Dancing With The Unknown

So a few weeks ago two of my closest friends went for it and got married at a shamanic ceremony I couldn't make it too in Kansas City by the guide we usually work with here in LA. At first when I heard the news I felt sad and disappointed I wasn't there for this occasion. After all we'd been friends for years and this was an important moment to share. I made it about me. But I soon realized how could I not applaud them for being in the moment, defying convention and loving themselves enough to take a spontaneous leap together. Of course from all accounts the union was magical and made the ceremony that evening all the more powerful.

Soon after the male friend of the two told me he was bringing his new wife to Spain for a honeymoon and surprising her by having their closest friends on hand for a proper ceremony. He then asked me to officiate the wedding. Okay....I thought. But how would I get to Europe in just over a month, I can't afford that or take time off from my busy life. I quickly remembered one of my first basic lessons from the sacred brew, I Can't and I Can in my speech. Such a simple concept that's so overlooked. Upon further meditation not only did I set my mind to it I intended on turning my trek over a continent and a sea into a musical adventure as well. I took a chance on the unknown.

And she came like a seductress in the midst of the darkness, presenting her gifts in ways I couldn't quite perceive until they arrived in my arms. I wrote an email to a musician friend in Germany and asked if he could line up some gigs. I told him I was coming although I didn't have a ticket yet. He submitted my stuff around and not only got some shows, but a television appearance and assembled a band to play with. Okay, taking it in. Then while in NY visiting family another gift emerged. When speaking to a cousin about my journey work and my plans for Europe she told me she could help get me over there through a close friends buddy pass. Wow, 2 gigs, a television appearance and a ticket for next to nothing. She also was the last likely person I thought in my family to want to do shamanic work and now she is eager to journey. The materialistic one, she too is soon getting married and has been questioning her values. She wants to be closer to her own heart before diving into this commitment. Consciousness evolving in ways unknown??

So one last thing, some funding. After talking to a friend he suggested meditating on Divine Right Employment. And thats what I did just before a phone call came through for a good paying music composition gig right up my alley. It was from a producer I haven't worked with in over a year. Musical tastes were in synch and I'm on my way to being able to fund this entire trip by doing some work in the last few weeks before it. Now I don't want to seem like an “optimist” but if this is what 'dancing with the unknown' is like then let Her seduce me.

Now I already knew this, it's happened to me many times traveling but I couldn't always see it in my day to day life. And in the future I'm sure it may not be such smooth sailing but I'll still follow the flow, create the vision and swim with the energy. The unknown, a place many of us run from constantly, through every avoidance technique imaginable. Or who knows, it could just expose us outside of our box where our real authenticity may actually lie. What if we actually saw it as a place where the best things come out of, where everything comes out of for that matter, and that is there to love and support our vision? I mean after all it got me to Spain so I could officiate my best friends wedding. No way I was missing that again!