Ceremony Suggestions for Local Groups

PictureHara Ke - https://journeyingtothegoddess.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/goddes-hara-ke/
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Many women requested guidance about ways to create ceremony to link up spiritually with the 1000 Goddesses Gathering in Washington DC for the first Gathering in Oct of 2016. 

From the first moment that Earth Mother asked me (Mare) to organize this Gathering, she gave me the vision of women all over the world joining in energetically to anchor these Divine Feminine energies into her – our Sacred Earth. We can strengthen the grid of energetic webbing across the planet to help bring these healing energies in that are so needed now.
 
Women can gather without any men. Or there may be men there also as Sacred Guardians. (Though in 2017, Mother Gaia is requesting that more men be there embodying the Divine Masculine to help hold Sacred Space for the Gathering.)
 
Here are some suggestions to consider in coming together into Sacred Circle to connect energetically with us in Washington DC that weekend.
 
  • Create Sacred Space with candles, incense, smudge, etc.
  • Leave your emotional burdens at the door, so to speak. Smudge before you start, if that is your tradition.
  • Create a group altar with various icons of the Great Mother and Goddesses on it (Kuan Yin, Durga, Isis, Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Osun, Yemaya, etc. I did a several day ceremony last year with a friend and we found all of these images of various Goddesses from different websites and printed them off to have at our ceremony. It can be that simple.)
    • You can have images of your ancestors on the altar.
    • Animal totem images also
    • Favorite stones, etc.
  • Light a candle at the altar and activate the altar.
  • Ask for your spiritual guardians to come in, to help hold the space spiritually.
  • Ask for your ancestors serving the Highest Good to come in also.
  • Invoke these Goddesses and the Great Divine Mother/Creatrix. Invoke as many as you can, always making it clear that you are asking only for the highest of highest good to come in. Make that clear.
  • It is wise to also invoke some Gods/The Great Divine Father, for balance. (Some may not agree with this and that is fine. Yet, what our Sacred Earth needs is balance between the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine now.)
  • You can play Robert Gass’s “Ancient Mother” song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYw8C8GhlY&list=RD6rYw8C8GhlY
 
  • Once you have opened up the ceremony and invoked the Mothers in, the next piece is to visualize their love energy coming into your energy body (as it has).
  • And then drop this sacred energy mixed with your energy body down to the heart of Earth Mother.
  • Visualize a powerful cord of energy dropping from your root chakra to the center of the Planet – Earth Mother.
  • Feel this cord getting strongly connected to Earth Mother’s heart.
  • Then send love from your heart chakra to Earth Mother’s heart.
  • And next ask Earth Mother to send her love back to you, to your heart chakra.
  • You can keep on pulsing this love back and forth between you and Earth Mother, sending the sacred energies of the Divine Mothers within your energy body down to her heart.
 
  • Then, dance, sway, move, drum, rattle, keep on sending the energies down into Mother Earth and out around the world.
 
  • Visualize linking up with us spiritually.
 
  • Make it as high vibrational as possible. Fun, silly even. Silliness is very high vibrational. For real.
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  • You can also include some Sacred Water Ceremony with your gathering.
    • Ask everyone coming to bring some sacred water (from a long spring or stream, etc.)
    • Pray over it, hold it over your hearts, drum over it, and then pour some into the ground.
    • Keep some water to share with all, to take home with them.
 
  • Food can be part of your ceremony also. Sacred offerings, sharings.
  • The ceremony can be as long as you want it.
 
  • We will be holding these different healing and envisioning stations in Washington DC at the big Gathering:
    • People to share about what they grieve about.
    • Or seek forgiveness for, or how they might be able to forgive others more
    • Or What gives them Joy & Gratitude in their lives
    • Or How they might envision a beautiful world that we can co-manifest together (what would this world look like? Different images that come to mind can be shared on paper, drawings, in partners… )
    • Personal pledges/commitments for following through with specific actions after the Gathering.
 
  • When you feel that you have reached the end of your ceremony, announce out loud that it is officially over, thanking all the guardians, beautiful Mothers and other positive spiritual beings who have come in.
 
  • In DC, we will have altars to the Mothers of the Four Elements anchoring the Four Directions (plus a big Goddess Statue in the center with an altar at her base), where we will be doing ceremony:
    • Mother of Air
    • Mother of Water
    • Mother of Earth
    • Mother of Fire
 
  • Yeye Omileye Achikeobi-Lewis – an Osun High Priestess will be leading us in ceremony part of the day in DC.
    • http://www.yeyeosun.com/four-elemental-mothers/
    • She has received powerful visions that we should be sending gratitude, love, apologies and propitiations to the Mothers of the Four Elements- as the energies on the planet have gotten way too out of balance.
    • You are invited to do this also -- however you feel called.
    • You can also sign up with Omileye’s trainings and receive teachings on how to do these ceremonies in a more in-depth way.