Maisy's Blessing Way

So a Blessing Way is a Navaho ceremony that supports the mama during pregnancy and impending labor.
Mystic Mama gives a great description here.

For Milo, I didn't have a blessing way, so for Maisy, I really wanted one. I was extremely sick with morning sickness during most of my pregnancy, so I only managed to get a small group of goddesses together for the Blessing Way. I outlined it before I did the ceremony so I would stay on topic. My main objective was to get the collective good juju of my goddess group onto a plate of stones and crystals that I would have with me for the birth. What I learned from this whole situation is that it's probably better to have someone else lead the ceremony. Also, I wish I would have incorporated flower crowns. The description from Mystic Mama is probably a better and more traditional outline than mine was, but I still wanted to post this.

Here are my talking points and pretty much how Maisy's Blessing Way went down...

1. Hello and Introductions
2. Why I called you here today
   1. You are the strongest goddesses I know within geographical proximity!
   2. Hoping that putting our collective energy onto these stones will help me in birth, pregnancy and after
3. Shielding Meditation to do together...
   1. feel a light in the center of your brain, in your pineal gland
   2. push that light down your central column and into the ground
   3. feel your connection to the earth
   4. feel that connection pulse upward to you up through central channel and out the top of your head connecting to spirit, higher self, spirit guides
   5. feel all the divine love of spirit flowing through your body, filling all your cells with love, and flowing down into the earth so that you are funneling this energy into the earth core
   6. this column of light, from spirit through your central channel and into the earth expands outward to form a shield around you
   7. feel the shield
   8. see this vibrant energy expanding outward from us as a group, into the surrounding area, filling all of Los angeles, California, USA, North America, Western Hemisphere, whole planet.
4. The return of the goddess to Earth
   1. the divine feminine has been repressed and the male priest prophet archetype has dominated, 
   2. time for divine feminine to return
   3. why i invited YOU
      1. all of you represent the divine feminine and embody it
      2. bringing a little girl into the world, i really want to tap into that power and give that power to this little one
5. This pregnancy for me
   1. been alone for months, haven’t seen anyone, really want to share my journey with my friends because one of the things I struggle with the most is my throat chakra and, in the spirit of actually expressing things, I wanted to just tell you a little bit of my journey has been like during this pregnancy. 
   2. So sick for so long
   3. feeling like my body is upgrading to carry this child with intense ascension symptoms, eventhough everything is medically normal
   4. physically unable to do anything
   5. i've had to completely inward and focused on my spirit guides/meditation.
   6. tuning into the baby's spirit, and most of all shielding all the time
   7. being 100% present for Milo (as close as i can to 100%) as Milo is really challenging, and he is a warrior energy, and everything is a battle with him and he always wins. I choose to be unconditionally loving and not curbing his independence or willpower instead of disciplining him for it. This is another reason why it’s hard to go out anywhere with Milo, as people expect you to discipline your kid and I don’t want to bother people, but I want Milo to be free from societies harmful expectations. 
   8. has left me virtually unable to come visit any of you, and you may think like I’m a bad friend, but I really am just struggling to even make it through the day! (not in a bad way) Just with Milo, pregnancy symptoms, massive meditation downloads, physical body upgrading it has taken ALL of my energy.
6. Early prophecies of Maisy's birth and personality 
   1. Meeting the real Kokapelli in Sedona right before getting pregnant
   2. went to Lori for acupuncture twice, and by the second time I was already pregnant…She both times sensed information involving Native American indian chiefs being present and praying over me/baby
   3. 6 weeks pregnant, went to Zion National Park and felt the baby was connected to the water of the Virgin River
   4. talked to Oklahoma psychic, who confirmed baby's connections to Native American tribes in 4 Corners region, also that she is an extreme starseed that hasn’t often come through in human form. and a lot of other stuff, including that I could talk to her by writing symbols on my body, that she was extremely sensitive and that she doesn’t like conflict.
7. The Name 
   1. when I got pregnant, Jesse and I didn’t like the same names (He liked Madison, I liked Lilac)
   2. I had a list, and the only one he liked was Maisy. I had originally written it it "Maisie", but he had heard it "Maisy". I didn’t love the original spelling,but when I saw it as Maisy, liked it a lot better. 
   3. she became Maisy
   4. the story of the navajo/hopi corn goddess, manifestation of the earth, Maize
8. Looking forward to birth
   1. walking tour of where the birth will happen
   2. birth visualization meditation
      1. go into labor naturally
      2. Milo goes safely to Nana's
      3. I am able to relax and stay present, consciously relaxing
      4. walking 
      5. midwife arrives
      6. things move faster
      7. set up birth tub
      8. get in shower
      9. get in tub
      10. baby is born
      11. baby is healthy
      12. mom is healthy
9. Go around Circle and each person say their wishes for me and put their energy of good birthing into the stones and crystals. Each guest can voice any intuitions about birth and baby
   1. go around to each person, let them talk 
   2. closing remarks
10. Game: guess the day Maisy will come and see if there is a consensus
    1. hand out cards
    2. let everyone write down guesses
    3. compare and see if there are any trends
11. Any other comments or discussions
12. Closing Remarks