Meeting the Goddess

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She gives generously and takes away without warning. Asking for a relationship with the goddess will have very deep implications in your life. Whatever you've accepted as status quo and tolerable will soon grow absolutely unbearable and begin to shake your foundation. That quaking you feel inside your belly; that faster beating of your heart, the throbbing in your throat--all signs that She is at work on you. 

Expect to be radically transformed but don't presume to know just how She'll get you to turn more fully toward Her. You'll have to let go of all the pictures you've received from outside yourself about what it means to be "goddess." She will only reveal Her face when you are ready to remove the veil. And you may be surprised by what you see. Only you can lift the veil separating you from Her. Your mind isn't equipped for the task, but your body is being made ready through your fierce devotion to loving yourself alive again.

You will have to die to all of the ways you've disowned yourself and to let go of the shame you inherited when you entered this life-accused of being sinful and cast out. You must wash yourself of all that has concealed your radiance. You must be the one to throw off the damp blankets of patriarchy that try to put out your flame. You must take up the holiest of holies by entering your own body fully. You must commit to sit on the temple floor and feel your way through every experience you tried to bury. She will help you find the place that is all yours; only yours. You will finally be able to rest. . . .

The time will come and she will say: "Rise up, precious one, your light can never be extinguished." Find it and use it to navigate your way back to your wild soul. Follow Her voice--that faint call that you hear--She's speaking to you through your own being....let yourself drop down deep into your womb space and converse with the oracle of your feminine essence. She's there; waiting for you to approach Her. You can speak to Her about anything. What do you long to share with Her now? What needs to be spoken or shed at last? Hers is a fire that knows how to create, destroy and transform. Offer yourself to Her. Hers is a ritual fire that purifies, heals, clarifies, generates, illuminates, devastates, and changes everything it consumes into nectar for your nourishment and becoming. 

Meet the goddess, here, in your own heart. She's waiting for you to know Her. You are Her and always have been. Step into the fire of your deepest longing and let her show herself to you. Call to the goddess if you are ready to have your entire life transformed by her alchemical fire. When, at last, you meet the goddess you will become the sovereign guardian of your sacred garden. . . .