Cardi B and the embodiment of Lilith
Lets talk about the Lilith symbolism in Cardi B’s latest music video.
Lilith was Adam’s first wife, the first woman on Earth, or the first emanation of the earthly feminine, and she was created at the same time as Adam as his equal. The mythology goes that Lilith refused to be subservient to Adam, including sexually, since she was created as his equal, and because of that she flew away from Eden into the desert (fair enough). She is often depicted in art with a serpent wrapped around her.
The creation story isn’t what we think it is and the serpent in the Book of Genesis story is not necessarily what religion tells us it is either. Serpents in mythology are intricately connected to the feminine and women. Lilith is sometimes seen as being the serpent who is trying to awaken Eve out of her slumber and away from dependency on a false god. And yes, I am referring to the god of the Book of Genesis as a false god because the infinite, eternal Mother/Father God would never be jealous and would never punish its children.
Lilith symbolises wanton sexual power, sexual freedom and self expression. She has understandably been demonised by the patriarchal religious tradition and her role as the original unshackled wild feminine was turned into something else. But Lilith is slowly returning, in many different embodiments.
Cardi B’s and Megan Thee Stallion’s video has clear Lilith symbology: Serpents wrapped around their almost naked bodies while they are lying on sand in a room looking like a desert. Sexually powerful poses and expressions of powerful feminine sexuality. Animals throughout the video, which can be an expression of the untamed feminine nature.
Does it make some people uncomfortable? Yes. Lilith is not here to make us comfortable but I also think she likes to have fun and wants us to lighten up.
Whether Cardi B, or the people directing the video, are consciously aware of the Lilith symbology or not is not necessarily relevant. What is relevant is that it’s there, and in my eyes she is still embodying this archetype in the video and lyrics. Sometimes we have to look beyond the initial surface impression to get to the mythos being enacted.
The Goddess comes in multiple forms. The rising of the Divine Feminine in all her aspects is not limited to just some archetypes. It has to include all. What I would call the Lilith wound is something that has been internalised in many lineages for so long; the shaming and suppression of feminine sexuality and women’s sexual expression. This is slowly being released but sometimes it needs an extra push.
Even if you don’t resonate with the particular expression of sexuality that Cardi B chooses to embody here, the energetic push lies in that female sexuality gets to express itself however it wants to. It gets to have fun and not take itself too seriously while at the same time taking up the space it deserves and be completely unapologetic about it.
*Since writing this I have realised that they are also channelling the African deity Mami Wata. I have to admit that because of my Western/European lensing all I saw was Lilith at first. I still believe she is there but so is Mami Wata.
Art by Katherine Skaggs, John Collier, Cardi B and Unknown
The lesser travelled path of the mystic...
”While the lesser travelled path of the mystic is my preferred choice, I do not invalidate the journey of those pilgrims who have not passed through the internal door of gnosis. It is not a matter of one path being better than the other is. The question becomes: is there a readiness to embrace the same experiences that enlightened Yeshua and his close companions.” (from Anna, Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong)
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The lesser travelled path of the mystic is also my preferred choice. Sometimes I wish it was different, but there is no going back. The more comfortable path for me would have been to stay in the Christian church tradition that I grew up in. The truth is, sometimes I envy church going Christians who are part of a congregation. They have a community that they can always turn to and they have teachings that seem very established to hold on to when they need support. I respect their commitment to their path and their path is just as valid as mine.
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My path is more lonely, less travelled, less secure but because I stepped onto it knowing that I am never truly alone I will keep going.
Timeline Choice...
What I keep hearing from my teachers and feeling myself is that there are right now two timelines existing simultaneously.
We naturally fluctuate between the two timelines but in every moment you have a choice between the two: one of fear and limitation and one of freedom, love and peace.
Wherever you find yourself at any time is fine but remember that you have a sovereign choice in every moment regardless of the circumstances around you.
The two timelines are both here now, neither of them are separated from this world but the second one requires a vision that looks beyond the veil. It's not out there, it's inside of you.
"This world has much to offer to your peace, and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. Such its purpose is, to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them, and offer them the light." ~A Course in Miracles
You are as God created you...
"You are as God created you. These words dispel the night, and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world. For you have recognized the Son of God, and in that recognition is the world's." (A Course in Miracles)
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I have studied ACIM for six years but the words take on deeper meanings the more my spiritual journey progresses. When we realise our divinity and that God dwells within us, the world also wakes up. Gaia wakes up and starts becoming aware of herself.
