Gathering and Grounding

Together we will perform a walking meditation to begin making our labyrinth /medicine wheel. The Ritual will help us to identify and gather the specific rocks to create a sacred labyrinth/medicine wheel. May 14 - May 25.

Caryl Henry Alexander- Faculty

Visual artist, Social Justice activist, educator, and traveler, UU. For 25 years has offered visual arts projects in communities with a focus on creative literacy, community collaboration, and arts-integrated curriculum. Her projects have been successful in schools with grades 3-12 and multi-generational, multicultural, and interfaith communities in diverse settings.

 

Happy Hyder                                                                                Bernadette Zambrano

     

Gathering and Grounding

The We are all Drawn Here workshop will be facilitated by 3 women artists, Caryl Henry Alexander, Happy/L.A. Hyder, and Bernadette Zambrano.
 In the We are all Drawn Here workshop, we will explore traditional symbols from diverse cultures celebrating creativity and the earth while paying homage to the land we are one of and the people who came before.
 Each participant will use traditional symbols and create her own symbols while exploring what we seek to learn from communing with the land and each other.

 Gathering and Marking
Together we will perform a walking meditation to begin making our labyrinth /medicine wheel. Then, in Ritual, incorporating the collective and our profoundly personal exploration, we will identify and gather rocks to create a sacred labyrinth/medicine we finally, we. We will mark our collection of stones with paint we make from grass, bark, and soil.

 Defining
In Ritual, we will enliven a labyrinth already defined (or outlined) on the land with our word- and image-painted rocks.

 Walking
We will inaugurate the labyrinth with those who built it. This first walking of the labyrinth will emphasize the land and those who came before and our humble growing connection with these.
The labyrinth will be available throughout the gathering for our and others use. 

The culmination will be with a group ritual on May 24, during the full Moon and eclipse.

Friday the 24^th = full Moon in Sag 9:25 pm and  Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 9:11 pm (visible over the Americas).

We, Moon, say this eclipse: “Be open for insight about the way forward, and make shifts in the present that reflect those visions.”