Ritual of Completion

[Merry Feathers]

Rituals of completion can be done alone, but are even more powerful when shared with friends. For several years a group of women in our community met weekly - and then monthly - to create rituals of healing. After a year we opened our solstice and equinox rituals to the community at large. We never knew who would come, only that they would bring an open heart and an intention to support others in healing. If you have such a group of friends, you might enjoy doing this practice with them the next time you meet. If not, consider starting such a group and meeting regularly to enjoy the special closeness that meditation, prayer and practice with friends can bring about.

For this ritual you will need a paper and pencil, a safe place to have a small fire, and a trowel or shovel. Begin your ritual with a centering meditation, and then think about the regret that you may have to free yourself from. Contemplate what actions, if any, are needed for resolution. Now write the regret, any action plan and whatever you learned from your mistake on the slip of paper. Set it on fire, and as it burns, dedicate your experience for the liberation of all beings. Take the ashes outside and bury them or scatter them to the wind.

[Cherry]

That seems like it would be very powerful and very hmmm I can't think of a work to describe what I want to say.

I've never done such a thing - but would love to.

[Mrs. Love Knight]

I've done this with my closest witch friend and her sisters

we were accused of being witches shortly after cause someone was spying on us from their back porch

[Merry Feathers]

Witch!!

[Cherry]

My sd thinks I'm a witch. Whenever we go somewhere she asks if we can take my broomstick.

[Merry Feathers]

My husband has always accused me. And my ex-son-in-law who was actually scared of me! (he had a guilty conscience is all)

[Mrs. Love Knight]

My broom isn't big enough to fly on
and why is being a witch such a negative thing? Oh wait I know the answer to that but it causes great stress for whole community's

[Little Bit]

In the fall, I left a picture of my ex and I resting in a wild rose bush on a mountain perch in Colorado. As the aspen leaves fell all around me, I was reminded that in the Spring, through natures beloved perfection, the leaves will come forth again and healing and rebirth will have its way, as will the rosebuds.

[Merry Feathers]

Regrets are like canceled checks, they are all of our yesterdays - there is little we can do about them, we can't change them.

But we can put them down - set them down, on paper, and free them, and free ourselves in the process.

[sunshinelula]

i do something similar, but it's always been by myself. there have been three people who i couldn't say certain things to because they were no longer in my life, so i wrote them each letters and then took them out back and burned them. i considered it "smoke signals" into the universe meant to help us and our situations to heal. it's a huge release and very powerful.