the cosmic roots of marriage

When a man and woman unite in marriage, their personal union draws its power from the cosmic marriage that underlies the whole of existence -- the bonding of the divine masculine and feminine energies emerging from the Creator's Infinite Light to generate existence, a world, and life.

Winter Solstice is the basis for our date of marriage. We will be joined in Holy Matrimony at 2 pm on December 23rd on a grassy knoll overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Valle de Paradisa of Nicaragua.

The 23rd is two days after the Solstice and the second day the sun has begun to shine longer and brighter. The number 2 is symbolic of relationship; and the relationship that has formed between LiChen and me is a reality where 2 becomes 1.

Gabriel Cousens, MD and his wife, Shanti Golds-Cousens will perform our ceremony based on ancient mysticism of the Kabbalah and the Cherokee peoples' custom, as it pertains to praying to all four directions, Heaven and Earth. My mother and father and LiChen's mother and father will take part in our ceremony so that all four families' lineages are merged into one.

Note: picture attached is from December 23rd, taken just after our ceremony was completed.