I'm going to invite everybody to close their eyes,
Place your hands over your heart and start taking some beautiful nourishing breaths.
Relax,
Starting to arrive here in your body,
Settling in as we open tonight's ceremony.
Beautiful goddess,
I call to you,
Surround me in light,
Gentle and true,
Wrap me in love,
Safe and sound,
Whisper your wisdom so I may stand my ground.
May this space be soft and bright,
Held in warmth and quiet light,
Hearts connected far and near,
Gathered gently together here.
I invite you to breathe in that light,
That love,
That energy,
Feel it surrounding you,
Wrapping you up like a warm blanket.
That light connects us,
Keeps us safe,
Breathing it into our bodies,
Into our hearts,
Feeling us all coming here together in this space.
Taking one more nice deep breath in,
Feeling that light as you exhale gently,
And when you are ready,
I invite you to hold your cacao so that you feel the warmth of the cup in your hands.
Mama Cacao,
Your gift we received with grace,
Thank you for supporting this sacred space.
We honour the ancestors,
The lands and the histories,
And we thank the families and farmers who tend to your trees.
We accept this sacred gift with gratitude,
Respect and deep care,
Giving thanks to the earth,
The fire,
The water and the air.
May this cup be warm in our hands,
A quiet bridge across distant lands,
Together sipping,
Breathing slow,
Held in cacao's heart,
We grow.
Breathing in that beautiful aroma,
Starting to feel its energy.
You may even want to place your cacao directly against your chest so that you feel the warmth in your heart.
With Mama Cacao as our guide,
Tonight we gather here for love and healing as she awakens and anchors courage within us.
And as we prepare to take our first sip together,
This first sip is for releasing the waiting,
The waiting to be saved,
The waiting to be chosen,
The waiting to be found.
We sip and we soften.
Breathing into that first sip,
Feeling it enter your body as you say to yourself,
No more waiting,
No more fear.
No more waiting,
No more fear.
Breathing into that energy.
As we prepare for our second sip together,
We invite this gentle reminder that I am the I've been waiting for.
No one needed to rescue me and because of that,
Nothing can hold me back.
We sip to remembering.
And as you breathe into the energy of that sip,
Say to yourself,
No one is coming to save me and no one is coming to stop me.
No one is coming to save me and no one is coming to stop me.
Breathing into that energy.
With our third sip together,
We rise and we remember.
We don't wait,
We choose,
We move and we become.
We sip and we rise.
And as you breathe into the energy of that sip,
Say to yourself,
I was never lost,
I was finding me,
Not breaking down,
I'm breaking free.
I was never lost,
I was finding me,
Not breaking down,
I'm breaking free.
Breathing into that energy.
We're not waiting,
We're remembering.
Remembering that we don't need to be rescued.
Remembering that nobody can stop you from whatever it is you want to do.
I'm going to invite you to continue sipping along to tonight's song.
And with each sip that you take,
You return to yourself.
I waited to be saved,
To be fixed,
To be found.
I've waited so long,
I started to drown.
Now I know I can clearly see,
No one needed to rescue me.
This isn't a crisis,
It's not an ending.
It's a breakthrough,
No more pretending.
As you breathe into the energy,
Take a moment to remind yourself that you were always the key.
That you are not late,
You're right on time.
You are not lost,
You've simply been redirected.
You're not having a midlife crisis,
You're having a midlife clarity.
Breathing into that energy.
This moment in your journey,
It isn't an unravelling,
It's a remembering.
Remembering that no one is coming,
And you don't need them to.
There is nothing to wait for anymore.
It begins with you.
Thank you and blessed be.
