![]() ![]() Take some time to be with fire in a sacred way. We have an opportunity to move out of the chaos and choose peace and perhaps we can learn from traditions around the world who have used fire in ceremony for centuries. We have all come to understand the importance of healing for the sake of all life and our future. We are at a potent, beautiful and critical junction on the planet. Tune into all of this and create your own ceremony. If you are in a safe place, offer some sage or cedar to the fire.īe creative, as something deep within your biology knows fire and you have many generations of ancestors who spent sacred time around fire. Light a candle and hold these thoughts in your heart and your mind, let the flicker of the flame mesmerize you. What are you grateful for? What do you want to let go of from your past? What do you want to set an intention for? Write these things out in a journal and contemplate them. – Oceti Sakowin, 7 Council Firesįire can be used in ceremony to spread healing across the whole world. On marches, coals from the previous council fire were carefully preserved and used to rekindle the council fire at the new campsite. Keeping of the peta waken (sacred fire) was an important activity. Sharing a common fire is one thing that has always united the Sioux people. This is how the prayers are delivered to the spirit world. Fire completes the ceremony with a purifying force as it is drawn over the tobacco/herbs through the bowl and stem, creating smoke that slowly drifts and rises. The stem of the pipe represents the masculine principle, the bowl represents the feminine principle, the tobacco is an earth offering, and the breath is air. ![]() It is a link between the physical and the spiritual. The pipe ceremony is a sacred ritual for connecting worlds. In a pipe ceremony you have a powerful combining of elements with fire to symbolize the balance of life. The offering of smoke in prayer is central to ceremonies in traditions around the world. The four types of ritual fire offerings are peaceful, increasing, subduing and forceful. – Yuin elder Uncle Max Dulamunmun Harrison There’s smoking when there’s a burial, there’s smoking when there’s a celebration, and there’s smoking for clearance, and healing also. ![]() Smoking ceremony is a gesture of goodwill, bringing people together and healing. The smoking ceremony fans the flame of connection to the spirit world, and is usually only performed for major events, such as celebrating births and mourning deaths. The healing smoke rises in a column towards the sky to keep unwanted spirits at bay, acknowledge ancestors and pay respect to country, honouring the strong Aboriginal connection to the land and sea. The leaves are set alight and the smoke purifies the space where the ceremony takes place. These aromatic plants, the most widely used of which is the Emu Bush, are believed to have powerful cleansing properties. The ceremony involves collecting various native plants that are used to produce a wet, steamy smoke. Smoking ceremonies are an ancient custom among Indigenous Australians to ward off bad spirits. Yajna involves surrendering something to the gods as a sacrifice. ![]()
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