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This is the core of lightwork, recognising our own divinity and that we are the 'Son of God', the anointed 'one', as a collective. Everyone has this within them because nothing exists without it. The only difference is that we are blessed to have consciously realised this.
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Ostara ~ Goddess of spring and rebirth
April is my favourite time of the year and the month I was born in. Growing up in Northern Europe I absolutely adore that first sense of spring in the air, when the ground is warming up and releases that sweet, earthy smell and the days are getting lighter and milder. I have always related April to new beginnings and rebirth.
April is also the season of the Germanic Goddess Ostara or Eostre who personifies this. She is the Goddess of spring, dawn, renewal, fertility and rebirth. Her symbols are the hare, the full moon and eggs. She is part of the maiden aspect of the triple Goddess.
The Christian Easter dates are still determined by the phase of the moon and has borrowed its name from the goddess of spring herself. Even the hormone Eostrogen that is essential for women's fertility has been named after her.
In my research about the Divine Feminine within our ancestries I keep getting amazed by the richness of the Goddess traditions in all of our ancestries and how much it still influences and even created so many of our traditions and practises that we take for granted. The Goddess was always there and still is...
Art by Mickie Mueller
The crucifixion
"The message of the crucifixion is perfectly clear: Teach only love, for that is what you are. If you interpret the crucifixion in any other way, you are using it as a weapon for assault rather than as the call for peace for which it was intended."
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"There is no death. The Son of God is free."
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~ A Course in Miracles
Venus, Lucifer and the dawning of a new era
I noticed that Venus has been shining very bright lately. I then heard others mentioning the same thing.
I see Venus as mythologically significant to what is happening right now. The dawning of a golden era is on the horizon when the Divine Feminine will be rising to its rightful place and Venus, The Morning Star, is lighting the way.
Venus is one symbol of the Divine Feminine and the mythology surrounding it includes a downfall, just as the star Venus descends in the sky and seemingly falls towards the Earth or the underworld.
Lucifer, the so called fallen angel, is one mythological figure representing Venus or the Divine Feminine. Lucifer did not want to obey or be subservient to the patriarchal god and was cast out of heaven. He is not to be confused with Satan but it is no surprise that he has been demonised just like Lilith, the first woman who did not want to submit to Adam. Lucifer means light-bringer, dawn-bringer or the shining one.
This casting out into the underworld is recurring in mythology about the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar and the Norse goddess Hel. I think it represents the time when the Divine Feminine was made secondary, was only allowed to exist underground and patriarchal religions took over.
The time for Venus to rise again has come and we are the bringers of the dawn...
The Sexual Priestesses are returning...
Sexual Priestesses or Sacred Prostitutes were revered in the ancient world. This was a time when the divine was worshipped as the Goddess, and feminine sexual energy was the key to spiritual enlightenment.
These women embodied divine love and they held great power. They knew that love was their true essence and through sacred sexual practices, whether physical or non-physical, they taught others this inner truth in the Temples of the Goddess. They were the spiritual leaders of the time. Even their presence ignited spiritual awakening within others.
When I started learning about these Priestesses I also started having soul remembrances. These are knowings that I have had my whole life but I have been socialised into a certain degree of shame around it.
Since the destruction of these temples and the earth and Goddess based practices, feminine sexuality has been inverted, or so it seems.
What was once one of the most sacred aspects of us has been made into something either shameful or shallow. What is most beautiful has been turned into something that is even considered grotesque.
But the Sexual Priestesses are returning and the Goddess is rising. We are remembering because the world is again ready for our power and we no longer need to be afraid of it...
May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
Why you have always wanted to be a mermaid...
Many of us have a feeling or remembrance in our being that we once were merbeings and mermaids who came to Earth from elsewhere, living in the seas.
These are not just childish fantasies or wishful thinking. They are soul remembrances and there is a reason we are having them at this particular time.
When I had a past life regression where I saw myself as a blue underwater being with wispy blue fins and a floaty fabric around my body, I didn't want to draw the conclusion at first that the vast blue space around me was water or that the light, non-human limbs seemingly floating in air were fins, because I knew I was biased.
I have wanted to be a mermaid since I first saw The Little Mermaid when I was five. Although I never fully gave up the fantasy, it was pushed aside for many years until a few years into my spiritual awakening and the beginning of my starseed awakening.
