LAVONE'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE GRANDMOTHERSSPEAK & THE NET OF LIGHT~
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From: Shalahna K.
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:00 AM
Subject: LaVone's experience with the grandmothersspeak & the net of light~
Reply to: 270455
ID: 270457

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing on this most full and powerful weekend (another ONE !). isn't it so lovely to watch these things unfold. Want to know the name of the book you co authored. Also did you meet Elisa at Linnea's. I met them both at the March Grandmother's Gathering weekend. Perhaps you and I can meet there next year!!!

Have a most blessed day. Isn't it a synchronous and wonderful life when we let go of our clinging fear and jump into the river of life!!!

Perhaps I can share about my experience about finding Sharon and the Grandmothers

Much Love and Many Blesssings

Shalahnia

--- On Sat, Jul 17, 2010, in msg270455, Lavonne Rees wrote ---

Dear Waterkeepers please forgive me posting here rather then in the blogs section. I don't have time to investigate it abilities with the Conscious Convergence activities this weekend however I felt the email arriving in my email from 13 Grandmothers' Virtual Council was telling me "it is time".

I will start with a little background: I have been drawn to the Grandmothers work for several years now. I always hesitated to reach out since I am younger then grandmother age. What could I contribute? I have been listening to the work that the Grandmothers do, learning from them. I shared with my close circle about my desire to deepen my connection and yet my feelings of not being a mother/grandmother. That I felt I would continue to learn from the wings and I wanted to be more engaged. My friends told me you carry Grandmother energy and although you might not be a mother or a grandmother this energy is not in a literal sense. They said you do much work for the empowerment of women, you study ancient traditions and do Water Blessings and speak to Mother Earth. That is all you need.

I heard of Sharon through Gather the Women and had for the past several years probably at least 7 had hoped to get to meet with Sharon in Laguna Beach, maybe 90 minutes from my home . Something always took me down another path. I started working with Evolutionary Women, Co-authored a book continued with my Women' Retreats and Water Blessings started this Lovely Community. Yet Grandmothers Speak both the organization and the teachings kept weaving through this tapestry I call my life. Once again after the Solstice Virtual Gathering I set forth to make that connection. When I went to the website I saw Linnea was offering her last meeting in Huntington Beach closer to Long Beach then Laguna Beach.

I reached out to her two days before the meeting (on a very powerful weekend) and told her my story and I asked if I could join their meeting although it was the last one. "The timing seems right I said, I am being directed to deepen the connection". She agreed, gave me directions and some food for thought "She would be looking for someone who would be willing to take over the meetings". She had been hosting them for two years and it was time for her to focus on some other studies. Hmmm..... Is it coincidence that now is the time I make the connection and on this powerful weekend? I felt I would let the universe show me where I was supposed to be and in what role. Just be open to the experience.

I started to Huntington Beach with no expectations an Open Heart and the excitement of a small child.I arrive first and it gave me a few moments to connect with Linnea. As it turned out there were three of us who were new and were all from Long Beach. Of all things right. We out numbered those from any other area. We all said hmmm.... The meeting opened up with prayer and some beautiful flute music and the off we went. We read and conversed and it turned out that everyone wanted to receive the empowerment not just the "new girls from Long Beach". Linnea asked if we felt comfortable with first receiving the empowerment and then giving the empowerment. We said yes. I have to admit I was a little nervous but I had faith that the grandmothers would provide the language and get me over any humps.

It was a beautiful exchange of the the empowerment and as I had hoped the right words came although I did not know all of the songs. When I stumbled I just let words come into my heart and out my mouth. There wasn't a dry eye in the group we could feel the power given back to us and the Love that would sustain us.

Then we came back to circle and we had a discussion about who felt called to action. Myself and another Long Beach gal both spoke. She spoke of not having a place to host the meeting and I spoke of being called out of town for work alot sometimes for up to 90 days. However we both felt strongly we were the ones. We knew why as the conversation continued, we discussed the possibility of using a room at Spiritual Center that I know of, that we would share the meeting and it would make a large network. The Women who had played the flutes at the beginning stated she had been looking for a place to do a Flute Circle and invite in the Drums. We are now moving this forward as a collaborative effort and looking at it as a community. We all feel this is right. Of course there are details to work out however I know in my heart this was all put in motion by the grandmothers.

I will let you go for now, I have just touched on the surface however you should get a feel for the power of the meeting and the whole weekend was like that one thing after another. I have really been looking forward to what will show up this weekend.

With an open heart and much Love,

LaVonne

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