Spiritual Weight

I went to check out a nearby location as a potential site for a sweat lodge today.  I swept over the area with a feather, sprinkled tobacco and meditated at the site, asking if it was a good location for a lodge and basically asking permission from the environment.  I got a response that required some sorting out, on my part.  My sense is that the trees, spirits and the rocks (it’s in a rocky area) are good with the proposed site and that was the response I was most interested in, that response carried the most spiritual “weight”, or significance.  On the other hand, the location seems to be on federal land, a fact that does not carry much weight but, I suspect, will keep the lodge from happening.  The phrase “white man’s law” comes to mind.