Bus Trip to Luxor

When we leave the Temple of Edfu, I was reeling in emotion from my experience. I suppose you could say walking on cloud nine. We still had a little bit of a ride to get to the hotel in Luxor and a ways to go before we get to lunch because that is in Luxor as well.

By the way, the bathroom was not so bad on the bus as a matter of fact, I think I found a whole new level of comfort using the bathroom on the bus. Imagine that? Who would think I would put the word comfort in the same sentence as a moving bathroom? And yet, I did? hahaha Okay the truth is: my bladder was happy that I would no longer hold it and my body was happy because it can go back to drinking water at its regularly scheduled program.

Our Scarab Travel Tour Guides passed out some important information on two things: how to get to Cairo and then the optional trips for us when we arrived in Cairo. The last technical day of our group adventure was a free day and then I had another full day on the Monday I left because we technically ended after breakfast and the flight out was not until 11:25 p.m. So the tour group was excited about putting together some optional trips for us. With this, I had a lot to ponder. First, I had to make a decision on how to travel back to Cairo--plane, sleeper train or nasty train? Now the first two options would be additional money to what I had already paid for my travel expenses, but if you have been following along then you well know that I could not possibly choose the "nasty train". So my options were to fly or travel on the luxurious sleeper train. Such decisions to me made. At first, I thought I wanted to fly, but that was a lot more money to fly and well the optional trips we were being offered had a fee as well. Such a dilemma.

So next, I look over the optional trips for the free days in Cairo. Immediately, I see a trip to Alexandria and I want to go there. Now, of course, it is the most expensive trip that is on the list and the furthest away in travel time too. So I sat with this on the ride because there were other trips that I wanted to take as well--if I had extra time--I would have done them all!! But, I had to be cognizant of money unfortunately so I decided that I would not do the hot air balloon ride. I always wanted to do one and what better place than in Luxor, Egypt, right? Well, that wasn't going to happen because I really want to go to Alexandria and the price was the same as the hot air balloon ride. Now, mind you all the prices presented to us were in US dollars never in Egyptian pounds--they preferred American money.

So after careful consideration, I signed up for Alexandria, the Cairo tour of the Citadel, Coptic Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue and decided against hot air balloon ride.

After long deliberation, I chose the sleeper train to head back to Cairo on. For my comfort, I thought at least I could lie down as you know my back is still aching at this point as I haven't really slept well in days and haven't honored my back. Ironically, the group had 33 people and it split up into 3 groups for the travel back--some continued on the "nasty train", some continued on the "sleeper train" and some on the plane. Another reason to not take the plane was the additional hotel room night we'd have to pay for.

On the bus ride back from Temple of Edfu to Luxor, I sat next to Armunkara (amazing earth angel) and we talked about her doing a Cranio-Sacral Session on me when I got back to the hotel that night. Wow--finally, I thought some relief for my aching back and boy I love cranio-sacral work. We were going to lunch when we got to the hotel and then we would have free time before our group gathering at 8:00 p.m. (I have to say that lunch was at like 2:30 so much for lunch time being at a reasonable hour since I have been up since 6 and had basically eaten an orange and banana for my meals.)

We are nearly there...so far Luxor is looking like a little city. We have been driving through countryside all this time so it is really neat to see this city. I already like the feel...it feels and seems somewhat familiar. Now just some side notes about the drive through the country side. All the guards have machine guns, all the police have machine guns...so too do the farmers. Amazing! And each township we entered there was a "security checkpoint" that we had to stop at. Our tour company had a photocopy of each and every one of our passports so that they could provide it to security if need be.

1.13.11

Signs, Signs, Everywhere There's Signs

Still at the Temple of Edfu, I had finished my work with walking the light lines of sacred geometry. I carried light with each step and love with each sound out of my mouth. Now, it was as if time slowed down and I have the opportunity to do additional work that was not part of the P's plan. It was work that I came to Egypt to personally do. As I may have mentioned, (and yes, I know I did)this is the Temple of Divine Marriage. The marriage of Hathor and Horus. Here is a wall painting of the two of them seated.

Hathor is the Goddess that has something on her head. (I have to say that it is only now that I realize, she too, has come to visit me in a meditation. I want to say that she is the one who visited me right before I discovered that the love I felt with this man was a twinflame love, but I was really in denial at that time--no not the river...yes a lame joke I know. I didn't hear her speak to me because it was several years ago now, but when I think back right this moment, I feel as though she came to bless me and prepare me for my twinflame reunion. hmmm having said that...there is a lot more that is making sense to me now which will develop as time goes on and you will know because I am likely to share it with you.)

So, as I walked back out to the courtyard, I asked for permission from Hathor and Horus to ground the energies of twinflame love (my soul group specifically). As I felt permission, I grounded all of us (our twin group) into the light of this temple of divine marriage. I called each and every one of them and their twins by name to this place (including me and my twin) and placed the reunions in this high frequency (the highest frequency of love that there was in Egypt). It was so powerful I felt it through me.)

I got up and walked away (leaving behind my shawl not realizing I had and it was cold so I needed it, but I didn't feel anything. And Izabel was trying to get my attention and shouted my name, but I didn't hear her which I found out later because I was so deep in the energy that I was unaware of what was happening humanly around me.)

Then, I walked over to the other side of this courtyard and sat at another column. This time, I asked Goddess Hathor to help me to clarify if who I believe is my twinflame is really my twin.. .(Okay, the reason I asked is like many "twins" I still am human and doubt because in the human 3D we are not together, yet! . By the way, twins in this capacity means twinflames not biological people who have a twin of themselves and were born on this earthly plane together at the same time from the same parent. I still doubted because I wanted to make sure I am not delusional. hahaha It is nearly 6 years since I met him in the physical (and one tell I will tell you how, but it may be in a book and you will have to buy it! hahaha) and some days it feels like an eternity and others it feels just like yesterday.) Anyway, I digress again. I felt very compelled to use this energy of the divine feminine and masculine to clarify my truth. I figured I helped the temple frequency ground and activate so I felt they could help me too. If there was ever a place in Egypt where I would get this clarity and truth it would be here and now. I was prepared for whatever truth should come forward. I have to admit I was a little scared because what if I was delusional? hahaha Now, I would know and I wouldn't be able to doubt it.

So, I closed my eyes and connected with the high frequency of Hathor and asked for a clear message that this person is my beloved twin flame. I specified a visible message not just anything. I opened my eyes and there was the most perfect feather you can imagine right in front of me. Now there was all kinds of muddied stuff around my feet and nothing like that there until I opened my eyes like a fresh feather floated in to greet me. (This is the feather; however, it is a little battered now from my travels and almost thought I lost it, but found it when I arrived home. When I first got home, I thought maybe I didn't see this feather, but I did because here it is as I had found it unpacking my stuff.)

I being me said, "Really? A feather? I can get those at home!" But, I did pick it up as you can see. I wasn't sure that this was in fact the sign. I mean it was a sign, but the sign? So I decided to finish being a tourist, I decided to walk outside to find a bathroom (wishing I would have such luck as to find a clean bathroom) and ran into Izabel with my shawl telling me she was trying to find me. Then I saw Carole who was willing to search for the potty with me. We asked someone to show us and they told us where to walk to. I felt extremely hesitant because it was behind the temple and the guards had machine guns as I am sure I mentioned previously. If I haven't that was the regular thing. So, we decide we would walk on the outside of the Temple of Edfu as Solara An Ra said she would do. As we started to walk, there were numerous stones all around kind of like when someone has a garden and they place rocks in it to keep out the weeds or just to make it look pretty? That is how the outside back of the temple was, minus the garden. hahaha
As I walked around there were a ton of rocks and stones all around the outside of the building and thinking maybe I should take one home. I mean it is the Temple of Divine Marriage afterall (I love rocks and collect them but really? I may go over the weight on my luggage so I say to myself if you are meant to have one it will jump out at you.) I'm doing my final walk around the outside of the building and I notice a rock in the pile that jumps out at me. I reached for it and find that it is a perfect half of a stone.

