It's always a treat to share and doing so in the despacho was no different than the other ceremonies. Thank you for all the music. Before any of you shared I decided to search on Thank You. Little did I know there were so many goodies. I also added a few more as music really expresses gratitude for me better than my prayers and you can dance to it too. So here is the play list if your interested.
I took pictures in pieces as a despacho often gets layered. So I started with the traditional florida water, cornmeal circle, tobacco and coca. Here is a picture although I immediately enhanced it with half salt (for healing) and brown sugar (for sweetness).
I had then transformed your thanks for the past into sacred ashe. That was put on top of the healing and sweetness and then topped with traditional shell with untu (aka llama fat) and the cross).
Well as you can see I enhanced with sweets, corn, grains and soon added herbs and more and more sweetness.
Lastly I added your thanks for the present in the form of origami hearts and your dreams in Origami birds. Hearts, because that is how I see you, You can see the hearts even have an opening in the front with the wish that all your hearts remain open. And birds for your dreams so that they may take flight. I blessed each of your hearts with some sacred ayahuasca and each of your birds with some lotus flower oil. I also then added some red and white carnations and glittery angels and hearts.
And here resides the despacho in the west of my mesa until I offer it this evening to the East River, my NY City version of the ganges. As always thanks for sharing and wishing you the abundance that is returned to us in ayni/sacred reciprocity when we live a life of gratitude.
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