I invite you to join us for the ceremony.
You can start by making this invocation for IXcacao.
“Dear Ixacaco, please awaken. Please guide my work, so that I may know your will and your ways.”
If you have time and would like to first ground yourself in your own energy field, connect with it, and align yourself before beginning your prayer, you can listen to the WORLD TREE TRANSMISSION
Prayer is a relationship.
It is about creating connection and interaction with the world around us.
In shamanic traditions, Grandmother Spider’s web is the web of life. It is a connection between the seen and unseen worlds—the ancestors, the spirits. It is nature.
It is community.
It is the energetic field with which we are constantly connected, even when we forget.
Part of prayer is allowing ourselves to ask for help. Often we don’t ask for help because we’re afraid of becoming dependent. We don’t want to be a burden, or we unconsciously fear that we’re giving up our power when we ask for help.
What we need to remember, though, is that we were never meant to walk completely alone.
The web is alive.
Support is always there, even in ways we can't always immediately see or understand.
Prayer is all about reconnecting with that web.
Prayer is not a passive act of wishing. It is not simply asking for something while remaining unchanged.
A true prayer changes the person who is praying.
Prayer must be embodied on multiple levels in order to be effective.
Mental.
Physical.
Emotional.
Spiritual.
When you pray for something, you have to make sure your actions create the space for that prayer to come true.
You cannot pray for change while clinging to the same patterns, behaviors, and structures that keep the old reality alive.
You have to open the door.
You have to show the universe:
“I am making room for this to take root in my life.”
A prayer should hit you right in the gut.
That is how powerful prayer should be.
A true prayer works within you.
It will transform and refine you.
Because if you are truly praying for something, your life will start to revolve around it.
You should be able to see someone’s prayer in the way they live.
In the risks they take.
In the truth they speak.
In the boundaries they set.
In the behaviors they are willing to change.
Prayer requires participation.
And that is why prayer can feel scary.
Because sometimes what we fear most is not that the prayer will fail, but that it might actually work.
May our lives truly change.
So that we may become someone we can no longer be defined by through old identities, old wounds, old limitations, or old fears.
And so when tension arises, when fear arises, when you feel yourself tensing up, this is the moment to breathe. To relax and stay present. To keep opening up instead of closing in.
Prayer is an active engagement with life.
And if we are going to ask for support, guidance, transformation, healing, love, growth, or clarity, then we must also be willing to give in return.
We do that by making offerings; that is why offerings matter. Offerings are ways of giving energy back.