I feel that is half of the whole and I am one half and "he", my twin, is the other half. This represents twinflames that broke off at creation to experience things differently. (short version of twins!). I took the rock as you can tell and it is mostly quartz. I find comfort and a little smile as I walk back to the bus. I develop one of those grins that "my twin" has when he can't contain that he is so excited. It is one of the cutest looks he has and makes. I just love it--one of the many things I adore about him.

Anyway, I make my way back to the bus and the crazy market doesn't even seem to bother me and I hardly notice it as I am walking high as a kite on this feeling of confirmation. Beginning to believe my guides and the energies of this place think I am a tough case asking over and over again if he is, in fact, the one I think he is and they always come through with numerous signs and messages. (By the way, the over and over again has been over the last several years so this was kind of the big final for me!) And, they did again...as if that were enough...

I made my way back onto the bus and go to reach into my backpack to grab my bottle of water and look for my kleenex back for tissue to go to the bathroom. And, I heard something coming from my bag...I found that my i-phone was playing a song. (I find that my i-phone randomly plays songs without my doing. I mean it could be sitting on my desk at work and all of a sudden it will start playing. It is often a way the universe gives me a message, my angels, my guides, my family and even my twin use it to bring me a message.) The song playing was "How Deep Is Your Love" by the BeeGee's (don't laugh too hard, that it is the BeeGee's, well you can laugh, but it is something special for me and my twin). I mean a couple of summer's ago I heard this song and really "heard" the words and I just started singing it to his energy all the time. And, I would wake up in the middle of the night hearing the song in my room (no music on, no tv or radio just his energy bringing it to me). It was at the part of "we belong to you and me...I believe in you..." Oh here is the song and lyrics. I started to cry tears of happiness. I couldn't believe it. I really got my answer from this magical place. I got three very clear signs. I couldn't believe it! I will never question again if he is or is not my twinflame...I know he is for sure now. It was an amazing experience and day...and hey the day is not over yet....

1.13.11

Walking the Lines of Sacred Geometry

At this temple, our job is to walk the light lines and activate the energies at this temple with the energies we were carrying over from Kom Ombo. We are encoded with light and by going to a place our very being activates the energies as does just being in our presence. That was even more heightened by the activation from Kom Ombo and light codes that poured in when we were there.

As I mentioned, when I enter through the gate to the other side looking toward the entrance of the temple, immediately my body was covered in goosebumps. It was so powerful because there was a long walk from the gate to the "portal doorway into the temple" which is this beautiful grand entrance.

As I crossed through this doorway, I knew exactly where I needed to walk and where I specifically needed to go. I walked in this doorway then I walked through the left side (near each column straight into the temple) all the way to the back of the building and then I walked all the way back through the right side (through the right side of the temple and near each column). Then I walked to a column on the left and brought light there and then crossed over to one on the right to do the same thing. Then I walked up the middle to the back where the altar room was and back out. It was like I was in a sacred geometry.

I drew a picture on paper showing what the pattern that I walked because I feel like it has some meaning, but then again. (I am not sure even as I am back I feel there is something to it, but I just don't know what the meaning may be.) This is the pattern. If anyone has thoughts, feelings or intuition about this, I'd love to hear.

All the while, I was singing "love, love, love all you need is love, love, love, love". It was amazing the words just came out of my mouth. I saw the others as I walked around, but we just looked at each other with knowing smiles. Then I walked through the main entrance to the temple passed the courtyard in the picture above. It was actually quite amazing..the energy of this place cannot be comprehended unless you were there--those goosebumps I felt walking in stayed with me the whole time. I did see all these orbs without the camera.

I heard as I walked toward the back again where the altar was, I heard very clearly, "Your work is done."

Now I had some time to relax as I felt what I had done already was the mission and I really felt like it was compulsory. I had no choice and now I could take more pictures and actually be a "tourist". But, then I found a group in the back of the building in a side room in the back left off to the side. Cre had paid off the guards to let us "pray". We performed a group meditation with Cre, Carole, Jean and a few others. We called light in and grounded our love and light energy into this time and space. How powerful! I felt like we went somewhere else, but it was only a mere few minutes that we had because then the guards came back to shoo us out of there.

So I went off on my own again, feeling the need to not be with anyone else, I left the group behind and had a little more time to wander around. It was like time had slowed down to give me the time I needed to explore this temple and grounds.

So as I walked, I felt Hathor and Horus so present and the energies of the masculine and feminine were so clearly in Edfu. No wonder they call this place the Temple of Divine Marriage. The union of the male and female, the union of the twinflames male Horus and female Hathor. The divine love runs throughout this place.

These are the ultimate twinflames I thought to myself...if anyone can help me on my journey with my twin and providing clarity it would be here at this place. So, again my work began, AGAIN...

Arriving at the Temple of Edfu

Here we are. We arrive at Edfu and look at that we have to walk through yet another market. I have to admit that having to walk through markets to places is a bit annoying. It wouldn't be bad if at each market, people didn't offer camels for me or say I have beautiful eyes or ask if I wanted an Egyptian husband. Really? I mean if I wanted an Egyptian husband I'd show some interest and if the people on the tour wanted to sell me for camels they would probably put up a sign and it would be 25 not 10 or 20. hahaha

Anyway, here I am at Edfu. We walked through the marketplace and then we entered some building and had to walk through there for security. Which again was just someone saying open your bags and place them on the table and walk through a scanner type thingy that beeped every time you walked through--shouldn't it only beep when you walk through and have a weapon or something? Also, shouldn't the bags be viewed? It was just kind of funny and weird.

So as we exit the other side of this building...I could feel it immediately the highest frequency vibration I have felt yet. Solara An Ra and her guides told us that the frequency was alive and well with Hathor and Horus here. It was truly incredible and I could feel it.

As we walked toward the entrance of the Temple, Solara An Ra had us stop and not gather in a circle. Instead, she was going to make it look like she was a tour guide. She is really funny--I love her personality. She channeled a message to all of us about what we were to do while we were there. The P's named off 12 of the people on our trip that have definitely been there to this place before which meant they had some healing and work to do there specifically for their mission. I didn't feel I was there before, but I did feel that I needed to be there. Our mission was to sing love into this place and walk the "light lines" that ran through this place. Our mission as the light tribe of 33 was to spread our light by walking the sacred geometry through this place. We were told it would be easy to tap into if we just followed the light lines we were drawn to. It was another individual/group effort there. Solara An Ra was so drawn to the energy she couldn't wait to get going and walk outside the temple that is where she was drawn immeditately. I just couldn't wait to walk inside so I did...I felt like I need to be alone to do my work so I made my way in ahead of the people I was with. I just felt pulled to go.

And so, my work began....
1.13.11

Divine Marriage: Illusion or Reality?

