Dec. 21 2012… Yes the Begin of the AGE OF AQUARIUS…
To celebrate this i decided to first get a massage treatment in Sierra Madre, which btw . was one of the best sessions i ever had and then head off to the San Gabriel mountains nearby and drive up some Highways by just chooseing the route by their names. Angeles Crest Hwy and Starlight Crest Hwy. My destination was a place i had seen in a Hypnotherapy session maybe a year earlier. I was standing on the top of a mountain- together with another person(s) and wanting to look whats on the “other side” , it looked very good to me and while being way up in the air i was underneath the sea at the very same moment.
Back to the actual tour i took, i was driving up those high mountains – well for me it was freakin high, stopping at many of those mini overlook terraces and it went higher and higher 4000 feet and that was still not the top . From stop to stop i got better with taking self portraits at each one, as at most places i was the only car stopping. When i came to a crossing where i had the choice of going towards a bigger city on the other side – that was how it looked like on the google map and Mt. Wilson Observatory ( hey anothter Observatory ???? …. of course that got my attention) i asked a guy on a bike ,which direction might lead me to a spot where i could see both sides , like a pass. The friendly bicyclist sent me up to Mt. Wilson. I took the challenge … The road signs already were warning about icy roads and i wasnt so sure what tires my rental car had. UP and Up an Up i went on narrow curvy road.
and Finally ….. there was THE overlook terrace where i could see the snowy mountains on the one and Los Angeles in the – almost – sunset on the other side. Now Los Angeles was the “other side “. I parked my rental white Corolla and got out into the fresh cool clear air. Now i thought this time it would be nice if i have a full picture of yours truly standing in this awesome landscape and noticed another parked car on the LA side of the terrace. With no doubts whatsoever , walking over to the bit shabby looking beige Truck/ Bus , knocking on the drivers door and seeing a hippie looking older bearded man … knock knock :” Excuse me , may i ask you a favor and take a picture of me over there ? ” Guy : ” oh sure ! a pretty girl , what a pleasure .. hold on ” he jumped out of his Bus , i handed him my iphone cam and he took several pictures of me while talking…
Guy: ” what in this world are you doing up here all by yourself ?” … Me explaining what i saw in the therapy session and then asking him the same question… ” what are YOU doing here ? ” Guy : ” i am up here often and setting up Radio stations , i do collect broadcast items and doing Radio shows from up here. Look .. i show you ” . While you might think now.. oh God , she is crazy .. talking to a stranger , in the middle of nowhwere on top of a mountain, i did not feel uncomfortable for only a second and at some point where we were standing there talking other persons stopeed , including an elder woman who seemed to know the guy i was talking to. He introduced himself as Joe after a while and told me that many people dislike him , cause he is not very nice with some of his audience talking on his shows.
Joe : ” look Carola , if i would be nice to everyone , everyone would want to be nice with me too and talk to me all the time , but after a while it might get too much and then i would be Fake friendly. you know… so i am being mean on purpose and i love to provoke people and get to their push the button points. ” I gotta say that moment it made perfect sense to me and explained some weird behaviour of another person. Joe then turned on his Broadcast and started talking to some poor guy and being at his meanest best. lol. But he also told all over the Los Angeles valley that he is standing up there in the mountains with a beautiful nice Lady from Germany who is a Massage therapist, yes of course followed by some funny comments of his audience. Again , not for a mere of a second i felt uncomfortable and went on with the show from out in the hills. Joe ecen handed me the mic one time and let me talk myself. I tought that was very cool, talking on Radio from Starlight Crest at the begin of the Aquarian Age.
Joe also told me about his child (a stillbirth ) whose remains were buried in the hills and originally he went up there to be close to him on that special day , (and also there is some construction work up there and he was afraid to loose what its on this earth of his child) and his grown up daughter trying to find her way in life. I dont know , how we came to that topic , but i told him the “Lizzard King ” story i experienced a few days earlier and Jim Morrison and in opposite what i read about Jim giving credits for lyrics and poems also to his Band , Joe had another view on it . Now that i am back and thinking about all this , its becoming clear to me , that propably he might have known Jim personally . We talked and talked and talked and slowly the sun was setting . We were just between day and night, Ying and Yang , on a solstice night… and WHAT A FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL VIEW ! I could easily see Joes Vision of having a spiritual place up there , not for any organized religion or spirituality, but just for people to go to and meditate , contemplate, story tellers, eat , drink and just BE.
We then said Goodbye before the sun completely went down, cause i had to get back to Los Angeles for the evening , wanting to attend a Yoga workshop for celebrating that special solstice . I wish i would have stayed longer with Joe and continued to talk, as i realized this was the REAL celebration. Plus i never made it to the Wilson Observatory…. yeah another thing to come back for, i suppose.
Later on i learned that Joe the Broadcaster might be a known exxentric character for local LA.
Hopefully his Vision might come true one day.
🙂 stay tuned
oh and of course… the SONG… how could i close this story without a song … ? lol
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