Wharenui

Wharenui

Finally, we return to the wharenui and the touchstone
That gathers and sends us, and now becomes the Stone

Of our dispersal, as we feel into all we have loved and learnt
On our long pilgrimage – which in truth will never end

Despite our necessary dispersion to the four directions –
& I feel the Mother Stone; pulse, pulse, pulsing with the energy

Of our promise – despite the massive wave I see rising
In the Elemental – and I don’t know if it will sweep us away

Or carry us through; I only know I’m not to keep silent
But like Jonah, find my own Nineveh and the heart needed

To shed tears of love in the marketplace – and I will ceaselessly
Speak of the Stone and its great love for its children

& it’s consistent support as we struggle to protect the creatures
& ecosystems: & of the hope the She engenders, & the potential 

For the many to experience, what was once, the province of the few
As I double down on warnings and desperately hope I am wrong 

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‘Wharenui:’ A Māori Meeting house. The walkway at Te Waikoropupu Springs begins and ends at the Wharanui.

‘Mother Stone:’ A symbol developed from the poem ‘Touchstone.’ The symbol includes; The Sacred Feminine, Good Shepherdess, Sophia and Papatuanuku and speaks of the Origins and Sacred Purposes of Humanity. The symbol is poetic and sits beyond religious doctrine.

‘The massive wave I see rising in the Elemental:’ On January 10, 2023, I woke to a vision of a rising was. The wave was massive. I felt scared. I had a sense of imminent death. The vision was followed by a series of sayings including; ‘Let it do its work, so in death, life is recovered;’ ‘It will destroy and replenish;’ ‘The wave is Elemental;’ ‘You’re not to conceal it (the wave) anymore.’  The vision pictures what many people have come to see and understand. Humanity and the creatures and ecosystems have entered a rapidly worsening crisis that includes; climate change, overpopulation, extinctions, famines, floods, fires, droughts, wars, multitudes of refugees and the catastrophic threat of nuclear war.    

‘But, like Jonah, find my Nineveh:’ In the book of Jonah, the prophet Jonah is thrown overboard and spends time in a whale i.e. he spends time in his deep soul listening to the unconditioned light within. Jonah is told he must go to the city of Nineveh and speak a deeply unpopular message: ‘stop being so aggressive and violent and get your social/spiritual system back in order.’

‘For the many to experience what was once the province of the few:’ one of the sayings is; whatever happened to the few may happen to the many. In the past, only a few people were ever awake at the same time. The saying tells us there is the potential, within the extraordinarily challenging emergency humanity faces, for the many to awaken.