So on my way to the Temple of Edfu, we had quite a drive ahead so I did a lot of thinking about my twin. I couldn't help it. I mean we are going to the Temple of Divine Marriage. Now, I haven't thought too much about him as you know I have been pretty busy. Okay, Okay, so I have thought of him, but I haven't been conscious of it in the sense of thinking just certain experiences have brought him front and center in my heart, but I have not let the focus be on him. But this place we are going is to The Temple of Divine Marriage...the temple of twinflames Hathor and Horus.

As I sit here looking out the window, I am pulled to last September and image of one particular day began flashing in front of the window. I mean flashing, I didn't even notice the landscape half the time. I teach all the time as you all know that is one of my favorite parts of my business. I was teaching a class on Reiki Level II to my students on Saturday, September 17, 2010. I will never forget this day. It was an ordinary day and I had a class of about four students. I had just finished attuning each of them to the Reiki Two Symbols and attunement. I always give my students time to write or draw their experiences to keep in their journals so while they did that I sat down in my favorite chair and said to myself, "Okay, Angels attune me now." I closed my eyes and saw myself in my meditation garden--the garden I go to when I used to meditate over the summer. It was beautiful with vivid colors for the flowers. I opened my eyes to check on my students and they were still writing. I closed my eyes and was back there again. My guide met me and I said where are we going. We kept walking through my garden and then I saw up ahead a large door ( I mean it had to be 50 feet tall and wide). I said to myself, "Wow. That is a big door not sure if I can open it." My guide said follow me and reached out his hand for me to take hold of. (I swear my guides must think how difficult I am, but I bet they get a good laugh at me from time to time too!) I didn't want to leave the fifth dimension (that is where I was), but I had a class to teach so I opened my eyes and asked my students if they wanted to share their experiences. And not one did! IT was the weirdest things most people want to share their experiences and not one did. It was kind of crazy, but I said okay...let's go get grounded with some lunch. We left the office to walk down the street to the restaurant we all decided on and as we walked down the street, I saw with my eyes wide open (can't walk with closed eyes, well you can but you will crash into things too much!) my garden and the door were there. I was still walking with my guide and we were getting closer to the door and as I approached the door, it opened out toward me and behind the door was this tremendous amount of light coming out. We were being seated in the restaurant in 3D, as I was led by my guide in 5D to the doorway and he helped me to the door as an angelic being placed a crown of light upon my head. It was so beautiful and powerfully moving. I cried on the inside tears of happiness and immense love and gratitude I couldn't show it to my students because I don't think they would understand and also it was their time to enjoy their attunement experiences it was their day really. As if that wasn't enough...

As I made my way through the door, another being of light brought me along forward and I asked, "where are you taking me?" And the reply was so matter a fact like I should know, "to your beloved." And right there before my eyes stood my beloved twin waiting for me--it was HIM! No disputing who he was it was the human looking him. He reached out his hands to me like he was waiting for me and I placed my hands in his. We stood there together, my right hand over his left and his right hand over my left. We telepathically exchanged wedding vows. Yes, we were married in that moment. It was the most incredible moving experience I had ever had. This was all in my garden in 5D with my eyes wide open in 3D. How powerful that is to be able to see the multidimensional reality at the same time. That was the beginning of so many changes that occurred and not one person at the table knew what was happening to me...and to be honest I don't think I really knew it either. It was about 3 days later that I realized what had happened because when I spoke with my Twin in the 3D on the telephone I felt like he knew in some way...and as I have mentioned before he is really human and not too open to the whole intuitive thing let alone the 5D thing.

Since that day, things have been different as I feel his stuff within me. I have always felt his stuff, but I knew it was his. Now, it takes me some time to identify if this is his or mine when I am feeling stuff. I feel like that was our divine union to become one. It has happened in 5D and now needs to trickle down into 3D. I believe it will, but here it is January 2011 and this happened in September 2010 and it hasn't happened as of yet, will it? Am I right? Or am I crazy? All these thoughts are running through my head. How can I tell people about this? It sounds crazy, but then again it was all real--I felt it like he was really standing in front of me holding my hands. Since that day I felt him beside me always differently than before...

We are arriving at Edfu. Will be back with more later. I always wanted to be married on September 17th...and maybe just maybe my wish has been my command...

1.13.2011

Back down to Reality for the moment...

After this completely amazing experience at the Temple of the Crocodiles, I realized before we walk back to the bus that I needed to go to the bathroom. We walked down the sidewalk past the beautiful Nile. It is so much more incredible to see in person, but for lack of a better way to show you the Nile...here is a glimpse of the Nile outside the Temple of Kom Ombo.

So I felt really high on the energy again and well the bathroom experience brought me back to reality which was probably not a bad thing as the last time I left a temple experience feeling all high on the energy--I slipped down the last three steps of the Great Pyramid and hurt my back. (by the way, still is a little achy.) After waiting in line for many of us to use the bathroom, I get in there and there is no toilet paper. (mental note--make sure to bring your own toilet tissue when traveling through Egypt) And, as if that was the worse, the bathroom again was disgusting. So, I tried, but couldn't go--okay perhaps too much information for you, but it was a real problem for me. My bladder was like no way are you going here so I opted to wait till I got back to the bus (opted is really not the correct term, my body wouldn't allow me to go is more the truth!). Meanwhile, in my head saying prayers to the Gods to please let the bathroom on the bus reflect much much more cleanliness than the one at the temple. The bus bathroom wasn't so bad when it wasn't moving. (as you well know if you have been following along in the blogs there is something to be said about the driving that happens here.)

Now I am on the bus, sitting with my journal and writing my experience. It was truly an incredible experience. I am so excited about the rest of our journey. It still feels like quite a reflective time for me. I still feel quiet not like the April I know back at home in the US--not like the April many of you know back in the US. So many feelings are swirling around me like mad. The energy here is so fast and so furious that there is hardly any time to process or digest it so it keeps me going on full swing ahead, but wondering when and if I will have a moment to just allow it to filter through me...or the question is when?

We are on our drive to the Temple of Edfu. This is the temple I have been so excited about going to since I saw it on the Itinerary when I booked my trip. Temple at Edfu is dedicated to Horus, the embodiment of resurrection. In Egyptian mythology Horus was married to Hathor - every year the priests travelled with statues of the God and Goddess between Edfu & Denderah, celebrating their 'Divine Marriage.' So this temple is also know as the Temple of Divine Marriage.

If I am to receive anything about my twin this would be the energy in which I would receive it, right? That is what I was thinking. I couldn't wait. I was in anticipation and excitement. I couldn't wait for us to arrive there.

So did I see what I really saw in September 2010? That is the question...my next blog will tell of my divine marriage with my beloved twin.

1.13.2011

Kundalini Rising

After the vision of the priests and priestesses in Kom Ombo, I continued into my meditation. I sat for a second wondering if that was real, but I didn't have time to stay and question because then I felt my energy get pulled a little deeper.

As I got pulled a little deeper into the energy I realized it was the kundalini activation that Solara An Ra and the P's talked about. They had mentioned that we would experience a kundalini activation (kundalini rising from the base of our spine up and out the third eye). This temple and its energies have been known to activate kundalini as depicted by this wall display of a cobra.

This would be experienced by us seeing a snake rise up or feeling a snake rise up within us. (Okay so, when we talked about this on the bus before arriving to Kom Ombo I have to admit that I felt really uncomfortable with that thought. I mean I know in spirituality that a snake symbolizes kundalini and spiritual wisdom; however, in my personal dreams a snake is symbolic of something sneaky and sly occurring around me or something harmful. So needless to say I have always been fearful of snakes.) And here I am, feeling this energy beginning to come up from the base of my spine and I felt completely calm and okay and not worried about what will happen. It continues up my spine and I begin breathing in colors--mostly purple and then I see my third eye as clear as day looking right at me. Then, the energy began to calm down as I brought myself back to the present. I started to feel the cool breeze and I open my eyes to see a bunch of people from our group in the same area. It was so incredible and nothing to fear.

