On Sunday, February 26, 2017, during the new moon and solar eclipse, I attended a ceremony to re-energize and rejuvenate the Sun Spiritualist Camp Medicine Wheel. This was my first experience working with a Medicine Wheel.
Once the Medicine Wheel was re-energized and the ceremony was complete, I immediately walked over to where I had laid down my prayer on October 15, 2016. I was led to bring all the stones back into the circle’s center.
I invoked the creator with the following prayer with the following intentions: selflessness, fulfillment, completion, universality, universal understanding, interrelatedness, compassion, idealism, tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, benevolence, humanitarianism, emotionalism, and justice; I humbly come to you for myself and all of humankind.
I spoke the following words: Creator, I humbly come to you for myself and humankind. I stand before thee in the Light of Christ completely naked, just as I am. Please see me for who I am—all my imperfections and flaws. I humbly come to you openly and honestly, revealing my true nature and hiding nothing. I kept the remaining part private.
On Saturday, March 4, 2017, I drove to Montezuma’s Well and performed the same exercise.
Then, I continued to Second Mesa at Hopi to complete the final ceremony.
The next day, I visited my friends Ahote and Tuwa. I told them about my experience with the Medicine Wheel and how that experience related to the Hopi Circle of Life symbol. I added that my primary purpose in returning to Hopi was to complete my last ceremony. It had been eight months since the Fourth Blood Moon ceremony.
The three of us spent the rest of the day exploring Hopi. Ahote took me to a sacred site and a Kachina dance. Later, we drove around parts of Hopi I had never seen before. The visit felt very intimate and personal. They shared things with me that they never had before. At one point, a small child befriended me when Ahote, Tuwa, and I entered their home in a nearby village. That same child handed the eldest woman and man of the house and me something right before their home dance started in their plaza. I knew this item was special so I held onto it for the rest of the day. Ahote and Tuwa told me they considered me to be a Hopi. I felt a tremendous shift on this day, feeling even closer to Hopi and its mystical culture. I placed the item on my altar when I arrived back in Phoenix. I felt like the item was somehow connected to my mother.
On March 21, 2017 (03/21/2017), I returned to The Transfiguration of Christ Mountain during the Spring Equinox to revisit the ceremonial sites of the first nine prayers. I visited each site starting in reverse, this time in a clockwise motion around the mountain.
With each visit, I moved all the stones back into the circle. It took me two hours to complete everything. During those two hours, I noticed something I had never seen on the mountain or during my six years living in Phoenix: thousands of orange, yellow, purple, and pink flowers. The mountain was covered in flowers. I felt lucky to witness such a beautiful scene.
The sun set a few moments later.
Once dark, I looked up into the heavens and saw Sirius, the Orion constellation, and the Pleiades directly above the mountain. I attempted to capture an image with my camera but knew that I didn’t have the proper equipment for such an image. I took the photograph anyway, and this is what appeared.
On Sunday, March 26, 2017, while hiking around the base of The Transfiguration of Christ Mountain and admiring the flowers, I took the following photograph of a Saguaro Cactus right after sunset.
Ancestors? Guardians? Saguaro Cactus?