Pattern for Blessing with Sage
What This Blesses This is the pattern used to bless censers, the hands of anyone entrusted with handling sacred objects like trumps, and the Shabuwa kelly bread itself. Lighting the Sage Roll the sage into a small ball between your palms first, then touch it directly to a live coal until it begins to smoke. […]
Welcome Ceremony
When It’s Held Anyone visiting the community while considering whether to join, or planning to stay longer than four days, goes through this ceremony first. The visitor sits on the west side of the altar alongside whoever is leading the ceremony, and is invited to share what’s brought them there and what they’re hoping for […]
Safe Return Ceremony
Purpose Before someone in the community sets out on a trip — for business, or to visit family — this ceremony is held ahead of their final decision to go. A Safe Return ceremony is mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition as well, giving this practice real historical roots. Reading the Fire A sacred […]
Passing of a Loved One
A Different Kind of Memorial Rather than holding a memorial after someone has died, this community holds one while the person is still approaching death — while they can still hear every cherished memory and every word of love from the people gathered around them. It also gives the dying person a chance to offer […]
Cavah’s Sevenfold Dance
What Cavah Did At the Rock of Ariel, Cavah rose up and danced seven times, “sevening” herself with the joy of her own repentance and forgiveness. Through this great song and dance of joining, she established a decree for herself that she would never again depart from the joy of repentance, nor feel desolate or […]
Altar Blessing
How Altars Are Blessed Altars appear both indoors and outdoors in these books — the Handbook describes one set at the center of a building, a flat, uncut rock about knee height, while Moses is shown building his own altars directly upon open land, at the site of the burning bush and later on the […]
House Blessing
The Ceremony Anyone from the village or wider community can gather for this one. A fire is lit, and whatever it seems to indicate is noted. Cedar is passed to everyone present, and the group talks together about what the household actually wants to feel in their home — both with each other and with […]
Joining Ceremony
What It’s For Overseen by the Women of the Order of Zedeqetelebab, this ceremony addresses a growing modern problem — how thoroughly technology and addiction can cut people off from the earth, from God, from other people, and from themselves. Its core element of righteousness is the Song of the Dance, the same way Cavah, […]
Separation Ceremony
What It’s For This is a serious ceremony, carried out under the direct authority of the community council, meant to free a person from evil they can’t seem to shake or leave behind — past involvement in dark acts, exposure to others’ wrongdoing, addictions of any kind, or nightmares and aftereffects springing from an encounter […]
Yo-ani-ah Ceremony
What It’s For Yo-ani-ah means “carry it away” in Navajo. This is a very old rite for healing deep emotional wounds — trauma from violence, abuse, war, assault, or any injury that leaves someone unable to sleep, haunted by nightmares, or otherwise broken by what happened to them. It’s invitation-only, so the person being healed […]