One day out bush I came across a Mallee ring of didgs. The circle was about 4 metres in diameter, and it had  about 7 trees in that circle. Every single tree in that circle had the strangest trunk patterns and all exhibited the sign of being hit with lightning. I sat there for a while  in awe, checking them all out and most were fully hollow. I felt lucky or special somehow, it was like striking gold. I felt in awe of what I’d found and it so impacted me I  was willing not to cut any.  I sat and felt into it and after some time, it came in strong to take one.

The interesting thing with Mallee Eucalyptus growth patterns is the trunk can die and it can re shoot from the base.  So if a didg is cut, or it is burnt, or blown down,  then it can reshoot from the base now seemingly dead.  Then over decades, then hundreds, and  then thousands of years there can be more than one trunk and gradually there can form a  gradually widening circle of what appears to be separate trees. In reality they are one and the same. So when I sat in that circle it was one being I was communicating with, and one that eventually said sure, take a part of me.

And let’s be clear, I’m not a trippy person, I’m a didg maker , I cut trees down to make my craft and feed my family. That said I’m grateful,  and I do have a relationship with the places I go to and I sometimes feel like I receive  direct insights from a place or a tree.  Through this relationship I also come into a responsibility to care for the land, and to tell its story.
This spirit, this place, this tree, this didgeridoo has a story to tell, has a gift to didg and it is important. What exactly that is I cannot fully say, even though this is a part.

I trust that when the right person calls this  didg to them, that path will unfold another step.

I’m not the only person that has got shivers from seeing this didgeridoo.
Mob from top end, talk of the significance of didgs  that have been hit by lightning. This is one.
In this didgeridoo, the lightning strike is visible in two ways, a straight direct crack like line, that we have artworked, that goes down  one side of the didg, and on the other side a DNA helix like pattern of growth in the sap wood  is visible from top to bottom,  as a reaction to the need to create strength against the supposed weekness caused by the lightning strike.

I’ve never seen a didgeridoo with this story, to this degree. It speaks of strength over adversity, it speaks of flowing with challenges rather than resisting, it speaks of the power of life force and integrating one of the most powerful forces there are, lightning. Lightning is the process of  two opposing  polarities or charges  grounding out, harmonising  through a big bang.  Something that needs reconciling, reconnecting and now.

Theres no f’ing around, it has to happen now. There is a light to it and a spike like clarity  of intent and equally sometimes death is involved, the death of letting go  and transformation. It’s a bit more dramatic than a caterpillar weaving its coccoon to achieve metamorphis. In the times we live in,  we do need a greater sword like ability to strike through the maya and be the change or bring the change. This Yidaki is truly a gift in this way. A yidaki with this spirit has a purpose. Someone will feel the call to journey with this energy and harness these gifts.

Ohh and of course it plays deep and rich and powerfully.

Listen to this didgeridoo:

Details:

Code: 3247

Name/Description: Struck Earth

Length: 152cm

Widest diameter: 16cm

Weight: 4kg

Wood type: Mallee

Musical key: C

Overtones: F#, D

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