MAKING AN ALTAR FOR YOUR LIFE
A POWERFUL LOVE RITUAL & THE ULTIMATE PROMISE
Before we talk about how this Leo New Moon on August 18 is a major TURNING POINT, let’s talk about CELEBRATION.
Changing, change of heart, change of direction - we’ve been feeling this very much this summer. We are often changing for the sake of growth. We use words like manifestation and alignment, but these can be externally focused.
Growth is that much sweeter when we are recognizing and what we have grown from.
When we honor the shell of what once was, we encounter the grief of breaking character, we acknowledge the entirety of the process and have more appreciation overall. Choosing growth can and will disrupt relationships, but when we honor the whole picture, we are in a greater state of peace and acceptance - this creates change that is more harmonious rather than burning a bridge that once held us up.
We often ask and pray for things around us to change externally, for a door to open that is favorable for us. Asking and praying for a situation to become better, for your life to become easier, for love to come to your doorstep, to finally have the life you want.
We often ask for the world around us to give us our blessings, often praying to a deity or god externally, while the divine prank is that you are the blessing to be realized.
Make an altar for your life.
You are the ease, you are all the doorways, you are the opportunity, you are the most true and the most vibrant expression of love and it is all waiting for YOU to accept.
Making an altar for your life is a way to be in a deep process of loving devotion to all that you are. Your journey, your gifts, the highest expression of your path in this life. This Venus retrograde period from June-October 2023 has made the question of LOVE come front and center in all of our personal reflections.
What I have fully and wholly learned from giving 3-4 love readings a day for the past month is that there is nothing outside of ourselves when it comes to all forms of LOVE. It is a felt experience within. Disconnection is simply a reflection of your history, programming and continued personal development.
In the process of committing to our hearts, when we allow ourselves to be brave and fully honest, we always arrive at a clear answer. We feel that love is complicated when we infact are not clear about what we want. That is a heart that is conflicted with the mind.
The heart being the most intelligent part of ourselves and is a superpower when we allow it to lead our lives. When we ask the heart to lead, we also are asking our long held pains to also come forward as they shroud the heart in self protection, a direct challenge to intimacy.
When we say we want love and that we are ready for love, we really mean that we want to be in deeper intimacy with our own life.
When we are ready to fully commit to ourselves, and the entirety of our hearts, we are truly ready for the most powerful love of all - LOVE THAT CONTINUALLY EMANATES REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE. and w0w, THE WAY THAT life moves accordingLY TO YOUR RYTHYM is a profound revelation.
that is a life well lived.
This ritual is in perfect timing with the Sun Venus conjunction this weekend on Sunday August 13 leading to the New Moon in Leo on Weds August 18. This period is potent, where the magic of venus retrograde can be deeply felt and new beginnings are to be made - prayers up yall i KNOW that the yearnings of the heart have been strong and tumultuous. We have so much more ACCESS to grasp on to our inner language and essentially that is the point of retrograde periods. These prayers are going to be powerful and the best part is that you just get to speak from your heart.
RITUAL INTENTION:
TO CREATE A SACRED SPACE THAT IS A DECLARATION OF YOUR COMMITTMENT AND DEVOTION TO YOUR LIFE, TO YOUR LIFE LIVED WELL, TO YOUR HEART, TO YOUR LIFE’S HIGHEST EXPRESSION, TO YOUR LIFE’S BIRTHRIGHT OF LOVE, SUCCESS AND WELL BEING.
RITUAL SUGGESTIONS:
-2 candles (Two white, or one yellow, one green)
-cup/bowl of water
-incense
-vase(s) of flowers, go wild here lol we are honoring the beauty and abundance of your life
-paper & pen
-sacred items to you that honor your life and your heart. these can be herbs, jewlery, photos, crystals
THOUGHT PROCESS:
The Venus Sun Conjunction that occurs on Sunday August 13 is a rebirthing of Venus and the height of the Venus retrograde period, lots of clarity to be had here. It is where the intellect and the embodied experience of love come together. This is a new year for your heart, cleansing, renewal and new forms of creative fertility are promised. A perfect time for going within, arriving at truth and speaking the truths that are inherently within.
