During the week of the most powerful energies we have seen for some time, Zia and I were invited to join the wonderful conscious community of Golden, BC, to do some healing sessions, sacred site connection, lead an alchemy workshop, scout some landscape features and join in their sacred ceremonies for the Summer Solstice through their magnificent labyrinth and a fire ceremony on the Capricorn Full Moon- all in five days! Phew!

Our host was an old friend of mine, Starwalker, who I first connected with 18 years ago when she wrote an article in Eagle Eye magazine about Archangel Michael and his connection to Vancouver Island. I was intrigued and became even more so after we met and she told me the story of her anchoring the Archangel Michael six-pointed star Temple over the Canadian Rockies. I knew of this etheric Temple which is usually cited as being over Banff in the literature but here was this diminutive woman who actually physically outlined and anchored the grid using ceremony and crystals! Her wonderful story can be followed on her website, http://angelictemple.homestead.com/

Starwalker lived in Nanaimo at that time, but it wasn't long before she made the move to live inside the Temple near the western gate in Golden, BC. The Temple is a massive structure reaching north to the Columbia Icefields, south to Mt. Asiniboine, east north of Canmore and west to Golden. She is a great fan of George Kavassilas and was the person who inspired me to first connect with him.

Having followed my work with Alchemy and the uncovering of the Victoria landscape zodiac, she invited us to meet her group in Golden to see if there was a potential zodiac there as well as come together in a variety of ceremonial opportunities. We hadn't fully realized the potency of the week, energetically, but we were soon to find out.

We did our first healing session with Starwalker herself at the exact time of the Sun/Jupiter/Lilith conjunction at 10.00am mountain time on the morning of Wednesday June 19th. Many consider this to be the 'Luckiest Day of the Year" with the warning that there can be just too much fire energy around. This conjunction also included Lilith, the wild woman who cannot be tamed or controlled, and boy did she let loose through the waters of Mother Earth within a matter of hours as we moved towards the Solstice and the transition into Cancer. The TransCanada Highway was closed at Golden as the flood waters poured through Calgary and Canmore, blasting the whole area with violent flowing waters.

Somehow we managed to sneak through the closed highway the next morning, as we planned to visit some of the sacred vortex sites of the Archangel Michael Temple including Moraine Lake, and Lake Louise. The next day Zia and I were due to hike Lake O'Hara which is the third lake in the equilateral triangle centred by the "Giant Steps", which is also the centre of the Temple. Alas not to be as a mudslide closed off the approach road to Lake O'Hara. Nevertheless, we had a magnificent visit and ceremony at  Moraine Lake, for me the most powerful spot inside the Temple, overseen majestically and synchronistically by Mt.Temple, named after the English climber, John Temple, who first officially climbed to its top. As the roads were closed Lake Louise was very quiet and I felt real peace there with so few to disturb it.

The Alchemy workshop combined the insights we have gained through my experience of alchemy at the actual boiling furnace, the landscape zodiac alchemical journey and our ongoing work with the metals, minerals and crystals. As we had just moved into Cancer, Zia made an offering to the Golden group of a Lemurian seed crystal, Silver metal and Moonstone, which had all been blessed by our Victoria group, to weave the Golden and Victoria groups together. The package was then buried in ceremony at one of the sacred sites in Golden under the watchful care of Liza, who amazingly was trained in the same tradition and by some of the same teachers as Zia. The Golden group then blessed the Moonstone to be used in the Victoria Cancer journey on July 7th.

The Golden group were very keen to find out if there is a landscape zodiac there and so we set out to try and get some insight and understanding of the Golden landscape features. We began at the top of Mount Seven, so called because it always has a residual #7 in snow at the peak of the mountain. This site is famous for hang-gliding and we stood on the launching pad overhanging the edge of the mountain peering down over the Golden Landscape. The first  vision that struck us was that of a bear outlining the core of the downtown area and then a much bigger structure which looked like a sleek horse and then we were reminded that one of the two rivers that runs through the town is the Kicking Horse River. The other is the Columbia and in fact the confluence of the two rivers is the nose of the bear! What is the significance of the bear in the belly of the horse? Zia reminded us of the Trojan Horse and the legend which involved Hector, a character involved in both legends, including the incident which gave the river, the name Kicking Horse! Hmmm! There were seven of us on this scouting mission and the local team were loving every minute of this fun and fascinating adventure to uncover the mystery of the local landscape. Not necessarily a landscape zodiac yet, but definite power spots and features yet to be fully understood. The journey has begun!

It was wonderful for us to experience the way in which other groups celebrate in ceremony. On the evening of the Summer Solstice, Starwalker herself lead a beautiful ceremony at the stone labyrinth that has been painstakingly built and worked with on the banks of the Blaeberry River. She has a magnificent pure, reflecting, rich black Obsidian sphere which she placed at the centre of the labyrinth. We were invited to set our intention for what the new Earth would be and feel like for us, as we walked the labyrinth and then in turn placed our hands on the jet black "Womb of Creation" to anchor in our own intentions for the greater good. We weaved our way out, joining hands together to set our collective intent. A simple and yet profound ceremony.

On Sunday for the Capricorn Full Moon, Liza, the local Incan trained ceremonial leader, welcomed us into a Fire Ceremony, very similar in nature to the ceremonies we have experienced in Victoria, setting our intentions as we placed our stick into the raging hot flames. It is wonderful to realize that there are other groups operating in similar ways to us with high conscious coherence between the groups. It is very much like meeting old friends and members of our spiritual family and yet for the first time. The events of the week were incredibly encouraging and we were extremely grateful to have had this opportunity to come together as one.