About a year ago, we moved into one of the “apartments” at the Mehana community in Kapolei. What we didn’t know was that the owners really wanted to sell the place but this made sense as we finally left the place, fed up with the common sense things they wouldn’t fix. Like the failing fridge, water leaks, and main room AC.
But what really struck me at our new place, immediately, was the reaction to my presence here. Even during the walkthrough, before the applications went in, the aura of the place and the spirits looking in was a much more welcoming experience than that I experienced at the townhouse-like place at Mehana. Some of the land spirits deliberately made themselves known and this “warm” welcome has continued as we moved our belongings and begun the hectic experience of figuring out where things will go.
There is a stronger, gusty wind in the evenings that rips through the back porch area where my ritual items will end up. Idols, incense, and other lighter items are being blown off the shelves with so little on them. A hand broke off of one of my wooden statues after a six foot fall and as I resigned myself to replacing it, I was simply told to glue it back on. My pride doesn’t like it, but I will comply.
I did manage to find most of my incense and make appropriate offerings. This follows a golden kiwi I offered a few days ago.
I do feel like my ritual space can “breathe” again, rather than being housed in mostly closed garage. This could be psychological and my ritual space in Maryland had screen windows that could be opened and I didn’t feel closed in like I did at Mehana. This also wasn’t a Haole thing of being unwelcome in this land, as that’s a racist Hawaiian point of view, not necessarily that of the land spirits. The land spirits at Mehana would respond and accept offerings. Their landscape and energetic community was being ripped apart by construction, destruction of natural features, and slowly being cut off from the flow of the land itself, in my opinion.
But here, near the center of the island, the land and the spirits are quite different. Some I had met in passing a few years ago, as I work near this area, too. It’s a nice change and I look forward to getting everything set up properly and running full rituals.