Of course the vision in my past life regression was nothing like the cartoons. Even so, after some research and synchronistic guidance I realised clearly that what I saw myself as was an underwater being, possibly Mintakan from the constellation of Orion.
The story goes that the blue water planet of Mintaka was destroyed and the Mintakans found a new home on the similar mostly blue and watery planet that we call Earth. There are other merbeings from Sirius and elsewhere who are also coming back at this time in human bodies.
In my session before I had this vision, I was asked to go back to the times of Lemuria. Whether I was on Earth or elsewhere I had the strong feeling that it was a very feminine place and time, and that the beings had a strong feminine energy. The element of water itself is feminine, receptive, floaty, primordial and it literally births new life.
The sea mothers are returning. They are the ancient ones from the stars, sent by the Cosmic Mother.
We are not waiting for them. WE ARE THEM. We might not have fins or breathe underwater, but we carry the seed of the awakening Divine Feminine Christ Consciousness.
We are here to initiate the Age of Aquarius, the next golden age, so that all beings may know themselves as one with the Cosmic Mother.
May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
Art by: Cynthia Re Robbins ~ Mystical Mermaid
Saint Lucia Day
13th December is the feast day of Saint Lucia or Sankta Lucia as she is called in my home country of Sweden where this is still a big tradition. It's a tradition that naturally leads up to Jul/Christmas and it involves children and some adults dressing up in white clothing and either swirls of glitter or a crown made of candles on their head and singing carols. Saint Lucia was originally a Sicilian saint and Christian martyr, Lucia of Syracuse. She was killed in the last and worst persecution of Christians in the Roman empire around year 300.
The story goes that Lucia came from a wealthy Christian family but was promised to marry a non-Christian when her father died and the family was without a male guardian. She instead vowed to remain unmarried and to give her dowry to Christians who were hiding from persecution in the catacombs.
Lucia wore a crown of candles to light her way through the underground tunnels and brought food to the people hiding. The man who was meant to marry her subsequently reported her to the Roman authorities and they decided to have her sold into slavery as punishment. The legend has it that the guards who came to arrest her were not able to remove her. They then decided to kill her immediately by pouring oil over her and setting her on fire, but she wouldn't burn. They were finally able to kill her by sword. Later stories say that Lucia foretold the end of persecution before her death.
It's unclear why Saint Lucia's Day has become a lasting tradition in Sweden but it's linked to the Winter Solstice since 13th December used to fall on the Winter Solstice, now 21st December, before the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Being the darkest and coldest part of the year in the Nordic region, the Lucia tradition of lighting lots of candles and eating buns and drinking hot drinks is always welcome. There are also links to the Norse goddess Sol or Sunna who represents the sun, and in this instance the return of lighter days after the darkest days of the year.
Friday 13th is also the day of the Goddess and the celebration of the Divine Feminine, honouring the cycles of creation, death and rebirth.
The Divine Feminine has always been there in all of our different lineages, just under the surface, waiting for us to re-discover it.
May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
The Norse people
The Norse, my ancestors, are somewhat elusive just like the Celts. Most of what we know about them come from what was written by visitors and later Christian missionaries, although we do have texts such as the Poetic Edda and the Runic alphabet to help us better understand the beliefs and cosmology of the Norse people. History is as always written by the victorious, which for the Celts became the Roman conquerors. The Norse were converted to Christianity mostly without force but they were some of the last European peoples who converted, in the 11th Century, and Scandinavia was never conquered by the Romans as the British Isles were.
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The word Norse is often used interchangeably with Vikings. The Viking age was a particular time in Norse history when some people ventured outside of Scandinavia by boat to raid or settle in other European lands, and sometimes beyond, probably because of the harsh life and climate in Scandinavia. The Viking Age started around year 800 AD and continued for more than 200 years. A bronze Buddha statue was found in an old Viking Era settlement in Sweden, which shows that Norse society was not cut off from the rest of the world and influences from other parts of the world were already there.
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Mainly due to the sometimes brutal raids of the Vikings and the often over exaggerated historical descriptions of them by Christian Europeans, pre-Christian Norse people have been perceived as cruel savages or romanticised as some type of super-humans. Of course neither is the whole truth. We also have to remember that the European Christians at the time who wrote down their accounts of the Norse had preconceived notions about them and may have had their own reasons to portray them as 'uncivilised' and brutal to further the Christianisation of Europe.
