Our ritual in honor of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers included three levels of setting intentions. We asked for the level of our personal lives first...then for our family/community, and then for healing the earth.
We may not be Indigenous, nor grandmothers, but we honor the land, the web of indeterdependent life, and have a sense of how real power is shared between all aspects of life.
Our ideas for our future group meetings include perhaps welcoming men into the group, and maybe having a "goddess of the month" topic to share with each other. But for now we are releasing the monthly meeting, and will have a last gathering to have a closing celebration of the past 5 years of the Women's Spirituality Group.
I know I will miss this regular sharing of spiritual ideas of the divine feminine. It will certainly be included in my book.
Your photos look like our morning here -- misty, moisty, mysterious,
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm not a part of any spiritual tradition, your post (as well as some of Byron Ballard's on ancestor altars) has made me look at my seasonal display in a corner cupboard --- bones, feathers, rocks, pictures and other representations of animals, a fossil or two -- without trying, I seem to be honoring the deep past.