AIR Meditation – Journey to meet Paralda
by Blayze

Relax...Make your self comfortable and close your eyes. Feel yourself begin to still. Become aware of your breathing, in and out, in and out (cont...) Now slow your breathing down, IN 2 3 4, HOLD 2 3 4, OUT 2 3 4, HOLD 2 3 4, IN 2 3 4 (cont...). You feel yourself relaxing as your body slows. You concentrate on your breathing and you feel yourself slowly becoming one with the earth beneath you. With each breath you feel yourself slipping into trance. Continue breathing as you become more and more relaxed...

All around you is darkness. You find that you are sitting upon a stone that is cold with the night. Ahead of you is a slight glimmer in the darkness, a glimmer of grey tinged with pink and gold. Slowly, as you watch, the light becomes brighter, the colour stronger. You feel a breeze against your skin, a light kiss with the scent of a new day, a new experience. Your body begins to tingle with excitement and anticipation.

The breeze becomes stronger as the light of dawn breaks. You can now see that you are sitting on top of a mountain, a great flat area high amongst the scattered clouds. You see the sun rising between distant peaks... still covered with the last of winter's snow. Your face is bathed in the dawn light as your hair and skin are caressed by the scented breeze.

You stand up and look around you. Small wild flowers are dotted around the rocks, bending in the breeze, clinging to the thin soil. Flowers of the colours of the dawn. It is their scent that fills you.

The sun is climbing higher now... it is early morning, the last vestiges of night have fled before Dawn's bright ray.

You look to the East and see a speck of movement there, moving through the sky towards you. As you peer into the East, the wind whips the wild flowers and you see the speck resolving itself into a large bird. It is being buffeted by the winds but is flying ever straight towards you, its goal. You spread your hands out before you in welcome.

The bird comes closer, flying across the mountains. When it gets close it begins to spiral above you. It drops a feather which floats down to land in your outstretched hands.

Look at the feather, examine it. Look for colours or patterns, or is it plain? Whilst you look at the feather, the bird spirals back up and flies away, following the path of the sun.

You feel the power of the wind that surrounds you. You gather that power to you until it fills you up. With a mighty breath you blow upon the feather and release it to the winds.

The feather flies up and spirals around you, coming to rest on the rocks and flowers. The air shimmers and standing before you is a man, though no mortal. He radiates age and power.

He is PARALDA, King of the Element of Air. You bow before him in welcome and say “Hail Paralda! King of Air!”.

You ask Paralda a question about the element of Air. A question will come to you.

PAUSE

You receive and answer.

PAUSE

Thank Paralda for speaking with you.

You find that you are holding in your hands a gift for him, a small token of thanks at this meeting. You breathe upon the gift and the gift floats to Paralda. When it reaches him, both the King and the gift disappear with a rippling of the air.

In their place is the feather, a reminder of this journey.

You take up the feather once more and sit upon the ground. Hold the feather in your hands and close your eyes. The image of the feather remains behind your eyes and you feel its lightness transporting you.

Gradually the image of the feather begins to dim and fade away. When the image is gone from your sight you become aware of the sounds around you, the sound of breeze and the trees, the sound of my voice. You become aware of your body sitting upon the ground, you feel your breath and the shape of your skin. Let that awareness fill you. When you feel that you are back in your body and in the here and now, open your eyes.