Starseed

by Jude Willhoff

  “Why are you always putting me to sleep? She pouted. And why is this place so sacred?” asked Elle.

  “Your body has to get the rest it needs while traveling in space so you must sleep. And the island is intersected by a major electromagnetic ley line known as Wiracocha’s route, which runs from Bolivia to northern Peru. You have to understand another Earth gridline connects the island’s two holy sites, making this one of the most powerful places in South America.”

  Kole walked with her down the corridor still explaining details of their journey. “The pre-Columbian people built their cities, temples and holy places on electromagnetic convergence points to guarantee they would benefit from the highest possible vibratory frequency.”

  “I had no idea.” She frowned. “I know I need it but I’m getting tired of sleeping while you and Ari prepare places for me to awaken in.” She sighed.

  “It won’t be much longer until your body has built up a tolerance to space travel, but, my sweet, for your safety, this time you must rest.” He gently tucked her into bed and kissed her goodnight. “Have pleasant dreams, my Starseed. When you awake, we’ll be in a hut high on a mountaintop.” Her eyelids grew heavy as she drifted off to sleep.

  * * *

  “It is time,” Kole said much later, waking her, holding her close to his chest in the dark.

  Elle snuggled deeper under the heavy fur pelts content and enjoying lying next to his warm body. The idea of staying in a thatched hut at the top of the world where it was freezing cold wasn’t on her top ten lists of places to be. However, she had to admit with Kole by her side and holding her in his arms, it felt right. And it didn’t matter where they were, as long as they were together.

  “Are you awake?” He kissed the inside of her ear lobe and sent shivers of another kind tingling through her body.

  She wanted him in the worst way. This saving herself was for the birds. After the healing ceremony, she would have him forever. She just had to be patient a little while longer. She smiled and kissed his hand. “I am awake and ready to get this mission on the way so I can make love to my soul mate.” She shivered again. “Brrrr, it’s cold up here.”

  His gaze seemed to pierce right through the covers. “I’ll warm you up later.” His mischievous smile lit up her heart as he put something on to brew.

  She crawled out of the bed with a fur pelt wrapped around her body. Gazing out the window, she watched the clouds hanging low on the mountains. Snow-capped mountain peaks poked through the crystalline sky. Early morning fog weaved along the path leading up to the higher peaks. This place in the middle of nowhere was absolutely beautiful. Peace and quiet of a kind that she had never experienced surrounded this little hut in the mountains.

  Thinking about what lay ahead, she watched the fog swirl around the lower paths winding up the mountain. Shortly, their mission would be at hand. She swallowed. Could she do what was expected of her? Unconsciously, a chill ran through her and she shivered. “The Ancient One seemed to think we can heal the waters of the Earth by issuing a cosmic healing of polarity.” She held her hand out of the fur pelt. “I don’t have a clue as how to do that. Sure, I know what she said, that it’s the division in my world between feminine and masculine. But are we really ready for this quest?” she asked.

  Kole glanced at her. “The time is drawing near and with the help of the Ancient One we can do this.”

  She saw absolute faith shining in his eyes and believed him. Even though she felt insecure at the idea of healing the waters of the Earth, she couldn’t let Kole or the Ancient One down. “I’ll do my part.” Deep down in her soul, she knew she was born to do this. It is my divine destiny. Somehow, when the time comes I will know what to do.

  “Here. Drink this. It will warm your insides and help us prepare for the ceremony.” Kole handed her a cup and stood close by her side. He looked out the window and sipped his drink.

  She laughed. “Is this drink like we had on Mars?”

  “Yes, it will relax us to hear the Ancient One when the time it right.”

  “Oh, that’s good…I think.” She gazed out the window, too. “It’s beautiful here. Mother Nature did it right,” she said and sipped the hot elixir. Warmth spread through her system helping her to relax but yet filling her with adrenaline. “Kole, what if I can’t do what’s expected of me?” She bit her lip. “I’m worried about disappointing you and the Ancient One.”

