Ceremonial Cacao as your facilitator into your clarity
We can experience and consume a lot of content, it’s understandable why we would desire to turn to a slower-led life. The beautiful spirit of cacao will melt your thoughts into your heart, soften your edges, and expand your innerchild’s curiosities. Cacao is widely known as a mothering spirit, and when we were not in a colonial society, shared amongst tribes and gatherings in Central American + Mexico, as a food substance and to connect to the Divine for the benefit of all. She will beckon you to release, but only if you desire to, gently unfurling your brow from whatever analytical thoughts have been circulating in your day. She opens your emotional body and subtle body to allow a surrendering of a truer essence of who you TRULY are.
If you’ve ever been interested in exploring plant magik, Ceremonial Cacao will receive your heart’s desires gracefully. We recommend She was designed for being seen + heard, for introspection and also should be treated with great reverence for her teachings. Most importantly, she will help you discover your feels and invite you to a slower pace of life.
The Ritual
- Consciously bring clarity and awareness to your intention. If there’s one thing we would desire you to takeaway is that ceremony begins as soon as you deicide and intend to commune with any plant spirit. Make your intention clear yet simple, as you are weaving a web of unfolding attached to the intelligence of cacao. As you prepare your cacao and pick your favorite mug, find a cozy area to sit and ask to be left alone for the duration of your deep-dive. Set a clear time container, maybe it’s 20 minutes for the whole process. Pour your cacao and place next to you. Close your eyes.
- Notice the Before. A simple body scan. Start at the top of your head, visiting each chakra with your awareness, finishing at the base of your spine. Send a grounding cord of any color, into the heart of the earth. Send all thought forms into the earth, thanking her for transmuting and holding anything that is no longer serving you.
- Flow your gratitude into your cup. Reconnect with your hot cup of ceremonial cacao. Giving thanks to where this beautiful plant spirit came from, the farmers who tended and harvested her. You can thank her for any memories she brought you joy when you consumed chocolate, you can speak your gratitude into your cup. Ask her for guidance in your intention around clarity. If you feel stuck, you can ask: What is blocking me from my next steps? Where in my life do I need to slow down? Where should I pour my energy into? Where do I need to call my energy back?
- Sip your cacao. As you bring your cup pressed against your heart, feel into the warm of your cup. Feel into the comfort she brings, like a cozy cat on your lap or fuzzy socks in the middle of winter. With each sip, imagine the love you spoke is being poured back into the areas you need it most. Be with your experience.
- Engage your senses. Feel into the warmth of your cup, the increase heart rate in your chest, maybe even slight tingles to your arms and legs. Recognize and The awakened presence you feel into, almost as if time has slowed down.
- Bonus: Now from a place of receptivity, you can choose to move your body, journal, go into nature, or a combination of all three. This is to nurture a place of freeform embodiment, without judgements.
- Put on this curated playlist to guide your thoughts or movement.
- Follow these journal prompts:
- What wisdom do you have to share with me?
- What feelings have been repressed that are now able to have a light shined on them?
- Where are my next steps that includes this wisdom?
The plant magik of ceremonial cacao grants us a nurturing experience into the self and creates the container of deep introspection. Mama Cacao will reveal and reflect back your intentions, so remember to express deep gratitude as you cultivate this reciprocal relationship. As you continue on your path surrendering into the wisdom of cacao, be gentle and allow the intelligence of cacao to unfold before your very heart.