Ceremonies of Change

I may be able to create a ceremony to help me bid a fond farewell to my own baby having experiences, and celebrate my entrance into the realm of mom older children. I could watch my birth videos, read my journals about how I wanted to be a mom of older kids, make a Birth book for each child with the pictures of their birth. research transition ceremonies, and invite women who would be interested in coming such as Kim Conti, Laura Luster, Holly Baker?, T-chelle, etc...
I could list activities and projects that I look forward to doing on my own, with my hubby, with my family...and meditate on these, ask the others to help me meditate on them, and project positive energy to me before focusing inwardly on their own ideas, and then have everyone share theirs....
This might be really fun!


December 15, 2009
As We Ebb and Flow Through Life
Changing Roles
As we bob and weave with the ebb and flow of life our roles change, but our true self remains constant. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we go through many aspects of humanity in one lifetime. Living in the material world of opposites, labels, and classifications, we often identify ourselves by the roles we play, forgetting that these aspects shift and change throughout our lives. But when we anchor ourselves in the truth of our being, that core of spirit within us, we can choose to embrace the new roles as they come, knowing that they give us fresh perspective on life and a greater understanding of the lives of others.

As children, we anticipated role changes eagerly in our rush to grow up. Though fairy tales led us to believe that “happily ever after” was a final destination, the truth is that life is a series of destinations, mere stops on a long journey filled with differing terrain. We may need to move through a feeling of resistance as we shift from spouse to parent, leader to subordinate, caregiver to receiver, or even local to newcomer. It can be helpful to bid a fond farewell to the role that we are leaving before we welcome the new. This is the purpose of ceremonies in cultures throughout the world and across time. We can choose from any in existence or create our own to help us celebrate our life shifts and embrace our new adventures.

Like actors on the stage of the world, our different roles are just costumes that we inhabit and then shed. Each role we play gives us another perspective through which to understand ourselves and the nature of the universe. When we take a moment to see that each change can be an adventure, a celebration, and a chance to play a new part, we may even be able to recapture the joyful anticipation of our youth as we transition from one role to the next.

I may be able to create a ceremony to help me bid a fond farewell to my own baby having experiences, and celebrate my entrance into the realm of mom older children. I could watch my birth videos, read my journals about how I wanted to be a mom of older kids, make a Birth book for each child with the pictures of their birth. research transition ceremonies, and invite women who would be interested in coming such as Kim Conti, Laura Luster, Holly Baker?, T-chelle, etc...
I could list activities and projects that I look forward to doing on my own, with my hubby, with my family...and meditate on these, ask the others to help me meditate on them, and project positive energy to me before focusing inwardly on their own ideas, and then have everyone share theirs....
This might be really fun!