  He put his cup down and turned her to face him. “There’s nothing to fear. Everything will go as planned. When you get to the mountaintop you will know what to say. It will come to you the same as it will to me from the Ancient One. “You will feel the strength of the mountains rushing through your system and know the powers of the universe. You must believe me in here.” He tapped over her heart with his fingertip then squeezed her hands.

  “You will know when we’ve done what is expected of us.”He glanced out the frosted window and set his cup down. “Gather your things to head up the mountain. This is the first leg of our journey. After we perform the ceremony, Ari will bring us back to the starship.”

  “Okay, I’ll be glad when we’re back on the ship.” She grinned. “The Starship is beginning to feel like home.” She finished dressing still struggling with her own misgivings about the ceremony. Everything that Kole had told her so far had come to pass. She just had to believe it in her heart. She wrapped a heavy coat around her and prepared for the hike. It was odd, but they each needed to be on a separate mountaintop to do the ceremony.

  “It is time.” Kole held the door open for her.

  The cold crisp mountain air nearly took her breath away as they began the walk up the worn mountain path side by side.

  “The altitude is high, over thirteen-thousand feet. We’ll need to take deep breaths as we hike up this rocky trail,” Kole said. “Take your time,” he said. “We’re not trying to run a race.” He stopped and pulled her coat and scarf closer around her neck with a look of genuine love sparkling in his beautiful blue eyes.

  “I’m doing okay,” she said and continued to walk with more purpose and determination in each step breathing air of the gods who had passed this way before them. Her intuitive self could feel the essence of the others from the past that had climbed this mountain path. It filled her with awe at how small she was in the scheme of things on this planet Earth.

  “There is more I have to tell you as we make our journey.” He reached for her hand and continued walking. “On the highest summit of this island, is the Mother Temple, sacred place of the Divine Goddess—the Earth Mother. It was built well before the Inca times during the Tiahuanaco culture. The Temple is a circular enclosure, open to the sky, formed by a roughly constructed stone wall, seven feet high.”

  He pulled her up the rocky incline. “At one time, the shape was octagonal, but centuries of destruction and repairs have rendered it imperfect. Five concentric rings of foot-high rock walls terraced the interior into descending levels, much like a small circular amphitheater.”

  “That’s amazing. How could they build something like that so far up here?” She hesitated for a heart beat and took a deep breath. And then she knew without a doubt. “Your people have been here before, haven’t they?”

  He stopped and stared at her. “Yes, our people have passed this way.” He smiled. “And now you shall go there. I will go on about a half mile away on the island’s second highest promontory to a large pyramid-shaped hill.” He pointed to the west. “There sits the Temple of the Earth Father, the Divine Male. This is the only temple to the masculine force, or Pachatata in the entire Andes. It is a square, rock wall enclosure more than eight feet high.” He stopped and held her hand catching his breath then they continued up the hill.

  After about thirty minutes with the sun low on the horizon, Kole stopped in his tracks. “We are at the great divide. I shall go west to Father Temple, while you shall continue onward to the top of the island.” He faced her and raised his hands to hers, palm to palm.

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p; She listened absorbing his words and emotions as he invoked the spirits of the Ancient Ones and called the guides and masters, the power animals as well as the spirit of the masters, the water, and the cosmic female and male.

  “May blessings be bestowed on our sacred union and the holiness of our mission,” he chanted.

  Kole held Elle in his arms and said, “Elle, you must trust me. Go with an open mind and a heart full of love and all will be well.”

  At the touch of his lips against hers an immense source of energy filled her soul. She held him close until he walked away in the opposite direction to his own summit. After another thirty minutes of trudging uphill in the oxygen-starved altitude, Elle had to sit on a rock. She gazed out at the rocky path ahead of her and was thankful she had a bottle of water. Getting her breathing back to a somewhat normal range, she stood and moved slowly up the path. The top of the island and the temple came into view. I feel so alone. “Ancient One and masters of the universe please help me to prepare,” she chanted. “Let me accomplish what I have come here to do on this day.”

