How I Found My Home in Waimea

On February 10, 2021 I was sitting at my mentor’s house having a discussion about moving back to Waimea. I was raised there between elementary school and high school. This place always felt like “home” despite being from what you would consider a Kailua (Oahu) family. I began to reflect on my reasons for not moving to Waimea… I typically would introduce myself like this “I am from Kailua, but my heart is in Waimea and one day I’ll move back.” I had put off returning to my heart because I thought I needed to check off certain work accomplishments with Aloha Friday Agency. I also felt I would never meet a husband on that island, and so I would need to meet someone first in order to bring them back to Waimea. “There are no men in Waimea!” are thoughts I would often think…

So as I sat there looking out at the slopes of Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai I thought to myself “Why am I waiting to live the life I crave for?” Tears started to fill my eyes and I had this grand, yet soft, realization. It’s time to go home. It’s time to return to my heart. Once I fully accepted these limiting beliefs I had put on myself: thinking that I was only worthy of Waimea and its lifestyle after making a certain amount of money in my business, having a partner, etc I was able to heal it and begin to move forward. With new beliefs. Limitless ones. I made the announcement to close family and friends and started to ask everyone to keep an eye out on a good rental.

When I first envisioned the house I wanted to rent in Waimea I saw a bright white plantation house, something similar to the Kailua Kottage, but larger.  I knew I wanted a place I could host people for the weekend and that would feel safe.  Then I started to fall in love with the idea of a cabin, I even dreamt about maybe putting off the move for another year or two and saving money to buy land, but that seemed like such a stretch and I definitely felt like I wasn’t supposed to delay this move any further. I kept hearing it’s time to go. I had several different mediations where I asked spirit to give me a timeline or details about the move, rarely anything came up. They kept asking me to have faith and to trust what was coming. During one meditation I heard a song, like most of my readings I give, this is how spirit speaks to me.  It sang “May Day is Lei Day in Hawai’i.”  I came out of the meditation and knew “ok, so by the first week of May I will be in my new house”.

On March 19 I attended a Breathwork session on the North Shore of Oahu. If you’ve ever had a Breathwork experience you know it can be very emotional, cleansing, energizing, or all of the above.  I remained open to seeing what may come up… and here is what did.

I went into a meditation and started to have a vision… I saw a house, tall, a-frame-like.  I could see that it didn’t have any foliage around it and that it sat in a big yard. I saw a long driveway that led to the house where you parked, no garage, and all around the house was a deck.  Surrounding the house were tall trees, and even though the property had a somewhat “exposed” feeling, I knew it was safe.  I knew no one lived there, I saw that a married couple managed it, they didn’t live on the property.  And I knew there wasn’t anyone living in it at the moment.  In the vision, I also saw that it was by a stream, somewhere between two points in Waimea: Anna Ranch and Waiaka Street.  In the meditaion, I heard this is where my house was going to be.

After the Breathwork session, I mentioned this vision to a few friends plus my mom.  The day after this experience I went into a meditation and asked spirit what they wanted me to do about the house. I heard “nothing, we’re taking care of it all for you, when the time comes we will show you the next steps.” 

A few days later after the Breathwork session, I get a text: my mom went online and found the house based on the area and description I told her about. There it was. Wow, I thought. It’s coming true. What I saw in my vision is a reality. And there it was on the stream I saw, nestled amongst the trees, long driveway, deck, and even the stream. Kohakohau Stream.  Still, at this point, I knew I wasn’t supposed to do anything, and so I didn’t.  My friend Robbie looked up the stream when I was explaining the vision and found an oli (chant/story) about this area.  Sometime in the 1500s a chieftess named  Ho‘opiliahae built a heiau that overlooks this stream named Haleino. Going against societal rules Ho‘opiliahae had it constructed as a place of healing; women learned la‘au lapa‘au (traditional Hawaiian medicine) and midwifery. Women would go there and dedicate themselves to the betterment of humanity.  This is the only known Heiau in Hawai’i that was ever built by a woman. More details and research to follow... But “Wow!” I thought - “there is something here for me to discover.”

I let it go once again and in the meantime, I sent it to my friend Whitney, she helped me find the owners of the property. Not much came up, so I let it go once again, and then right around the end of March, I found the name and number of the property manager.  I ringed him and this is how the convo went:

“Hi, this is a bit random but do you happen to know anything about the property next door to Anna Ranch?”
“Yes, are you talking about the red barn or The Annex? Which is an a-frame brown house surrounded by tall trees.”
“Yeah, that one.”
“Well, this is really funny timing, but we just are about to put it back up for rent.”

I wasn’t sure if I was still going to get the house, but I trusted that if it was meant to be then it would happen. Two days later the property manager called me back and said “the house is yours, let us know if you can move in on May 1.” I didn’t fill out an application, I didn’t even speak to the direct owner, it was just as spirit had promised, I wouldn’t need to do anything, they were taking care of it all.

Even with all of these GREEN FLAG IT’S A YES, GO GO GO GO. My old limited belief system seemed to come in and knock me around a bit. Spirit was asking me once again to surrender and trust that it would somehow work out for me.  As I am entering a new path, unsure of the road ahead but ultimately knowing it will be an abundant one, I decided to commit and trust that I will be full of opportunities to grow my business.  The other thing that made me question this move was the timing. They wanted me to sign for May 1, leaving me a month to give notice, move, and ship everything to another island.

And now I am sitting here, writing this from the A-frame-like house I saw in that vision. I moved in on May 5, 2021 (the 5/5/5 portal). This house is leading me back to a sacred place of healing, leading me to my path of cultivating my gifts and finding my true purpose. I still have so much to learn, so much to discover, so much to heal, but this feels like the right path.  I am humbled, grateful, and forever committed to honoring and protecting this place, to being a steward for this land for however long it is fit for me to stay.  To surrender once again and trust the journey ahead.  Since arriving in Waimea my intuitive coaching and oracle reading requests have nearly tripled, this is now how I fill the majority of my days. I am feeling so full, I am feeling so at home.