Equinox Group Healing Ceremony

The Journey

The destination of my ceremony was planned but on route I took a wrong turn which led me to a perfect secluded beach, with the exception of a young fisherman.

Grey clouds and looming rainfall had been left at home, a wind had picked up as I walked along the coast. I prepared myself to weather this cool breeze and accept the discomfort as part of this practice, only to be met with an extraordinary autumnal sunshine. I am reminded how the path unfolds organically.

Landing

As I connected with my Reiki lineage, I was led to a perfect pocket of sand, encircled by stones and decorated with a delicate whitish-purple sea plant — sea campion, perhaps.

As I approached this natural altar, feathers appeared along the way, accompanying me towards the space. I performed my self-healing ritual before beginning the group session.

Ceremony

For each person who had asked to be honoured through this energy clearing, a message of intention was whispered into this sacred space.

A small piece of driftwood took on the appearance of a body, allowing us to work through its representation. I placed it beside the flowering plant, visited by bees, and surrounded it with my sense of spirit guides, ancestors and the collective energy of those joining the ceremony.

The invitation was to surrender to clearing and rebalancing.

One of my guides appeared to me in a richly embossed emerald-green outfit with a velvet Prussian-blue cloak. This guide has been coming to me more strongly over the years, bringing the same reminder: To ground, connect with this beautiful, bountiful, earth full of lightness and mystery. ‘Go deeper’ I heard, ‘Feel through your senses’.

My body relaxed.

I felt the warmth of the sand beneath me. The smell of the ocean. The orchestration of the sea becoming louder around me — a celebration of all that we have achieved, and a reminder of simplicity.

There was also an indication, a strong pull taking me away from the moment towards what comes next: later today, tomorrow, all the future possibilities. The endless distractions can wait. The ocean and guides bring me back to now.

The Clearing

Energy was settling around the head space. Two questions came through strongly:

How do we hear? How do we taste?

What is blocking our sensations? Colours appeared to me that carried associations of medicine, distaste and discomfort. I understood this as an invitation to consider where we might hand our authority over to something outside ourselves, rather than listening to our own discernment.

This is not a rejection of medicine or expertise. Rather, it felt like a reminder that we can remain participants in our own experience — listening, questioning, sensing and discerning what feels true for us.

There was a clearing around the efforts that take us away from nourishment and away from our own inner voice of truth and clarity.

Feel the medicine of light.

Feel the fuel in your words — particularly the words you speak to yourself.

I let go of pains that felt as though they had hit me in the face.

I relaxed my jaw and became aware of how much tension I had been holding in my head, my mouth and the right side of my body.

For a moment, I brought myself back into balance simply by acknowledging it.

And in making space for that surface tension to soften, something deeper emerged.

The Deeper Healing

I connected with a memory and felt the sense of a deeply troubled soul who had recently left our earthly plane. I invited this connection to be held within the collective healing space.

I felt a large, dark heaviness around the heart. It was knotted. Clouded. Confused.

Entangled with a sense of grave disappointment and unrealised dreams.

Although the energy felt intense, I was reminded again of the power of collective intention and healing.

I called upon a powerful dynamic that I had not consciously worked with before, but which had been shown to me during my Reiki Master attunement.

Slowly, the cloud began to dissipate. The knots began to unravel, smoothly and effortlessly it transformed in my inner vision into petals. And upon those petals appeared two words:

Generosity & Gratitude

The petals spread outwards, with the texture of roses. They spun in a perpetual bloom. A peace was felt. The release was ready.

Mothuchan, the space where feelings live, within the heart space. Fluttering the wings of a moth or butterfly, feelings spread and stretch, move and shift. They land.

The Surprise

I opened my eyes with a smile, with no idea how long the process had taken.

And then I saw the strangest thing.

Out in the waves along the strand, a small white, fluffy creature appeared to scarper back into the sea.

Then it appeared to be a seal.

It returned to playing and floating among the waves, bopping and disappearing from view.

What was it? My imagination releasing after a deep healing trance?

A glitch in the matrix? I don't need to know.

It left me laughing — a reminder of the wild, mysterious and healing powers of imagination, perception and the Third Eye. Suil samhlaiochta.

Integration

As I came back into myself with the message that I shall seal:

I release, I trust, I choose.

I offer these affirmations for others to try, to taste on tongue and feel within.

I release confusion and unresolved pain.

I release the outcomes I cannot control.

I trust my own discernment.

I honour what I sense, even when I cannot yet explain it.

I choose what nourishes me.

I give freely without abandoning myself.

I receive without apology.

And then, as I finished the ceremony, I looked up. Though we often seek silver linings I was presented with a giant, glowing silver moon.

I laughed again.

Another reminder that we don't always need to understand the mystery to receive it.

I welcome more generosity in how I serve and how I receive.

I welcome more gratitude for the funny things, the unknowns, the mystical and the magical friends of the Earth.

My heart is ready to integrate what I have learned.