11. new friends in an old family “Another bright one coming … a lady” Catia Cheetah said. Leo got up and opened the front door, as the driver of the van, a Japanese looking woman of about 30 years, exited the driver’s door and walked up to the house. “Aloha, Leo!” she said, as he smiled and waved her through the doorway, into the living room filling with guests. Leo closed the door behind her, and followed her in. “Aloha everyone! I’m Yellow Yama Flying Squirrel Purring Cougar Leaping Lynx. Awishona Ts'uyya sent me to help with the mission logistics” she said, looking around the room, smiling. Her eye caught and held Josy’s eye for just a brief half-second moment, as her smile seemed to him to glow just a little more brightly. Josy was sure he felt his tail was high in the air. He was speechless, barely able to even crack a smile, as everyone else grinned widely and welcomed her. “Hi,” he managed to say. Then, not a moment later, he felt the auras of three more Seers approaching. He looked at Catia, and could tell she was aware, also. “And now three more …” Catia Cheetah said, smiling. Violet sat there smiling. She had been wondering how to make her plan work. She needed help, and here it was, thanks to her old friends… A fairly new Cadillac SUV pulled in behind the old Chevy Van, and three petite natural strawberry-blond young ladies all got out, as Leo again waved the brightly smiling perky bubbly trio in the front door into the living room. These latter three newcomers looked like triplets in their early 20s. Dressed to the nines in matching outfits of three different colors, the young ladies introduced themselves. “Hi, I’m Sapphire Panther. These are my sisters, Amethyst Panther and Pink Panther. Awishona Ts'uyya sent us as a support group. Specifically, we are here to help revitalize Jazmin for the trip. Awishona Ts'uyya said she is really burned out. We are all trained massage therapists, Rolfing teachers in fact, as well as Chinese Medicine practitioners, and Awishona Ts'uyya said Jazmin’s body is really beaten from the years of walking and carrying bags, carrying her daughter the first time all the way from South America, the stress of not having a good place to sleep, the mental stress; all that needs to be cleared away, for her trip to the Moon. Being away from the Earth’s vital energy, away from the protection in its womb of the magnetosphere and the ozone layer, is harsh on the body. We’ll help you all get your health back up to tip-top shape for the trip.” The three ladies looked around the room at everyone, and stopped at Josy Lynx, smiling, obviously a bit flirtatiously. Pink Panther giggled, quietly, just barely noticeable, as the three of them looked Josy in the eye. Josy felt the tip of his tail curl towards his head. Josy Lynx knew it was a trap. Awishona Ts'uyya set him up. He wanted so bad to earn his Green badge; nothing more in life seemed more personally important to him. He had been training with Awishona Ts'uyya directly for a good bit of this life. He actually was bold enough to request it when he was just 4, and began remembering who he was and his past lives. His parents thought he had a really active imagination when he told them of the old lady with the big heart and green feathers that hovered in his dreams, that he wanted to be his grandma. When he met her as a high-school kid, his parents were confused and awed by his proclamation that Awishona Ts'uyya was the one he was asking about as a child; but they went along with it. She told him he needed to better understand human romance and how it intertwines with love in the Heart Chakra; yet he had spent most of his human lives alone, with only a short-time girlfriend here and there. Really, he just never met anyone who interested him beyond simple sex. He thought of the lyrics to an old favorite song: "typical situation in these typical times … too many choices" and knew that Awishona Ts'uyya was trying to spin him. "Choose wisely!" he could almost hear her saying to him, testing him. “Rolfing! … I’ve been interested in that for several years now. Doesn’t it take 10 years or something to become a practitioner, let alone a teacher?! You ladies must have started training at a young age” Leo said. “Yes, we started learning massage at age 10 in this life, and began training with Rolfing and Acupuncture, Acupressure, and Shiatsu when we were 12. We have been working with these healing modality for many, many lifetimes now. We can see the stress in your shoulders, the muscles holding the mental tension from the years of taking care of others in dire need. We will be working on you, too” Pink Panther said to Leo; but then she quickly glanced at Josy Lynx, looking him in the eye, smiling with just a sprinkle-sparkle of "flirt" mixed in. “I know we look like college girls” Amethyst Panther said, tossing her mane dramatically, brushing her hair dramatically back away from her face with her hand, exaggerating her inflated-ego in a comical manner, “but we’re really a bit older. It’s just because we eat healthy food balanced for our own needs and we get lots of exercise. Come hike with us sometime!” She glanced at Josy Lynx as she spoke her last sentence, smiling. "Shit! What is the path to love?" Josy Lynx asked himself. Awishona Ts'uyya said it is rooted in the Red Chakra, filtered through the Orange, grown in the Yellow, and embodied in the Green, expressed