When I read such inspiring words, I find the strength to continue to choose love and the continuous presence that love asks of me. Some days it simply isn’t easy, and I have learned to take the quiet moment to open a cherished book, or pull an oracle card from the many decks I’ve accumulated over the years.
As a couple’s therapist, I have seen the destructive ravages of women unsconsciously wielding excessive Kali energy in their relationships and with their children. The operative word when working with such powerful energies is “conscious”—is the energy being expressed conscious or not? The powerful Kali is not only deeply transformative, but extraordinarily loving, and able to bring an end to things that need to be destroyed for the sake of evolution. In her book, Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation , Sally Kempton says “Whether Kali seems terrifying, fascinating, or loving depends on our state of consciousness and our level of both emotional and spiritual development. But she always invites us to a radical form ego-transcendence.”
What is this powerful love that doesn’t require us to do anything, or be anything other than who we are, in all our messy glory? The closest thing on earth would be a mother’s love of her child, and it is a love some have had, and others not, but that we all both need and long for. It is the gift of deep acceptance for who we are.
The Soul is almost like an endangered species these days. Showings of Soul are rare and precious occurrences, rarely caught on iphone, the same way you would take a photo of your Thanksgiving dinner.
As I was about to write this message to all of you, I got up from the table where I had been sitting in pajamas with a dear friend and housemate, in this beautiful apartment on a cold November morning, the howl of the wind in the background, sacred music playing.
Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Burning Man, Rock City, a community dedicated to art, self-expression, and self-reliance. In this crucible of creativity, a particular sculpture caught people’s attention this past year, inviting them to interpret its meaning.
There are many planes of reality, from the physical Earth plane to higher dimensions where all is made of light. In this plane, matter does not exist as we know it here on Earth. One of the most beautiful aspects of the journey of becoming fully conscious is the meeting with your Beloved.
To want to know what this so that we can offer it to the world creates in us a deep longing, at times anxiety, and possibly a sense of being lost, that often leads us to seek guidance, to pray, and to reserve a very sacred part of us to receive this knowing. Others can share their journey, or their wisdom, but the holy process of being devoted to discovering what you are here to give—to live as your True offering—-is very personal, and takes place in the innermost chambers of a person’s heart.
