When I was almost 13 years old I had myself a haircut.
Well I didn't want to get rid of my hair, as there was about two feet worth and really no one in their right mind just wants to throw away perfectly good hair, right?
What happened was, a very good friend of the family, one of the chief's daughters from the local tribes, told us that she was in need of some virginous hair for replacing the horsehair on one of the ocean masks. These are masks that were said to have washed up on the beach 3,000-500 years ago. We would go to the secret dances every year. It is called the black lodge dance.
Once this was done, I did not notice anything unusual. Yet the mask is used every spring and every fall. So when this happens I really have noticed since I was 22 that my energy goes crazy.
This year something terrific happened. I was simultaneously scrying the mirrors in the Abrahadabra system during the same month these dances were going on. Everything exploded in my head. I went into outerspace. It was a completely fabulous experience.
I have to wonder, why don't we do this anymore? Use real human artifacts in our magical tools? We could start a whole trade based on this. We could network around the globe and support our own tribe of losers with our DNA materia.
Anyhow, just thought I'd share. I think that the water gods are very interested in the Abrahadabra work. Which is funny, considering the dynamic nature with which the Pacific Northwest gods are ordained as guardians of the cosmos - Raven, Killer Whale, Eagle, etcetera....