Ceremonial and Ritual Guidance for Spring, and the element of FIRE within and without.

These offerings from the Heart of Earth Peoples United are extended with respect and consideration of your ancestors and the ancestral lineages of all people, share with a prayer that all people may one day be blessed in the beauty of the perpetual spring of each other’s flowering. Thank you for inspiring us to live into our own prophesies. May the sharing through this space bless and enrich your lives and homes this season.

Daily Rituals.

Use these simple ways to connect with the fire element this season to usher in your potential for profound growth within. We hope this guidance cans serve you as tools for healing, visioning and integration of your greater ceremonial lessons from the year we are emerging from this spring.

In all ways you can, with some grand intention or within the effortless little moments in between the motions of your daily life, give yourself the gift of time in child-like wonder this Spring. Just being. Being in nature and feeling the new growth around you, getting face level with a flower or drinking the rain with your mouth open to the sky before splashing in a puddle. Make every moment you take in wonder a precious moment of life as ceremony.  Make art or re-create a favorite childhood ritual if yours, something encoded with your story and the ones who have been part of it. Really allow yourself to embrace the aspect of Spring in the Mayan Medicine Wheel that represents our early childhood and be thankful for the support from the cosmos to connect with your inner child and the children around you.

In ceremony we often reach for inner-child healing, we search for it or try to command it. We even suffer from the absence of the playfulness we  set down somewhere in time and space without ever knowing we yurn to connect again. Yet sometimes it is as easy as just embracing your inner-child through your sense for you to return to the wonder that came with that playful spirit.

If there are wounds there, they will be nourished without needing to focus on them and show up for ourselves as the adults we are now, to embrace and take of the inner child.. with playfulness and patience.

This season connect with new growth, and make offerings of beauty through the cosmic fire encoded in the flowers.

In their intoxicating infinite expressions the flowers hold the reflections of our purest potential as part of creation. They can teach us about our own flourishing through their cycles and nature, in their medicine and aroma. All flowers have their own vibrational frequency and specialization so to speak, while all being transmitters of the endless dance of creation that is Rucux Ka and Rucux Eleu’s sacred symbiosis of union and being on earth. They symbolize life and fertility — the fire of father sky and the matter of mother earth in the creative cycles that it takes to bloom. They are great teachers and sacred central elements of our ceremonies we hold as Earth People, as altars, mandalas, offerings of dried petals and flower essence waters that we use to bless and purify with.

May these ways to work with flowers and fire this season bring you closer to the fire of your own blossoming, and may we all bless and pollinate each other along the way!

Honor FIRE as your ally, as your witness, as your guide.

Take time to work with your breath as you gaze upon the flames of a fire, as a fire outside or as a candle or smoke from a smudge in a vessel upon your mesa. Offering  your breath and words of spiritual intention each day as food for that fire.. Noticing the effect that is created in your body and mind as you give what is purely you in the form of your breath as the toj or sacred gift in reciprocity for the medicine of fire in your life. Embracing this simple yet profound ritual to guide and empower your path at this time.

Use the awareness of your breath to meditate on being open to receiving help to see yourself and meet what you see with good actions. Gazing on the flame or smoke, honoring the fires of inspiration within you. Your awareness of whatever may be your hook or trap that diverts you from your inspirations may come up, allow it without judgment, Let it be a gift to receive the luminous transformative light of fire. If/when this should happen just give thanks. Aloud with that breath, really hearing the humility it takes to embrace each curve of our growth. Thank that which trips you in life into this space where you can claim your wholeness and dare to embrace all of you.. Breathe in, breath out.

Learn from the fire as we journey from the midpoint to the solstice and take the opportunity this season to focus on your emotions and thoughts with this simple ritual, claiming the balance between any extremes within you in order to build your power to navigate gracefully through any feeling, fear, excitement or otherwise. Breathe and meditate, contemplating all that may be happening in your life without judgement, but true seeing instead. And again using the breath to center yourself, make the prayers for your life and the world you envision. This time of year is a good time plan, prepare, and request visions for the year ahead. Dream through the fire and ask what you are ready to transform your yourself into..

When you are complete, give thanks, take care of the fireplace used and honor all the elementals for their gifts in your life.

Sun and Earth, the flowers and all the gifts we have been given.

