[Cro Dreoilin] Fwd: Sensitive, gentle meditator needs a place to live/Celtic Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year

[Sue Blackmore]

I wanted to forward this requrst in case anyone knew someone who can help.
I have met Ky and she is as special as Edie says
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From: "Sue Blackmore" <sblackmore1966 at gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2012 7:38 AM
Subject: Fwd: Sensitive, gentle meditator needs a place to live/Celtic
Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year
To: "Felicia SmithGraybeal" <fsmithgray at me.com>

I wanted to forward this request on in case you knew anyone who could help.
I have met Ky and she is as gentle and special as Edie says.
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From: "Edie Stone" <ediestone at boulder.net>
Date: May 16, 2012 1:18 AM
Subject: Sensitive, gentle meditator needs a place to live/Celtic
Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year
To: <Celt7Imbolc2011>

*Sensitive spiritual woman needs a place to live*
*Celtic Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year  *

A year ago, on May Day, 2011, a stranger walked into our Beltane ceremony.
We were just beginning, and we welcomed her to our circle. Her name is Ky.

We had a potluck after the ceremony, and those who lingered heard a bit of
her spiritual adventures in nature. As the rest of the guests left, she
also revealed to me that she was homeless and had nowhere to park her car.
We have a long gravel driveway, so of course, I offered her a place to
park. I also offered her a bed, but she preferred to stay in her car.

Over the next few days, she gradually shared a few more details about her
situation. She is Japanese, and the tsunami and related disasters in Japan
on March 11, 2011, had an enormous impact on her emotionally and
energetically. I can only imagine that it must have felt something like our
collective experience on 9/11.

Then in mid-April, 2011, she was at an event in Denver, and rode back in a
car with a survivor of Fukushima. He had attracted many suffering souls who
had died in the tsunami. Unfortunately, many of those spirits bridged onto
Ky as she sat in the seat in front of him. She was physically very ill for
the next few weeks, and had recovered just enough to come to our ceremony.

*Celtic Hospitality *

The Celts, along with the Greeks and most traditional cultures, have a long
and hallowed tradition of hosting. The stranger at the gate is treated as
an honored guest. Travelers brought news from lands near and far, and
enriched the household or court with stories that could bring vital new
information or lead to a shift of viewpoint.

*The Wheel of the Year *
**
A few words for those not familiar with the Celtic calendar and seasonal
cycles.

The Wheel of the Year is marked by four major fire festivals, plus the four
sacred solar markers of the equinoxes and solstices. The fire festivals are
the most important ceremonial times:

   - *Beltane* is May Day, May 1
   - *Lughnasa* is the grain harvest, Lammas Sunday or August 1
   - *Samhain* is All Hallows Eve, October 31
   - *Imbolc* is the Festival of Brigid, February 1, also associated with
   Candlemas.
   - This description is a simplified mapping of a complex lunar/solar
   world-view onto our Gregorian calendar.

Beltane and Samhain, May Day and Hallowe'en, are the power points of the
year, the poles around which the Wheel of the Year revolve.

Beltane (also spelled Beltaine, Bealtinne, etc.) marks the opening of
summer, the light half of the year. Samhain (pronouned sow-in, "sow" rhymes
with cow), marks the close of the old year, and the entry into the darkness
of winter and the Celtic New Year.

Beltane and Samhain are also the times when the veils between the worlds
are the thinnest. Faeries, spirits, and ancestors are closest to our world
at those times.
*
*
*Back to the narrative and request for help ...*

So I welcomed Ky to stay here for a while after May Day. She spent much
time lying in the grass where our Beltane May Pole had been, gradually
regaining her strength. Often two hawks would circle overhead, above the
ceremonial ground. They appeared on Beltane, and stayed while she was using
the space in May–they have never been seen before or since.

She did yoga and meditated, and used her skills as an energy healer to
begin to heal. I also offered her a few shamanic sessions of spirit
releasement and past life healing, which was helpful but not sufficient for
complete recovery.

As her strength returned, I got to know her, and came to respect her
spiritual development and admire her strengths. She is very inward, but
shared little pieces of her experience from time to time. She has done much
spiritual work; she has done advanced yoga and meditation in India, Japan,
and the US; she has been received as a guest by reclusive Native shamans
who don't usually accept outsiders.