The New Moon in Leo on Weds August 18 is very activating and carries an energy of bravery and attempting to actualizing long awaited change. This upcoming lunar cycle will be disruptive, but moreso if you have been making decisions that have not been in alignment for you.
The creation of this altar and the affirmation of your commitment to your heart is a way to direct the energy that is already available. Do this ritual and enjoy your homecoming.
SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONS:
Create your altar on or before the Sun/Venus conjunction (August 13)
When you are ready to begin your ritual on Aug 13, read over the prayer and add anything that you want to affirm.
Light candles, write down your prayers and sign it with your full name and birth date.
Take time to meditate with your heart, get connected. Read your prayer aloud. 3x if you have the patience.
As the prayer directly links you to your authentic truth, watch how sitting with your altar and being in the practice of continued affirmation/prayer will influence your life and attitude.
Continue sitting with your altar daily, customize your ritual and add any practices or offerings that make sense for you. Change the flowers often. Assume to work with your altar for the rest of the Venus rX up to September 4 or the end of the Leo lunar cycle Sept 14.
On the Leo New Moon (Aug 18) refresh your altar and take time to reflect and acknowledge the work thats been done since last august to be where you are. Continue daily with your ritual until complete.
If there was a goal with this ritual, besides the fortifying of the commitment to your life/heart, it would to be able to SPEAK directly from the heart. Don’t be afraid to freestyle.
Let this prayer be FELT in your bones, let it pierce through the ethers and be heard on the other side.
ALTAR FOR YOUR LIFE PRAYER:
channeled in july 2023
***disclaimer, this prayer is powerful and only recite if you are ready deep down to commit to your life and your healing.
(Burn incense)
I, (full name), am calling in the wisdom of the heavens, and the wisdom of the earth as I enter a sacred space of healing. In the vibration of love and healing, I call forward my most healed and benevolent ancestors, my guides and the loving forces that are supportive for my path, to help fortify and protect this sacred space of connection.
I open myself to the wisdom of my heart. I open myself to the layers upon layers upon layers authentic wisdom within my heart that run so deep through my histories and through the center of the earth. My heart that is connected to the center of the Sun, my heart that is connected to the center of the Moon, my heart that is connected of each and every star in the sky. My heart that is a channel for the divine to flow through, I open myself to this place in the very center of my being.
I connect to the wisdom of my heart and allow myself to perceive deeper levels of truth, deeper levels of love, deeper levels of compassion, deeper levels of kindness, deeper levels of creativity, deeper levels of joy, deeper levels of acceptance and deeper levels of abundance.
I choose to think, speak, feel and act from this place of my hearts wisdom. I choose the wisdom of my heart, as it is the gateway to my soul, and the heart of the divine. I choose to be rooted in the wisdom that is in the center of my chest, standing firm in my path of love, healing and success.
(Light candles)
I, (full name), in the vibration of love and healing, I speak these words in declaration to my ancestors, my guides, my angels, to the gods and goddesses, to the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars, and to all the cells in my body, I speak these words directly to myself that I commit to my life, I commit to the fullness of my heart, I commit to the joy, the passion, the love, and the abundance that is embedded within my heart. I commit to living my life well lived. I know that in the expansion of my heart, the expansion of my joy, the expansion of my passion, the expansion of my abundance, I naturally expand the joy, passion and abundance of others. In the expansion of my heart, I become a force of healing in this world.
I speak this words from the center of my heart that I am in devotion to my life and the beauty that my life represents. In honoring the fullness of my life, I honor the entirety of all my lineages, all future linages that come after me and all of my relations. Let these words be felt and heard in all the realms, let these prayers be known in the folds of the entire sky and the many layers of the Earth. Let these prayers be uplifted by my ancestors, my guides, my angels, by the the gods and goddesses and let these prayers rain upon me in the form of blessings and opportunities to be in deeper union with my heart and my truth.