Observing the 4 Days Preceding the Mayan New Year
THE FIRST OF FOUR DAYS PROCEEDING THE MAYAN NEW YEAR OBSERVANCES
A Message from Minisa Crumbo Halsey on preparations and Sacred
Ceremony in observance of the New Year on 8 Monkey/CHUEN (July 4, 2016)
5 Lamat
I visited the Longhouse this morning after last night’s FIVE PERSON
grief release and celebration of life ceremony that life might go on ‘in
a good way’.
The tea lights were STILL glimmering. I removed the directional lava and rose quartz stone beings from the fire ring to the side. Any charred wood ends were removed. Small, long-handled, old broom swept ash from the center, up and over the sides of previous ash ring rakings.
A WHITE center and bottom of the fire pit revealed itself..the other
side revealed it’s face and UNIFIED WITH THE OUR CONSCIOUS WORLD… THE
FIRE RING CENTER.
The directional stone beings and rose quartz beings were returned to the fire ring perimeter. The small, old broom then swept out, completely, ALL, of our previous
track … in the entire Longhouse ... to the door … creating a RE-NEWED field
whereby the new tracks and paths will be laid down on a clear, purified
and unified ground…in a sacred manner we walk.
We will walk there four days in ceremony ... this 5 Lamat, being the first of the four days of the Mayan New Year observances.
Fires are being built and prayers offered wherever DayKeepers and sweetgrass swingers live, sing, breath and dance.
Dream and make personal and collective ceremonies of Unified Intent
according to dream and vision drawn from your life and offer it to Life.
In the Spirit of Art, Beauty and Love … forever.
Dawn Woman
Day 3 of personal Mayan New Year observances
by Minisa Crumbo Halsey
Honoring and releasing grief ... Honoring and fusing with love and life
Continuing to be inspired by: THE SMELL OF RAIN ON DUST, by Martin Prechtel
Stories, histories, myths and tales from the great hearts of all the world villages
Day 3 of 4 days of personal ceremony:
A day in which to honor the still and silent momentary voids that
balance can bring, as we make a mid-summer pause, poised in the center
balance of Being, just prior making the new footprints in the sand.
May I remind all readers and sweet grass swingers to prepare for
these prayer vigils, and that is what they are, by ‘fanning off’ oneself
with dry sage and sweetgrass both prior to and following time spent in
consciously setting positive intentions to recognize, heal and enjoy
the renewed and strengthened connection to you Creator, Master of All
Breath. We ‘have the right’ to make these prayers and to journey into
the Center of Our Sacred Flowering Tree of Life. AHO!
One might begin by endeavoring to trust the Creative void: begin by
quieting the mind, slowing the ceaseless tides of blood surge and
soothing the solar powered nervous system by ‘being breathed’. Talk to
these ‘systems’ as you go, introducing and explaining as to any friend
or passerby meanwhile, working on gathering courage for making a
mysterious and sacred journey into this body-sacred tree temple void we
call home, as a visitor. One might prepare by stating ones name,
assembling a gratitude bundle and only then, requesting permission to
tour the grounds, as it were, with the intent of looking, seeing and
knowing everything the body has to say or offer, acknowledging, asking
forgiveness where necessary and apologizing where it seems appropriate
for abuses, excesses, total lack of awarenesses, howling medicine cries
that will doctor and release the ancient and new outrageous grief
occasions and any general lacks and unnamed lapses of conscious
nourishment and attention.
Now is a good time to rest a bit, drink some water, ‘fan off’
again, remember the ‘be breathed’ medicine teaching. Relax and do
something else for a while if you do not feel ready or ‘up to’
continuing at this time. Consider yourself to be in sacred ceremony of
the coming new year, never forget: this is personal sacred ceremony that
you are designing for yourself and that ‘you are the sacred”. At this
time we may begin to feel ready to request of ourselves that a measure
of our potentially endless reserves of strength, bravery and endurance
levels formulate, rise and come forward once again, enabling us to
continue the inner temple Medicine Journey of celebrating life, anchored
and encouraged with the confidence found in conscious and whole
connection that all things originate with the Master of All Breath.
As we are visiting our inner temple of wisdom let us next prepare
to meet the altar of body-sacred tree knowledge by divining a spirit
bundle of gratitude gifts to distribute as we go.
