come with me.. sharing my journey today - lots of photos.

today was the day that I went to Minnehaha Falls to complete the journey of my spirit doll.. to symbolically cut the cord from my anger and replace it with the strength and guidance of my ancestors

I hung weights from the small effigy, representing those weights that i had been carrying for far too long.
yesterday I worked on the effigy for my anger.. creating a small doll from linen, painted it an angry red, sticking pins and needles in it to represent all those times that had happened during my treatment, I cut it and burned it to represent the surgery and radiation. yesterday as I created that little angry doll, I cried. I cried for all that I had lost, for the pain and fear that I had experienced and was still experiencing..once she was completed, I connected her to my spirit doll with a red wool cord..
today began my journey of releasement....

it was a gorgeous day as we set out.. asking permission to enter the Women's Sacred Place.. along the path...
I went with two friends who have been making spirit dolls with me for the past two weeks. they were my support buddies. my witnesses.

and down the track.. we could feel the feminine energy everywhere..
the creeks made their way down to the falls.. reminding us that life is ever flowing.. the water cleansing our spirit.
arriving at our place, we discovered that the water was flowing over the rock stepping stones.. a sign that as we crossed, we would be washed clean of our fears, anger and bitterness
we each set up our own personal altar. I placed my spirit doll among the ferns.. so that she could absorb energies from the nature divas.. (the photo looks amazing I think.. like the sun is shining down directly on my spirit doll.. like a spotlight.)
I then read my words asking for support and guidance from my ancestors to help me discover what there is to learn from this journey i had taken with cancer
and I cut the symbolic cord. the cord of stored anger, bitterness and fear
and I was finally free of that weight of anger and bitterness that I had been carrying for so long
I buried it into Mother Earth to be transformed into positive energy to be used for healing.
and replaced it with my ancestral strength and the strength of Kali.
the nails represent the strength of Kali, the feather for my ancestral Grandmothers. the painted dots represent my connection to Australia.(I left a small piece of red cord, to represent that the cancer journey is still part of me, it makes me who I AM)
as our journey ended, we thanked Grandmother Tree for her ancient wisdom.