A blessingway, or Hozhoji, the Navajo word meaning


to bless one sung over for good hope

an original rite, information compiled
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Many friends are in the way of a blessing, particularly childbearing. We will enjoy a potluck of organic vegetarian foods, offer gifts for the mama and the baby Buddha, share a story about birth, any good medicine, and a song or advice of experience.
This is what I will bring with me to my friends blessingway.


I put together some ideas for gifts.

First, my son and I went outside and picked flower blossoms, cedar, sage flowers, and twigs as we sang the beginning of our new song for the blessingway.

On this day before the blessingway, I have kept myself focused on the positive flow of this rite.
I have wrote a song for the women to sing for the mama, the changing woman, as we toss the wildflowers, cornmeal, and sand as we are circling her home or wherever the mama sits during this rite.

WE will be smudged with sage and cedar to purify our presence before entering the rite.

I want to emphasize the most important gift, and that is the positive flow of true wishes must be your primary intent.
It is crucial that all attendees keep a positive frame of mind as we share this rite so we may insure a congenial blessing.

The song I will sing is titled "Blessings for the Baby Buddha"

Good Luck

Good Health

And

Good Blessing

For the Baby Buddha

These are the gifts

With diginity

Of living roots

In Jah and Mama Earth

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blessingway

blessing

Navajo

so I will tell a story
from my information about the kind hearted Earth Goddess, which I feel connected with, known by the Navajo as Estsanatlehi ( I pronounce: ES-sonnet-lee-I)

I will also make myself available for the Mama after the birth

So she may have support and conversation.

The birth of my children will be the story I share with the blessers.


My son was born to us in the waxing of the harvest moon, 3 hours prior we knew his name to be that which surround us, Tree.
Our daughter was born after a few short hours of transistion.
We gave her the name of Africa'sdaughter,Kenya.


Jah bless the babies of the new world!!
Jah bless the parents, the guardian angels of pure spirits!
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