If you are joining us on Friday night please bring along a special cup or glass to share in the watery goodness of this ancient spring - water is life! Oceans of love to you all for your New Moon blessings. The morning after finding the doll, Lucy contacted me - there were Gang Gangs singing in her backyard. What small treasure can you gift to someone this week? I love to hear these stories of how a mysterious gift can be just what is needed to really lift someone's spirit. And we can all play a magical part in this weaving with the universe. I think we are all finally learning to appreciate simplicity again and receiving pleasure from small treasures made with care. In these changing times there is so much being released but there are so many gifts to be received. It felt very right that this doll would come to live with Lucy and her family. Lucy is a dear sister and her sculpture was a beautiful element of our ceremony held last year for the women and babies of the Magdalene Laundries at Abbotsford Convent. And here is the beautiful family that found her! The family of local artist Lucy Pierce and her babies. When I gift dolls at the spring I leave a little note to let people know that this doll is a gift for visiting this sacred place. I had never seen this type of Cockatoo at the spring before and he sang and spoke to us before flying down to the spring itself and drinking from it. I placed the doll under a small fern just behind the spring and prepared to leave when a family of Gang Gang Cockatoos began to call and o ne ancient grandfather landed and sat in the small fern above the spirit doll. I have no doubt this spring has been known and held sacred to the Wurundjeri for a long long time. The gang-gang cockatoo was listed as endangered due to the combined impact of climate change-fuelled bushfires and heatwaves and clearing of forests in its home in the Great Dividing Range. The doll was with me as I'd passed through the welcome smoke and I was fascinated to hear in the ceremony that along with the gift of Fire to welcome visitors to their lands, the Wurundjeri also gave visitors water. The doll I gave to the Spring and her friends was Healing Spirit, a medicine doll that I'd finished on the weekend after attending the Wurundjeri Welcome to Country ceremony. He told me he'd never tasted anything as good. As soon as he tasted the spring he began to fill every container he had with him for his travels. Often when I visit I will leave a spirit doll to thank the spring but to also thank the other visitors to this sacred place - the water freaks/ enthusiasts! Every time we visit we meet another water lover and this time it was a man in his 60s who was riding a motorbike across Australia. We went yesterday to draw water for our ceremony on Friday night and for new essence creation. Every 3 weeks we travel to the purest spring we have ever known, the well spring at the top of Mount Donna Buang in Warburton, Vic.

Gang gang cockatoo song