Her compassionate prayers and meditations support the healing of the Earth
and all suffering beings. And she has a good sense of humor, along with an
outsider's insight into some of the quirks of our culture.

She would be recognized as a healer and teacher in more traditional
societies, but here she is homeless and almost invisible.

She also is a wonderfully intuitive cook, using fresh ingredients and a
foundation of simple Japanese country cooking, along with some macrobiotic
principles. I learned a lot from her, and we had fun cooking together last
summer.

Ky stayed here off and on during the summer and fall. She would take
housesitting jobs whenever they were available. She was able to spend some
time at a meditation retreat center, where she volunteered as a cook, and
was much appreciated, but not paid.

However, as the days grew shorter, and Samhain approached, her health and
emotional strength declined. She said she could feel the presence of
spirits, the heaviness of ancestors, and bad energies. I explained the
aspects of Hallowe'en and the turning of the year that seemed to coincide
with her increasing difficulties. I also shared the grieving process that
my husband was in, because of the loss of his best friend the year before.
This friend died on Labor Day, and his memorial was on Hallowe'en. All
through the autumn, my husband was experiencing the rekindling of grief
that often happens on anniversaries of loss.

Ky is quite sensitive, on every dimension. She could feel the presence of
our friend's spirit, and she also sensed that he used pot. This was very
difficult for her to handle. She couldn't stay here any longer.

She found a part-time jobs but when the people who hired her turned out to
be drug users, it literally made her sick. Fortunately, she was able to
find some housesitting positions to keep herself warm and dry from the end
of October through December.

But those opportunities dried up in January. I offered to let her stay with
us again. At first she stayed in her car (she has a good winter sleeping
bag), but during the bitter cold periods over the winter, she slept inside.
We had some good times cooking together again, and she taught me about the
Japanese New Year tradition of throwing beans.

She had used her computer to try to find more housesitting, but at some
point this winter, Yahoo stopped supporting Mac OS 10.3, and she can no
longer go on-line or get email, except at the library.

I was concerned that she would be adversely affected by the anniversary of
March 11, but she weathered that energetic storm more or less OK. She was
able to take a class in bicycle maintenance in March, and she earned a used
bike from CommunityCycles.org, in their wonderful work-trade program.

April was the anniversary month of the dreadful onslaught of drowned
spirits that came to her last year. Her energy and vitality went downhill,
but fortunately with the turning of the seasons, she is feeling better.

Beltane, May 1, was the anniversary of her arriving. She went camping on
Lunar Beltane, May 5-6, and despite the snow, she returned refreshed by her
time in nature.

But the wheel of the year has turned, and it is time for her to move on.
The kind of help that I offered her last year is no longer effective. In
some ways, staying here has become counter-productive. My husband's
patience has worn thin. The energies that were welcoming and healing for
her last Beltane season have shifted.

She would like very much to be somewhere else, but she has not been able to
manifest anything by herself. She needs help. It takes a village, and I am
now turning to you, as members of Boulder's community of psychic, shamanic,
and energy healers, to reach out and give her a hand.

Hospitality is a sacred action. If you could provide her a space to live
for a few weeks, I would be very grateful. She also needs an off-street
parking location. If several people reply, I will help organize "Team Ky,"
so that she can move on in a planned way every few weeks.

The space needs to be energetically clear, and it must be a household where
no one smokes or uses drugs. She doesn't even need a bed, she usually
sleeps on a pad on the floor. She will need access to a stove, so that she
can make tea and cook healthy food. She is very good at cleaning up after
herself, and on some days, I can hardly tell if she has been in the house.
Or if you want more interaction, you can have fun cooking along side her,
while she shares information about Japanese cooking and customs.

If others can offer her *housesitting* or a *home* *cooking *position, that
would be very, very helpful as well. As she continues to gain strength, she
can do *gardening*, or other *small jobs*. She would be a good *conversational
partner* for someone who wants to practice Japanese.

In summary, she needs:

   - a housing situation - at least a place to sleep and cook
   - a place to park her car off-street
   - ideally both housing and parking at one location
   - paid housesitting or small jobs

Please contact me at ediestone at boulder.net, and also leave your phone
number. I will get back in touch with you in the evenings by email or the
day by phone. Please let me know your location, or other resources that you
can offer.

In deep gratitude for your kind and open-hearted assistance,

Edie
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