RIP Luna L98
may your spirit be forever free
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Luna – an orca, a whale, a teacher, a messenger, a chief, a spirit, a dream, a friend, a warning, a test, an education, an experience, a realization, a protector, an awakening, an equal and a legacy.
www.reuniteluna.com for news on the story
this will be hard for people around the world, it is hard for me. many people had good intentions of keeping luna wild and free. it is my belief that no amount of human control, could decide the fate of nature. his story is epic, and his ending is tragic, and it is something i and we will need to learn to accept. life is not always the way we want it to be. it is, the way it is.
3 years ago, my dad died violently and tragically here in playa del carmen – now my new home.
in 2003, while i was monitoring and documenting luna, i had two very significant dreams about luna’s life and death. in my dream, i saw luna laying on the gold river docks. the shock of seeing this, impacted me greatly. i only shared these dreams with a few people as i dreaded them to come true. i am so sorry. i didn’t want to see this happen.
death is for the living. it is an excersize of life.
it does not matter at this time, our differences of opinion. the fact of the matter is, is that none of us are right, none of us are wrong. nature, life and death, owns us. we cannot control this destiny. this is something that we, as a community will have to learn to accept together, in unity. perhaps in his death, we may be joined together as one force, rather then be at war over our differences of opinion… thanks to everyone who worked on behalf of keeping luna wild and free.
luna’s story was subjective to each of us personally and therefor there are many different vantage points of his life and his death also. his life was a mysterious maze for the human race, one we could not solve or fully understand.
the sorrow in my heart, hurts deeply. i blame no one for his death. there are no “what if’s” when it comes to death.
this may sound “crazy” but if there is one thing i have learned over the course of my life, it’s that i cannot prevent dreams from coming true. and i don’t even try (and not because i want to see them come true but because i realize i do not have the power to stop them). in my dreams i have seen many things come to pass, including 9’11, massive natural disasters (hurricanes & tsunamis) and now luna. dreams of unpreventable and inproportionate events and traumas have taught me that i can do nothing other then see them before they occur. i know there are many people out there who endure this also…
dreams can be awakening and frightening at the same time
for me, this is a test of my own spirit, mind and balance in life. the dreams remind me however that, we are not in control of our own lives. all i can do at this time is thank the creator for the love that is so strongly felt for luna. it’s power is a testimony that love is stronger than death. through all that i have experienced i have faith in knowing that luna’s spirit is eternally alive and well.
there have been many politics around this story. much anger has festered and blame placed on others. i refuse, in his death to allow more negativity to breed itself on the back of such a magnificant being. out of respect for luna, i ask you to resolve the anger in your heart and transform that into the love that he has given us.
(and to clearify, i do not mean we should not experience the stages of grieving which naturally does include anger, but to resolve the volume of hatred, the hatred and negativity that existed long before luna’s death. i mean no disrespect to the grieving process. i too am in grieving.)
there is beauty and love that shines far beyond this story’s tragedy. never let that die.
about a month ago, myself and Rachael had an identical dream of the death of a significant orca. now we know who it was.
also, in my blog entry I was 3 I talk about some pretty significant orca dreams in my life. one in particular that stands out right now, is the one where the orca transforms into a young man before my eyes, and leads me into a sea of indigenous people (i am now living in mexico)…
for luna (last night I eerily put this song onto the caribbean side of my website…. not realizing it’s full meaning until now)
Moonlight Shadow (Luna Spirit)
The last that ever she saw him
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
He passed on worried and warning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow.
Lost in a river last saturday night
Far away on the other side.
He was caught in the middle of a desperate fight
And she couldn’t find how to push through
The trees that whisper in the evening
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
Sing a song of sorrow and grieving
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
All she saw was a silhouette of a gun
Far away on the other side.
He was shot six times by a man on the run
And she couldn’t find how to push through
I stay
I pray
I see you in heaven far away
I stay
I pray
I see you in heaven far away
Four am in the morning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
I watched your vision forming
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
Star was light in a silvery night
Far away on the other side
Will you come to talk to me this night
But she couldn’t find how to push through
I stay
I pray
I see you in heaven far away
I stay
I pray
I see you in heaven far away
Far away on the other side.
Caught in the middle of a hundred and five
The night was heavy but the air was alive
But she couldn’t find how to push through
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
Far away on the other side.
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Godspeed.
(please note: i have been silent with my dreams until about a year ago. this is hard for me to do, share them. bare with me they are only dreams, and that i do not expect people to agree, understand or accept them. but know however that it is something i endure weather i like it or not and felt that they have more purpose and meaning shared then sitting alone with me. they have been a huge part of my life and work)
