Lighting the Light Ceremony

I received this info in my email this morning and want to
pass it along to all of you...it is from the Center for
Sacred Studies...

Don't Miss this Historic Ceremony and Call to Prayer for Renewal of our Mother Waters and Earth.  Join the Watersongline. We invite ALL WISDOM KEEPERS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD to this historic event where we as a planet renew the pact we have with the Mother Waters and Earth, and ignite some powerful healing for the world. We do this through one of the most ancient ceremonies of propitiation to the universal Mother Waters and Earth - the Lighting of the Lights Ceremony. This ceremony is held in various formats from Africa all the way to India. This will be the first time the ceremony will be done by cultures from all over the world unifying their energies together.

This promises to be a powerful moment.

We have timed the ceremony with the famous Venus Transit which happens only once every 150 years. The transit marks the coming in of the cosmic feminine energy of love, compassion, cooperation, and earth renewal. Astrology tells us it is important for all to pray at this time.

What Will Happen at This Ceremony?

16 International Wisdom Keepers (which includes representatives from the International Council of 13 Grandmothers) will light 16 sacred fires and hold ceremonies from their personal locations. Representations of these 16 sacred fires will be lit around the sacred calabash of the Mother Waters and Earth that contains potent ashe (power) for the world's healing. This is the first time this sacred calabash has been brought out publicly. Wisdom Keepers from all over the world and those who want to join the call to prayer will also be lighting sacred fires and holding ceremonies.

To join in prayer together please visit http://www.watersongline.com/

Will you be joining in?  I am marking my calendar right now!!!  :)

Love and Radiant Blessings to All...

A'HO!

Prayer for Today....

Great and Eternal Mystery of Life,
Creator of All Things,
We give thanks for the beauty You
put in every single one of Your Creations.
We are grateful that You made every
stone, plant, creature, and human being,
a perfect and whole part of the Circle of
Life. 
We are thankful that You have allowed
us to see the strength and beauty in
Everything.
Our humble request is that all of the
Children of the Earth learn to see the
same perfection in themselves.
May all of Your Children know that
Creation is an extension of Your Perfect
Love!!!

A'Ho!

One Voice, One Heart, One Mind
Remembering that Water is Life...

Here are several great things to peruse
at your leisure today...(and by the way...
sorry the link did not work for the video
prayer I posted) anywho...
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/water-solutions
as well as...
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-is-life/kingsolver-text
both are great reads!

Firekeeper and I went to the Mighty Rock
River to do our ceremony/ritual very early
Sunday morning...I had wanted to go on
Saturday evening as the sun was going
down but it was not to be so, so we then
made plans to go as the sun was coming
up on Sunday morning and now I know why
we were to wait.  What an incredible time
of peace, stillness, and harmony as we
said our personal prayers, prayed the
prayer I posted above, poured our bottle of
water that we had blessed into the river,
and gave offerings of white lilly and
cornmeal to the waters.  As we were doing
so, out from the rushes along the water's
edge came a family of Mallard Ducks and
they swam towards us...silently as we were
being quiet too, inhaling the peace and
stillness of the morning, and they stopped
right in front of us.  FireKeeper and I just
smiled at one another, knowing in our hearts
they were there to assist us.  It was so
utterly beautiful to bear witness that the
elegant webbed ones were there to assist
us in sending up prayers!  We then just
sat in silence for awhile and watched as
the morning light filtered through the trees
and played out on the water's surface...
You could feel our blessings and prayers
being carried to the oceans of Mother Earth.
I am so very grateful to have had this time
to share with my Grandson, to have had this
time to pray and send even more blessings
to the waters and to Creator for giving us
the right time and place to do so.  The
energies were palpable all day long and into
the night.  I can still feel them this morning!
Life is Good and I am claiming the Blessings
now!  A'HO!!  

I'd like to credit Grandmother Tonya
White Deer Cargill for the sharing of the
prayer above...A'HO!  Grandmother White
Deer works with The Sisterhood of the
Planetary Water Rites...Thank You
Grandmother!!!


I Pray You All a Day of Beauty and Harmony!
With Love,
Akasa

A Beautiful Sharing...

