As we approach Christmas, I know I for one, need to reach hard under the bed and pull out the Treasure Box of images and Inspirations and refresh my memory about this season, so I can go into it in a good way (you know?). I thought I would share a few (mental) pictures with you. Tell me what you think. This is a BLOG, isn’t it?
I am surrounded by Madonna pictures now (that helps). But who is this Sophia Being? How do I think about Her, feel Her? I work with a calendar of the seasons, that includes the 12 astrological seasons. It is a picture of a circle with Summer Solstice at the top, Winter at the bottom. We are approaching the bottom this week.
You know that picture of Sophia- the woman with the Sun in her Heart, a circle of 12 stars around her head…and standing with the Moon under her feet? THAT Moon is what I call the Moon-boat. As the Summer Solstice passes, it is Sophia who carries us all in her Moon-boat down the decline into Winter. We need her.
It is Sophia—so they say- who gets born again every Summer. She is the Mother who carries us down the long slow descent into fall and then winter, each day losing the influence of the Sun, each day living with increasing darkness. She was “conceived” at Easter, around the Spring Equinox. But she doesn’t come into her power until Summer Solstice. That’s when she picks us up in the Boat. And at the Winter Solstice, she gives birth (9 months)……..like she did. But also IN US. The Christ Being will then take us up the steep incline into Spring and towards Summer, where it all begins again.
We need her during this voyage. She knows we all have our inner Sun…..and we all have our inner darkness, our Beast, our shadow. And for everyone it is scary to go down into the Dark.
It is said that at the Winter Solstice and then Christmas eve, we have the opportunity to experience the Rebirth of Light. But that implies making friends with our inner Dark.
We rise by kneeling…………so they say.
And it is Sophia that guards us and cares for us. She more or less holds our hand as we approach this time of the year. “Don’t fear. You are with me”—that is what she says, if we can hear it.
Or do we get so busy, so distracted, so overwhelmed (yes is the answer to that question) and it becomes very challenging to even hear Sophia? Or recognize the terrain we are in. Yes yes yes. Damnitall
However, the images of the Madonna are fiercely nourishing now. Even if I can only hang out there for a few moments a day. I am reminded that I am being born a little bit each year—at this time—and she is my mother too.
I have been watching a documentary on the Monarchy of Great Britain- it’s a long, long, often bloody history. King after King….sons betraying their fathers, nations stealing everything from other nations. The quest for power. Lordy—it seems so insane. I know that this is the Patriarchy, the patriarchal way of being. It is a stage in development. It has to be. But aren’t we now trying to take the next step and move into the realm of Sophia and the great Feminine? I think so. Though it seems that not everybody is there yet. So it is all a bit of a mess.
To me, I think the key is that Sophia rules the descent. Into redemption. Into the New Birth. As women we have to honor the Dark. The Mystery. The Not-Knowing. The Christ-birth will come but we have to go into the Dark first.
P.S. Don’t Fall Into the Abyss!!!!! Go gently.
From Wendell Berry
To go into the dark with a light
Is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark
Go without sight
And find that the dark too
Blooms and sings.
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