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.”
The Twin Pulls of the Solstice Season
From the Womanrunes deck I drew the Reflection, rune of surrender. This is a rune of sacrifice, releasing, and letting go. It reminds us that sometimes we have to get battered against the shore to become something new, something finely textured and soft. It reminds us that surrender isn’t permanent…it can be about wise discernment, knowing when to hold and when to fold, and when to walk away.
And, from the Sacred Traveler Oracle we received Miracles, reminding us to expect the wondrous to emerge.
in the quiet space
within your own heart,
let your own wisdom bubble up...
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This is so beautiful, relevant and helpful right now, thank you so much. I'm so excited to have discovered your wonderful Womanrunes too, just added it to my favorites on Etsy! Hopefully it can be a Yule present to myself.
So many cards I've been drawing and other messages I've received lately are echoed by your pulls and affirmation. My own very recently-developed personal mantra for this time has been
"Let go, believe, have faith, stay strong. Be calm, be you, be true."
I always struggle with the "twin pulls" of this time of year, and various intense personal sorrows, losses, challenges and separations in recent months have made it much harder than usual. Thanks for this encouragement and confirmation.