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.
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