Warm greetings all. 🙏 💚
Tonight was the New Moon, so Sundog (one of the fellows who lives with me in the off-grid intentional community, way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, on the Eastern tip of the Big Island of Hawai'i) had a pipe ceremony, to set intentions and send prayers, in this time of planting new seeds. Usually others in the community join in the ritual, but tonight it was just Sundog and myself.
After he put his pipe (two-piece Native American style) together and put the herbal smoke blend in the bowl, he began this ceremonial ritual that he does for full and new moons, solstices and equinoxes, and other significant cycles. He called in the 7 directions (East, West, North, South, Sky, Earth, and Within), called in Spirit, gave gratitude, and then spoke his personal intentions and prayers. I focused internally when it was my turn with the pipe. Joyful Breakthrough for myself and for all of Humanity. That was my intention and prayer this sweet new moon evening.
While I did not take photos of Sundog while he was doing his prayerful practice, I did take some photos for you all of the fire that we had tonight and the two of us togerher, up on the lava, at the geodesic bamboo structure that he built himself.
In these exceedingly potent and intense times of individual and collective healing and awakening, practices such as this help us to align with the greater evolutionary unfoldment of consciousness, allowing us to maintain greater peace and stability in the storms of transformation.
This is Sundog (left) and me (right), taken just before he began the ceremony.
Thank you for sharing this moment with me. 🙏💚