We’re just back from this amazing adventure, during which a group of women experienced everyday miracles and tapped into their own creative energy. Next adventure: September 2012. Stay tuned for more info!
Walking With Your Divine Self: Looking for a few good Meigas to join us in Spain!
In the Galician dialect of deeply Celtic Northwestern Spain, “meiga” means “bruja,” a sorceress or witch. We’re looking for six adventurous women keen to tap into divine feminine energy and explore the sacred pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago.
Fellow master coach, Susan Baghdadi, and I first hit the Camino last year, walking 108 kilometers of the nearly 800 kilometer pilgrimage route, and it was the experience of a lifetime. Now we want to share the magic with you.
Many of our experiences were mundane while others were sublime, but all were wrought with learning and gifts. The practical lessons are easy to explain: 
- I learned that my body will go much further than previously imagined.
- I learned that Spain is a meat- and fish-loving country, with far less emphasis on vegetables.
- I learned about the best blister remedies and to bring an ice pack next time.
- I learned to love octopus, and drinking red wine out of a bowl. (Tough, I know!)
The spiritual and mystical lessons? Let’s just say they’re far more personal and a little “out there”:
- I realized that “you’ll find everything you need” was not just a catch phrase. Whenever I thought about our driver and his van filled with snacks and water, I’d turn a corner and he’d be standing there, as if summoned.
- After walking alone for a long stretch, I’d think about having some company and someone would appear within minutes. I started to play with the notion of conjuring up what I needed, with very interesting results! (Susan did, too. See below.)
- Our ancestors aren’t all that far away, guiding us and inspiring us if we’re open to feeling their subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) messages. My deceased father played a few tricks on us both. It sounds totally weird, but the things that happened were too coincidental for him not to have had a hand in them. Just ask Susan.
- There’s a certain, palpable energy you encounter along the route that makes you want to keep walking despite the fact that your body’s telling you to stop. Or that tells you to stop when your ego refuses.
- Simply put, something old and deep exists on the Camino, and it’s lovely.
Here’s Susan’s description of one of her magical experiences:
“Despite a long-standing indifference to the Catholic Church, I found myself several times in tiny, Romanesque apses, tears streaming down my cheeks. At one point, I felt literally compelled to drop to my knees in the dust in front of a medieval chapel dedicated to St. Marco. Yes, I was tired, but when was the last time you got down on your knees for a little R&R? Of course, first thing next morning I met a man called Marco who had walked all the way from Holland. His description of Camino magic went like this: ‘After some time on the Camino, you get whatever you ask for without delay, be it more wine or a new walking stick, an orchard of fruit or whatever. Desired things can manifest almost before your eyes.’
Hmmm…’What do I want right now,’ I wondered. I’d noticed many extravagantly alive fig trees along the way, but none with any edible fruit. ‘I want figs! Ripe figs,’ I mused to myself. I kid you not, just around the next bend I spotted huge tree heavy with sticky black fruit! Amazed, I stood staring up at them, inhaling their earthy perfume and realized I could not reach a single one. What the…? And then…AHA! With a laugh, I added ‘within reach’ to my request. A few moments later a jarring voice interrupted my fig tree reverie. It was one of our companions, a cheap-ass-churchlady-from-Tennessee, hollering my name while pillaging a fig tree 20 yards ahead. ‘SUSAN! LOOKY HERE! FREE FRUIT!’ Delicious.”
Our theory on why the Camino is magical:
There’s an expansiveness that occurs when you’re out in the elements, walking for 6 to 8 hours each day, with few distractions. Guided by your own inner wisdom, the wisdom of those who’ve walked before, the Camino itself and some poking and prodding from us (in a good way), you will receive perfect and timely lessons and gifts. Meigas Fora!
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