At Suzy Meszoly’s World Peace Retreat at the beautiful Ashokan Center in the Catskills the place was buzzing as we prepared for the big day: 12/21/12. We had gotten 108 people together (as instructed through Suzy’s channeled beings) that day to chant the sacred sound of OHM for the entire day as a way of doing our part to balance the rapidly shifting energies and promote a vibration of peace.

As I was doing my Yoga the day before Spirit said “You will lead the fire ceremony”.   With that my intellect countered by saying in my head “2 people are coming up from the city to do the solstice fire, plus it’s supposed to rain, though I could be there to help out.”  Later in the day I learned that the people driving up to do the fire had to cancel and Suzy asked me if I could take care of it.  I agreed but I still was tentative due to the forecast of heavy rain.  Still I made sure that the firewood was tarped, and that the folks from the retreat center built the fire in a manner that could be lit and maintained through the rain, which they had.  So after dinner Suzy announced to me: “Alden is going to help you with the fire”.  When I asked around for Alden an 11 year old boy raised his hand and he told me he had looked forward to lighting the fire for weeks.  I mentioned to him that if it rains hard we cannot do it but he looked at me very disappointingly and said “I just took an outdoor survival course and could light a fire in the rain with one match”.  Still I told him that he could help but that I would light the fire and only if the rain was not too heavy.  Continue reading →