Celebrating Brightening & Awakening '09

Celebrating Brightening & Awakening

Spring Equinox ~ St. Patricks Day, Naw Ruz (Baha’i New Year), Jamshedi Nuruz (Zorastrian)

On the 20th March everyone gathered together by the Well Head for joint prayers and blessings. After a welcome address by Natasha, Trustee Sophie read the following John Seed Prayer:

"We call upon the Spirit of Evolution, the miraculous force that inspires rocks and and dust to weave themselves into biology. Empower us and awaken in us pure and dazzling creativity. You that can turn scales into feathers, seawater into blood, caterpillars to butterflies, metamorphose our species, awaken in us the powers that we need to evolve into more aeons of our solar journey.

Awaken in us a sense of who we truly are: tiny ephemeral blossoms on the Tree of Life. Make the purposes and destiny of that tree our own purpose and destiny.

We call upon the power which sustains the planet in their orbits, that wheels our Milky Way in its 200 million year spiral, to imbue our personalities and our relationships with harmony, endurance and joy. Fill us with a sense of immemse time so that our brief, flickering lives may truly reflect the work of vast ages past and also the millions of years of evolution whose potential lies in our trembling hands."

After additional prayers, songs and chants, everyone processed down to the Yew trees to be joined by the Ancient Dances Association of Milan who performedsome medieval-renaissance Italian dances, with an invitation to join in the celebrations.

All pictures reproduced by kind permission of Anne Cook.