Here we may name and acknowledge all of the positive and loving
attentions that have actually been lavished with a disciplined heart and
mind, upon the body temple. Pause or sit in different places upon and
within this core body, exchanging smiles, accord and recognition of
unified and vibrant good heath, a vision of balance and harmony in all
things and a deep love of life..with ourselves and all beings, now and
forever more.
These visits to our inner altars can be done anytime or revisited.
Conversations may be resumed…counsel may be offered and received at any
time. Do not be frightened when strange and new ‘medicine’ comes forward
but ‘hear it out’ and examine these truths which are in actuality
‘medicine’ teachings about the world and how it has worked, is working
and will work. These teachings will serve to put an end to all that is
not real.
One of the greatest anguishes arising out of the mystery of
perceived separation is living in diverse positions of diminished
abilities of awareness. Within this, and any season, there are specific
‘medicines’ whereby seasonal avenues are opened to those willing to
journey into the center voids and look truth in the face, thereby
setting oneself free from the isolating islands of stoney grief and
moisture parched earth.
So, Float now, in weightless balance, preparing, celebrating, knowing and being..renewed in Unity..
Preparing to nourish the butterfly wings of duality as it emerges
for flight into the new year…alive in a living world….while honoring the
world villages of our body temples.
Sent with summer smiles from the Spirit Horse Ranch.
Dawn Woman
The Eve of the Mayan New Year
Greetings Kin,
Many thanks to my dear Medicine Circle Sisters in Oklahoma who are
observing 4 days of sacred ceremony. I am honored to walk this way in
your company. Minisa shares her waking message on the 4th Day, as we
look to that High Holy place that we enter upon sundown.
In lak’ech, Debra/Jaguar Woman
MAYAN NEW YEAR: 8 Chuen
COMING INTO THE WORLD COMMUNITY, ONCE AGAIN
The 260 day corn cycle is completed once again and the rains are
falling, up on the beautiful Lago Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands.
Medicine story tells that the 260 day Mayan Year and Calendar arose from
the Lago Atitlan- regarded as the Navel of the World and was
demonstrated by the 260 days life cycle of the corn plant, from planting
to harvest, by the Highland seasonal planting imperatives…in the autumn
when the cold and heavy rains have gifted moisture, then lifted their
cloud skirts from the volcanos and departed …
We have been tending the inner temples of wisdom and knowledge,
strengthening and renewing our selves as the Sacred Flowering Tree. We
have revisited the good old medicine partnership of grief and love, set
intentions of Unity and with arms loaded with gifts journeyed into the
innermost and sacred precincts of our minds, hearts, bodies and Spirits,
feeding, making and renewing talks with the inner, life bringing,
fires, ethers, minerals, winds and waters. We are reborn into yet
another cycle.
As the wisdom and knowledge altars of the body have been tended let us
now turn our vision outward-and celebrate the wisdom and knowledge
altars of the natural world, Our Beautiful Mother Earth and the
Resplendent Father Sky Sun. Let us come forward calling not only our
names but also all names of the beloved. Let us come forward bearing our
flowering and fruiting gifts of the inner temple.. To breath, laugh,
cry, dance and feast as one with this beautiful world we call home. Let
us prepare, bring forward and offer those flowering and fruiting gifts
and breathe our prayers to the seen and unseen, known and unknown powers
and spirits of origin and place that live alongside of and within us,
every moment.
Let
us prepare, bringing forward and offering talking prayers, singing,
dancing, libation, lighting candles, cooking feast food (remembering to
make a Spirit plate … Spirit eats first) ... let us build, tend, think, feel,
speak and feed delicious things to the fires, waters, winds, the stone
beings, the thunder beings, the star people, all those who have gone
before us and those yet to come….and all beings that fly, swim, crawl or
stand rooted as the skebyak, the green beings.
Do something special, especially if in solitude and silence ...
thought..intention is everything. Celebration and Ceremony is good.
Let us now make celebration, walking out into the world and joining
our inner altars of wisdom, knowledge and love with those of the our
outer world…Remembering to life again, the myriad unities and
possibilities a duality world… In spirit dance with harmony and
balance…now and forever more.
AHO.
A heavy summer rain has begun.
WE THANK YOU CREATOR, WE THANK YOU.
Dawnwoman 1 IK
