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Undivided LbNA #17905 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 5, 2005
Location:
City:Fraser/Winter Park
County:Grand
State:Colorado
Boxes:1
Planted by:Aljan
Found by: nedhead
Last found:May 1, 2014
Status:FFFFFFFFFFaFFFFFFm
Last edited:Sep 5, 2005
September 2014. I have had two reports that this box is missing. I do not have any plans to replace it at this time.

so sad. ~Aljan
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This box was formerly listed as Who I Really Am. The stamp has not been changed, just the title.

There's a lot of stuff here but fear not! The clues are short (they're at the bottom) and this box is a quick drive by.

Whether you see the Goddess as a warrior queen, as Mary Queen of Heaven or like the good witch in The Wizard of Oz, she is The Goddess. She simply IS, and in that, can be whatever you need her to be in order to establish a relationship with her. Whatever image you chose for her, it does not change what she IS.

The most ancient Goddesses were most often Earth and Mother Goddesses. They were worshipped as bearers of life – fat, healthy, pregnant and fruitful. Many now recognize the Goddess as the mother of all.

Foremost, the Goddess is the symbol of the everlasting cycle. With her threefold aspect – Maiden, Mother and Crone – she is constant, ever present and ever changing. She is that from which we have come and that to which we will return. The threefold Goddess is NOT three entities – she is one. The Goddess is dark, she is light, she is death and renewal and she rejoices in all things. With death comes joy, for with death comes renewal. With life comes joy, for with life comes promise. With growth comes joy for with growth comes wisdom. Sorrow and fear are not part of her in that way that we feel these things. She is incapable of sorrow without joy, she fears nothing, because fear is not real. It is a creation of the mind.

The Maiden is the youngest aspect of the Goddess, related with discovery and the most creative aspects of our personality. She is innocence and lack of worries, the joy of living. She is associated with Spring and beginings. This is the aspect of the Goddess we should call upon in anything that deals with beginings in our lives, wether they are jobs, relationships or projects.

The Mother is the Goddess in her full maturity. She is mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically full-blooded and powerful. She may give open advice or exert shrewd influence which is unnoticed at the time, but which achieves its ends.

We should call this aspect of the Goddess when we want to deal with things related with motherhood, protection, marriage, guidance, achievement of inner peace, choices of any kind, spiritual development and intuition.

If the Maiden talks to us about beginings, and the Mother of maturity, the Crone makes us think of endings. This is maybe the least understood aspect of the Triple Goddess, one that usually causes fear because it makes us unavoidibly to face death.

The Crone was revered in ancient cultures as a regent of the Underworld, seen in those times as a place where souls went to rest between incarnations, before coming back to the earthly plane. The duty of this Goddess was generally to guide us during this last phase in our lives, getting us ready for the big leap, reigning afterwards over the souls of the dead while they waited for their rebirth. Contemplating this darker aspect of the Goddess teaches us that nature moves in cicles, we as individuals also must do it, acepting death as a passage into another state, as valid and as much part of our lives as our own birth. We should call on this aspect of the Goddess when we must deal with work or emotional relationships that come to an end, rest and calm before starting new plans, deaths, retribution of abuses, protection stronger that usual both psychic and physical, and if we want to develop communication with guide-spirits.

The clues…

With the pine beetle epidemic in Grand County, this spot has gone through a lot of changes. Where once it was shady and protected by pines, it is now wide open. It is still a surprising, albeit now in a bit of a sad way, spot and I think it's still worth the stop.

This stamp is handcarved, quite handsome I think and HUGE. About 5.5 by 3.5 inches. It is based on a beautiful painting by Luis Prada entitled “Ave Maria”. There is an ink pad and a couple of colored pencils that you will need in the box. It would also look nice if you used a yellow marker but I thought that pencils would hold up to fluctuating temperatures better.

Just north (or west if you are thinking that way) of the town of Winter Park is the Cozens Ranch Museum, a small white farmhouse type building with dark green trim, and the well marked entrance to a subdivision called Rendezvous. The Rendezvous entrance is graced with a fabulous life size plus statue of a bull moose and some beautiful stone landscaping. It is on the east side of the highway. Turn here. Cross the river. Take the first left after you have crossed the river. Take an almost immediate right onto a small, dirt road. Go up the hill and park at the wide spot. Welcome to the Cozens’ family plot.

Make your way around to the back of the grotto. Pretty much right in the middle and at ground level is a pile of rocks that covers the box. When you are facing the back of the grotto there will be a small, small pine just on the left of the box. Do your best to really tuck the box back down into the hole and cover it completely.

Thank you for finding my box! Email me with its condition at AljanSundance@gmail.com

Blessed Be.
Aljan