Event

Solstice House of Spirit Medicine

The Summer Solstice is a time to mark and activate deep transformation or challenging change. The life force is at its highest and we can draw on that fiery power. Yet summer solstice marks the beginning of the journey into the dark half of the year where the world is remade anew.

You have the opportunity to enter the House of Renaming on any of three nights during solstice week. It's the same ceremony each night. With the help of a story I will tell, spirit song I'll teach you, prayers we make together and vision each of us seek in this intimate sacred container, you may ask (indeed cry out, if you wish) for your "remaking" to move along, to be solidified or clarified, to get unstuck, to come to fruition. Because it's an intimate sacred environment, I can give you more direct guidance if you need it than in our larger drumming events. The ceremony culminates with you receiving a new name from Spirit to use as publicly or privately as you wish, and to carry as long as it is useful. You can choose whether you seek your own name or if you want the spirits to give it to you through me (both are powerful options, and it's totally up to you.) If you want, I'll offer you additional ceremonial tasks to do after the ceremony to help your transformation progress.

The ceremony will last about two hours. Bring a blanket, yoga mat or something to sit on. Bring a drum or rattle. I will have some for you to borrow as well. You can also bring a folding chair if sitting on the ground is difficult for you. The ceremony will involve smoke and steam. It's not a suffering experience like a sweat lodge, but you'll get a little dirty.