Last night Akal attended a very unique Birthday party.
A friend of his named Steve turned 50. To celebrate Steve threw himself a Birthday Ceremony.
He invited his friends and asked each one to bring a bead in lieu of a present.
The Ceremony was in a Medicine Wheel. It began with everyone being saged and then Steve called in the directions. The Ceremony had many elements. Steve had a chair set up beside him for the Spirit of his father. he spoke about the many stages of his life. As a son, a young man, a husband etc. He burned his astrology chart so that he would be releaseed from the influence of the planets. And as each person presented him with their bead they told a little story about the bead and why they were giving it to him. Steve plans to make a necklace from all the beads and wear it as a medicine necklace. There was more to the ceremony but those were the hi lights. Afterwards everyone shared a potluck.
What a great idea!!!
To close out an old year and walk thoughfully and consciously into a new year. To really Celebrate a life passage and acknowledge yourself and your Path with Witnesses.
Our culture doesn't really have many rites of passages like that. Steve had to invent his own.
My birthday is coming up in a few days and it has me thinking about how I want to mark the day.
There are so many rites of passages that we do not fully acknowledge.
I invite you now to become the inventors of your own rites of passage and start a whole new trend.
how will you celebrate your child's baptism? first tooth? your new job? new home? eath of a loved one? divorce? birthday?
We create lovely Wedding Ceremonies and Committment Ceremonies and Vow Renewal Ceremonies with many people. Now I want to expand this and begin to assist other sto create their own Initiation Ceremonies to Celebrate their Lives and every rite of passage large or small.
I'd love it if you would share your Ceremonies.
Blessings
Iala
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