I had been told I was to make a journey. I wasn’t told where, only that I would go down into the Earth, some way or another, to gather information to help me on my path. I was told I would have a helper, of some sort, a guide in the form of an earthly creature. What form it would take, again I didn’t know, but I was told that when I met this guide I would know he or she was the one. 

Every year, on the 8th of August, the cosmos offers us a doorway - a shimmering portal of light and possibility known as the Lion’s Gate.

I’ve been practicing energy healing since the early 2000s as a Reiki Master Practitioner, but my work truly transformed when I embarked...