Love Note #2: Ritual in Everyday life
How was your week Beloved?
I love, love, loved how several of you wrote in about last Sunday’s Love Note about the bubble gum pink pants and how it touched you.
You all shared about:
wearing pink lipstick
making bolder requests
doing meetings in pink furry jackets,
flirting with hot pink nails…
and other ways - big and small - you all are out there acknowledging the good you are up to in your lives and naming it GREAT.
This week I want to share about:
Rituals.
MY FOUNDATION
Ritual is a part of my everyday life.
It is one of the ways I express love to myself and my life.
I have daily rituals, weekly rituals, lunar rituals, seasonal rituals, sex is a ritual, I make ritual for specific things I’m moving though…the list goes on.
The rituals of my life is the way I make my life sacred. It is the way I connect with nature and the deeper energies within me and around me.
Ritual takes me out of the push and pace of the fullness and activity in my days and attunes me to the deeper, more subtle rhythm and flow.
One of my teachers, Elder Malidoma Somé taught that ritual - be it community, family or individual - liberates energy.
In my sojourn with him, I reconnected to my indigenous heart. The conscious memory of which was lost to me by a passage across a body of water. Through ritual it's re-membered and its Essence in me seeks connection and harmony with life around me.
The ritual of my life tethers me to this essence - and liberates that which is truest about me and life.
Rituals are different from my to do lists. The activities from my lists are in service in to the deeper elements of my life that I touch through the rituals, not the other way around. Said another way – My Essence guides me, my “to-dos” serve that.
Do you have rituals that support your life and essence?
Are there rituals or traditions of your lineage that are grounding and clarifying? Have you created rituals of your own?
This week, I’ll share about some other rituals of my life in my social media stories and I’d love to hear about yours.
This week's full moon offers a beautiful opportunity to practie. I’ll post more about that energy later in the week.
Until then…
Let love guide the way,
Angela