<p>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<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Sue Blackmore" <<a href="mailto:sblackmore1966@gmail.com">sblackmore1966@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: May 16, 2012 7:38 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: Sensitive, gentle meditator needs a place to live/Celtic Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year<br>
To: "Felicia SmithGraybeal" <<a href="mailto:fsmithgray@me.com">fsmithgray@me.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><p>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.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Edie Stone" <<a href="mailto:ediestone@boulder.net" target="_blank">ediestone@boulder.net</a>><br>Date: May 16, 2012 1:18 AM<br>Subject: Sensitive, gentle meditator needs a place to live/Celtic Hospitality and The Wheel of the Year<br>
To: <Celt7Imbolc2011><br><br type="attribution"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:14px"><b>Sensitive spiritual woman needs a place to live</b></span></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-weight:normal"><b>Celtic Hospitality and </b></span>The Wheel of the Year </b></span></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times"><b>Celtic Hospitality </b></font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><b>The Wheel of the Year </b></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
<b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">A few words for those not familiar with the Celtic calendar and seasonal cycles.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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: </font></div>
<ul> <li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><i>Beltane</i> is May Day, May 1 </font></li> <li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><i>Lughnasa</i> is the grain harvest, Lammas Sunday or August 1 </font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><i>Samhain</i> is All Hallows Eve, October 31 </font></li> <li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><i>Imbolc</i> is the Festival of Brigid, February 1, also associated with Candlemas. </font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">This description is a simplified mapping of a complex lunar/solar world-view onto our Gregorian calendar. </font></li></ul><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times"><b>Back to the narrative and request for help ...</b></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">She would be recognized as a healer and teacher in more traditional societies, but here she is homeless and almost invisible. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">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. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">If others can offer her <b>housesitting</b> or a <b>home</b> <b>cooking </b>position, that would be very, very helpful as well. As she continues to gain strength, she can do <b>gardening</b>, or other <b>small jobs</b>. She would be a good <b>conversational partner</b> for someone who wants to practice Japanese. </font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">In summary, she needs: </font></div> <ul> <li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">a housing situation - at least a place to sleep and cook </font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">a place to park her car off-street</font></li> <li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">ideally both housing and parking at one location</font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">paid housesitting or small jobs </font></li></ul><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">Please contact me at <a href="mailto:ediestone@boulder.net" target="_blank">ediestone@boulder.net</a>, 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.</font></div>
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<font face="Times" size="4" style="font:14.0px Times">In deep gratitude for your kind and open-hearted assistance,</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Times;min-height:18px">
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