We Are All Warrior's Of Light...
We are in working in our cosy den with the sound of torrential rain all around us. Just now, there was a short gap in the downpour and I went out to take a photo of the grey blue day, the hills and sea and sky all merging and blending in different shades of blue beauty.
‘Anadi’ I gasped, he was beside me in a flash ‘look’… ‘I’ve never seen one so bright’ he said. It was a rainbow, looking as if an artists brush had created the vibrant colours on the sky in an arc, which went right down into the sea, painted over the grey in a confident positive hand…
We watched as it faded before our eyes, like a mystical visitation that had delivered its magic and was leaving… And then the heavens opened once more, and the land in the 
distance disappeared too. We came back to the warmth and dry of our special number 11 Stefanos Place.
‘Aren’t you glad I “made” us go out running early’ I laughed… ‘Too right’ Anadi replied.
We ran the same seven mile loop as yesterday, but we ran it the other way round; it changed it totally.
As we scrunched our way along the pebbles on the beach, a familiar 
brown and tan dog appeared beside us. In September he had appeared too, and set off at the sound of the claxon with the runners, as we raced up to the top of Mount Pantokrator. Here he was again, bounding and wagging and bounding, greeting us like long lost friends.
He ran along for a mile or so before becoming singularly disinterested in us, once we started up the steep climb to Spartilas village, and he disappeared back to his home…
It seemed a far steeper hill this way round!
My legs are quite achy from the past three days running, the terrain here is very uphill – or downhill! And although I am feeling good in myself when running, my body has had four months of reduced training whilst healing from my Achilles… It does now rather feel that everything else is hurting except for the ankle!
We were running, rather gratefully, down the hill when we encountered a very cross dog indeed!
I am so used to the barking of dogs accompanying us as we run, that I didn’t take any more notice of this one than any of the others; but suddenly a wild dog was coming at us from the mountainside, growling with his hackles up; Everything then felt like a slowed down film; Anadi went in front of me to protect me, and I remember a grey fur ball of husky energy coming at us, he tried to bite me; and missed; I felt his teeth on my thigh.
Anadi picked up a big stone and I kept walking, saying ‘I’m okay Anadi, I’m okay’ I was calm and knew that I must just keep walking… Anadi said that the dog kept growling and then hissing and so he stood with his large stone in his hand and growled back!
Anadi recounted that the husky stood his ground for awhile and then cowered back... He said that it was at this point that he knew the dog would either back down or spring to attack; it backed down…
The sensation of the dogs teeth on my bare thigh, took me back to many years ago. I was eighteen years old and I was running in the woods near our home when I was ‘rounded up’ by a Labrador and an Alsatian… I stopped running and they calmed down and went quiet; so I started to run again and at that instant, the Alsatian grabbed my thigh with its teeth, in the same spot that the dog went for today… I suppose my thigh is dog mouth height…! But that day the teeth sunk in and I have the mark on the top of my leg to this day…
I looked up the animal totem for husky crossing your path… It does not say anything about an attacking husky! But it certainly crossed my path…
Any challenges along the path reflect for us anything within us that needs clearing, and if energetically I am still holding something in my field that invites attack, then I welcome the opportunity to see it in front of me and so clear it from within.
We are all warriors of light and must be prepared to clear anything that arises, in whatever form it arises!
This is what the totem said…
'You are being reminded that it is not always the destination that is important. The journey towards your destination is equally important if not more important than actually getting there. Making the right choices now can greatly ease your experience and expedite any conflict and hardship along the way. Use your instincts to guide you and always stay centered to your sense of what is home to you. You have the inner strength and knowing to tread lightly through difficult terrain and to navigate through without leaving destruction in your wake'.
