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Huna Happenings is a forum in which you can share your Huna-related activities. Please let us know what you've been up to! Email huna@huna.org

Hello,
My name is Tim Chudzinsky and I started to see the beautiful light of this planet on November 10. It was a wild snowstorm in Ammerland. On that day I was 55 cm in size and had 3450 gramm. Of course that already changed completely. My parents Dominik & Petra and my big brother Noa are so, so very happy that finally I am also with them :-)))).

Alakai Marta Motak was on Polish television in November, talking about the Aloha Spirit and hula. Here are some shots from the program:



You can go to http://dziendobrytvn.onet.pl/4,1453663,poradnik.html and see if the link is still up.

The following Huna shamanic experience is from Alakai Candidate Debra Shufo:

"Late Saturday night, about midnight, I got to thinking about the Malibu wildfires. I knew that the other Alakai candidates had gotten together to work on stopping the fires...I hadn't joined in on the day they did this. But I do remember that the focus seemed to be on the fire itself. If you want to put out a fire, you attack the fire--right? You cut off it's food, wet it, smother it, put things in it's way...all kinds of things that ultimately target the fire itself.

I'm not a "Fire Person"--in fact, there's very little fire-related in my natal chart at all.. This points to a certain difficulty I have in standing up for myself. You'd be more accurate to call me an "air-head" as that is one element which is represented well in my chart. The thing about the Malibu fires was that they were made worse by the wind...wind...something I do know a little about. "Why hasn't anyone tried to work with the wind?" I wondered.

I called my friend Cormac and told him that I intended to do a Shamanic Journey and talk to the Santa Ana Winds and ask them to stop blowing. Then I turned off my phone and put on my nifty new drumming CD and relaxed until I felt as though I was in the garden space where my journeys usually begin. (just a side note, it's based on a national park in CT) Usually, I have to wait for a bit for a helper to appear but this time Rabbit was there right away and he said that he couldn't come with me on this journey but that I wouldnt need him. Immediately, I felt a golden light around me and suddenly I was Eagle--flying my way to the California coast.

If there's one thing I learned from this journey, it's that you should never ask an element to stop doing what it's in its nature to do...to put it bluntly, when I got over the fires and confronted the Wind, he essentially told me to bugger off. He was WIND *dammit*, and he was blowing--that's what wind did so there--NYA!

Oops...I had better try another tactic I thought.

And besides, he continued, everything Humans work for is an illusion anyway so they're not losing anything.

Aha! That I can work with. So floating at the wind-line (if such a thing can be imagined) I calmly explained how Humans define their Spirituality by the physical world....inefficient as that may be, still, it's all they have. Those homes weren't just random bits of matter--they were intentional manifestation of the wishes, hopes, and hard work of those people. "You've blown enough," I said--"you did what you were made to do and now it's time for a rest."

Wind paused for a moment and considered my words. Then Wind cried for getting so carried away and hurting so many people. But still, he wouldn't move--he stayed there blowing, because that's what he was made to do.

But then I thought, there is more than one wind--perhaps I can find another one to help. The next picture in my head was of the California coastline. I turned my attention to the sea and used Eagle's eyes to spot someone who could help me. After a moment I spotted a pod of whales. I dove head-first into the sea and became myself surrounded in the same gold light that had shone on me in the garden. For some reason, Whale was amused when I explained what I was looking for but he promised to help me if I traveled with him for a bit. I was unsure why, but I figured it wouldn't hurt things and so I rested a hand on the side of his body (MAN--that thing was HUGE!) and traveled down to a place in the ocean where there was no sunlight.

After a while, I began to notice that I could "see" underwater. Not with my eyes, but with something else that defined an image in my mind through another sense and helped me to navigate without bumping into anything. This must be what it's like to have sonar. We went through a deep "tunnel" that was flanked by very high under-water cliffs and surfaced some distance from where we started, in a part of the ocean which was covered in storm clouds. That gold light became a ladder, which I used Human arms to climb until I was in the middle of that storm. I asked the sea-wind to follow me. I looked down from the top of the ladder--I'll tell you, if this had been in real life, and I had been up that high, I probably would have puked, then fainted--and possibly puked again on the way down. But something in the light made me feel as though I could trust it so for the second time I took a header from the air. I got pretty close to the water, but turned into Eagle before I hit it, and the sea-wind grabbed hold of my wings and traveled with me.

