Women's Day 2000 festivities at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California
Electric Lodge Web Site
Miranda Rondeau Web Site
http://www.primalfuturenow.com
Arlys Alford Web Site
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Recognizing that each and every person has an Art to bring into the world,
and a Prayer, participants at our "We Are All
Artists of LIFE" Celebration were
invited first to voice their Art and their Prayer in the circle where they would
be empowered through our group witnessing and holding intention for one another,
and then offer them to be transformed into the fire. One person's Art
was through movement, another's in bringing people together in community, still
another's in the gift of being herself that opened this possibility for others.
The prayers reflected the universality we eventually all come to - of moving
beyond self-interest to be guided by something higher, to find humor and compassion
in life, and for health and happiness for our children and the world.
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Saraswati - Vedic goddess of the Arts
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Natalia dancing
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Women's Day 2000 honored the creative nature of the Artist of Life which resides
in every human being. Centered around a Vedic Fire Ritual
to Saraswati, goddess of Eloquence, Learning, Wisdom & the Arts, it was
designed to empower all the participants as emissaries for the larger
family of the earth - to take our gifts out into the World
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Fire Ritual to the goddess Saraswati, Frankie Lee Slater and Annie Hutchinson
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Arlys Alford with group flower offering
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"I asked the scholar of Sanskrit, one of our ancient root languages, what he
could tell me of the word ART. He said it originated from the same seed
syllables as the word RIGHT, revealing that ART is about RIGHTNESS not in the
moral sense, but the deeper sense of being sourced in the Divine. In this
core understanding an Artist is a kind of yogi or mystic who applies him or
her Self through discipline to come to a lived sense of what is Right ..."
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"... While the quality of what is Right is dynamic and ever changing, the skilled
Artist is able to sense that which is Right in each proceeding moment..
In essence, when we experience a great work of ART , whatever the medium or
expression, what is actually being experienced is the resonant vibration conferred
by the Artist through the Art - that what had to be done has been done.
It is RIGHT."
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- Frankie Lee
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Leslie Levy and Annie Hutchinson making their artist of life flower offering
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