It almost looks fake doesn't it, but if a member of this honker of a moth/butterfly doesn't show how instantly transformation and manifestation can occur I don't know what does.
I almost want to end here but for those that weren't in the room or chose the lite version, I like to give a little playback. So as you know we focused on the powers of water which is governed by Mamakilla (english translation mother moon) and clearly embodies non-attachment and fluid transformation. I shared information about Masuro Emoto's work of how the fire of the mind impacts the health of our water. I also included that in the dream work, so as not to be too repetitive, I'll past the links and information down as an appendix to this blog for future reference.
It was a lovely group with mostly new friends which was a joy. As always we opened the mesa and introduced our selves to the mesa. For the lite and dream workers, I called in their spirits into the circle so their higher selves were present. We then began the surrender work of releasing what no longer serves us. Although in this visualization we took a walk to the gats of Varanasi and took a boat at sunrise on the Ganges River and offered what didn't serve us any longer. We followed with the ceremonial rinsing of any remnants with the hand washing. And I happened to have some water left from a 2007 pilgrimage to the Mother Ganges which was poured into the pitcher to aid the surrender. The Ganges really does represent the mother to me as it was my experience that considering all that people dump into her, she is calm, sweet and loving. And to add some pizazz and leave the attendees squeaky clean there was some additional feather and scented water cleansing in the traditional Peruvian style.
Now that all were squeaky clean, we moved onto the seed planting. Listening to our hearts, unhindered by past programming and social implications, we were guided with clarity on what our next steps should be. That dream was then transferred into a cup of water held by all and then embodied by a literal drinking of their dreams. We kind of double dipped as we then blew the prayers into a daisy that was woven into the garland of dreams. Of course for the dream weaver I took the print out of your seeds and blew them into a blossom for you. In fact, here is a picture of pre-ceremony bouquet and you may be able to see the pieces of white paper popping out of the bouquet up top.
And you may not be able to tell but yes, those are little bubbles bottles with butterflies on top and if you remember how I started, we manifested a mammoth one this morning.
Before completing the garland of dreams we put our prayers into a sun flower and added that as our global prayers. In addition the global prayers of the attendees and dream workers were put on pieces of paper that was then taped to a pitcher of water.
Although immediately after the ceremony I offered the cleansing water as compost to my favorite heart tree outside my building, I've decided to keep the pitcher of global prayers in the south east/manifestation corner of my mesa/altar until the Full Moon to allow the prayers to come into their fullness. At that time, I will offer the water to nature. I wish I had the technology of Masuro Emoto to do a crystal test of our water although I trust that it would be stunning.
I waited to offer the garland of dreams until dawn, and here it is floating along the East River, well received by the unseen forces.
Messages from Water Appendix:
Below are two youtube video's. The first provides a little information of Masuro's work as well as some of his pictures. If your already familiar with his work but want to be reminded of the images as they show a crystal formation of a thought, just check out video number 2.
2. Montage of crystals as they relate to thoughts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnbZN54IZNE&feature=related
And there is one more video you may want to see. Below is an experiment with rice. They use rice because it absorbs lots of water when cooked. And the metaphor here, is that as humans that we are 60% water and if thoughts impact our water/emotional body which is contained by our physical bodies, we probably want to have more consciousness around our words and thoughts. Check this last video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTTCeqBwjc&NR=1
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