Reverence: Creating Ritual in Modern Life

by Christine Marie Mason, Colleen Shelley (Illustrator), Samantha Sleeper (Photographer)

Reverence and ritual help us be more present. The practices in this book can anchor meaning. They help us create a more magical, enchanted and sparkling experience, whether we are celebrating, or healing. Reverence invites us to walk in greater awareness of all the things life the tender, fierce, resilient, calm, despairing, joyous aspects of life. It can make us especially aware of our precious connections to each other and to the planet we are part of. There are personal benefits to living with more ritual and ceremony. One of them is that being completely present in an experience allows us to feel it and release it—we don’t hold on to so much. We walk through life with a lot less baggage and a lot more presence in the moment. When we practice with others, the space between us comes alive, and we don't feel so alone. Join us in Reverence. Sink in to the wonder of being alive. Our love of this life might make us take better care of ourselves, of the world and each other. Ritual, ceremony and devotional space help us live with more enchantment and magic, to live out a cosmology of care and interdependence every day.

147 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2021

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a beautiful coffee table/ altar book that has a lot of great ideas and "recipes" for rituals for daily life as well as big moments. I'm definitely going to try some of the new/ full moon rituals, and I'm already looking forward to my croning ceremony in several years. That said, the world the writers live in must be pretty rarefied, as I don't know too many women who can take off up to 3 days each month to ritualistically celebrate their menses. (Would that we all live in that world..)

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book to inspire and enhance ritual in one’s daily life.