Ancestor Honoring Ceremony

Sunday, October 30, an altar was erected to the Ancestors in the Longhouse. The ‘Walking On’ song was offered around the place of the Fire-Flower altar, for who among us has not known of someone(s) who has ‘walked on’ in the recent or long ago past? It would be appropriate to use candles, fruit, flowers, candy, tobacco, a photograph/token/favorite food of loved one(s), or vice, as the case may be, that their lives on the other side might carry our best prayers and well wishes ... these things were placed on or around the altar upon entering ... 'accepting and releasing into the light’ as we go. 

I invite you to consider taking this harvest and honoring time into a personal earth walk whether in community or solitude. In this way we begin to approach the Gaa Biboon Ked, the Winter Wisdom Teachings whereby we begin to ‘Fire Our Seeds of Inspiration’ for the new year to come. Begin watching for the Orion Constellation to appear low in the eastern sky at early night, as the ancient harbinger of Winter Bringer. 

The Spirit plate is prepared by selecting very small and representative pieces of each feast food on the table ... mindfully collected with the left, offering hand, taken outside, and offered with a prayer of recognition and gratitude ... I like to raise the plate and turn it to the seven directions, lastly approaching the Mother Earth four times before lowering the plate to the earth ... Shewen dagzewin! A blessing is visited upon us this day!

Ancestor Honoring Ceremony

Bozho jayek, greetings everyone,

Following ancient traditions everywhere there will be an autumn observance to honor those who have ‘walked on’. These are some of the Thanksgiving/Day of the Dead origins.

Sunday, October 30, an altar will be erected to the Ancestors in the Longhouse. The ‘Walking On’ song will be offered around the place of the Fire-Flower altar, for who among us has not known of someone(s) who has ‘walked on’ in the recent or long ago past? It would be appropriate to use candles, fruit, flowers, candy, tobacco, a photograph/token/favorite food of loved one(s), or vice, as the case may be, that their lives on the other side might carry our best prayers and well wishes ... these things will be placed on or around the altar upon entering ... 'accepting and releasing into the light’ as we go. Begin to consider making an offering plate and prepare to dream, compose, or be available to receiving an original song, prayer or words … in the moment ... that life might go on ‘in a good way’?

This ceremony will begin to make itself felt far in advance and will carry love, mourning, and reflection, closure joy and spirit renewal into the knowing cell of every celebrant. I invite you to consider taking this harvest and honoring time into a personal earth walk whether in community or solitude. In this way we begin to approach the Gaa Biboon Ked, the Winter Wisdom Teachings whereby we begin to ‘Fire Our Seeds of Inspiration’ for the new year to come. Begin watching for the Orion Constellation to appear low in the eastern sky at early night, as the ancient harbinger of Winter Bringer. 

AHO!

Bama Mine, 

Dawn Woman

Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk': Spirit Plate

The Spirit plate makes out recognition and gratitude visible to the beings who are making a gift of their seed history, and when properly addressed they can become actively involved in an ongoing life path through other agents, namely ourselves. Their seed histories, with cultural family trees grounded in the natural world that make contributions of inestimable value and tensile strength to the DNA of any bonding entity, are at least as hugely long and venerable as ours.

Most of these connections and contributions are beyond our ken, but heartfelt gestures of gratitude and respect for these living things are ours to express through remembering our connections to the best of our abilities—where and when they lived and grew, who harvested them, how they were handled and for what purpose and by whom. The questions are always, what do we have to do that these things will live?

The Spirit plate is prepared by selecting very small and representative pieces of each feast food on the table ... mindfully collected with the left, offering hand, taken outside, and offered with a prayer of recognition and gratitude ... I like to raise the plate and turn it to the seven directions, lastly approaching the Mother Earth four times before lowering the plate to the earth ... Shewen dagzewin! A blessing is visited upon us this day!

Ancestor Honoring Ceremony

Bozho jayek, greetings everyone,

Following ancient traditions everywhere there will be an autumn observance to honor those who have ‘walked on’. These are some of the Thanksgiving/Day of the Dead origins.

