Our first “slow read” begins this weekend! Join us for Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness. All genders are welcome! We’ll have two general gatherings, a men’s specific discussion, and an author’s conversation with Elinor Dickson! ✨
Oh my goodness. That really was such a beautiful hour together.
If you were with us, thank you for being there, and please feel free to add anything further in the comments below. If you didn’t get a chance to join yesterday, it was a truly nourishing hour, with sharing that wove between the inner world and the outer and unexpected poetry that brought me to tears.
Here’s a bit of what unfolded
We began with shared silence in the form of meditation or journaling: what pain or grief needs to be released or placed down?
I spoke about the collision occurring now between our understanding of linear time and the fight against evil, and the understanding that “life is change” and that there is a continuous cycle of death and rebirth transformation occurring at all times.
I read from a variety of sources, including sharing divination readings I’ve received over these last few months and what they’ve offered to me:
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (including a quote from the Bhagavad Gita)
I Ching — Benebell Wen’s translation
Tao Te Ching — Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation
Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell’s translation
We journaled for a short while, this time about the Divine, in whatever form it may be showing up now.
I opened the space up for sharing and I was in awe of everything that everyone shared. Truly. It is just so wonderful to have this community coming together from all over the world to share in the experience of existence. No kidding.
Below, I’ve included a short video of Samantha Adams reading her poem, from which I derived the title of this post (thank you, Samantha!), as well as the text of two brilliant shares.
I referred a couple of times to “The Seed Keeper” in my Archetypes of Resistance — you can read that here.
The Divine Mother, Great Mother, and Mother came up repeatedly, which feels quite appropriate in advance of our reading of Dancing in the Flames!
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