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Inner Art - July 2007
Journey to the Heart of the Goddess:
Reclaiming the power of the Feminine
by Christan Hummel
Over 2,000 years ago, our planet experienced a ³shifting of the poles.² It wasn't a magnetic shift, but one that had just as much of an influence on all life on the planet. It was a shift in polarity from the Yin based Goddess traditions which had ruled for almost 35,000 years, to the new Yang-oriented, patriarchal religions. Long before our current forms of Judeo-Christian, and Islamic religions prevailed, the Goddess tradition was the prevailing form of thought and worship across the globe.
Aspects of the Feminine can still be experienced in subtle ways within the major religions of today. In the first Sura of the Islamic Koran, for example, the Fatiha, is a verse recited by millions of Muslims in their daily devotions and God is called Al Rahmin, the merciful and compassionate one. Rahmin is derived from the Arabic for ³womb² or ³matrix², reminding Muslims of the Feminine attributes of God. Ameratsu in Japan; Qwan Yin in China; Tara in Tibet; Shakti in India; The Shekhinah of the Kabbalah; Isis in Egypt; the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Black Madonna of Christianity; Gaia in Greece and Rome; Spider Woman the Weaver in North America‹all are the many and varied names representing aspects of the Sacred Feminine Goddess.
Several thousand years ago, a new energy began to sweep through the planet replacing the Feminine. Male-dominated religion began to overturn, suppress, and even obliterate the peaceful, earth-honoring Goddess traditions. Throughout the world, each country has its story of how their indigenous and nature-based cultures were replaced by more authority-driven societies. By the time the Roman Catholic Church was dominant, nature-based worship had become a crime punishable by death. The texts of the world's religions were rewritten demeaning the Feminine, and even editing out references to the Female, in favor of a male God.
Intuitively, these Goddess-oriented traditions predicted the "descent" and masking of the Goddess. However, ancient prophecies also predicted a time in which the Sacred Feminine would re-emerge and restore our planet to health. From the Hopi to Greeks to Islam, all have foreseen a time when the energies of the Great Mother would flee, but then at a later time return upon the earth. Prophecies predict it is the rebirth of the Feminine Principle that is needed to begin to heal the planet and to put out the fires kindled by two thousand years of male Logos orientation.
We are in the midst of such times. As the Spirit of the Great Mother arises in the Earth, we each hold a piece of Her light and love within our hearts. The re-emergence of the Sacred Yin energy, so long suppressed, persecuted and abused, is held deep within our hearts. Its re-emergence presents opportunities for us to heal deep planetary fears and traumas coming to the surface from past abuse and suppression of the Sacred Feminine that is held within the planet's collective matrix. This process affects both men and women. However, women in particular hold a piece of the Sacred Feminine. As we heal and release our own issues, we help to anchor that energy on the planet. Women are the main repositories for Yin energy collectively, and it is in and through women that this Sacred Feminine is coming back into power. This power is not as we have been conditioned to know it. It is not power ³over² or power to control, but power that comes from the depths of our being, of simply being who we are in our fullest sense. By igniting the spark of the Yin energy within us, we begin to bloom into the true expression of our beauty as living embodiments of the Divine Feminine. Expressing this Divine energy, we help restore this depleted energy to the planet.
Christan Hummel is an internationally known seminar leader, and author of the best-selling DITY Space Clearing Kit. As a pioneer in earth energies, she has presented at feng shui, dowsing and kinesiology conferences around the world. She has been in communication with the realms of nature for over 25 years, and has established co-creative grassroots pollution clearing groups worldwide. For information go to: www.earthtransitions.com