Stretchy Roots

Wow...what a week! Altars were built, healing was sent and now the calm post the storms...Some regular circle goers didn't make friday nights circle, but felt it's effects ripple out. We had a magical night last week, sounds and smudging a poetic calling to the elements...and invocation to Nun Geena Tya, Mother Earth. The women have been asking for the talking stick to be passed around twice like we used to do so we made time for that and it was very powerful...twice allows for something deeper to emerge. Thanks to Starhawk for her wonderful book "The Earth Path" that we are using a guidebook this year, Tara took us through 3 exercises( in place of our usual yoga) that Starhawk describes as part of her daily spiritual practice. The second one," Earth Walking" had us moving about like Ents which was loads of fun and gave us a whole new perspective on moving whilst plugged in to the source! I climbed bolsters saw things I've never seen before and have been practicing every morning in my yard with my family joining me on occassion, not sure what the neighbours think but it leaves you in a slightly altered state as you open to new sight and observe the world around and within you. Then I helped everyone get crafty and we created a wand of power/wand of truth inpired by the Motherpeace card 7 of wands where a woman stands in her power holding her wand of truth aloft and she's met with differing responses from her tribe of women, some support, some challenge some don't even notice...we made these as a follow on from last month, when we explored the sacred intention meditation(Starhawk again) so the wand is a magical focus for our sacred intention, example-my intention is to teach about cycles so we are devising a series of workshops starting this winter the wand sits on my work table as a reminder for my intention. We also sang, laughed and cried and made some lovely new connections...looking forward to next circle-Ho!