On Saturday night, April 23, 7:00 pm, I will conduct a full moon labyrinth walk and candle light ceremony honoring the full moon of compassion. If there is an area of life in which you need more compassion, this is the time to call it forth in harmony with the wheel of life.
There is a little Aquarian Age spiritual church on the south side of Houston called Carmel Temple (www.carmeltemple.org) that has one of only a few labyrinths in the area. It is located across the street from the church beyond the parking lot. Based on the sacred geometry used in the ancient labyrinth at the Cathedral of Chartres, it is outdoors, well lit 24 hours a day, and available anytime you want to walk away your cares.
A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path. It represents a journey to our own center and back again out into the world. Labyrinths have long been used as meditation and prayer tools.
The experience can be very powerful if you enter the labyrinth in a spirit of honoring, openness and receptivity. It allows you to do something active with your body while freeing your mind to receive images and information from the cosmos. At the center of the labyrinth is a grounded, quiet place of peace and power. It is the center of the universe, the place where all access can be made. You can stand in your universal power out of time and space at the center of your wholeness.
I have walked the labyrinth for personal clarity, for the release of my spiritual teacher's soul from his broken body, and for solutions to my problems, and I have accomplished my intention every time.
The labyrinth is a metaphor for life, winding its way to the center of oneness and back again. You may not be able to see how it accomplishes its mission, but it does offer you a personal journey and a different experience each time you undertake the walk. When you feel lost in life, the labyrinth reminds you that you are not lost, you are following the path you chose to walk, and just because you cannot see how it unwinds, you will always reach your destination and return home again. Unlike a maze, a labyrinth does not have blockages or dead ends, it is one continuous path that leads you in and out again, another metaphor for life to contemplate.
Join me and few friends for an amazing experience of walking the labyrinth under the loving eye of the full moon, the goddess, the feminine self, the light that illumines our dark night of the soul. And be reborn into the world, renewed by the power, the presence and the love. Love donations shared with Carmel Temple.
----I look forward to seeing you there. --sandy
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