Interesting question. If I were to define who I am by my profession, financial achievement, status in the community or any number of labels one acquires in one’s life, I would say I yet know not who I am. Spiritually, however, I know who I am. I am part of that which is known as the great I AM. I am that which IS and always will be. I am a being of Creation, of the All That Is; a co-creator with the Divine; I am a being of Light and Love. That much I DO know about who I am.
Who am I if I were to be labeled?
Among many things, I am a woman, a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister, a seester and a friend; a drummer, a dreamer, a magician, a story teller, an author, a writer, a poet, an artist, a musician. I am a professional business woman who has owned several businesses; a college graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and a perpetual student of spiritual studies and integrative sciences. I am a doer, a lover, a creator, a thinker, a feeler. I am emotional, curious, optimistic, imaginative, child-like and I love being in a state of awe and wonder.
Embraced by my mother with love and adoration, I begin my earthly sojourn.
A spirited, determined two and a half year old leads her brothers and father to “who knows where” striding with conviction, tenacity and purpose, and loving every minute of it!
My fir
st introduction to what much later in life I would come to know as Otorongo: Mother/Sister Jaguar, Chocachinchi. The female jaguar is an archetype in the Peruvian Andes Q’ero tradition of shamanism. At the age of seven, I received this jaguar as a birthday gift. I named him Jomar. Little did I know then that forty-eight years later I would be initiated into the Q’ero tradition to become a shaman pampamesayoq, earth steward mesa carrier.
“Shape-shifting” at an early age. My sister, Annie,
and I are having a wonderful time being something other than ourselves, playing and cavorting in the world of “make believe” and imagination!
Now as an adult, I still dance and cavort in the world of imagination. I am quite content to “walk between the worlds” of form and non-form; touch the hand of God and play in the realms of angels, elementals, faeries and natures spirits….amongst others!