negative energy from reattaching to her and that she needed to visualize this orb at least every morning upon awaking and every night as she prepares to sleep. (Please note:  this is something that everyone should do every day!  We are all surrounded by negative energy.)

Once Maggie was clean it was time to thank the energies that had attended the ceremony.  This ended with a libation to Pachamama; I poured the small bottle of brandy on the earth as a gift to Pachamama and all the energies that had attended.  They had lent their energy and deserved a gift in return, and the gift was given.  To close I played my bird song on my Native American flute to accompany all of the energies on their return to their homes.