I’ve gotten some questions from Belonging podcast listeners about rites of passage, especially if you’ve left a religion that previously offered a sense of rites of passage and ritual, or how to cultivate rites of passage when we don’t have that religious or cultural foundation. This is something I’ve touched on before on the Belonging podcast, and I’m sharing my thoughts now after going through a major rite of passage myself. I share how I’m fulfilling my need for ritual and community witnessing around pretty important things that are happening in my life, what to do when you’re feeling a lack of rites of passage in your life, using social media as a way to be witnessed in the midst of a transformation, the three elements of a rite of passage, and creating a ritual for a past rite of passage that didn’t get recognition at the time.
“We have such a lack of ritual and honoring of rites of passage that the ones that have remained have almost too much pressure on them.”
Resources:
- Belonging Episode #20: Rites of Passage with Lara Veleda Vesta
- Belonging Episode #83: Wild Soul Runes with Lara Veleda Vesta
- Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine by Lara Veleda Vesta
- Belonging Episode #78: Non-Linear Reciprocity and Skills to Traverse Change with Jessie Harrold
- I mention that I’m in Jessie Harrold’s MotherSHIFT program
- The Rites of Passage by Arnold van Gennep
- Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
- I learned from Karen Ward how to re-live and honor sacred moments that weren’t honored in their time
- My friend, Elle Luna, talks about introducing your cells and DNA to the mycelia of the land
