SISTERS OF HONUA PILGRIMAGE snipet from our last journey to give you
an idea of the Power!
Note on October Egypt Pilgrimage (Awaiting
Reschedule)
Due to recent events in Egypt and the Middle East, this event is
currently awaiting a reschedule from its original date of October 2010
and will be updated as soon as possible. Join us on this exciting
adventure! Do you feel the call of evolution, awakening power and
ancient sacred sites calling you? Then you’ll enjoy this extraordinary
pilgrimage with Hillary Raimo.
NEXT SCHEDULED
PILGRIMAGE
Sharing Hearts, Healing Spirit - California Missions Pilgrimage
August 10-15,
2010 - leaves and returns out of San Diego
We travel by bus to
gather at spectacular places of power, and take part in prophetic
rituals with Keepers of Time and ancient wisdom - Traditional Elders of
Earth. Our intent is to stimulate earth codes awakenng within our
personal DNA. On bus rides to and from sites we hold Talking
Circles to share experiences and dreams. At sites, rituals and
teachings help us to alter perception, while in the evenings we are
free to explore the local area and assimilate what has happened.
The Pilgrimage is a recreation of evolutional legend. The Elders
believe that by retracing the steps and rituals outlined in the stories of prophecy
unfolding one can experience the truth of Self and the connection
to what will become. We will explore the altering of time and
space and be changed forever.
Three delicious meals will be provided daily. Hotell
accomodations are double occupancy. Every day you will be led by
Elders and trip guides to historically relevant places of power and
healing. Vortexes that touch, inspire and help recreate a more
encompassing vision of you and the world we live in.
To view trip itinerary and relevant stories pdf click here
Trip Cost Registration
deadline was July 10th, 2010.
Please
note this is a Spiritual
Pilgrimage in addition to Educational
and Environmental - IT IS CLEAN AND SOBER
NO ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION OR OTHER SUBSTANCES
WILL BE TOLERATED. Thank you for your understanding.
Donations:
Elders Travel Fund - We have been asked to bring many elders from
around the world who will travel with us, such as the Kogi from
Columbia, Inkan from Peru and Mayan from Mexico and Guatamala, Native
American and the Kahuna elders from Hawaii, and many other elders who
wish share wisdom in the great Coming Together for Earth Code
Awakenings at this time. They do not have the funds for this journey,
but we will do everything we can to pay for their expenses and provide
them a moderate stipend for their time. We need the generous assistance
of friends like you to keep the promise we have made to co-create a
cooperative of peace... a promise we made to elders like Kalei'iahi
Kamakawiwoole, throughout the world: Coming together in responsible
action, we make a difference.
By
helping us bring these elders to this important
gathering, you will allow the Wisdoms of These Times to reverberate
around the world, and valuable change will be made.
You
will also serve a larger purpose, Making
Relations across all boundaries previously known as race, religion,
culture and gender isolation, keeping hope and generosity alive in our
communities, minds and hearts.
Please
help us continue to fulfill our vital
commitment to Maria Teresa Valenzula and all the other Elders whose
life purpose has been to live to share until we all have the power to
fulfill destiny.
We
very much appreciate any amount you're able to
give. On line donations may be made at: http://www.sistersofhonua.org/EldersTripFund.html
or by check payable to Yraceburu EarthWisdom, 7820 Enchanted Hills
Blvd. Ste A183, Rio Rancho, NM 87144. Your donation is 100% deductable.
The
end of limitations, move forward as truth
spreads, move on gentle breeze. Speak to the Grandmothers,
forever they confirm, the memory yet unfolding. Initiation will
relax the body, mind... takes us inbetween time.
PREVIOUS PILGRIMS
STORIES
Sharing
Hearts, Healing Spirits, from Lynda Yraceburu
I did not know my true roots growing up. The history of my ancestors
was kept from me for many years; maybe for my own protection, maybe my
father was never told for his protection. I am not sure of the exact
reason why. I know I all ways had an empty feeling in my heart; one of
missing my family or who I was.
For the most part I was spared racial judgment and reticule. The
most harassment I received was when my family moved to a new
neighborhood, as my father was in the military. It seemed like we moved
a lot. So, I had my fair share of being the new kid on the block, and
proving myself. I received more teasing from my older brothers, which
as far as I knew was regular family growing pains.
