MARCH 2023 LIFE’s MILESTONE MOMENTS ~ Rites of Passage

To gather, To welcome, To Celebrate

THESE TIMES OF CHANGE IN OUR LIFE that often don’t make sense or seem to NOT fit, yet can be shifted within our mind and our heart through ceremony.

TO RECOGNIZE.

TO HONOR.

TO SUPPORT and ACKNOWLEDGE.

To see through new awareness where you have come from, what you have learned, changed or become, and arrived at a new or different ‘level’ or destination and way of Being.

OR perhaps, a ‘jumping off’ place toward where you are going, to embark onto a new path, or cross a ‘threshold’ into something or somewhere new.

According to Wikipedia, a milestone is a marker of distance along roads, and installed to provide linear referencing points along the road.

This can be used to reassure travellers that the proper path is being followed, and to indicate either distance travelled or the remaining distance to a destination.

Milestone may also refer to where a person is on their life path or journey.

These are also referred to as RITES OF PASSAGE, and there are 3 phases.

In the first phase of separation, people withdraw from their current status and prepare to move from one place or status to another
The 2nd phase of transition, is the period between stages, during which one has left one place or state but has not yet entered or joined the next.
In the third phase the passage is consummated [by] the ritual subject."[ having completed the rite and assumed their "new" identity, often characterized by elaborate rituals and ceremonies.

For example, the cutting of the hair for a person who has just joined the army. He or she is "cutting away" the former self: the civilian.
Ash Wednesday reminds Christians as ashes are marked on their foreheads, that he journey of Lent is about being born again, about the path to a new life, about mortality and transformation, and preparing for Easter (as resurrection).
Rites individuals might normally encounter: pregnancy, childbirth, betrothal, marriage, funerals. Historically these life changes are filled with pomp and ceremony.

Meanwhile, there are many, many other rites-of-passage we experience:

those who leave home to go to college,

or retire from a job/career after decades,

grieve the loss of an unborn child,

and in most recent years have left the workplace to work-from-home AND care-for-the-children.

Loss and grief come in a variety of events: job, pet, home, car privileges, (non) autonomous self-care and choices, elderhood, menarche, teen, 21, 65, menopause, divorce.

To gather, to welcome, and to celebrate~
Prayers and blessings and LOVE~ Why?

I ask, why not?

Through ceremony, on this new path, we seek everyday epiphanies -- new awakenings. No longer throwing away 1 more day, by not noticing the wonder of it all. Aware of who we are, really are. And it is all good.

Making room …letting go of unfinished business, mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, disappointments, what you wish to forget, and what you want to offer and receive forgiveness on.

Creating space for new opportunities and all manner of goodness to fill in the newly created ‘empty space’ within our chattering minds. Let us open hearts.
Let us prepare and ready together~

To move in rhythm with our individual heartbeat, our energetic pulsation…vibration… experience Becoming and Living from a place of:
relief, contentment, satisfaction, ease, flow….

To honor and hold ourselves sacred, with compassion, tenderness and nurturing in our life journey, every day, right now. Always right now. Now.

To gather in a Circle, sometimes lighting a candle centered within our own individual space, or speak a word or phrase - to create a way to ‘fit things together’ in our heart and in our mind.

Through ceremony you can celebrate the threshold you have come through

or that which you are are crossing,

that best declares to Self, maybe family and friends, your intention;

as we stretch ourselves to welcome new beginnings.

MARCH 2023 LIFE’s MILESTONE MOMENTS ~ Rites of Passage

To gather, To welcome, To Celebrate

THESE TIMES OF CHANGE IN OUR LIFE that often don’t make sense or seem to NOT fit, yet can be shifted within our mind and our heart through ceremony.

TO RECOGNIZE.

TO HONOR.

TO SUPPORT and ACKNOWLEDGE.

To see through new awareness where you have come from, what you have learned, changed or become, and arrived at a new or different ‘level’ or destination and way of Being.

OR perhaps, a ‘jumping off’ place toward where you are going, to embark onto a new path, or cross a ‘threshold’ into something or somewhere new.

These are also referred to as RITES OF PASSAGE, and there are 3 phases.

In the first phase of separation, people withdraw from their current status and prepare to move from one place or status to another

The 2nd phase of transition, is the period between stages, during which one has left one place or state but has not yet entered or joined the next.

In the third phase the passage is consummated [by] the ritual subject."[ having completed the rite and assumed their "new" identity, often characterized by elaborate rituals and ceremonies.

Meanwhile, there are many, many other rites-of-passage we experience:

those who leave home to go to college,

or retire from a job/career after decades,

grieve the loss of an unborn child,

and in most recent years have left the workplace to work-from-home AND care-for-the-children.

Loss and grief come in a variety of events: job, pet, home, car privileges, (non) autonomous self-care and choices, elderhood, menarche, teen, 21, 65, menopause, divorce.

To gather, to welcome, and to celebrate~
Prayers and blessings and LOVE~ Why?

I ask, why not?

Through ceremony, on this new path, we seek everyday epiphanies -- new awakenings. No longer throwing away 1 more day, by not noticing the wonder of it all. Aware of who we are, really are. And it is all good.

Making room …letting go of unfinished business, mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, disappointments, what you wish to forget, and what you want to offer and receive forgiveness on.

