Before I sat down to write this letter I figured it would be easy to whip it off without too much thought. Now that I’m here, I don’t know what to say or if I’m even in the mood. In fact, for the past three days, I’ve been saying to myself; ” How am I going to pitch this? How am I going to introduce the ‘Goddess Issue’ without resorting to a string of overworked clichés?”
Fear not, my friends. I am not here to bore you with flowery tales describing my intimate connection to the Mother of all Things. Nor am I going to say one more thing about how important it is for all of us to open our hearts and return to Her. At this point I have had it up to here with all that stuff. I am more concerned with what we have yet to learn about the Goddess than I am with what we have already heard.
With the Fall Equinox here to remind us that we are in the ninth month, of the first year of Her reign, it feels to me like the female light is ready to birth a deeper understanding of what it means to embody that energy in a whole and complete way; because she’s more than just a pretty face. The Goddess didn’t spend the past 13,000 years in the nether regions of the collective unconscious to come back as some high maintenance female who thinks that all of this is ‘just about Her’.
As we circle deeper into the Age of Light I am beginning to realize that what we have yet to learn about the Goddess has a lot to do with the men. We wail and cry over what has happened to us women; look at what’s happened to the men! Now that we’ve given ourselves enough attention to bring the Goddess back to life, it’s quite obvious that they are in worse shape than we are. We at least got to hang on to our hearts while we were spinning through the darkness – the men in this world have had to cut theirs out, just to survive.
How we are to repair this, and where we need to go from here, I have no clue. But I will be old enough to be considered a Grandmother on September 18th, and I am beginning to see everything in this world with a different pair of eyes. These days, my attention is on the raw power of the female, the pure essence that lives beyond sex and fertility and has more to do with what happens when everything is said and done, and all you have left is your connection to the Source and the power to create from within. In my dreams, I keep going back to an ancient time, and the Grandmother in me keeps getting the message that it’s time for the Goddess to take off her prom dress, come from her gut, and get real enough to love and empower the men who, at the end of the day have suffered even more than we have.
With Love and Good Wishes for the Fall Equinox,
“I call upon your soul to arise and come unto Me.
For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe.
From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all
acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion,
honor and humility,mirth and reverence within you.
And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and
yearning will avail you not,
Unless you know the Mystery:
For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself,
you will never find it without.
For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and
I am thatwhich is attained at the end of desire.”
Excerpted from the ‘Charge of the Goddess’