I went today to Sharron Hoilman’s and she did an initial Illumination session on me (A Munay Ki process) and it was a relaxing and releasing process.  Just as I was leaving,  the rains poured down and by the time I got home it was pouring.  My yard is loving it.  I have barely used my A/C so far this year, I am under all that good high shade and when it rains it just gets cooler.  I love sleeping with the windows open so I can hear the night sounds from my woods, the crickets, the critters walking up and down the paths all night long. 

On the way home, I found a song going through my mind about being grateful and feeling blessed.  As part of the Illumination process, I was going to build a mandala in the earth under the big oak in the back, which I often use as a natural altar. I knew I wouldn’t be making a mandala in the downpour, so I came home and set up my space inside to do a burning bowl ceremony.  I picked up a leafy camphor branch I’d cut and brought inside Sunday, and I sat with the branch as I prayed and gave thanks for the day’s work and for Sharron’s process.  I rubbed the branch at my throat where she annointed with the oils and rubbed the oil into the stick, then lit the branch and placed it in the bowl.  As it burned, I offered up everything I had to release from the past and as the smoke subsided, I filled the space with my gratitude for our work together today.  I felt almost immediately to sleep and woke up about midnight and came in here to work.  It was a deep dreamless sleep and I woke up feeling very light and peaceful and centered.