Miércoles 14 de Enero de 11721 e. H. - 20:09 reflexión.
Palamós, Península Ibérica.
Today i will be writting in english, with my eyes closed, gentle kingdom hearts music and having smoked a little bit of weed. I believe all of it will help me in the endeavor i am about to take.
I begin taking a soft breath and relaxing my muscles the best i can, all mistakes can be corrected afterwards, i say to myself... today i am traveling to my inner sanctuary, to a psychedelic dreamscape formed by what i trust will be some answer to my identity. An introspection of sorts within my soul.
I am reorganizing my papers, i have counted like 4 quilos worth of paper, that i have spread all over my room at my parents house. Many of them are about the Garden, ah... the garden, the secret garden.
Excuse me, the weed has taken effect and i am caught a little by surprise. I am already transported... A lilac sky, which appears to be suspended in twilight, i would have a hard time to deciding between dusk and dawn, so i guess it's both ...that may be correct depending on wether you look it from one side or the other... Some white dots appear to be sprinkled and sparkling over a purple hued veil, those are stars. Now my attention is being drawn towars my left side, laying by me is Arkâna, in it's fox shaped will-o-wisp form, composed of an opaline myriad of iridescent points. I will, may be, try to draw it and add it to this entry. We appear as always laying peacefully on a grassy hill painted in elden gold colours. the grass is also soft and smooth and it tickles my skin. I don't feel naked but somehow i am feeling fresh and light which helps me feel much more with my skin.
I bend a knee preparing myself to get up, to which Arkâna responds taking flight slowly. I get up, to my right i see the dreamworld unfolding, like an old book for kids, been build with psychedelia. The palette seems pastel or acuarela, it would seem that i was seating near a stone path, i know where that way leads, it flows up to hill to which i have set camp... excuse me again, i realised that i am yet to do that. So i follow the path, uphill, but i do it backwards or rather i feel as if i was doing it backards, like rewinding a moment in time or meeting a crossroad between possibility and probability. I am attracted towards that point so the speed seems to ramp up to a million and i open my eyes a little dizzy... I'll be right back.
After a moment to gather myself and having waited for the weed to subside a little its effect, i go back in again, this time slowly and with much more care. With every step a little more of the world builds and unfolds around me, revealing little by little the land. Yes... this feels more like it, upon reaching the top i see it is a quite beautiful plateau, a nice acid green and palid yellow breeze grazes gently through the grass, it reminds me of a summer zephyr, i sabour it and take a deep breath in, i draw a lock of hair behind my ear and turn back to watch.
The path i took wanders off and far and where it ends it enters a forest, a vast forest expanding to where my eyes can see, right at the limits of my vision i see some small mountains on the left and a body of water by my right, a lake perhaps... i walk a little towards that direction without leaving the hilltop, the deep blue waters would appear calm and aluring from here, they even appear to reflect here and there some of the brighter stars and a faint violet hue from the sky, following the same course the landscape changes a bit, rocky formations and small mountains emerge shaping the horizon with a more rugged and harsh appearance, the mountains grow soon after and i can even see a range with snowy peaks surrounded by a light haze, after that the mountains start deminishing again until my view finds another plain patch of land with some taller weed spots and lonely trees of a more gaunty look, there are large and sinuous grooves, may be from floods... that savannah ends up giving way to the forest again... It is truly a sight to behold. I force myself out of that contemplation state and get to work, even if i know it is time well spent, i came here with a purpose.
The grass up here is tall, i should be careful and mind where i put my feet... Arkâna, which has been just floating around me, is now flying in a playful attitude, scattering through the place, looking around and coming back. I idle around for a while, but i am slowly getting to the center of the plateau, i want to get there. Arkâna has now stopped gliding and is just hovering midair, circling around a point, i know it's the right place, i stride there, carefully pushing away the grass. I touch the ground, soft and fluffy but still solid under my feet. I take a look around. It feels just right. Focusing for a moment i gather myself and with a wide sweep of my arms in a clockwise movement i command the thicket to yield forming a round clearing, after that i sit for a while and meditate, it feels like home... a strange feeling of intimacy, so deep that i am aware of wandering off even in a deeper state of inner silence. I am percieving the whole place, i sabour the air with all the fragrances it brings and feel the starlight caressing my skin, the gravity pulling me to the ground which embraces me ever so gently... So good... Even Arkâna seems to be vibrating in colour and excitement. I take my time but eventually I get up and start removing the stems by hand, putting all of them on a pile, i have decided not to use magic within here, at least for now, to take this experience and learn and work on me properly, i feel sad but weeds have to be removed when reorganizing a land. The ground is dark and rich, it smells of moisture and dirt and my hands feel warm, i like this. I keep on pulling grass and after a while I have a big pile of it and a big clearing to work with.
