I personally felt like the Pacific NW was our final destination point, as I feel a strong draw to the culture there. The big hitch with living in the Pacific NW is the weather….my boys are all sunshine folks, so that was a major stumbling block to seeing us there. I could see me there just fine, but what about my sweet Berry peeps?
But in mid-September, as I was sitting in session with the Angelic folk one early morning, I was told to “expect a surprise in November.” Ooooh, mysterious! I asked some questions about it, trying to unwrap the package early, but no go….nothing was revealed to me at that time except that it was concerning something good for my whole family.
Well, I think we now know what that good surprise was. San Luis Obispo.
We arrived here after a gorgeous trip up the coast from Los Angeles (wow, Ventura through Santa Barbara is stunning), and pulled into the El Chorro County Park, just on the north edge of town off of Hwy. 1. We immediately felt so comfortable…the hills are here, and some trees, but it is not a choking feeling of claustrophobia….we can still see the sky as there is plenty of open space. We met my dear friend Terry Musch, a soul brother that I reconnected with last year, downtown for a fantastic Thai dinner. We walked around town in the dark, not seeming to mind the drizzling rain that was coming down….we were exhausted from the day of travel, but something was holding us up as we gazed upon the downtown lights and felt the awesome energy of place.
The subsequent days were mostly spent driving around with Terry….you could never want a more fantastic tour guide! Terry is such a generous soul, and genuinely wants to share the goodness he has found in SLO. He connected us with a beautiful friend Lori Steed, who among other talents is a professional photographer. It was Lori who organized and invited us to the election party in Avila Beach on Tuesday, November 4th, a historic day which we will all remember in this family until we croak!
The more time we spent exploring the area and checking in with our feelings, the more we felt how comfortable we were in SLO. It was as if there was a magic curtain around SLO, and every time we went out of the area to explore a little further out, we felt a pronounced feeling of being out of that yummy space. We talked about our feelings a lot, both intentionally asking each other and just spontaneously blurting out how god it felt to be there. Very telling!
We remembered that in 1993 Peter and I came through SLO on a west coast tour, again looking for our next location (we were living in Tucson at the time). I was 5 months pregnant with Jess, and we were taking our last hurrah trip before our lives would be changed forever by having a child. We had the sense of itchy feet then, and were looking for what was next for us. On that trip, we drove through SLO and stayed in the area overnight at a B&B, and I remember having the best afternoon nap of my life as the cool breeze blew in the windows. We walked around downtown way back then and thought this would be a great place to live. Another contender on that trip was Corvallis, Oregon…..but the west coast was not to be our home at that time. We wound up moving to Asheville, North Carolina to open the door to some healing work with my family of origin.
Now, 15 years later……it was on Wednesday, waking up in a country I am proud to live in, that the Divine Comedians (another one of my names for the Angelic spectrum of consciousness) told us, “Look no further, you have found it”.
Well, we are very tempted to believe this pronouncement from the Keepers of the Cosmos…. It sure feels right to all four members of my family, and SLO offers everything we hoped for in the next location we would call home. But we also know that calling something a done deal before it’s a done deal has not been very smart in this last year….as I have been told, 2008 has been a year of so many changeable factors, all the balls thrown into the air at once, and it has taken several months of the majority of them to come down. Somehow, with the election, I feel the factors settling in, and the future looks a lot more certain. Maybe when we get guidance now, it will stick. As a channel, it has been frustrating to hear and feel and see that so much was up for grabs this year, and that when my ego wanted to have The Plan and chart a course, the response from the Larger Picture was frequently “there are too many unknowns at this time”.
I sense a larger cause if we do indeed call San Luis Obispo home….a time of healing and expansion for us and those we love. I already feel myself changing to fit being the mythic Californian, a creator of dreams, an embodiment of happiness, and knowing that I am worthy of all the goodness the Omniverses have to offer. The next step in our evolutionay process. Oh, my….a large future awaits us should we claim this place. Here’s a prediction: a greater radiance of Who We Are, us four Berrys, as a family and as individuals. Stay posted!
Next we head north to Monterey to spend some time with Pete’s Mom and Dad and Sister and her family….
