We Celebrated Taino Full Moon Ceremony March 10 2012 in Pittsburgh

[Miguel Sague Jr]

Takaji (Greetings) My Relatives

We gathered at the Verona, Pennsylvania Teaching Lodge of the MECG Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle near Pittsburgh PA this past Saturday afternoon March 10 2012 for our monthly FULL MOON CEREMONY. We were joined by a wonderful group of spiritual people which included members of a Columbus Ohio organization who travelled several hours to get to us. We were also joined by Brian Deforce whom I met several years ago at a ceremony inspired by the tradition of our Shipibo Indigenous relatives of the Peruvian Amazon region. He was accompanied by his beautiful family which included  his wife a Costa Rican biologist who has worked on a project studying the monkeys of the Costa Rican rain forest.

There was a number of other dear friends and acquaintances in attendance who brought the warmth and energy of their spiritual power and shared it both in our Circle Ceremony and then later during our kansi sweat purification ritual in the Caney Circle guanara lodge.

Our sister Tenanche Semiata Golden (a beike of the Caney Circle) performed the smoke purification by smudging the participants with the smoke of the tabonuko.

We were honored by the presence of our dear sister Suzy Hall, who blessed us with her representation of Ata Bey during the circle ritual. She was led in the act of lighting the two torches that represent the double light of the full moon and the recitation of the sacred words of the Full Moon Ceremony by my own wife Leni Maisguariche.

The fire of the kansi was expertly tended by my own son Miguel BanoManigua (Cha).

I was thrilled by the lovely weather with which we were blessed, that although chilly, was clear and bright deep into the  evening when Maroya the moon blessed us.

I want to send a sincere Bo Matun and Jajom (thank) all those who participated in this ceremony and to the spirits who blessed us that day.

Taino Ti

Miguel