Every once in awhile, when the moon is positioned just right and the stars twinkle in just the right way, I get a visitor or two that make me shake my head. A member of the unconscious male persuasion will pm me and express their extreme disgust for "my type".
I am Pandora’s Box Can you handle me When I am open wide?
I will not censor myself for your tastes
Pull the veil over my truth to give you comfort
Silence my words for your ears
Or change my heart to fit into the confining box of your definitions.
The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is not an easy path. You weave a sacred space to dissolve completely and inside that cocoon you are literally forged anew. You are reborn; you emerge, stretching towards the new found light and from there you fly into the world on beautiful hopeful new wings.
Durga is a very powerful Goddess. Her power is centered in her presence and her ability to stay grounded, centered and focused. She is a slayer of demons that the other Gods could not destroy and is a Goddess to work with when we are needing strength and courage.
In the face of a world filled with fear, violence and destruction the only feasible solution that I can see is to love. Love greater and bigger than we ever have before.
I want to know who you are
When you don't have to hold back anymore
When the barriers crumble and the veils dissolve
And you stand in the brilliance of your unfolding
Bared like a shining lotus among the waves
I heard a song deep within the core of me, the lyrics spoken in a tongue long since past from this world, and yet I understood. I knew. Even without the translation I felt it in my soul. This was the song of the Ancients, the path of the Shamanic Priestess, the Healers of the Earth, the Warriors of the Divine Feminine.
"My daughter," the Goddess said. "Love is not meant to have boundaries; it does not need walls to contain it, veils to hide it, nor documents to bind it. Love has no expiry date, is limitless, and free of judgement.
The time of not making waves is over, of playing small and not wanting to have attention drawn where we feel it isn't deserving. It IS deserving. YOU ARE DESERVING. We push ourselves down and try to remain compact so the world won't see for fear of judgement and scrutiny. But your wings need to be shown for you to fly.