- Wow it was great to do New Moon New Life Ceremony. If you don't count the Thanksgiving despacho which was done only by email, I hadn't done one since late August because of travel and holidays. Sometimes I always get concerned that the inspiration well is going to dry up, but I feel just as passionate about these ceremonies as I did when I started doing them over 2 years ago. So thank you for sharing.
Here is a picture of the mesa before starting
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| North of Mesa |
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| Mesa Mayor |
It felt a bit trite with the holidays but I like to listen to my magic IPod. When I put it on shuffle, t always seems to play the perfect song. And lesson to me, Love is never trite. So also quite perfect as was included in the dreamwork, I had read this lovely little article about God coming down in the form of a child or as love to give people the gift of feeling love. Here are pieces, with some comments in italics.
“...John, says the Word was in the beginning, that all things came into being in the presence of the Word; that the Word became flesh and came to live among human beings.
The Word, John says, is God, was God, and put on flesh and came to make a dwelling place among humankind.
The claim is that God took on flesh and became human. God puts on bone and flesh and tissue and sinew, but not grown-up muscles and skin. Not the lean, taut skin of an athlete or a warrior trained for battle...No, this is wrinkly-soft, cuddly flesh, flesh smelling faintly of milk and musk, flesh wanting to be swaddled, flesh right out of the tight warm womb. This is flesh not able to stand on its own, not able to feed itself, or take care of itself. This is itty bitty baby flesh, vulnerable flesh, homeless flesh, not quite legitimate flesh. This flesh can be broken, can be battered, can be wounded...This little baby boy flesh needs to be carried, rocked to sleep, changed, and bathed...." To me this shows the power of being vulnerability and knowing when you need to ask for help. That show's self love.
"This flesh calls on its mother and father and kinfolk to raise it, to love it...All of the people of the village--their heart strings are tugged by this flesh as he toddles about. 'This is Mary’s little baby,'" When I first read this I read Mary had a little lamb and I'm thinking we now now where that song came from. And perfect that it's a children's song. "...It is their boy, too, they say in their hearts. And they love him.
The claim is that God took on flesh, that Love took on flesh, vulnerable flesh, and came down to be with us." I personally always have considered God to be a synonym for Love. I don't believe God is judge and jury. God is pure love. In fact I don't feel God as an entity. God is more of a verb, more of a force of natural law. "To cause us to love. To draw out of us the love that babies draw out.... Love that will make you do whatever it takes to feed the child, to give shelter to the child, to sacrifice whatever is necessary to make the child comfortable. This is the love the baby-flesh causes. Heroic love..."
I also love this as I also love the quote from the bible, "But Yeshua said to them, 'Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs such as these" And all we need to do is own and love our own inner child and then we realize that we are walking within the Kingdom of Heaven, It's perspective. And although service is important, self love is very important. If we can't love ourselves, how can we expect anyone else to.
So we started as usual with the surrender process. We did the to Lady Gaga's very apt Born This Way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLmMsQsp5ZM Because this reminds me of when I read in a book or a bumper sticker, "Be the best you you can be as there is no one else to do the job." Very similar to my favorite bumper sticker, "You are unique just like everyone else." Unfortunately in societal programming differences is not celebrated as much as I would like. And it's our history becomes our wisdom from what we have learned from it and it is the medicine that we bring to share with this world.
After the surrender we did a little condor feather florida water cleaning before the seed planting. And I also tood the surrender printouts of the All In participants and transformed them into sacred ash. And to make sure we were listening to our hearts in this situation we worked with the heart labyrinth. I recently found this through Wavy Gravy, a Buddhist Clown icon, who was become one of my idles. Here is a picture. And we started with a drum beat playing the heart beat of pachamama (earth mother) but then switched to something more upbeat with Michale Frante & Spearheads, Say Hey (I Love You). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehu3wy4WkHs The beauty of a labyrinth is that there are no dead ends. There is only one path in. And like life the path is a bit circuitous sometimes you think you are getting close and then a turn makes you feel further away. It's a great metaphor. So we each traced this with our fingers.
Upon every one having a chance to deepen connections to our hearts we went into the seed planting and listened to our hearts, inner child and souls to the theme for our evening, Seasons of Love from Rent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp5Eyt7knus Before we journeyed I also shared some quotes from Aleph by Paulo Coelho for some further inspiration.
"Dreamers can't be tamed." To that I say, Thank God. "If you rely on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems...It'll take a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you've capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don't visit your past."
Each person then spoke they're inspiration to the circle and transferred it into one of the spider mums. For the All Ins, I did it on your behalf. Now that we had fed ourselves we then went into prayer for others. The All In Prayers were printed on the piece of paper in the mesa that is an origami heart. (If you look at the picture of the mesa mayor it's at the top) That was transferred into our garland of dreams Guru blossom (taking from the metaphor of mala beads) and each attendee had an opportunity to put in their prayers for the planet as well. It was all woven together and place in the center of my mesa. And sent them some light, love and unity with a few extra chants.
We closed the mesa and I sent everyone off with our prasad, this time in the form of gold and silver colored kisses. In the tradition of the Pachakuti Mesa we say silver is the tears of the moon and gold is the sweat of the sun. All of it alchemy. In addition, all got a heart shaped mirror compact. So all can remember to love themselves when they look in the mirror. And interestingly on Facebook the day after the New Moon I found a quote post by Katie Byron. "If you want to see the love in your life, look in the mirror"
After guests left I went to my NYC version of the Ganges and offered the garland to the East River. I apologize as I forgot to take a picture of the garland on the mesa or in the river which I typically do. I guess I was so excited about kicking into gear.
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