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One of the last places to be Christianised in Sweden was in what is now the town of Uppsala, close to where I grew up. Old Uppsala was a pagan spiritual center with a temple. The temple was destroyed and there is now a church and a museum in its place. The below picture of me is taken at that site. The main visible parts of the old pagan site there are the three large grave mounds dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries.
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A grave of a woman soldier was found in the archeological site of Birka outside of Stockholm. Her remains were found buried with military objects and even animals that suggested she was high up in the ranks. These women warriors have been called shield-maidens and are featured in the television series Vikings. Although the Hollywood depiction might glamourise these people a bit too much, the historical evidence of these warriors, and similar stories about Celtic women, show that the history of women in Europe is not as clear cut as we may think.
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The practise of Seidr, Norse witchcraft and a type of trance prophecy, was practised almost exclusively by women. It was seen as inappropriate for men to take on this female role. The Norse seer was called a Völva and was highly respected for the connection she had with the otherworld and the information she could bring back.
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When we connect with our ancestral heritage on a deep level, regardless of where your ancestors are from, I believe we can uncover mysteries and connect with something within us that may has been dormant and wants to be released.
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I have created a 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage. Part of this journey is connecting more deeply with our ancestors, ancestral lands and the spiritual traditions that come from them. I will use my own journey with my Scandinavian/Norse ancestry to guide us.
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May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
Who Celtic women really were...
Women in Celtic societies had legal rights that far exceeded the rights of women in many other societies at the time and later in history. They acted as judges and mediators in political and military disputes and they could own land and inherit property.
Celtic marriages was viewed as a partnership, as opposed to women being seen as the property of the man in Roman law. Women also had the right to divorce their men if he did not live up to his responsibilities, which included providing enough food and satisfying his wife sexually, or if he treated her badly.
The spiritual leaders in Celtic society were the Druids, who passed down their knowledge strictly through oral tradition. Despite the commonly held idea that Druids were mostly men, there were women Druids who acted as seers and healers.
Celtic women fought wars alongside the men and there are many stories of women warriors who led their people in battle. One of these warriors was Boudica, queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now Eastern England. She led an uprising against the occupying Roman Empire. This has similarities to Norse/Viking culture, which also had women warriors. A Viking woman has been found buried in a military tomb with contents indicating that she was high up in the ranks.
Because Celtic women could inherit land, old Irish law stated that they had an obligation to defend their land and therefore had to do military service or assign a kinsman on her behalf. It was only in year 697 CE that women were banned from warfare.
If you have Celtic and Irish ancestry I am recalling this history to help you see your ancestry with new eyes if you haven't already. Although most of us don't need to physically fight to protect our land or tribes anymore, I want to remind you that despite of the suppression of women in relatively recent history, you come from a lineage of women who held power, warrior queens and priestesses. You can call on the power of these ancestors whenever you need their strength and insights. They are a part of you.
I have created a 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage. We will connect deeply with our ancestors, our ancestral lands and mythologies. I will use my own journey with my Scandinavian/Norse ancestry to guide us.
Let's rise up rooted...
The Norns - Weavers of fate
The Norns are female beings in Norse mythology who create and control fate. They spin the threads of the fate of both humans and Gods at the foot of Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree holding together the 9 realms in Norse cosmology.
In Völuspá, one of the poems in the Old Norse Poetic Edda, they are described as not being a part of any of the other beings mentioned in Norse Mythology. They are in their own category. Their names are Urd - The Past, Verdandi - What Is Presently Coming Into Being and Skuld - What Shall Be.
Because they control fate they are often feared. I believe the fear is misplaced. I cannot help but to relate them to what I know about the Akashic Records, also called the Book of Life in the Bible. This is also closely related to Karma, or cause and effect.
The Norns weave and record a persons fate, but I don't see fate as being outside of our free will or control. In fact, the word Skuld, which is the name of the third Norn of What Shall Be literally means 'blame' or 'responsibility' in Swedish, my first language. Things happen that seem to be out of our control, but if we look at the picture from a soul level over a course of many lifetimes, we would find that the web of events are related and both the good and the bad are parts of our soul's growth.
Once we become aware of this we can become an active participant in the weaving of our fate and our soul's path.
I have created a 3 month journey where we will connect deeply with our ancestral mythology and the Divine Feminine within it, regardless of where your ancestry is from. I will use my own journey with my Scandinavian/Norse ancestry as a starting point.
