The Strawberry Fasters elect to abstain from the heart berry and dedicate the following 13 Moons to a personal women's meditation of balance and harmony. This particular ceremony is witnessed and supported by her Strawberry Fasting Sisters. The ceremony is often initiated in the month of May when the first berries bloom and bear fruit. When the 13 months are completed the women may then feed, honor and nourish this learning sacrifice by merging once more by feasting with the demen-heartberry-strawberry.
A new stage of womanhood will now be complete, be she young, midlife or elder. It is always desirable and honorable to commit or support another upon a renewal ceremony of learning, life force and vision. AHO!There are many appropriate observations that Sekmekwe, Gizes and our Grandmother Moon guide us to participate in with the strongest of love.
The demen heart berry is the focus that will sustain and build us throughout the coming year until we complete these dedicated and disciplined sacred ceremonies of becoming ... ourselves ... in full and aware connection with the Creator.
Oh, my! What a time we are moving within. Be firm, constant, and of good heart, beautiful kwek (women). For we are always becoming ... not only within ourselves, but also within the circle basket of tightly woven community.
Send an iMessage and say hi! Send a group mailing. Say, I'm Thinking of us and you! Let's keep it together, to remember we are not alone. Take someone out for a coffee. Come see me. Offer a sister a hand with watering or weeding the garden. Would you let me know how things are going, this way? Keep me in the loop. This is a very important time and we are a unique circle.
Strawberry Fasters, now is our time of celebration and meditation. Would each of us avail ourselves daily of the powerful blue butterfly mudra that seats our inner and personal path of duality and unity consciousness? When we do so, the demen berry of our hearts can refocus and strengthen, radiating out and saturating our beingness ... providing an ongoing positive reinforcing and restructuring of the cellular and mental elements of our entire mind, heart, body, and spirit construct immediately, to some extent, depending upon our personal evolutionary positioning.
The demen heart berry is the focus that will sustain and build us throughout the coming year until we complete these dedicated and disciplined sacred ceremonies of becoming ... ourselves ... in full and aware connection with the Creator.
Oh, my! What a time we are moving within. Be firm, constant, and of good heart, beautiful kwek (women). For we are always becoming ... not only within ourselves, but also within the circle basket of tightly woven community.
Send an iMessage and say hi! Send a group mailing. Say, I'm Thinking of us and you! Let's keep it together, to remember we are not alone. Take someone out for a coffee. Come see me. Offer a sister a hand with watering or weeding the garden. Would you let me know how things are going, this way? Keep me in the loop. This is a very important time and we are a unique circle.
The strawberry fast initiation knowledge comes from my northern 3-Fires Anishnabe-Potawatomi tribal background in Michigan. These teachings are truly simple reflections of the goodness and well-being attained through right connection with nature. It is about us and all living things, animate and inanimate ... now and forever more ...
Vaya con Dios, sacred strawberry fasters! May the balanced light of life be always upon and within us. AHO!
And bama mine,
Dawn Woman
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