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Earth Reciprocity: Offerings

6/30/2020

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PictureEarth mandala, 2017

​For the last few years, I've celebrated my Earth birth day as a time for ritual and Earth reconnection in community. ⠀
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In 2013, I hosted a grief ritual in the Golden Gate Park: "to the indigenous mind, celebrating and grieving are not so separate; death and (re)birth follow each other; we can celebrate because we have mourned; we shed tears and what has ended/is ending, and into that lightness other beginnings can move in."⠀
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In 2014, I hosted a "tipsy" divination party - "just as the playful and the sacred are constantly tipping into each other." ⠀
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In 2015, I organized a cleanup of the Golden Gate Park. ⠀
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In 2017, I invited people to join me in making an Earth mandala in the Golden Gate Park. ⠀
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In 2018, I hosted Jasmine Fuego's Emergence House Concert - a stunning evening of music and ritual!⠀
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In 2019, I was in India, on the land of my blood ancestors.  ⠀
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This year is different. We are moving through times of consequence. I am noticing, in my various communities, how the smallest incident becomes an instigation, a conflagration, burning up what needs to be cleansed. ⠀
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On my solar return tomorrow - and the rest of this week - would you join me in making offerings to the Earth? Offerings: as a way to pray, to harmonize ourselves with Earth energies, to acknowledge and return ourselves into relationship with the nonhuman and more-than-human worlds, to feed the portals of our belonging and empowerment. ⠀
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Ideas for offerings: milk, water, spirits or other ritual fluids, flowers, herbs, seeds, stones, shells, feathers, other offerings or materials gleaned with love from nature that can be returned to nature. Perhaps your offerings will take the form of a mandala, rangoli, alpana, kolam. ⠀
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If you would like to share photos of your offerings, I'll be posting a link to a Wordpress site I'm still building, where we can record and archive our collective prayers. Here is to regenerating our relationships with the Earth and the nonhuman realms with our love. ⠀
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