I was a little "high" on the energy, but the reality is that on this trip I was always "high" on the energy not really noticing it as being different like I do when I am home and feeling "high on the energy". After this experience, it was soon time to walk back to meet up with the group, but first I took a few more pictures of the things I wanted to capture. This picture is of two men cleansing the one man in the middle as if in preparation for the rituals to take place.

Who would think that these wall carvings would be so well preserved, but they are. It was truly incredible. Here is another wall carving depicting surgeon's tools.

Historians say that this shows a skill in the field of medicine even back in ancient times. Is that the case? Or is it that these tools were used for ritual? I wonder...I mean a lot of information that historians have put out there is a bit inaccurate. I am sure there are some accuracies, but I am also sure that they don't have the whole truth as they were not "seeking the truth withihn", now were they?

We then made our way down the Nile back to where we met the rest of the group. Not before stopping to enjoy the view of the Nile before meeting the group.

1.13.2011

Temple of the Crocodiles Rituals

WOW!!!

The Temple at Kom Ombo--the Temple of the Crocodiles. What an amazing experience! This is the entrance into the temple. The sky was so beautifully bright blue and the clouds were amazing and wispy; yet I was cold again! (Layer your clothes when you travel to Egypt...you will appreciate this knowledge for later.)

So what I learned is that this temple was erected for the God Sobek--a man depicted with a crocodile head. This temple is so well preserved. Here is a picture of the God Sobek

Our tour guides took us around to see some of the amazing preserved parts of this temple along with some amazing depictions that I will talk about a little later, but first I need to tell you my experience.

So when we were "set free" to roam about the temple, we had about 35-40 minutes to explore on our own and to do a connection. Our mission was to find a place that we felt pulled to sit and connect with energy. I was walking through this one area that I didn't want to leave, but I have to say that it was a strong pull for me to stand and lean up against the temple pictures, but the truth be known I was cold. I opted to keep searching for another spot trusting I will be able to connect somewhere else. So I kept walking for a few minutes until I felt pulled to another area and thankfully it was right in the sun. It apparently pulled a few of us over to it because after I finished my connection there were at least 4 -5 other people from our group around there.

I was pulled to sit down on a stone and leaned up against it so it looked like I was resting. (Not meditating because remember people are no longer allowed to meditate at the temples--it was a new law that was put into place.)

I found it quite comfortable to sit there while the sun poured down over me. It seemed as if the wind stopped blowing just for the time I was in meditation. I closed my eyes as I sat there; allowing myself to breathe and brought my focus inward. Then all of a sudden, I connected with the energy of Kom Ombo and a movie began to play in my head. I mean it was like I was really watching a movie of what used to occur at Kom Ombo during ancient times. The next thing I knew was that I am watching as Priests and Priestesses beginning to arrive by raft along the bank of the Nile. They didn't stop to "dock" at the bank; instead they continued onward toward land. There was an opening under the temple a sort of passageway that they rafted into. (By the way, humanly now there is nothing physically at this temple resembling anything that looks like an opening for them to raft into.) As they rafted in it was night time. The moon was full in the sky and the only they had was the moon light and stakes with fire on the ends. Under the temple, the priests and priestesses gathered around for it is an initiation ceremony. The new members are required to partake in a ritual to overcome their fear and earn respect and protection from the Gods. Where they gathered there were three chambers with crocodiles swimming in them. As part of the initiation, the initiate had to to reach down and scoop up water from the chamber where the crocodile swam. They had to drink from the water of the crocodiles. Then it was gone--the vision disappeared. It came so quickly and then left...was it real? Was this my imagination? Truthfully, it felt like it was a scene from an old Sherlock Holmes movies I had seen years ago.

Bus Ride to Kom Ombo

So we got up early this morning and had to have our luggage outside the door by 6:30 and it was 5:50 and they were already looking for our luggage. OY! We managed to get out of the room by 6:15 to go and have breakfast--and by now you must know that breakfast's main component is bread. There were also hard boiled eggs and salad type things. Oh yummy! Not!

Anyway, on a half empty tummy, I made my way to the bus. I decided to sit by myself so I could write in my journal. This is an exciting day...we are going to two temples on our way to the hotel in Luxor. I am looking forward to the trip to the second temple, but this first temple I am not sure what to expect. All I know is that people call this Temple at Kom Ombo, the Temple of the Crocodiles. Travel books say that it is called such because in ancient times sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the river bank overlooking the Nile.

Solara An Ra channeled the P's (also known as Pleaidians--it is a long word to write so going forward if I remember I will simply write P's.) and they told us that we need to discover for ourselves what this temple was all about. Because of the attention we attracted at the Temple of Isis, we were not going to stay in a group as it would cause too much attention.

Our job is to do two things while we are at this temple. The first is to find a place within the temple that we are drawn to and connect with the energies there to ascertain what we sense about this temple. The second mission is to activate our kundalini. Now, I have done that before, but not on command so I am guessing the energies will have something to do with us activating...it will happen. I trust...I trust...

Oh and I also trust that if there are any real crocodiles lurking around that I will be okay, too!
1.13.11

Last Night in Aswan

We bid farewell to Aswan tonight. I called home and found out that there was this massive snowstorm...a Noreaster occurring. They sounded so cold and stuck inside that I was so grateful to be in this hotel that I thought was icky.

When we got back from the Papyrus Museum, a few of us decided to have a cup of tea. Yes, you guessed it...boiled mint--it was definitely my favorite Egyptian food..yes I know it is a beverage, but by now you must know that the food choices for me were really slim to none. Even if I wasn't gluten sensitive the amount of bread they served us was way over the top. We sat outside overlooking the beautiful Nile at Sunset. Here is the view that we saw sitting down having our tea.

It was beautiful and yes a cool night again. We gathered up in a circle to share our experiences of the day. I still felt quiet again this night. I did share in circle, but I feel emotions building up within me like there is more happening to me energetically than I know. My back was a little achy still from the fall today and tonight as I sat in circle I had a little difficulty in focusing because my legs kept getting restless. Now, I am sitting in my room trying to figure out how to upload some blogs to post, but oh well not sure that will happen. The interesting thing is that since the train ride I think we finally opened up a little and bonded with one another more. In the circle, we all seemed to share a little more. It is beginning to feel like I am really with my soul family. I love them. I have been looking for a soul family for sometime and I think I have found them.

Okay, DebRa is back in the room and she is tired and wants to go to sleep too. We are waking up early again--Big Surprise (I know, not April's schedule of wake up whenever and go from there. hahaha) No instead early day and our luggage has to be outside the door by 6:00 a.m. to get taken down to the bus. We are off to our new location in Luxor by way of the Temple of the Crocodiles and the Temple of Edfu (I am soooo looking forward to the Temple of Edfu--it is also known as the temple of divine marriages and we all know what that means--twinflames. Twinflames!!) Okay enough excitement for tonight, my eyes are watering and no I am not crying it is from being way too sleepy. Good night world...off to la la land...see ya there
1.12.11

Arcturian Pendant

After the Papyrus store, there was a jewelry store for us to go into. I thought I would take a peek and see what they had. Everyone was looking for a cartouche which is your name written in Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I just wasn't pulled to that. So I walked around and saw this pendant that pulled me to it. I mean really pulled me there. It is the only piece of jewelry of its kind. I mean the whole design was not Egyptian. I asked how much it was and they told me and I thought no way. I walked away. Then Carole and I walked around the store. I showed her the pendant and she said, "Ra'chel you need to buy it. You will go on the whole journey wishing that you had. Go ahead and buy it." With that, I gave myself permission--it is not like I will be back here again. This is the picture of it...

