Dolphins & Angels

This day was a day of mixed feelings for me as I was going to miss three of close friends that were leaving the next day, although I was really pleased to know that I was going to still be at Kubu Lodge for five more days, participating in The Listening to the Star Within Course and the Final Day of the Sacred Journey.

We went to Linda’s farm as a large group for the last time and we walked down to a sacred amphi-theatre on her land where we shared our experiences of the last six days with love and gratitude.

Linda said that when she first realised that she had the task of taking a group of sixty people on outings, she thought it was rather daunting and she initially felt that it would be best to split the group into smaller groups of ten. When she met our group, however, she realised that we could not split up and she said that our group was like the lions. We thought with our hearts and felt with our minds.

I, myself, noticed how the group never complained or created any difficulties for anyone wherever we went. There was no tension in the group and it created a beautiful and loving unified experience.

When we were sitting and speaking as a a group, people had so many beautiful things to say and it was clear that we were all touched very deeply by our White Lion Experience. Someone spoke about the loss of there white cat just before the Sacred Journey, and someone else spoke about how the saw Zahira more as a Pink Lion rather than a White Lion because of all the love she had to give.

The baboons that had left signs of their presence all through the week decided that on this morning they would watch us from the trees above. It started off where we heard their calls from the distance and then the rustle in the trees. They came swinging from branch to branch, watching us, adults and babies alike.

We had a lovely lunch at Kubu Lodge and went through to a Xhosa village where we were welcomed by traditional drumming and dancing. We were shown firsthand village life and it started off for me as a really lovely experience.

All through the day after my experience at Kaapse Hoop Mike asked me if I was feeling ok and I thought that I was fine. As night set in and there was no electricity in the village I started to feel strange. I felt as if I was looking at people through other eyes that were not my own and I felt quite cut off from myself.

Dinner was served around a fire but I did not feel that I was able to eat. I went for a walk and kept seeing faces coming out of walls, trees and other structures! After dinner we went through to the kraal where there was traditional dancing and drumming around the fire. This would have been a fantastic experience, I am sure, if I was in my body!

People were dancing in the centre of the circle and it became a beautiful sharing of songs around the world. Afterwards a medicine woman through the bones to offer a message from the Lion Ancestors although admittedly I do not remember much at this point.

On the way back on the bus, I started crying uncontrollably although I still felt numb. Mike said that the tears were releasing something that had been frozen in my past. I think that I also felt the loss quite deeply of my three close friends leaving the next day.

So for me Day 6 was as much of a beginning as it was an ending ….