I shared that I had read something where they say most people who have a fatal accident don't know ahead of time and can't be prepared. And if it's an accident that happens as a result of a fall or car crash, very often a persons last words will be Oh, Shit. I don't want those to be my last words. I'd rather be like Ghandi who's last three words were Ram, Ram, Ram (his name for God). So to be like that I need to train and be more receptive and say yet to the every day things that come up. Saying yes as it comes doesn't mean I'm accepting it as permanent fixture in my life, saying yes means that I'm willing to learn and negotiate.
So from recent experiences where I was not saying yes at all and not feeling so free and letting the grain of sand called my ego block the mountain of spirit within me, I re-membered that connecting with the "I Am", Soul, God within is the best reminder. And as reminded Krishna reminds Arjuna in the Baghavad Gita "Nothing higher than Me exists, O Arjuna. On Me all this universe is strung like pearls on a thread". Yes I was focusing on the pearls and not the string. So in ceremony we consciously used a string. Before going into ceremony we literally stepped back over the string and then went into the process of surrendering what was an impediment to our freedom whether that be attachment to the yummy or icky in our life. We went into the surrender remembering (thanks to Osho) that to err is human and to forgive is MORE human and that the moment we achieve our own humanity is the moment we achieve divinity.
The participants dumped into a stone which was later burned to transform. For the dream workers, I took a print out of your surrender and transformed it to ash that is to be used as compost for our dreams later.
We then did a process of connecting with I Am, Soul, God, Spirit,...whatever you want to call your experience of what really is ineffable. The live participants then blew their seeds into a blossom and then stepped forward over the string carrying this new seed. The string was then tied to their right wrist to remind them until the string falls off. Each of the seeds from the dream workers was then transferred into a white blossom for the garland of dreams.
So the purple blossom is where we put the prayers of all for our families, communites, planet, galaxy.... Prior to the ceremony I took the dream worker prayers and folded them into origami hearts. You can see it flanking the left and right of the altar in the picture below.
We closed the circle with the taking in of the mmmmmmm....sweetness to show spirit out willingness for our lives to be filled with sweetness. Typically I will do the offering of the garland of dreams immediately after the ceremony; however, I got the hit to wait. And I did until Wednesday morning where I happened to wake up just before sunrise (and the only reason I knew that was that I googled it when I got back). I did some final b urning for further transformation. Into the existing compost I put the papers with the dreamworker seeds into the compost and burned them along with some petals from each of roses that were used to represent the blossoming of those that were in the room. After that burned I put in the origami hearts (which were also transferred into the garland) and burned those as well. Interestingly when that burned although I only use a small bowl in my ceremonial room, it really roared (that is relative) which to me spoke of the power of all the prayers and hearts of the participants. And also interestingly after the burning was done the shapes although ash stayed solid. I found that to be a bit magical. I then took the ask and garland outside.
I offered the ash as well as three roses that were part of the ceremony to a tree outside my apartment. I call this tree the heart tree as it has a natural etching in the bark. Sorry the picture below is a little darker than showed up on camera which showed in interesting shading that didn't exist between the left and right sides of the tree.
And then of course I took the garland off the the NYC version of the Ganges River for me, the East River (East the direction of fire and transformation). I offered the garland and as I tossed it, it seemed that the garland just fell into the shape of the heart. Well that was how it looked to me. I then glanced at the time and it was 5:36 AM, guess what time sunrise was today. Yup, I can't make this stuff up. So I realized that spirit wanted me to take your work from the darkness of the new moon out into the light to shine. Well that's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it. And now as I type this it is raining, which is also an auspicious sign.
I really enjoy new moons...so thanks for sharing.
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