Now I will skip ahead for the moment to the last day of my trip when I channeled my Arcturian Brothers and Sisters. They channeled to me that this pendant was there just for me. They asked me to recall the case and remember what was in it. There was nothing slightly resembling this. It was waiting there for me to pick up. It was something that as time goes on I will connect as symbolic of my Arcturian lineage. How cool is that? I wear this pendant almost constantly and I am loving it. Amazing energy and loving the star shape which is what I am thinking they want me to pay attention to.
1.12.2011

Papyrus, Isis & Osiris

After Solara finished giving messages to us from her guides, we had the rest of the day free to relax. (Now mind you, we have been going and going and going so having that free time was necessary and awesome!) We had lunch and then there was an opportunity to visit a Papyrus Museum (another state store). Not everyone wanted to go so only some of us went. I was kind of waffling on whether to go or whether to get more rest (because I certainly could have used the rest), but when I heard that papyrus may be a lost art in the near future due to the building of the Aswan Dam, I decided I was in. The Aswan Dam was built to control flooding along the Nile and saved the region from flooding; however, unfortunately, it is preventing Papyrus Reeds from growing abundantly and has impacted this industry tremendously.

The Papyrus Museum was another amazing looking building (it was a state sanctioned store so it is much nicer than most buildings we drove by in Aswan even the hotels) they did this really interesting presentation about papyrus. It was a great presentation on how they make the papyrus. Did you ever hear about it? I totally loved it. I think I will remember that for a long time so if you want to know...ask me...I can tell you. Papyrus is the paper made from papyrus reeds and then they handpaint beautiful designs and images anywhere from scenery to Egyptian Mythology. They explained how you can tell it is an authentic Papyrus and how it is not. (Of course, there is no way that I could go there an not buy Egyptian Art, I mean I am in Egypt, right?) After the presentation, we were given the opportunity to walk around this fabulous place. The building that housed the papyrus museum was large and beautiful and there were hundreds of different pictures to choose from. One was displayed on the wall with a number and then in the back they have the one you would buy.

At first, I wasn't sure what I wanted. I did love the Goddess Nut Papyrus. (Just so you know how to pronounce it--it is Noot not nut! hahaha) It was extremely beautiful because it depicted a blue sky with stars on it--amazing! Then, I knew exactly which Papyrus I was looking for.

I was searching for a papyrus to tell the story of Isis and Osiris. Their love was epic and her faith was unwavering. It made me think of my love with my twin and how unwavering it is...no matter what, I have faith in our love. As I walked around, I couldn't find the one I was looking for with Isis and Osiris. I asked for assistance to find the picture I was looking for. The story that the perfume guy told me from the night before and having just visited the Temple of Isis was fresh in my mind. I thought it was funny that they only had this one. It is a picture of Isis and Osiris entering Paradise. And I saw it and heard the name of it and I knew immediately that is the one. Isn't that what it is with twinflames, paradise? Well, honest answer is no, it hasn't been and it isn't yet; however, that is what it is when both twins remember and come together fully.

See, often in twinflame relationships one remembers and the other does not. In my experience with my twin, I really believed he remembered before me. I mean I felt something immediately, but I kind of ran away because it wasn't what it was supposed to be at least not what I conceived in my mind for it to be; but he remembered right away. His spirit spoke through his human mouth the following, "I know I am supposed to love you, marry you and have children with you in this life." (yes, in this life is what he said.) And then long story short--he forgot again. The story of me and my twin will one day be written. Before, I go too far off on the tangent into the twinflame oddysey, I will remember for the moment I am writing about my experiences in Egypt.

This picture to me is an ultimate representation of twinflames. Isis represented the twin who remembered who her other half was even when Osiris was killed and hidden from her. Her undying love, the search for her husband and the belief that she could breathe life back into him. If you look closely, this depicts Osiris as he may have looked pieced back together. (If you remember the story, he was chopped up into pieces by his brother Set and Isis searched and searched for him not letting it go knowing one day she would find her beloved. When she found him she pieced him back together(except one important male part--interesting...hmmm)and breathed life back into him. This is why she is represented with the key of life, the Ankh, as she is also known as the Goddess of Life. The connection for twinflames in this picture is more than just the unwavering love and faith Isis had for Osiris, her twin; it was also the "piecing together" of Osiris. Before coming together, twinflames piece together their past lives, heal them and are prepared to help their twin to come to them more fully. The pieces they are putting back together are the many "lifetimes" they lived apart since their creation and all that needs to occur for their full reunion.

(Several years ago, I was out hiking with a friend. After the hike, I sat and did a meditation and a friend was there with me. I was describing to him all that I had seen. It was this beautiful woman coming my way as she approached closer she asked me to open my hands. I put my hands our with palms up reaching. She placed something within it. It looked like a funny looking key. After, I came out of the meditation, my friend laughed at me and said you need to brush up on your goddesses. That was Isis and she just gave you the key of life, the Ankh. Wow...and boy did she because after that I felt the power to make my life more beautiful.)

I did purchase a few other papyrus items. Here is one that I plan to have framed and placed in my office. Nature always speaks to me especially birds, rocks and trees. This particular picture stood out to me because it had lots of color (which I love) and the birds in a tree.

My shopping trip turned out to be happy...I am grateful for the experience.

1.12.2011

Not Pleiadian or Sirian...but Arcturian?

When we arrived back at the hotel, we all gathered in circle which is a little different than the other circle times--this is mid-afternoon with a beautiful sun shining above us. We gather in circle outside overlooking the Nile River.

It is a beautiful sun filled day and appeared much like I imagined Egypt to be. There was a chill being out by the Nile (boy is is a beautiful river), but boy that sun was so hot! I mean hot as it was beating down on us as we waited for meditation to begin. I even wore a scarf on my head....I looked something like this sporting the Egyptian look. (but this is a picture of me back from Egypt with a scarf I bought in Egypt)

We made sure this wasn't going to last long because of the hot sun; but I must say I was rather enjoying it since in Cairo I was freezing, did I tell you that? hahaha Armunkara Angel led us again into a guided meditation which once again was so powerful. Her voice and channel is so magical that it moves us through space. It was a powerful integration of the energies of Isis. She is so talented with her gift of channel that what appears to be a simple meditation in actuality packs such a wallop and punch that you can't help, but to integrate to realign your spirit! I felt high as a kite after. Then Solara channeled a message from her guides about our experiences at the Temple of Isis. DebRa channeled a message as well about how to remain balanced during our times at these temples because the energy is so powerful that it is easy to get out of balance. Thank you DebRa...great technique. It was an incredible day of receiving channeling information.

Then we did some basic housekeeping stuff with Solara An Ra about our trip back to Cairo. The original plan was to go back on the "nasty train", I mean the first class train (well you all know what I mean if you have been reading along!), but since we were all so resistant to that idea we were given options. To change from the "first class train", would cost us more and I am thinking I would pay more just for the cleaner options. :) The options were the nasty train or take the sleeper train or an airplane. The difference was $100 to $200 US Dollars so it was definitely something to think about. As it was this trip was magical to be able to go to, but one must think about money, but in this instance I felt like money should not be an object-I will ponder I thought...

