Beltane already? ! ? This is what happens when time becomes fluid and elastic. Speeding ahead or slowing down - shape shifting alchemy.
Lunar Beltane comes early this year and is a super moon as well. A continuation of accelerated growth many have been experiencing so far this year. Beltane is a celebration of the first bounty of blossoms and fruits of the harvest year - a soul experience.
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| Kundalini Goddess Rising by Cosmic Collage |
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
When does inertia stop us from connecting with others? How does the lethargy get in the way of fulfilling our purpose?
When does inertia stop healthy
conversations? How does the lethargy hamper us from recognizing injustice and invoking change?
When does inertia douse a revolution waiting to happen? How does lethargy keep us complicit? Cushioned in our comforts, resistant to change, why risk it?
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| Gerd Altman on Pixabay |
Inertia is a power because it immobilizes.
What’s tender, vulnerable, pure is eradicated. No attention, scrutiny, concern
or criticism ever raised. There is tremendous control in being inert. What remains
hidden is sealed off away from harm.
Powerful yes, but when does inertia
turn from keeper to captive? When does it inhibit the natural impulse to speak,
move, contribute? So many wait for an invitation, for permission to be granted,
to be coaxed. But what if none of these happen?
If something important is left unattended,
everything in its wake is less true or real. Some lives are intricately
constructed around inertia. Maybe there was a cruelty, a violence, a volatility
which terrify us? Perhaps we become too burdened, discouraged or overwhelmed? Are
we led to believe the private language of things is too sacred to be exposed?
Whatever the origin or collateral against which inertia arises, over time it may isolate us from the pain but we suffer anyway because we are made complicit by it.
Political and other power grabs rely on this to win - when we let them.
When the world weighs us down, women rise up and raise our spirit with their shared wisdom. Set to music and sang out loud, giving voice to all our troubles.
Here's a compilation of the women who got me through last year - embracing the world in majestic power. Whose presence and authenticity send shuddering vibrations into the silent void. Returning a tsunami of ripples and resonance from those of us they have touched so deeply and understand so thoroughly.
Artists. Writers. Speakers. Educators. Healers. Leaders. Voyagers. Questers. Divine Feminists.
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| Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, Uffizi, Florence |
Pauline Oliveros was a composer, performer, and humanitarian whose career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. She founded Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer in Troy, NY.
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| The Met gardens & cloisters |
