Kimberly
WINTER SOLSTICE 2007 PEACE AND PRAYER VIGIL
Hi, I want to share what two of us did for this past
Winter Solstice at my house. Other friends joined us in spirit from their
respective homes when they could. Because there were
just two of us, we worked less systematically than the
outline of topics below indicates.
OVERALL STRUCTURE: We tackled different aspects of the
Shift by spontaneously offering spoken prayers, songs,
chants and dances throughout the evening. We began at
9 pm and ended around 1:30 am, with some breaks
in-between.
Commencement Rites: I smudged my entire house
beforehand and set up an altar with offerings to use
for prayer bundles and other items that were
spiritually meaningful to me and intuitively called
for. We smudged our drums, etc. and we sang and
drummed the entire Medicine Wheel (animals focus) as
our first piece of work. It was a powerful
commencement.
In retrospect I see that we constructed an energetic
Medicine Wheel first, then made our prayer bundles and
placed them in the centre of it.
Community Prayer Bundle: Wwe put our songs,
chants, prayers, etc. into it. We burned this at the end of evening and later
still (to be honest, it took several attempts to burn it
completely as fire codes forbid a proper fire in the
city and it was a large bundle; I know that it's the
sincerity that matters rather than the perfection of
the execution).
Land Bundle: I made up another bundle at the same
time for a specific piece of land near here; since
then I have felt called to add more songs/prayers and
will soon be taking the bundle to the land in
question. Joanne also wanted to make a prayer bundle
to take for the Medicine Wheel in her back yard. She
has hung it up on the tree in the centre so that the
wind carries our prayers out.
List of topics to guide our efforts
: all our relations
: healed Earth/humanity's change of heart towards the
earth
: Oneness
: balance
: respect for masculine & feminine
: abundance consciousness (White Buffalo songs)
: world peace
: future generations
: indigenous rights/justice
: World Leaders
: the future
: others?
Songs and Chants:
- in addition to the Medicine Wheel songs, we
exchanged songs either taught to us within community
or given from spirit
- some channelled singing on the spot
- spontaneous jams - I especially remember how we
ended the evening - we took the Beatles refrain "all
you need is love" and kept adding new versions, such
as "all you need is peace", "all you need is courage",
etc..
- Before feasting, we offered food to our Ancestors,
and to the Spirits.
bright blessings,
Kimberley
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