Who? What? When? Mount Shasta Full Moon meditation.

Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, CA. It's Friday, August 15th. Our camp has been growing since we arrived on Wednesday with Jim, Teresa and Aurora in the van loaded with everything ever wanted to make a camp and hold a full moon ceremony above the top parking lot at Panther Meadow. There are four tents in our camp, another one up this morning anticipating our brother, Happy, and just below us live Black Horse with Black Fox and their three doggies making plenty of sometimes unwelcome greetings around and about the other camps. Everyone is curious because we set up an open shelter with a lovely colorful tapestry of Ganesh gracing one side. The ceremonial drum has been placed in the center awaiting a circle of the assembled group. There is a lot of excitement as we gather around the campfire for morning coffee brewing in a large enamel pot above the crackling blaze. Smiles and greetings pass as quickly as the steaming cups. This August Full Moon also has a lunar eclipse to go sometime Saturday afternoon just before the medicine wheel circle, drumming and dancing that will be happening Saturday evening. Many of our friends are already in camp with us and more are expected tomorrow to participate in the healing ceremonies. This is the 13th year of the ceremony held by Jim Olson, Shasta native, up on the mountain. There is purification this afternoon. The women will walk about 2 1/2 miles up the mountain to the upper spring and the men will walk downward about the same distance to the lower spring. Everyone will bathe in the very cold ice melt water preparing for the ceremonies tomorrow. And after the walk, there will be a camp wide meal which we will all share the food and cooking. There will be more people assembling all evening and into tomorrow. It might not have been anything of your experience to join your friends in a personal sacred festival. Full Moons are especially good for energy and there are other good times like the day/evenings of summer (June 21) or winter(December 21) solstice or at the times of equinoxes either in March or September. Come together to join with your friends and send prayers of well being and healing to everyone present, all your family people and to people all across the world. Every time there is a small group, the energy of your prayers makes a difference to the peacefulness so needed in our world now. If you listen closely, you may hear our drums singing for you.