Secret Gardens and a painful silver lining
The retreat had ended and Katie and I moved to stay at a friend’s house next door. I was on a mission to take photos of Te Moata for them to use in their newsletters, so I was away from the centre for most of the day. I finally ran into Katie in the secret garden. This is an idyllic spot hidden in the bush, with flowers and serene spots to sit in contemplation.
Katie was sitting on a Kauri seat, slightly bruised and battered. She had been standing on the steep driveway and turned to blow someone a kiss goodbye. She had lost her footing and fallen into the garden. Her kiss-related injury left her grazed right up her leg and with a foot that was slowly giving up the will to walk. She valiantly walked on around Te Moata, but by the time we got to our accommodation, it was obvious that Katie was not going to be able to walk for a while.
After all my running around taking photos, I didn’t have enough energy left to offer poor Katie any healing. All I could do was offer food, and a broom as a walking stick. I was beginning to worry about how I was going to manage to get her into the car for our drive the next day. Katie was upbeat. She said it was fine and she would heal herself. As she could barely walk, wincing with each step, I was sceptical.
I will never doubt her healing gifts again. The next morning she was up and going. Slightly slower and gently, but her foot was weight-bearing. What a star! Even the graze was mending quickly. She assured me that a night soaking in the Taupo hot pools and she would be good as new (and she was).
So we said our goodbyes and were on the road again. I was driving and for the first few hours, I was doing most of the offerings because we didn’t want to stress Katie’s foot out more than necessary while the healing was still settling in. This made for several entertaining moments. There were a lot of big slow trucks on the road that day. We did not want to get stuck behind them.
Katie would prepare an offering as we approached a water site, I would pull over in a safe spot, Jump out, do the offering and try to get back in before the truck we had just passed, passed us again. This led to several of my less graceful moments, but the job was achieved. Unfortunately, this also meant that we didn’t collect as many water samples as previously.
Te Moata’s Secret Garden Freeze
Tucked away amid dense native bush is a hidden, beautiful ‘Secret Garden’, with its own lily-filled pond, for yet more quiet reflection. The water freeze mirrors this, a single star amid the reeds at the top, just below 12 O ‘Clock, and on the left hand dish edge, a very serious Being in meditative reflection, either that or the pond Guardian taking its responsibility very seriously.
Karangahake Gorge
By mid-afternoon, we were both ready to get out of the car and stretch our legs properly. We had given half a dozen offerings with reverence, but speed. It was time to take a breath. I had just given an offering off a small bridge at the beginning of the Karangahake Gorge. Half an hour deeper into the gorge, we saw a carpark and an opportunity to spend some proper time with the water.
We walked around this park area. Katie’s body had been restored with incredible speed and she was able to gently walk around the river edge. This site was new to me. It is now an absolute favourite for connecting with the unseen of the water tribes.
I loved this spot so much that I had a hard time choosing which of my photos to share with you.
The water felt….. happier, in this spot. I felt like we had walked into a festival. Every being in the Unseen Kingdom had come out to play. At first, I thought we had found a portal spot where all races could co-exist in peace. There were Taniwha’s and all manner of water Beings. There was a rumour in the air that even the Nagas were considering joining the festivities after dark.
I went down to the water’s edge to feel the water, ever hopeful that somewhere would be warm enough for a swim. As I walked around a tree, I was greeted by the rock Being you can see in the photo. (Such a cutie.) After a formal greeting and lineage explanation, I asked about why the area was so ‘happy’. My new friend informed me that it wasn’t always like this. That only a few minutes before we arrived a ripple of wisdom had flowed through. It had carried the information that they had been praying and waiting for. How to clear the human disease and how to embrace the ascension journey. While the small Undines danced around his base, he confessed that he was very relieved that the shift had arrived and wondered where it had come from.
I opened my hand to show a handful of offering crystals. “Do you think it could be from these? We gifted some further upstream too.” I said. The water at his base calmed for just a second and this suddenly got much faster and more excited. ‘Yes,’ He said, ‘that is indeed the source, what will you do with the new handful?” I said ‘'Well, my intention was to gift it to you, do you think this is the right spot for it?” “It would be an honour. Just place it on my right side, I can hear better on that side.”
So I gifted the Shungite and Quartz and reluctantly said my goodbyes, wishing them well on their ascension journey. I found Katie and we were off again.
Karangahake Gorge River Freeze
I also fell in love with this river and the playfulness of its Beings and energy. Although I didn’t have the conversations Arniya did with the Unseens, through Water’s generous sharings and images, I felt them. I felt doubly blessed when this baby Unicorn appeared, playing among the Undines.
Karangahake River “Stanmone” Freeze
Neither of us wanted to leave so soon and when Arniya found the Rock ‘Stanmone’; (Rock Beings are known as Stanmones and can live for hundreds of years within any rock), we collected a water sample from the river flowing around it. First freeze, he showed up in the whole dish to say here I am. Smile on his face in the second picture. Beautiful.
Waipapa Dam.
Blessing this Dam felt important. Like putting the energy of this elevation of the human consciousness, into the water that generates power, would somehow make a bigger difference. As we walked to the end of the dam, I was contemplating this.
There is a stillness to this place. Total peace.
The only obvious movement was the black swans gliding across the water.
None of the smaller water beings were present here. I realised later that this was to stop them from being sucked into the workings of the hydro dam.
We made our offerings and felt a shift in the energy, but it was different than other places.
The water molecules were receiving the information in the crystals, but of the Unseens… only one Being lived in that water and they weren’t going to be bothered with anything as small as us.
Taupo calls… again
We arrived in Taupo for our last night away from home. After settling into the Wairakei Resort and some dinner, we went across to the hot pools to soak and talk to the steam elementals. It was full moon and perfect for a quiet moment of reflection on the journey we had taken.
In the past, I have had lovely messages from the steam elementals at the pools. If I sit in the water and quietly sing my water blessing songs to the water, the water and steam elementals will make pictures in the steam as it rises off the pool. As I allow myself to trance a little, I can hear them talking to me. Their message this time was simple. Gratitude for the journey we had taken for the water, and to make sure that I shared the journey with you.
These pools are extremely healing. With a high amount of silica in them, they are known to restore the skin and general health. Katie’s foot was dancing with happiness, as the restorative magic took its effect.
As we sat in connection with these blessed waters, we asked if they needed an offering. They said they had got what they needed from us being in the waters. We left at closing feeling relaxed and blessed.
Wairakei Pools Undines Dance Party
Our last visit to the pools was magical with the full moon lighting our way as I gingerly limped my way into the healing waters, my foot still feeling tender. It was extraordinary singing the blessings song to the Undines, we were almost alone in the pools as it was near closing time. They thanked us with an exhuberant dance, jumping out above the water about 3 feet in the air. Splashing in front of us, unmistakably. Nowhere else in the pool. It was breathtaking and unforgettable.
Wairakei Elementals Party Freeze
After I wrote those last words, (Breathtaking & unforgettable) - I did the freeze (just one) and it was “Party time…”.
As if my mentioning our joy and the dancing Elementals, was an invitation to the Undines to come and pose for the party pictures.
It’s almost as if after I take each picture, they sense when I’ve seen them and they’ve been captured in the moment and they reform somehow in the light, as the melting ice shifts impereptibly and new ones emerge…
All in all, I counted 27 Beings in all the freezes, many pictures had 2 or 3, it was hard to choose which ones to feature. I’ve circled a few so it’s easy to spot them… here’s a few of the cheekier ones.
(I might feature them all in my main crystallography gallery.)
Enjoy… what a blessing.