Reflecting the Goddess

Journal Notes:

All women are a reflection, 
a mirror of the Goddess. 

Remember, you are the Universe figuring itself out. 
So, of course you are identical to the female aspect of divinity.

— Robin Rumi

I know myself to be ONE with the GODDESS.

Yet, it both frightens and empowers me to think that I AM the Universe figuring itself out. How terrifying this enormity of responsibility!  How wonderful this infinite and vastly creative, unknown realm of possibility...  

I know this unfathomable thought to be true; the way my thoughts and divine inspiration weave together creating this unspeakably beautiful fabric of life. The way I dance with energy and move between the veils... And the way I catch fleeting glimpses of unimaginable radiance amid the most mundane acts of being ... 

The mirror is revealed: How like the Moon there is hidden, a side of myself I have never fully seen, nor truly know, and even so, I intuitively and profoundly do as I effortlessly radiate its inner light! 

When I embody the Goddess, I feel Her presence. I hear Her words of wisdom so clearly. In these moments I am stronger, wiser, and more graceful communing with the energies surrounding me. 

Other times, when I am heavy in my woman soul; lost in the tangible softness of this flesh and blood and bone body, I may become overwhelmed. Feeling so weary and weak and fearful of the unknown, I ache with longing to be held in higher consciousness, in Truth and in LOVE. I wait to hear whispered words that would comfort and allow me to rest in the timelessness of peaceful space. I also wait for inner guidance to show me vistas beyond my knowing.

These dual aspects of my essence constantly breathe me in, and breath me out... Entering and letting go of consciousness - I forever keep rhythm with Her cosmic heartbeat. 

There is a sacredness in the most ordinary things when I realize how interwoven and entangled, how forever whole and ONE I am with She Who Is All Things. She is both the womb and the tomb... She is the Source of constant change, revitalization, regrowth, renewal and rebirth. She is the holy cycle of life, death, rest and rebirth; and so am I. 

Her wisdom bids me to follow the sacred flow. To let go and allow Her essence to radiate in me. To be as the moon basking in Her light for a time, and then, for a time glowing as if lit from within.

In moments of clarity and certain knowing, I am profoundly grateful to be alive; to be walking this path of beauty with the Goddess whom I mirror in all ways.

Aren't you? 

Key Suggestion:

Reflect upon the ways in which you mirror the Goddess, and with sacred intentions consider how powerful, beautiful, wise and wonderful you truly are!

She Who is Complete in Herself

There are some things that cannot be spoken. 

These things are carried on the dark wings of wisdom.

I came across this quote, today:

Her womb from her body. Separation. Her clitoris from her vulva. Cleaving. Desire from her body. We were told that bodies rising to heaven lose their vulvas, their ovaries, wombs; that her body in resurrection becomes a male body.
― Susan Griffin, Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

As I read those words, I thought: 

Who told us this is so?

My spirit cried out: 
That cannot be true! Why should a female body, upon rising from this earth, become a male body?

I have not heard of this theory, before. Have you? But there have been claims always which infer that being male is far superior to being female. This type of patriarchal thinking has waged war against the female and her body for ages... 

Countless daughters of Mother Earth have had our wombs taken and our clitoris cut from our bodies. Many spend our entire lives ignoring or silencing our desires, shaming our bodies, hiding our power; all because we have been told that being born female comes with inherent sin, and therefore, we are tainted, worthless or unworthy, that we should forget the carnal pleasure of our woman bodies and focus on attaining holiness, so we can become 'men'? 'there' (in heaven)?? 

Oh no! This will never do! 

The goddess is not an out-there force among the far stars or beyond death, but is here and now and living.
― Diane Stein, The Women's Spirituality Book

The holy, the sacred, the divine, resides within us now. We are alive, here, upon our beloved mothers living body. And, therefore, with holy ritual, with sacred intent, and with divine grace, shouldn't we fully live here now, honoring the divine feminine form of our own beloved flesh, and blood, and bone bodies? 

