Goddess Centered Practice
In the woods behind my house rest a collection of nine large flat rocks. Daily, I walk down to these “priestess rocks” for some sacred time alone to pray, meditate, consider, and be. Often, while in this space, I open my mouth and poetry comes out. I’ve come to see this experience as "theapoetics"—experiencing the Goddess through direct “revelation,” framed in language. As Stanley Hopper originally described in the 1970’s, it is possible to “…replace theology, the rationalistic interpretation of belief, with theopoetics, finding God[dess] through poetry and fiction, which neither wither before modern science nor conflict with the complexity of what we know now to be the self.” Theapoetics might also be described, “as a means of engaging language and perception in such a way that one enters into a radical relation with the divine, the other, and the creation in which all occurs.”
Poem: Ode to August
August is when we step
back and in,
for this is when
the cauldron keeper calls,
when we step into
the crucible of choice and change,
letting ourselves steep
in the flavors of our own renewal
and the life-changing magic to choose.
It is now that we are called to center,
called to refocus and renew.
It is now that we are invited
to steep for a spell
to resettle into being
and let our power brew.
Note: August's free resources for #30DaysofGoddess including practice prayer cards are available here: 30 Days of Goddess.
Comments
-
Please login first in order for you to submit comments