Sunday, October 30, an altar will be erected to the Ancestors in the Longhouse. The ‘Walking On’ song will be offered around the place of the Fire-Flower altar, for who among us has not known of someone(s) who has ‘walked on’ in the recent or long ago past? It would be appropriate to use candles, fruit, flowers, candy, tobacco, a photograph/token/favorite food of loved one(s), or vice, as the case may be, that their lives on the other side might carry our best prayers and well wishes ... these things will be placed on or around the altar upon entering ... 'accepting and releasing into the light’ as we go. Begin to consider making an offering plate and prepare to dream, compose, or be available to receiving an original song, prayer or words … in the moment ... that life might go on ‘in a good way’?

This ceremony will begin to make itself felt far in advance and will carry love, mourning, and reflection, closure joy and spirit renewal into the knowing cell of every celebrant. I invite you to consider taking this harvest and honoring time into a personal earth walk whether in community or solitude. In this way we begin to approach the Gaa Biboon Ked, the Winter Wisdom Teachings whereby we begin to ‘Fire Our Seeds of Inspiration’ for the new year to come. Begin watching for the Orion Constellation to appear low in the eastern sky at early night, as the ancient harbinger of Winter Bringer. 

AHO!

Bama Mine, 

Dawn Woman

Mother Cacao Ceremony

Historically, puro cacao or pure cacao went through harvest, fermentation, drying, roasting and stone grinding to attain the finest degree of smoothness when whipped into hot water. The cacao drink, melted into water without the addition of dairy or sweetener is a sacred libation. This libation strengthens and supports healing and health qualities of mind heart, body and spirit within the wholeness context of the medicine wheel teachings. The facilitator makes and offers prayers from beginning to end. There is much rarified and etheric support flowing from higher realms to lift us to new, higher frequencies and experiences ... and many proven and worthy helper ceremonies and Mother Cacao is one powerful heart opener.

Ancestor Honoring Ceremony

Bozho jayek, greetings everyone,

Following ancient traditions everywhere there will be an autumn observance to honor those who have ‘walked on’. These are some of the Thanksgiving/Day of the Dead origins.

Sunday, October 30, an altar will be erected to the Ancestors in the Longhouse. The ‘Walking On’ song will be offered around the place of the Fire-Flower altar, for who among us has not known of someone(s) who has ‘walked on’ in the recent or long ago past? It would be appropriate to use candles, fruit, flowers, candy, tobacco, a photograph/token/favorite food of loved one(s), or vice, as the case may be, that their lives on the other side might carry our best prayers and well wishes ... these things will be placed on or around the altar upon entering ... 'accepting and releasing into the light’ as we go. Begin to consider making an offering plate and prepare to dream, compose, or be available to receiving an original song, prayer or words … in the moment ... that life might go on ‘in a good way’?

This ceremony will begin to make itself felt far in advance and will carry love, mourning, and reflection, closure joy and spirit renewal into the knowing cell of every celebrant. I invite you to consider taking this harvest and honoring time into a personal earth walk whether in community or solitude. In this way we begin to approach the Gaa Biboon Ked, the Winter Wisdom Teachings whereby we begin to ‘Fire Our Seeds of Inspiration’ for the new year to come. Begin watching for the Orion Constellation to appear low in the eastern sky at early night, as the ancient harbinger of Winter Bringer. 

AHO!

Bama Mine, 

Dawn Woman

Making Hand Drums

Two-four day land participant-guests from out of state built, painted, blessed and sang with their first 10” elk and deer skin hand drums. 

The event was followed with a feast of traditional Native American bounty, including corn soup and a dish of the four sacred berries, Lake Michigan wild rice and Wasaksing Preserve Canada maple syrup.

Migwech, Mamogosnan, Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth, for all of the gifts that we might each of us know with full awareness, that we ‘walk in beauty-all ways and all days ... now and forever more’.

AHO!
Bama mine,
Minisa Crumbo Halsey

Ancestor Honoring Ceremony

Bozho jayek, greetings everyone,

Following ancient traditions everywhere there will be an autumn observance to honor those who have ‘walked on’. These are some of the Thanksgiving/Day of the Dead origins.

