Children of the Earth - Come and circle around
Let is begin by centering and grounding ourselves in who and where we are.
Starting with a drumbeat.
[start clapping and drumbeat ]
We recognize the 4 quadrants we live among
[ start North, South, East, West chant ]
[ start Cold, Hot, Dawn, Dusk chant ]
These mark the ranges of our comfort
The beginning and ending of all our days
Cold, the ice and snow of winter
which causes us to prepare and motivates us to action.
The heat and warm summer days
Which we want to bask in, to a point
Dawn, the new beginning that renews our hope
Dusk, a time to calm and settle for the night to come
We recognize our dependence on: all that we live within
we thank you
We move to the Three
On a timeline we be
There is past, Present Future
[ start Past, Present, Future chant ]
Past: Our ancestors and all that has come before
The present where we have our being
And the future
May we remember our place in time
All that has been passed to us
And all that we will pass on to that which is to come
From there we move to the two genders
[ start She, He chant]
Male: That which is directional, task and goal.
The hunter that tracks down and slays any single task
Female: That which is area centric
One who notices all within range
And seeks balance between multiple factors
From two we move to One
Each of us is a single personhood
May we have a proper sense of self
We are a whole personhood, with worth and value.
Yet
We are a single personhood in the vastness of all.
4 -3 -2 -1
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