Tsalagi tradition basks in the new moon. We go to water in every new moon and prune fruit trees and grapes in the February new moon, follow our dreams and wear the symbol and feel the freshness when the image appears in the night sky. The preceeding darkness is the void holding chaos and creation.
The alchemical stage of washing away what is, opens the door to pure potential. When we come out of the water and look deeply into the crystal we see ourselves. If we are upside down we must acknowledge that and go in again. Challenging in the cold winter weather but it's always warm stepping out of the water and the blood rushing into our organs purifies us to the core. That core strengthening reminds us to sing and dance more to feed our life force and balance the earth.
If immersion in a mountain stream isn't possible we can annoint ourselves with 7 handfuls of water on our head after traditional songs and offerings of rabbit tobacco, cedar, and lobelia, our native homeland plant medicine. Honor the wisdom of elders by asking for their own stories of these ways? Learn the songs with them and gather the herbs with the herb pipe traditional teaching experience.
Current necessity and bountiful virtual worldwide reach allows us to do this together symbolically without appropriation. Gather around a vessel of water, a stone that has called to you from the earth, a feather that swaddles you with air, and the smokes of sage, mugwort, rosemary, or chaga reaching deep into your essence of actions. Sing the 4 traditional songs that come to you in the ether as you face upstream and into the east. Share the true clear aroma and magic of the plant medicine with love and gratitude to them and to all, in your heart as one mind. Do this with presence beyond words, returning to the time of original humans recognizing the 4th dimension of symbolic images going beyond language.
Gather the tiny ash residues from the plant medicine burning/smokes in a shell from the ocean and add it to a houseplant, garden, or return it to the earth or the water in the stream.
Songs... protection 4 all, water song, 3rd song options for heart, wolf, *one mind*, new beginnings (morning song) ??? then gratitude
