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I am “sitting” in this amazing circle of women via a telephone call every couple of weeks. It is part of Lisa Schrader’s Awakening Shakti Initiation program she offers to women. Lisa uses the word “Shakti” as an acronym for the life and body of women – teaching us the importance of learning to physically, verbally, emotionally love ourselves so we can love others. She is teaching us how to open ourselves up to saying “yes” to the Divine – no matter where we are on our journey. The class is bringing amazing healing to myself and my Shakti Sisters, awakening the life force of our wombs to birth and nurture a rebirth into the World.
As we celebrate Christmas today, I am finding it amazing that this circle is just one place where I am seeing the working of a man I have labeled Jesus show up…pointing me towards the Spiritual Truth of just how big the Divine really is because S/He lives in each one of us. S/He is represented by both the masculine and the feminine, by both the dark and the light. I will share more on this tomorrow.
For now, I wanted to share one of my Shakti sisters writings. Even though we have turned the “corner” with the Winter Solstice and we are now headed to the cycle of Light, winter is still a time of overall Darkness outside – and metaphorically inside as we slow down, rest and learn to turn inwards to mend and tend to our souls.
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Embrace the darkness. Love the darkness. Be the darkness. For it is in embracing the dark winter Yin shadow underworld that we find true salvation, true harmony, true integration, love, wholeness. Feel it ALL. Feel the pain, sadness, fear, anger, and LOVE it, celebrate it, allow it to permeate every cell of your being- DO NOT push it away or try to make it any different or replace it with light, for it is in prizing the light and putting down the dark that we have perpetrated duality and division on this planet.
Throughout history the dark has been suppressed/repressed in favor of the light- the Yin/intuition/being in favor of the Yang/action/doing, the Black in favor of the White, the Goddess in favor of the God, pain in favor of pleasure. It is time for healing and integration, loving and celebrating the dark as well as the light. Allow her in… She is Shakti life force expressing in all her fullness and diversity. She is this Earthly primal body and the forces of Nature- the storms and earthquakes as well as the sunny summer days. It is by not embracing the darkness, that it boils up inside, erupting in volatility and insanity, in a desperate cry to be seen, loved, held, heard, allowed. We must allow our children, inner and outer, to feel all they feel, and envelop them in love.
Feel the darkness, the hard emotions, the fullness of life. Go into this dark winter, the last days of this cycle, the last weeks of the Water Dragon, this death, with your whole being. Swim in this ocean, let it wash over and through you, savor the peace and stillness, and the sweet smile, that comes from allowing. Rest in it, receive it, let its tenderness, its beauty, its pain, its magic fill you, for within our fears, grief, anger, as within our joy, there is deep wisdom and guidance. Within the darkness are the seeds of flowers aching to burst forth in Spring and emanate the most radiant light.
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Leiah Lauren Michele Borowsky
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A beautiful picture of the symbolic union of “dark/light” in the union of the masculine and feminine. Neither are holy right nor sinfully wrong, they are mere representations of this concept of “dark/light”.
We need both in order to understand the fullness of the Divine. |
The mistake that people make when they say that God is beyond the pairs of opposites is to think that the transcendent is a combination of the two opposing forces.
One of the definitions of Holy is free from sin and evil. This means that the divine is beyond sin and evil, not a mixture of good and evil.
See my post In Holistic Language.
Michael E. East.
I was going to refer you to my new post that goes up today…but it is not up yet. But I go into further detail about this for I would have to argue that we need what we call “evil” and “sin” in order to understand “good”. There is a link on this post at the end to a man’s work who explains this concept much better than I….but I do think we have attempted to use language in a physical world to describe an abstract world…one in which what you might call Holy the Muslim calls profane and vice versa….which leads us right back to the battle between which tribe is right instead of asking if both could be right…and lead to peace and understanding between tribes. Hope you will read my next post!