Meditation – by Mikaela (Thunder/rainstorm music on)
Get into a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Focus on your breath. Take a deep breath, and let it out slowly. Take another deep breath, and feel it flowing through your body, relaxing your muscles and slowing your mind.
It is the middle of summer, and the humidity is high. Water molecules from the last rainstorm are hanging in the air. Feel the humidity in the air around you; feel it as a soft caress after the storm.
As you breathe in, see the water molecules in the air whoosh into your lungs with the oxygen. The oxygen inflates your lungs, fills you with breath, and the air and water humidity go from your lungs into your bloodstream. Water from the storm outside is now part of you, part of the network of rivers and lakes that makes up your veins and capillaries. The storm water molecules are carried around your bloodstream, and move through the walls of your veins and into your muscles.
Truly “be” inside your own body, where all is dark and moist and living. The storm water molecules join millions of other water molecules; as our body, like the Earth, is made up mostly of water. We are our own little ecosystem, reflecting the Earth and its Waters around us.
See those storm water molecules become part of you. See them moving through your muscles towards the surface, towards the surface of your skin. As you sweat, they appear on the surface of your skin, and almost immediately, they evaporate off your skin back into the air.
See those water molecules that used to be a part of you in the air, rising into the sky – up, up, miles over you until they join billions of other water molecules to form clouds far above your head. The weight of all the water joining together to form these clouds makes them dark, and heavy, and gray. Feel the weight of these clouds and the weight of the air around you as the water that was you becomes part of Mother Nature.
Suddenly the clouds release, and heavy, fat water droplets fall towards the Earth. Falling, falling, cool and wet, gathering friends and descending towards the Earth in a great summer rainstorm. Bright flashes of lightening crackle and flash, and thunder booms loud and Earth-shaking as the droplets of water start to splatter onto the dirt, soaking the Earth. Thousands more droplets follow after it, soaking, sinking deeper into the Earth, giving the plants and trees a long, deep drink. The water revives the Earth and everything living on it and it sinks deeper, finally coming to the water table and joining that huge reservoir of water deep below the Earth’s surface.
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The rainstorm eventually stops as the clouds disperse. The sun peeks out, and can be seen again. It shines down on the revitalized Earth, and begins to dry off everything that the rain has soaked. The water droplets sparkle and eventually evaporate from the dripping leaves, from the wet ground. Even the water deep underground eventually makes its way up through the Earth, to the surface where it evaporates again into the air.
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Now visualize the Goddess and the God, or however you know Divinity and all of creation, as a boundless brimming vessel from which we emerged and of which we are a part. We are each our own vessel of creation, of the Divine, each different from the next but each a part of the whole. You are a vessel, and your soul energy is different from all others. Look into the vessel of creation that is yours. What do you see in it?
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Dive down deep, moving from the surface down to the core of what makes you, you. What do you see in your vessel that you claim as yours? This can be a trait, a talent, a gift, a thing or something else entirely.
Look at what you claim as your own, uniquely part of who you are, reflected in your vessel. Truly see it, and embrace it as one of the things that makes you part of the world, and your purpose for being here.
Thank this aspect for being in your vessel. Thank your vessel for being a part of all creation, of all Divinity. Acknowledge the element of water and the thunderstorm that brought you this understanding tonight, as you turn to make your way back to the sanctuary when you are ready.
Feel your arms, your legs, stretch your fingers and toes as you slowly come back to awareness. When you feel ready, open your eyes.
Craft –Make a medicine bundle to put claiming item into
Talk about item that was “claimed” during check in and meditation.
Add more dry ice to cauldron
Charge – circle around, holding over cauldron “storm” saying, “I am ________ and I claim _________ as my own.”
Movement – Aurora
Tai Chi “Waving Hands Through Clouds”
Strobe/fog/thunder jumping/floating activity (strobe & fog machines on again)
Theme transformations & potions.
Meditation Transforming into a frog
Potions: water or grape seed oil, various herbs.
Emerald Flame performed her transformation dance.
Afterwards we decided to roast marshmellows
Listen to “The River Is Flowing” & “Breath In Breath Out” (The links will load as video, but there isn’t an image).
Brown Peeper Frog
This event was rescheduled because half of the supporting Weavers members were giving a presentation at Mountain Mysteries during the Beltane Festival.
This event will be held in June. Hope to see you there if you can make it! If not we understand (it’s a guilt free religion 
Also themes of: Equinox, Balance Night and Day, Haft Sin
~ Smudge with Forsythia boughs with rose water
~ Check in Question: Equal Day, Equal Night, Where in your life do you need more balance?
~ Balance Meditation – pass out stones or glass stones.
~ During or after mediation, each woman thinks of an item she needs to find a balance to. Has 2 stones to represent the 2
things she needs to balance. Places one stone on each arm of the Inukshuk Man.
~ Story of Persephone – Read by Running Wave
~ Feast – In honor of Spring, the Sun and Haft Sin, Feast items are to be round that or begin with the letter “S” or Eggs. According to Russian tradition, round things represent the sun like cookies and round fruit. In Persian traditions, foods with the letter “S” represent the sun.
