A hummingbird is an amazing gift. They seem rare to me. I've only ever seen a few. The first time I saw one in real life, I was sitting in my new car, A used Volkswagen Vanagon, side door open. I was parked in the giant park El Dorado Park in Long Beach, California. I was just enjoying the warm day feeling like I had just moved my livingroom to a park and eating a pint of icecream. Suddenly a hummingbird zipped into frame and hoovered there looking at me. It hoovered! What else hoovers? Dragon flies and helicopters. Never before had I seen a hummingbird, and now, suddenly it's right in my face, framed by my Vanagon door. I could have reached out and pet it. I felt awe and wonder.

Last weekend I received Andean transmissions from seven mountains, the Nustras, and the from seven stars, The Pleiades, in a ceremony facilitated by two Peruvian masters, poqos. As part of the ceremony each participant received seven carved stones to match the chakras into which these mountain and star seeds had been planted. They are called Chunpy stones and each one has an Andean archetype carved onto it.

Each person has a different set. For instance my throat chakra stone has lightning, others have Jaguar, cocoa leaves, or “the guy.” One of the archetypes is a guy, a pictographic man. He has a name and a purpose, which I forget is at the moment. We all just called him the guy. “I have the guy on my heart chakra,” etc. For me The Guy is at the crown chakra stone. What do these combinations mean? I have no idea. But I want to have an idea.

I went to the font of information, Brave browser, and looked it up. I still don't know how the combination affect each other, but I did find some things about hummingbird. Hummingbird is a powerful amazing archetype. One I can really get behind. Hummingbird voices my motto, “Dumbass! We reject the rational to make the impossible possible!” - Kamina, leader of Team Gurren.

Hummingbirds even in motion are still, they traverse the gulf of Mexico in migration, and they eat nectar from flowers eschewing the garbage discarded in the street. They haven't the geat soaring wings of a condor, eagle, or albatross, yet they cross the ocean. They represent courage in the face of impossibility. I can use that energy.

None of my Chunpy stones have a hummingbird on them.

Often, when people unfamiliar with indigenous ways, or ways connected to nature, adopt archetypes we chose the biggest most powerful or mysterious ones we can find: wolf, dragon, whale, owl, eagle, tiger. We overlook ants, skunks, and the hummingbird. Anything small, cute, and floral related is dismissed. I speak in general, or maybe just for myself. I suppose I should say, “It seems to me that…” because I know first hand that that's what I did. Why adopt hummingbird when you can soar like an eagle? Yet, an eagle doesn't cross the ocean even though it seems to be built for that kind of test of endurance.

The evening before our last day, we built a ceremonial fire and were visited by a toad, ants, and one spider who swooped down over us, then over the fire where she paused before flying up into a tree. She seemed to greet each one of us, and she seemed to fly and hoover. Spiders are surprisingly swift.

The next morning I rose early and was the only one in the kitchen as I made some coffee. I looked out the window and there was a hummingbird. It made three stops at the flowers outside, then, like the spider, swooped up and out of sight.

I wanted to tell everyone that we were visited by hummingbird, too. But were we? The fire was out and it was just me looking out the window. Does that count? Would she have visited us ifI was outside? Does it count that I want’t? All these dumbass, materialist, critical thinking questions. I reject them now; I reject the rational and accept the gift. Thank you Hummingbird for your energy, I need it now.