How did you meet your partner?

In Mt Shasta, praying together in the Goddess Temple.

A room high in the large house we shared,  Big windows, high ceilings, and Quan Yin the cat. One of my sisters had returned from a gathering of rich financiers, meeting with several of our friends. She was rather intoxicated with it, they were turning to 'us' for guidance... power power power.

I freaked. I went into a divine rage, yelling that they (our brothers) had to give that power back to the Earth, back to Gaia, back to the root. The rage flowing through me felt like Jesus in the Temple.

Its like the woman who returned to us had linked to me, and trusted me to bring it all deep into the earth. I honestly didn't quite know what was going on. I just let it flow.

I was spent. Higher and more pure than I could remember feeling. They left me in the Temple. I couldn't leave for hours.

I went into a trance, and was called out by a phone call. An old friend was coming, and 'Bringing a Luscious Divine Goddess'.

The next day I was meditating on a little hill as a gathering began. the goddess came towards me up a rise, and a ball of fire lit the air and slammed me awake. We sat and watched the sun set before speaking.

That night we prayed in the Temple again, more than thirteen of us. I felt this terror from my past, and I said goodbye to it. A lost sense of love. I was hunmbled and afraid of my old choices. I felt my family circling to help me choose love again. And we began to sing.

We are rising up like a Phoenix from the Fire.
Brothers and sisters Spread your wings...

We carried the song downstairs, and danced. I was surrounded by women who felt more divine than anything I'd known, struggling to accedpt myself in this array of joy. I came to rest standing, next to this new lady who sat quietly watching it all.

It was like a shift in the world. We didn't speak much. We sat under the moon. We sat beneith the mountain. I was wrapped in a multi colored tapestry, and she had on multi colored socks. We laughed, and kissed.

She looked into my eyes and said 'I know you, I love you.' A huming bird flew right up to us, while we sat on the roof gazing at the mountain.

And I saw a Blue Angel appear right in front of my face, and suggest that I trust this Katie Woman.

And she got very very sick. Her whole body broke out in sores, little volcanos of puss oozing day after day, each leg, each arm, her chest, her back... it lasted a month.

We held each other, and prayed our assess off.

It stressed the trust of the community too far. They wanted, some of them wanted, the doctors. She refused. I refused. Others sat in circled and prayed with us. The sores finally broke, and we both got very very sick with fever. Rages broke out all over the home, we were getting yelled at daily.

We went into the woods with an older man, and an older woman. We sang for an hour, and saw fairies dancing above us in the trees. The woman bade us rise, and spoke words, entrusting us with love, for each other, and for the whole tribe.

We accepted.

Left the home for the woods, and then the area... for our futures.

We've been homeless repeatedly, arrested twice and worked on farms and in gardens all over America. We've worked in Yoga studios, done healing work everywhere we go, and sang till our hearts light and keep burning. We've tranced through Indian graveyards, and hibernated in the redwoods. I learned to swim with dolphins off her back steps. they told me they'd given me my name, Kaiyak which I accepted years before knowing where or why or how it came.

They told her they'd brought me to her. Funny , that, I thought she came to me : )

And here we are.