Earth: Home, Heart and Hearth

by Ilyhana Kate Kennedy ã 2002

Welcome to the Homecoming Page!

This page is about the experience of coming into synchronicity or Oneness with the Earth and Nature, and with the All. It is about walking the truth of the personal Soulpath and the challenges of becoming who we really are in deep connection with the Earth.

The Pilgrimage Home to the Heart.

The pilgrimage home to the heart is the seeking of peace within, the kind of peace that comes with surrender and acceptance, the bliss that comes with changing what we can and the letting go of all that is determined to remain just as it is.

Being right here, right now, being on Earth, being grounded becomes our challenge.

The places where we have lived have been playing their part in our lives. Interaction with the archetypal energetic influences of those places has a strong bearing on the events and experiences of our lives.

Being Grounded.

Learning to be present in every moment of our Earth existence is an art of acutely directed consciousness.

It takes mindful awareness to be present with our outer senses, in deep appreciation of the beauty of the physical experience of being human, enjoying a life on Earth. It takes mindful compassion to be present in our inner senses, aware of our feelings and appreciating the internal experience of life on Earth as a journey of awareness, conscious of others, conscious of Nature, conscious of Consciousness itself.

Life in western culture is a constant confrontation with distractions that would have us be less mindful of our inner and outer realities, particularly as we enter further into worlds of virtual realities.

It is so easy to wander away from the self and be carried by the tide of the culture. It is much more challenging to be mindful, to learn to know who we truly are, to be able to tell the mythical archetypal story of our own lives, and know the qualities of Love and compassion that we came here to learn, this time around.

How much more understanding and patience with our life journey is possible when we know something of what we are attempting to refine within ourselves?

Identifying the Energy of a Place.

Intuitively, the body has a storehouse of information about the Earth energies of the places where we live. However, even without consciously ‘reading’ the archetypal influence of a place through the sensory system of the body, it can be defined quite accurately in the following three ways.

• Firstly, look at the landforms. Are they masculine or feminine in appearance? What else do they remind you of?

• Secondly, what are the people like? What are the most common dynamics that you observe between people in this place? What dynamics of behaviour, what repeated patterns do you see?

• Thirdly, what does the place name tell you about the energy of the place? Numerology is the art of defining the Sound frequency of a name. The name holds the frequency of the Sound energy of the place.

The Mountain of Love.

For example, the landform where the two major energy lines on the Eastern Australian coast meet is called Mount Greville. One line is predominantly ‘feminine’ and the other predominantly ‘masculine’.

The mountain has very obvious phallic forms on one side, and very obvious female genitalia form on the opposite side.

The Aborigines called the mountain Meebalboogan.

The numerology for both names is below. Numerical values are above each letter and are reduced by addition to a single digit. What is so important here is to notice the 11 of both names. Pillars of the temple. Integration of masculine and feminine in the landform. Meeting place of masculine and feminine energy lines.

The mountain is an expression of both masculine and feminine energies.

                       4 6 3 5 2   7 9 5 4 9 3 3 5                     4 5 5 2 1 3 2 6 6 7 1 5

                        M o u n t   G r e v i  l  l  e                     M e e b a l b o o g a n

                                       65                                                         47

                                       11                                                         11

                                        2                                                            2

Looking at the numerology and the landforms allows us to be aware of what we might possibly experience in the inner self if we spend time in this place. (By the way, there’s an excellent caravan park and camping ground close by at Lake Moogerah. This is in the same area in South East Queensland as the ‘wounded warrior’ lying down in the ranges at Cunningham’s Gap.)

The Energy of Your Place of Birth.

The influence of our place of birth has a major impact upon our life journey. We are born into, or move to, the places that hold the most appropriate archetypal energies for our chosen life learning.

The energy of the place sets the scene, determines the dynamics for our personal life experience.

I was born in a ‘mother’ energy place, close to the strong yang line in south-east Queensland, yin within yang. Major archetypes playing out in my personal life myth have been the martyr and the predator with the development through the archetypal roles of the child, the victim, the warrior, heroine, mother, and crone. Courage and temperance (strength and patience) are the qualities coming out of this journey.

I moved around a lot in my times of living on the Sunshine Coast. For many of those years, I lived in at least four different locations on the major yang line, eventually living on a major energy site where the line runs out to sea at Noosaville.

My life became incredibly bizarre from this time, as though the ‘hand of God’ had reached down and pressed ‘fast forward’ on my life video. The women who lived with me in the house at Noosaville also have experienced major upheaval in their lives.

That was around fifteen years ago. A year or so ago, we discovered that each of us had, at the time, an intense and very conscious inner desire to “just get the lessons of life over and done with” at the time of moving into that house! Oops! An invitation to the archetypes!

Conflict and Courage.

I spent some time in a small town in North Queensland that also has the numerology of 47/11/2 as in Meebalboogan. The school was built on a major energy site. There’s nothing unusual about a school being a focus for community interaction or for the occasional disagreement to occur in the Parents and Citizens Association that supports a school. However, during the time that I lived there, this group was in a state of extraordinary internal division and conflict that often flared very dramatically. Several years later, the group still experiences deep struggle.

An 11 is a vibration that brings differences to the surface of consciousness. There is no avoiding the issue. The challenge for the community will be to bring the issue to resolution by being able to see the bigger picture. So far, the challenge still stands.

From one point of view, we might say that the community members are stuck in their stubborn inflexibility. From another, we might say that they are in the early stages of experiences of learning to defend what they believe in, regardless of what the issues are. Some will simply be involved in struggle with a focus on winning, regardless of principles or fairness to all. Some will be involved in struggle with a total focus on principle and be intent on the principle winning out.

