Santa Cruz Area Radical Faeries

Hi All, I'm forwarding this update. Let's continue to hold Elena in our prayers, and look to help we can support her magically, emotionally and logistically during the upcoming period. Remember the Chinese proverb: "Crisis = Opportunity", although this seems not the former.

Hugs
Kwai

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Subject: from ELENA re Windtree

Dear friends and family,
    Thank you all for your love and support to me and for WindTree in regards to the Summit fire in
the Santa Cruz Mountains. This has been a very difficult time being in the 40 mile winds and
watching WindTree surrounded in flames and knowing many of my nearby neighbors had already lost
their homes.  I got the call around 6 a.m.  that Maymens Flats was on fire. I went to wake up my
guest in another cabin and led her out towards Watsonville. I needed to get to a neighbor who was
without transportation and phone. Her 6 year old son has asthma and can not be around smoke. We
went back up to WindTree and she got my truck to evacuate her dogs. At around 9 a.m. Janet came
up through Watsonville and found me on the road about 5 miles south of WindTree.  She was
determined to get to WindTree for her ATV. So we walked back up into the mountains to get the ATV
out and maybe some personal belongings passing fire trucks and blazes along the way. Crazy! When
we got there, fire was flaming up the Goddess trail by the TeePee which was in flames, all around the
Medicine wheel and behind the Critter cabin fire was flooding that canyon space. By this time my
neighbors home to the left and trailers were burnt to the ground. It was all unbelievable. I was in
shock and couldn't think what to grab. Not much time left so we got on the ATV and raced out. Later
we decided to go back up the mountain as my neighbor with the dogs only could get 3 of her 5
animals out. Flying past fire crews and flames jumping the road we made it to their house but the
dog was too scared and we couldn't get it out from under the house. We had to leave as our hearts
were ponding and flames ripping. By the end of the day I thought that WindTree was burned to the
ground. Again Janet and I decide to go back to WindTree to just see what was up. When I got to the
driveway Boulder Creek fire fighters were stretched out exhausted and Many of the buildings were
still standing! I was in such a state of gratitude for their valiant effort to save the main buildings.
Both my neighbors living to the right had lost everything. It looked like a war zone. Although some
of the cabins burned to the ground, it truly is a miracle that much of WindTree is still standing.
Although things could change with fire for days, I am even more convinced that WindTree is a holy
sacred place. Thank you again for all your prayers and love. You are powerful and it all has helped.
  Love,
  Elena

Blessings:

Thank you all who called and emailed me and held my sister and our
Sacred Land, Windtree in the light and protection of the Goddess.

 Julian, my nephew, my sister Elena's son called late last night
with good news.  Our good friend Janet  Planet had been with my
sister all day on the mountain called and left a message:  Elena,
Janet and a fire fighter went back up to the property and were
calling him from the Council Lodge.  Critter, (two story two bedroom
cabin),  Windows, a smaller one full of stored building materials
and  glass, the big  dance deck , outhouses by the Sacred Medicine
Wheel  and a large trailer did burn down but skipped the rest.   Of
all the  structures on the property those four were the ones less
used and not  full of all of my mom's paintings, our library, our
newly built  handicapped bathroom and healing room, and family
heirlooms were all  spared.  The other four cabins and the counsel
lodge were  miraculously spared.  My sisters and I held the thought
and vision of  the fires skipping over our Retreat Center. We
thought all was lost  from  earlier reports, but kept our prayers
going.  More land was  cleared where we are building our labyrinth.
I do not know if our ten  foot redwood Peace Pole survived or not.

We feel so grateful to the Goddess and know that this is a major
cleansing of the land, ourselves,(and the whole area.)  It is
amazing  that the Counsel Lodge and the Medicine Wheel area were
spared.     Native Americans built them and the other buildings
there in the  early eighties and much much ritual and magic has
happened there.   Ancestors have been invoked over and over and
sacred rituals have  been performed there over the last two decades.
Thank You Gaia,  Spirits and Angels of the Elements.

 All our relations.
Holley