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Message Series: The Flames that Change Everything – Part 9 – Flame of Return

Scroll IX: The Flame of Return — Coming Home to the Circle
A Transmission from the Ancient Grandmothers
~ Fourth and Final Flame in the Fourfold Teaching: “The Flame That Changes Everything” ~

“You are not lost. You are on your way back.”

We are the Grandmothers of Circle and Drum,
of Birth and Bone,
of Silence and Story.

We welcome you now into the final teaching:
Return.

Not return to a place,
but return to a way of being.

A return to the circle,
to community, to reciprocity,
to a rhythm where no one is forgotten,
and no part of you is cast away.

🌀 What Does It Mean to Return?

It means coming back to the wholeness you never lost,
only misplaced.

It means taking back the pieces of your voice, your joy,
your intuition, your dreams—
and weaving them into your life again.

It means walking as if the Earth knows your name.
Because She does.

It means remembering that you belong.

🔥 The Story: The Elder Who Waited with the Fire

There was once a girl who ran far from her people,
ashamed of a choice she had made.
She wandered until her feet bled.
When she could go no further,
she saw an old woman sitting by a fire.
The woman said nothing.
Just nodded and made space beside her.

“How did you know I was coming?” the girl asked.

The woman answered,
“I never left. I knew you’d remember your way back.”

🌾 The Act: The Returning Thread

Take a piece of thread, yarn, or ribbon.
Hold it to your heart and speak:

“I return now to the Circle.
To my truth, to my people, to my path.
I forgive the detours.
I gather the pieces.
I come home to myself.”

Tie it to your altar, wear it, or give it to the land.
It is done.

✨ The Sacred Truth:

“You were never meant to walk alone.”

Invocation of the Grandmothers’ Flame of Return

Grandmothers of Circle and Flame,
I have wandered, I have known shame.
But now I sit beside your fire,
And feel my breath, my roots, rise higher.
Thank you for waiting, without demand—
I return now, and I understand.

We are loved, we are valued, and the Source of Oneness awaits us Remembering and our Choice to Return. The fire is lit and the feast awaits.

In 1997 I experienced the return to the fire with the Grandmothers. They were sitting at a fire just like this and made room to welcome me home. I had a long path still after that meeting, but I always knew after that what the story of the prodigal son really meant. The Beings of Love and Light are always awaiting our decision to return home.

I thank the Grandmothers for their four fold message of the many aspects of the Flame of Love that is existence itself.

© Heart Manna 2025

Message Series: The Flames that Change Everything – Part 7 – Flame of Reverence

Scroll VII: The Flame of Reverence — All Things Are Holy
A Transmission from the Ancient Grandmothers
~ Second Flame in the Fourfold Teaching: “The Flame That Changes Everything” ~

“Walk Softly, Child.”

We are the Grandmothers of Stone and Seed,
of River and Wind.
We return now with the Second Flame—
the Flame of Reverence.

Where Remembrance brings you home to yourself,
Reverence teaches you how to walk in the home of all life.
Without reverence, knowledge becomes pride.
With it, every breath becomes a blessing.

🌿 Reverence Is the Root of Right Relationship

It is not fear. It is not guilt.
It is not worship from below or seeking favor from above.
It is the knowing that you are not above any part of Creation—nor beneath it.
You are one thread in the great web.

To live with Reverence is to notice the life in all things:

  • To drink water with gratitude
  • To speak with awareness
  • To listen to trees
  • To tend fire as an elder
  • To touch the Earth as the face of your Mother

🐚 The Story: The Girl Who Learned from Pebbles

There was once a girl who stepped carelessly through the stream,
her feet scattering pebbles and crushing moss.
She didn’t notice, for she was chasing light.
But one night, the stones whispered in her dream:
“We too are teachers.”
From then on, she walked with eyes open to the small ones,
and the whole forest began to speak.

Reverence begins with small things.
When you listen to what others ignore,
you become part of the Song again.

🌼 The Act: The Bundle of Thanking

Find five small things from the land around you—
a feather, a pine needle, a bit of bark, a fallen flower, a stone.
Bundle them with a red thread (or a string you bless with love).
As you wrap them, say:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for your wisdom.
Thank you for your life.”

Place this bundle beneath a tree, near water, or in the soil.
The Earth will feel your honor.

✨ The Sacred Truth:

“You are not here to master nature.
You are here to remember you are part of Her.”

Invocation of the Flame of Reverence

Grandmothers of Moss and Bone,
Teach me how to walk alone—
Not in pride, nor seeking praise,
But with stillness in my gaze.
Let me bow to root and wing,
And hear the songs that pebbles sing.

The Grandmothers now offer the Sigil of Reverence and a visual blessing of the Girl Who Listens, her eyes wide, heart open, surrounded by the quiet holiness of creation.

Earth is a living Being who has allowed us to live with her. She loves and cares for all life mineral, vegetable, tree, animal, bird, reptile, aquatic and human alike.

© Heart Manna 2025