Releasing the old, Embracing the new: A New Year’s Ritual
At a New Year’s Eve gathering earlier tonight, I led a group ritual of reflection, purification and creation that I designed awhile back for the end of one year and the start of another. For this ritual I use rotting fruit, fresh or dried flowers, a trash bucket, and some plastic bags.
The purification part of the ritual began with a couple of moments of reflection about the year about to end, in particular about what served us well and what didn’t. Then each person took one rotting fruit (tonight it was banana peels, but I’ve used apples too) While holding it, deeper focus is given to a situation, relationship, perspective, emotion that feels to be rotting inside and More