To: Tony Redhouse
Subject: San Jose Meditation
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 9:47 pm

Hi Tony, Here is another affirmation from your magical and spiritual event last week. Susan was the one sitting next to me and wanted to share her writings with you. You were completely wonderful and very in-tuned with Spirit. You blessed everyone in the room with your prayers, intent, love and desires. Enjoy your week!
Love, Jac

From: Susan L.
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:28 AM

Something I wrote this morning about the evening. Thought you would find this of interest, especially the last part.

Navajo Healing and the New Moon.

Sometimes I get handed the pause button to get off the screaming train of adulthood.

Last night was one of those nights. A fiiend of mine, Jac B., got back from Arizona recently where she met Tony Redhouse. When she invited me to a "night of meditation" with Tony during his visit to San Jose, I hesitated. Sitting still for minutes at a time comes hard for a fidgety person like myself (surprisingly, though, I can drop into shamanic journeying for a long period of time - go figure). I wasn't sure what to expect and a lot of strange fears were coming up.

But the whole week I kept getting messages from the Universe that I was getting too caught up in the illusion of reality. Work has been overwhelmingly busy, but at the same time filled with the allure of success. I received top ratings on an annual performance review with the promise of a healthy annual bonus and positive guidance from my boss on steps I can take to assure a promotion this year. And yet, by yesterday, the news left me feeling strangely empty. What the hell is it all for? I kept wondering, understanding a little why attorneys tend to have a high drug and alcohol addiction rate.

Tony was dressed in full Navajo ceremonial clothing when I arrived. I'm sure I was giving off nervous, unsettled energy at first, a bit ruffled by some disturbing news from my sister about a relative. He soon launched into some very simple, but profound ceremonies, though .... things like playing the flute for us to guide us into meditation, letting us hold eagle feathers to experience balance and buming sage and cedar to release things weighing us down. I felt lighter and more at peace as the evening went on.

Then he performed two different healings on us that jolted me back into sensing my true path. The first was so strange I cannot really adequately describe it other than to say that he touched us with objects gifted to him by the 13 Grandmothers. They were meteorites encased in some sort of small metal coverings and gave off a sound like gentle rain. He came up behind me and after moving them around me and telling me he had brought something from the heavens for us, pressed them against my temples (on each person he touched them to a different spot, apparently being led to heal at different points of the body). The sensation was shocking and abundantly pleasant at the same time. Suddenly all my worldly cares were gone.

The second healing involved using a Navajo hoop on each of us. He passed the hoop from the top of our head down to our feet, a symbolic ritual to pass from the old world into the new. As he came to each of us, he seemed guided to give us a personal message. I don't remember all the words he told me but it was something like this and nearly led me to tears:

You don't have to be so careful and so troubled anymore. You have chosen the good part of yourself You're moving in the right direction. You are that good part of yourself.

I glanced around the room and noticed that he had 18 attendees (adding up to 9 in numerology) and that the date of the ceremony also added up to a 9. The number of the end of a cycle, the time to regroup for new beginnings.

Well, today can be a new beginning. Today is the New Moon in Leo. There are some who believe the New Moon is a time to plant seeds, not only in the garden but in our thoughts in order to set our intentions and bring about results for the full lunar cycle.