Being a Woman Matters

We are living within amazing and powerful transformations of the foundations of how life on our planet is ordered with all that calls Earth home affected, essentially requested to transform. We have valued the intellect at the cost of the spiritual, the seen world at the cost of the unseen world, and having learned the wisdom of these choices, we are being expanded into more wisdom and beauty. We are being asked-really, demanded-to bring about more balance into our world through reclaiming and revitalizing our relationship with our spirit and soul....to live less by the belief that the divine is separate from us and to embrace in ecstasy that we are the divine embodied.

As women, we are ambassadors for humanity and divinity through our innate powers of creativity, sacredness, and sensitivity. As women, the realms of magic, mystery, and miracles are ours simply through the grace of being born a woman. Many of these elemental aspects of ourselves as women have been previously denigrated, deemed dangerous by those in our culture who feared the unknown, As women, we have not been encouraged to develope our awareness or trust of our wisdom, creative power, or the strength within us. As a woman, we have amazing power and deep impact, simply through being a woman......are you in conscious relationship with your sacred powers?

We are women first and secondly our roles of daughter, mother, wife, sister, which are wonderful workshops for learning, remembering, and then offering as our wisdom. All humans are born through a woman, learn first from a women, and seek to be loved by a woman. We are the creative force of the universe-we simply need to become aware of what we are teaching those around us about what we value and what we believe is the gift of a human lifetime. Trusting our knowing and speaking of what we know ignites the vital healing of ourselves, our times, and our world.

Simply, the divine is inviting us to become the teachers, healers, warriors, and leaders the world dearly needs us now to be. Live the radical notion that within us is all that we need and that in bringing forth what is within yourselves, not only are our own lives transformed for the better but our families and communities as well. Choose to make love with your life......choose to receive in trust and faith your divinity ...choose the bliss and bounty and beauty that is yours through birth as a woman.

An Ode to Mother, big and Small

It is that time of year when we allot a day to the honoring of Mother, using flowers, food, and perhaps our presence to show gratitude for the women who honor the sacred trust of tending, guiding, and nurturing the young -and not so young-for the world. In recent times, we have expanded our notions of mothering to include those who nurture others through compassion, consistency, and care as well as those whose role in a family is Mom. Yet, we have not so much expanded our active support for the mothering role, still subscribing to beliefs from an age when Father knew best and Mother simply made it so. If mothers truly took their power-not only their responsibility- to heart, would we mothers truly allow the killing of children we call “war” as an acceptable form of conflict resolution? Juliet Ward Howe, instrumental to the celebration of Mother’s Day in the US, certainly did not think so as evidenced by her poem in honor of the power of mothers.

To be Mother is to be the first teacher, leader, warrior and healer that a soul in the human journey encounters, her impact beginning in the womb deep and wide. A mother first informs the young what is and is not true, what can and cannot be done, and what is to be and not to be...the first map of the human world for the next generation as it were. We mothers also benefit from investing in the mothering role (for life truly is mutual); while mothering we stumble upon places within ourselves still un-mothered... the sacred invitation to heal a wounding of our past instead of simply passing the wound onto the future. And in traditions ancient, the prayer of a mother is said to be the one prayer the gods must answer.

In working with women in transition-and who is not these days!- what I have come to understand is that often before we can relax into more of our unique selves as women, our daughter-selves need to allow our mothers to have been both good and bad, right and wrong, big and small, individuals and accumulated lineage. When we cannot allow our mothers to have been human with her own needs and desires as a woman and limited by the times she lived in, we put ourselves at risk for not allowing our needs as women and dissolving the limitations we may feel from the times and roles we are in. Where we still act as daughter, while otherwise claiming the full rights and privileges of being a grown-up, is an invitation to not so much make our human mother wrong as much as a reminder to call upon our Divine Mother and Earth Mother to nurture us as their children.

Honoring the sacredness of the role of Mother invites us to become more conscious of the lineage of the women before us in our family, for truthfully, this is who is present-known and unknown, liked or disliked- in ourselves as women. We all know where we swore we would be different from our mothers; are we also willing to also give gratitude and acknowledgment to their wisdom and ways that we are passing on? Mothering is a role with tremendous power and impact, a role sacred in a world often profane.

And so, my prayer for all mothers in honor of Mother’s Day is that we honor the role of Mother, taken up in sacred trust with the souls we call children, on behalf of All. And I pray that we truly and actively support mothers in not only the attending responsibilities of this sacred trust, we truly and actively support her engaging the power of this sacred trust as well. For all reality begins with a dream and is it not the dream of all mothers that her children realize a life long of health, happiness, and the holy from the gift of a human life? All of us are children of Mother Earth and I know this to be Her prayer for all us children, simply we are asked to remember our sacred relationship as such....mother Small, mother big..