Woodspriestess: Exploring the intersection between Nature, the Goddess, art, and poetry.
Listening to the woods, to the stones, to Gaia, and to women...
In the woods behind my house rest a collection of nine large flat rocks. Daily, I walk down to these “priestess rocks” for some sacred time alone to pray, meditate, consider, and be. Often, while in this space, I open my mouth and poetry comes out. I’ve come to see this experience as "theapoetics"—experiencing the Goddess through direct “revelation,” framed in language. As Stanley Hopper originally described in the 1970’s, it is possible to “…replace theology, the rationalistic interpretation of belief, with theopoetics, finding God[dess] through poetry and fiction, which neither wither before modern science nor conflict with the complexity of what we know now to be the self.” Theapoetics might also be described, “as a means of engaging language and perception in such a way that one enters into a radical relation with the divine, the other, and the creation in which all occurs.”
Living the Questions: Adversity and Normalcy
You don’t need to fix anything,
it is okay to let your feelings feel, 
to let your swoops swoop,
to let your not-knowing not-know,
to let your hope soar
and then plummet,
to let your joy be joyful,
to let your tears be hot.
Witnessing,
without fixing.
As part of my ongoing Living the Questions free e-class this year, I offer you this brief audio about Adversity and Normalcy.
Questions to consider:
- How might the dualism between normal and not normal be causing you pain?
- Are you telling yourself that because something feels challenging, that means it is wrong? How might things shift if you viewed difficulties or adversity as part of normal life?
- Are you demanding too much of yourself, causing yourself cruelty?
- Where might you need an "of course" response in your life?
May you enjoy some time to rest and reflect, to consider and evaluate, to listen and to be. May you live the questions, love your life, and witness without fixing.
- Living the Questions 2019 free class sign up.
- Archive of past lessons.
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