🌪️ FIELD GUIDE 47: The Vortex

Miles has joined us before. Feel free to check out the first time they joined us for FIELD GUIDE and their guest posts starting here.

Miles has a way of sharing their thoughts and their journey in a learning light and today is no different. They recently took a trip to Sedona, Arizona and came back centered, energized, with new perspectives, and ready to take on rejoining life after vacation.

This week I encourage you to view every emotion as a gatekeeper to a lesson we are in need of, to learn about ourselves. It just takes a little bit of effort to sit, listen, and understand.

Name

Miles Taylor

Occupation

Police Officer

Habitat

Savannah, GA

Soundtrack

(Spotify)

These days “going on a trip” means so much. Traveling, catching flights, dropping acid, learning where you stand with yourself, learning where you stand with others, boundaries, new memories. When you go on a 4-day, 3-night trip…. Those things (okay, honestly, without the acid) are in overdrive and doing exactly what is needed in the mind and body.

Sedona. Yes, the one and only, Sedona, Arizona. Named after Sedona Schnebly. Sedona and her husband, Theodore, moved into the area of Arizona which used to be called Oak Creek.

Spoiler alert; there are very few oak trees in this area — mostly saguaro cacti.

Anyway, the love between them was so strong, Theodore proposed that the town of Oak Creek be called Sedona and…the rest is history. So, being in Sedona, you can feel the air of love. It’s just a cozy, welcoming, warm (even when it’s cold), awe inspiring little city. Oh, and red rocks. HUGE red rocks. As far as your eyes can see, as much as your mind can process.

Those red rock mountains? TO. DIE. FOR. If you’re not careful with your steps, you just might.

At any rate. It’s said that there are energy vortexes in, around, and near different rock formations. Each vortex has a different energy that it metaphysically gives off. And that is where this story really takes off.  

Each vortex reaches about 1.8 miles from the center of where they are figured to be. You won’t ever be able to see the vortex, but you can feel lit. Whether or not you’re open to the honest experience of them, you’ll feel them. It’s up to you to start with an open mind and be completely honest with each feeling that comes up while you’re in that moment.

Airport Mesa Vortex is located at the Sedona Airport, just at the end of the runway. It’s a 3-mile loop hike. It’s well traveled, well worn, and FULL of masculine “electromagnetic” energy.

When it comes to masculine energies, it’s said that travelers to this particular Vortex will feel a strong pull of emotions. Please understand that these emotions can be BIG.

For me, I was met with a fierce feeling of lack of self-confidence, legitimate anger at everything, and an overwhelming sense of wanting to be independent and self-sufficient.

Most people will tell you, those are negative emotions at face value. I tried so hard to sit with each of those emotions. I was with my very best friend— my fiancée, and every time a suggestion was made, it infuriated me.

I didn’t know why, and I didn’t understand why, but it was happening. Upon further inspection, the Air BNB we were staying at was located within the range of the vortex and my energy was not of my finest moment. When I tell y’all I learned a lot about me while we were there, I tell you no lie.

The further away from the vortex and the house we were, the more calm, cool, collected, in control I felt. I don’t know how to explain it, honestly. But I sat with those uncomfortable feelings and each time they came up, I tried to figure out what they were trying to teach me or show me.

My lack of self confidence was evident, but each time I took a deep breath and said, “I am whole” “I am lacking in nothing” “I am comfortable in my being.” I repeated those phrases over and over and over.

I left Sedona with a better sense of who I am, where I am within myself, and areas I need to work on to be my best self. That vortex was one of the best things that happened to me that entire trip. I came back home with a sense of self understanding that I try each day to understand more.

Just so I don’t scare you away from vortexes, Sedona, and healing yourself from within, here’s some more rock mountain vortexes that don’t present in such a scary way: Bell Rock, shaped like a bell (obviously) and a warm energy that is just fuzzy to feel. Cathedral Rock, an introspective energy that gives you a chance to slow down, feel your own love for once in your life and be kind to yourself without feeling guilty. Chapel of the Holy Cross (there is a legitimate chapel built into the rock) a windy, sweeping energy that is light, airy, and free flowing.