What is sacred time? Sacred space ushers in sacred time and supports a sense of identity, belonging, guidance, and nurturing. Sacred time separates the mundane every day living from the magical, mystical, miraculous time of sacred ceremony, sacred silence, sacred listening, sacred learning, sacred journeys, Healing, and sacred transitions. Sacred time has been honored among our ancestors since we began recording events in time.
Sacred ceremony was, in part, a gathering for a spiritual quest, transition from child to adult, time of year celebration such as the harvest, individual or tribal healing, and gathering to honor the Divine. Sacred listening was a time for listening to others instead of ourselves. Listening for answers instead of creating more questions. Sacred learning was a time for quilting, planting, hunting, tracking, and watching the sky, the earth, the animals, birds, etc. for education and survival. Sacred journeys were undertaken at a time when an individual or tribe had lost their vision and needed to connect with something greater than themselves or a journey of the spirit to call back their broken/misplaced soul. Sacred transitions were sacred times for marriage, birth, moon-cycles for women, and deaths.
In some ways, it appears that we have lost connection with these sacred times in our lives today. Even in our sacred spiritual traditions, they no longer have the same peace, holiness, and edification that they once represented. We gather for our dedicated sacred time out of habit or worse guilt. In our daily lives, we do not dedicate sacred time due to trying to fill time.
Sacred time is prayer and meditation, but not limited to. Sacred time can be a dedicated time, but not limited to this. Sacred time has a flow and feel about it. We do not call for it, but it calls for us. Sacred time slows our minds from a static-like chatter to thoughtfulness, reflective rewiring of voices that are not our own. Sacred time allows the body to reconnect to the Earth, the Sky, and to each other. To rid itself of toxic, stored energies that cause pain and dis-ease. Sacred time allows our spirit to connect with the Multiverse, God, Goddess, Divine Energy to draw positive energies, wisdom, love, and Light into our complete being so that we may flow with an ancient cycle.
It is possible to flow in and out of sacred time throughout your day. Weaving into the mundane the magic that is all around you....all you have to do is flow with YOUR TIME!
Example: you are rushing to your work, dropping off kids, making sure you are not hitting the car in front of you, watching for pedestrians, traffic cops, and wayward squirrels. Have any of you been there? It is 7:50am, your clock-in time is 8:00am. Yes, you set your alarm one hour earlier, just like the self-help guru suggested and yes you really did it, however you put on a load of clothes, started the crock pot for dinner, and walked the dog in that extra hour. Oh and you made your grocery list too don't forget that. So now, you are rushing through the parking lot and trying to find a spot at your work that your "safety-officer" won't write you up for parking in an unauthorized parking space, because the "safety police" took your license plate number to ensure you do not park where you aren't authorized to and can now dock your paycheck. Yes, this really happens! You run down the hill, you almost loose your balance carrying in lunch, tote bag, and trying to put on lipstick or deodorant. You have just been in Chronos time!! Chronos time is ordinary time measured in minutes, seconds, hours, days, weeks, years, etc. We live our life in Chronos time in order to function in our world. You come to a screeching halt as an orange butterfly lands on a dandelion in front of you. The butterfly is a very bright orange, with purple patches on the wings, and it flutters up and floats suspended in front of your face. You see tiny, shiny-black eyes looking into your own. You feel the slight flutter of the breeze on your face that its wings make. You catch a scent of an unknown flower and the butterfly floats away toward the now rising sun. You just entered Kyros Time which is God's Time. It is the time that simply is. Kyros time is unmeasured time. This is one way that sacred time is woven into the fabric of our ordinary/mundane time...... In that moment with the butterfly, you were in sacred time which seemed to stand still....I think Einstein called it relativity.....
