In the New Moon, New Life playback, email you should have received the update from the Wed. evening ceremonial and a link to the earlier blog with pictures immediately following...and the process continued.
On Friday, after I sent off the ceremonial gifts to the dreamworkers. I was called to put the remaining red carnations into a basket to create a cushy bed of hampi (good medicine) for your prayers. I already had the compost from what was surrendered and I then added your dreams which I used the fire of tranformation as well. All ashes were mixed together...as it is all energy. I then placed the ashes onto some papers that had all of your names. I used that paper as a blanket that was then wrapped around the ashes, blessed with some Young Essentials Joy and then adorned with some buds from the carnations and sweetness.
Look at How Precious that Center Bud of New Life Is?
I was then called to put a small symbolic piece of the veil to cover it as we were going into the solstice ceremony and would unveil it at that point.
Followed by the placement of the garland of dreams...nothing can veil that.
This sat in the North of my mesa until I packed the next day to head to my dear friend Laurie's. We had scheduled some play time before the solstice ceremony which she had planned. I got up to her home in Connecticut just before the snow.
As you would imagine, we did not drive to Grafton to the Peace Pagoda, but held the ceremony in her home, which is truthfully like a Peace Pagoda anyway. Laurie orchestrated a beautiful ceremony in which the basket of new moon prayers was woven.
The beautiful despacho made by Laurie
First the veil was burned with the intention of removing any obstacles from keeping us in a co-creative relationship with the unseen forces and wisdom of the natural world.
I then offered the blanket of ashes...and then we adorned the despacho.
To which we added all the petals and sweetness from our basket.
Which was then blanketed with paper cranes, symbolizing spiritual justice
We were ready to feed the fire with our despacho filled with gratitude and grace
And well received it was...one would think that this was enough but "coincidentally" I had forgotten the wedding bouquet in the NW (source of manifestation) of my mesa. So on the Solstice (today) I walked to the East River and offered the bouquet. I unbound the ribbon around it, as our dreams needed to be free. It was well accepted by the river and I practically had to chase it to get the next shots. As part of the bon voyage, I didn't have rice, but offered some paper heart confetti.
And Inti (the sun) was shining on the river laying a path that you will see the bouque flowing towards...
and our love and dreams, merged with the essense of water and fire!!!
The transformation is complete!!!