Hot Summer Rites

4. Understanding your place and role in community

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I grew up in a typical English countryside village. It was literally croquet on the vicars lawn and jumble sales in the community centre with weak orange squash and homemade cakes. My mum was in the Woman’s Institute and we ran a bakery and shop.

I took the sense of community for granted. Mainly because I couldn’t go out with my friends without coming home and my mum saying “you’ve been with so and so, because someone saw you!” I did not appreciate that communities come alive when we feel a sense of role and responsibility, we have a place and a purpose.

We have all seen the evidence that this was slowly becoming a thing of the past, with bursts of revival during the pandemic. What I didn’t realise then was that being part of a community also set the foundations of my values and belief systems. Imagine the culture shock when I moved on my own to London at the age of 18 and not one person who I passed in the street said hello!

In indigenous communities there is a sense of natural order, where everyone knows who the leader is and what their role is. Your ancestors belonged to a community like this, a place with community ‘spirit’. You are being called to take you place in community, to play an active part, to settle back into what at once becomes familiar to you.

Hot Summer Rites (you can skip this bit and scroll down if you’ve been here before).

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Hot Summer Rites is a series of journeys into the inner sanctuary of the soul. For spiritual seekers who currently sit with a heavy heart and wish to become soul aligned and able to listen to their soul wisdom.

I will be sharing 6 rites of sanctuary, which will be channeled along with reflective questions over six weeks starting week commencing 24th July. I can’t promise they’ll be on the same day, my guides don’t always work like that! You can work with the questions and listen to the meditation or just do one or the other.

Who are they for?

If you are seeking the inner truth to determine your next actions steps for rising into your most creative and aligned self. Knowing your sacred journey and what will carry your forward.

Releasing the burdens that you have been carrying, cease the procrastination as to who you are meant to be. Live it, understand it, know it. For you deserve the most glorious of times and to own the power and who you are. They will be free for 2 weeks after each post and then after that, free if you join as a paid subscriber.

The six rites of sanctuary

1. Self - Understanding the creator/self relationship and bond
2. Knowledge and magick - Accessing the knowledge of magick through the senses
3. Wisdom - Acknowledging and bringing forth the wisdom of your ancestors
4. Community - Understanding your place and role in community
5. Purpose - Having sight of your purpose to bring through potential
6. Alchemy - working with alchemy in motion to create miracles

Rite 4 - Understanding your place and role in community

You have a unique offering as part of a community, something that only you can bring. A skill, gift or talent that enables you to be part of the rich tapestry that brings people together, not only in times of turbulence, but in times of ritual, ceremony and celebration. You are invited to take your place within community, explore what it means to you, what values, traditions and beliefs does it ask you to abide by and pass on for the benefit of future generations.

Meditation: Understanding your place and role in community

This meditation can now be found in The Healing Vault for paid subscribers.

Reflection questions

1. What is the natural role that you take within your own community or group that you belong to?

2. What are the values that you stand by when you participate in a group activity?

3. What are the tools of your role in community? Physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and wisdom?

4. What is the belief system that runs through your blood, bones, cells, muscles and DNA that stands true if you shed all fear, expectation, pressure and effort?

You were born with a sense of community with ancestral origins. You are being called to reclaim it in the name of helping to fix the fractured and disconnected parts of ourselves that have been lost. Through isolation, mistrust, loss, too much effort and the disconnection from nature. The whispers of your soul will carry the messages of community for all to understand that role and place bring purpose and fulfilment.

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