Below are 80 blessings.
There is one blessing for each book in the first edition of The Circle Room.
Before being released to the world, I spoke the 80 blessings in ceremony while holding each book.
If you own a first edition copy, please see the edition number in the back of your book to determine which blessing is yours.
1/80
May you discover the universe that exists within stillness and the silence that exists within the river’s current.
2/80
May you touch mystery.
3/80
May the water be your teacher.
4/80
May the whites of the moon live in your mind like a flame that never goes out.
5/80
May time be your lover.
6/80
May time remind you of the magnolia tree and may the magnolia tree remind you of beauty and may beauty remind you of life and may life remind you of death and may death remind you of time.
7/80
May you honor what you have with the devotion of your grateful attention.
8/80
May the site of your connection to this earth be a threshold you tend with river water and awe.
9/80
May you be marked by pleasure and altered by joy.
10/80
May you find a sunrise and memorize its poem.
11/80
May you create with your hand, give your eyes to the night and lay beneath the noon sky.
12/80
May you cultivate your attention to recognize a miracle when it occurs.
13/80
May you dream in the sweet darkness all you can’t yet see in the light.
14/80
May you drench your language in compassion, honey, curiosity and the way of the willow.
15/80
May the pain of another be placed on the altar beside your fresh flowers.
16/80
May you find temporary mothers in the woods, by the sea and in the faces of strangers.
17/80
May you recognize the sorrows you are holding and soak them in the tears of the ancestors until they soften like flesh under the spell of love.
18/80
May you forget time and be like sky.
19/80
May you know the divinity of your interior.
20/80
May you know the mark of beauty and may you live in gratitude for all the ways it has touched you.
21/80
May you know the song of home.
22/80
May the muse keep your window ajar for night breeze and morning song birds.
23/80
May you drift gently below the currents of existence.
24/80
May your arms hold flesh, may your chest hold stars.
25/80
May the river be a place of offering, the way she carries your love to the places you have not yet touched.
26/80
May you live by your truth and may you die with gratitude on your lips.
27/80
May you look at the reflection of your own face as you would look upon the moon.
28/80
May the smell of the ocean remind you of the color of the rose and may the color of the rose remind you to punctuate life with beauty.
29/80
May you move like the river, like the wind, like all things that are not afraid of change.
30/80
May your longing be woven into a lullaby that is a song for all things quiet and willing.
31/80
May you protect what your heart has always oriented toward.
32/80
May curiosity & awe guide you to the truth you are seeking.
33/80
May forgiveness be an opening, offering you places to inhabit that you didn’t know existed.
34/80
May god present herself to you.
35/80
May language give birth inside you.
36/80
May love be a longing, always growing, ever present.
37/80
May magic come like rain- when it is needed.
38/80
May patterns emerge like arrows toward the knowing you have forgotten.
39/80
May peace accompany you even in the shadow.
40/80
May the ancestors support you finding your place in the vision for a new way.
41/80
May the arriving of each day disorient you into devotion.
42/80
May you be guided slowly into the gentle place where god sings.
43/80
May the circle you cast be large enough to call others to the gifts you have to share.
44/80
May the days you have lived be woven into your words, gestures and offerings unseen.
45/80
May the earth sing you into presence.
46/80
May the flowers and their ways remind you how to open, how to live and how to be fearless in your, someday, dying.
47/80
May the flowers meet your gaze.
48/80
May the illumination of the horizon guide you.
49/80
May the light and the dark within you sleep side by side and dream together - lovers that recite the same poem in two different languages.
50/80
May the love that you are be ever available like the air, like the sky, like your feet, your hands, like your inhale.
51/80
May the vastness of your inner world shine brightly like the moon on ocean.
52/80
May the moon remind you of the scale of your heart.
53/80
May the murmurs grow until they become a sound that births a word that becomes language for you to live by.
54/80
May you hold in your pockets the moments when knowing glowed.
55/80
May the places where the questions live become the fertile soil you sleep upon, dream with your questions- let them wander through the night.
56/80
May the rhythm that is yours step forth and may your body attune itself to the cadence when it is found.
57/80
May the sorrows you carry be braided and unbraided with intention, may you sit with them and walk beyond them- let your sorrows be a circle that moves like water.
58/80
May the storms that live in your bones give way to the early days of spring in which you know peace.
59/80
May you receive blessings from those who do not speak your language.
60/80
May you lay on your back so your belly can speak to the sky and your spine can speak to the dead.
61/80
May you remember that your body knows the stars in ways no map or book will ever know.
62/80
May you remember the forgotten paths.
63/80
May home follow you like a shadow - smelling of herbs and warm wood.
64/80
May you remember your place in the web of all things.
65/80
May you remember your own divine choreography.
66/80
May you remember your sisters - the trees, the sky, the stones, the seas.
67/80
May you ride the circles of life with joy - a spiral, a carousel, a game that never ends.
68/80
May you see the world through the eyes of a lover.
69/80
May you speak to the woods, may you speak to the ocean, may you speak to the sky.
70/80
May you tend to the child within as you would a garden- offer water, offer sunlight.
71/80
May you tenderly befriend each ending.
72/80
May you remember the rooms you visit in your dreams - find them or build them, keep them clean and protected.
73/80
May your body be an eye, may your mind glitter with light.
74/80
May your companions be with you like a spring breeze.
75/80
May your gravity remind you of the earth that lovingly holds us.
76/80
May your guides find you in unexpected places.
77/80
May your questions be your beloved companions.
78/80
May you revere your body as you would a muse.
79/80
May your song be devotion, may your longing be answered in chorus.
80/80
May your vision offer the world beauty.