Prompt : Boundaries
Eladia
How political police came to spy our grove
We have a druid grove and so we set up ceremonies for the year wheel celebrations on the four lunar ones : Samhain, Imbolc, Beltain, Lughnasadh and the four solar ones : both solstices and equinoxes. We accept members of other druid assemblies.
Our present spot where we celebrate is a private wood. Before, we celebrated in the Pyrenees, in a sumptuous narrow valley but it was too far from cities. So now we have more people coming. We had a guest from an other assembly whose name is Eladia. She came from the Atlantic coast thrice. It was very interesting discussing various matters with her. She was respectful and though I sensed she was on the fringe, very smart with an ambiguous and witty side that was charming. Through the last ceremony for Lughnasadh, I felt quick silent echoes from her, like a subtle reaction as I evoked briefly internal affairs in our network and an other time when I just pronounced the word psychedelics, in an enumeration. Then several days after, she told me that she had took some ceremony photos that she offered to share. To my surprise, she had taken photos of members. This is something I never do by respect, she did it as a guest!
Several days after I connected the dots, remembering she had been in the police. So I asked her to never come back , believing and following my intuition. I could not interrogate her as other members were present because they were not yet warned about it and I could not bear conducting a ceremony with this secret.
France has an authoritarian state, even more with the actual president and after the yellow vests. They want to have files about those who are not on the right track. I am now in their files. This service was called the RG, now it has changed name but they go on spying in public places, cafés, meetings, groups…, the French citizens.
The lesson I got is to be more vigilant and to see guests before opening the ceremonies to them and above all scan them with my inner sight to discover any hidden agenda. This is what I do daily, not to judge but to evaluate what I can discuss with anyone.
You know why I feel more freedom writing in English and yet…
Thank you to 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊. for her prompt about boundaries :
Jean Carfantan is the founder of the Queen’s Children about the Sacred Feminine.