This spring connect with the flowers as the pure expression of the sacred mother and father life giving creation energy working through our lives. Recognizing that flowers we use in the creation of altars and flower waters are encoded with the cosmic fire received by the earth, to bless and heal us, and to call us into our own blossoming so that we may share from that place. Work with these plant allies in your homes and upon your own altars, and when you’re ready — share your light!

Flower altars can be created in a pool of fresh waters as the vessel to anchor, celebrate and honor the plants you will be working with. Always begin with preparing yourself and your space, making offerings of smoke and words to ground the space to make medicine. Ask permission, be open to spiritual instruction and start your process only when you are sure you can complete it. Place your altar where you will be able to connect to it he most, where visitors to your home can receive from it’s beauty and honor the flowers by carrying their color and light with them through their appreciation.

Set your smudge and a candle close by to continue to work with it as you wish through your process. Begin by placing your vessel with intention, note that it should not be moved once created. With a prayer of appreciation for life, partially fill an earthen pot or any beautiful water tight vessel of your choice with spring waters. As you work make your prayers of intention to invite the blessing of the flowers into your live, giving thanks and offering the gift of this space, this home within your home to honor the flowers in their fullest flowering expression. A sacred reflective action you can give to yourself in this process. As you place each flower and give it a home, receive the space in yourself to flower. Allow the process to spiritually guide you and reveal as flowers do when they open.

Vibrationally it is best to work with plants you have grown or gathered, that have been grown in the area you live or hold symbolic meaning central to your prayer or place on Mother Earth. With that said, all flowers are perfect and what matters most is for you to be guided by spirit in your process of making this offering of beauty.

Allow yourself to place flowers with intention and commitment, not lifting or moving things about once set to avoid drowning them or the gifts in your life with the lack of stillness or care. This timeless ritual of creating flower and water altars honors the pure essence of the love between the sky and earth and ourselves as part of it. It becomes our witness and anchor reminding us to tend to the garden of our hearts, inviting us to pause in appreciation of others in their own process.

You can work with symmetry and balance, diversity and color. Appreciating the fleeting moment of time that a flower is with us and all it took to arrive there with those blossoms in the display of their shapes, color and fragrance. With gentleness and care complete

Journey through the living altar of orchid medicine.

This season Tat Erick invites us to create a living altar of orchids in our home. To learn to be with this flower that in it’s essence holds an ancient encoded memory of another realm.

A precious flower to gaze upon and learn to take care of. To meditate with and learn to be able to journey through it’s geometry and luminous nature into our own flowering path.

Orchids have a particular need to not be smothered or burried, to be gracefully attached and upheld by the presence of the standing people, the trees, and the rocks. It has air roots and speaks the poetry of mist in the atmosphere, drinking from the tiniest molecules of water vapor, showing us how to source from the elemental movement of our own environment. It elegantly nests itself to breathe and bloom amongst branches, mysteriously capable of finding home in unlikely and wild places. Orchids can help us find our true nature and the spiritual source of it’s renewing energy. To honor this, ask permission of your plant to live with you, to learn from it and learn to help it thrive in reciprocity.

Orchid plants emit the eastern fire elemental medicine of renewal. And like the eastern place of the sunrise, they accept the darkness and death process that the light emerges from for a spiritual dawn within us to occur. As we tend to this living orchid altar we can imagine the planetary timekeeping of spring and fire, making movements of renewal and acceptance of the death process in our own lives, willing ourselves to bloom through what at times we convince ourselves is impossible.

Imagine yourself like a beam of light coming into your own celestial alignment with the mountain of fire through this precious flower — the alignment of renewal when we plant the seeds of intention for all that we want to crystalize in our lives.

Stretch to contemplate how you/we get here as you gaze upon the orchid plant and transformt hose thoughts into the already embodied state of being in your vision.. Differnt than an intention or plan, this is not the alchemical state of being in your future memory. Remembering how it felt to create the thoughts. Let the orchid guide you on this passage through time to imprint within your senses what it feels like to have already been there, as a sensorial promise to creation and spirit.

Close these practices in gratitude for the orchid and be quietly with yourself in order to feel the feelings this practice generated in your body for as long as possible. Doing this before bed helps, as does sleeping near this altar to invite the orchid essence into your dreaming space. You can offer the crystal or stone as a gift to the plant and collect spring water for it in reciprocity for it’s mystical gifts. She is a goddess.. she is a healer.. and she can be our ally.