No one celebrates better than the Brazilians on New Year’s Eve. No Hollywood premiere or awards show, no Royalty Wedding, no political inauguration even compares to the massive party in Brazil. It is an incomparable combination of beauty, decadence, spirituality, joy, love, unity and sheer fun!
Everyone dresses in white and goes to the beach. Now, I don’t mean like most costume parties in which there are always a few party-poopers that don’t dress up and wont leave the kitchen. I mean, literally, everyone dresses in their finest whites and packs every beach from Rio to the small villages in Bahia. It is a vision of beautiful loveliness.
It is summertime and the weather is warm and so are the hearts of the people. There are no cliques or people trying to be “cool” or pretentious. It doesn’t matter if you are extremely wealthy (and there are people so rich in Brazil, they fill their swimming pools with Evian water!) or if your home is under a palm tree, everyone parties together! There is a magical feeling of harmony and connectedness.
There are bands playing music and people dancing everywhere – even in the ocean. You can go into anyone’s house along the beach and be served delicious food and make instant best friends. There are fireworks going off and the party lasts all night.
On New Year’s Eve, they celebrate a Goddess of the sea named Yemaya. She was originally a West African Goddess brought to Brazil by the slaves and now has become a fully realized Brazilian Goddess of prosperity and abundance. To ask Yemaya to answer their prayers, worshippers come to the shoreline with flowers and candles as offerings. They place them in the ocean and then jump seven waves to ask her to bless them. It is gorgeous to see the ocean filled with candles and flowers and it makes the night filled with magic, hope and dreams. When was the last time you went to a party with your intentions, goals and resolutions?
Now that you have fully realized that you are a Goddess, its time for you to celebrate! You’ve worked hard, challenged yourself and now its time to let your hair down, step off the pedestal and have some outrageous fun! Life is far too short, you blink and years speed by. Why not?
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