May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
Art by Johan Egerkrans and Unknown
The Dark Goddess rising...
The Dark Goddess archetypes have significant similarities in different cultures and ancestral lineages, often connected to death and rebirth. She brings death to that which has to fall away for our true divine nature to spring forth. The darkness that she represents is powerful in its own right. It is not merely a lack of light.
The darkness of the Dark Goddess or the Primal Mother has its own life and is where all life, including light, is born. This is why Mother Mary is called the 'Mother of God'. She is one aspect of a primal feminine archetype, the mother of all things, hidden in plain sight within a seemingly patriarchal religion.
The Dark Goddess archetypes are specific personifications of the cosmic mother, the dark void where everything is conceived and that also has the power to destroy. Connecting with the Dark Goddess of our own ancestry is a process of stepping into our sovereignty. What the Dark Goddesses have in common is that they do not place themselves in relation to the masculine. She is sovereign in and of herself.
In Western cultures especially, the Dark Goddess has been demonised. The way that these archetypes have been portrayed in the West have been deeply influenced by institutionalised Christianity as well as patriarchal structures where women themselves are seen as sinful, coinciding with the moving away from Earth based, feminine spirituality and the persecution of witches and women healers. Even in a modern, secular context we can see how the fear of death can contribute to the fear of her. The following Dark Goddess archetypes have been more or less demonised:
Hel - Norse Queen of the Underworld and the dead.
Hekate - Greek Goddess of the night, the moon, witchcraft and necromancy.
The Morrigan - Celtic Raven Goddess of death, war, rebirth and sovereignty.
Lilith - Sumerian Goddess of sexual power, freedom and sovereignty.
From what I can see, this demonisation has not happened to the same extent with the Dark Goddess Kali Ma, who is still largely revered within Hinduism. This is a reflection of how the feminine has been repressed in Europe and the Western world while still revered in the East.
This persecution of the Dark Goddess is slowly being reversed. We are taking back the darkness as sacred, as holy in and of itself. The darkness brings peace and rest and enables us to go inward, to meet with our own inner Dark Goddess. She is not to be feared. She is to be embraced, because often only through encountering her can we lay aside what does not serve and be born anew.
If you would like to connect more deeply to the Dark Goddess archetypes of your ancestry, I have a 3 month offering where we will commune with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage.
May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...
The Morrigan - Dark Celtic Raven Goddess of Death and Rebirth
I had a call with my mentor a few days ago. I was called to shift my energy and to start letting go of certain things that I know don't serve me any longer, things that I have been putting off looking at. She told me that she saw one of my guides as a dark goddess with raven energy. I made a note of it and we carried on with the rest of the call.
After the call I got on with the energy shifting homework that she gave me and I didn't think too much about the raven goddess in particular. It was a fleeting comment and although it caught my interest, I put it at the back of my mind. Today, I was watching a Youtube video on the origins of Samhain and All Hallows' Eve. It started telling me about a Celtic raven goddess called The Morrigan. The name rang a bell but I had never looked into her before. The video also suggested that she is a dark goddess. To me a dark goddess has nothing to do with negativity but is someone who can help carry us through transformation and releasing our shadows, even though it's uncomfortable.
She is a goddess of war, destiny, fate, death and rebirth as well as magic. Death and rebirth is what really spoke to me. She is the exact energy that I need in order to move through and embody some of the things my mentor brought up and that my inner guidance has told me about for a long time. I believe that The Morrigan has been with me for some time and showed me who she is through my mentor and the synchronicity of the video that I watched. I have had the desire to know who some of my guides are by name, apart from the ones I already know. When we put the desire out there the information often comes when we least expect it.
May the divine feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages…
Art by Laura Cameron
Eir - Norse Goddess of Healing
Eir is the Norse goddess of healing and medicine. Her name means gracious, helpful and copper (which is a metal often used in healing practices). In early Norse culture medicine was almost exclusively practiced by women, which is why she is a goddess and not a god.
Eir is among the Asynjur (Frigg's attendants) and is the goddess who is present at childbirth, along with Frigg and sometimes Freyja. In Norse Folk tradition Eir was invoked in healing rituals using a white flower known as Eirflower.
Healing methods included healing prayers, magic, midwifery practices (much more advanced than later ones), surgery, herbalism, using copper bracelets, and detoxes using saunas.
Eir is at times compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia and she may be related to the Indo-European Swiss goddess, Erecura, known to the Celtic tradition as Aerucura.
