The Sacred Flow of the Goddess

These unnamed falls - located just below Black Lake on Glacier Creek - are among my favorite in Rocky Mountain National Park. They remind me that one of the major qualities of the Goddess - the Sacred Feminine, Gaia, Mother Earth, Sophia, Shakti - is that of seamless FLOW. Each of us is like a water droplet that dances up into the air and out of the flow, and then returns to it once again. And this process doesn't just happen at birth and death, but during each moment of our lives! At each instant, we dance out of the flow and inhabit our water-droplet individuality, fall again into the sacred flow, and then emerge once again! Actually, to be more precise, I'm speaking here in terms of our EXPERIENCE.  On the level of our being, we never, ever leave the Flow :)

Photo: Subalpine Arnica and falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, September 1, 2015

We can find our own attractiveness in the larger mirror of Nature!

If we want to feel attractive to others, the best thing to do is to spend time with those things in the natural world that WE find attractive. Forgetting ourselves, we then begin to find our own Larger Self in the mirror of Nature. Then, embodying that beauty and mirroring it to others, they too are enabled to find themselves in Nature's attractiveness!

Photos: (Top) Rosy Paintbrush and cascade; (Middle) Sunrise at my campsite on Saint Louis Lake; (Bottom) Subalpine Arnica meadows. All three photos were taken on the Saint Louis Lake Trail near Fraser, CO, August 9, 2015

In my life, one of the most important qualities of the Sacred Feminine is FLOW . . .

In my life, one of the most important qualities of the Sacred Feminine - of the Goddess, Sophia, Mother Earth, Gaia - is FLOW. While I experience the Sacred Masculine - God, the Great Beyond, the Sacred Backdrop - as spacious, expansive, all-embracing stability, I find the Goddess in the energy or vitality moving within and between all things. It is She who inspires me with the leaping "aha!" of insight, and it is She who indwells my energetic passion for life and beauty. It is She who inhabits the glorious flow of Earth's convex and concave curves, who animates a woman's lovely sashaying walk, and who dances within mountain streams and waterfalls. It is She who animates the Web of Life, who works continually to join all of the seemingly disparate aspects of human interaction into a single, seamless Flow. As Merlin Stone - author of "When God Was a Woman" - once put it, goddess divinity is "the flowing energy in the very processes of life and living. Thus Goddess would not be in a person, or tree, or river, so much as she would be the actual organic process, the flow, the changes, transitions, and transformations that the person, tree, or river go through." What would I - or any of us - do without Sophia Wisdom's energizing presence?

Photos: Streams flowing in the Lion Lakes Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, June 29, 2015. The blooms are Globeflowers.

Earth is Partly Heaven, and Heaven, Earth

 

" 'Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,' etc., is applicable here, for earth is partly heaven, and heaven, earth."

(John Muir)

Photo: Rosy Spiraea and 300-foot Comet Falls appearing out of the sky, Mt. Rainier National Park, WA, August 4, 2011