Red Tent Kauai

A Red Tent is a vision I believe so many women deep down desire. I feel it is something that is necessary and we all deserve a place to gather with our sisters and bleed onto the earth. A few women on the island have been dreaming of creating a "red tent". I had my old teepee here on Kauai that I had sold after it begin to mold and the woman who bought it painted it red and was using it as a womens' moon lodge. I ran into her in Bali and she shared that she was now living in Ubud and the teepee was still on Kauai and not being used. Right away my heart fluttered with excitement as I knew our vision was about to become reality.

We ended up manifesting the teepee back and decided to set it up on our friends land where a handful of amazing women are now living. This last week a group of us sisters harvested 17 bamboo poles, and then we took some time preparing them. We also mended any small holes in the teepee canvas. (I bought it new in 2007 so its gotten some use!) On the new moon, we came together in ceremony to raise the teepee. We each shared a prayer for the lodge as we wrapped the rope around the poles securing them in place. Around dusk a group of twenty women gathered and sat as one in the lodge. We prayed together as women, sisters, mothers, lovers.

My dear sis Mila shared this about our New Moon Red Tipi/Tent Ceremony: "Yesterday was a dream come true! We raised our Womens' Moon Lodge on the land here on Kauai ~ our Red Tent teepee ~ to be a sacred space for women to gather each New Moon to honor and celebrate our divine gifts, to share power through song and story, to plant seeds of intention for what we wish to manifest on earth! It feels so good to bring these traditions back into our world, to make them our own, and pass them along to our future generations."

~As we begin to remember, we begin to step into the light that has always been. Sacred spaces like these have existed for of years. There is a reason for them and my prayer is that more women begin to create their own versions of the Red Tent.

Harvesting

Mending

Wrapping round our Prayers

Coming together

Angelea who is ten years old, smudged us all.

Teepee still needs some adjusting to lay right. Saving that for another day!

Our first circle up

Naia enjoying the fire and song circle.

Women fire starters making it happen!

Releasing the old to bring in the new.

This is for all the Goddesses calling in a sacred space! You are empowered, beautiful, supported and can manifest anything your heart desires! Love from all your Island sisters!