Dreamingclaw (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dreamingclaw) wrote,@ 2003-03-24 15:18:00 |
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Despacho....
I got asked again today what a despacho is... so here is the explanation I got in writing when I started this path...
"The word Despacho is Spanish. The Quechua word is Haywarikuy.
Despacho needs to be made in the moment from whatever is available.
When energy is bound in the luminous body it ferments. The despacho frees the energy.
We unbind the energy that is bound into matter.
In the same way, a stick in the fire is setting free the sunlight that wraps itself around the tree as the world revolves around it. (Buckminster Fuller)
Despachos can be buried in the earth and the earth eats it slowly. Pachamama transforms it. Earth and Fire are consuming and concentrating. Water and Air are dispersing. Don't do a despacho that way.
As a shaman, do a despacho collaboratively with the client. And remember sacred theater. Plastic bags don't cut it!
You make kintus to the Ayni issue. (Kintus, three leaves, face up, stem down. Can be bay or mint leaves for example.) In the Native American way we pray with an element of earth, never only with your head.
Ayni despacho has three types of elements.
1) to the earth. Red - leaves, flowers, sweets, etc.,
2) to the mountains. White - rice, sugar, white chocolate, etc., llama fat
3) to the stars. Silver and Gold. Multicolored sprinkles for our diversity. Alphabet soup noodles for our words. The prayer to be in balance and harmony. Yellow flowers for harmony. Pink for balance of red and white.
You can pass a lodestone over it when complete to magnetize your prayers!
The despacho becomes alive and begins to draw into itself the things that need to be taken. The Indians would sit around when it was completed and if anything needed to be drawn in, the shaman would say "Do you remember when…?" and with humor would weave a strand. The strands become available. The Indians talk about this in terms of weaving. It usually does this itself but you assist the tying of the strands where needed by your conversation."
In my view it is a prayer bundle. An effort to align ourselves with the divine. Ayni is balance, it is alignment, and it is calm. An Ayni despacho is a way of giving back and honoring that which we have been given. Food, home, family, etc. and a way to bring us back into alignment with ourselves, and the divine.
It is difficult to describe. I have one regular attendee that describes it as a Prayer meeting. Another that describes it as a circle. The experience is unique and varied (in my experience) as the people attending.
I got asked again today what a despacho is... so here is the explanation I got in writing when I started this path...
"The word Despacho is Spanish. The Quechua word is Haywarikuy.
Despacho needs to be made in the moment from whatever is available.
When energy is bound in the luminous body it ferments. The despacho frees the energy.
We unbind the energy that is bound into matter.
In the same way, a stick in the fire is setting free the sunlight that wraps itself around the tree as the world revolves around it. (Buckminster Fuller)
Despachos can be buried in the earth and the earth eats it slowly. Pachamama transforms it. Earth and Fire are consuming and concentrating. Water and Air are dispersing. Don't do a despacho that way.
As a shaman, do a despacho collaboratively with the client. And remember sacred theater. Plastic bags don't cut it!
You make kintus to the Ayni issue. (Kintus, three leaves, face up, stem down. Can be bay or mint leaves for example.) In the Native American way we pray with an element of earth, never only with your head.
Ayni despacho has three types of elements.
1) to the earth. Red - leaves, flowers, sweets, etc.,
2) to the mountains. White - rice, sugar, white chocolate, etc., llama fat
3) to the stars. Silver and Gold. Multicolored sprinkles for our diversity. Alphabet soup noodles for our words. The prayer to be in balance and harmony. Yellow flowers for harmony. Pink for balance of red and white.
You can pass a lodestone over it when complete to magnetize your prayers!
The despacho becomes alive and begins to draw into itself the things that need to be taken. The Indians would sit around when it was completed and if anything needed to be drawn in, the shaman would say "Do you remember when…?" and with humor would weave a strand. The strands become available. The Indians talk about this in terms of weaving. It usually does this itself but you assist the tying of the strands where needed by your conversation."
In my view it is a prayer bundle. An effort to align ourselves with the divine. Ayni is balance, it is alignment, and it is calm. An Ayni despacho is a way of giving back and honoring that which we have been given. Food, home, family, etc. and a way to bring us back into alignment with ourselves, and the divine.
It is difficult to describe. I have one regular attendee that describes it as a Prayer meeting. Another that describes it as a circle. The experience is unique and varied (in my experience) as the people attending.