It was not until many years later when I found out my true lineage,
Hungarian Gypsy, that I started understanding what bigotry and genetic
judgment was about. I read and dreamt about the atrocities put on my
people and what they went through. How they were treated at the
concentration camp Auschwitz; as well as, how they were not welcomed in
most of Europe. How they were condemned to a life on the road with no
home land to call their own.
I felt the anger and out rage grow in my cellular knowing as I
understood more and more what my people went through. I had all most no
understanding how or why people could or would treat others like this.
But never the less, I felt the anger in my heart grow to all those that
wronged my people. Many, many of whom were innocent; the young
children, the woman and the men that had a different skin color, or
different beliefs and different tradition. Who are these perpetrators
to take away one's uniqueness, individuality and free will? How
could I forgive those that condemned my people? My heart grow callus to
them and to anyone that carried the same beliefs of bigotry and racial
judgment.
Then last year, while on a pilgrimage in the south west with a group
called Earth Wisdom, the purpose and intent was to do ceremony in
several of the sacred sites in northern New Mexico, to bring water back
to the land. One of the sites we went to was the sacred and healing
waters of Chimayo, which took place at the Mission, where the river ran
through and was one of the oldest and first Missions established.
We did many ceremonies that day, one of them I had the honor and
privilege to do with Janet Lightstone, a ceremony of forgiveness of the
oppressor of the ancestors that had wronged, tortured or killed the
oppressed. So that those that had done so wrong could be forgiven, and
their Spirits set free. And the family lines of the future could
release the genetic guilt that they carry in there hearts today.
I was amazed at the amount of relief and release I felt in my heart
when I forgave those that had wronged my people, for what ever their
reason was. It was no longer important to know what there reason was.
Just to find compassion in my heart for them. As I looked around at the
other participants I noticed tears falling over many of the faces. I
did not know if their ancestors were of the oppressed or the
oppressors. I just knew they all looked as if they found compassion in
there heart to forgive. Not to condone but to find the strength to move
on, free of the genetic guilt or victimization that had been
left by their ancestors.
I realized at that point how much work had been done to free the
spirits that were unjustly tortured and killed. But had no clue were
the real work needed to be done, that of forgiveness over past ills. We
did great work that day, but this was only the tip of the iceberg.
The more of us that can come together to forgive the past, the more
compassion and love we can find in our hearts today. The
healthier our future becomes for future generations.
Just the pilgrimage is coming up for us to further this work. "Sharing
Hearts, Healing Spirit" The healing of the past done at eight
California Missions, to more deeply love our future. If you have a pull
to heal your past so you can more fully love your future I strongly
recommend checking this pilgrimage out.
The Burning
Times, from Janet Elk
I was watching a movie a few months ago, about the witch burning
period of history, specifically during the Spanish inquisition,
throughout Europe. I learned that over 5 million women were killed
during that time, in that region, thanks to another
religious/political/fear-based misuse of power, and to specifically
return the balance of power to men (many men had died in the previous
wars and through the plague, so there was a "surplus" of women, that
were now gaining wealth, and did not have husbands to control them).
This isn't the first time I've responded to a witch-burning scenario,
so this must be somewhere in my lineage/past lives, so this is what
feels personal to me, and yet it's the same, same thing, no matter
where it played out and by whom.
Ultimately, as we all remember that we are One, we can no longer deny
that what happens to one of us happens to all of us, and we most likely
have played out each role in this drama from all sides, in every
timeline in history. For each hurt or wound that is forgiven NOW, we
all heal incrementally. Since we are the living earth, it makes
perfect sense to me that our earth mother heals also when we forgive.
Thank you for your vision of healing, through the Missions of
California, which will affect all souls, as we are all part of this
process whether we feel it or not, participate in the healing or not.
I'm grateful for those that will join you on this trip and be the
pilgrims and facilitators for us all.
Transmuting
into Peace, from Jackie Millay
I find forgiveness a daily necessity given the situation I'm dealing
with. We give ourselves so much by allowing the energetic freedom
of true regard for our own feelings, no matter how negative or
difficult, which then allows them to be transmuted into peace and
balance as we continually traverse the astonishing landscape of this
paradoxical life we're apart of.
