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Fall 2008 - Full Circle Gathering
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You are invited to join us for the FALL 2008
FULL CIRCLE GATHERING
September 26-28, 2008
Cherokee, NC
Dear Friends of Full Circle,
You are invited to join us in the Great Smoky Mountains for the Fall Full Circle gathering in Cherokee, NC on Sept. 26th, 27th & 28th, 2008. We'll be in a new location behind the Cherokee United Methodist Church. It is located in Cherokee on US 19/23 about a mile past the casino on the left, or on the right if you are coming over Soco Mountain from Maggie Valley. The social hall building is located behind the church. Registration will begin at 6:15 PM on Friday with Full Circle starting at 7:00 PM. We will close the circle around noon on Sunday, Sept. 26th.
The Fall Full Circle will focus on old Cherokee teachings of Green Corn Ceremony and Wolf Medicine. The traditional teachings of Wolf Medicine decrees and three of the 13-Clan Mothers teachings will be in group settings. Three inner circles will come together with activities, songs, drumming and dance in connection with Green Corn Ceremony. Our focus will be on bringing this old wisdom to light for the gifts of harmony and balance in our lives.
Registration will begin at 6:15 PM on Friday with Full Circle starting at 7:00 PM. We will close the circle by noon on Sunday.
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Fall 2008 - Full Circle Gathering
Prayer: Blessing Way
O Great One, I come before you in a humble manner, giving thanks for all living things in Creation.
I offer the clarity of my mind, body, spirit and natural space in prayer to you, O Great One, for the spirit of all Creation.
I offer thanks and what gifts I have to Four Sacred Directions and powers of the universe and I pray:
To the spirit of Fire in the East,
To the spirit of Earth in the South,
To the spirit of Water in the West,
To the Spirit of Wind in the North. I pray and give thanks to you O Great One.
I pray and give thanks to Mother Earth, Father Sky, Grandfather Sun,
Grandmother Moon, and all of our relations in the Greater Circle of Life. I thank you for your power, energy, wisdom and sacred gifts, because without you and the guidance of all my relations, I would not be able to live, and love, and grow, and feel and learn.
I ask that I be shown another way if I have ever harmed or hurt other living things.
I pray, offering what gifts I have, that you may guide us, heal us, purify us, and protect us.
I pray for all of our relations that we may exist together in harmony and balance.
"Wah Doh".
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