Earth Day Altar Event
A natural chemistry emerged early in the group, and new friendships were forged as we traveled to a sacred landscape - a log cabin surrounded with orchards and protected by a sacred connection with the mountain - near San Cristobal. In a space of comfort and ease even in the cool spring morning, each person brought forth their offerings of words, said silent prayers in the rainbow labyrinth, and set about making individual and collective altars of gratitude and offering. A tree, formed of cast-offs from other trees, was made to sing prayers for rain. A womb of stone and branches was crafted to allow space for healing. A altar giving thanks to the heart of the earth gave thanks for the vistas, and protected a medicine wheel set about a lone tree in a great meadow. A cairn of pinecones bored into the earth and gave thanks for the trees and the seeds of rebirth. Trees were rewoven into the fabric of the forest and the land. A bridge was built to span the breadths of imagination, and bones were collected to offer a remembrance for the 4-leggeds. A bowed branch was installed as a gateway to a sacred mandala, where elk and trees, old life and new life, the stone people, and man... were all honored. Smiles and laughter erupted often. Life felt whole again. When the winds picked up and we began to part for separate destinations, we all knew... this was not the end of anything. We had created something that would feed our entire community.
Then, the rain began, and stayed for 2 days.
In a drought said to be the worst since the 13th century in New Mexico, I knew that we witnessed an Easter and Earth Day miracle.
Thank you Rivers and Birds for this opportunity. May you always be blessed in your very important and compassionate work.