The Sacred Journey - Day 5
November 6th, 2006
This day for me was probably the most challenging day of the whole journey and without realising it, I already had some resistances to going a few days before. On Day 5 we went to Kaapse Hoop to see the wild horses which also linked to the Unicorn energy.
Kaapse Hoop is a Sacred Site in direct alignment with the Golden Nile Meridian and it overlooks Barberton valley where the first gold was found. The rock formations have fossil records of the first life forms on earth and the outing was to include a two hour walk along the plateau in search of the 400 Wild Horses who were Guardians of the Unicorn Energy.
The previous evening we were told that if we did not want to do the two hour walk we could wait in the town and somehow this felt like the right thing to do. When I woke up in the morning my stomach was very bloated and uncomfortable and my ankles were very swollen. I tend to find that this happens when something energetic is working through me. As I had no intention of doing the two hour walk I decided to put on casual shoes that were not appropriate walking shoes.
The fifth day of the journey was a bank holiday in South Africa and this is known as Heritage Day and with this in mind we were going to have a traditional lunch in Kaapse Hoop. Our journey was very long and it we travelled through some beautiful landscapes within the Drakensberg but then it felt as if the landscape changed abruptly.
All around us were large rock formations that looked as if they had been thrown around by a giant having a tantrum. There was no structure or form to these formations and I felt very uncomfortable. I found out that we had reached our destination and it felt very different from the energy of the Wild Horses.
Kaapse Hoop is a little town which is built in a very unusual way. Some of the houses and structures were made of tin and I wasn’t certain where I would wait with my friend Ursula while the others went on their walk. The time passed very quickly and after lunch it was already 2pm and I didn’t see how the two hour walk would be possible.
Ursula and I went to speak to Mike Booth to let him know that we were not going on the walk and that we would wait in the village. He said that we were going to do a brief walk and that it was really important that they whole group go on the walk. Needless to say that Ursula and I were far from impressed and we had to clamber up different rock structures in not entirely suitable footwear to reach where we were going.
When we reached the top, there was a plateau and the rest of the group had made a final scramble to the top where the view was very beautiful. I somehow felt that I could not reach the top and found that I had to stay where I was.
Mike spoke about the journey of The Fool in the Tarot Cards where with trust and faith we stood at the edge of the cliff and in that moment I felt this inexplicable need to jump. Fortunately I was able to stop myself from doing this and the rest of the group went into meditation which I felt that I just could not do.
Linda spoke about the Unicorn energy and to call this toward us we should whisper Shen. I tried doing this but just found that this innocent and pure energy was very difficult to connect to in the environment that I was in.
The group then used the Holy Grail and Solar Logos quintessence and although I did not use it I could smell it and feel it in my aura. Very swiftly the energy became softer and I knew that the work that we had come to do as a group had been done.
Later on I asked Mike why I was so resistant to this place and he told me that I did not like places of sacrifice. It felt important to ask if I was the one that had sacrificed but he said that I was the sacrifice. This then made sense to me why I felt so resistant to the energies of the place.
As soon as we left Kaapse Hoop I started feeling better although I didn’t realise that this was only the beginning of me releasing the past. It was interesting to see that the South African people in the group all seemed to feel a resistant to this place so I f think that it was also something in our collective consciousness that we chose to clear at that point in time.
When we got back to Kubu Lodge it was already dark and late and we ate a candlelit dinner in the boma. We had a braai (barbeque) which was something that our group of five rushed through as we were off to see the White Lions.
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