Who can fail to love the idea of rest as resistance? Especially in this world where life is such a grind our wheels fail to stop even face with this deadly worldwide pandemic?
In her latest course, Dark Night of the Soul, Sandra Ingerman instructs us in creating a personal altar that changes as we go through changes as well. My altar for the week sits on an old hand embroidered Bedouin tribal cover.
In dreamtime I join its travels up and down the old Silk Road from ancient lowlands of our mother river deltas in Egypt to the distant aerial peaks of the Himalayas. Moving back and forth between East and West, trading knowledge, histories, art and other treasures.
It has a lamp head of the goddess Quan Yin wearing my shamanic eye curtain as she oversees the other elements that surround her. A dorje bell, a carabao horn rattle, a buffalo drum, a conch shell horn, a clay bird whistle and three crystals - a clear quartz wand, a moss agate egg and a piece of polished petrified redwood from Muir Woods.
The vintage candle holder holds an electric flickering light and a small wild turkey feather. The incense burner has the ash of some recently offered aromatic piñon gum as a sacred offering to clear intention.
It is all too easy to lose focus and get distracted therefore creating simple daily rituals can add sacredness to each drawn breath as we honor our life with ceremony. Not everything needs to be an overt or obvious action.
Today being still, grounded and quiet can open up the space in us to connect more - with our self, each other, so much more yet to discover. Explore unchartered territory, delve into depths or shadowy regions, perceive with a fuller more faceted perspective.
Be enriched and enrich in return as we weave our web to connect with the web of infinite life.
No comments:
Post a Comment