The Crone/Wise Woman

The Crone or Wise Woman is the destructive aspect of the Goddess, and She is feared more in this aspect than any other. She is known by many names-Kali, Lilith, Sehkmet, to name a few. As the Dark Goddess, She demands that Her children own up to and take responsibility for all of their creations. Much of humanity has turned away from Her and Her representation of death. Many find Her too intense to deal with. Yet it is through the Crone that people experience the cycles of death and rebirth providing the opportunity for growth, change, and evolution.

When things become too structured, too linear, too masculine, the Crone rises up bringing with Her the chaos and destruction necessary for polar opposites to come together and create a New World. Cataclysmic natural disasters such as tornados, hurricanes, floods, fires, tsunamis and earthquakes are the planet's way of purging and releasing that which no longer serves us. The Crone even uses man-made disasters such as the BP Gulf oil leak to help dissolve the old and make way for the new. Large scale disasters bring with them massive, rapid change to civilizations. With this rapid change comes the opportunity for mankind to step away from separation and competition and move toward unification and cooperation.

The key word for chaotic times is change. When we don't like what we've created, we naturally ask for change. Anything that is requested is granted by the Universe. However, we must understand that when that one change we requested occurs, everything else changes along with it. Make friends with change because whether we like it or not, it is the only constant in our world just now. There are many people who are hanging on tightly in an effort to maintain the status quo. I personally believe that there is no longer a status quo. When I attempt to grasp anything from the old ways, I find it slipping through my fingers.

When the Crone steps in, we are forced to look at the dark parts of ourselves and our creations. She does not appear to punish us like wayward children. She knows in Her infinite wisdom our deep desire to move forward, to raise our vibration, and to create something new through cooperation and building community. Until the old is purged and released, we cannot move forward. I encourage you to make friends with the Crone. She is leading us toward reunification of the polar opposites within ourselves and points the way to our future. Once we accept the Crone as an integral part of ourselves, we find there is nothing to fear.

Mother, Mother

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As the Mother, the Goddess rules the emotions. She is the force that pushes our creative ideas into manifestation. The Mother is the aspect of the Goddess with which most people are familiar and comfortable. From the Buddhist's Kwan Yin, to the Greek's Demeter and the Turks' Cybele, people turn to the Mother to provide and nurture. Idols of the Mother Goddess often depict her with many breasts or in the image of a cow, such as the Egyptian goddess Hathor, as the milk-giver, the one who gives life and nurtures it through her own body. As Gaia, the planet Earth is considered by many to be a Mother Goddess because she provides everything to humanity that it needs.

The Mother aspect of the Goddess is the aspect from which creation myths arise. In prehistoric times these myths centered around a Mother Goddess who was joined by her son or brother who was also her lover or consort. Celebrations of the sexual union of the Goddess with Her consort followed by his demise were enacted by both the wealthy and the common women of the community. It is interesting to note that these formal rituals enacted the fusion of the primary feminine principle with the masculine principle, confirming that prehistoric people understood the importance of the male in the creation process. Archeological evidence discovered on the island of Crete indicates that sexual rituals and celebrations were common in Neolithic societies for approximately 4,000 years.

Around 4300 BCE, nomadic tribes like the Kurgans, the Hittites and the Hebrews began their invasions of Neolithic societies. These were warrior/dominator tribes who eventually abolished the matrilineal customs of Neolithic society by replacing the peaceful Goddess with a violent male god who demanded obedience. Gradually the creation myths changed their focus from the Goddess to the Sun God so that by the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ all temples honoring the Goddess had been destroyed. By this time myths were male dominated with little or no emphasis on the feminine face of God.

As Christianity spread, so did the patriarchy. Masculine attitudes and characteristics were respected while people forgot the nature of the Mother. Instead of exercising dominion over the Earth, Man began to dominate Her, having little or no regard for the damage He was doing. The Mother, although all-loving and nurturing, remains the force behind all creation and the Law of Creation demands that there be an exchange of energy. The current global experience of natural disasters is the result of humans taking more than is needed and ignoring the necessity to give back.

