7th Earthkeeper Dance: All-day Ceremony
Date: Saturday, September 9, 2006
Time: 9:00 am to 7:00 pm CST
Place: Indiana Dunes State Park, North of Chesterton, Indiana on Hiway 49, - at Duneside Shelter, (rain or shine) - the shelter is reserved for us
Beforehand: Go within for guidance on what your personal intent will be for this ceremony, and on what sacred items you might bring.
Bring: Your joy, laughter, drums, rattles; items to help set-up circle and altars; personal sacred item (s) to place on Altar(s); a blanket may be needed to sit on in the circle at times and you can bring a chair as well; women may wear a shawl; dress appropriately for the weather and ceremony; we will have a potluck lunch and dinner, please bring food to share for both meals. Don’t forget to bring your own table service. There will be a give a way blanket at the close of the last ceremony so bring a gift to place on the blanket.
Remember, as always, we dedicate our ceremonies to joy and laughter on Mother Earth.
We thank John Many Voices Armbruster for sharing his Earthkeeping Ways.
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Please contact Anne Thomas, email tandathomas@msn.com, if you have any questions.
Hugs, Tracy - take what you want…find your truths…leave the rest…I share because I care.
The Dancers as a whole are responsible for holding the center of the energy. They are often in a whirlwind of energetic flow, like a storm of consciousness striving to resolve its inner conflicts. This is the circle finding its step, its frequency of motion that releases the power of the Sky into the Earth world… The Dancer knows the feelings of weakness and the feelings of strength and learns to dance without shame or false pride…
Their bodies are conduits for the group mind to think of itself and come into union with the Ainya of the land and the piercing light of the sky… It is hard sometimes… but they fast and drum and sing and dance… and the hardness softens and the veil between the worlds becomes transparent… the wind becomes the sweet kisses of our creator… the Sun becomes the penetrating power of divine Love… the ground quakes and the land begins to speak through the soles of their feet…
They bring this power to the people in the form of Tobacco as an honoring… compassion and good will as the anointing oil, and blessing with the brushing of the fans..
-John Armbruster
We all have lessons to learn and John was not exempt from this. Part of the earthkeeper walk with John Armbruster, was to learn about functionality through experiencing dysfunction. I am grateful for these lessons, even though I came kicking and screaming at times! Thank you John.
Some of the unintentional lessons were:
~ each person has a degree of dysfunction or we wouldn’t be on earth.
~ yin (negative) and yang (positive) are part of life.
~ dysfunction comes when it is enabled by those involved.
~ we think we are being tolerant when we say, “live and let live, or to each his own”. However, it enables the current paradigm, be it functional or dysfunctional.
~ it takes hard work to keep functionality alive…that’s why dysfunction is so prevalent in our world…because it’s the easy way out.
George Soros said, “Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being dysfunctional, only in failing to learn from it.”
Hugs, Tracy - take what you want…leave the rest…I share because I care.