Finding Ice Flower

When I got back to the USA, I went to see someone who I had known before I left for Australia. She had thought that she and I had a special relationship. I had avoided communicating with her while in Australia but when I let her know that I was back she consulted her Medicine Cards to see what this all meant. The card Shari pulled was "Kokopelli. "

I only knew Kokopelli as the dancing musician but she read me the story. It suggested that the enigmatic fluteplayer was something more than symbol and he had found a partner who knew who he really was. Her name was Ice Flower and they "collaborated" to have a child who would one day teach his people how they could travel to the stars. There were many facets of Kokopelli that coincided with my own life path. I was stunned. Humans traveling to the stars...perhaps it wasn't just a looney puzzle that had begun to take shape in my mind through my experiences. It was as though Spirit had continued to lead me to discover a portal that only a few humans have ever taken. It had been almost forgotten.

I realized that Kokopelli might very well have been an early teacher of the dream dance. In 1998 I was told that there would be a woman to share the dreamdance. I’ve been looking for the cues that would show me the "Ice Flower" who would be ready to dance the new dream with me. I’d see some evidence among women I met along the way, but usually their ego was simply too embedded and their programming too thorough. Sometimes that distance would diminish but they could not, would not open to the shamanic dream dance 

I know that there is an Ice Flower to dance the new dream with me. I've met her and we are together, finally. She laughs. I call her Laughing Bird. She was looking for her name when a bird flew over but she didn’t think that Black Bird Flying was very impressive. I told her that her name was Laughing Bird and she laughed….and laughed. Then I told her about the nature of laughter…for most people it is the closest they ever get to realizing their enlightenment because when they are laughing they can’t take anything seriously. Real laughter is not very rational. Real laughter arises out of joy that simply cannot be repressed.

Laughing Bird is very much like Kokopelli's Ice Flower. This true Ice Flower intuited our connection to the Kokopelli legend that I had not yet discovered. Like the true Ice Flower in the Kokopelli legend she knew who I was before I arrived. Shortly after, Laughing Bird intuited the password to the storage facility where my storage locker was, she told me the number, and when I punched in the number the gate to my belongings opened. In her presence other doors have opened and the future has opened to us. Laughing Bird is an artist and beams with love and care for people. She is learning to accept and acknowledge her intuitive gifts and she recognizes my gifts and our purpose together. And she does it without ego.

Laughing Bird has Native American roots as I do, she values the Native American way, and draws from the same source of in-spiration. She knows the power of the Kokopelli Project, that it is beyond anything currently on the planet. She know who we are together, who I am, and who she is. She knows without any drugs or stimulants...just by listening to the sissagwad, the spirit wind in the trees.

The Star Elder has taught that drugs or intoxicating beverages are a blind alley. Those who use them as short cuts to the unknown spiritual purpose of humanity are only finding a short circuit that dead ends nowhere. The ancients, Kokopelli and Ice Flower, probably discovered the power that is natural to the human being... to be transformed by the energy of love attuned by deep passion. The result is a power unmatched in the universe. Kokopelli and Ice Flower knew that the answer is unselfish love and attunement of that love as our natural path to the stars.