We Celebrated Full Moon Ceremony May 26 2013

[Miguel Sague Jr]

Takaji Relatives

On Sunday May 26 a small group of us gathered on the grounds of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE Verona-Penn Hills, Pennsylvania Teaching Lodge to celebrate our traditional Full Moon Ceremony. We were thrilled to again find ourselves accompanied by a number of our dear friends from the Peaceburgh Community.  

Our spiritual sister the Caney Circle beikeTenanche played a particularly important role in this month's moon ceremony by contributing a new tobacco honoring song which was inspired to her by the cemies.

The weather co-operated  wonderfully with a spectacularly beautiful day and a nice breeze that kept us from overheating in the slanting yet still powerful rays of the evening sun, a sun which has shined unseasonably hot for these Spring days.

Our circle ceremony culminated with the usual recitation of the sacred words of the full moon ceremony and a special dance at the end of the ritual.

Immediately after the circle ceremony several of us entered the guanara (sweatlodge) and experienced a particularly meaningful and inspiring purification ritual.

My sincere thanks for Harold Roman Nose of the Oklahoma Cheyene Nation for keeping a wonderful guatu (fire) for our guanara.

Special thanks to our sister Elliot for sharing her sacred energy as she took the role of AtaBey during the ceremony.

Also thanks to the women who assumed the responsibility of Food Mothers and all of the other participants who lent their unique energy to our group. Extra special thanks to beike Tenanche for partially guding the ceremony and to my wife Leni for assisting Elliot with the sacred words.

Taino Ti

Miguel