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: What to Celebrate
We may wonder
what there is to celebrate,
so many broken things
and ruined dreams,
so much fracturing,
our world teetering
and unstable in its wounding
and its need.
Yet here we are,
with hands and hearts
and voices to lift
in service to the great hunger
that roars
and to the beauty that whispers
and so we use what we still have
to gather up the shards,
those that slice
and those that shine,
and hold the parts
that we can hold
and tend the parts
that we can tend
and celebrate the fact
that we care enough
to keep trying
to repair the cracks,
to witness the shattering,
to gather the fragments,
to mend what tears we can.
The newsletter I prepared for my community last week had a theme of blessing what we can blessing and helping where we can help. It also included a brief printable prayerbook of "Weary Prayers." You can access the newsletter here.
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