Offerings for Oracle, 2006
Village Activities for Friday morning & afternoon
and Saturday morning & afternoon
Sharing of our Harvests
As we make plans for our Oracle gathering, we
invite those of you coming to consider what you
can 'offer' on behalf of the whole village --
an expression of gratitude to the Spirits.
Doing Ceremony with many others is itself a
way of making gratitude. In addition, however,
some of us may be moved to gather in small Circles
to amplify our experience of blessing and gratefulness
– thus filling the Oracle Desert Days with
the sound of many-hearts remembering and honoring.
It is our intention that these daily Offerings
be somehow related to the Ceremonies each evening.
Our daily activities become those that help us
to focus – bringing increased clarity, renewal
of energy, and power to each evening’s Ceremony.
As stated in the Oracle brochure:
" ...these offerings are done in much the
same way Earth offers of her fruit to us, to be
shared with others. Some of us may make things
beforehand and bring them to Oracle while others
of us create during Friday and Saturday."
We will have time each morning and afternoon
for people to gather in groups to do these activities.
If an Offering is directly related to the theme
of an evening’s Ceremony, then it will be
scheduled some time prior to that Ceremony.
Our Village Harvest – Offering Possibilities
Our Ceremonies of Thurs., Fri., and Sat. night
focus on "Gathering up Our Tracks/Remembering
Ourselves," Ceremony with our Ancestors,"
"The Ceremony of Right Relationship" and "Walking
in the World" (our closing ceremony on Sunday
morning).
As you consider what you have been blessed to
harvest during your shamanic walk, consider what
of your many blessings might be some fruit you
can bring to the Village that also connects with
these ceremonial themes.
Some of our ceremonies need items that you or
your Circle might coordinate and gather others
with you to do.
For example, we would like to have offering
groups make or be responsible for the coordinating
of making:
- herbal bundles,
- hand-made packets of native seeds,
- prayer sticks
- seed planting sticks
- prayer ties
- Sculpting of certain figures e.g., Turtle, Medicine
Wheel
Each of these will require an Offering group.
Some would possibly be working both on a morning
and afternoon.
In addition, we shall need volunteers to assist
in the daily rites of our village (e.g. Drumming
up the Sun, Children’s circles and activities).
In addition, some other Offering suggestions
that have been brought to our attention are:
- times for healing work, such as extraction, soul-remembering,
helping souls to cross over and assisting those
grieving
- Flute (learning together and playing together)
(Bob Edgar has indicated he will coordinate this
Offering)
- remembering and sharing our Ancestors’
Songs/Dances
- different ways of working with Stones and Plants
– specifically those in the Oracle Desert
- remembering ourselves through stories (Story-telling)
- introduction to journeying, opportunity to journey
These are just some possibilities. We recommend
each of us journey as we consider if there is
some Offering we wish to bring to the Village
in this time of Give-Away and Harvest.
Planning Our Offerings
Those of us coordinating the overall unfolding
of our Village schedule will work with each one
submitting an Offering. Because time is limited,
we suggest that Offerings be planned for an hour
to two hours. We will try to have four different
time slots: two in the morning – two in
the afternoon. Some Offering groups such as the
Shamanic Art and Flute Playing may take place
over two days and/or find other times in which
to meet informally. Until we begin to receive
actual Offerings and have some sense of how we
are coming together as a Village, it is difficult
to make any firm plans. We will have to carefully
allocate the available time to include as many
opportunities for all to participate as possible
– keeping in mind our ceremonial focus each
day.
**** Our current plan is to have our Oracle schedule
of days in place and posted on this site by middle
of September. Thus, we encourage members of our
Village to write us as soon as possible so our
days can be woven smoothly and evenly together
between now and October.
***** We would like to receive plans and descriptions
for Offerings by August 1st. If there is some
area already listed in which you are interested,
please let us know as soon as possible.
If you, or a group with which you are connected,
wish to do some offering, please send a description
to either
Pirkko Miller at pirkko@embarqmail.com
and/or
Susan Gilliland at susan@gilliland.net
As the Offering groups develop, we will be posting
the names of those who are coordinating each of
them and thus whom you should contact if you are
interested in participating in some specific activity.
Of course, if you already have some idea of what
you wish to offer, write Pirkko or Susan.
Please bookmark this page and check here periodically
to see what Offerings have been posted; who is
coordinating them; and how you might sign up to
do something with one of these groups.
May we begin preparing, noting our many blessings...in
five months we shall be bringing in our Canoes,
sharing Offerings and doing Ceremony together.
Love,
CPE
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