Celebrating coming of age

Good Morning!!!  

 We are in the full moon, so for those of you who are new, go to the web log and look up full moon entries. The Miscommunications with Mercury going retrograde have begun, plus the full moon is making for some emotionally charged miscommunications!! Remember to be ULTRA clear in your dialogs for the next three weeks, beginning July 23...  

Life is filled with Transition, and how we approach them makes all the difference in the world.  

Take for instance our going from child to young adult.  

Remembering our own coming of age stories offer us an opportunity to see how being informed, guided, supported and nurtured during this time of life changes our perception of ourselves, our bodies and our gender for a lifetime.  

 Gently entering this new phase, long before the actual events surfaced, allows parts of our childhood to be released.

It prepares us, not shocks us, into the reality of change.  

 Embracing the new responsibilities of what it means to be a young woman, or a young man, means understanding the sacredness and ownership that is required from us, and the sacredness and differences between us.  

Many of us were under informed, misinformed, ashamed, anxious, or alone during this stage....

Our elders were ill prepared to deliver us into our changes, depending on their upbringing.  

We were ashamed of the changes, the natural evolution of our bodies, rather than being excited and honored to begin a new chapter in life.  

So much is assumed, there is little honest open dialog because we are not comfortable with our own bodies, or the cycles that make up our existence.  

In order to honestly communicate the beauty that separates the genders, the purposefulness of these rhythms of life, we must learn to celebrate our own, honor our own, become informed about our own.  

 These are times of creating rituals or Rites of Passage, not to only celebrate the new initiate into the group, but to honor and remember our own place in the web, and celebrate the joys that each phase bring...  

Knowing that others who have gone before you are there to share, celebrate and instruct..That we are not alone....  

We would love to hear your coming of age stories. Post them to the blog Walking the Red Road .  

 I can help you develop a personal coming of age, or other life transition ritual. Contact me for more information.    

Here is the Thought for the Day!  

The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.

Chinese proverb

Namaste,

Marianne Goldweber