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28 Grassy Knolls - Sedona 28 Grassy Knolls - Sedona GRASSY KNOLLS, So, instead of going to Isis Rock (Crown I grimaced. "Okay, I called, "I'm GRASSY KNOLLS, Brow Chakra of Sedona chakra) in Long Canyon, we would go to coming over." I got up, left everything in the Brow Chakra of Sedona Grassy Knolls where Mann indicated it was the circle and walked out of the south gate of the brow chakra of the area. circle. Joining up with Marty, she had a by Eileen Nauman There are no maps showing 'Grassy confused look on her face. Knolls.' Only a sentence in Mann's book, that it "I can't find it. I'd swear my circle was was near Long canyon and across the highway here, but it's not." Copyright 2009 Eileen Nauman All Rights Reserved from it, was all. This area looked like nonstop I looked around. "I thought your circle pine, juniper, brush, cactus and a lot of rock. was further west from here," and we both Marty Rienstra and I met at the Standing at the parking area of Long Canyon, walked that way. Wildflower Bakery in Sedona today on 1.30.09. the only thing we knew was that Grassy Knolls Well, it became evident real fast that (a) We had lunch and discussed where we would go was above Long Canyon. We crossed the road her circle was missing (b)her flute bag and today. She had Nicholas Mann’s book, Sedona, and began to look around. We finally decided a hiking stick had DISAPPEAREd and (c) we Sacred Earth and we wanted to follow the steep, rocky slope might be the answer. After a were going to have to hunt for them. I told chakra system he’d outlined that was part of the lot of huffing and puffing (mind you, we're in Marty that this place had an androgynous geomagnetic landscape of red rocks. our sixties...), we got to what seemed to be the energy, that her circle was the female energy We discussed the rainbow at Rainbow top. and the one where I sat, was male energy. An Bridge that had appeared shortly after we’d Marty said, "Look, there's a grassy androgynous vortex like this was usually a drum near the Sun circle far below the butte. knoll!" I was thrilled she'd found it. Walking portal to another dimension. And as I looked Marty noted that she’d just gotten back from over, it was another circle filled with yellowed around, everything seem familiar and yet, it Egypt. And did I know that Isis (we had grass, some cactus with juniper around in a wasn't. originally wanted to go to Isis Rock in Long circle outside of it. We gave a welcoming I had a real scary experience with Canyon, the Crown Chakra area) was shown ceremony. Then, I closed my eyes t get in another androgynous vortex at a temple mound with seven serpents on her crown that were contact to see if the local spirit would come in Ohio twenty years earlier. I walked through rainbow colored. forward and be helpful. the Beech and Oak druid gate which was the I told her about Grandmother Rainbow What saw was gray and white--ghost entrance, with permission. As soon as I had, I Snake who lived near our home. She was like figure. At first, I thought it was a tall Native fell out of dizziness because the place was that twelve feet long, had blue eyes and one late American man, his hands raised with rattles and powerful. And, I lost my way. I turned around night, while she was stretched clear across our singing. What struck me the most was seven to crawl out on my hands and knees, but the gate dirt road, I accidentally ran over her and killed huge feathers sticking out of his hair like a was gone! The only way I got out of that inter her. I had felt awful. I cried. The next morning ceremonial crown. I focused more and realized dimensional portal doorway vortex was to plead I picked up her dead body and put it inside our it was a very old, wrinkle-faced Native with the spirits who took care of it. They sent gate and honored her spirit. That afternoon, I’d American woman. As soon as I did that, me a small sparrow to guide me out. I related climbed on my horse, Cinnamon, after a another six grandmothers appeared in their this story to Marty. thundershower, to go riding. As I turned onto Native American garb. I laughed. I said, "You know, your stuff has been the main muddy road that paralleled our home, "You're the Seven Grandmothers from the transported," I told her. "The Seven there was rainbow across the canyon. And then, Boynton Canyon cave! What are you doing Grandmothers took it." when I looked north, there was a long necked over here?!" Boynton Canyon was only about a "But why?" Marty had just bought an cumulus cloud with a distinct snake’s head on