More information can be found regarding the goddess in the following:

2012 and the Galactic Center: The Return of the Great Mother by Christine R. Page, M.D.

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

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Getting to Know the Maiden/Virgin

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I started this blog as a way to explain the ascension process through which humanity is moving on a global scale and hopefully in the process help people through understanding to move through the chaos into a much more peaceful time. We enter the Age of Aquarius by welcoming the return of the Sacred Feminine, or the Goddess, and integrating her within ourselves. The first area we examine to gain understanding is the Triple Goddess-who She is and how She works.

The Triple Goddess was revered as far back as 25,000 BCE. Maiden, Mother, Crone; Virgin, Mother, Wise Woman; always there are three aspects of the Goddess with which we deal. She has been known as Kali (Parvati/Durga/Uma) to the Hindus; as the Irish Morrigan (Ana/Babd/Maccha); and Hebe/Hera/Hecate to the Greeks to name a few. We will begin our exploration of the different faces of the Goddess and how She her presence is felt by examining Her in Her Maiden aspect.

Our modern interpretation of the Maiden or Virgin is different from the understanding the ancients had of this aspect of the Goddess. In ancient times a virgin was a woman who was unmarried and needed no other to make her whole. Whether or not she had entered into sexual relations with a man had nothing to do with this distinction. The Virgin birth of Jesus Christ illustrates perfectly the Virgin's state of wholeness and needing no other to create.

The Maiden is known by many names. As Ireland's Brigid, she is the keeper of the fires of fertility and creativity, the hearth, healing, inspiration and transformation. Pallas Athena is the keeper of wisdom in Greece. She assists people on their journey back to wholeness by keeping them in contact with their higher selves. The Vestal Virgins of Rome, named for the goddess of the home, Vesta, were a group of young priestesses responsible for keeping the fire in the temple burning which in turn insured the survival of the Empire.

Regardless of the country, culture or tradition from which the myths surrounding the Maiden spring, Her message is always the same. Fire-sexual fire, creative fire, transformational fire-is necessary to the survival of Her people. The Maiden, just like the fire, experiences life passionately and with abandon, albeit at times recklessly. The Virgin lives intuitively, ever aware of Her connection to the Whole. There is no separation to Her, only a sense of knowing the interconnectedness of all things.

There are still indigenous groups of people on the planet who live in this state of awareness of the interconnectedness of all things. Some Native American tribes, such as the Lakota, use the greeting "Mitakuye Oyasin" which means "all my relations." Deep within all humans there remains the awareness that we are connected to everything and a deep desire to return to a space of knowing.

May you greet each day, each one you meet, and retire each night knowing your connectedness.

All my relations!

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Welcome to the Human Race

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We are certainly undergoing massive change here on Planet Earth. Major earthquakes, damaging tornados and hurricanes, uncontrolled wildfires and erupting volcanos are all an indication of the Mother's efforts to bring herself and humanity back into balance. Along with this social structures, religious institutions, governments and the world economy all are facing disaster. With the approach of 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar many people think we are facing a literal cataclysmic end to the world. However, according to many scholars who have studied the historical and prehistorical evidence along with global patterns for the last 26,000 years, things are unfolding perfectly as Planet Earth moves toward the end of the Age of Pisces and into the Aquarian Age.

I work with a lot of people who are faced with difficult situations right now. Relationships are ending, people are losing their jobs and their homes. I am a real Pollyanna when it comes to endings. When things fall away, I know they no longer serve me. I take time to grieve the loss but I also look forward with anticipation to what the Universe has in store to fill the empty space. After all, there are no beginnings without first having endings.

Things are chaotic right now. There is no doubt about that. Yet I believe that Mother Earth is levelling the playing field for us. We are all being given the opportunity to lighten our load, return to our simplest form so we can become brighter beacons of light on the planet. These are challenging times, but never before has humanity been given so great an opportunity to come together in community and work as one to transcend the challenges. On some level each of us chose to incarnate and be a part of the transition to the Aquarian Age. Each of us has a specific job to do and those in other dimensions wait with anticipation to see what we will choose to do now. The questions we must answer are, "If not now, when? If not you, who?"
Welcome to the human race!

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