At the Temple of Isis after the initiation, Solara offered to take pictures with people after the initiation. However, because our time at The Temple of Isis was so rushed and limited many of our group did not have pictures with Solara at the Temple. After our circle, Solara offered to do pictures with the Nile River as a backdrop. The rest of the day was free time so we could do whatever it is we liked. My friend Carole's camera was no longer working so I had offered to take pictures for her.

As Solara stood with each individual, it was like she was initiating them again because her guides came through with a message channeled for each individual. That was awesome to see and I totally loved hearing other people's messages. Very powerful and moving. (I was a little disappointed that I had already had my picture taken back on the Isle of Philae.) Then, as if Solara An Ra read my mind, she offered to channel a message to those of us who had already had their picture taken. I was so excited--doing mini cartwheels inside. I really wanted a message! I mean I am always giving messages to my friends, clients, students and well I want one for me from someone else. :)

Side note, so far on this trip, I haven't really been myself. I mean I am quiet ( I know those of you who know me can't even imagine that, but try...really try.) I felt really reflective and inside myself....almost feeling lost in emotion and stuck, but not really? If that makes any sense. I felt like I just wanted to experience the trip and not think. I was so emotional on my way, that I feel part of me was afraid to feel everything else so I got quiet and stepped into the background...if it were not for the people I interacted with I don't know that anyone would have known I was there. (hmmm...the worthiness thing perhaps? Am I worthy to be here on this trip that truly on paper I cannot afford? Am I worthy to be this kind of light? All these thoughts pervaded my mind from time to time. Was I really this powerful Goddess when I lived in Egypt in other lifetimes? Now this is something I hope to explore later, but just in case...what I learned was that my lifetimes in Egypt have not always been good for me...I mean I have had much pain and trauma in those lifes and I believe once I stepped foot on the sand--those old energetic memories pervaded my life there.)

Back to my message. Now, while she was channeling a message for everyone else...we could each hear it. I heard one person receive the message you have to love yourself more--okay that wasn't the message, but it was the gist of it. So I am standing there thinking...I better not hear that as I have been doing the work to love me. I do love me I really, really do as all or most of you are aware that it is TRUE. Rest assured, that was not my message.

It was my time to received a message from Solara and I was excited, nervous and anticipatory.

She first channeled a sound into me. It was a beautiful sound that didn't sound human. It was very powerful. Then she channeled a message into me which I wish I wrote it down (by the way this is another one of those times that I tell you all to write things down that you think you will remember and then lo and behold, you don't write them down and you don't remember. It is okay--I do that too!) I don't remember the exacting wording that she said, but I do remember most of it. Her guides channeled through her the following information: "You are an Arcturian starseed. Your mission on earth is love. The life you have chosen to live is, in fact, carrying out your mission. It hasn't always been easy, but it is exactly what it is meant to be. You will have a much easier time of it." Okay that is what I remember and I asked from support from my guides to help me with the clarity of it.

In case you are all wondering what is Arcturian? Arcturus is a planet full of light beings. You may have heard of the Pleiadians and the Sirians...well Arcturians is another member of the Galactic Federation. I always knew that I was something--hahaha I often wondered if I was Pleiadian, but now I have received my clarity which is something I have been searching for. So, we will talk more about them in the future...keep your eyes open to Arcturian information..(I'd love whatever you have gathered over time...as I have very little information about then at this point other than what I personally am channeling.)

So, Solara comes out of her channel and says, I don't know anything about the Arcturians and I think, really? Just my luck--I am a being from another mother and no one can help me. No one else on our tour was "seeded" as Arcuturian...(the other people she gave information about "seeding" were either Pleiadian or Sirian)yet again I am different, but I am liking it this time around, I must say. Just disappointed that she didn't have any information or has not worked with Arcturians before me. Someday I will have to ask Solara to ask her guides to channel information about the Arcturians for me.

Onward, we still have the rest of the day...hey I am Arcturian, what are you? Just trying it on for size. :)


1.12.11

The Island of Philae Part Two: The Escape

So here we are trying to tour the Temple of Isis so we can "feel" the energy and take pictures of this magnificent place. Still being closely followed by this man,the tourism police or just an annoying man following me, one never knows, but he was still following me. So we thought that maybe if we take his picture that would be enough for him to leave. (Of course, we tipped him for that--it was like saying hey thanks for following me around...here is your tip. NOT!)

Ironic, he was standing on the other side of the gate in this area where we walked to that was enclosed, so it looked like he was in jail...hmmmm such humor the Gods have!

Finally, we were able to get into the building of the Temple (able to get away from that man for a few minutes--I mean it was like he was looking for me when I disappeared he kept looking). In the back of the Temple, there was a room that looked like a place where rituals were performed. It had a stone altar and if you touch that altar, the magical energy that flowed into you was incredible. Everyone felt something there until a guard came and told us not to touch it. So, I let go of the altar table. Stepping away, I moved over into a corner in this room, and asked for help from Isis because I had my emotional meltdown just a few minutes earlier(you know the crying bout I had because of all the male attention I had experienced in the last couple of days--it was just so overwhelming just a few minutes earlier). I asked my guides and Isis to help me to put up an invisible shield around me. (By the way, I had been asking for that invisible shield earlier, but it was not working.) Then all of a sudden like magic , I saw a wrapping of gold light come around me from head to toe. I could feel it like almost a suit of armor was wrapped around me. It was like I stepped out of time. Before, I knew it--my friends said it was time to go and leave the room. It was a small room so we needed to leave it and allow others to come in. I walked out and that guy that was looking for me...walked right by me as if I was not there...Jean and Carole noticed it too. It worked...OMG it worked!! I was so grateful and felt so much better.

Now, it was time to gather back near the beginning where we started...so much for getting the opportunity to enjoy the temple. I finally get a sense of comfort and it is time to go.

We were watched very carefully by all security there. I feel like security was on high alert that day from us all being there. I mean how could they not feel the intensity of 33 lightworkers? Our presence was known if not consciously on different level it was clearly known. I wonder if wearing white had more to do with the color of white. I know that Muslims wear white when they are on a pilgrimage and wonder if that had something to do with us drawing so much attention.

The whole experience while magical at moments was a bit unnerving for me. I certainly did feel the presence of Isis there. Was just glad to leave the Island. The boat took us back to the port where our bus was waiting for us....not that the walk through the market was uneventful because again we were getting slammed with a market and offerings of camels, etc. What can I say? All in a day's work?

1.12.2011

The Island of Philae: Temple of Isis

Today was another early start to the day. Had to be downstairs in hotel lobby by 7:00 a.m. We were heading out to the Isle of Philae and want to be there upon opening. The earlier the better that way we could get semi-private access. Now, today is the day of initiation into the Isis Frequency...what that means is the vibration of Isis is still there on the grounds of the Temple. The vibration is the frequency...Imagine that ? Tapping into the Ancient power of the Goddess of Life, she was the most powerful Goddess in Ancient times and her energy is there for us.

This is the day that we were originally guided to bring a white outfit for. But remember we all already wore the white outfit at the Great Pyramid? Yes, it was time again to put on that familiar white outfit with a little sand and camel smell. A little touch of the desert...

Here we are in the morning on the motorboat over. The day is beginning to look beautiful. On our way to the motorboat, we have to make our way through the market where the men came toward us again and started to "sell" their items. This is the first day that someone offered our group "camels for me". Yes, that is they offered to purchase me for camels. Can you imagine that ? Being sold for a bunch of animals? And yes, I do know that has happened for many years especially in that part of the world, but not to me so that was a little weird.

