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The Gift of Fire, Ceremony, part II
Well, now the whole time I had been there
in Ceremony Tonya had asked me to take a piece of her with
me, as she could not come to the Ceremony, and asked that I
bring the flowers that we took to Gorge to go find Kaylane.
I knew how bad she had wanted to be at the
Ceremony with me... and just before it was time for me to
drop my tent, she had said that the energies in the place
where we were living were still very bad. So I decided
I would take the Ceremony home with me, and we would spend
some time in Ceremony moving the energy.. the people
who had caused the disruption the week before had moved out
while I was gone, but the energy remained.. It was
time to re-sanctify the path leading to our place.
So I got up and began gathering for the
fire that I would be taking with me. the gift of the
sacred wood that smelled so sweet.. that came from the
homeless man I had taken in.. It was a huge log and I
had to bag it to take it with me.. then I went and
gathered limbs for our fire.. After this I went from tree to
tree, circling them and asking each and them if they would
like to give us a gift for our sacred fire..
It was beautiful what they gave to us, I
wish I had a picture to put in here. Oh they gave us
so much and it was so beautiful. A bag full of leaves
and seeds and stems and roots.. and leaves from the vine
too, the red ones that Erza kept dropping for me. The
little purple stone that asked to also come be in our sacred
fire.
I was also instructed that I should take a
gift from the sacred fire from the evening before, so I took
the mushroom I had been asked to place in it. (funny
thing about placing the mushroom in the fire was on the
first night I was too frightened to put it in.. but the next
day when the bee said, "Just be" I had gone and put the
mushroom in.. I was afraid to do it because I didn't
know what kind it was and worried I would hallucinate.)
I also received the gift of another
feather.
On the path that leads to our sacred
temple I lit sage to begin the process of opening up the
path. Then I set up the stones in the fire circle....
When I laid out the bag of gifts the trees had given me for
our sacred fire, it was then I realized on this journey to
the Place of Peace I had received the gift of fire from the man who
came to walk beside me for a moment..
It was very spiritual, like a Bible
scripture: "I was hungry and you gave me food. I
was homeless and you gave me shelter."
Wakan
Our sacred fire was beautiful, and it lit
without any work at it. I laid the huge log of sweet
smoke upon it and a gentle wind blew it up the driveway all
day long and into the night..
As we were sitting in the dark Tonya
received some instructions.. Geolft had come and said that I
had brought the spirit of the Swan and Warthog with me.. and
the tree was weeping for joy to be released.
Here's Tonya's note from the Ceremony we
were to perform:
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Tell me
this, if I stand in the fire, where does hell lie?
I do not feel heat, I feel the cold. Cold where
my body lies. Colder in the water.
Presence of the chill is where I come from.
Water/Fire/Earth/Spirit
North/South/East/West
I tell you
no worries.
The Warthog
and Swan have yet to arrive. Tears of joy
streams down her face as she burns to come alive.
(The
ceremony) Look up to the sky, Look down to
the earth. Look left. Then right. Have a
spirit of a child. Maureen take Trinket.
Tonya take Skylark. For they are very much alive
and moveable. In spirit, circle the area in
which you live. Your gifts in the fire.
Leaves/ West, Pinecone/middle, Bark/South,
Vines/North. East is left open. This is
the path of the prayer of protection. It was the
path the sweet smoke traveled all day long, gently
flowing down the path of the driveway... It was very
interesting watching how that smoke traveled down the
driveway all day long, and even into the night.
It only turned and faced us once, and that was to give
us the message of this ceremony.
At end, tell your testimony of
protection. Spirit will follow rays of light.
State your color of ray. The colors that you may
use are what has already been burnt. Any color
that has already been burnt in the fire. |
 When I
had been at the Gorge asking who wanted to come to our
sacred fire, this really lovely purple stone had asked to
come be in our fire.. so I took the purple ray of light and
had it flicker with these beautiful yellow flames.. just
kind of spread through it in waves.. like a porcupine
sending out the purple rays of light and yellow flames
flickering through it..
And I liked the way it was stated:
"Tell your testimony of protection." I thought that
was so beautiful as I stood there talking to the flames of
this sweet smelling fire explaining why I was sent here to
sing to a mountain, to do my part to restore her so that she
could rise up and take her place in the New World, and how
this work was so important, and in this place, sometimes I
expressed fear, fear when they would tell me to climb the
mountain in the dark, or fear when they would tell me to
climb to a certain spot to sing to her there when I knew the
sun was descending.. and in this place I needed protection
and signs that I walked with protection, so that I could do
the work that I was sent here to do."
It was also said that the Swan and the
Warthog would not arrive until after the whole log had
burned up. And that in the morning we should take the
ashes and save them into a jar to use in Ceremony later.
I was instructed that 2 jars had been left
for me and that I was to go retrieve them and place the
ashes in them. So I did..
There was one thing, and this might be
personal, but Tonya said she was told when the yellow
butterfly appears, look for the message... I thought
that was interesting because (as it has taken me a while to
get this written up) we went to the mountain to gather
leaves and flowers and bark for a rainbow ceremony and ended
up exactly in the place where I sing into the womb. So
far I have been singing into 3 of them.. and then there's
the sitting stone.. was sitting on the sitting stone
when out from the woods flew a yellow butterfly.. and thus I
now have 5 mouth of the wombs that I sing to..
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