A TURNING POINT: ANSWERING THE CALL FOR THE MOTHER
Marilyn Steele, PhD www.thewildfeminine.com [email protected]
It's the mothers
not the warriors
Who create a people and guide their destiny.
Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota
This weekend is the Summer Solstice with a New Moon and solar eclipse in the sign of Cancer, the Mother of us all. It is a turning point in personal and collective history. We are seeing a return of the exiled Feminine, the rising of marginalized, oppressed, outsiders. With the date 6-21-2020 we again have a 13, indicating the power of the Divine Feminine prevailing as old patriarchal structures are dissolved. The terrible cry of George Floyd "Mama" as he was killed by police three weeks ago has awakened the Mother's heart across the globe. Cancer is cardinal water, calling us into our hearts, to nurturing, to security, to our emotions. Water washes away everything. As the light of the sun is eclipsed, the darkness, the collective and personal shadow and ancient woundings are brought to the surface for healing. A new cycle begins. A new age trying to be born.
This week a fisherman from Santiago de Compostela found a 330 pound granite statue of the Virgin Mary, covered with moss. Her features are mostly eroded, the head of the babe is missing. Near both her shoulders are angels, putti. The statue seems about 700 years old. The Minister for Culture and Tourism in the region asked: “How could it remain undiscovered so close to the city for so many centuries? It must be quite a story.”
The forgotten stories, the devalued stories, the stolen stories, are emerging to heal each of us and all of us, including the Earth. During an eclipse, the light invites the darkness to reveal itself. Personal and collective shadows emerge to be healed. The Great Mother who births each new age is returning from exile.
To honor the Summer Solstice, the solar eclipse, and seed your intentions for a just, compassionate and beautiful new story, join us this Saturday to share your dreams. To listen to stories. To do active imagination creative exercises to anchor and amplify the intuitive messages coming to you. Lift your spirits as we navigate Dreaming in the Time of Corona together. It is free if you are having difficulties or a donation of $44 is appreciated. Here's the Zoom link:
Topic: DREAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONA
Time: Jun 20, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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It is our wild minds, Grandmother-Mind, is that we have to bring to bear on the urgent needs of the world. Wild mind is an inclusive, contextual, relational, integrated and visionary intelligence which sees the Both/And realm of possibilities in long range vision, seven generations out. It is a thinking with the heart. From those awakened hearts comes our own wild genius as wisdom keepers. As one of the 13 indigenous Grandmothers said in 2014:
“We are standing in the vibration of a sacred prophecy, the prophecy which tells us that consciousness is preparing the spirit of the feminine, the spirit of the Grandmothers.”
Jung’s idea of awakening the indigenous soul, the wild soul, is kin to awakening the Grandmother Mind. This is the unforgotten wisdom that resides at the heart of our psyches. It is not only in some of us. It is within each of us. As Jean Houston puts it: We not only live in a Universe; the Universe lives in us. This is why so many of us are drawn now to the teachings of the Aboriginals, the Hawaiians, Native Americans, Africans. We resonate with their stories for deep within our own souls, our cellular memories, we remember and recall our very own wisdom roots which have been traumatized out of conscious memory.
When we connect to our Wild Feminine power, we shift the field of collective consciousness, allowing each of us to tap into a New Story.
We can reclaim these memories and their power in many ways. One of the most powerful and direct ways is through your dreaming.
Topic: DREAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONA
Time: Jun 20, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 876 0796 2088
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Four years ago, after the heartbreaking Presidential election, I dreamed there was a huge, thick, beautifully illustrated book on the coffee table. Titled “Motherworld”, it is an atlas. Maps of the world. Because it is we women who are the mythmakers, the carriers of the emerging possible, the wisdom keepers, the keepers of the flame. And it is time for us to come alive to our new stories and home to our wild, wise selves.And to tell these stories to each other.
The wild feminine is not only sustainable in all worlds, it sustains all worlds.
Let’s admit it. We women are building a motherland; each with her own plot of soil eked from a night of dreams, a day of work. We are spreading this soil in larger and larger circles, slowly, slowly. One day it will be a continuous land, a resurrected land come back from the dead. Mundo de la madre, psychic motherworld, coexisting and coequal with all other worlds. This world is being made from our lives, our cries, our laughter, our bones. It is a world worth making, a world worth living in, a world in which there is a prevailing and decent wild sanity.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
The time is now to restore the wild woman to her rightful sovereignty. Let’s dream a new story.
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