Chandra
I feel resonance with how you express the significance of your pilgrimage, though my pilgrimage of the last year has been only to the primary Place of Being - my own bodymind. I am aware that the Mother has been giving me a gentle lesson in paying attention ... just a little resistance to sharpen my understanding of the edge, of what it means to be alive. I have self-imposed some limitations for the sake of "changing my mind", other limitations have come upon me ... and I am at last not so impatient for an outcome, accepting of Her "reining" me IN, teaching me somethings.

I watched (on a TV show last night) mother seals trying to defend their new pups from the ravages of a storm - some managed to save their pups, some didn't ... it is a wild Universe. Many humans know this daily as you have said.

blissings
Glenys