8.8
Suggested Time: Sunrise, Sunset, or under the stars (choose based on your intention)

🌿 Preparation: The Earth is the Altar

• Find a place in nature, or create a sacred space in your home with earth elements—stones, feathers, fire, water, and offerings for the ancestors.
• Bring your drum, rattle, or native flute if it calls to you.
• Prepare a candle, a journal, and a bowl of water to represent the ether and the ancestral realm.

🌀 Opening the Directions 

Begin with a traditional calling in of the Seven Directions, Above, Below, and Within. 

• “I open the East, where the rising Sun greets me—vision, clarity, and new beginnings.”
• “I open the South, the path of fire and transformation, of heart and courage.”
  
• “I open the West, where the waters of emotion and the ancestors flow.”
  
• “I open the North, the place of wisdom, the elders, and grounded presence.”
  
• “I open to the Sky Nation above, the Earth below, and the Great Mystery within.”

Offer smoke, song, or silence. Allow Spirit to arrive.

✨ Ceremonial Flow

Cleansing with Water + Sound

• Dip your fingers in the bowl of water and anoint your third eye, heart, and solar plexus.
• Use your drum or rattle slowly to clear energy around you.
• Say aloud:
  “I cleanse the mind, the body, the field. I am open to receiving the starfire light.”
  

 Guided Invocation

Speak aloud…

• “On this sacred day, beneath the gaze of Sirius and the radiant Sun, I call upon the wisdom of the Sky People, the ancestors of the stars and Earth.
  
• I stand at the threshold of the Lion’s Gate—not as someone seeking power, but as someone remembering it.
  
• I honor the master within me. I listen for the guidance of my soul.
  
• I offer myself as a vessel for the light of truth, love, and service.”

Activation with Breath + Visualization

Breath pattern
4 counts in – Hold for 4 – 4 counts out – Hold for 4
(Repeat 8 times)

• As you breathe, imagine a beam of radiant golden-white light descending from Sirius and the Great Central Sun, entering your crown, illuminating each ring of power in your body.
  
• Feel it awaken your divine essence, your medicine, your remembrance. Let the light spiral through your chakras, your soul memory, your cellular being.

Reflection or Journaling

• What am I remembering about who I truly am?
• What part of me is ready to step forward through the gate?
• How is my soul asking me to serve at this time?
• What do I need to release to walk in full truth?

Let tears come. Let silence fall. Let Spirit speak.

Closing Prayer + Earth Offering

Stand barefoot if you can. Hold your hands to the sky.

• “Creation, Ancestors, Sky Family—I thank you for the light, the lessons, and the remembering.
  
• May what I received today ripple outward as service, truth, and sacred action.
  
• I walk forward through this gate with courage. I carry the fire with love.”
• Place a flower, seed, or sacred herb in the Earth as a final offering.

🌟 Aftercare

• Drink lots of water. Rest.
• Be mindful in the days that follow—messages, dreams, synchronicities may rise.
• Keep the journal close. The portal continues to ripple for days after 8.8.

Aho.