Inrageous/Outrageous Self-Care Enchantments for This Week
As the final blurb in the theme of “mothers†this month, my plan was to write about the Divine Mother, the Divine Feminine. I have struggled with writing this, not because I don’t want to but because I don’t feel I am worthy. I read something a couple of years ago about being a teacher, it was by a well know yogi, I believe, and he basically said that he has nothing to teach any one, all he can do is share about his own life.
This is how I feel. I don’t have anything to teach about the Divine Mother, I don’t know anything more about her than you do, all I can do is share about my personal experience.
I was brought up in a pretty strict Protestant household and remember envying my Catholic girl friends for their relationship with the Virgin Mary. I longed for, no, even more deeply, yearned for a connection with the feminine divinity.
In my deepest being I believed in the power of the Divine Mother but realized I had years of family and cultural conditioning to sort through and discard.
I have spent the last 20 years or so, learning, reading, praying, meditating and connecting with a sacred sense of the Goddess and all I know is that my life is richer as a result. I also include the masculine side and imagine a divinely balanced pair, a Mother/Father pair.
The self-care enchantments for this week are about you and your relationship to spirit, the Divine Feminine, the Divine Mother.
Self Care Enchantments for the week:
1. Use whichever grounding and centering exercise feels right to you. It may be as simple as sitting in silence for a minute or so.
2. Reflect on your beliefs, thoughts, connection and relationship to the Divine Mother.
3. Reflect on your beliefs, thoughts, connection and relationship to the Divine Feminine within yourself!
As always, I would love to hear back from you about your learning process with these enchantments!
namaste,
Zoey
Zoey Ryan
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“Freedom is a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash†– Harriet Rubin
I think the best book I have read that speaks to women, the divine and story is by Clarissa Pinkola Estes called “Women who Run with Wolves”….
this book and a book called The Alphabet VS the Goddess, expressed many themes important to the understanding of womens place and role of the divine.
Maiden, Mother Crone are three states of women…I have been all three and am enjoying crone-dom the most. The divine mother has been richly expressed throughout history.
Raised protestant myself, the virgin Mary was not someone celebrated by my previous religious training.But as a “Rainbow” girl in my youth, listening to a DeMolay boy give a flower talk to honor his own mother, I realize the importance of mother love early.
We all need the balance of mother-father energies in our lives…and we need to model those divine mother attributes so our own daughters can know the way to also be inspired when they reach their own claiming of their inherent divinity!
Blessings and love,
Aley
Aley, yes, thank you for reminding us of two very important books, I had forgotten about “Women Who Run With The Wolves”. Also, your beautiful words about our modeling of divine mother attributes gave me shivers! Imagine if all girls everywhere grow up knowing their goddess within!
Deep bows to you, darling Aley