I wanted to share with all of you this
most beautiful Water Ceremony as it
was shared with me.  I asked for
permission to reshare it here and
Rev. Vajra Ma graciously gave that
permission, so I thank her profusely!

If you would like to use it you must ask
permission to do so, as in ceremony or
ritual all things are Sacred and Honored.

The beautiful poem shared by Persephone
Wolfshadow is very moving and touched
me to the core.

Thank You!

Water ceremony at the Southern Oregon Temple of the Goddess Sunday, June27, 2010, in solidarity with ceremony held in New Orleans, Minneapolis and around the world— “Apology to the Spirit of the Sea, for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill” (photo--Yoruba altar with Yemaya, at SOTG)


Eight congregants and presiding Priestess Vajra Ma did ceremony with fresh local spring water that had been gathered that morning, contained in a brilliant blue altar chalice. First, Priestess Vajra Ma sprinkled some of the water on a sensually curved dried seaweed she had recently found at the ocean: Water returned to its source. Then she took the seaweed to the Temple’s Yoruba Altar and offered it to Yemaya, Goddess of the Ocean. She held up the chalice into the center of the circle while Persephone Wolfshadow read her devotional poem of apology and adoration to the spring water and the Waters of the World:

[excerpts] "…Sweet water, coming from the deepest earth…sweet and energizing as you are to us, we must treat your mother the ocean far better than we do…I’m so sorry my dear love water…I have seen your beauty dear sister. I have felt your purity wash my soul of sadness . Your ocean surges and purges the hate of the world. You connect us to each other, all religions, water encompasses all. You nourish us in the womb and stay with us to death…we must protect you."

Vajra Ma then poured the water from the altar chalice into individual cups which each participant held to their heart, imbuing the water with gratitude and love, (knowing that water crystals respond as per Masuro Emoto's research and photographs).

We meditated on the countless times in our lives when we were blessed by water---drinking it, bathing in it, weeping and sweating it, cooking with it, seeing it in lakes, rivers, ocean and the sky, eating it in food, and in the many other ways water is part of our lives. We reflected on how we were mindful or unmindful of the blessing and interaction with water over the years. We sent gratitude and awareness to the times when we were not as mindful as we now know to be.

After imbuing the water in our cups with love and gratitude, we sent this same intention and vibration into the waters in our town, the pipes of the building we were in and the homes around us, into the streams and clouds and into the waters in the Rogue River that runs nearby. Into the water in our bodies and in all the human, animal and plant bodies in our region. Then we expanded this to the ocean and waters around the world into all countries, homes, creatures, plants and people, with special awareness of the waters and creatures which are poisoned from the oil-bleeding wound in the Gulf of Mexico.

Persephone read another devotional poem of praise and healing to the Mother Waters.[excerpts] “…O wondrous water dance with us, we will give you energy

to heal the wound we have created. We pour our magic at your sacred streams that course to the rivers which surge to the ocean. Our magick and intent will help nurse the ocean to health, without you life is impossible…”

We then handed the cup to the person next to us, acknowledging how our love and gratitude affects and flows to those around us. Then, one at a time, around the circle each person dipped their fingers into the water and anointed the forehead of the person to their left, pronouncing a blessing upon them, whatever words and feeling flowed from our heart---like water. And so nine blessings were spoken. Priestess Vajra Ma then brought the empty altar chalice to each person who poured their water back, refilling the chalice in offering to the Great Mother Water. What we offer is already and always Hers—Source--flowing from Her to us and back to Her. Water is one. (end of ritual)

WATER is the DIVINE MOTHER in action and She calling us to awaken. WATER is the MOTHER and MIRROR of the SOUL of HUMANITY and She is calling us to unite as one human family, to remember who we are. Along with my grief, I take heart in how all the degradation, disrespect, ignorance, greed and destruction humanity has perpetrated over the centuries is presently being reflected in WATER. Water is the final place, we can go no further, for SHE is LIFE. We must awaken or die. She is calling us to awaken. So be it!”
~ Rev. Vajra Ma ~

Pictures are of Yemaya the Ocean Mother,
and Rogue River.