Supernal Magazine Australia Issue 21 - November 2020

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Sacred Sites By Louise Clarke

Wollumbin – Mount Warning Have you ever been called by Spirit to visit a place? I have, many times. My journey to Wollumbin was repeatedly foretold by the Earth Power Oracle cards in early 2016. Literally every single time I shuffled the deck, Wollumbin would stare me right in the face. “I create my own destiny and opportunities,” it says. “I am humbly eternal.” Zorah Neale Hurston once said, “You’ve got to go there to know there” and, in my experience, a journey of Spirit is one best taken without a plan, open-heartedly, with a surrendering to the experience itself to guide you to where you need to be. Trust me; it is never a straight line! I eventually found myself at sunset on 22 August 2016 at the foot of the impressive and imposing mountain, through a

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series of introductions and synchronicities that led me on that particular trip from Sydney to Adelaide to Kangaroo Island to Perth, back again to Sydney and then north up the coast to visit another dear friend. “Let’s camp at Wollumbin,” he randomly suggested, though he lived more than

two hours away. All I could do was laugh! The distinctive curved silhouette of Wollumbin or Mount Warning, located near the border between New South Wales and Queensland in a warm subtropical rainforest,

rises 1156 meters above the surrounding area and is a holy place to the Bundjalung people, who call it “Wollumbin”, meaning ‘cloud-catcher’ or alternatively ‘fighting chief of the mountains’. It is said that it creates its own weather and represents the last defiant stand of an ancient volcano that once utterly dominated the landscape and is the place where the first light of dawn touches mainland Australia. Captain James Cook gave Wollumbin the English name Mount Warning in 1770 as a landmark to warn mariners of offshore reefs found in the area. It became a National Park in 1967 and was added to the United Nations World Heritage list in 1975. A steep and winding path leads to the summit of the mountain, where a viewing platform is located. The strenuous round trip hike is nine kilometres and takes approximately five hours. As darkness enveloped the rainforest, alive with the orchestral resonance of night, my husband and I and three other deeply connected men of the land, one initiated into the lore of that sacred place, made a fire and settled


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