Both are learning different aspects of the warrior path. Transcending that desire to win, to go beyond the fear of the ‘foe’, to find the solution that benefits all of the people involved and does no harm to the place, is a truly heroic process.

Courage cannot possibly be developed without facing fear, whether it be a foe on the outside or a fear on the inside.

Every cycle of the life myth produces a more difficult challenge. I’m not always elegant in my response to the archetypes, sometimes still falling back into the fierceness of the warrior in order to stand in my truth. Such is the nature of the human journey.

At other times, I am able to be still and quietly persist in affirming my truth.

Does your life get crazy sometimes?

Archetypal influences may be so subtle that we have no real conscious awareness that anything is happening, or they may be so strong as to make our lives appear to have gone haywire, totally bizarre!

People appear to have entirely different personalities as the archetype emerges into the interaction through behaviour. Events take on a ‘larger than life’ quality. We will either move into a reactive mode, or bend like the reed in the river and flow with the current until the force subsides.

Staying grounded is the reed’s method of survival, hanging on with its roots deep into the riverbed. Staying grounded in the face of the bizarre is a very real challenge. It calls us to reach deep into ourselves and pull up our own truths, know who we are and stand in who we are, no matter how clumsily we may do this at first. Eventually though, we learn to do it with Grace!

Soul Integration.

If we come from a Western culture, there’s a good chance that we’ll have spent most of our lives with little awareness of our bodies, our feelings, and of the Earth and Nature. The culture and possibly the genetics predispose us to a life lived ‘in our heads’.

It is an enormous challenge for Westerners to integrate the physical and spiritual experiences, in order to drink from the cup of the Holy Grail of the heart, and develop the qualities of Love and Compassion.

The process demands a resolution of suppressed feeling states. Our cultural conditioning entrains us to live in the distractions of the outer world, and the inner world of thought, analysis, interpretation, judgments and projection.

Many of us also find that a confrontation is required with religious beliefs that tell us to transcend the body or to annihilate the ego.

A more compassionate view would appreciate the Creator’s choice to experience life in a body and get on with enjoying it.

The ego does need to be mentored, given appropriate boundaries to be able to balance the personal needs with the needs of others. Mentoring the ego’s development is vital in maintaining the healthy survival of the vehicle chosen by the spirit to experience life on Earth, encouraging the ego to act as supportive partner to the spirit.

It is the very journey of BEING in the body on the physical plane that the spirit has chosen for an experience that will refine conscious awareness.

The more that we can be who we really are, the more the Soul can shine through, and reveal itself within this experience. We have to have a healthy ego to be able to support that self-realisation, especially when the realised self holds such different values from those of the mainstream.

How do we live? Where do we work?

How do we maintain and support relationships with people who matter to us, especially when they reject us because our values have changed?

Not so easy! It’s so tempting to just fall back into the same old same old!

Additionally, we mostly live in urban environments where connection with the natural Earth energies is distorted or disconnected, due to grids of power lines, moving vehicles, rail lines, etc. and few buildings that are designed to harmonise with and benefit from the energies of the Earth.

Our understanding of physical survival relates not to energy and Nature, but to money and the built environment, forgetting that money is a token of energy spent and that everything in our built environment originally comes from Nature, as does everything in the supermarket.

So we have some challenges to rise above when the spirit comes knocking on the doors inside us demanding emergence, saying “get real, get into your body, get your head together with your body, get into your heart, get into who you are right now and let everyone know it”.

And then there’s the man/woman thing. What a challenge we give ourselves in Western civilisation, attempting to integrate anima (feminine) and animus (masculine) internally whilst the culture wages gender warfare!

Given such odds, we can only call it a heroic journey!

No wonder we need support networks!

Pilgrimage Journeys.

Restoring our connection with the body, our feelings and the Earth is possible by consciously undertaking actual pilgrimage journeys, visiting Sacred Sites and following the energetic Earth ‘pathways’.

You will not need to travel to Sedona or Stonehenge to do this. Every country has its sacred places, and yours may not be far from where you live right now. Each place that you journey or walk in has its effect upon your consciousness.

If you are an Australian, you might visit your local library and research the indigenous cultural understanding of the area, or respectfully request of an indigenous elder who has cultural permission to do so, to tell the Dreamtime story of an area that you wish to understand. Just listen! Look for the archetypal figures and catalytic events in the story. Look for the qualities or virtues expressed by the story.

Then pack the car with a picnic and let your body tell you where to go. Listen to the Earth. Give it a hearing. Let it tell you about itself. And watch the birds. They are the spirit messengers.

When we are in a space of deep resonance with the Earth, everything can communicate with us!

Walk with Care! Do take care when you feel very magnetically drawn to a place. It is wise to stand still and listen inside. Ask if it is good for you physically or emotionally to enter that place. Indigenous peoples had taboos over certain places for certain people for good reasons. For instance, it may not be at all advisable for a woman to enter a strong masculine energy area when she is menstruating. Listen and take notice of what you hear inside yourself. Archetypal energies are a Mind of their own.

If you live somewhere else in the world, no doubt there will be an indigenous history that will give some clue to the Earth energies of your homeland.

            If not, trust that your body has a sensory system that can guide you.

You’ll need your Hermetic staff to go on pilgrimage. The staff is the symbol of the axis mundi, the connection between Heaven and Earth, between spirit and body. The ritual of making a personal staff honours the journey Home to the Heart through walking the Earth.

Just find a good stout stick with a smooth end for the hand. Bind it with leather, ribbons, or cord. Tie on seeds, beads, feathers and shells. Take it on every walk with you as you seek to discover the reality of your experience here on Earth.

Happy Homecoming!

Watch the Seminar and Events page in this website for upcoming Seminars, Landwalks, and Mentored Pilgrimage Events in Australia.

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