Giving Thanks to Ancestors

I thank the Ancestors this day, when the veil between the worlds is thin.

I give thanks to my father and aunties who have already crossed over who know me the best of them all for surely they have ensured the Path to my Dreams is Open.

I give thanks to the ancestors of Krista Holland and Graell Corsini (two co-priestesses) and Gary Bobroff. (a great Seeker and embodied Listener) whose ears are cocked to the whispers of the Divine, and provided me with the spark: that eye contact that unlocked the code to my own purpose. I give thanks to the people that have tenderly held and gently unwound our fragile link back into our Good Ancestry, the Good Earth, the Beauty Path. We are not Lost yet. On this Sacred Day, when the veil between the worlds is thin again, I send prayers of Gratitude into the Beyond, into the ineffable fabric of God-ness/Good-ness that has woven us all together. My prayers trace the warp and the weave and add a thin silver thread of my own to strengthen and repair bare spots. I send prayers of my commitment to this work as I make my way toward Ancestry. I feel myself to be in embodied Autumn. The sweet fast fading blush of berry and blossom long gone, the mature milk and peachiness of motherhood turned from full meadow to banked hay, full winter-ready apples and the flowers and seeds turned to bright spots of medicine. And it is there I stand: Bright leaves, sturdy fruit, the wine-grape, the golden root. I stand as all who stand in this time-place, between the rest of you and death. Fortitude becomes our mission as we watch the progression of long life-work-play take the freedom from our bodies and build the freedom and potency of our minds.... We hold the hands of the Elders to learn their lessons as they begin to close the circle and know that we are, like a beautiful chain, filing in behind.

Life becomes the apple press, the storing away, the jeweled jars in the cellar. The scrabbled recipe, the bed time story. We are not so much patient as we are savoring the moments that make up this passage. Thank you Ancestors for these lessons today and for this prayer.

May I be Brave in my Mission.