The steep sides of the mountain are blanketed by cedars and firs and on the October day Betty Lou and I laboriously climbed the ragged trail, a light blanket of snow heralded the coming of an early winter.
Some fifteen hundred feet below the peak, there is a cave. It’s mostly hidden by trees and bushes. The trail to it is flanked by a profusion of young aspens, their trembling leaves a brilliant yellow. These days, above the cave on the mountainside there is a small gully and a stream of water pours over the rim and flutters easily down to a pool beside the cavern. The locals at the nearby village of Arroyo Seco say in the spring run-off, the stream becomes a formidable torrent.
Let us roll back the clock.
Almost ninety years before we struggled through the dense brush to the cave’s entrance, four horses made their way along the ill-kept trail, littered with fallen trees and cluttered with branches. They each carried people who would make their mark in history.
Mabel Dodge Luhan a celebrity hostess who entertained the cream of writers, artists, academics, composers and a flock of other notables. Her husband was a wise, philosophical Taos Pueblo Indian named Tony Luhan. The other two were D.H. Lawrence, the self-exiled British author who wrote the controversial “Sons and Lovers” and would go on to write “Lady Chatterly’s Lover. The fourth person was Lawrence’s wife, the seemingly long-suffering Frieda.
The foursome explored the cavern that stands like a gaping hole in the side of the mountain. They peered into the tunnels and smaller caves that lead off the main cavern. The gaping hole in the mountain is so big that several full sized buses could be parked easily side by side there. Afterwards, they had a picnic while sitting on the boulders.
The energy of the cave impressed Lawrence because soon after he wrote a short story “The Woman Who Rode Away” which features a cave which he described as “a dark socket, bored a cavity, an orifice, half way up the crag.” That’s exactly how the cave on Lucero Peak appears.
The story tells of a woman, tired of married life, who takes a horse and rides off into the wilds and joins the Indians who happen to have a sacred cave. If you know the history of Taos you will realize that in some ways that“The Woman Who Rode Away” from a life in high society and married an Indian was modeled on Mabel.
The cave on Lucero Peak, high above the village of Arroyo Seco is considered sacred by the Indians at nearby Taos Pueblo, but today no one seems to know if they make use of the mystical earth energies that exist in the cave. They have their own mountain and also a sacred lake which also possesses earth energies.
If one spends some time relaxing inside the cavern, you can feel the energy. It’s not only powerful it produces lucid dreams and there is a special spot, where, if one stands still you can feel the healing energies emanating from deep below the ground.
The special spot is known to dowsers as a geospiral. It is not unique because scattered throughout the region between Taos, Los Alamos, Chemayo, Santa Fe and Sandia close to Albuquerque there are clusters of geospirals all having an interesting magnetic, and often a healing affect on people. Geospirals, in addition to having healing qualities, also generate a magnetic affect on sensitive people, people with high levels of creativity. This would account for the extraordinary number of writers, composers, philosophers, artists, and scientists being attracted to the region.
This is the subject of a book I am currently researching and writing which details many of the geospirals. It’s provisionally called: ‘The Sacred Magic of Earth Healing” scheduled to be published in the spring 2012.
Meanwhile, here are some photographs of the sacred cave on Lucero Peak, some showing my partner Betty Lou to provide size comparisons, and one showing the trail to the cave.
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