"Being You, Being True"

Yesterday I spent the day with 25 special souls who came along to take part in a special workshop to learn more about the Truth of being. I felt blessed to be in the company of so many interested and sincere seekers of truth, learning so much from each of them during our day together. The team arrived early at our secret location to set up for the day ahead. It was a cold, bright morning following the New Moon in Scorpio and the remaining leaves of a fading autumn cascaded from the clouded skies, as we drove to the venue. In the main room, chairs were carefully arranged in a circle and blessed with incense and rosemary before participants arrived. The window table was filled with bowls of holy water containing tiny pressed autumn leaves and chinese lanterns from the gardens of a friend. This space would facilitate an opening sacred ceremony for the day as each participant created their unique individual connection with the four elements of fire, earth, air and water. Refreshments and food, which had been so lovingly prepared, offered and blessed were transferred from cars to the large kitchen. Tiny homemade sweets, dotted with pistchios and violets, then offered to Lakshmi were placed in the fridge until afternoon tea time. Our reception area by the entrance was transformed for the day - as rows of tea light candles and vases of Iris were placed on the mantelpiece of the huge cold stone fireplace and the table of stars. As guests began to arrive, they were greeted and given their symbols for the day and as they moved into the refeshments room, we began our prayers and meditations in the main hall. Curtains were closed and candles were lighted. As Sagittarius was rising, "Jupiter" was selected from Holst's Plants, as we opened the door and invited everyone to take their sacred place in this newly formed circle of light and truth. The journey to the Sun has begun, on a limitless course towards the universal season. Hari om and Godspeed.