May the divine feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages…
Frigg - the Allmother
Frigg or Frigga is referred to as the 'foremost among the goddesses' in Norse mythology. She is the queen of Asgard, the land of the gods, and the wife of Odin.
She is mostly associated with the Norse pantheon but she has Germanic counterparts that were worshipped in Britain and on the European continent. The Romans associated Frigg with the goddess Venus, and the planet Venus has been called friggjarstjarna (Frigg's star).
Frigg is the goddess of practical, homely knowledge, fertility, motherhood, love and marriage. It's easy to understand how in recent times the more seemingly independent minded Freyja has become the most popular Norse goddess to refer to. I believe it's because in modern Western society, the traditionally feminine attributes that Frigg is associated with are not seen as independently valuable.
If we understand that in another time in history these areas of life were most likely highly sacred and revered. These feminine areas of life and knowledge are intrinsically valuable and may even be more important or fundamental than the traditionally masculine parts of life that society is now holding up as more important.
Even so, the story goes that Frigg is very involved in political affairs of Asgard and shared the throne with Odin, overlooking the Nine Worlds. This could be a reflection of Germanic societies in history where the responsibilities of a noblewoman included acting as a counsellor to her husband and as a peace-keeper and diplomat. In other words, the feminine role as the 'protector of the home' included a lot more than what we might imagine now.
Frigg has her own dwelling called Fensalir (Hall of Mists or Sea Halls), which she manages. She also oversees the Asynjur, a group of goddesses or deities with different attributes and roles. They are sometimes described as being different aspects of Frigg. She has connections to the Earth and in some respects is seen as an Earth goddess, but not of wild nature but instead of lands that are cultivated.
When we look beneath the surface of some of the divine feminine archetypes in our ancestral cultures, we realise that there is so much more to them than commonly believed. They have so many dimensions to them and they are powerful beyond measure, just as we are.
Connecting to these goddesses and deities can help bring out more of the divine feminine power within ourselves that has sometimes been forgotten.
Art by Amanda Lindupp
Why ancestors and ancestral lands are important in spiritual work
To really deepen into our spiritual path, we cannot skip over working with our ancestors and ancestral lands. There are good reasons why indigenous and pagan spiritual traditions work with ancestors as an integral part of rituals and practices.
These practises have been mostly lost in the major institutional religions, which have in many cases dismissed it as ‘ancestor worship’, putting a stigma on these age old practices, although there are still traces of it left such as All Saints’ Day in Christianity.
Many of our ancestors want nothing more than to help and guide us and they are ready to assist whenever we call on them. They want to help us release and move beyond limitations and beliefs that they were unable to let go of during there time on earth, and they are now seeing things from a higher perspective. They want us to release the density and old thought forms so that they can be released through us. Some wounds and limiting beliefs that we carry may be from other lives or this life but some can just as likely be ancestral wounds.
I have found that many of my patterns and limitations surrounding money, work and responsibility is inherited from grandparents and great-grandparents. I couldn’t understand where my pattern of feeling responsible for others and not asking for financial or practical help came from. This is until I spoke to my parents about how my grandmother used to in effect support her family by working nights at a hospital while at the same time carrying out all of the house and childcare duties. She kept her head down and didn't ask or expect help. Although this is showing up slightly differently for me, it's the same pattern. There are rituals and release work that we can undertake to release these patterns and your ancestors will thank you for doing this.
I am also convinced that some souls or aspects of a soul may incarnate into the same bloodline or family tree several times. Although our oversoul and where our souls have been is not necessarily connected to our current blood ancestry, I believe parts of us are inextricably linked to our biological family trees and even to the lands that our blood ancestors inhabited.
My ancestors on my father’s side are from a region of Sweden called Dalarna (meaning The Valleys). We have an old family farm, in one of the villages in this region, passed down through many generations, with two cottages and lots of cherry trees. I used to spend most of my summers there as a child. Whenever I go there I feel a sense of belonging to the earth and the lands, and a groundedness that I don’t easily feel elsewhere. I often long to go there if I have been away for too long.
My feelings of belongingness to this place is not just cultural. There are other parts of Sweden that I have spent more time in, but that don’t have the same magnetism for me. I am convinced that it has to do with our DNA being linked to certain lands. I hear stories of people having a strong experience when visiting some of their ancestral lands for the first time. Again, it’s not cultural belonging as such since you might not have grown up with the culture of that place. Culture is on the surface level. This feeling is much more deep and rooted. It’s our DNA resonating with certain places. This can also happen on a soul level in terms of ‘past’ lives.