Anyway, we make our way over to the Isle of Philae--the Nile looks amazing in the morning on our trip over. We can already tell that the temperature is much better down here in Aswan than up in Cairo...it is beginning to feel more like the desert feel that I imagined.

We get to the Island and have to go through security which is a couple of guards at the entrance of the complex. They had a security gate you know one of those things that beep when you have something in your bag that gets detected? You have to walk through that and you open your bag for them to go through. It took awhile for us to get through. Now, remember we are going to be Initiated which means we have a few extra things like white sage, crystals and the like. Crealo Raa brought a walking stick with him everywhere we went because quite frankly there is a lot of walking and climbing everywhere we have gone. Well, the security guards (or tourism police--I don't really know who is who. It is hard to differentiate since they all have machine guns strapped to their sides....seriously!) Well, I was in line behind Crealo Raa and we were held up there while they "investigated Cre". Apparently, the walking stick is a weapon as was the incense he was carrying. So, it took us awhile to get through security and in the end, they held his bags and his stick and incense too. Poor Cre, he must have felt so invaded.

We all gathered together in a circle near the beginning to the temple where it seemed enough out of the way of everyone else. We set up our altar in the center of the circle with crystals and Solara began to channel. We gathered together in a circle.

Our tour guide(Stepen Ra) came over to warn Solara that we have only ten minutes before the police will come over. The thing is that apparently in recent months it was determined that meditation was no longer allowed at the temples in Egypt. Big group gatherings were not allowed either. So quickly, Solara channeled to us what we are to do during this initiation. She had to work quickly because Stepen Ra made it clear that they were threatening to throw him into jail. (Our poor tour guides, probably had no idea what they were in for touring a bunch of lightworkers out to change the vibration of the earth and themselves! They were completely wonderful. They did so much for us by getting us access and protecting us while we did "our work". They got us access by the way--by paying off the guards and such for some extra time or to look the other way as we prayed and meditated. They always went above and beyond. If you ever go to Egypt, I recommend their tour company: Scarab Egypt Tours.)

As Solara begins the initiation, Armunkara places oil on my third eye and Solara stands next to me with the Isis necklace on my third eye and channels a beautiful sound to ground the energy into me and then Cre, places his hands on my shoulders to really ground me. I was the first initiate and there was an incredible amount of energy coming through me. Then Solara made her way around the circle initiated each one of us. We all had our eyes closed as we connected to this beautiful energy. When we opened our eyes, we were surrounded by guards and security. We were told we needed to leave the area so we departed quickly--not yet fully adjusted to this beautiful frequency. We were told by Stepen Ra that we needed to disperse and be in groups of no more than 3. We were all so "high" from the energy. We left our area and began to walk around the temple. It was completely amazing to see this height of the temple. Incredible pictures carved into stone.

The Isis Temple Complex was huge and this picture is of the entrance into the Isis Temple Building. (By the way, just so you know our initiation occurred on the grounds within the complex, but not within this building as it would have been too weird for the guards, but then again clearly what we did was too weird for the guards.)

So as we dispersed into little groups, I walked off with Jean and Carole. The building was so magical. Now, it was clear that we were all in white so we were very noticeable to all the guards--easy to locate us. (On the one hand we stuck out like a sore thumb, on the other hand we not only looked beautiful all in white, but it was easy for each of us to locate one another.) So we were being watched by the guards. Our tour guides said they would wait for us in the cafe area (which I never saw because time wise didn't have time to get over there.) because they needed to stay separate from us (we found out later that they received a pretty hefty fine for us gathering in a circle and "praying"...Prayer as you know from my previous blog at Saqqara is not allowed in the Temple. Ironic really...isn't a temple a place to come together to "worship"? Okay, just looked it up online, Temple is a place of worship consisting of an edifice for worship of a deity. Hmm...someone might want to inform the Egyptian Government that the law is contradictory, well perhaps that is part of the reason the uprising is occurring over there now? The laws don't make sense. I digressed again...

Now, I know that when a person is activated--their vibration becomes higher they become more beautiful--that is their energy becomes more beautiful. This is a side note, but one that is important to note for yourselves, but also to help you understand why it is that I experienced some of the stuff I did with men offering camels for me --it was not one time that happened, but many. Here is a brief lesson of what I know to be true about our energy. When we are vibrating at a higher frequency, our energy is electric and magnetic. There is no way to describe what the feeling is because it is an ethereal reality experience. However, people who are unawakened and awakened for that matter are attracted to it. The unawakened soul (someone not quite accepting the reality of their spirit in terms of a higher connection than 3D or not understanding what is happening to them energetically on the planet...that is a really bad description, but enough for you to get the point for this can be a whole other post and perhaps someday soon it will be) perceives this energy as sexual energy. So hence when someone is at a high vibration, the unawakened soul perceives it as sexual/sensual energy because that is the only "human way"(emotion) that comes close to connecting what they are feeling. Does it mean that highly vibrating give off sexual energy? No--but the energy they emit may be perceived that way. (We high vibrational beings give off sexual energy to the partners we choose..and to those partners it is not even a question as the magnetism between twins is incomparable.) So, my point is I was rocking a very high vibration after the Temple Initiation (and apparently the night before at the Perfume place. Who needs ylang, ylang? When you have it you have it I guess. )

There was this one man --tourism police perhaps. He followed me everywhere in this Temple. He followed me Carole and Jean. I didn't feel good about it. It was so overwhelming. No matter where we went he found me. Carole and Jean knew it was me he was following because they could tell. They felt bad for me. I tried to sit down near a pillar and there he and another man was. I walked around and felt like I was being followed...I was. It overwhelmed me so much. I didn't get to truly enjoy this magnificent temple. I finally broke down and cried. I felt like I wanted to escape, but there was no where for me to go. It was like a nightmare where you are being stalked, chased, followed and there is no way out...and literally, there wasn't...we were on an island and I had to wait for the group so I could leave.

Will end here....Look for The Island of Philae Part Two: The Escape...

1.12.11

Perfume? Tea? Me?

Now, we have dinner scheduled back at the hotel for 8 p.m. (we tried to convince the Tour Guides that we just ate at 5:00 and would not likely be hungry for dinner tonight, but they already set it up and it was too late). I am already really tired and want to go back to the hotel to rest up and dinner is the last thing that I want to do.

On the bus back to the hotel, our Tour Guides, let us know that since we have a couple hours before dinner, we have an opportunity to go to the state sponsored "perfume store" which is really 100% authentic essential oils. We were supposed to have that opportunity when we were in Cairo, but too much was happening and we needed to be rested for our work at the Pyramid and Sphinx, but this is something that I really wanted to do. To be able to purchase pure essential oils that I could use in my business--how exciting! So tempting to go to sleep, but I don't know if and when we will have another opportunity to buy them so I am going. There is a group of about 12 of us that wanted to go to the Perfume Store.

The bus drops us off and brings the rest of our group back to the Hotel. We walk into this fancy building (much nicer than most buildings you see in Egypt hence state sponosored). They bring us into a middle room where there are all kinds of fancy bottles along the walls and in the center of the room. Really could spend money just buying the bottles.

