I believe that whenever a baby is born at home, the spirits of the land rejoice.
I often talk about mothering being supported by invisible helpers from the spirit world, but what about pregnancy and birth itself?
When a soul chooses to incarnate in a certain location and the pregnancy is nurtured and witnessed by the spirits of the land, the ancestors, the plant allies and the water spirits.
How would it feel to know that all these well-wishers are conspiring to support you and your baby to have the birth that you desire?
Ask the mountain what it means to stand proud and tall in your birth choices. Ask the river what it means to remain fluid and course correct when necessary. Ask the sea to be with you as the waves of your surges rise and crash and fall only to rise again. Ask the oak tree for wisdom on how long things take to grow. The herbs in the garden have wisdom to know where they thrive best, and so do you.
When we bring ceremony and ritual back to the land, we bless the mother, weave our red threads and close bones upon the bones of all who lived on and loved this land beneath us. As we empty birthing pools onto the soil to nourish and grow other lives.
I believe that whenever a baby is born at home, the spirits of the land rejoice. These last two weeks I've had the pleasure of three closing ceremonies for babies in the spaces they were born. We are bringing birth back to the land.
