Feeding the Soul of the Feminine
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At four o’clock this morning I woke up still wrestling with an inner question I have been working on for months. I had spent the afternoon and evening preparing a new video blog on the dancing priestess process and was just too tired to send it out at 9:30 when it was complete.
There was one line in the blog that as I tossed and turned kept surfacing in my mind…Dance is a primary form of worship of the Goddess. I realized as twilight dawned that a part of me, even after 11 years of being a high priestess and facilitating over 30 priest/ess circles, was still afraid of publicly making such a statement.
At each new level of development as I have made my way through the years of being a priestess I have had to clear old fears and internal patterns. Cellular memory runs deep. I have found the years of persecution as patriarchy took over the Goddess temples and imprint of the burning times were layered in my consciousness. And they have gotten released and healed one layer at a time.
Even after so much inner clearing work I found another layer of fear residing around my love of the Divine Feminine, the Goddess. For me she isn’t a replacement for the Divine Masculine or God, I love and appreciate the masculine tremendously. But the Goddess, the Divine Feminine essence, nourishes me as a women differently than the masculine does. She feeds my soul in so many important ways.
Through connecting with her I have found deeper value in my own presence as a woman. I have come to appreciate the feminine force in creation and the ways it shows up in the women and men around me. My body is enlivened as I dance to honor her Divine essence. My inner wisdom and knowing strengthened as I drink from the deep well of the Goddess within.
Today I clear another old layer as I share this with you. If you find this speaks to you take a look at the video blog below I have posted about the Dancing Priestess process starting in two formats in 2010. And soon, I will be blogging about my recent experience in a beautiful Goddess Temple in Southern California.
And whether you are a man or a woman may the essence of the Divine Feminine, the Goddess, bless you and enrich your life with her precious grace.
Illustration by Prescott Hill
Thank you so much for sharing this. I know full well your hesitancy in sharing your path when others may not understand. You are not alone. The God and Goddess smile lovingly on us all and working with either or both is a personal choice to make.
Thanks Tracy and so true. Blessings, Lisa
Thank you for sharing this, Lisa. As a recently emerged Priestess, I really understand that hesitation. And I have felt the desire to describe it all, too! I love the roots from which I’ve grown, the United Church of Christ (UCC). My father was a wonderful minister (retired now) in that church. My passion for priestessing, for social justice and reaching out to help others, without any judgement or dogma, was also ignited in my early experiences with that church. I honor what was/is good. But there is more, much more, when Goddess is an integral part of it all. What is truly divine has no limits or boundaries.
Sarah thanks for your comment and I see how deep the layers go. Blessings on your journey, LIsa
Thanks for all the amazing emails that I received about this post. Because it went out in an email first the comments mostly came by email here are a few excerpts (names omitted).
What it showed me is that many, many women still deal with this issue.
Thanks to each of you who shared with me…
Lisa, thank you for your courage. This is touching.
I appreciate your journey so much Lisa. Thank you for sharing as deeply as you do.
I thank you deeply for sharing this, Lisa. It is this form of intimacy … of being real … that speaks to me in a way I even care to listen, no matter who is speaking.
beautifully written! I so honor your vulnerability in this email, and the strength of your words
Very nice piece and I relate deeply to the the fear of taking a public stand around your beliefs and ways of being.
Lisa, this is truly beautifully written, thank you!
Thanks for sending this. I can really relate to what you said here.
Your experience speaks deeply to me and thank you for sharing it.
Isn’t it amazing how long it takes women to feel comfortable in their own skins?
Dear Lisa, Thank you for your honesty in this blog. I can understand the hesitance to step forward and claim the Divine Feminine Resonance so clearly here on this planet. We still have a ways to go in accepting it within ourselves, and further, in religious arenas.
Perhaps, if each of us could take a moment to remember that we were All, once, just a tony egg within ur Mother’s ovaries. Further back, we rocked gently, within our Grandmother’s womb, as our Mother grew. Or that the first sound we ever heard was the beating of our Mother’s heart and the rush of her nourishing blood that sustained us.
The Feminine principle has deep meaning for each of us. We can find more ways to appreciate and honor it. Without it, can we truly integrate with the masculine? *One Love*
Thank you Donna, I love your womb reminders. How lovely. Many blessings, LIsa