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| Mary Day Celebration Candle |
Every year some women friends and I celebrate the
Goddess with in us on the 15th of August. It is the Catholic holiday set to commemorate
the Assumption of Mary, the Mother of Jesus as she is whisked into the Heavens. I pick this day not because I am particularly religious but because it reminds me of my childhood. When I was a child,
living in Bavaria, in southern Germany, Maria Himmelfahrt was a really big deal. As I have written in other posts on similar topic, on that day of celebration, the whole town comes out, children in traditional costume and crowns of flowers on their heads. The statue of Mary is carried through town from the Abbey to the main church. It is a beautiful spectacle and I always see it first and foremost within that childlike vision.
I especially always loved the way kids adorned their favorite cows with wreathes of herbs and flowers accenting their beautiful long eyelashes and luminescent big pink noses, gentle nature.
In the last 10 years it's been a way to connect with women friends that are dear, share stories - some of them about being women, some of them childhood memories, others are
myths we know or half know and want to explore.
Our
Lisa is the story teller and fascinates us with her memory of women stories,
both learned and intuitive.
We read
our coffee cups and have wine, let our daughters join us in the lighting of the candles and writing of secret messages on little scraps of delicate paper that we then send up in smoke to the sky, hoping that our daughters too will find some fascination in the mysteries and bounty associated with the Mother.
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