:: Edgeliving: Master Jim and slave marsha ::

:: Saturday, July 10, 2004 ::

Regarding a Ceremony -- An Addendum to the Trapdoor Posts

i believe there is something about ritual and ceremony that speaks to all of us as humans. Whether or not we believe in God, the Goddess, Buddha, the Great Spirit, the Universe or any other "higher power," ritual and ceremony seem to resonate with almost all of us.

Rituals and ceremonies have been an important part of Master Jim's Master/slave relationship with me. He has used rituals and ceremonies to celebrate milestones in both His D/s and M/s relationships with me. He has used rituals and ceremonies to encourage both of us to keep traveling this path. He has used rituals and ceremonies to help me let go of things that were holding me back from more fully being His slave.

i don't intend to go much deeper into the role rituals and ceremonies play in this M/s relationship right now -- i hope Master Jim and i will do that in a future post. But i do want to add this "addendum" to what i wrote in the Trapdoor II post about things that can be done when the trapdoor opens beneath a slave's feet.

Master Jim and i will be presenting at Thunder in the Mountains this weekend in Denver. (i hope some of you will be there!) One of our presentations is entitled "There's Power in the Blood: Cutting as a Part of Ritual, Ceremony and Spirituality in Master/slave Relationships." The end of that presentation always involves a ceremony that includes a ritual cutting. The ceremony that we offer at the end of that presentation is always different and always relates to something that is happening in Master Jim's M/s relationship with me at the time.

As you might have guessed by now, Master Jim is designing the ceremony for Thunder to help me move past my trapdoor. It's called "A Ceremony of Transition and Opening for slave marsha -- Finding her Place." Through it, Master Jim believes i will find the certainty of my place with Him and will be better able to move on from my trapdoor experience.

But that's only part one of the whole Ceremony.

Because Master Jim and i do believe in some divine force, it shouldn't have come as a surprise to me that another group (in Amarillo, Texas) asked us to do the same presentation just about a month after Thunder. The ceremony at the end of that presentation will be part two of the whole Ceremony, and is called "A Ceremony of Integration." It will involve both me and ryan, Master Jim's man in Service. Through it, Master Jim will help to integrate the three of us in the path we follow together.

If you feel called to offer support to us for one or both of these ceremonies, Master Jim invites you to do so. If you're planning to attend Thunder, it would be an honor to have you bear witness to the ceremony. If you are not able to be at the ceremony physically, perhaps you could offer support in whatever way seems right to you in honoring your path and/or spiritual practice. The presentation at Thunder begins at 11:30 am Rocky Mountain time on Sunday, July 18, so the ceremony itself will likely begin around 12:30 pm Rocky Mountain time and will be done by 1:00 pm. If you do feel called to offer support to us in some way, and if you are comfortable sharing how you did it, Master Jim and i would be grateful.

May each of you be blessed on your Journey.

--slave marsha

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