12:16 in the New Year. Spending my afternoon and evening creating my vision board, walking the labyrinth under the darkening moon, filling out my 2014 Create Your Amazing Year Workbook, and creating my EMBODIMENT "To-Do, To-Da" Book too! What a wonderful way to spend this time as we transition to a new year under the moon going dark. Powerful, powerful time.
A group of 6 of us walked the labyrinth this evening. I was struck by how light out it was. Just 2 weeks ago under the full moon, the sky was completely dark by 5pm. Tonight, we still had quite a bit of light as we began our "candlelight" Dark Moon walk. Tonight's walk as an opportunity to complete with 2013 and invite in and receive our word for 2014. We each shared one word that encapsulated what we were releasing to complete 2013 as we walked into the center of the labyrinth. Some of the words that came up were control, codependency, lack-of-self-worth, negativity, release and stupidity. As we each walked, I could feel the earth receiving and absorbing what we were each releasing. The Earth took these energies deep into her depths to transmute and heal them. I could feel the vortex beneath the labyrinth receiving openly as though this land was fulfilling a deep desire to serve and heal. I recognized that this is how this land becomes sacred...we walk with a sacred intent to release and heal. The Earth absorbs and receives all that we release to transmute these energies, and each and every time we walk, there is a sacred symbiotic relationship that occurs and the earth beneath this sacred spiral becomes more and more sacred and holy.
I thought of the Camino that has been walked by thousands and thousands of pilgrims for thousands of years, and felt how deeply sacred this path is...for it has received, absorbed and transmuted so much pain, struggle, joy, devotion from its pilgrims. The more a path is walked, the more holy and sacred it becomes. I am reminded of the quote from Peter Dawkins:
We walk a sacred path to experience the sacred.
Our footprints of love serve to transform a simple path
into a well-walked pathway of light.
Each Full and Dark Moon Candlelight Labyrinth Walk and gathering has been a profoundly enriching experience. Also, the experience seems to be deepening with each walk. It is a powerful experience to hold the circle for each woman as she walks the labyrinth, and it is just as powerful to walk the labyrinth while being held in the sacred circle of both the women and labyrinth itself. The simple practice gives each of us an opportunity to pause, breathe, connect with our core selves and each other, and to cultivate an awareness and space within ourselves that we then get to take home and back into our lives.
I invite you to come and join us..it is a powerful, magical experience that deeply nourishes our bodies and souls. The next walk will be at the Full Moon on January 15th at 5pm. Our new year will be underway and this will give you a moment to pause, walk in gratitude for all that is unfolding and receive the light from both the Full Moon and the light that is cultivated under the labyrinth with every walk. This light is truly transformational and healing.
Solvitur Ambulando!
I thought of the Camino that has been walked by thousands and thousands of pilgrims for thousands of years, and felt how deeply sacred this path is...for it has received, absorbed and transmuted so much pain, struggle, joy, devotion from its pilgrims. The more a path is walked, the more holy and sacred it becomes. I am reminded of the quote from Peter Dawkins:
We walk a sacred path to experience the sacred.
Our footprints of love serve to transform a simple path
into a well-walked pathway of light.
Each Full and Dark Moon Candlelight Labyrinth Walk and gathering has been a profoundly enriching experience. Also, the experience seems to be deepening with each walk. It is a powerful experience to hold the circle for each woman as she walks the labyrinth, and it is just as powerful to walk the labyrinth while being held in the sacred circle of both the women and labyrinth itself. The simple practice gives each of us an opportunity to pause, breathe, connect with our core selves and each other, and to cultivate an awareness and space within ourselves that we then get to take home and back into our lives.
I invite you to come and join us..it is a powerful, magical experience that deeply nourishes our bodies and souls. The next walk will be at the Full Moon on January 15th at 5pm. Our new year will be underway and this will give you a moment to pause, walk in gratitude for all that is unfolding and receive the light from both the Full Moon and the light that is cultivated under the labyrinth with every walk. This light is truly transformational and healing.
Solvitur Ambulando!
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