The Wild Feminine SoulCollage(R) Card
Today, I’ve been watching a movie about Marion Woodman, and musing
on how to begin my Creative Circle classes next week. Feeling kind of tired
after a busy holiday season, which began over a month ago in early December, I’ve
been resting and napping, and wondering when my energy will return so I can get
back to work. Even though I don't feel very creative right now, isn’t that part of feminine nurturance and the wisdom of the
body? That it can’t always be about producing, or brain work, but that
sometimes you have to nurture the body, rest, eat simple food, get out in
nature and walk in the snowy forest. Then the creative cycle begins again.
I was lucky enough to attend a workshop with Woodman many
years ago in Montreal on the three faces of the Feminine - Maiden, Mother,
Crone. Her life’s work has been to understand and work with the sacred
feminine, about the inner marriage with the sacred masculine, and how that union can heal the world. She talks with Andrew
Harvey in the film about this big challenge we have now, to stop destroying the
planet, the world we live on.
She recounts a significant dream she had one day of the Dark
Madonna, a big black face-less goddess, who kept telling her to kneel lower,
until she lay flat on the ground in the mossy earth and felt part of the living
pulse of the earth. She says in the film that the message was to learn humility.
The dark feminine involves embracing the body: by lying on the moss, the earth,
this spinning planet we live on that is our mother, who feeds us physically. (Paraphrase from film Dancing
in the Flames)
By taking care of our bodies, we are also nurturing our
connection with the earth, with the sacred feminine. www.dancingintheflames.com
Add to this a recent message in my inbox from Dr Christiane
Northrup, who suggests if you make only one resolution, let it be this:
“I've
come to see that our bodies are the true altars—the most sacred places in our
lives. That’s why my top resolution for women this year is simple: ‘Listen to
and respect your body more than you have ever done before.’”
She says in her newsletter: Your body needs regular doses of comfort and
pleasure to be optimally healthy. Without it, you are much more likely to seek
pleasure from external and unsustainable sources and behaviors, including
drugs, alcohol, and sugar.
Read more
here: http://www.drnorthrup.com/monthlywisdom/archive/jan2013.php
In another part of the movie about Marion Woodman’s life’s
journey she says that through dreams, writing, images and creativity, you get
in touch with the Soul inside, the real life, the real god or goddess. “’God
creates’ is the energy that can pull you from a satanic energy that is taking
you into death to a living energy that will take you into your own creation.”
So that is what I wanted to share today – take care of your
body, nurture your soulful connection with creativity, and be prepared to play
in 2013 with the images your soul sends you through dreams, images and poems.
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