Airport Vortex

I'm still not sure I understand the whole vortex thing in Sedona. I defer to the Internet for this brief explanation: "There are several energy centers, or vortexes of subtle energy, located in the Sedona area. (In Sedona, the energy centers are referred to as vortexes rather than vortices.) The energy from these vortexes saturates the whole area in and around Sedona, and can be noticed in a subtle but general way anywhere around town. If you actually go to one of the vortex sites, which is where the energy is strongest, it can be a very uplifting experience. The energy you take in at one of these energy centers can stay with you and affect you positively for days afterwards." Okay. Understand?

Cindy and I visited three of the four main vortexes--some purported to emit a masculine energy that makes the visitor more confident and direct, some are said to emit feminine energy that makes a person more compassionate and understanding, and some that help you achieve balance between the two. We ventured out to the Airport Mesa vortex, named for its proximity to...you guessed it: the airport. Nights are wonderfully dark in Sedona due to their desire to curb light pollution by using lights that don't emit too much light and that seem to direct it downward. The Airport Mesa area is dark! We wound our way up a very black road and found our way into an even darker parking lot. Our first goal was to check out the view of the city from an overlook we'd heard about. It was lovely: stars twinkling and what city lights there were twinkling, too. It was also really creepy because it was just black out. Clearly, our masculine energy had not been tweaked yet!

We stumbled back to the car to head back to the hotel, and we passed a very small parking lot that we'd passed driving up, but now, in the dark of night, there were big buses there and lots of people. It was a curious sight on this dark, lonely stretch of road. Cindy, always curious but typically cautious around strangers on dark and unfamiliar roads looked at the buses and said, "Did you see that? We have to turn around." So turn around I did. We drove by the lot again, and this time, there were men helping a woman on crutches out of the bus. I drove by, saying something like, "what are they doing, having some kind of vortex healing ceremony?"and Cindy said, " NO! Don't drive by! We need to pull in to see what's going on." I was a little surprised by her interest after she'd been so afraid of the dark a few minutes earlier, but I turned around at the top of the hill and pulled into the lot. "Open the window and ask them what they're doing," Cindy said. "No way! You do it," I shot back. At least my fear was consistent.

I looked up at the huge and very dark rock formation in front of us, and the sight was like something out of a scary movie. A long line of figures was snaking up and around the rock, each of them carrying a flashlight or lantern. The rock was hard to see by the dim light they produced, but even I could tell that climbing it by flashlight in the pitch blackness of a Sedona night was ridiculously stupid. That was when I noticed the woman on crutches standing in the parking lot. At least they hadn't hauled her up the rock, I thought. Before I knew it, Cindy was out the car door asking some guy who I could not see, "What's going on?" Her tone made her sound part cop, part nosy neighbor--and it made me laugh hard. I couldn't hear the guy's response, but it was fast. She was back in the car quickly. He'd been cagey with her, not saying what the group was up to, but we had an idea. The rock area around that parking lot is supposed to be where the vortex energy is strongest, so we think they were on some perilous vortex hike in the dark.

I have to say that I never felt the vortex energy, but I do know one thing. In the short drive from the top of the Airport Mesa to the bottom, Cindy went from being afraid of the dark to being a person who pulls over to the side of the road on a pitch black night and demands that total strangers tell her what kind of craziness they're up to. Now that's some strong masculine vortex energy!

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