Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers.

I'm your host, Deb Bowie, with a new installment of my Wisdom from Deb episodes.

So if it's safe and comfortable for you to do so, sit back, drop your shoulders, take a deep breath, and close your eyes. And if you can't close your eyes, at and close your eyes.

And if you can't close your eyes, at least drop your shoulders and take a deep breath.

So all around the world, every day, in every culture, rituals, ceremonies, celebrations, and deities are being honored and worshipped. It truly makes me feel a part of such a larger family to know that throughout history,

and at this very moment, my brothers and sisters around the world are creating rituals and altars. But why have

people historically created rituals and altars? And why do people around the world continue to do so?

What needs and desires within us do rituals, altars, and ceremonies fill.

But here are some things to think about and suggestions.

Rituals, altars, and ceremonies help us to connect the heart to the sacred in a common purpose. We see manifestations of these commonalities in the symbols

used across cultures, prayer be, handles, incense, certain colors, cardinal points of the compass,

the elements of fire, air, earth, water, and in some beliefs, metal.

They invite us to lower our defenses between ourselves, each other, and something greater than

ourselves.

The essential element of ritual is connection.

This includes prayer, meditation, or honoring of some entity that we perceive as powerful or omnipotent. Think of the worship of the mother goddess

for fertility, both of the land and of people, the oldest form of worship we know. It's often symbolized by that

very round, fertile image of a woman. Altars, rituals, ceremonies remind us to mark the passage of time

and the passage of the seasons. Cultures around the globe mark the passage of time and the passage of the seasons.

Cultures around the globe mark the passing of days, of the seasons, of years, with ritualistic behaviors.

Sometimes those demarcations are in praise and thanksgiving, sometimes in reflection and

contemplation, sometimes in honoring and thanksgiving, sometime in reflection and contemplation,

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