Loving that Friday is here and the weekend is on the horizon. That means Friday night picnic downstairs with the boys tonight- I think I have been challenged to checkers by Jasper! It also means some crafty time and the honor of hosting a blessingway for a friend at The Womb Room this weekend. It is such an amazing ceremony to have for a mama before she gives birth.
One of the key elements that I have enjoyed doing and I think have done at almost every blessingway is the mother cord ritual. Usually done at the end of the blessingway, a ball of yarn is started with the circle of women, each woman winding it around her wrist, sometimes giving a blessing, other times she may give her maternal lineage. Once the yarn makes it to the honored mother everyone is connected- bound together in strength for this one mama. Everyone then cuts the yarn and creates a bracelet to wear until the baby is born. Each time you see or feel your bracelet your thoughts go out to that mama. Every time she sees her bracelet the power and beauty of her ceremony come back to her. How is that for powerful united intention!
This is just one small part of any number of beautiful pieces of ceremony that is the blessingway, binding us as that name many of us share- "mother" The above beautiful picture was taken by the ever so talented Papillion Sky Photography- who I am so proud to call my friend and hope to honor her with her blessingway later this year for baby numero 3!
Wouldn't this be a great ceremony to have for other rights of passage, like first bleeding, healing, etc . . you have to love the simplicity and power of yarn!


