October 11, 2019
The Truth Remains as Radiance
Transformation often begins with the initiatory archetypal experience of fire.
The catch is that most of us jump out of the fire before the magic happens. We fear the burning; we’re deeply unsettled by the chaos.
The fire asks for sacrifice; it demands much — our courage, our patience, our endurance, our faith, our surrender.
It asks, too, for whatever we are clutching tightly in our little hands. And when we give her some and then say, “Not this. Anything but this.”, she says, “Yes, that.”
We have to stay in the fire much longer than we want; much, much longer than is comfortable. We stay until it is done with us. We stay long enough to encounter our ashes.
This is what I’ve learned from fire: it burns everything but itself.
This is what I’ve learned from ash: the fire reveals what cannot be destroyed by destroying everything that can.
The truth remains as radiance.
This is the alchemy of transmutation. To encounter the Self, you must wholly risk the self.
Masculinized systems fear the destroyer-creator, the Mother Creatrix. But without intimate knowledge of how and when things should die (in us, especially), life pivots into endless consumption; an addiction to the light; clinging to unholy life.
Returning to balance means not only saying yes to the life that has been buried, but as we return our souls to their feminine roots, saying yes also to death.
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Deep Nervous System Care starts on 10/27. Learn more HERE.
The catch is that most of us jump out of the fire before the magic happens. We fear the burning; we’re deeply unsettled by the chaos.
The fire asks for sacrifice; it demands much — our courage, our patience, our endurance, our faith, our surrender.
It asks, too, for whatever we are clutching tightly in our little hands. And when we give her some and then say, “Not this. Anything but this.”, she says, “Yes, that.”
We have to stay in the fire much longer than we want; much, much longer than is comfortable. We stay until it is done with us. We stay long enough to encounter our ashes.
This is what I’ve learned from fire: it burns everything but itself.
This is what I’ve learned from ash: the fire reveals what cannot be destroyed by destroying everything that can.
The truth remains as radiance.
This is the alchemy of transmutation. To encounter the Self, you must wholly risk the self.
Masculinized systems fear the destroyer-creator, the Mother Creatrix. But without intimate knowledge of how and when things should die (in us, especially), life pivots into endless consumption; an addiction to the light; clinging to unholy life.
Returning to balance means not only saying yes to the life that has been buried, but as we return our souls to their feminine roots, saying yes also to death.
xx
Deep Nervous System Care starts on 10/27. Learn more HERE.