From Shampinyada,
I'm Colleen Thomas.
This is Everyday Magic for Ukraine.
Today we weave protection for our friends in Ukraine.
Welcome to the circle.
Welcome to Everyday Magic for Ukraine,
Where every week we honor Ukraine and also practice some self-care to stay strong as allies.
If you're new here,
Welcome.
So the only item you need today,
If it's convenient,
Is a patch of grass.
A way that you can connect to the earth,
Feel the earth beneath you,
Physically,
If that's possible.
And if that's not possible,
Just when we get to that point of imagining our connection to the earth,
Just make it really rich,
Make it really visceral.
Maybe call to mind the last time you felt the earth beneath you in a very visceral way.
Today we are going to be weaving protection for our friends in Ukraine.
And so I would love to invite you to picture your friends in Ukraine.
If you have friends,
Relatives,
People you love in Ukraine,
Let them come to mind.
And we spoke before about connecting with the earth.
So if you are on a patch of grass or earth or can join me in reaching down,
Down,
Down,
Down,
We're going to find the earth beneath us as a starting place.
So consider you might want to take a breath.
You might want to feel down into what is beneath you.
Maybe it's a chair or maybe it's carpet or gravel,
Concrete,
Or right down into the earth herself.
Just allowing your awareness to drop,
Allowing yourself to connect with a land that's right underneath you.
And once you feel like you're beginning to make contact with the earth beneath you,
Just allow yourself to become aware of where you are on the planet.
This patch of earth you are on,
This bit of earth you are connecting to,
If you were on a patch of grass or earth,
This bit of earth you are connecting to,
If you were to zoom out and look at the planet like it was a big globe in your library,
Where would you be?
Just notice that place and notice that you are on the crust of the earth and your roots into the earth are going in toward the center.
You are connecting right now by connecting down,
You are connecting in.
Just feel into that.
What does that feel like to know that when we reach down,
We are reaching into the center of this beautiful globe?
We are reaching in deeper and deeper to the center.
And I asked you to imagine this because I would like you to now,
If you'd like to,
Imagine your friends in Ukraine and imagine where they are on the earth.
And let's also imagine them connecting to the center of the earth.
So you are in your part of the world,
Connecting in,
And they are in their part of the world,
Connecting in.
And if you like,
You can imagine your connections coming together in the center of the earth.
And you can send down through your grounding cord wishes for safety and wishes for protection for your friends and allow them where they are on the planet to pull up and draw into themselves anything that they want,
Anything that they need,
Anything that is useful to them from this energy we're sending.
Seeing your desire for their protection going down into the earth and seeing that be available to them to pull up on their end.
Now it is very important when doing this kind of magic to take the ego out of the picture.
So ideally this is not us sending protection to the ego.
It's not us sending protection and saving our friends.
It's not that.
It's not us.
It's the divine mystery,
The great spirit,
The love from the heart.
It is beyond us,
Right?
So you don't have to try.
You can just let go.
You can just let love flow through you,
Flow into the earth and be available for your friends.
So focusing on this love,
On this wish for protection and calm,
This good positive energy we are sending in this way,
Making it available to our friends.
And you might see it at a certain color.
You might notice it has a certain texture to it.
Remember no ego,
Just love,
Just flow,
Just trusting the process.
And if there are any additional wishes you have for your friends,
You can include them in this offering.
And just begin to let this process naturally complete on its own.
And when you feel this process is complete,
You can gently disconnect.
You can gently move out from this globe and see yourself where you are and your friends where they are and go back to living your individual lives.
We can imagine this grace and this love and protection showing up for these friends in so many ways we may not even know.
And coming back together here in circle,
Let's take three breaths together.
The first breath will be to honor this process.
So breathing in if you like,
Honoring this work and releasing it,
Really letting it go,
Trusting it to go where it needs to.
And a second breath to deeply honor your friends.
Breathing in and a deep bow out.
And a final breath to honor you for being here and showing up in this way.
Breathing in and breathing out.
May we always remember that we can weave protection for the people that we love no matter where they are in the world.
May it be so.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Your presence,
Your energy,
And your heart make all the difference in healing our world.
Remember to breathe today.
Breathe and expand.
And I hope you join us again next time.
Please consider inviting a friend.
