Are you ready to meditate with Kori?
Lay down in your bed so that you can get really comfortable.
Close your eyes as you listen to the story if that feels good for you.
Otherwise let's just try and be still and quiet so that you can relax your body and let go of your busy day.
Stephanie walked over to her dresser.
She sat down at the table.
She wiped tears off of her cheeks and stared at herself in the mirror.
She was wearing her favorite dressing gown.
It was soft and fluffy and way too big for her so she always felt like she was being cuddled by a giant soft blanket.
It was one her grandma bought her two years ago for Christmas.
It had been her favorite from day one but now it was even more special to her.
Stephanie lost her grandma last week.
Her grandma was just old and it was time.
She died very quietly and peacefully in bed with family there at the house and even though it was time it was to be expected it was still really hard for Stephanie.
She found that at least once a day since it happened she cried.
And it's not that crying was a bad thing.
Stephanie wasn't one of those people that thought that crying was something that you're not supposed to do.
That if you cry you're weak or if you cry then you're too moody.
Stephanie didn't believe in any of that.
She actually believed that crying was a good thing.
Crying was a way that she could just let out all of her feelings.
She could let out the emotion of the energy that was sad inside of her and as she cried she could feel her body releasing all of the sadness.
She just had a really good cry and now she was sat looking at herself in the mirror.
She found herself staring at the jury box.
She opened it up and picked up her very special earrings.
She held them in the palm of her left hand and stared at them for the longest time.
Took a few deep breaths and thought about whether she wanted to go to Mumbo Forest or not.
She didn't really want to do very much at all since her grandma passed away.
She decided that maybe it would be a good thing.
She put the left earring on first and then the right earring and closed her eyes.
She bowed her head down towards her chest not even thinking about what she was doing.
She just looked sad.
Her whole body gave off the impression that it was tired and sad.
She felt the tingle in her feet first of all.
A humming vibration that tickled the base of her feet and then she felt it travel up her legs.
It seemed to zip really fast up through her spine to the top of her head.
She could feel the familiar tingle in her fingers and her nose.
And she wiggled her nose as if she was going to sneeze.
And just like that before her eyes she saw the curtain into Mumbo Forest.
The veil between this world and that.
It shimmered.
It had silver trickles of light running through it.
And if she looked close she could see the forest beyond the curtain.
It was night time again.
She was pleased about that.
There was something about Mumbo Forest that was quiet and haunting but so terribly beautiful at night time.
She was hoping it would be a full moon.
She craved to stare at the moon for some reason.
As if maybe her grandma was sat on the moon like the man in the moon and she'd be able to connect and see her face.
Stephanie paused before she went through the curtain and thought what a strange thought.
As if she felt intuitively that her grandma was part of the moon now.
She pulled back the veil between her world and Mumbo Forest and stepped inside.
She felt the grass underneath her feet.
It was cool to the touch.
But the air around her skin felt quite warm.
It was a warm day.
A warm evening there.
She could tell.
She opened her eyes slowly and looked around.
Over in the trees there was a circle of unicorns.
They were making the strangest sound.
Their horns were all touching in the center of the circle.
And it was as if their horns were making a blowing sound.
It wasn't deep like a didgeridoo kind of blowing.
It was more like a high pitched sound.
Like a beautiful trumpet sound.
A calling,
She found out.
She walked over to the unicorns.
She didn't say anything.
She walked in the middle of the circle and stood underneath.
Their horns all joined above her head.
As she looked up it looked as if she was in some kind of sacred geometry.
A circle.
Within a circle,
Within a circle,
Within a circle.
And as she looked through she saw an even bigger circle.
Through the gaps between the horns from the unicorn she could see the moon in the sky.
Big.
So big this night.
It was full.
As full as could be.
It seemed really low.
But low and that big that she could see all the markings on the moon.
It almost took her breath away.
The unicorns all opened their horns and then took a step back as if to open her up to the full light of the moon.
Stephanie had tears in her eyes and she didn't know why.
She looked around at the unicorns and they were all so familiar,
So kind.
Their faces all so loving.
Luna,
Nightshade,
All of them were around her and it was as if they knew her grandma had passed.
She didn't tell them yet they knew.
And for a moment she thought how silly it was that they wouldn't know because they were all so connected,
Even with the veil between the two worlds.
They were still connected all the time.
Without being told Stephanie sat down on the ground.
There was a stick next to her.
She picked it up and drew a circle in the earth all around her body.
Making it so that she was sat inside a ceremonial circle.
The circle of the horns.
The circle of the moon.
The circle surrounding her on earth.
A container that she placed around herself.
Something unusual was happening.
Stephanie wasn't thinking.
She wasn't having conscious thoughts about what she was doing,
Why she was doing it,
When she was doing it.
All of her thoughts,
Her normal thinking process felt like it dissolved as she stepped through the veil.
And instead she was acting instinctively as if this was something that she'd done for thousands of years.
Generation and generation and generation before her had done this for thousands and thousands of years.
The moon had something on this evening that was going to heal her grief.
She knew it.
She wasn't even thinking about it.
