A while
ago, I journeyed to the deep desert to seek a vision.
I drew a circle in the sand – a sacred space defined – and sat
therein with quiet alertness and a deep respect for the unknown.
Although I sat for one day, and then yet another, I did not receive
a vision, nor did any voice speak my name in the barren wind.
I was not discontented, for this is often the way of things.
I traveled towards home, far away in a greener place, and had
yet one more night to be passed in the lands of black lava
and towering red castles of stone.
One more night under the sharp stars and the quiet clouds
and the crystal-dry air. I expected nothing,
but I was ready for anything.
I had a dream.
I was a man of power – a sorcerer of some note,
seasoned and confident in my abilities and in my role.
I had been asked to assist a group of peace officers who were
pursuing a pair of criminals. They had tracked these men to a cave
and I had been called in to help because of the nature of the cave.
It was a place not entirely of this world – a magical cave of some
power that these lawmen knew they could not safely enter.
__ I could enter the cave, however, as this was
part of my dual
__nature and a prime expression of being a sorcerer.
I approached
__the oval mouth of the cave and confidently
entered the portal to
__determine if the two wrongdoers had crossed
into it in their
__attempts to escape.
__ __Inside the
cave, I found something that immediately showed
__ __me that the
men had, indeed, entered here, but that they would
__ __never come
out again. They had been taken by the Jaguar.
__ __The Jaguar
was a denizen of the other world – the world of magic
__ __to which the
cave was a nexus. It was, indeed, a magic Jaguar that
__ __had taken those
men and I knew that they would never be seen
__ __again in the
world outside. I gathered up the thing that told me
__ __this was true
and took it outside the cave to show the officers
__ __who were waiting
for me.
__ __ __When
they saw it, they understood that their search was over
__ __ __and
justice had been done. It was a enchanted symbol and a sign.
__ __ __I
did not have to say anything, only to hold up the great,
__ __ __glowing
Feather that I had brought out. It was taller than
__ __ __any
of us standing there at the mouth of the Cave.
__ __ __It
was iridescent, bright, and beautiful.
It was the feather of the Jaguar.
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