Greetings.
There are so many things on my 'writing list', and many more arrive each day. With Neptune doing a huge fly-by, the visions and inspirations arise, but the focus and will to the activa is a bit murkier.
One challenge in sharing from Sophia -- by any of Her names -- is that there is rarely a clear-cut 'start' or 'finish' to 'an experience' with or of Her. She's everywhere, and in everything, and one message or image seems directly connected to something before it, and catalyzing of something after it!
That said, I was blessed by a most beautiful, and beautifully unexpected, vision of and from Her recently. Our sacred sister and Diva, Carla Sanders, shared the gift of a guided 'womb centering' visualization recently. It was an incredibly powerful meditation, and for me, helped to activate and invite conscious connection with the Great Heart-Earth Intelligence that Ramakrishna called "our Divine Mother."
Here is a short (and of course inadequate) summary of the visitation, shared with the intention that perhaps it may connect you to Her presence as well.
Out of the void, yet still in it (and it in Her), emerged the unquestionably powerful Divine Mother -- shiny black as obsidian, and extremely fierce, with a lava-flow of brilliant long, red tresses (the word that seems more appropriate here than 'hair'). Her power was raw and rippling -- vibrant and exquisitely alive. First She gave me a perfect pink conch shell, large enough to settle into both of my hands. Then a spiral formed in and through Her energy. And then She gathered me to her in a fierce embrace. At first, this was somewhat frightening, as if she was going to devour me. But then instantly an unexpected tenderness, as if she were lovingly holding a small child. Then, again, I was standing, and she put her healing hand on my heart charka and my throat chakra and my lips, clearing, healing, activating. Then the image simply dissolved back into dark energy Void (dark meaning 'Well' or deep-Source, and Ultimate Mystery).
As often happens these days, in the days after this blessed visitation, information and insight found its way to me to confirm, deepen, and expand upon the experience and my understanding of it. As has happened before, and as is understood by mystics throughout the ages, there is a great yearning to go back into that powerful, loving, fierce embrace and connection. But that is to assume -- to THINK -- that it is not always present in one of Her many forms and pathways.
There is a meditation in Hallie Iglehart Austen's wonderful book, The Heart of the Goddess, in Austen's essay on Vajravarahi. Austen's meditation to Vajravarahi implores Her to remind us that fierceness, power, and compassion come from the same Source -- our Divine Mother in partnership with her Beloved, the Divine Father. Austen also asks Vajravarahi -- the fierce, powerful, 'Dark' (feared), and compassionate essence of Goddess or Sophia, the Divine Mother -- to "teach us to feel the beauty, power, and eroticism of my own being."
May it be so. Blessed be!
Until next time, I'm wishing you all very well.
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