NEW YEAR’S CACAO CEREMONY
Joshua Tree Arts & Ecology Center in Joshua Tree, CA
5-7pm (Please arrive by 4:45pm to settle in your space)
Exchange: $44
Limited spaces available for this location, RSVP soon!
Dear One,
Join me in the desert to welcome the New Year under the starry night sky warmed by the fire and a heart-opening journey with Sacred Cacao.
Amazingly, three years have passed since my last public in-person Cacao Ceremony (though many online ceremonies and private in-person ceremonies!), and my heart has been longing to gather again in sacred circle where we sit upon the earth around a fire and drink a hot cup of Cacao together in the crisp desert winter air.
The New Year is a perfect time to be in ceremony and receive the heart-opening medicine of Cacao to welcome a brand new cycle beginning. We will have the opportunity to connect with our heart’s vision for the coming year, and set meaningful intentions in sacred community.
In ceremony, we create an expansive field of healing energy that becomes healing energy for the world. These ceremonies are deeply powerful healing experiences held in a gentle, loving container of divine support.
LOCATION
We are gathering in the Sunken Garden at Joshua Tree Arts & Ecology Center, a perfect outdoor circular container for holding our ceremony. Constructed with earth materials, we will get cozy together in the embrace of the womb-like space heated with a wood-burning fire and a blanket of stars overhead.
This the first location I ever held a public Cacao Ceremony in Joshua Tree many years ago, and continues to be my favorite place to share ceremony in the desert. I am very grateful to Eva Soltes for making it possible for us to have the ceremony here on New Year’s Day. :)
Joshua Tree address and directions provided upon registration.
HOW TO PREPARE
It will be a delightfully cold night, so bundling up in warm layers is what’s most important. Warms socks, gloves and hat are good to bring with you.
Bring blankets, a sit cushion, and anything you need for your physical comfort.
Bring a journal, pen/pencil with you.
Bring a thermos with some hot tea or water for hydration.
Bring a special item to be charged on the altar (you’ll take it back with you after).
Reflect on your intention for the ceremony.
Come with an open heart ready to receive Divine Love.
Bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share (optional).
Afterwards, to best integrate your journey, avoid making plans for other social activities that night. You have the option to stay for a potluck as a wonderful next step post-ceremony. It’s always best to give yourself as much space as possible to be reflective of your experience and to stay open to receive more guidance and insight later.
WHAT’S PROVIDED
Ceremonial Cacao
Drinking vessels
Ground mats laid out on the earth
Fire 🔥
POTLUCK to follow the ceremony. Feel welcome to bring a vegetarian dish to share with others, but no pressure to do so! Everyone is welcome to stay and enjoy food afterwards whether or not you bring a dish.
Winter is such a magical time in the desert, and I’d be so honored to share this sacred time with you on the first day of 2024! :)
Let us join together on New Year’s Day to support one another in the opening of each of our hearts and the expansion of Love within. Let the power of this ceremony radiate healing Love throughout the world. Let the Love generated in this ceremony be a blessing for All That Is.
It's a gift to be able to join together in ceremony, and I hope to see you there.
With Love,
Angela
IMAGE: ELENA RAY