Tuesday, December 11, 2012

A Priestess Speaks

We went to a day with Michael Meade last week.  Michael is someone who never fails to inspire me.  I guess that's no surprise, given that he's a mythologer, storyteller and mystic.  The day was all about genius, which Michael describes as the soul's calling.  A topic I dwell on a lot.  I truly believe that we are all born with a unique set of gifts and talents that need to be given to the world; what Angeles Arrien calls our "original medicine."  Hanging out with Hecate as I have been doing, I am in a period where the call isn't as clear as I wish it would be.  It's okay.  I know I'm in a liminal stage, and the new phase of life will open up as it needs to.  But I have felt it strongly at other times and know how satisfying it is to be inspired and to be moving that inspiration into manifestation.

What I do know is that I need to keep writing every day, and I need to meditate more regularly.  I may have to take up William Stafford's plan of writing a poem every day.  The thing about blogging is that these things may come out here unpolished and unrevised.  Oh, well.  So be it.

This is what came this morning:

It is my calling
to be hollow and empty
as a bamboo reed.
The wind may blow through,
or a song,
or the breath and spirit
of one who dwells
on the other side
of the veil.

I could be a messenger
or a vehicle for love’s rapture.
I could be a voice in the wilderness
or a hawker in the city.
I could be a puppet
or a whirling dervish.
I could be a clown
or a mourner.

My crown opens.
My feet are planted.
My arms rise up.
I must take my desires and my preferences
and stash them away.
Empty.
Hollow.
Come, goddess, come.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Maze: Reflecting on a SoulCollage® Card


The maze goes on, green and deep.
I am weary of walking its winding way,
Of chasing an elusive blue butterfly.
This body cannot conjure the joy of the journey now.
It is not that I am lost;
I have merely lost sight.

So, I sit, slump, close my eyes, rest.
And the Water Bearer comes.
She comes!
Her benediction rains down on me,
Her raised hand a sign of acceptance.
She does not tell me what or why;
She simply blesses.

I will resume my search.
I may never find the center
And what may or may not reside there.
Like Rilke, I circle
And still have no idea of what I am.
The endeavor is all.