Sunday, October 30, an altar will be erected to the Ancestors in the Longhouse. The ‘Walking On’ song will be offered around the place of the Fire-Flower altar, for who among us has not known of someone(s) who has ‘walked on’ in the recent or long ago past? It would be appropriate to use candles, fruit, flowers, candy, tobacco, a photograph/token/favorite food of loved one(s), or vice, as the case may be, that their lives on the other side might carry our best prayers and well wishes ... these things will be placed on or around the altar upon entering ... 'accepting and releasing into the light’ as we go. Begin to consider making an offering plate and prepare to dream, compose, or be available to receiving an original song, prayer or words … in the moment ... that life might go on ‘in a good way’?

This ceremony will begin to make itself felt far in advance and will carry love, mourning, and reflection, closure joy and spirit renewal into the knowing cell of every celebrant. I invite you to consider taking this harvest and honoring time into a personal earth walk whether in community or solitude. In this way we begin to approach the Gaa Biboon Ked, the Winter Wisdom Teachings whereby we begin to ‘Fire Our Seeds of Inspiration’ for the new year to come. Begin watching for the Orion Constellation to appear low in the eastern sky at early night, as the ancient harbinger of Winter Bringer. 

AHO!

Bama Mine, 

Dawn Woman

Mother Cacao Ceremony

Historically, puro cacao or pure cacao went through harvest, fermentation, drying, roasting and stone grinding to attain the finest degree of smoothness when whipped into hot water. The cacao drink, melted into water without the addition of dairy or sweetener is a sacred libation. This libation strengthens and supports healing and health qualities of mind heart, body and spirit within the wholeness context of the medicine wheel teachings. The facilitator makes and offers prayers from beginning to end. There is much rarified and etheric support flowing from higher realms to lift us to new, higher frequencies and experiences ... and many proven and worthy helper ceremonies and Mother Cacao is one powerful heart opener.

Autumnal Equinox 2022 Celebration

Bozho jayek, ni je na ...

This most beautiful transitional season of balance was hosted and celebrated in the Bodewadmin Teaching Longhouse on September 25, 2022 deep in the Blackjack Hills of Okla-Homa.

Kristen Arambula officiated a powerful Mother Cacao Ceremony at the renewed Fire-Flower altar.

Historically, puro cacao or pure cacao went through harvest, fermentation, drying, roasting and stone grinding to attain the finest degree of smoothness when whipped into hot water. The cacao drink, melted into water without the addition of dairy or sweetener is a sacred libation. This libation strengthens and supports healing and health qualities of mind heart, body and spirit within the wholeness context of the medicine wheel teachings. The facilitator makes and offers prayers from beginning to end. There is much rarified and etheric support flowing from higher realms to lift us to new, higher frequencies and experiences ... and many proven and worthy helper ceremonies and Mother Cacao is one powerful heart opener.

Two-four day land participant-guests from out of state built, painted, blessed and sang with their first 10” elk and deer skin hand drums. 

The event was followed with a feast of traditional Native American bounty, including corn soup and a dish of the four sacred berries, Lake Michigan wild rice and Wasaksing Preserve Canada maple syrup.

Migwech, Mamogosnan, Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth, for all of the gifts that we might each of us know with full awareness, that we ‘walk in beauty-all ways and all days ... now and forever more’.

AHO!
Bama mine,
Minisa Crumbo Halsey
Wabaksekwe

Making Hand Drums

Two-four day land participant-guests from out of state built, painted, blessed and sang with their first 10” elk and deer skin hand drums. 

The event was followed with a feast of traditional Native American bounty, including corn soup and a dish of the four sacred berries, Lake Michigan wild rice and Wasaksing Preserve Canada maple syrup.

Migwech, Mamogosnan, Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth, for all of the gifts that we might each of us know with full awareness, that we ‘walk in beauty-all ways and all days ... now and forever more’.

AHO!
Bama mine,
Minisa Crumbo Halsey
Wabaksekwe