And thank you for the offer, even if it wasn’t intended at the time! I would have accepted quite happily, though the worst of it didn’t hit until I started coming down from the adrenaline of the whole thing a while later.

Not everyone needs to be the presiding shaman all the time. A well rounded practitioner learns all of the roles. Heck, most should learn the support roles *first*.

BTW, I wish you had noted your added need for grounding. I would have done my best to help. I’ve had my head bitten off elsewhere by certain BNPs when I’ve made more than modest efforts to offer assistance, so I don’t push. I just figured you had other plans to deal with it. My apologies.

As for myself, I find travel easy, but I don’t have much waking experience of it. In dreams, I often follow various ley lines, locating damaged areas for others to work on. Best to have at least some flow across these points when the time comes to revitalize them.

I continued to have good “foot results” for all of Sunday (including being barefoot in public–well, two rooms of the con’!) for two whole sessions, which is something I’ve not done for years…and while I wasn’t 100% for that, I could at least do it, and walk around barefoot without any major mishaps or discomfort. On Monday morning, I was also in much better shape for the water-purification ritual by the pool (on which more in a moment).

I’ll speak with you more in detail about my own experiences while you were shamanizing–I didn’t go on the journey with you (since I’ve never done co-journeying before, or even group journeying), but there were things happening, including the appearance of a god I’ve not had much to do with since last October, and a brief appearance when you called North of my juno loci up from Mt. Erie.

[There was also a guy there, with whom I spoke before the ritual briefly, who ran into me afterwards by chance, and was a bit upset that he didn't get to go on the journey, and he said he was going to leave and would have done so, apart from the fact that he had spoken with me and therefore felt a "connection" and wanted to "respect" it by staying there to witness for me. I'm not sure if he was perhaps hitting on me in that, or just being genuinely nice, if a little bit prima donna-esque about the whole thing structurally. But anyway...!?!]

As Adnarel suggested above, something like the water purification ritual that we did on Monday, and which we’ll try and do on all of the Antinoan hunting festivals, might be something to try and adapt for yourself. It’s basically a ritual bath/dip in water (preferably a lake or river, but it can be a pool, hot tub or bath just as well), and it always ends up sustaining me quite well for the day ahead. Even with only four hours of sleep (or less) a night during the whole con’, I held up pretty well, and I think on that last day this helped a great deal. And, you may be intrigued to know, the water ritual can be done anytime, but on the four “hunting festivals” of the Ekklesía, it might now be a necessity/requirement for some of us–and each is associated with a particular animal. The one on Monday, being connected to Lupercalia, is connected to dogs/wolves; the next one, on April 21, is connected to bears!

So, this was an excellent experience for me all around, and I’ll tell you more about it in turn–suffice it to say for now, if this is what being a demonstration dummy guinea pig lab rat person who lies there and thinks of Mt. Erie client is like in every situation, I’m more than happy to do so!

PRAISE BEAR, I’M HEALED!