A HEALING CEREMONY
FOR
PLANET EARTH
THE
MAGICAL CHILD
Every
New Moon, Sun and Moon conjoin in the sky and an ordered process
of unfoldment begins. The complete cycle of this unfoldment,
from New Moon, to New Moon, is what is termed, the lunation cycle.
It is a universal process analogous to the growth of a plant
from seed, to shoot, to stem and leaves, to flower, fruit, and
back to seed. A new generation of seed results from each cycle,
as long as the plant is able to persist full cycle. It is this
awareness, that fostered the emergence of agriculture as one
of the foremost developments of human consciousness, a development
attributable to ancient goddess cultures based on cyclic awareness.
MOON AS GODDESS
Within cultures throughout
the planet, the moon has been revered as a profound symbol of
the Feminine principle. The Moon, in all her phases, has been
called upon by humanity for thousands of years, to teach us about
adaptability and change. And, day in, and day out, for all of
those thousands of years, she has been available in one form
or another, to us. As Moon
Goddess, she has been silently dispensing her teachings to
those who were willing to receive them. As Triple-Moon-Goddess,
Moon, as maiden, mother, and crone, reveals to us the secrets
of eternal life. In her waxing form, as maiden, she breathes
soft new life into the seeds of our deepest slumber. Her form,
as mother, is revealed to us through the light of the Full Moon,
where Moon, as Great Mother, unconditionally nurtures with her
light, all who are willing to receive her. As Dark Moon Goddess,
she counsels with us deeply about the wisdom of letting go, of
moving on, into greater and greater depth and freedom. By surrendering
to her, we are initiated into the mysteries of death, rebirth,
and sacred sexuality.
For, in her completeness as the Triple-Moon-Goddess,
Moon can bring us deeply into our power as spiritual beings,
for Moon is mated to the Sun in eternal union. By acting as "mediatrix"
between us and the raw power of the Sun, the Moon brings us gradually
into solar empowerment. And, consciously or not, it is our destiny
as Earth People, to work with these forces called Sun and Moon,
and to master their polarised interaction. This mastery is what
Hopi, in their ancient wisdom, introduced us to in the first
Earth Healing ceremony.
SPIRITUAL UNITY
As we have seen, spiritual
unity can be facilitated through rituals and ceremonies, like
the Earth Healing Ceremony. In moments
of truly ecstatic communion with all of humanity, we can be brought
into closer harmony with the deeper strata of our life's purpose,
both individually and collectively. This represents a type of
spiritual communion not readily found in a society that single-mindedly
glorifies materialism. However, we can create that harmony by
attuning with other like-mindeds throughout the planet, and by
bringing the reality of spiritual unity, into our own lives,
our own families, our own backyards. Not only do we have an ancient
and enduring Goddess tradition supporting us, but we have Hopi,
and other indigenous
spiritual peoples providing their guidance and support, as
well. All that is left, is for us to receive this grace, and
to live our lives as peacefully and harmoniously as possible.
And we can see that the lunation cycle provides us with a consistent
and enduring frame of reference for coordinating any globally-oriented
efforts in the direction of human unity. In fact, through steady,
co-creative, lunation cycle attunement, we have the opportunity
of steadily embodying, the spiritual essences of an already-existent,
inner domain of spiritual consciousness .
MAGICAL
CHILD
Spiritual unity is possible,
because at a very deep level, a species-wide pattern of wholeness
is present within each of us. That pattern is fixed at birth
when we enter fully into the gravitational field at the moment
of our first breath. From that moment on, maintaining contact
with this pattern of wholeness is one of the greatest challenges
we will ever face. It is a challenge faced each and every moment,
by that part of ourselves I have come to call the Magical Child.
As simultaneously, both the youngest, and eldest aspect of our
consciousness, our Magical Child is that element of personal
consciousness that retains a unitive integration of both our
masculine and our feminine natures. In a word, the Magical Child
is androgynous . He/she is forever challenged to maintain the
divine union of these two fundamental principles. The purpose
of the lunation cycle teaching, is to help us reconnect consciously
with this deep inner realm of spiritual unity, and to tangibly
regain our identities as the Divine Children that we are.
On a broad, cultural scale, lunation cycle attunement offers
us the collective opportunity to ritually organise ourselves
into a powerful, yet peaceful, force of conscious evolutionary
intent. It is an intention which is directed away from a multiplicity
of shallow and peripheral life experiences, toward the peaceful
equilibrium of centrality, a centrality where all opposites are
balanced and harmonious. A centrality where all human hearts
are united as One.
Within such a unitive vision of humanity, you are seen as an
integral element of an evolving wave-form of expanding human
consciousness. You are one amongst a multitude. You are divine
and enlightened. You are a son or a daughter of the Sun, the
Moon, the stars. In Lak'ech: : You are another myself.
Together, perhaps we can join with other like-mindeds, other
magical children, to co-create the seed-foundations of a new
world, a world where issues of greed, power, and materialism
need not command the focus of collective attention.
"Together
with all nations,
we protect both land and life
and hold the world in balance."
Hopi
prayer