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Transformational Ceremonies offer opportunities to come together in community to engage the healing and creative power of ritual. These ceremonies work at the spiritual, energetic level to transform impeding patterns in our energy fields and unleash our authentic expression.  

We are living in a time of prophecy and profound change. This Summer we are experiencing the energies of a rare astrological configuration known as the Cardinal Climax, which signals a time of intense pressure and transformation.  Powers of Earth and Cosmos are on the move, calling us to transcend fear, open to the harmonizing power of love and dream a new world into being. 

This Summer, the time is right -- and ripe -- for transformation! Let's answer the call -- together. 

6 Transformational Ceremonies will be offered throughout the Summer, at the New and Full Moons and on the sacred holiday of Lughnasadh.   You can join us for one or all of these transformational ceremonies:

June 12: Shedding Our Stories

June 26:  Ancestral Unwinding

July 11:  Restoring Harmony: Ayni Despacho Ceremony

July 31:  Liberating our Medicine

Aug. 8:  Clearing the Ties that Bind

Aug. 21 & 22:  The End of the World as We Know It

Please Note:

• Preparation and a few simple supplies may be required for some of these ceremonies.  Prior to the ritual, I will contact participants with information about how to prepare, what to bring, etc.  If you have questions, please feel free to contact me to learn more about these transformational ceremonies.  I recommend registering early to allow time to reflect and prepare for each ceremony.

• The ending times on these events are approximate.   When we enter ceremony, we step into sacred time and engage the process until complete.  We may end a little later or a little sooner than the projected times.  I recommend that you don't schedule other commitments for at least a few hours after these events in order to allow time to honor and support integration of your experience.

• Spiritual and energetic transformation is organic, unfolding over time. As the energetic shifts ripple through all the levels of our being, change manifests within and without. Shift can be dramatic and immediate or subtle and progressive.  It is important to support your integration process through mindfulness and energetic self care.

In this ceremony, we will call upon Sachamama, the Great Serpent Mother, who teaches us how to shed the past as she sheds her skin, asking her to share her powerful medicine of release and renewal.  We'll turn our awareness inward to reflect on the stories we revisit and relive again and again:  tales of love lost, friendship betrayed, missed opportunity, broken dreams, brutal abuse, righteous indignation, illusive beauty and bitter regret. We will create prayer flags to honor and embody the energy of these stories. With the support of Sachamama, we will release our prayer flags to the fire surrendering our past and welcoming luminous transformation.

In this ceremony, we will call upon Otorongo, Mother-Sister Jaguar, who teaches us to transcend fear and limitation, asking her to share her medicine of miqui, the power to break down dense, stagnant energies. We will choose 3 recent ancestors, who are no longer in the land of the living, and use prayer sticks to unwind any cords of connection to these ancestors that are not in harmony for us at this time.  This is an intuitive, spirit-assisted process which does not require an identification or naming of these patterns. The release is facilitated on the energetic level. The unwinding sticks are then offered to the fire to miqui (combust) the dense energies.  As we bring cleansing energy from the fire, we welcome the blessings, both known and unknown, which our ancestors have brought into our lives. 

We will be gathering for this ritual as the moon emerges from a partial/penumbral eclipse.  The eclipse will not be visible in Indiana, but its transformational energies will be felt and welcomed.

In this ceremony, we will call  upon Kenti, Sister Hummingbird, who teaches us to trust in the sweetness of life, asking her to help us restore harmony in our lives. Together we will create an Ayni Despacho, a sacred offering bundle, to carry our prayers  for harmony within and without to the Powers of Life.  When the despacho is complete, each person is scraped with the offering bundle to release disruptions in the energy field which prevent us from living in harmony. We will visit the sacred fire for clearing and blessings, then release the despacho to the flames welcoming transformation and harmony.

We will be sharing this Ayni Despacho Ceremony during a total solar eclipse.   Although the eclipse will not be visible in Indiana, its energetic effects, intensifying the energies of the Cardinal Climax, will be felt globally.  Together we will embrace this opportunity to transform and transcend, opening to the support of a luminous and loving Universe.

Pleaqse bring at least 2 of the following items: 
1/2 cup of light colored beans, 1/2 cup of light colored nuts or seeds, 1/2 cup of light colored grains, 1/2 cup of sweet, light colored herbs

Our skills and spirit gifts are pathways through which we bring medicine to the world.  Yet the flow of medicine can become constricted when we become overly attached or identified with our skills or our roles (such as teacher, mother/father, healer, manager, artist, caregiver, problem-solver, etc.).  We can also sabotage our capacity to express medicine through self-criticism, resistance and perfectionism and other tricks of the ego.

In this ceremony, we will call on Master Maker, a spirit ally from the realm of Faery, who embodies the essence of impeccable craft and skill, to help us clear and energize our capacity to share medicine through our talents and skills. We will create a Life/Death arrow (a prayer stick) decorated with symbols of our talents, skills and spirit gifts; then bring our Life/Death arrows to the fire to clear and energize the flow of authentic medicine.

In this ceremony, we will call upon Kuntur, mighty Mother Condor, who teaches to us how to live and love impeccably, asking her to share her fierce hearted medicine with us. We will select a person with whom we share or have shared a significant relationship.  This could be a person you hold in high regard or someone with whom you feel a great deal of conflict. We will be creating personal prayer bundles to honor that person and cleanse the way between us.  We will do this work with the intent to restore harmony in our personal energy fields, not impose our judgment or agenda on others.

When complete, we will hold space as each person is scraped with their prayer bundle to release dense energies which create disharmony and restriction.  We will visit the sacred fire, releasing our bundles to the flames to welcome transformation and the blessings of love and peace.

In this 2-part ceremony, we will call upon Pachamama, Mother Earth, stepping up in partnership with her to clear a space for a more harmonious planetary dream. Together, we'll create a mandala as a representation of the world as we know it.  We'll begin by creating the circular boundary of the mandala to define the edges of the world that is.  We'll reflect on our experience of our world, including experiences we embrace and those we resist; then blow these energies into items gathered in Nature (such as twigs, pine cones, leaves, etc.) Each natural item will be added to the mandala, creating an energetic landscape of the world as we know it. When compete, we will allow the mandala to rest on the Earth overnight, asking Pachamama to break down and transmute any dense, disharmonious energies.

The next morning we'll return to the mandala to witness the changes which have occurred and add anything which may have surfaced for us overnight. Then, one by one, we will step into the center of the mandala and activate our intention to release our attachment to anything  within the landscape of the mandala which is not in harmony. This releasing process will unfold at the energetic level with the support of spirit.   When complete, we will gather the natural items and release the boundary of the circle, opening ourselves and our world to new possibilities.  We will come to the sacred fire to release the mandala materials and cleanse and bless our energy fields. Upon returning to our homes, we will each create a simple mandala to open a space for luminous possibilities.