The Ojai Post

Return of the Ancestors Video

I am just floored and awed to tears over this.. It's been raining since Friday morning now, and the tears that slip down my cheeks and fall gently to the ground match to soft sound of the rain falling down.

Great Spirit lays these calls upon my heart.. and I don't know why... Spirit just says, Maureen, run out to the street, throw out your flowers, say "look whose coming to town."

so I do.. like the 8000 Sacred Drums.. and like the Return of the Ancestors, how many years have I heard the call and said look whose coming, It's the Return of the Ancestors.. I bet it been since the very beginning... Last year South America they went, and I stood in the street and announced their coming.. even though they did not know who I was.. I still heard Adam Yellow Bird say thanks. and even though I have never been to a Return of the Ancestors Gathering my heart has always held them in sacred prayer for the work they came to do.. throw flowers and dance.. make the announcement. .

Then this year, like the others, I throw the flowers and dance and make the announcement Return of the Ancestors in Arizona... not thinking for a moment that this year would be any different.. Sacred prayer thrown to the wind.. give honor to where honor is due, and like a prayer release..

and that was what I thought I would do.... then to my dismay it turned out I would be made sacred witness through my dreams... first night, I wake up thinking I think I am at the Return of the Ancestors Gathering.. Second night electric blue dancer dancing through my dream.. and third night a little Sun Dancer comes dancing through...

And of course all who know know right after that we went deep into prayer, gonna shine that love through..

This weekend I have spent the whole weekend trying to watch the Return of the Ancestors on Utube.. I have dial up so a 9 minute video takes over 4 hours to download.. and there are at least 10 videos, so between grandchildren, and power outages and the Thunder Ones walking through, so the last one I watched today, well it took all this time to sink in.. this is why I stood in the street throwing my flowers, announcing the Return of the Ancestors were coming.

This is it,

this is it,

this is it,

I am sacred witness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l07aswI_g4&feature=related

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here we are in the dance of our creation..