Cat Bamboo 16
After a day of learning about the history and production of cacao, including walking through Cambium’s cacao plantations and then sharing a meal together, we were invited to connect with the cacao in a more sacred way.
Cacao, with its heart-opening properties, has had an ancient history amongst the Tainos who created rituals and ceremonies using it. Singing the cacao song (above), pouring our love into the mixture being cooked up for us by Johanna in Kenneth and Sharon’s kitchen, we connected to the cacao with our hearts as well as our fingers. And then the ceremony started in earnest on the roof, beginning with a sage cleansing and settling into silence. We had an opportunity to drink the sacred cacao we had sung into being in the kitchen and to connect with cacao butter as well, expressing our hopes and dreams as the sun set.
Listening to Johanna speaking and Sharon playing her crystal singing bowls, as individuals and as a group, we thanked the cacao of this land. Johanna’s heritage, coming as she does from a cacao family, gives her the gravitas and authenticity to lead us in such a sacred ceremony. And even though chocolate is so easy to buy in a shop, this ceremony, using cacao especially grown, produced and prepared to be sacred, raised it up to another dimension, connecting us to our hearts and to the land where so many of us choose to live and stay either some or all of the time.
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