I was underneath the canopy of the giant willow tree in an area we call the grove, but that is a euphemism for a place that never sees the light of the sun and is usually damp and buggy. There I was in the grove and as I came out towards the sun, I saw the feathers – they were white and grey and shaped like a V with downy white puffs of baby feathers nestled in the bottom of the V.
Normally, I would just notice and move on, but you’d have to know the story of the first time I came to this land that the 100 Men Hall is on. I was staying at my friend Tommy’s house and had come to look at the Blues Hall for sale and knew I was going to buy it. I walked by the Hall multiple times coming down Agnes then Marty the back way. After I closed on the property, I came by for a walk around and there in the backyard I saw a circle of white feathers perfectly arranged in a circle so that it looked as if someone had placed them there as a work of art.
Now, I notice feathers, I’ve heard tell feathers bring messages from life beyond, and I never know what feathers are saying, and certainly didn’t know what a circle of them meant, but I had just bought the Hall, so I called my Yoruba priestess friend, Wanda, in Oakland, California and said, what am I looking at with these feathers? She too did not know but said it’s a message from the ancestors so go ahead and pour libations, the good stuff, and make an offering to whoever is messaging you and say I’m here, I’m listening.
I did that, and here I am seeing two feathers lined so perfectly into a V seven years later and I’m once again trying to hear a message. Maybe V for victory (or would it be V for victim? I’m always of two minds – one positive, one negative), how could I know, I can only feel my way into these whispers from another world.
I did not pour libations on these feathers arranged in a V because they were not on the ground, instead this time they were precariously balanced on the leaves of a geranium plant.
I did contemplate them and still am thinking about them – I have concluded the V is for Vision. I have a vision for what comes next brewing inside me, and I don’t need to articulate it, I just need to allow it to come to fruition and believe it will come.
