Page 17 - Bliss Planet Magazine January 2018

nor easily predicted. We are changeable
creatures. We women experience
spiritual winters during which there is a
divinely fallowed time when we care not
for prayer or ritual. So, too, a woman
experiences these sacred voids in terms
of love and relationship, body and
health, creative work, and every aspect
of her way of being in the world. When
compared directly and unknowingly to a
high-fire inner summer, when deep, purposeful, and fertile transformation is
being birthed over and over again,
these inner winters can weigh
heavily on a woman. She sinks low
into a depression made far worse
by a rejection of this time’s validity
as a dark-moon psychic state
during which a woman craves
solitude and emptiness.

The rhythms of the Holy Wild give
us permission to have our own
cyclical nature; we need only frame
these highs and lows as part of our
bodily and psychic home. We are
the living feminine, Sister, and we
have a cosmically sanctioned right
to check in and check out in
accordance with our inner
resources. Our energetic wells can
only source so much work, so much
play, so much nurturing, and so
much devotion before they become
depleted. Consider the solar and lunar cycles as more predictable metaphors for
your own rhythms. We are not meant to be constantly turned on, and the world
needs our darkness as much as it needs our light.

From the time we are girls we learn to shut down our natural and intermittent
inclination to run into the dark void of nothingness. Idle hands, after all, are the
devil’s playthings. Who knows what the wild child might do if her imagination
were left unbridled? The technologies of woman taming are as old as dirt, my
love, and the most sinister of these has been the strategic condemnation of the

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