in the Blue, integrated in the Indigo, flowers in the Violet, and Leads into the White-Silver-Gold. "Which choice follows that pathway? Which attractive lady to flirt back with? Or are the three a team? Is physical and sexual seduction part of the game of love? Or the trap? Embrace the body and work upwards and grow into the new relationship, opening a greater risk for heartbreak or requiring a strict "no attachments" attitude; or pursue the ever-elusive if not outright mythical soul-mate with the near-perfect matching vibes and interests, securing a stable solid path to romance and love with little risk, but one that will hurt more if the love breaks or the romance never develops in the first place?" Josy Lynx fathomed to himself. "Make a choice now, or loose any chance with any of them" he thought. If he blows them off now as they flirt with him, the opportunity is lost, or becomes a long uphill battle … Damn this trap! "F-it, I’m a Lynx" he thought, and he assumed an air of aloof indifference and independence and quiet strength. "I don’t chase pussy-cats. Let them come to me." Amethyst Panther looked at Jazmin and asked “you must be Jazmin? May we help you feel better? Does your back and shoulders and head hurt?” “Si” Jazmin said, nodding her head a few times, letting it slowly droop in the end. “But the smoke helped. And I could really sleep for a little while.” “May we help you?” Amethyst Panther asked, walking behind the couch, behind Jazmin. “Yes, may we help you?” Sapphire Panther asked Jazmin. “We can make you feel better” Pink Panther said, walking up in front of Jazmin, and then kneeling at her feet, pushing the coffee table out of the way. “Si … OK” Jazmin replied, not afraid, but not sure either … Amethyst Panther grabbed Jazmin’s shoulder muscles tight and hard — she had amazing strength in her hands for such a small woman — and pulled the muscles up and away from Jazmin’s chest. Jazmin felt instant relief, and her whole body started to relax for the first time in … how many years? … Since her husband was alive? … Pink Panther took off Jazmin’s canvas hightops that Father Thomas had given her when she got to Las Crucis, and her socks, and started massaging her feet, Pink Panther sending Jazmin’s meridian pressure points Qi from the tips of Pink Panther’s fingers. Amethyst Panther continued a deep massage into Jazmin’s shoulders and down her back and spine, as Sapphire Panther walked over behind Jazmin and started slowly and gently rubbing her temples in circles. Jazmin melted like a chocolate bar in the sun, as everyone else sat quietly to let Jazmin enjoy her moment. Josy Lynx could feel the massage in his own shoulders, and his feet, and his head. His whole body longed for the touch, as he watched the trio work on Jazmin. Oh‼, even one night of naked ecstasy in bed with these three beautiful hot blonde nymphs… Then he caught Yellow Yama Leaping Lynx watching him out of the corner of her eye … several times. He just wanted to talk to her so bad! But he would almost be satisfied just sitting quietly with her in the same room, feeling her auric energy. Damn this trap! “Filtered through the Orange?” Josy Lynx muttered to himself, very quietly. “Huh?” Jasmine asked, whispering, looking at him with a slightly skeptical eye. “Sorry, nothing. Just talking to myself. Bad habit” Josy whispered back. “You need to talk to more people and stop hiding alone” Pink Panther said to Josy. “Yea” Sapphire Panther and Amethyst Panther said quietly in unison, as they continued massaging Jazmin. Josy Lynx smiled sheepishly. He couldn’t help but glance at Yellow Yama Leaping Lynx, already looking at him, and she responded with a shy smile as she looked down at her knees. “Auntie Spots and Leo are next, but we’ll rub you down head to toe later tonight. We’ll need to stop for a big lunch/dinner later this afternoon, and then we can get to you. We brought a bunch of food, out in the rental car, specifically to charge you up and rebalance the Qi in each of you for your trip. Yellow Tiger and Awishona Ts'uyya read all of your auras and told us ahead of time, so we could plan our meals for you” Sapphire Panther said. That was it. Josy could resist no more when he heard the words "rub down". He felt more than his tail rise. "Rooted in Red, filtered though Orange" went though his head again. Was that their plan for him tonight? Tantric Karmamudrā — sexual Yoga? Taoist Jing Qi — sexual Qigong? Then he noticed Yellow Yama Purring Cougar Leaping Lynx watching him out of the corner of her eye again. "Attachment" he thought to himself. Not his usual self — but does he need get out of his norm, to grow, to learn, to earn his Green Badge? Or is this a dual lesson in the "Buddhist non-attachment" teachings that underlie the foundation of true love? He could get really "attached" to good massages and good sex really quick. He was already feeling like he WANTED to be "attached" to Yellow Yama Leaping Lynx. He thought of the lyrics to another of his favorite songs: "Is it love, or is it the idea of being in love?" Pursue complementary harmonic energy yielding a simple peaceful strong inherently bonded romance embodied from spirit; or contrasting supporting energy with partners working together with each person’s strengths filling in the weaknesses in the other, yielding a strong bond with romance grounded in physical reality? How to grow? DAMN THIS TRAP!