When we got back to the fire, the fire-wind was a little confused but allowed itself to be pushed backwards by the ocean breeze.

OK, now this is the strange thing (among a lot of other strange things)--Elements, or Elementals as some people call them, are kind of like "Rules Lawyers". You know, the snarky kid who knew every possible mathematical configuration obtainable on a set of D6s, every rule, loophole, historical factoid and obscure reference in ALL of the books. The type of player who would not allow for creative rule-bending in the interest of game progress--"NO no no! He got hit in the shoulder, and according to the Gamer's Manifesto (page thirty three, paragraph sixteen, subparagraph eight, line three) you take aggrivated damage with a shoulder wound so he is down to -4 hit-points! I don't CARE if he's the only one in the party who can pick locks and we're locked in this evil dungeon, he's too injured to do it!" Have I made my point? Yes? OK, let's go on...

So fire-wind couldn't stop blowing, neither could sea-wind for that matter--it's the rules, but they could respond to forces applied to them--each other. So sea-wind blew against fire-wind and fire-wind was blown back across the already-burnt land which made the fire weaker. Sea-wind continued to blow until fire-wind was forced back through the canyon. The wind had shifted.

I thanked the winds (both of them) for being so true to their natures and landed just in front of the fire-line. Two men stumbled into the clearing, fire-fighters from the look of their gear, and I smiled and sank underground. (I would be REALLY freaked out if there were reports from a couple of fire-fighters who say that they saw a young woman at the fireline and then she vanished.)

As I worked my way through Earth, I saw seeds already in the process of germinating, and tree-roots which were getting ready to send up new shoots. Works continued to enrich the soil, even the ash would be recycled. I understood that what was happening here was the great circle of all living things. It had a pattern and a function--and we, as humans just got in the way. (I thought that was pretty cool actually) Earth was already doing its part, just like Fire was doing what fire was made to do.

Fire was the last remaining element that I hadn't explored, so up through the ground I came, into the middle of Fire. How to describe this--um--Fire is reckless. In many ways, Fire is like a child who consumes and has little understanding of what happens after all the food is gone. Fire danced--that's the only word I can think of--but it told me as we danced together that "When the Dancer joins the Dance; even the Stars spin."

Almost immediately I felt myself being scooped up by a pair of huge hands and lifted up until I was way above the atmosphere. I saw the great wheel of stars, and saw where the rythms of Earth were just a part of a much bigger rythm, and how the bigger rythm was in turn, part of us. For the third time, I dove in blind faith and ended up back in my garden where Rabbit congratulated me.

It was about this point in the tape where the drumming got real fast, and the narrator "brought me out" of the journey reality. Of course the first thing I did was to text Cormac and tell him about the freaky trip. "I have no idea how this will manifest" I said. "But something happened."

The first thing I did this morning when I woke up was to log on and check the situation. You can believe the following or not--it's up to you.

As I prepared my journey:
Wind gusts to 80km/h
Fire moving west
Low humidity
No appreciable containment.

This morning;
Fire moving East.
Winds 6-12 mph
40% contained.
Wind off the ocean
humidity rising.

The reports off the net were;
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/11/25/california.wildfire/. The Los Angeles County Fire Department said the Corral Canyon fire was 40 percent contained as of Sunday afternoon. The Malibu city Web site said officials expect to have the fire fully contained by Tuesday. Watch what arson investigators have learned È

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/wildfire-above-malibu-forces-evacuations/20071124123209990001. "By late Sunday morning, skies had cleared, and the column of smoke billowing over the hills had all but vanished. Aside from the dozens of fire trucks dotting the Pacific Coast Highway, there was little evidence the fire still was burning." "Given the weather conditions, the wind subsiding ... the amount of fuel that has been consumed in there ... the number of personnel that we have here ... those are all reasons for optimism," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Michael Freeman told reporters Saturday night.

http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20071125/47490150_3ca6_1552620071125173573567. Throughout the day Sunday, the weather worked in firefighters' favor. A cool breeze in from the Pacific Ocean kept temperatures low and moisture levels high. "The weather is perfect for us," said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Glen Goulet. This was posted Saturday, but the description caught my attention. Just as the car was packed and the dogs were loaded, the wind shifted, died down a bit. Watched from the bluff as walls of flames literally doubled back on themselves at Latigo Canyon.

Who knows?