Last week we celebrated Candlemas and our story was a slightly modified version of "The Well and the Flame" from the book Circle Round. We observed Candlemas by tidying up all the pine boughs that blew into the yard from our trees, picking out our seeds for our garden, lighting candles in the ground to"warm up" mother Earth so we can then plant our seeds and she can help them grow. We also "plant" our own intentions (what we want to do, change, accomplish) in a clay pot with soil, light a candle in the pot and share our intentions with each other. Then we will add this soil to our garden when we do plant our seeds so that our intentions "grow as well". We also lit a fire in the fireplace using our fire starters that we made the week before ( for our"Shingebiss" story). They worked GREAT!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Candlemas
Last week we celebrated Candlemas and our story was a slightly modified version of "The Well and the Flame" from the book Circle Round. We observed Candlemas by tidying up all the pine boughs that blew into the yard from our trees, picking out our seeds for our garden, lighting candles in the ground to"warm up" mother Earth so we can then plant our seeds and she can help them grow. We also "plant" our own intentions (what we want to do, change, accomplish) in a clay pot with soil, light a candle in the pot and share our intentions with each other. Then we will add this soil to our garden when we do plant our seeds so that our intentions "grow as well". We also lit a fire in the fireplace using our fire starters that we made the week before ( for our"Shingebiss" story). They worked GREAT!
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Your table looks so nice. I love the idea of "planting" your intentions and then lighting the candle. I'm going to file this away for next year!
Thanks! I bought some curling willow branches ( the tall branches in back corner) at our local market and she said they can root in the water and be planted! I a gonna give it a try!
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