My Blessingway

Yesterday some women from my holistic moms group gave me a blessingway. I had never had one before with any of my other babies but knew a lot about them and always thought they were beautiful. I can understand the reason why showers are usually only reserved for the first born baby but the idea of celebrating each and every life entering the world makes sense to me. We are all special and born from love and any mother that has more than one child knows that not one of them is more dear than any other. So with this in mind I was blessed with women that wanted to support me in my up coming journey of welcoming yet another soul into our lives!

My friend had it at her house, in the warm sunshine of her tree filled backyard, it was a perfect setting for such a beautiful ceremony. She use to teach at a Waldorf School so she started it with a story that they tell the children for their birthday's. It went something like this, from how I remember it...

"One day a child and an angel were playing ball together in heaven. After throwing the ball too far the child ran to get it and caught a glimpse of something else that looked like a blue and green ball. So the child asked the angel what it was and the angel replied "that is earth." So the child asked if they could go there and the angel replied "anytime." So the angel took the child to visit earth. While there the child fell in love with all the trees, mountains, rivers and animals, so they asked the angel if they could live here. The angel replied "anytime." So after finding a couple that wanted a child for parents they asked the angel if they could now live with them. The angel replied "yes, but you need to return to heaven first and take a nap and when you wake up you will be with your parents." So the child laid down to fall asleep, once asleep the angel lead the child over the rainbow bridge and when they awoke they were in their mother's arms!"

She then shared a song with me that they also sing to the children at the school on their birthday...

The stars were watching

when for her birth

a little child

came down to Earth

Angels protect her

both day and night

and fill her heart

with love and light

The she passed around this wooden bowl for everyone to add something to help empower me and focus on during my labor...

She gave me the scissors charm because it reminded her of how midwives in ancient times use to place a knife under the bed of the laboring mother to help "cut the pain" of childbirth. With my love of history and being familiar with this tradition I thought it was a perfect wish and expression for my birth.

Another mom gave me a willow branch (she had also made a crown for me to wear out of willow branches) with this beautiful poem...

Willow Tree

I am a willow tree,

Strong, yet fluid

Graceful.

I can bend with the wind,

but my roots are tough,

Indestructible.

Opening to birth my child

is flowing with the wind:

from a soft and gentle breeze

to a stormy gale

back to a soft and gentle breeze.

My body is strong, but flexible.

It is my friend, it knows how to open.

I am a friend to my body

eating well, walking, and loving myself.

I shall birth safely, freely, openly...

among my loved and trusted ones.

I am the willow, flexible

beautiful resilient

endowed with the power of surrender

to the wind rustling through my leaves,

my branches.

My roots reach deep into Mother Earth

Anchored in Her strength

I bring forth Life

In joy!

I loved this as I felt these words will be a wonderful mantra leading up to the birth and during labor!

Then another mom gave me a moonstone. Which I found to be so amazing for me since it is tied to the energies of the moon and all of our babies thus far have been born within 5 days of a Full moon as well as David and I both being born within just a few days of one.

The last mom gave me a Pink Tourmaline bead with this description of it's energies...

"Relaxing and nurturing, pink tourmaline is associated with feminine energies. It vibrates a deep resonance with the heart chakra. It has the potential to heal emotional wounds with its soft, soothing energy to bring feelings of comfort and safety.

Pink Tourmaline balances and empowers women by harmonizing the feminine and masculine aspects within them. It carries the feminine ray, which vitalizes the feminine aspect of all living beings. Pink Tourmaline gives women the power, understanding, and awareness to realize their full potential. It helps them realize how their feminine and masculine natures coexist and interact, and it encourages these aspects to achieve greater harmony.

Pink Tourmaline also has a secondary mission. This is to protect its wearer from harmful external energies, such as electromagnetic radiation, microwaves, and the negative thoughts and emotions of others. It does this by forming a protective shield in the aura of any woman or man who wears it. This protective function is essential to Pink Tourmaline's ability to carry out its primary mission. Pink Tourmaline helps protect a woman from energies of other people's concepts and attitudes while she is reevaluating herself, contemplating the changes she wants t make, and taking the steps to make those changes."

Then she sat in the center of our circle, while the rest of us tied a string of yarn around each of our wrists with one thread. She then played her singing bowl for a meditation for us. It was SO beautiful! I love singing bowls and she was amazing with hers. The baby loved it as well as they moved so gently, almost dancing in my belly during the meditation. This is the info she then gave me on her singing bowl...

Scientists can measure the energy in all living things. Each living being/thing carries it's own vibrations (wave lengths of energy).

Vibrations/energy wave lengths correspond to musical notes on a musical scale.

Wave lengths of energy also have specific color as corresponds to the colors of the rainbow.

Pink Tourmaline - Magenta (between blue and violet and red) - Zeal/Bliss Point

My G sharp singing bowl corresponds to wave lengths of energy given off by our bodies that correspond directly to our personal lives - and the bliss we were meant to feel by aligning ourselves with what God (or as I like to say Goddess) had originally intended us for. For each person this is something different. Maybe we were meant to be a musician, painter, businessperson, or Mother, teacher or caregiver.

The Bliss Point helps us manifest our true self (that which we were "meant" to be on this Earthy plane for) as if it were "spoken from the Mouth of God".

Then after she finished and we all "woke up" from our meditation, we cut the strings between our bracelets and we will all wear them until the birth of my new little baby. They also each took a candle to light during my labor to say a prayer and hold us in their thoughts during such a special time. The whole thing was so very spiritual for me and I feel so incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful support network of amazing mothers that want to celebrate this experience with me and welcome our baby in such love!