The Great Woman

[Guest guest]

I receive this from a friend who is my spiritual mentor and a great

goddess, helping women around the world in their quest for spiritual

healing and reclaiming their whole. This is a note to clarify certain

misconceptions that some member have about women spirituality. It is

not about man bashing or man hating or denying the man nor do we

dispute the fact that there are some men who are simply

"beautiful"

displaying the qualities of Goddess within them. Woman spirituality

is about the issues of woman, of about helping woman in their

spiritual path and helping them to come to an understanding and terms

with things around them. In my previous post : experiencing Kali, I

have implied that some feminist and new age movement, uses Goddess

Kali as a role model. A model of woman who dares to break free and

not afraid of being herself; of being independence and discovering

the Goddess that is within them.

 

This is from Diane, Beyond the Ordinary

 

There have always been women who remember the old ways.

Women who hold within them the memory of a time in the very beginning

when women were honored.

 

Women who refuse to worship the gods,

to learn the language, to take the names of the fathers.

 

Women who refuse to twist their female bodies out of shape

to fit into definitions, to transcend limitations.

Women who love their bodies. Regardless.

 

Women who refuse to please others by becoming smaller than they are.

Women who take space with their thoughts and feelings, their needs

and desires, their anger and their dreams.

 

I imagine them loud and strong

Women from every age

wild women spinster women wise women rebellious women women who

love women midwives witches healers activists.

One by one the women step up and commit the forbidden act

of biting into patriarchal thought refuting it, smashing it,

discarding it and beginning again

In the very beginning when women loved their bodies named their

gods authored their lives

when women refused to surrender except to life as it pulsated

through them.

 

Women boldly dismantling the question "what's wrong with me?"

reminding us there is nothing wrong there never has been anything

wrong there never will be anything wrong with woman

that's why nothing ever works.

Stop asking the question!

 

One by one they step up and speak the truth

the truth of a woman's life told with heart, mind, and body refusing

dissection

they are women and poets and theorists who gather our brokenness

into their words an impulse toward wholeness awakens within us

and we become again as we once were whole.

 

 

OM ParaShaktiye Namaha