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Navarro River Ceremony Art Line
August 18, 2024
Lea Goode-Harris
to the great above
and to all that is below
in all directions
In August of 2014, Marilyn Larson and I drove North to the mouth of Navarro River Redwoods State Park in Mendocino County. We went with the intention of returning stones, shells, feathers and sticks collected over the years to the Earth.
The mouth of the Navarro River is on the Art Line, the 39th north latitude. Our ceremony of return was also a blessing for the Art Line, and all involved, past, present, and future.
We created this beautiful alter and at one point, we were joined by a seagull! We walked a labyrinth in the sand, sang, shared our prayers with the Sky and the Earth, and marveled at the incredible beauty that held us.
In early August, we traveled from the hot and humid Minnesota prairie to the cool headland of Point Arena, California. It was the presence of the Point Arena Labyrinth that drew us there, and it did not disappoint.
The moon… she gathers the light of the sun into her arms and gently bestows it to all throughout the night… Wrapping us in her ever-changing blanket of soft light weaving the stars into her fabric, into her face where Hare scampers and runs along the Milky Way into the portal of the Galactic Center back again and up and out of the Big Dipper landing on the back of Ursa Major, sliding onto Ursa Minor singing the entire way… The moon, she laughs and pulls the shades down, so we can sleep and slumber into dreamland re-imagining the world and our wholeness, our humanness beneath her benevolent sight, we pivot into possibilities and settle into the dream-time of becoming. - - - Full Moon in Pisces with Partial Lunar Eclipse September 17, 2024
to the great above and to all that is below in all directions