At cityhome we have been returning to our bodies to find home for a long while now. It's no wonder that so many of us house-lovers have found ourselves in Utah, where nature helps us encounter that inner sense of wholeness. Soul-shelter. Home.
And as we continue to work on our outer and our inner environments, as individuals and as a COLLECTIVE, one thing is certain, the more we find ourselves in sync with the natural world around us, the more we crave a homebase that is healthy, and happy. Who knew, being in harmony with our home-bodies, makes for better houses, communities, and earth-- this home that we all share. And vice-versa. This is why we offer community classes that aim to bring us Home. To ourselves. And to each other.
We can learn a lot from the wisdom of our network. And we have been for ages.
One such friend of ours, Heather Harris has been showing up on significant date changes on our seasonal calendar wheel, helping us care for the homes that we are, as well as the homes that we live in. As we continue to return toward our ever changing selves, and syncing with the seasons of this always changing natural world, I asked Heather to point us toward what gathering we are moving toward next, now that our Spring Equinox gathering with Kera is behind us. In her words;
"Bealtaine is the ancient Celtic celebration of the first day of summer! Its name means ‘bright fire’ and many of the rituals surrounding May 1, or days surrounding the midway point between the Equinox and Solstice, involve large bonfires, dancing, and bright yellow flowers. It’s a time to cleanse our homes, our bodies and intentions for what we'd like to bring into the brightest time of the year! Purification and celebration go hand in hand at this fertile time in our seasonal calendar. What seeds are we planting for our summer season? What is calling us to be cleared out to make space for those seeds to grow abundantly?"
In a world fraught with division, it feels as important as ever, to find a language in common. Practices in common. Ones that do not discriminate and that nourish. To find each other looking at the same stars, and warming our hands by a shared fire, setting intentions on behalf of self, planet, and others-- is to be communally Home. What a gift we all are to each other when we celebrate the diverse seeds we offer, all planted in the same soil of one earth.
Deeply rooted in his Irish heritage, our Celtic brother Stephen Pitcher has been offering his care and wisdom to our cityhome community in the form of wisdom sharing, sacred drumming, and good guy space holding. His take on the upcoming evening that he continues to co-host with Heather;
"This is an opportunity for us to remember that we are not in nature; we are Nature. Traditionally the Celts lit fires for Bealtaine to remind us that we are light, that we can express light, colours, warmth, life itself. We can illuminate ourselves and those around us physically and energetically. This is a call to remember that our physical presence matches our spiritual presence, revealing our humanity, expressing our physicality, and being our true selves, in all our glory."
Amen to that. And shout out to all of us for giving a damn about Home. About each other. About our bodies, and our neighbors. As well as our differing beliefs. Whatever they are, it is certain that they can be held in the grandness of the cosmos and this concept of Shelter.
Join us, if it feels like a 'yes'.
Either way, let's keep Being Human.
Together.
