FOURTHLAND | Rural School of Arts

GATHER

a tall bees wax candle

some beeswax

some special pieces of paper / natural pieces of fabric or other surfaces

a series of marking tools

a frequency / piece of music for dreaming/ a piece that connects you with rest

your heart medicine

sheep skin or something very soft

a pomegranate

a sacred vessel

any tokens from your ancestor practice
a time piece

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B E C O M I N G P O L L EN S H R I N E

Beginning at the solstice threshold we invite you to make a special shrine and a nest as a place
of personal nourishment.
A place to create a pollen grain.

A place that you can come to sit within and lie down. A place for personal nourishment and grounding that you can return to throughout the weavings in and around the yule period.

We invite you to bring to your shrine, a series of offerings from your ancestor practice, your heart medicine and pomegranate.

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Using your beeswax and your candle begin to form a small pollen grain.

Place this in a solar position within your shrine.

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This pollen grain will symbolise the re-birth of the sun between solstice and spring equinox. As you visit your shrine and light your candle allow your pollen grain to grow each day from the wax.

Keep this grain in the centre of your shrine on a surface of your choice

R E B I R T H O F T H E S U N

A series of practices to be with over the solstice threshold. You may chose to spend a full day immersed with the practice or complete over several days in the run up to Christmas

Morning (if possible just before sunrise)

Meet yourself in the nest that you have created

set an intention for the time you will spend with yourself

light your candle and offer yourself your heart medicine.

31 min meditation

Come to rest with your pomegranate allowing it to sit either on your body or beside it. Rest into meditation with this and the candle allowing its flame to connect to your heart Imagine the flame of your inner sun

Heart map

After this moment, spend some time noting down what came

this can be as a drawing and/or as a piece of writing

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Walk

walk with your heart map. Offer something of your light to the ground

Pomegranate

Come to open your pomegranate, offering its seeds into a sacred vessel of your choice.

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31 min meditation visualisation

Come to lie down in your nest with the vessel of pomegranate seeds sheep skin, and piece of frequency music

place the vessel of seeds on

on your womb

Use this time to journey with the music, rest, dream, feel gratitude
embedding your entire body vessel with rest and light.

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Vessel of seeds - vessel of stars

Take the vessel of pomegranate seeds and your candle to a place outside where you can light your candle and can gaze up at the stars.

One by one, eat one seed and offer another seed to the earth,

As you offer the seeds to yourself and the earth

Offer any messages that come to you to the stars,
finding a way to communicate with them. Asking questions if there are any, and listen or observe to discover the answer. This may be through receiving verbal messages or visions of imagery as you offer your questions.
Continue until all the seeds have been offered

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Find your own way to record what comes from this practice

As another drawing / story

Between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox

We invite you to keep returning to your shrine, and evolve your pollen piece, which will form part of our shared exhibition in June.