Here is a sketch of the Path of the Snake through the Verde Valley. Bololokan’s route, the Rainbow water snake, is shown here. We are stopping at each of these places, in step-by-step fashion to open up the dormant or blocked energy, so that this valley once more, can be in harmony and balance. All […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2011 All Rights Reserved Here is a close-up of House Mountain, the extinct volcano in the Verde Valley of Arizona. Note the block-like “house” and you know why it was called House Mountain. If you look in the foreground you can see the columnar basal that stand vertically through a large section […]
House Mountain is in the background as a winter thunder storm drops snow on her slopes. The yellow land is in front, the volcano in the back. You can see the ‘square’ nature of her opening and see why people have referred to it as a “house.” Hence the name House Mountain. At one time […]
Marchiene and I met up at 9 a.m. We took off for El Shaddai, a volcanic vent that is connected with House Mountain. It is a dormant volcano and the only volcano in the Verde Valley. There are several volcanic vents in Sycamore Canyon, but El Shaddai is the only one outside of the canyon. […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2011 All Rights Reserved El Shaddai is the name I call a large mountain right in our back yard. It is a volcanic vent and directly connected to House Mountain, the extinct volcano that dominates this area. El Shaddai is Hebrew for “Mighty Breasted God” associated with mountains. El Shaddai does look […]
Copyright 2011 Marchiene Reinstra Marchiene standing with one of the old Grandmother Junipers on the Airport Mesa trail. She is probably close to a thousand years old. And trees that are old are great teachers if we take time to work with them, talk with them and listen It was a crisp sunny beautiful spring […]
Copyright 2011 Eileen Nauman All Rights Reserved Many have asked me what a connection to Mother Earth means. Keep in mind I was raised in Native American traditions (Eastern Cherokee) via my father. I’m 1/8 E. Cherokee. So many people have been DISCONNECTED from Mother Earth. You see, when we’re born, our root chakra has […]
Bololokan, the Rainbow Water Snake spirit who moves the rain around the world. I painted her on my drum in honor of who she is and what she does to keep us alive. Marchiene and I started off early today because it’s a long hike around Grandmother Turtle or Airport Mesa. When we’d done our […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2011 On a cool and sunny afternoon, Eileen and I began our adventure at Rainbow Bridge, also called “Devil’s Bridge” by locals. By the pictures that accompany this blog, there is magic and orbs and rainbow colors, but nothing devilish. Of course, there are those amazing cloud formations that filled the sky […]
Today Marchiene and I went on the next step of our journey to awaken dormant areas that were no longer attended. Rainbow Bridge was our next stop. We went to a circle that is about a quarter of a mile down the trail toward the red sandstone bridge. We had originally come here two years […]