The Feminine Rites of Passage are ceremonies that originate from the teachings of the sacred gourd and have many, many different aspects.  These aspects can be placed around a sacred wheel in the four directions.  How you work with the actual gourd is how you begin to understand your own feminine energy or wombness, and helps you to understand yourself and your passages through life.

 

Whenever your spiritual journey and yearning and exploring takes you up against the edge of the unknown, it is then that you must continue to explore your deepest being for the most simple and obvious answers that have probably always been there for you.  But we as human beings want to complicate our lives.  We think that a syllogism, the truth, is not worthy if it is not full of words that are hard to understand or are obscure.  If they are not formulas that are complicated and difficult to understand, we think that they are meaningful.  We do this to ourselves all the time.  We complicate the journey toward enlightenment by adding knowledge, by adding technocracy, by adding confusion, when in actuality it is a process of stripping away.

Joy is subtle, and seems delicate, but like the flower, when the petals are smashed, the scent becomes stronger. Joy is always there, but you must ...