Shi:
Alright, welcome back. We are talking nature all week and, in this installment, we are focusing on another favorite of ours, the mountains.
Kay:
Mountains are so cool. Now they definitely have their own individual energy about them. Some of our favorite mountains even have a lot of mysticism surrounding them like Mount Shasta, where we visit very often, but mountains are just majestic…
Shi:
Oh my gosh.
Kay:
…and gigantic…
Shi:
Yeah.
Kay:
…and amazing in their own way.
Shi:
I love the way that their ominousness can really remind you of just the perspective of your place on this gigantic rock spinning through unfathomably huge space and when you are juxtaposed next to a mountain it just helps, I think ground you, put you in that awe-inspired state. We’re in a region where you literally are surrounded by mountains so it’s easy for them to sometimes fade into the background. But I know there are times when even coming up the road up into our house just two nights ago with my eight-year-old in the car. She goes, “That mountain is just so beautiful,” and it’s true. We have this magnificent view, and we get to see it every day, but mountains have an energy and a signature, and we’ve had a particular experience with a local mountain here that we want to bring forward and share with you.
Kay:
Now, we were on our way down from Lake Tahoe, from Lake Tahoe to Reno on a highway called Mount Rose Highway, that goes right alongside you can probably guess, Mount Rose. Now Mount Rose is a local, beautiful mountain with two distinct peaks. One of the peaks is higher than the other and the smaller peak hosts a very popular local ski resort called Mount Rose Ski Resort. But we were on our way back from Lake Tahoe when we rounded a corner towards sunset in the day and something really special happened
Shi:
That sunset was striking the summit, so the taller of the two peaks in such a way that the only way Kay, and I can describe it as we came around that corner and the summit of Mount Rose came into our view and the sun was on it was that time warped and slowed for a moment in the car. I know we’re getting like weird, energetic woo-woo on you, but it was such a tangible experience for both of us in the moment. We both felt it energetically in the same exact way. It was like we came around the corner, went, whoa.
Kay:
Like the air sucked out of the car.
Shi:
Yeah.
Kay:
Like we both gasped like literal [gasp].
Shi:
Yeah. Both of us gasped and we kind of like pulled to the side for a minute just to like kind of get out of the road and then manage to bring ourselves back in. Luckily, we were the only ones on the road, and not that we were dangerously swerving, but it was this moment of just expansion and compression and profoundness and perspective, and it was amazing.
Kay:
It was like the energy of the mountain made itself suddenly visible to the two of us and we know it’s woo-woo. But it was really incredible to have that experience and to recognize the energetic signature of the mountain. Ever since that particular experience at Mount Rose, I personally have felt way more connected to all mountains, most especially a favorite mountain that we love to visit very often, Mount Shasta.
Shi:
Well, Mount Shasta is special to our family because it’s the halfway point between mom and dad up in Brookings, Oregon, and us down here in Reno, Nevada. So, oftentimes we’ll meet halfway there and exchange children if they’re going up for a visit or coming home from one, or if we’re traveling up and back, we like to stay there so it’s only a four hour and a four-hour drive or a little bit less than that on either side. So, it has become this beloved spot for us that we get to visit and stay at three or four times a year.
Kay:
Now, Mount Shasta actually has a lot of lure around it for potentially being a place of great spiritual power, and apparently, there’s some vortex energy there and…
Shi:
Yeah, and there used to be aliens.
Kay:
Yeah. Have like a city underneath the mountain and that’s why there are weird cloud formations and things like that. But as to the validity of the story of aliens, we will let that be for time to tell. But Shasta definitely has a beautiful, special energy and when you’re at the bottom of it looking up, it is just an incredible gleaming object. Sometimes we drive by her, and she’s covered in clouds, and we like to say…
Shi:
Yeah, she’s hiding.
Kay:
…Shasta is hiding today.
Shi:
Yeah.
Kay:
And some days we come around and she’s gleaming in the beautiful sunshine. It’s fun to see her on her whole display. But we love mountains. We really seem to connect with them on an energetic level and we’re having so much fun getting to bring this stuff here to you in nature freak week. Next up, we’re going to talk about animals.
Shi:
All right.
