Fog to Fire

My good friend’s car died today. It’s been gasping along for the last year or so, and it just barely managed to make it through her birthday week.

Then it was toast. Sadly for her, because she really loved her Subaru, nicknamed SueB.

So what did we do?

We created a ritual to honor the body of the car and to extract the soul energy of it into a bead so my friend could bring it to her next car.

Silly? I guess maybe, at least to the people coming in and out of Walgreens as they saw us rattling, burning sage and laying roses on this old car.

But important? Oh my, yes.

To people who are not involved, any ritual may look silly. Think about a college graduation: thousands of people in robes with cardboard on their heads lining up to shake some guy’s hand and take a piece of paper that doesn’t mean anything (if your diploma was mailed later, like mine was). What’s the point of that?!

The point of it all is that rituals are important. They help us to honor transitions, to pause and contemplate what this period of time shared has meant to us, and to usher in the next era.

If you don’t already have a ritual for your transition, I give you permission to create one. Bring the sacred into the mundane and discover how each moment of your life truly matters.