She wasn't questioning it.
She just knew to go with whatever it was she was doing.
As if she was recalling something from a lifetime thousands of years before.
She placed the stick down to the right side of her body.
Luna nudged something forward on the ground with her nose.
A ceramic bowl.
There was a liquid inside of the bowl.
And as Luna gently nudged it forward,
She whispered in a low voice,
Moon tea.
That's all she said,
Moon tea.
Stephanie leaned forward and picked up the bowl with both hands.
She held it in front of her heart center and closed her eyes.
Words started to come out of her mouth.
Thank you divine light.
Thank you source.
Thank you spirit of the moon.
I open my heart to be healed by this light.
I open my mind so I can join with the mind of my grandma.
She sipped the moon tea.
One big sip.
It was sweet like honey.
And she knew from a previous visit to Moonbow Forest that there were moon trees in the forest.
That's what Nightshade,
One of the unicorns called it.
Moon trees.
They use the leaves of the tree and make tea out of it.
And it's sweet like honey and it heals your heart.
At the time when Nightshade told her about all of this,
They were flying through the sky and she thought it was interesting,
But they were on their way to some cupcake valley or some milkshake lake.
And at the time she found that much more interesting.
That now today in this moment,
Moon tea was all that she wanted from Moonbow Forest.
As she let the tea travel down her throat into her stomach,
She instinctively laid down on the ground and looked up at the moon.
Everything around her seemed to disappear into the background.
The trees parted so the moon was just the only thing that she could see.
All of the many unicorns were there,
But they just disappeared.
All she could see was the moon.
Her whole body started to feel as if it was swaying backwards and forwards.
As if Mother Earth was holding her underneath the moon and it was rocking her backwards and forwards like a baby.
At first there was a moment of hesitation as if to say what is happening,
But then it disappeared.
She relaxed.
She gave in to this moon ritual that she'd found herself in.
This ritual that was going to take away her grief.
As she rocked back and forth,
Back and forth,
Her chest started to feel as if it was expanding open,
Right in the middle of her ribs,
Opening.
Her heart felt as if it was beating really fast,
As if her heart was growing inside of her body.
Coming alive,
Changing size,
Whatever it was doing it just felt as if it was expanding,
Growing bigger and bigger and bigger and her chest got opener and wider and bigger and opener and wider and bigger and it was as if something was going to crawl out of her body.
At that point she opened her eyes.
A portal of light from the moon,
As if a staircase in front of her face was beaming down as bright as anything from the sky beaming through down into the middle of her chest.
The moon's light shining so strong inside of her,
It felt as if her whole body was breaking open.
She could feel a vibration running through her veins,
Running through her blood,
Her muscles,
Her bones,
Her skin,
Everything felt as if it was vibrating,
Like she was sat on a massage chair or something that was vibrating underneath her.
But she wasn't,
She was just laid on the dirt,
Laid on the earth.
This was all energy.
And then as she looked at the light shining out of her chest,
Into her chest,
Through her body,
Around her body and back out of her body,
She saw what looked like a miniature unicorn flying out of her chest and her grandma was on the back of it,
Holding tight to its mane with the biggest smile.
She looked young and happy and healthy.
The unicorn was flying up through the light,
Up towards the moon,
Taking this part of her grandma with her.
Her grandma looked the happiest that she'd seen her look in the longest,
Longest,
Longest,
Longest time.
She looked free.
She looked pain free and so happy.
This made Stephanie happy.
This made all of the sadness that was inside of Stephanie disappear.
All she felt was joy,
Complete joy that her grandma was riding up to the moon,
Riding up into the light,
Happy,
Healthy,
Young and free and vibrant,
Like she'd been set free out of her old body.
Stephanie knew right then that it was time that her grandma passed.
It was time that she left earth.
Even though she would be sad that she didn't see her every day,
She knew when she looked at the moon,
She would always see her grandma.
And the full moon from this day forward would always mean something extra special to Stephanie.
She always loved the full moons,
But now she would cherish them.
She kept watching and her grandma got smaller and smaller and further and further towards the moon in the sky,
Until eventually the beam of light that was shining in and out of her chest just disappeared.
Her chest started to feel normal once again.
Her body stopped vibrating.
When she laid there,
Tears rolled down the side of her cheeks,
But they were happy tears,
Not sad tears.
She felt like she got some closure,
Like she could be happy and let go of all the grief that she was feeling,
All the sadness.
She stared at the moon.
Stared and stared and stared.
It was so beautiful.
The light that shined from the moon was mesmerizing.
She could still feel her body rocking back and forth and it made her think of the ocean.
Now the ocean changes when the moon has different cycles,
The tides,
The waves,
How everything is affected by the sun and the moon,
How everything is connected,
How she is connected,
How the earth,
The trees,
The sky,
The oceans,
How it's all connected.
After a moment Stephanie realized she felt exhausted.
The next thing she knew she was laid in her bed.
She didn't recall how she got home,
But it was nice to be in her bed.
She pulled the covers up to her chin and rolled over onto her side and fell fast asleep.
The end.
