Meditation: April 1st, 2025

Physical Setting & Preparation

Find a place where laughter might echo freely, perhaps near an open window where the spring breeze can carry your chuckles or outdoors where the birds might join your merriment. Bring something that makes you smile—a colorful flower, a pretty stone with a face drawn on it, or even a small mirror to catch your own grin. Sit comfortably, but perhaps a bit askew from your usual posture—after all, today is a day for breaking patterns! Place your hands on your belly, the seat of laughter. Take three deep breaths that end with a slight smile, feeling the lightness of spring filling your being as we step into the first day of April, the month of earth's greatest jokes: flowers that appear where once was only mud

Opening Invocation | Fosgladh

Fàilte ort, a' chiad là den Ghiblean, là nan amadan!
(Welcome to you, first day of April, day of fools!)

A' Mhàthair Talamh, tha mi a' cluinntinn do ghàire anns na h-uillt a' ruith.
(Mother Earth, I hear your laughter in the runn…