Illuminating Transformation Offerings
The Methodology of the Intervention
The fundamental approach, again in more of a Taoist traditional method which is primarily passed on oral story-telling tradition, is proposed as a process utilizing red and white carnations. As I describe this process, please be mindful that the carnations are just flowers, though they are a vehicle to tapping into issues that reside at a greater and deeper level. In and of themselves, the carnations do not carry any particular strength. Principally, the Tao or The Way eludes intellectual description because it deals with the big picture of life and energy. Here the carnation clearing process described offers the ceremonial means to access some of these aspects of the energetic holdings within any given space. Thus, the allusion to transitioning of souls and the removal of entities falls deeply within this ceremonial process.
The Tao describes the world as being full of non-physical beings or spirits who need to obtain energy (feed) to survive. While I find it difficult to describe just exactly what occurs in the transitioning of souls, perhaps this gives some form to a mostly quite abstract construct. Generally, with very few exceptions, I personally find souls to be stuck, essentially that for any number of reasons, did not and have not been able to transition to the ‘other side’ to continue with their journey. In clearing energy, I do find this aspect to be an essential element of successfully clearing any space. One more thought might be to elucidate the thinking of red and white and possible representations of their meaning (carnations in this case). In the Peruvian beliefs, the red represents the pachamama, the mother, the journey of this time. The white represents the Milky Way, the high snow-capped mountains, the high spirit within us all. Taoist belief utilizes the Yin and Yang to represent perhaps the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine, that resides within all things, and that each must have the other’s seed in order to exist.