08/04/2020
I have a deep-seated love and respect for fire. You may already know this about me but what you may not know is that since the fires in Australia began last year I started to question my work with fire. I wondered how I could talk and share my love for Fire with people when it was causing so much destruction.
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I shut down, it was slow at first but before I knew it, I had I stopped doing monthly full moon fire ceremonies which in turn created distance between myself and Momma Moon.
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So I hid, I froze, I stopped feeling, I distracted and numbed myself.
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Right now, of course, there are many reasons why I wouldn't want to feel, why I would want to keep myself so busy that all of those deep emotions from the past and for our present that I have pushed into a deep hole could never resurface.
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In the last few days, I have finally come back to my practice of tapping. I knew it was time for me to lift the lid a little on those feelings, up until that point I didn't have the capacity to add something else onto an already very full plate.
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Then tonight during a breathwork session on the Shamanic Breathwork course the lid blew right off. As if I was fuelling my inner fire with distraction after distraction, getting hotter and hotter and more exhausted in the process until my body could no longer take it, the lid released and I cried.
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Cried like I haven't cried in a long time. I gave myself permission to feel my feelings, I allowed them to come to the surface and I embraced them all.
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Through those tears, I rekindled my relationship with fire, accepted the fire within and without and felt a deep need to share fire with you.
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I would absolutely love to sit in circle with you, just like our ancestors did just like we do gatherings.
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Fire has so much to offer and can be deeply transformational.
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My intention tonight is to do a fire ceremony 🔥 on Instagram live in honour of the spirit of the fire, in honour of all our ancestors, the ancient people that walked this earth, in honour of the old ways, in honour of what many of us are holding right now, in honour of all of the key workers working so hard and in honour of the Earth.
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Would you like to join me? Come sit with me for a while. www.instagram.com/MelanieMurphyXO
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My intention is to start at around 9.15 pm, talk a little about fire and how I came to this work, I will then light the fire using the ancient technique of flint and steel and I may sing a song or two.
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If you have something that you would like to offer to the fire...a prayer, gratitude, something you'd like to release or transform and you feel like sharing. Send me a private message and I will write it down and offer it to the fire on your behalf. Please know that this is totally confidential, I will only share your message with the fire.
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All my love
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Melanie
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