wild wanton woman

There she is - the woman who all claimed was just too much. You recognize the one – she who is too curious, too emotional, too demanding. The one we claim is never satisfied, is too loud, is too proud - loves too quickly, feels too easily, asks too closely, desires too willingly.

She is electrifying.

She fills up too much – spilling all over the place and taking over any terrain - with her words and curves, her honesty and guile, her senses and sexuality. Her presence as tall as a mountain, as vast as the ocean, as glaring as the sky. Her energy electrifying every crevice of the room. Not knowing her place, she takes up too much space.

In celebration, we require three sets of three days to worship the different aspects of this supreme goddess.

Three days the power is invoked as the fierce force of Durga, destroyer of any impurity, vice, and defect. Three days the goddess is adored in Lakshmi, giver of spiritual wealth, with the power of bestowing inexhaustible abundance to her devotees. Three days the mother is worshipped as Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom.

Navaratri means nine nights, the festival is observed twice a year - in the beginning of summer and at the onset of winter.

We invoke the energy aspect of God in the form of the universal mother Durga, the remover of life’s misery. She is also referred to as Devi (goddess) or Shakti (energy or power). The feminine divine energy of creation, preservation, and destruction.

The male god energy is fixed, immobile, and changeless, while divine female energies are flexible, supple, and transformative. Shakti power is infinite, imperishable, and cannot be created or destroyed – it is eternal and everlasting.

That is the divine energy that a “too much” woman flaunts - prodding people to think more, probing us to feel with sensitivity, provoking us to achieve a state of awe. She with her full belly laughter and her insatiable appetite for delight. She with her authentic voice and sheer assuredness – at ease in her personal power.

She is magnetic.

A hedonist, a feminist, a pleasure seeker, an empath. With wonder and wants fully vocal and expressed. Being just, sincere, open, light, easy, kind. Respectful yet seen. Direct yet understood. Absorbing undivided attention though not forced. The embodiment of all promises being attained and kept.

Difficult? Complex? High maintenance? Says who?

Called intimidating when I own the space I occupy. Called selfish when I am self-loving. Called a witch when I heal myself.

Watch and learn from this Too Much Woman. Make waves. Fan flames. Stoke fires.