This is a story of meeting Green Woman at Secret Lake, a very special lake in Eastern Washington. I first went there in August of 2020 and have since been there 9 or 10 times.
The story begins in September of 2019 at the end of a month in Scotland. I had found a special stone on Iona and was thinking of having it made into a 
pendant. On my last day in Edinburgh i went into a shop and saw a beautiful labradorite pendant with a subtle face in it. It said ‘you need to buy me!’ I hesitated, it said ‘you’ll never get around to having that pendant made and i’m much more attractive anyway’ – all true! So i went ahead and purchased it.
I started out just wearing it for special occasions, but then I started wearing it more and more as labradorite is about protection. One time about a year ago when I wasn’t wearing it something really bad happened, after that i started wearing it 24/7.
Except, it meant so much to me i decided i shouldn’t wear it while swimming so i would take it off before getting in the water. This was troublesome – one previous time at Secret Lake i dropped it on my way from the water back to camp. I couldn’t find it so I asked a local rock spirit right by the beach to help, right after that the light hit the silver pendant just right so I could see it.
So this trip, we had just arrived at the lake and it was warm enough for a swim. I took the necklace off at the beach and put it in the pocket of the skirt i was wearing. I knew the pocket was not really secure so I rolled the skirt up to hopefully keep it safe.
After swimming we made our way back to camp, several hundred feet away. I put my shirt on the picnic table and hung the skirt on my bike when I remembered the necklace, of course it had fallen out of the pocket as I had totally forgotten it was in there.
My husband and I immediately walked back to the beach to look for the necklace. We ended up walking back and forth at least ten times, but no sign of it. Maybe it had fallen in a patch of dirt and was covered up? Or in the patch of lupin and was covered by leaves? I kept asking the fairies and rock spirits but no sign of it.
I asked the campground host if he knew anything about renting a metal detector in either of the nearby (30 miles away) towns. He said ask the guy in campsite #10, he has a metal detector.
Ray in campsite 10 does have a metal detector, not right there, but he could probably fetch it from home before the end of the week. He lives not too far away.
I took this as a good sign, if I can manifest a metal detector I can probably manifest the necklace returning!
That night I did a meditation to check in with my guides about the situation. They said focus on abundance and gratitude, the key to everything!
The next day we went for a bike ride and in the afternoon I went to visit the Big Trees, a pair of 900 year old Larch trees near camp. I kept meditating on the situation, it wasn’t just about the necklace, it wasn’t that expensive or anything, it was about the fact that this was my buddy who had gone missing, he meant so much to me! I wondered if it was connected to the mars-uranus square of the day before, which was exactly hitting my venus-saturn opposition. Was I still having to learn lessons about loss?
At the Big Trees it occurred to me that maybe the local fairies needed the protection of the labradorite, and that’s why it couldn’t be found. Did it need to stay at Secret Lake? Maybe I should offer to bring another piece of labradorite when i come back in the fall in exchange for its return? Or maybe I could ask the fairies to help me find a new buddy?
It occured to me that I had my Faery oracle deck with me, I could use the cards to get more clarification.
On the way back to camp from the Big Trees I ran into Ray’s daughter who said he was going down tomorrow to get the metal detector, hooray!
That evening I sat by the lake and opened a coning (a process from Perelandra for multi-dimensional connection). I offered the essences I had made in Wales and on Iona when i was there in 2024 then sat with the cards. I decided the most important question was ‘who is available to help return my buddy to me?’ If that wasn’t clear I would ask if it needed to stay at the lake.
I pulled the Green Woman – natural magic, expectant gratitude. That felt so good!! Especially the ‘expectant gratitude’, that felt SO affirming.
I had the sense that when the metal detector showed up, I should open a coning and call on the Green Woman to help me reunite with my buddy.
That night the Green Woman visited me in my dreams. There was very interesting earthy architecture, I was up on a high parapet, somewhere I had never been before. She had a garden with nicely spaced thimbleberry plants. I said you know those can really spread, you might want to mix some other plants in there too, for diversity. Afterwards I was embarrassed that I critiqued the Green Woman’s garden!
I also dreamed of wanting to have a chocolate party – I have so many different kinds of chocolate, I want to have a party and invite people to come sample it all! It felt very happy and celebratory.
The next day it was pretty easy to stay in expectant gratitude, between the card and the dreams, I felt chances were good for successful resolution. I did notice that all the thimbleberry was radiantly blooming, and they don’t get as overbearing as they do over here in Western Washington, there were other plants mixed in with them nicely.
While I was out for a mid-day dog walk, my husband was called to clean out the van, the rugs get pretty dirty between dogs and forest debris. He shook out the wool rug, the non-slip mat underneath was all bunched up in a roll. He unfurled it and in the center was the necklace!!
Thank you Green Woman!
It’s funny, my husband was a bit annoyed by it, too confounding for him i think!
(When I got home I felt a need to look up thimbleberry flower essence:
Thimbleberry flower essence supports flowing through daily life bathed in joy and gratitude regardless of circumstances.
I also was embarrassed to realize during this that my buddy doesn’t have a name! Immediately on its return I heard the name Larabee, which is fitting for labradorite!)
The following day (Solstice Eve) I made an essence, I had been instructed to do so before the trip. I had been told to create it in three places – the lake, the Big Trees and the top of Strawberry mountain. The triangulation will provide structured support for portals and interdimensional connections.
When I was sitting by the lake the words that came were: Trust in the Truth of Your Connection between the Realms.
At first it was ‘trust in the strength of the connection’, but to trust in the Truth of the connection felt stronger – the connection is a Fact, there is no denying it!
I also had the sense of hands reaching from either side of the veil, not to shake hands but to grasp forearms, creating a super strong supportive bond.
At the top of Strawberry mountain I heard the word Communion, as in something deeper than just Union, there is a sense of merging, of co-mingling.
The Big Trees brought in fortitude, perseverance, partnership (same species and inter-dimensional) and vertical integration through dimensions.
I am scheduled to go back around Equinox for a friend’s birthday party, I need to find a labradorite crystal to bring as an offering.
And I am very excited to have such a strong essence of Secret Lake for continuing the journey.
Follow up – I went back to Secret Lake for the fall equinox to fulfill my promise of bringing a labradorite crystal as an offering. I brought a couple of other crystals as well in gratitude. I placed them at the base of a tree in camp, and later that day I was gifted with a drawing of Green Woman:
