Things I’m doing for me – Ceremony
This year was my sixth year attending the Spiritwoman retreat the second weekend in October. It is an amazing group of women who meet together at least yearly in a nondenominational spiritual context to support each other. We sing, dance, laugh, eat, cry, heal, learn, talk, listen, and many things that I can’t put into words. This circle of women is so important to me that I have made it one of my few commitments outside of raising Logan and Forest. I do this for myself and my wholeness.
It was through this retreat that I have been able to dig deeper and deeper into myself and understand better what types of service are interesting to me and utilize my natural talents. To find my calling. I can’t say that I’ve ever ‘put this out there’ like I’m about to but here it is.
I’ve found myself really pulled towards earth based religions and love the study of religion. I’m one who finds joy in all the similarities and in the differences. I’ve found a particular comparison to my own ways of thinking and the Native American traditions, both culturally and spiritually. I’m not one of those people who feels a strong sense of having been a native woman in a former life or anything like that. I just find myself most connected to God or “Great Spirit” or “Great Mystery” (all of these words work for my identification with divinity) when I am in harmony with nature and “all my relations.” Through a series of events that took place when I first moved to Texas (maybe I’ll write about that another time) I was able to come in connection with those who feel the same way and found myself on this path, my path.
One aspect of this path that I greatly identify with is the use of ceremony to mark and signify important transitions during life. Birth, menses, womanhood, marriage, the decision to conceive, pregnancy, giving birth, loosing a child, menopause, divorce; our years are filled with important decisions or events that mark our journey through this experience of life. I find it highly important to mark these transitions as a way to deal with them and find it highly therapeutic. But I don’t only want to participate in these transitions, but I also want to help create them. And so it is that I made the decision and have set myself into an apprenticeship in ceremony facilitation. I’m not sure where this will lead me but I do know that it’s currently a great joy for me to work with my mentor as well as my Spiritwoman sisters towards this goal of helping others by creating ceremony for them.
I have a couple of other things in the “things I’m doing for me category” but I think I’ll talk about them one by one. Next will be “prayer”. I know, I’m a tease.
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