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.”
A Place Meditation
“No longer am I only hearing my own voice
but instead I co-exist in a world where everything speaks with its own unique, quirky, gorgeous personality. Every berry has a little voice, every grass stalk makes itself known. I become surrounded by a community of living Earth, and this entire community is willing to play with me in this changing game of life.”
—Day Schildkret (Morning Altars, @morningaltars)
What is waiting for you to notice it?
Do you have time to play in this changing game of life?
As we enter the flourishing of spring, I have a practice-based audio meditation to share based on Day Schildkret's book Morning Altars. It is a Place Meditation.
I would love to hear what you discover in your own place!
May you delight
in the many voices
of this ensouled world
as they rise up
to speak to
and through
you.
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