I believe this might be the state of my soul, i have been disregarding myself for quite some time and i've been kind of stuck withouth really taking any active care or direction... Things come to mind, like who am i, or what am i to myself and to others, i don't really identify as human and certainly i do not identify with any name that i have been given, i am a child, a sibling, a friend, a lover, some even take me as example of a good-hearted person, others see me as dull or bland, to many i am still a stranger even if we met at some point... Memories come to mind also, the faces i have seen and the people i have met, all the moments i have fabricated with lies, all the poisonous hatred i harvored, the fears, regrets and embarrassing stuff, i guess that's all me in a sense, there is good stuff but the worse is often louder. Even the things i could say came from outside influence are still actions and reactions that i did, may be unaware of them but in the end i did it... so many things... -the next journeys i make will all be revisitations of my life, there is still so much shit to sort out and clarify that i already feel tired thinking about it...- but anyways i come to my senses and look at the field, i picture what i want to do with it, i recall the image i have always had in mind, but i know i can't be reckless, a legacy isn't build overnight.
I sit by the pile of hay and take a good look at one of the grass stems, rather it being perfectly smooth it has a certain grain, making it gently rough to the touch, it's almost a centimeter widewise and the cross section is diamond shaped. The apparent golden colour is actually a warm glazy gray on one side and looks colder on the other side, depending on how i look at the blade it reflects that bright elden gold hue and if i turn it on the other side and play with it a little, kind of seems to disappear in a silvery thin line. I don't see any leaves, it will make it easier when working with it. I will need to go pick some stuff though so down the hill i slide towards the forest.
Stones here and there mark the path but it's not a solid, brick by brick pathway, i have fun with it trying to jump from one stone to the next, it's strange but going down is harder than the way i did to get to the top... i spot some forkings leading to terraces, mounds, earth bankings or however they might be called. I reach the plains, the weeds here are also high, but there are spots and patches here and there where it appears to be easy to pass. I find it strange that there are no animals, just vegetation and stones... i am getting nearer i start to see some trees and the horizon looks green now, i just need to find some good sticks and firewood, so i will be wary of going in too deep, who knows what might lay there, i chuckle. The trees seem old, like really old. Some have moss all over them letting off some grim atmosphere though i feel welcomed somehow. I guess there is no use in being afraid or rejecting oneself. Their bark is thick and reminds me of cork, i feel respect and a strange solemnity in their presence. I take myself by surprise with things like this. I try to snap out of this feeling and start picking up some sticks; light is coming through the treetops -man i really need to learn to draw and paint-. There are some other trees, by what seems to be a dry river bed, with long and droppy thin branches similar to willow trees, i pick some of them thinking of tying some sticks together to be able to carry much more than with just my hands, once i load the dragger and see to that it can withstand the weight i start my way up again.
Arkâna who disappeared for a while has come back and orbits around me and the improvised sleigh, now getting some feet ahead now staying a little behind, i laugh thinking, there's nothing to be afraid of; well i know this is not true, i have also nightmares and i know how rough it can get within myself when i fall to depression, anxiety or other maladies... and then there are also full blown aspects of me that i find hard to deal with or that hold a big sway upon me. -All in time, i say, all in due time.- The way up is hard with the sleigh dragging behind, i have to stop a few times and put back some sticks that fall but finally i reach the hilltop again and throw myself onto the ground, it is heavy even if it is a dreamscape.
I believe it's enough for now, but rectifying is wise so instead of just not using magic at all i guess i could use a little, though how little is another story there are things worth using it for.
I might translate it later.
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Cosas que interesantes de este viaje:
- Es interesante ver que hay paisaje, piedra y vegetacion pero no hay animales... ¿debería buscar?
- Arkâna mantiene la forma de zorrillo, lo cuál es cuqui, pero ¿será permanente?
- Esas hierbas podrían servirme para hacer fibras para hilo, papel y otras cosas.
- Creo que estar en contacto con este espacio interior está removiendo cosas dentro, debo tener cuidado, si voy a lo loco podría tocar cosas para las que aún me falta preparación.