Creating space for new opportunities and all manner of goodness to fill in the newly created ‘empty space’ within our chattering minds. Let us open hearts.
Let us prepare and ready together~

To move in rhythm with our individual heartbeat, our energetic pulsation…vibration… experience Becoming and Living from a place of:
relief, contentment, satisfaction, ease, flow….

To honor and hold ourselves sacred, with compassion, tenderness and nurturing in our life journey, every day, right now. Always right now. Now.

To gather in a Circle, sometimes lighting a candle centered within our own individual space, or speak a word or phrase - to create a way to ‘fit things together’ in our heart and in our mind.

Through ceremony you can celebrate the threshold you have come through

or that which you are are crossing,

that best declares to Self, maybe family and friends, your intention;

as we stretch ourselves to welcome new beginnings.

Healing Arts Practitioner Energy Healer Spiritual Direction Counselor/Mentor Ordained Minister Ceremonialist

Seeing clients in person

St. Clair Shores Grosse Pointe Woods

MARCH 2023 LIFE’s MILESTONE MOMENTS ~ Rites of Passage

To gather, To welcome, To Celebrate

THESE TIMES OF CHANGE IN OUR LIFE that often don’t make sense or seem to NOT fit, yet can be shifted within our mind and our heart through ceremony.

TO RECOGNIZE.

TO HONOR.

TO SUPPORT and ACKNOWLEDGE.

To see through new awareness where you have come from, what you have learned, changed or become, and arrived at a new or different ‘level’ or destination and way of Being.

OR perhaps, a ‘jumping off’ place toward where you are going, to embark onto a new path, or cross a ‘threshold’ into something or somewhere new.

These are also referred to as RITES OF PASSAGE, and there are 3 phases.

In the first phase of separation, people withdraw from their current status and prepare to move from one place or status to another

The 2nd phase of transition, is the period between stages, during which one has left one place or state but has not yet entered or joined the next.

In the third phase the passage is consummated [by] the ritual subject."[ having completed the rite and assumed their "new" identity, often characterized by elaborate rituals and ceremonies.

Meanwhile, there are many, many other rites-of-passage we experience:

those who leave home to go to college,

or retire from a job/career after decades,

grieve the loss of an unborn child,

and in most recent years have left the workplace to work-from-home AND care-for-the-children.

Loss and grief come in a variety of events: job, pet, home, car privileges, (non) autonomous self-care and choices, elderhood, menarche, teen, 21, 65, menopause, divorce.

To gather, to welcome, and to celebrate~​​​​​​​​Prayers and blessings and LOVE~ Why?

I ask, why not?​​​

Through ceremony, on this new path, we seek everyday epiphanies -- new awakenings. ​​​​​​​​ No longer throwing away 1 more day, by not noticing the wonder of it all.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Aware of who we are, really are. And it is all good.

Making room …letting go of unfinished business, mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, disappointments, what you wish to forget, and what you want to offer and receive forgiveness on.​​​​​​​​

Creating space for new opportunities and all manner of goodness to fill in the newly created ‘empty space’ within our chattering minds. Let us open hearts. ​​​​​​​​Let us prepare and ready together~

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To move in rhythm with our individual heartbeat, our energetic pulsation…vibration… experience Becoming and Living from a place of: ​​​​​​​​relief, contentment, satisfaction, ease, flow….​​​​​​​​

To honor and hold ourselves sacred, with compassion, tenderness and nurturing​​​​​​​​ in our life journey, every day, right now. Always right now. Now.​​​​​​​​

To gather in a Circle, sometimes lighting a candle centered within our own individual space, or speak a word or phrase - to create a way to ‘fit things together’ in our heart and in our mind.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Through ceremony you can celebrate the threshold you have come through

or that which you are are crossing,

that best declares to Self, maybe family and friends, your intention;​ as we stretch ourselves to welcome new beginnings.​​​​​​​​

COOL and FUN COMPANION CIRCLE

FEB 2023 What time is it?

Healing Arts Practitioner Energy Healer Spiritual Direction Counselor/Mentor Ordained Minister Ceremonialist

Seeing clients in person

St. Clair Shores Grosse Pointe Woods

To gather, to welcome, and to celebrate~
Prayers and blessings and LOVE~ Why?

I ask, why not?

Through ceremony, on this new path, we seek everyday epiphanies -- new awakenings. No longer throwing away 1 more day, by not noticing the wonder of it all. Aware of who we are, really are. And it is all good.

Making room …letting go of unfinished business, mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, disappointments, what you wish to forget, and what you want to offer and receive forgiveness on.

Creating space for new opportunities and all manner of goodness to fill in the newly created ‘empty space’ within our chattering minds. Let us open hearts.
Let us prepare and ready together~

To move in rhythm with our individual heartbeat, our energetic pulsation…vibration… experience Becoming and Living from a place of:
relief, contentment, satisfaction, ease, flow….

To honor and hold ourselves sacred, with compassion, tenderness and nurturing in our life journey, every day, right now. Always right now. Now.

To gather in a Circle, sometimes lighting a candle centered within our own individual space, or speak a word or phrase - to create a way to ‘fit things together’ in our heart and in our mind.

that best declares to Self, maybe family and friends, your intention;

as we stretch ourselves to welcome new beginnings.