Friday October 18 2024

Full Moon Fire & Cacoa Ceremony  Fri Oct 18, rain date Wednesday  Oct 16 2024  6:30pm

 

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Location Long Point Beach just east of the provincial park 6:30 pm

Free event

Please note this event will be 3-4 hours long 

items to bring~
                    Coffee mug

                    Chair

                    Flashlight 

                     Blankets, to sit on, and or to keep warm

                     Rattle or a drum if you have them

                     A small bundle of twigs, say anywhere from 1 to 10, about the sise of a pencil, and as long as your hand.  Please blow your breath into each one of these twigs (fallen from a tree), an intention of something you would like to release in your life, something you would like to manifest in your life, or a prayer to heal someone who is sick.   This will be offered to the fire.

 

The flow of the Ceremony:

A circle is formed around the fire, 

A smudging of participants will take place

Opening of sacred space

Fire will be prepared and started

We will sing a song to call upon the feminine water spirits of  earth mother, asking her to come and meet up the masculine spirits of the fire. This song asks that the masculine and feminine sacred energies be in perfect love, and perfect balance with each other.  In this way the participants at the fire can become this sacred balance of harmony and love as well

All the prayers will be offered into this space of empowered harmony and love

 

       Nitche Tai Tai, N U I

       Ora Nike Ora Nika

       Hey Hey...Hey Hey

       Ooo  Ai

 

The host will feed the fire will with olive oil 3 times

the first for an offering for the 4 directions 

the 2nd for an offering to the earth, and then the heavens

the third offering connects the participants with the fire, honouring all those present, seen and unseen.

 

The fire will change to a friendly fire, and the host will open the Ceremony of offerings, by making their offering to the fire. They do this with either a physical person at their back to hold space, or one of the lineage medicine ancestors, energetically at their back holding space.

Once the host has made their offering, all others are envited to make their offerings of their prayer sticks to the sacred fire.

Note: there will be some cedar available to offer the fire as a thank you.

Once you made your offerings you are invited  to pull some of the renewed energy from the fire, by drawing this smoke energy from the fire into your belly,  then to your heart, then to your forehead. This way you are feeding those centers of right action/work (Yankay), right unconditional loving (Munay), and right envision of wisdom (Yachy) to grow a new path of transformation that occurs at fire ceremony.

After this a Pachamama stick will be passed around the circle for all to place their blessings and thanks to Mother Earth by blowing these intentions into the stick. Once completed,  two people, preferably a male and a female,  will offer this to the fire and we ask if everyone  can please close their eyes in silence for a few moments.

At this time, it is customary to invite ancestors of the land on which the fire ceramony is being held to come and warm their hands by the fire. To offer their prayers to the flames, and use the smoke that trails up to the stars, as a sacred pathway home if they desire. We will turn away from the fire for a few minutes to allow shy spirits to come.

We will do a Thanksgiving and pass a feather around for all to say what they are thankful for 

Next, we will follow this with the Cacoa ceremony, with songs

We can each pick a tarot card if you choose to

We will subg a prayer song to help heal our sacred waters of Lake Erie

Everyone is welcome to have a small chakra clearing if they choose too  if time permits.

The host will close sacred space.