Summer Solstice 6/22

Dreaming Despacho and Fire Ceremony

2 PM to 7:30 PM

Join us in creating a Dreaming Despacho. 

Add your dreams--for the earth and your own path--to help them manifest...

We gather for this ceremony in honor of the Solstice, our longest day of light...

We will meet in our Medicine Wheel portal, on private land at the base of Sonoma Mountain at 2:00 PM on Sunday, June 22. We will feed the power of the despacho with our personal and collective intent, receive its sweet blessing, and offer it to the fire, sending our dreams and prayers out to the cosmos in the smoke of transmutation. Afterwards, well share a potluck meal and revel in the beauty surrounding us, finishing about 7:30 PM.

A ceremony is a way of bridging, and making connection outside of our small groups, our small worlds. Ceremony lets us experience the power of focused energy, the power of group, and the joy of shared intent.

This contemporary despacho will follow traditional Andean form, ingredients, and intent, and Eagle-of-the-North practices for group engagement, connection, and focus. No prior experience necessary (and if you have it, bring it!) Creating this ceremony in reciprocity is a wonderful way of focusing intent, giving back to the Earth and spirits, and being together. And in gifting our dreaming, we align with a different story, shift our perceptions, and help create the world we want to live in.

To prepare: Try using the phrase "I see a world...full of harmony" (for example) as you decide which dreams you want to bring to the offering. Reflect also on your three power centers of belly, heart, and third eye, and how they might relate to your dreams and intent.

Bring: two small burnable objects that symbolize your dreams for the earth and yourself; one ribbon about 12 inches long, representing your path into the future; water; a chair if you need one; layers for sun and wind; hat; potluck dish to share for dinner; and a donation, which will go to Sonoma Mountain Preservation.  

Note: It is important for your completion that you stay for the fire ceremony.  

On Dreaming, Vision and Intent

Guboo Ted Thomas, Yuin Aboriginal tribal elder (1901-2002), describes the Aboriginal Dreaming:

"Dreaming...starts outdoors in a very quiet place where there is no noise and where the wind is blowing. Here, all around are Nature Spirits...I would talk to you and be in the spirit of the land and bring that spirit here (gestures to interviewer's heart). After walking in the woods for some time, you would dream and spirits would visit your vision. Yes, you would see these spirits and they talk with you...The dreaming is a way to be in the change of this world...I do not teach the dreaming. The mountain teaches the dreaming. Uluru."

"...the vision of this time is not one of change but of mastering the arts of creating wholeness through connectedness: connectedness within ourselves, between each other, and between humans and the world around them.  --David Spangler

Learn more about despachos.   

Directions sent when you register via email. Sponsored by Earth Caretakers and Compost Mentis.