March 24, 2012
I woke up before sunrise, took a quick shower, tidied up my van, and excited the Bottomless Lake State Park just as the sun came over the horizon. I stopped at the Roswell Starbucks on my way through town, spent a couple of hours sucking down two smoothies and trying desperately to wake up. After posting my journal for the previous day, I hit Highway 380 going west. My destination for the day was the Three Rivers Petroglyph site in Three Rivers, New Mexico.
Still tired from the night before, I made a wrong turn, which forced me through Ruidoso and back around through Carrizozo. This wrong turn extended my drive an extra hour.
After I turned onto the Three Rivers Petroglyph service road, I snapped the following photograph. I had just five more miles to go to the site.
When I arrived at the visitor’s center, I paid my $2.00 entry fee and prepared myself for a long hike in the blazing sun.
Wearing a long-sleeved hoodie, long sweatpants, and a large container of water, I ascended a trail along a ridge that took me to the top of a small mountain. It was during this hike that I reconnected with the hawk. I saw two hawks circling in the desert sky above the mountain.
Seeing the Hawks made me feel as though my ancestors had been waiting for my arrival. It was a positive sign for me.
Once I reached the trail’s end, I took the following photograph, looking back towards the visitor’s center—the small white dot directly beneath the red line.
Once I found the perfect location, I laid down my stone beside a very interesting petroglyph. I had carried this stone with me for five days and 982 miles from the Poverty Point National Monument in Louisiana.
I then located a comfortable rock, sat down, faced east, and asked permission to invoke the Unconditional Love angel. Once I felt the timing was right, I began reciting the mantra, “Hey Hey Ayin,” and envisioned a tsunami of unconditional love spreading around the globe.
When my invocation was complete, I took the following photo.
I then started descending the mountain, photographing petroglyphs along the way.
Something extraordinary happened as I snapped the next photo. Suddenly, I became dizzy and felt as though I was going to pass out.
At first, I thought it was the blaring sun, exhaustion from the long hike, or the fact that I was starving, but after developing the image and seeing the blue tint on the rocks, I wondered if it had to have been something supernatural that made me lightheaded.
Since I had worked with various healing modalities, I knew instantly that the color blue signified intuition, inspiration, sincerity, peace, joy, tranquility, faith, and healing.
After viewing the petroglyphs, I returned to the visitor’s center, got in my van, and drove away. Thirty minutes later, I arrived in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
I took it easy for the rest of the day and prepared for my next destination the following morning. I went to bed at 10:00 PM in a Walmart parking lot.