I write this to you on this Glorious Green Earth Day, a day set aside to honor and appreciate Mother Earth Gaia. For Her body is our body, Her wind our breath, Her Fire our spirit. May we open to embrace Her and Remember our Oneness.
We move from the greening of Gaia
and the Lady of Communion in the moon of April, to May Day/Beltane, a time of fertility and harvest, the time for reaping the wealth from the seeds that have been sown. This is a holiday of Union--both between the Goddess and the God and between man and woman. Fertility, a symbol of the Great Mother. Let us open our hearts to receive the blessings of the Great Mother, to feel her sweet embrace of unconditional love in this moon of May.
May is a time that we honor our biological Mother or anyone that has shared that role of loving care for us. We give thanks for the way she has nurtured us, feed us, and sustained us. Sometimes the experience of Mother has not always been a healthy one. This is where we can shift to a larger view of Mother and feel another level of greater unconditional Love.
The Great Mother: "She Who Nurtures and Sustains". The way of the Great Mother is receptivity. The gateway to the Great Mother is found through conscious surrender and adoration. We move ourselves into a state of conscious surrender and receptivity through breath, silence, comfort, and the unknown, openness to possibilities, learning to follow the natural flow of what is being presented in our lives. We learn to listen to the impulses held in intuitions and feelings. In working with the Great Mother we learn to pay attention and act on those impulses and feelings. We learn how to surrender into the unknown and trust in this love to guide us.
"Surrender is a cultivated attitude of wakefulness, mindfulness, a willingness to pay attention to the directives of the Divine Self".
Every day of our lives we take from Mother Earth our energy for life. Part of the lesson inherent in this archetype is gratitude. Receptivity begins with gratitude. The act of giving thanks and offering thanksgiving is way to give back for all that we receive.
Realize the greatest gift you can give this Earth and your fellow humans is your own realization of self. In this way, you present the magnificence of your being to everyone who experiences you. Everyone one around you is lifted and inspired in your being, this is the most powerful offering of all.
We are the Great Mother when we extend this gift of unconditional love. When we nurture others, the planet and ourselves. Her holy womb of creation is a fertile place for this love to grow. Each and every thought of gratitude is a seed that is planted deep in the womb of creation where it can flourish, sustain, and thrive.
What is calling to be creatively birthed through you at this time?
What field in your life is fertile for new growth and creative expression?
How the shadow plays out in the human nature of mother, can look like fear of abandonment that causes an imbalanced focus on safety and security and supports fixity and predictability at the expense of freedom and novelty. This can look like over responsibility, over controlling, over nurturing, unconsciously supporting co dependency. Hidden in this shadow of over- nurturing is a deeper collective issue of lack of self worth and self- love.
How does fear of separation and abandonment play out in your life?
If you lived fearlessly knowing that you were always sustained and nurtured, that your needs where always met, how would you respond differently?
The Great Mother instills that seed of knowing deep in our heart womb. When we surrender into the vastness of Her love, the divine flow grows.
May we all know this Love and give from this place of plenty. May we lift the veils of illusion, of lack, and limitation and give from the space of abundance. May we give birth to the New Earth where all are nurtured, all our fed, all are held in this infinite embrace of Love.
We are all being called to be midwives of a Nu Earth.
May we bless this Earth, as Her Body, as Our Body. For we are one!
May the Embodiment of the Great Mother live through each of us...
Enter now into knowing yourself as asacred vessel of Divine Fire Holy, holy are these hand, Her hands,Goddess' hands. Holy, holy are these feet, Her feet, Goddess feet Holy, holy is this heart, Her heart,and Goddess' heart Holy, holy is this mind, Her mind,and Goddess' mind Holy, holy is this voice, Her voice,and Goddess' voice Holy, holy are these eyes, Her eyes, Goddess' eyes Holy, holy is it place of divine inner sight,Her divine sight Holy, holy is this inner sanctum of this templeHer temple, Goddess' temple.
The Universe drums with the heartbeat of the Goddess held in our sacred bodies.Happy Mothers Day one and All!Jai Ma