Ancestry is integral to the spiritual awakening process. How can we be rooted if we don’t connect to our DNA lineage in some way, and if we are not first rooted in our ancestral stories, how can we heal the wounds that we carry for our ancestors and look to ascend them? For those of us who live in parts of the world where the ancestors of the lands are not our own, you can still pray to and honour the ancestors of the lands you are on. They can help you to connect to your own ancestors.
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We are multidimensional Beings
I recently had a past life and soul hypnotherapy session where the facilitator guides you to a state where you speak through your soul or higher self. I saw one other human life and one life where I was a being that was definitely not of the 3D dimension and not human, as we know it at least.
I realised during the session that the human life I saw was not in itself significant for me to know about, other than to realise how I do not want to live and to not put the same limitations on myself that previous incarnations have had in other lifetimes.
The other lifetime I saw felt more significant and this might have been because it was a bit more ‘out there’. This life was supposedly an earlier one, although time and space are ultimately illusions so the timeline might not matter that much. In this part of the session I looked down on myself and the facilitator asked me to describe what I saw. What I did see was hard to describe, to say the least, and I was struggling to find the words to explain. I was a blue being and instead of actual feet I looked down on blue slim limbs that seemed boneless and were floating, rather than standing, in a blue space. The closest I have to describe the weightlessness of the space and my body was that I was in water, which might have been the case. I was also wearing some type of floaty blue fabric.
I was asked to look around me at the surroundings and any other beings that might be with me. I saw another being who seemed to look just like me. She had a blue face, I say she because the energy felt very feminine but androgynous at the same time, dark friendly eyes and a small mouth. She was wearing a type of crown or tiara that seemed to be a part of her body and a floaty robe or dress. The blue space around us was vast and there was both lighter and darker blue as far as I could see.
After my session finished and I sat up again, a bit dazed after the hypnosis, the facilitator (a lovely healer called Charmian Redwood) told me that in the middle of the session the video recording started showing a blue light arching over my body. I asked her to send me the recording so that I could see it for myself since I was curious, and there it was, a strong indigo/blue/violet arch. It could be the camera lens creating it from some of the sunlight coming through my half closed blinds, but it has never happened in any other Skype or Zoom call I have had and the colour was striking. I left that to be unknown…
I describe these experiences during this session not to impress anyone or to make myself special, but to tell you from my own experience that we are multidimensional souls, here to integrate this multidimensionality into this life and this body, to embody our fullest potential as light workers. We are meant to live as close to our soul as possible while still going through human experiences. I would like to do this together with you, because we are many who have come back at this time for a particular purpose, to remember our multidimensional selves and to remember our oneness with all that is and our origins as light beings.
A Course in Miracles teaches that we think we have many problems but we really only have one, and that is our perceived separation from God.
Art from Lemurian Starchild Oracle painted by Leanne Carpenter
Mother Mary and the Wild feminine subconscious
If you think of Mother Mary in terms of the benign virgin and mother figure of religious Christian iconography, someone who does not not threaten the status quo and keep women in line, think again. Mother Mary is a version of the Wild Mother that lives in the wild feminine subconscious. She is the force that leads us through our darkest nights and births the Christ consciousness from within us. This Christ consciousness is not a soft, naive love that conforms to societal norms and expectations. No, the Christ consciousness that she births is what will transform this world and birth a new paradigm.
This is already happening. Old paradigms and dogmas, both collectively and individually, are falling and burning. This is not always a pretty sight and can feel tumultuous and traumatic at times. Mother Mary is there to lead us through this. She is one manifestation of this feminine shadow guide archetype and maybe the most outwardly benign one. But make no mistake, she means business.
Other Wild Mother archetypes are Hel - Norse queen of the underworld and Kali - The Divine Mother or Dark Mother in Hinduism. You might relate to one or more of these guides at different times and depending on your background and ancestry. Mother Mary can help us with the journey of letting go and destroying what does not serve us any longer and rebirthing the new, while all along maintaining a fierce unconditional love for us that will see us through the darkness.
With this in mind the traditional Christian prayer dedicated to Mary takes on a whole different meaning to me:
Hail Mary
Full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou
among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus,
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners
now, and at the hour
of our death
Amen