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"Permanent Link to A pilgrimage of the heart" \t "_blank" A Pilgrimage
of the Heart, from Jennifer Masters
On my personal spiritual journey I have always been looking for ways to
connect with the land where I live, and the spirits that dwell here, in
the desert Southwest. Many neo-pagan paths are grounded in the seasons
and natural aspects of Northern Europe, working with spirits from those
lands, a long way away from here.
And so I read something about the “Places of Vision” pilgrimage to
sacred sites near Santa Fe, New Mexico with my Apache teacher Maria
Yraceburu and community, and I no longer remember what I read, but it
was one of those moments when I knew I had to go!
I don’t know why the mixture of indigenous spiritual beliefs and
Catholicism among the modern-day pueblo peoples was strange
to me. The Virgin Mary has greater presence than Jesus Christ because
of her association with Mother Earth. We visited a couple of
churches, including El Santuario de Chimayo, a chapel built on ground
that has been sacred for thousands of years. Many have literally been
healed with the earth beneath the chapel, and there’s a hole in the
sacristy floor behind the altar where one may take some of this dirt.
It was also the first church founded in the Americas that served to
convert the native peoples to Christianity. Normally I think of
religious iconography from any path as beautiful, and I was surprised
at the disdain I felt as I looked around. Perhaps for the atrocities
committed against the indigenous, perhaps because of my own past of not
feeling at home in Christianity, although I thought all those feelings
were well behind me. I fully support the idea of blending spiritual
paths, I walk a blended spiritual path (hence my website domain name
“Eclectic Tradition”), so this really caught me off guard—another layer
of the onion exposed, so to speak. Perhaps my past was behind me, yet
as a representative of the greater community I was tapping into hurt
and anger much larger than myself—for the opportunity to heal it?
A fellow pilgrim, Janet Lightstone, was called by Spirit to do ceremony
on this day to heal this past, not just healing for a people that had
never known disease, enslavement, or war, but healing for those that
inflicted the pain—they all suffered. This pilgrim is a descendant of
the Ortega family and told us her story of having traveled to Mission
San Juan Capistrano, where she connected with the spirit of a Friar who
was in pain—from the atrocities he both committed and sanctioned—and
was in need of healing. She picked a spot by the river near the chapel
for the ceremony. I was reminded that every walk of life has
experienced persecution at some time or another in history. Who has not
been the bully, the bullied or the bystander? When the ceremony
concluded, any that still harbored sadness was instructed to pick up a
nearby stone, breathe the last of our sadness into the stone, and throw
it in the river. All of us, now in tears, did just that.
Those of us that went on this pilgrimage, were meant to go and
participate in this, on behalf of our community, on behalf of the
world. The steps we traced, from one sacred site to the next, followed
along the tracks of our ancestors. The ceremonies we enacted were
beautiful in their simplicity, and reminded us we are all children of
Earth, we are One with All Our Relations.
So much about this pilgrimage hit me on a deep level and resonated in
my soul, truth unfolded before me on a pilgrimage of the heart, and
there is just no intellectualizing it or analyzing it. My heart
understood with perfect clarity what we were there to do, why we were
there, and why it was so important. And yet my brain still cannot grasp
any of it! The experience was … hmmm … hard to sum up. But I
feel more at home on Earth, in this life.
A Vision of
Peace into the Future, from Maria Yraceburu
I believe the Mission Pilgrimage Trip: Sharing Hearts and Healing
Spirit is important to what is currently happening in the world.
I know that the desecration that took place between the
missionaries and the Indians is an oozing wound in the California
coastline that needs to be healed to help stabilize the shifting
magnetic grid. In addition, I know from what happened at Chimayo
during our Places of Vision pilgrimage and after with Aunt Betty's
story that many carry the woundedness of our ancestors, and these
things need to be put to rest for us to be able to carry the vision of
peace into the future. I know that the reception the Ohlone
Indians are planning for us in Fremont will help many that carry the
history of the oppressor to release. I know the stories that my
Chumash sister Julie will share, will bring light and love into
everyone and the seam along the coast will be closed and healed easing
the transition of mother.
This is what I know, this is what I believe. This is why I am
committed to being there.