~ We made crowns with tissue paper flowers and green twist wire. We had stones with the word “Balance” for each sister to take home.
Below is a gallery of pictures for this event. You can see the notes and books used to prepare for this event, as well as: craft, ritual & decorative items.
* Smudge
* Cast circle
* Use Native American quarter calls from http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpider Dancing/bigwinds.html
* Check in – Is there something buried, or something you are hoping for this spring?
* Then someone reads Aurora’s Imbolc essay.
* Then each woman would take a rock/glass stone/turquoise. If it is the glass stone each could write what medicine power you want to encover something that is buried inside of you. We would charge the stones by singing. Then each woman would make a snowball with the stone inside. One by one each woman would drop her snowball into the center fire pit water. Change to fire chant.
* Then Water song “I am”
* Close and feast.
* smudging,
bring back the light, bring back the light
* casting circle – we cast circle to:
* quarters – another layer of the circle. We honor the directions, as in native American & Chinese cultures, and Wicca circles.
* Charge of the goddess
* Intent – intent of this evening is to join in community. To reflect on last year, and begin to focus on goals for this new year. It’s hard to believe that new year. Ground hogs day is around the corner, heralds spring (in 6 wks or longer).
* Different cultures celebrate this full moon.
The Chinese New Year date is 2 weeks from now, and falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. Native American traditions
* Checkin - 10 words or less, what is the single most thing on your mind right now?
* balancing exercise with origami cranes, yarn and wooden dowels
* Meditation
* FIRE – because we like to burn stuff. Write down obstacles and burn them away
* farewell quarters
* farewell goddess
* open circle
merry meet merry part…
and feasting *nom nom nom*
Image From: WiccanTogether.com
This is the dark cottage of the crone, the woman who lives on the edge of the village and forages for herbs in the dawn.
Circle casting – grounding first as young girls, our bodies smooth and unselfconscious; becoming maidens; becoming mothers; becoming crones, our hair graying, our hands becoming dry and wrinkled, our wombs cycling with the moon; each of us becomes the archetypal maiden, mother, crone; as we embody each phase of womanhood, an energy body of each archetype forms in the center of the circle, a pulsing energy center into which we each send our personal energy which flows up from the earth, through our bodies, and into the center energy; that energy body becomes so strong that she holds us all in a safe and energetic web, a powerful strand connecting each woman to the center and to every other woman; this energy center creates a resonating and pulsing container that surrounds us wherever we go that night, even as we go out to the gazebo, it moves with us—not a sphere, but a strong, silvery web, visible to those who have eyes to see energy. We are the Goddess. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Blessed Be!
* Guided meditation.
* Songs Return Again; Old Crone of Mystery, The Dark, Sacred Mother, Earth My Body
* We’ll have a special, short check-in: I’ll prepare a card to pass around. Possibly:
o Name I’d like to be called tonight (could be a new crone phase name, even for those who are young)
o Name of my mother and her mother (3 phases of womanhood—me, mother, grandmother)
o One word I associate with cronedom
* craft/art project.
1. a traditional Japanese water purification ritual
2. traditional tea ceremony to cast the circle
3. introduction to onmyoudou (Japanese magick)
4. Crafts including Shimenawa (new years talisman) and Ofuda (prayer or
blessing)
5. Personal Meditation
* Cast Circle: new type of circle casting. Two women face and say:from heart to heart (hand on heart like in pledge, from hand to hand (clasp left hand),The circle is cast in love (kiss on each others cheek).
* Quarters, goddess greeting
* Check in :“How do you nurture others, or how would you like to be nurtured.?” Checkin piece:watermelon. Mother poems
* Meditation by EK (Current self, astral travels in time, talk 2 younger self, & give comfort, words of wisdom)
* Post Meditation: choose card, write letter to past self
* Craft: make a nurturing Goddess or symbol
* Quarters, goddess farewell
* Open Circle: from hand to hand the circle is open with love (“the circle is now open but unbroken”)
* Feast
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1)Prep Circle – white candles for each woman to take, seeds, bags
2)Smudge – earth, Vanilla incense (seed pods)
a.Sing “We All Come From The Goddess”
3)Cast Circle – (Raven) deer visualization
4)Call Quarters – (start E)
5)Call Center
6)Check in – each woman lights candle from woman before her, first candle lit from center candle
a.Check in question: New beginnings/Seeds of change and creativity – what new beginnings would you like to start, or have you started recently?
7)Reading (The goddess within)
a.Scott Cunningham goddess reading
b.DJ Conway Maiden reading
c.Charge of the goddess
8)Seed symbolism craft
a.Seeds of new beginnings feel your seeds and infuse them with the power to manifest your new beginning, go home and plant them (or throw them outside here) and as they root and grow, imagine the creative seeds of your new beginning taking root in your life and growing to be a part of your being.
9)Singing with seed rattles
a.I am the Goddess
b.Maiden. Mother, Crone
c.Other Goddess songs?
10)Thank Center
11)Close Quarters
12)Open Circle
13)Feast! Seeds, nuts, fruit, berries, grapes, juice
* Celebrating one full year of blogging full moons! w00t!
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