  “You are prepared,” said a soft female voice in her head. The Ancient One is with me. Elle felt relief and nauseated at the same time, perhaps from the drink she had shared with Kole back at the hut. She took a deep breath and continued to walk toward a huge flat rock across from the altar. Sitting down, she collected her thoughts and spoke. “I come to Peru to be of whatever service I can be to humankind and to the planet. I pray that I will know what to do and how to do it.” She took another deep breath and opened her mind to hear the Ancient One. “I invoke the spirit of the cosmic Mother, the divine Female, the Goddess and Mother Earth as I sit in this temple on this holy island in this sacred place.”

  She held her arms to the sky. “I ask now, in the name of humanity and in my own name, Elle Thomas to hold in a sacred way the energies of the female pole of the planet. I ask the Great Feminine Presence to be in me and with me.” Immediately, her body started to tremble, but she wasn’t frightened. Vibrations and strong waves of energy surged through her. She felt empowered beyond imagination. She swallowed hard and stood.

  “I ask now in the name of the Divine Feminine that the powers of the Earth be with me. I choose to collect these powers in my being and to connect with my soul mate Kole, who is collecting the masculine energies of the planet in the Temple of the Father.” Energy flowed through her body from her toes to the top of her head and into her fingertips. She held her arms out to the mountains. “We have come this morning to heal the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. We are two Starseeds answering the call. We have come.”

  This was supposed to feel good, but she breathed heavily as if she were giving birth. Clouds and early morning fog moved into the temple, surrounding her with wetness. Am I doing it right? Rolling waves of energy undulated throughout her body, making her feel ill, and then they slowed down and stopped.

  At that moment, she knew she was the human embodiment of all Female power of the universe. This is incredible. Power surged through her entire body as her conscious mind traversed the space of peace and emptiness between Female and Male. Her soul traveled to meet Kole’s Divine male energies.

  Then an energy started with her hips. They began to sway, causing her whole body to sway with the energy from side to side. She knew she had connected with Kole’s spirit and the energies of the Universal Male. “By the wish of the Ancient Ones, I ask for merging, the fusion of Male and Female. I ask to release the separation that we experience on Earth, to heal the polarity of our planet. I ask to move oneness with my Starseed. I ask all of this for humanity as I stand in this sacred place on this holy island.” The words flowed freely into her mind with ease as she chanted.

  Her breathing grew heavier. Her body responded to the movement of the intense energy flowing through her. The movement switched from side to side to a wavelike motion. Now the power and strength running through her became intense. Somehow, she knew the strong movement was the Female joining with the Male. Faster and faster, her body convulsed in an energy orgasm. It was like the coming together of two live wires and had nothing to do with sexual pleasure. Energy waves had possessed her in an electric union.

  “In the name of the Cosmic Mother, the Divine Male and Female and service to the planet, I ask for polarity of all kinds to be healed.” A soft whimper escaped her lips as the energies slowly died down. The Ancient One had told her what to say and do, what ever they had brought her here to do, she had done.

  All of a sudden she was cold–really, really cold. She shivered and pulled her coat and scarf tight against her skin wanting to get down off the mountain as fast as possible. She had to find Kole. With a mile of rocky island separating them, she and Kole had made love. It still blew her mind that they had made it happen. They hadn’t done it for each other. They had traded the warmth of a loving embrace, the ecstasy of co-mingled passion for two solitary acts of spiritual transcendence in a pair of collapsing, pre-Incan temples.

  They did it for the world and the universe, simply because it was their destiny to do so. All she wanted to do was get back to Kole. She turned and started back down the mountain. In the distance, she saw Kole running at full speed in her direction. She rushed toward him.

  “We did it,” he shouted. “We did it.”

  Her heart clenched in joy at his huge smile as he ran toward her. As they ran into each other’s arms, the sun shed its warmth on the rocky slope, brightening the gray day. “Kole, it was amazing.” She held him close, never wanting to let him go.

