ritual is the method
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A little bit of a stream of consciousness, journal style post today. Lots on my mind that requires a flow and lack of attachment, so I’m just letting it riff.
The last couple weeks I have been focused on ritual. Bringing it back to the center of my life. Remembering to honor the basics.
Dancing at the altar, lighting candles, and sending prayers. Our natural state. Here, I shift through presence. I turn junk into gold. Back into the rhythms of living alchemy.
Earlier this week, I joined a small group of people doing alchemy and prayers for Gaza. During it, I felt called to work with water, started with seeing children drinking deeply from clean clear water, moving to adults as well. Kept going back to Palestine being alive and how water will bring life to thriving there, beyond survival. Celebration, wellness, connection. Imagining Palestine truly free, sated, nourished.
The next day after our practice, the hosts, who have family in Gaza, got messages from their loved ones that new foods had entered the markets at affordable prices for the first time in weeks. One of them wrote “I ate cheese today <3 After 5 months.” The hosts said that every time they have gathered, it has brought relief by the next day.
Ritual brings life. I am not owed happiness in this life. But I am here to know love and be love. And sometimes that means finding power and possibility in the darkest places.