it. mile south of where we were. The tall woman incredibly beautiful double flute that had been I’ll never forget that moment and had with the feather crown stopped rattling and inlaid with turquoise. She was so proud of that halted the horse and just stared at the cloud. singing. She told me that they care for this spot. flute and had wanted to play it at Grassy Knolls Then, I heard Grandmother whispering to me in I thought that was great. I asked her permission because there were two spots on it indicated in spirit. She told me that she was a Rainbow to enter this circle and she said we could. And Mann's book. Why not take a double flute? Snake, and that she had died to that she might to enter and leave from the south. I said we Seemed reasonable to me, too. better serve me from the other side. I told Marty would. When I told Marty what I'd seen, she Shrugging, I said, "In my experience that I’d been a snake person since in my teens laughed. She told me that she felt the they take it to bless it and then give it back. Or, when I had been initiated with two bull snakes. Grandmothers from Boynton also. Amazing. they take it to teach a person a lesson about I love snakes. And the love me. We had a Marty put her flute bag and her hiking stick giving up something they want too much." I spirited and wide-ranging discussion about against a limb on a tree. She said she'd go with looked around the area. "It can also be they rainbows, needless to say. me to help me find the second knoll. took it because they want us to look around When we got up to leave and pushed out We found it moments later, a little more than we have. They may want us to see the door, I was stunned. There, sitting on the downward from the other. The knolls were something more. Or, maybe they want to stop pavement near the door, was a beautiful pigeon- were thickly covered with junipers. I told us from doing ceremony until a certain time. -the sun shining on her breast highlighting all Marty that I was going in after the opening That time could be when they transfer the bag the gorgeous rainbow feathers across her breast. ceremony, sit down and drum. She nodded and back to you." I was awed and told Marty this was a direct took off for her site. I got situated and for the So, we searched for one hour, nonstop, response from Spirit over us looking at the next ten minutes, simply drummed. I also saw tramping up and down and back and forth in the rainbow myths of many cultures. Our rainbow Mother Earth bring up her rainbow energy up area where we knew the first knoll meadow had bird met us right outside the door of the into my feet,legs, go through my heart, through been. We found nothing. I told Marty I really Wildflower Bakery! We stopped and I gave the my drum and then to a pyramid shaped apu wanted to get back to my circle to complete the pigeon some break and then some birdseed as (mountain spirit) in front of us. I then stuff I'd started and she agreed. Marty looked thanks. Marty noted that in the Yavapai myths, visualized the huge rainbow energy flowing for that thirty minutes I was at my circle. When doves play a very important part. And that through the buttes where Rainbow Bridge was I was done, she came over and said, "I think pigeons were a member of the dove family. We located, across to Lizard's Head and then curve we're just going to have to let it go." found that intriguing and validating. The last south and then west across Boynton Canyon, Nodding, I gathered up my stuff and left thing I told her was that with this kind of swift through Long Canyon to Isis Rock, and then to the sacred circle. "Yes." I took out a towel and response from Spirit toward us, it ought to be an anchor in Marty's circle, then my own. And my knife and started cutting strips. interesting day on Grassy Knolls. finally, to bring this energy to a connected, fully "What's that for?" she asked. We had decided to go to Grassy Knolls moving rainbow circle to the apu in front of me. Grimly, I told her since we're in an inter in Mann’s book first. The reasoning is that we After ten minutes I stopped playing. dimensional vortex that if we don't leave 'bread were catalytic in bringing energy online at "Eileen?" Marty called. crumbs' or something we can follow, we'll Rainbow Bridge where the emergence hole for Confused, I said, "What?" NEVER find this area again. I'd learned my the snake Kachina was located. I wanted to "I can't find my circle. I can't find my lesson back in Ohio. follow, in line and in order, the upward energy. flute bag or hiking stick." (To Be Continued in the April 2009 Edition)