So this really happened! Summer Solstice celebration – the ritual fire opens with a group of powerful women.
We are working with our Thought Body – identifying and releasing beliefs that limit, inviting and invoking what we are calling into form, celebrating with gratitude all that we already have in our lives. Big magic is being stirred in my back yard in Holladay, Utah!
Pine cones, dried flowers and dried bark help carry our prayers as we feed the fire. We speak our power into the small flame, up into the smoke our words are carried. Organically, as if guided by some unseen force, almost on ‘cue’, we howl, we move to the beat of Professor Trance, we hold hands in solidarity. Rekindling our primal, feminine power in the heat of the coming summer season.
Sound scary? Out of control? Dangerous? Perhaps,In this out of balance world, where the immature, power grabbing masculine reeks havoc and a highly regulated life attempt to keep tight order…the Wild Feminine in her power can seem scary.
This is what I tell myself as the Holladay City Fire Department pulls to my curb, full length, red truck, lights flashing.
Out pile 6 Firemen. They find their way down my driveway to my back yard, “Hello gentlemen, is everything alright?” I greet them in my full length white dress. “Here is Fire Chief Steve to talk with you.” A burly fireman says. Fire Chief Steve introduces himself and shakes my hand as we all continue down the driveway. As we crest the corner of the shed and enter the yard, he says, “OH” and a soft smile curls across their collective face.
Tribal beats waft lightly through the air, our fire pit with a small, ceremonial fire burns bright in the darkening night sky and a group of every-day Goddess women sway gently around. “We are celebrating Summer”, I tell them with a shared appreciative smile on our faces.
They tell me they got a complaint, that the smoke was bothering a neighbor.
A quick look around the site and Chief Steve say, “you are doing ‘everything right’, a fire pit, a small fire, a hose at the ready, we have no complaint with how you are handling this fire.” He tells me he will talk with the neighbor and let him know we are within our rights and all is well. Chief Steve shakes my hand shakes my hand, smiles and says goodnight.
They go to talk with the neighbor, to champion us. The Masculine, in support of the Feminine…Structure & Freedom – all big Archetypal energies…leaving me with a gleeful sense of victory and hope – for all of us!
It just so happens, this particular neighbor is a bit ridged, attempting to live a dutiful, rule bound life, which he always seems exhausted by, as his own 5 or 6 kids run around while the dog barks non-stop. (Have I complained? No. I have not.)
I imagine our vital, Feminine, ritual energy was more than they had the capacity to handle or tolerate…the ‘smoke’ was something they could identify as the issue.
How many times in your life have you been reprimanded for ‘the smoke’ when in fact, you are stirring a much bigger or different pot of real energy? Even better, how many times have you NOT gotten in ‘trouble’ and been kindly supported against the wrongful complaint?!
I can hardly wait to see what this summer brings us. Now is not the time to be shy or timid – we are a powerful circle – you included. Watch for the miracles and wonders. Lets bring the magic!
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