Welcoming IxCacao
the Mayan Goddess of Chocolate and Abundance
Beloved IxCacao, we welcome your love and compassion into our lives. Help us to open and heal our hearts so that we may know the abundant joy of loving the lives we live. Thank you for giving us Cacao to nurture our bodies and bring love into our hearts, and joy into our lives.
Connecting to the Cacao Tree and its Fruit
Draw your attention to the picture of the cacao tree and its pods. Connect your awareness to the tree and visualize the warmth of the Sun, the cool of the night, the pure water, and the rocks and minerals in the soil nourishing the tree. Become aware of the trees giving birth to healthy fruit and seeds.
Send the chocolate tree energy and support.
Pick up your ceremonial cacao packet and hold it to your heart as we pray:
Generous Cacao Tree, thank you for nourishing me with your vitamins and minerals. Thank you for supporting my ability to unconditionally love so that I may be generous to all the life that surrounds me. Thank you for the joy you give through your delicious flavor and uplifting energy.
Preparing the Cacao
Open the package and pour the ceremonial cacao into your mug. Place your hands over the mug and allow the energy of the cacao to travel through your hands and arms into your heart. Become aware of where, how, when, and why your heart may have been hurt, broken, shut down, or dismissed. Give your heart and yourself permission to feel, to heal, to be comforted, to be strengthened, to be transformed. Bring your hands up to your heart as we pray as the Mayans did:
Ixcanil, Goddess of Seed, hear me.
Ixtoq, Goddess of Pain, help me.
Ixcacao, Goddess of Chocolate, see my tears and come to my aid.Ixhuitaca, Goddess of Love and Pleasure, open my heart and let love transform my life.
Now pour hot water into your mug. In silence take your spoon and stir the cacao until it melts. Add the sweetener and spices of your choosing. When you are ready, take your first sip and savor it in your mouth before swallowing.
The Healing and Heart Awakening
Pick up your instrument and follow the facilitator as the initial rhythm is set. Allow the cacao to guide you deep into your heart. As the music plays follow your awareness into the feelings, thoughts, memories, and experiences that can now be accepted, forgiven, and released. Continue to sip your cacao to move more deeply into the compassionate tenderness through which you will free yourself. Allow yourself to rise from the depths of hurt into the joy of redemption and the freedom of hope. Drink as much of the cacao as feels right for you. You do not need to finish all of it. Relax into the process and let Ixcacao love you.
Acknowledging Transformation and Envisioning the Future
As the music comes to an end, become aware of any changes you are feeling. Breathe in pink energy and feel the expansion in your chest cavity.
What would your heart like to express now?
Give your heart a voice. Write down the vision your open heart is sharing with you on your card.
As you share this vision with those on this cacao journey, light your candle. Visualize yourself living this vision with the support of all in attendance. See love lighting up your life in wonderful and expansive ways.
Giving Thanks and Blessing Chocolate
Now that you have experienced the generosity and joy of cacao, try to remember this heart awakening whenever you eat anything with chocolate in it. Use the power of your heart to make life delicious by honoring the joy and strength to be found in loving others and being loved by them. We pray:
Ixcacao, thank you for loving us and awakening the power of our hearts. Instill in us an appreciation for all that we have and all that we are so that we may celebrate the goodness and beauty in life and create more of it wherever we are.
