Showing posts with label ceremony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ceremony. Show all posts

19 March 2022

action & reflection

The full moon embodies self-expression and action. When the moon and sun are in opposition, Helios is so far away from Luna that the full face of our nightly companion is lit up. Perhaps distance does make the heart grow fonder.


We have traveled far, and now is the time to rest, and look back on our accomplishments, or at what we have left behind, as the case may be. Our emotions and our physical body are heightened during this phase of the Moon.


Listen to the needs of body and mind - opposing energy of the Sun (ego, self) and the Moon (inner-self, subconscious) can cause tension - explosions of emotions. Create rituals that reflect and manifest this.


"equinox" comes from the Latin for "equal" & "night"

15 May 2021

cosmic change

We are moving at the speed of light as humanity is shifting into light body and hopefully growing less dense. A change in consciousness as well as a change in the stars. How do we mark this change as we step forward?

Love without enabling, nurture without over-protecting, accountability with love and compassion. Planets call for an open-hearted compassion with family, friends, and community. Feeling sensitive and generous, we are reminded that boundaries are important but are often semipermeable at best.

Women's Fire Circle © Flame Bilyue' 2009

What affects one person, one circle, one nation - affects us all. Their pain, our pain - serving others can make our world better too. Strange events may call for this compassion - how we think, feel, and communicate.

Our passion and warrior nature both out of bounds. Having less restraint - for better or worse. Coming back within bounds by the end of May - when Mercury turns retrograde. Problems that arise will come churning up - to be processed throughout June.

Throughout our many lifetimes cycles are always changing. The seasons and stars change. Shamanic cultures marked time by watching the changing cycles. The new changing cycles meant important work needed to be done. 

Ceremonies were performed for balance and healing, Spirits in the divine realms listen to all our prayers and answer whatever way possible. Chants and altars change to mark any movement. 

Cycles change all the time - having family makes it is easier to mark change. But for loners in life you must find other ways to acknowledge your own shifts. Build sacred space and perform special ceremony to honor this however way you can. 

We have been weathering stress - light to extreme - since the beginning of human consciousness. We learn to develop our way of coping to survive and thrive. We grow the strength and support to take the next steps in sacred ways that honor each and every moment. 

Wash away the fear and fill our homes and lives with love and light.

27 September 2020

ceremony

Ceremony is a conscious act performed, uniting in ritual and purpose, the specialness of an event or occasion. Cultural or traditional, religious or civil, communal or private - a ceremony is a creative, powerful, and impactful means of communication and connectivity. 

Canterbury Cathedral Altar

Adding ceremony to our daily prayer is valuable because it consciously directs our purpose and intent. Prayers are universal and every individual prays one way or another. Prayer is deliberate communication issued or action taken to connect with spirit, the divine, all that is, source, the God of our heart. 

A Shinto Kamidana [home altar]

When we pray we are either naming, asking, or declaring with prayers of invocation, petition or decreeThe idea expressed or action taken are an expression of honour, worship, or devotion. 

The Opferstein or sacrificial rock, Austria

18 August 2020

rest easy

Have you heard of Trisha Hersey - self proclaimed nap bishop, founder of the Nap Ministry and advocator of radical rest as resistance? Either way, it's time for all of us to join her global movement and nap temple where we can rest in righteous sleep.

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.