07/09/2026
CELESTIAL WHALE 🐋
Once again, the whales are on the move. Their yearly migration up and down the coast, bringing so much wonder to the shores each year.
We watch them glide by, wave their fins, slap their tails and launch with an almighty splash. I love the sound of their blowhole in the distance, which to me sounds like ocean elephants.
Nothing quite prepares you for the silent swell of the water as they glide beneath you out on the water, or the sound of their song resonating through the hull of a boat.
But my connection with the whale has a much deeper story.
One of the threads that inspired the Rainbow Serpent journey began with a book I loved as a child called “The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie”. Within its pages was an image of a whale tooth, carved with a map of a Rainbow Serpent, its body forming the shape of Killiecrankie Bay, where I spent my summers, its fangs marking an ancient granite outcrop at the serpent’s head.
And then, this year, a s***m whale washed up on the very shores of Killiecrankie Bay.
I found its bones scattered along the beach, as well as a tooth the very shape of the one in the book from my childhood.
Later, as its bones returned to the ocean, I watched the remains of this great being slowly disappear. The last to go was its enormous skull, the structure that housed its brain and consciousness, a resonant chamber of sound, through which it navigated the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean.
There was something profoundly moving about connecting with these bones.
A whale had appeared in the story long before I understood why.
And then, here it was, physically arriving on the shores of the very land where the Rainbow Serpent journey began.
Perhaps some threads are woven long before we recognise the pattern.
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The Celestial Whale invites us into the vastness, beyond what the eyes can see, into the deeper mysteries of consciousness and the unseen.
From the depths, we rise into the diamond light.
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