Sister, we must remember that we are in these sacred, beautiful, soft, flawed, precious, magickal, life giving bodies here and now. Our bodies are holy temples. We are earthy, sexual, sensual, divinely feminine creatures. Women.

We are the daughters of She Who is Complete in Herself. We are the daughters of the Earth, the Sea, the Sky. Heaven is not apart from us. All of creation resides within our being. We are composed of stardust, water and the salts and the minerals of the earth!

Our womb is our spiritual cauldron, where all things are created, where all things are possible. Our clitoris is a blessed gift; pleasure its only purpose. The desires of our body speak the language of our soul and sing us into being, into wholeness. We were born female. We are a reflection of the Goddess, Herself, in all Her many expressions. 

I do not think it less than miraculous that we are born with all the dream seeds (eggs), and more than we will ever need in our maiden ovaries. Each containing infinite possibility. Symbolically, this is as we are - Each of us a tiny, but powerful part of the Goddess; the gift of life, capable of creation.

Frances MacDonald MacNair (1873–1921)

To deny us of our female bodies is sacrilege.
To strip us of being, blasphemous. 


My prayer:

Divine Mother of us all,

In this moment, and forever more, I give thanks for this truth. I disregard what I may have been told or still unconsciously believe, which would deny or destroy my goddess essence. I am grateful for my uniquely perfect, (no matter what flaws) woman body. I see Your divine light, grace, strength and beauty in myself. 

Within me, You live. 

Within me, You love. 

Within me, You create.

I am You and You are me. 

Selah  So it is.

Namaste

The goddess in me honors the goddess in you.

Resources:
Daughters of Eve
Daughters of Eve is a non profit organisation that works to protect girls and young women who are at risk from female genital mutilation (FGM).

Glossary:

Selah means stop and listen.

Daughters of the Holy Encoding

As you open your heart and arms to more of my awakening, you become daughters of the Holy Encoding. You dear daughters of knowing, hold within you, a memorandum that is meant for Earth. A message that is encoded with holy calligraphy. A message that you can only read from the inside out.

I ask you now beautiful daughters of the Light, to remember one of your many holy positions. Imagine yourself standing in the center of a temple when you once were part of the holy Order of the Magdalene. The Magdalene was an Order of the sacred feminine teachings that were passed down for 1000’s of years. Teachings of nature and heaven and power and wisdom that has survived thru time and myth.

In your holy text, your body is referred to as a temple. your body is a space of solid light that holds sacred memories, a place you keep your treasures of truth. In days gone by whenever you had to hide and secret something of power, you encoded within and on the body. You physically integrated the sacred encoding. Some of you placed the ashes of the sacred scrolls into oil and rubbed them upon your body. Others ingested what was written to hold its energy.

The order of the Magdalene is encoded within you. It is not a club you join. It is a sacred way of living and being for time immortal.

The next strand of time unravels many secrets as they awaken within the daughters of the stars. It may come in a dream, through a book. It may come through a tattoo or an afternoon sunset. It seeks you as much as you seek it. It has never forgotten your scent. It has never forgotten the lines of time you wear in your soul. It has never forgotten the sound of your voice.

For the one thing that has stayed the same incarnation after incarnation has been the vibration within your voice. That is the reason that sometimes people are repelled by your voice and sometimes others are hypnotized by your voice, for it has always been your calling card, your energy signature, and an activation sound.

Imagine now that you are standing as the beautiful, youthful divine goddess that you inherently are. Your physical body is a luminous temple beaming with love. Stand in the center and look at the walls of your personal inner temple. There are glyphs and sacred writings, hidden truths that seek to be remembered by you and you alone. In your heart place imagine placing your hands and your third eye upon the sacred text that lives in the walls. Now move your heart to it. Let your heart beat with it. It is your heartbeat that will awaken the truths inherent within. It is your heart key.

― Gillian MacBeth-Louthan