11-20-2011 Walking with the Underworld, Topside

  

Once you become proficient in allowing these experiences, your emotional body becomes very fluid and develops in it's range of ability to feel and know - both the heights and the depths.   Are you getting that this is why these experiences occur?  So that you increasingly master feeling, both deeper and higher.  When the muck is transmuted via emotional body alchemy, that clears channels to allow energy from those depths to flow upward.  The highs and lows go together; YOUR job is to navigate and transmute what comes up and not get knocked off the surfboard of your clear consciousness by the interior upheavals, whether up or down.   Once you are not afraid of the Underworld and have had some clearing, it's not so uncomfortable to suddenly find yourself there or to even purposefully go there at will.  I post another link from this website, he describes very well things I also have experienced.

http/dragonintuitive.com/underworld-state/

Interesting experiences can ensue.  I offer a couple today as examples of things that have occurred for me.  Some of the work I was doing at the time was more like graduate level than UnderWorld 101.  My training in other areas has led to proficiency there while walking around in the topside world; I seem to just have a predilection for it.  It's probably a cat thing.  It's like I sit in consciousness right next to the entrance and allow whatever comes from that direction to come, even if it takes me 'down' there.  It's not really DOWN you understand, it's a shift in your awareness.  The Sacred Below you could call it.  The Nagual Don Juan Matus calls it The Below.  I love the Nagual Don Juan Matus by the way.  Remember those Carlos Castaneda books floating around from the '70's and beyond?  His teacher. 

        

Okay, here's a little story.  This is along the lines of more graduate work.  I am a trained priestess and have had a lot of experience working with the energies of place.  Any of you who live out here in the Sierras and are sensitives and psychics, you know that this region is just crawling with an overlay of dark energies -- the hangover and legacy from the Gold Rush.   I will be writing about that soon. I have wanted to for a long time.  

Anyway, one fall Equinox a few years ago a woman friend asked me to lead the blessing of an old Gold Rush era house she and her partner bought in the quaint little town of Moke Hill.  She invited all her friends and new neighbors to come over, many of whom had never done anything REMOTELY like that before.  Some group prep was needed.  Once I layed out for them what we were going to do and let them all choose props, I led them, 'power tools' in hand, from room to room.  They all had something from one of the Elements to offer in blessing and cleansing, whether it was burning sage, flower petals, sprinkling water, holding a candle, shell or crystal . We went around from room to room, as I led an invocation, blessing and cleansing.  A fine day, I was using a tool that I really love, my priestess sword, and had on my best witch hat.  

  

"Dress for Success!"And by the way, costuming is a shamanic art!

My friend had asked me to work with her new house because it had been previously occupied by cranksters.  Cranksters:  those who use and make crank.  Meth-amphetamine.  I heard it can contain Draino and Rat Poison.  Seriously?!   Yuck!
N-A-S-T-Y!!  This stuff is bad energy no matter how you look at it.  It makes people and the environment absolutely nuts and toxic.  And it's around out here.  People can produce it quite easily hidden away in the backwoods hill country.   My place had a meth lab on it years ago.  Blew up.  Leaving what I call 'The Ruin'.  I will tell you at another time tales of some of the dark energies I met in this place.  I feel there is a strong connection between these old gold mines, meth labs and its use. 

     

"The Ruin" where I live,
 Beautiful old stone foundation from the Gold Rush era,
maybe the 1850's?

Anyway back to Hannah's house blessing.  So we went around to the many rooms -- upstairs, basement, then all around the outside of the house.  Afterwards during munchies and socializing in the garage-turned-patio,  I meandered around listening to various conversations.  It seemed several groups of people were talking about meth, probably because the subject of the previous tenants had come up.  Hannah's partner was telling a fascinating account of an underground meth city whose entrance lies just outside of Jackson(!!)  He told us all kinds of creepy things about it.  At one point I noticed, Gee, all these conversations are getting pretty dark, as I was hearing bits and pieces from others but mostly focused on what Hannah's partner was saying -- because I had never heard that before.

Later when most of the guests had gone, it was just Hannah, myself, and 2 other women friends remaining. We were sitting around in a little circle on the patio talking, when I suddenly felt my awareness take a most noticable dive into the Below, and my focus was immediately drawn in the direction of the floor in front of me.

       

the Goddess teaches Her women to put their foot down & kick butt when needed

What I experienced was this dark energy starting to come right up out of the ground, right in the center of where we 4 women were sitting.  At which point something automatic in me kicked in and I stood up and literally put my foot down as though I was slamming down a man hole cover. My girlfriends were like "What are you doing??"   I told them -- there was this dark energy erupting that seemed to me to be looking for its previous ... hosts.  Hannah said, "OMG, they used to hang out right here where we are sitting too!".  It was then we realized - we forgot to cleanse the patio!!    I.  I forgot to lead them through the patio, and nobody else caught it either.   Well we changed that right quick!    No problem for 4 priestesses to put an energetic seal on that orifice and send whatever it was, packing.  But I told Hannah, you are going to have to do these cleansings many times, this energy has been entrenched, it will want to come back. 

And as an epilogue, she ended up getting very sad and depressed in that house over time.   Moved out and left the guy after about a year.  Afterwards she would say things like "I'm back to my happy self again".

 

Tatseena Raks performing with her new snake Kanari

Another incident, not quite as dramatic:  I was visiting the home of a wonderful belly dancer friend with my first dance teacher.   We were sitting in her dance room socializing when all of a sudden I became aware of this presence from an odd frequency..... definitely not coming from the human realm.  My gaze started to automatically roam around, then finally settled on a big glass terrarium in the room.  And then I started laughing - "Oh, it's Khaa!  It's her snake.  I'm picking up her snake.  Hi Khaa!" I said, inwardly.  Ha ha ha ha ha.....  The Below is not always about primal rage and meth heads.  Sometimes it's snakes.

Tatseena loved her snake Khaa. She says of her snakes: "Kanari, he is a rescue snake we adopted 7 years ago, he is really a sweetie. Khaa sadly passed on in May at 16 yrs, she and I had a very psychic connection with many performances together. "

 

Rattle Snake, poised to strike.  Indigenous to the American SouthWest