  “Yes, that is one word for it.” He rubbed the back of her neck. “Only one more thing to do, then we can go home and be together for the rest of our lives.” He leaned back and kissed her. “I’m so proud of you.”

  “Oh, Kole, you were right. Together we can do anything. Let’s get to the river to do the last part of the ceremony. I feel strong and full of the Earth’s energy. This is really going to work.”

  “Of course it is.” He kissed her again. “There was never any doubt in my mind. Now close your eyes and hold my hand tight. Ari will transport us to the river. It may tingle a bit, but nothing will harm you.”

  She heard the rich tone of his voice as if from a great distance. They held hands and she felt like her skin was melting. It wasn’t a hurtful thing, it was just different. When she opened her eyes they stood beside a rushing waterfall. Birds sang and fish jumped in the pool far below. “The Ancient One said to use the power of the river basin to heal the waters of the planet. How do we do that,” Elle asked.

  “We must bless the water of the largest river system on the planet, and imagine holiness expanding to all rivers, lakes, ice and seas,” he said. Kole held her arms out and touched her fingertips. He chanted. “Ancient One, please bless the flow of our breath, of the blood in our veins, of the water in the world and the clouds in the sky. “Spirit of flow, help heal our waters. Together, we imagine the healing waves coming in on the seashore and the sick ones receding. All is perfect, all is flowing.”

  She listened intently to his chanting and a feeling of contentment filled her being. She breathed in and out simultaneously with Kole as if they were the ocean waves healing the planet. Their bodies swayed together from side to side like the motion of the ocean. Together, they connected to the Amazon River, along the edge of reason between matter and spirit. It wasn’t uncomfortable like the energy consuming her had been. Throughout her system and her heart this connection seemed to soften her thoughts and feelings.

  She at once knew the world as a whole as the spirit of the water flowed through her veins. She was comfortable with the infinite as Kole ended the chant. The Ancient One spoke in her mind. “For the next few minutes listen to your Presence, your Inner God. The powers in this world are wind and water. The reason they are powerful is because they move. Imagine that you are listening, that you are opening yourself to the universe. New experiences will easily come to you. For your trust and faith in all that is, you are blessed by the Ancie
nt Ones. Go now my children with peace and love in your soul.”

  Elle looked into Kole’s eyes and saw her future in his gaze. These aliens are our friends. They are here to help save the planet. Working together, alien and human the Earth can be saved. If only others will believe us. The final test of faith would happen back on Earth.

  Together we can get the word out to enlighten the human race. In the next instant his gentle touch and kiss seemed to scorch her soul as they became one twin flame.

  Chapter Seventeen

  “Elle, it’s time to wake up.” Kole gently shook her shoulder. “Were you dreaming?” His soothing voice brought her to the edge of sleep.

  She cracked her lids open and gazed into his glacier blue eyes. It hadn’t been a dream–they were still together on the starship. After the healing ceremony Ari had brought them back and they both had collapsed from sheer exhaustion. “Yes, I was dreaming about Sara and I finding some great bargins at a flea market,” she said, telling a little white lie. She couldn’t bring herself to tell the man she had been dreaming about making love to him. She blushed, brushing sleep from her eyes and stretched. In the future there would be plenty of time for sex.

  “Where are we?” She pushed back the covers.

  “We’re in stealth mode so we can’t be detected, but we’re almost back to Earth.” He grinned. “I thought you might want to see Earth once again from a distance.” He brushed a strand of hair behind her ear and rubbed the silky softness between his thumb and forefinger.

  She sighed and enjoyed the nearness of him. All she wanted to do was pull Kole in bed beside her and stay there with him until they reached home—hours from now. At the memory of what they had started on planet Zenon, it caused her blood to warm. And now that the healing ceremony was finished they had the Ancient One’s blessing. She yawned, covering her mouth and gazed into his eyes. How can I be thinking these kinds of thoughts and still be so tired? “It’s overwhelming. I mean, what we’ve done.” She sat up looking around the round room.