This is a totally awesome post! I also feel like there are some missing milestones here. I do not feel like an adult just because I have 'come of age'. I know deep down I really do want ceremonies to guide me and for recognition from my community, in a spiritual way. Its missing, so how to replace that?
I figure the community should be the deciding factor if you reached one of these, as well as spirit, but what if the community doesnt know what is going on yet? I suppose then it falls to myself to start creating such ceremonies for myself and for others. That is a daunting task I think haha, where to start?
If you have any suggestions or ideas on the sorts of ceremonies we could create, id love to hear them so that I could have some basis for how to create my own here. I dont want to delay with this one, it feels pretty important.
I agree that we need to reinstitute meaningful ceremonies to mark important milestones in our lives. The ceremonies that our modern culture does still hold on to have been over commercialized and devalued from their true meaning.
Community should play a vital role in this ceremony building. We also must find a way to make this viable in the current techno - culture in which we live. Our definition of community has broadened beyond the circle of humans in our physical vicinity.
But until we can reconcile this, We should create our own ceremonies. The question of where to begin: Just have fun. It is a celebration after all.