Although this Great Year has culminated
in the most unimaginable suffering, the process we have been through
has all been part of evolution of Humanity. Even though mind boggling
atrocities continue to be committed by one human being against
another every second of every day, a deep and lasting change in
human consciousness has already occurred.
This can be hard to believe because as
we begin to notice and talk about these abuses, they appear to be
increasing. Actually they are not,
we are just more aware of them and of the dire consequences
they cause. One only has to think back to the time of the Roman
Empire, Henry the VIII, or even the beginning of last Century to see
that life in the West is nowhere near as brutal or (overtly)
oppressive. We are coming out of denial about these abuses and the
truth we have to face up to is deeply shocking and painful. The
process of coming out of denial always feels worse because it was the
denial that was protecting us from the pain.
One also only has to go back 100 years
to also see that the human spirit is waking up to these abuses of
power and collectively we are beginning to do something about it. Of
course we still have a very long way to go to change our conditioned
beliefs about power and to clear up the mess, but change is
happening and that change is accelerating at an unprecedented speed.
(We may think things are going slowly because we who are alive today
have only ever known rapid change. But actually the last 300 years
have seen more social and technological advancement than the entire
previous 26,000 period. Comparatively, things are changing at
lightening speed.)
So, you may well be wondering, what has
all this got to do with the Goddess? Well, the answer to this is very
simple. Around 26,000 years ago humanity began the journey of
separation from the Great Mother so that we could develop
consciousness. (In Biblical terms this separation from The
Goddess was The Fall from Eden.) Just as a child must separate from
it's mother to develop into an autonomous conscious adult, humanity
has had to separate from the Great Mother that gave form to us all.
Human childhood involves a far more
difficult task than simply learning how to physically survive. From a
young age, children begin the incredibly complex struggle to define
the Self, to discover personal power and to develop conscious awareness. During the last 26,000
years, Humanity as a whole has been going through this painful process
of growing up and of developing consciousness. For that process to have been able to take place, the separation from the Great Mother and all the power struggles were
absolutely necessary.
At the end of 2012, this process of
separation will come to an end because we have gone as far as we
needed to go. As soon as Humanity became capable of destroying our Earth Mother and to leave Her by going into space, we
ceased to be children. That is not to say
we have reached full adult maturity, (far from it!) but we have come of age.
This means we are ready for the next stage in our development which
involves learning the responsible use of our power and how to form equal
unions with 'the other'. We are not about to return to the
prehistoric Mother Goddess days, we are returning to Her as evolved
beings who have completed a process of self actualisation. As we
return to the Goddess, we seek to re-unite with Her as
conscious, empowered adults.
In the next stage of our spiritual
development will learn how to re-balance all the polarities
that were created by The Separation, without losing the gifts of
individuality and diversity. We will discover how to balance woman with man,
masculine with feminine and Earth with Heaven. We will re-learn how to dig spiritual roots deep into the Earth so we can gain strength from Her as we continue
reaching for the stars. We will begin to understand that opposites are just two
sides of the same coin and that we have all lived out both sides on a soul level. We will learn how to relate to 'the
other' as an equal and how to conduct conscious, liberated sexual relationhsips.
But for all of this
to become possible, we must first reawaken the Divine Feminine which had to be supressed for The Separation to occur. We must seek ways to incorporate Her into every aspect of our personal and
collective lives. Once the door to the Old Way is closed on Winter Solstice 2012, we will be completely free to
open the door to the Returning Goddess. However, the new door will not
open to Her on the 21st December nor on the day after because we
must pause to reflect and purify ourselves during the winter before we begin moving forward in the spring. The
door to the New Age, the new Great Year and the Returning Goddess
will open as the 'baton of light' is passed to the Goddess Brigit at
the first signs of spring. This happens on Imbolc 2013 which next year falls on
the 3rd
of February.
Now that will be a day that is worth
celebrating!
Freja ♥
Freja ♥
