Bay Leaf Ritual for the New Year.
Custom holds this is the best time to crop honey from the hives. I suspect that we need reminders, from time to time, that there’s a bigger purpose to our lives than working 50-60 hours a week ( or more ) to pay the bills. One reason I believe that many continue to live out of integrity, with their concerns, is that we have been hypnotised by our culture to believe this is “just the way it is,” “we have to,” or “we can’t.
“We no longer feel we’ve control over our time or, a right to make choices based mostly on what’s crucial to us.
It comes from a traditional Greek ritual for wealth and fertility.
As you may recall, traditional Mediterranean Kings and Queens used to wear garlands of bay leaves ( as well as olive leaves ) as crowns. I like this ritual because firstly it is terribly “white” and it also involves the writing down of your wishes. The saying of your goals and needs lets you correctly manifest them in reality. You can play some steady rhythmic music if you like – anything that places you into a hint of a trance ( chanting, new age. ) the very first thing you’re going to do is light the cinnamon incense. Cinnamon is related to the planet Mercury and designates communication and quick results. Still, there are a few folk who have paid a high price in lost families and family as they were too busy making a living and not living a life. I’m able to tell you from experience that, for most of us, just the idea alone is truly frightening. You could have even come across some in your travels.
