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Lady of the Open Skies

(An invocation of the Goddess for use in the Breath Mystery ceremony)

Lady of the Open Skies,
Your blue-black three-o’clock-in-the-morning body full of unlimited possibility,
each tiny star, a giant in its own sphere,
untold galaxies swirling endlessly through unending dark space.

Lift us up!

Breathe your expansive breath into us,
gently opening the compressed spaces within,
your life-energy unfurling
fern-like
in all the branching passageways of our newborn lungs.
Let the breath-borne specks of star-fire seep
through these protective membranes
into our life blood stream,
illumining the sleepy night of our new beginning.

Breathe your gentle breeze over our skin,
softly ruffling the feathers of our spirit wings,
whispering of distance
and flight
through multiple dimensions
and fragments of lifetimes
that have been
or might yet be
ours.

Bring us the news!

Let your breath pluck the interconnected threads
of distant relatives and long-forgotten friends:
of furred, finned and feathered breathers,
scaley mates and others
with bodies very different to our own,
each sleeping, hunting, hiding, feeding, coupling, resting watchfully,
each breathing in its own way,
each breathing into the whole.

While in the dark interior of the planet
the shining crystalline beings
patiently
bide their time.

Ishara
22/01/2022