October 10, 2024

Article highlights: 

  • A special drum
  • and bowl
  • and news from the road

It was wonderful to be out on the road again, seeing friends, doing ceremony, meeting interesting strangers, logging some miles.  All went smoothly… even when I got caught in a huge windstorm with driving rain and hail on a dark lonely stretch of road with no pullouts or services!  

It was a couple of tense hours of slow driving that included a bit of vehicular hydro-planing.  Luckily, I learned to drive in Alaska in all kinds of weather so, as I said, all went surprisingly smoothly.  And in the way of road trips, it was also great to get back home.  And look what followed me home!!

It’s the Grandmothers drum I mentioned.  Isn’t it a beauty?  I’m sharing ceremonial rights to it with my friend Greg Pruitt.  I call it a Grandmothers drum (plural) because there are certainly more than one Grandmother that comes through.  

In fact I think I’d have to say it’s a Grandmothers and friends drum – the grandmothers seem to invite others along to the ceremony as they please.  It’s a pleasure and an honor to share the blessing of being kahu (Hawaiian for caretaker, guardian, protector) for this wonderful conduit of Spirit.  

In addition, a unique bowl came back with me too, a metal one with a distinct sound.  When I first saw it, it identified itself to me as “Star Family.”  Since my own singing and chanting -as a Galactic Shaman – is always in conjunction with star beings, that caught my attention.  

I’m also sharing kahu responsibilities with Greg for this beautiful bowl.  So far more than one person has said it’s a bowl “not created in this dimension.”  I’m not yet sure what that means, but I can say that so far working with it is deeply impactful, healing and elevating.  You can see the bowl behind the drum in the picture.  I’ll share a better picture of it in a later blog post, after I’ve worked with it longer.

It seems to identify as “we” and “they” – I guess that’s its pronoun, lol.  Perhaps the same could be said of the drum, 😉.  The bowl evokes ancient memory as well as communicating profoundly with the stardust we all carry in our bodies.  At the same time, though, it is soft and gentle and, like the drum, opens all to their own unique light-filled beauty.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to share time together around the drum and bowl?  May that be so one day.

Until then, may the blessings of drum and bowl resonate in your heart,

With love,
Mayet

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