Seating was all around the room. So, we were instructed to sit down as they had a presentation for us. We all took our seats and I sat between Kamala and Sopdet Ra. They offered us a complimentary drink. They offered us mint tea and quickly we recalled our experience with dark black tea with mint leaves. I suggested, could we have boiled mint? They looked at us like we were nuts, but they boiled mint for us. Apparently, they are wondering why on earth anyone would want mint leaves boiled...but I have to say to all of you...if you are ever in Egypt...ask ..they are so fresh and so delicious you don't really need anything in it except the hot water.

Then the presenter begins telling us about the "chakra perfumes". He apparently knows that we would want to know about them...our Tour Guides were amazing at conveying just what we need. So as we sit there on the benches that are in a u-shape around the room. Then in front of us to the right is this area where like 6 people are sitting. I felt like we (the tourists) sitting there for presentation were like live television for them. It was crazy funny. So imagine, that you are sitting in your living room and to the right of the television is a group of people just sitting there watching you as you watched tv--that is what it felt like. Now all of us were completely tired, delirious from not sleeping the night before and just pure giggle happy. Sopdet Ra and I couldn't contain our laughter. I swear we were "Egyptian Tourist television"...they just looked on at us like they were watching tv.

The presenter came around with an oil (perfume) for each chakra and told us we can put it on the chakra...so we put the crown chakra oil on first then, the third-eye chakra oil and boy were we getting high. (Everyone laughs at me because I have never done drugs and truly do not know what it is to be high as everyone else knows what high on drugs is...but believe me if you have ever been high on energy you know what it is to be high.) I was floating all over the place; truly high on the oils...those of you who know what it is like to use essential oils in your practice will know what I am talking about.

Meanwhile, they bring out the tea in glasses,yes like a juice size glass. You know it is small, see through glass which means it is hot and very hot. We could barely hold it in our hands. The "boy" (because he looked like a boy) begins passing them out...and gets all nervous especially around me and Sopdet Ra. So the presenter carries on in description of oils and chakras. The he gets to the Sacral Chakra and says this is the oil you need to use "Ylang Ylang" to get you excited. We start giggling like crazy because thus far as you know I haven't needed Ylang, Ylang to draw male attention. (Meanwhile, over in the box seating where the rest of the people that work there sat and watched us, I saw a man honing in on me.) The poor "boy" with the tea gets too unnerved walking by us he bangs into the table and knocks down our boiled mint tea..."Noooooo I thought in my head someone finally got my mint tea right. Don't fall over." Thankfully, tea fell over, but it wasn't the three of us.

So to bring you to the point of why were giggling we had been putting the oils on all our chakras with the exception of the last three chakras (lower body chakras). So, the guy got all nervous and says "go ahead and place this on your sacral chakra, place this on your root chakra." And we were like, really? I felt like a teenager in highschool in a sex ed class. You have to imagine being awake for about 30 hours as this point, little to eat, high on these oils...we had no choice but to feel all giggly. That placement of oil is not something that we should or would do in public. Laughing hysterically, we all put it on our arm.

Now we finish with the presentation and we are welcomed to "test" any other oil we want to. So we find out that the group of people over on the side "watching" us are salespeople and they are to come over and "work" with us. Guess who came to work with me? Yep, the man honing in on me from across the room. (Truth be told he really wasn't a bad looking man, but really? I must have looked like crap after not sleeping and being windswept on a boat not to mention my eyes must have been bloodshot at this point.) So, he puts the pressure on by hovering over me as Kamala, Sopdet Ra and I decide what we want to purchase. Kamala, my Arabic Speaking Angel, tells him to step away while we decide--he did for a whole three minutes. When he came back, he was very interested in what I had chosen. Each of us is brought to the "register" which is a telephone, calculator and credit card machine (in American we would think shifty--in Egypt we think technology! hahaha). I finally get to pay (the last person to pay). They go into another room to fill the orders. They go to a separate room to pour the oil you purchase into a glass container, seal it tight with extra tape for travel and then box it. Each person pays their money and gets there stuff, but not me.

Then, I am taken to the other room where the orders are being filled (I pulled Sopdet Ra with me) where they are packaging the oils (again I was apparently the last person to get their order filled). Kamala came in and got hers and left. Sopdet Ra gets hers and is ready to go...I am pulling on her shirt saying very clearly (DO NOT LEAVE ME. DO NOT LEAVE ME.) He (the salesman who is the owner of this plac) likes me and wants to keep me. I would hope date me not keep me, but it felt more like keep me. He decides to have his people fill my request and he wants to give me a gift because he can. He knew I liked the scent of Isis so he gifted me with a one ounce bottle. And, he told Sopdet Ra she could go because she had her stuff...he wanted to tell me a story. So I said oh no she will wait with me. So he gifted her a one ounce bottle of Isis just for being there with me. (Lucky her, huh? Who knew my magical beauty would captivate this man? lol)

So he wants a picture with me...and I am not sure he wants a picture with my camera--=I think he had his own he was ready to go and get. He tells me to make sure I put on Isis tomorrow since he now knows we are going to the Island of Philae and the Temple of Isis. He says the oil will bring out the Goddess Energy in me even more. He says that if I wear this oil, I will feel the power of Isis and Osiris. He tells me the story of their love and; the unwavering faith and love Isis had for her beloved twinflame Osiris. With patience, love and faith, Isis was able to conceive a beautiful child, Horus who went on to rule Egypt. For more information on the love story of Isis and Osiris go to articlesnatch.com and look for the following article: Isis And Osiris: Defining The Power Of Love
By: Mike Greaves (Read more: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Isis-And-Osiris--Defining-The-Power-Of-Love/1156086#ixzz1Cv9AasQ2) (There is no need for me to write it here as it was already written by many. )

(great image I found on the internet--love it from Elfwood.com)

Now in telling me this story, the salesman didn't know the impact or the full effect of his words. I think he was telling me on a 3D level as a flirt thing...but on a 5D level he was speaking directly to my spirit...it was a love story that touched my body, mind and spirit. The faith, unwavering love I have for my beloved twin. The interesting correlation to the chopping up of Osiris and the literal piecing of him back together is really interesting as I connect it to the "pieces of the soul" that must come back together healed to make a soul complete before it can unite with its other half so to speak. It also brings to my mind the balancing of the masculine energy with the feminine energy. The male energy has been the stronger influence on the planet until recently when there has been an influx of divine feminine energy--we need both to balance it. But even more we need the female energy to help the male energy...hence Isis bringing Osiris back to life. She helped him become whole again and then they were both together welcomed into paradise--the full reunion of the twinsouls? It made me think there was something I needed to pay attention to. Okay, what a beautiful moment I felt as he spoke.

Meanwhile, I am holding onto Sopdet Ra as this man spoke and I quickly became aware that we were the only ones left in the store. The man wanted to keep talking with me (I didn't really understand what he was saying because he was speaking in an Arabic accent...and it was heavy and unclear to me most of the time, but he really did try). As I write this, I feel bad because I did judge him harshly being a man who was interested in me (but on some level that is flattering, but I think I may have gotten enough flattery for now).

So we escape the store and get on the bus and we laugh because I didn't need ylang ylang to attract a man or get my sacral chakra open. Apparently, mine is wide open and wow...my experience at the store can be summed up: The owner offered: Perfume? Tea? Me? hahaha.

So we have dinner back at the hotel, meet in our circle which by the way I LOVE!!! Then we get to go to bed...AND...remember my concern with the room's cleanliness? I have since decided to sleep fully clothed, including hat and gloves too. (We didn't have heat in the room either!!) Isis we are coming tomorrow. It is a big day ...we are being initiated at the Temple of Isis into the energy of the Divine Feminine Isis. So it is good night for now...

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