May 1 Seed Ceremony: Flourishing with Seeds of Earth & Sky

Bionnneers was astonishing - introducing our theme for the year + reminder to join us for May 1 viritual or May 2 in Sonoma.

Save the Date: May 1 Virtual and May 2 Sonoma

(Audio of this message is below)

Dear Community,

I had the absolute gift of attending Bioneers this weekend, and you know what, I will never miss it again. It has been life changing, as it has been in years before. I want to invite our entire community to organize and attend the 2025 session, more on that soon.

I was so inpsired about what we are doing here at the Cura Council, and at Musea as a whole and in our upcoming training, Animystica, www.animystica.org and our upcoming ceremony series called Rematriation

We are starting a new cycle here at the Cura Council, our 500 year vision for Gathering in Ceremony and Community.

Our Seed Ceremony honors all of life and our relationship with seeds.
The call is guided by Curate Shiloh Sophia with Kathleen Brigidinia and hosting through the Intentional Creativity Foundation, with Sumaiyah Wysdom.

The nature of the Seeds ceremony opens a year of centering Rematriation:
Rematriating our Kinship with Creation, Trauma-Inspired Ceremony and moving towards an Animism that is Alive for All.

The Seed Ceremony will bring in a series of inquiries for us that lead into all of the other Ceremonies and the Wheel of the Year.  We will begin a Rights of Nature exploration Ceremony Starting with our guest of honor, The Seeds of the World and Where you Live. 

Our May 1 Ceremony lands us in a cross-quarter peek season day between Equinox and Solstice. Around the world this day is celebrated in many ways including Beltane, May Day, Bonfires, May Queen, May Pole - how is this day Celebrated where you live?

This ceremonial experience is rooted in deep inquiry about right relationship with Creation specifically in regards to seeds and their relationship to the soil and water where they live and grow. 

Here in Sonoma women are gathered for the Cura Council in person and will go from this ceremony to make offerings to seeds and water and soil on Sonoma Mountain, Birth Place of Creation. We will bring your prayers with us as we go. The in person gathering at MUSEA Center for Intentional Creativity will be May 2 at 6pm and be hosted by out of town guests at the Council, including Sumaiyah Wysdom (Aka NAA Kwartey, recently home from Africa.

Our ceremony is a series of inquiries which will be posed by Shiloh Sophia and the community of Intentional Creativity Guardians. 

Right Relationship with seeds, plants, trees, water and soil.

What does it look like for YOU where you experience your habitat? While this is our seed ceremony it is a beginning for our themes for the year.

Inquiries:

Landholders and Stewards - Begin a journey to uncolonize the place you live and move into right relationship with the area you call home and steward. What are your next steps?

Renters - How to work with the place you live to moving into kinship with the land, waters, and plants where you are. What are the watersheds and open spaces where you live, where does your water come from, what are the indigenous seeds?

Open Space - Honoring land that is not 'producing' or a place to live or build, how to work with open spaces and mountains and inlcude them in your life as you explore relationship to land.

Parks - Committing to relationships with local parks, stewardship, connectivity where you live - do you visit? What is your relationship to the story - and are there name sugggestions to be made to include the Indigenous ways in the story and titling?

Indigenous, Original Stewards - Land acknowledgement and staying tuned into where you live and who lives there - do you know their names and have you signed up to learn more about how to collaborate - do you know their history?

Declaration - How to begin your work with how your home and studio acknowledge your sense of place - will you create a land acknowledgment for your place? What will it say?

Seeds, Plants and Trees - Establishing your relationship with what is growing where you live and

Rivers and Creeks and Mountains - Exploring original names and topographical maps. How can you include them as family.

Good Relations Pledge - Making ammends where you live, and the people wher eyou live - here's how we started with the Good Relations Pledge, inspired by Indigenous commmunity Elder, Carmen Baraka.  

Let us continue in a good way,

Curate Shiloh Sophia