Student finally came to teacher

[LibertyLover]

My stepdaughter, KC, has finally decided to ask for training. It's been almost 7 years now that I've known her and roughly 4 since her great grandmother told me that I was going to have the delightful job of training her, since great granny has been dead for 24 or so years. Let me explain - my husband's paternal grandmother was a Virginia hills woman with Cherokee ancestors. She passed on her traditional ways to my husband and once, so he told me, took his hand, looked at it and told him he was going to marry a witch. When his first marriage ended poorly, he figured that grandma had meant his first wife and that witch was a synonym for bitch. Then he met me and figured it out. :rofl: Anyway, at our handfasting 9 years ago, I noticed we had a visitor standing outside the circle but very interested in what we were doing, so I invited her in. Afterwards I told my husband matter-of-factly that his grandmother had visited. He replied he knew and thanked me for asking her into the circle. Since then she and I have spoken several times, usually at Samhain. 4 years ago, as we were getting ready to leave the next morning for China to bring our baby girl home, she told me that I needed to teach KC. The next time I saw KC, I mentioned what her great granny had told me and KC agreed that she wanted to be trained. But, well, you know how it is when you are 23, in a new relationship and etc., etc., etc. I decided not to push it, but to leave things to mature. So, last week I got a slightly hysterical phone call from KC. It seemed that her mother's third husband's mother's spirit was bothering her. This woman died a few months ago and, well, she wasn't a nice person. For some reason, she had decided to bother KC. So, as I sat in a cold car in a parking lot at the metro station, I gave KC some pointers on grounding, centering and shielding. And this past Sunday, she came for her first class. Afterwards, she said that for the first time she understood grounding. Last night she called to say that Ms. J had stopped in again but that KC was able to tell her to go away and stop bothering her. It's going to be interesting.

[icymist]

1. Greetings/O'Siyo LibertyLover,

I too have Cherokee in my ancestry. It may help in training your step-daughter to also share some of the Shamanistic traditions of the Cherokee peoples. I occasionally attend an online course, Shamanism Campus. Be sure to tell Barbara DreamKeeper that icymist says hi. I found this course to be very good instruction on how to build a medicine wheel and be aware of the healing properties in your own backyard. Anyway, this is only a thought of mine after reading of the visitations from the Grandmothers. Good luck in training your stepdaughter.