Is this the halfway point of the year of positive intention? 26 weeks!! Thanks for coming along on this journey. Let me know how you're doing and what you're up to with a comment!
I blew it last week and never made time to post. Brian's mom came in from Oklahoma City and we were exceptionally busy transforming a messy extra floor of our temporary rental into a guest suite for her.
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Happy belated summer solstice! What did you do to celebrate? I gathered with the women from my therapist collective and we had a wonderful sage cleansing followed by a small fire ritual. It has been way too long since I celebrated the solstice with an actual ritual and it was soo nice! It reminds me to invite ritual into my life more often. I've left behind the part of myself that was so engrossed in women's spirituality, my inner pagan. I'm reclaiming her**!
I'm still feeling a strong sense of the summer solstice and the changing of seasons, so I want to focus on the energy of the solstice in this week's mantra and action - transformation. Fire is the element of the summer, and fire represents transformation. It's a time to look at what brings you fulfillment in life and how it can transform you to be a better person.
For a simple fire ritual, you can sit outside in the dark and light a candle. Think about some things that you want to transform and visualize sending them into the flame. {transform: to change in condition, nature, or character; convert.} Be with nature. Enjoy the moment. Absorb the abundance that is around you.
I'm looking forward to being in nature next weekend in Wisconsin. (See you there, Jamie! Can we do a fire ritual together?)
**Major aha moment here that I'll share.
I am seeing an acupuncturist who specializes in psychological concerns. She is amazing and I have had two really intense sessions with her. My first session included a terrifying and jarring vision that rocked me, but that also helped me start to reintegrate the parts of myself that my trauma severed. I expected my second session, which happened to be on the solstice, to be equally intense, and was a bit disappointed and surprised to only have a calming, centering experience on the table. But when I was done and I sat with Barb to talk about the session, she told me about a shamanic vision she'd had while I was on the table. It turns out she'd taken the intensity on herself to make it safe for me. In her vision, she and I were standing together and watching a "crazed, wild, primal version" of myself in the wilderness. This self-part was clutching an umbilical cord, dragging the baby that was on the end of it in a slight disturbing, but very protective and primal way. Barb was alarmed, but I let her know that everything was okay, that this was what was supposed to happen. We coaxed this wild part of me to sit in a tree and calm down. She then transformed into a serpent and slithered over to me, wrapped many times around my body, and then entered my body through my skin near where my liver is. (My liver that was in distress when I had HELLP, mind you.) I'm still making sense of the whole vision and the message within it, but I'm pretty sure that my inner pagan is closely related to this crazed, wild, primal version of myself, and I felt it that night when we were doing our fire ritual, but only just now clearly see this connection.
What do you make of the symbolism in this vision?
The day before my appointment Gavin had noticed an image of a snake eating its tail. I explained the symbol and we talked about it. It's the first time I'd thought of a snake in a long time. Tonight at bedtime he told me that we both have a snake that lives outside. His is yellow and mine is blue. Just coincidental? He's a very spiritual little being.
(Let me know if you want Barb's number!)
Week 26
Mantra | Transform
Action | Use a Fire Ritual to Transform Something You Want to Change
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