On Vision

Posted on November 22, 2012 by trasie

Sometimes, you read a horoscope and think it just doesn’t apply to your life. Other times, it just fits:

Look, you’re an alien. You’re advanced so far beyond humanity that thinkin’ you’ll be happier if you were like us simple folk is only going to bring you down even more. You’re a child of the universe! Don’t get stuck here, get back out there. Way out. That’s where the fun is. FFWD

As an alien, I can be a refugee and struggle with what I’ve lost, or a pilgrim and seek for what I need to find.

I’m struggling with a lot of why, how, and what, not just where, as I transition from one stage to the next.

I’m finding what it is that brought me here in the first place: the vision of a different world, the belief in social change, and the spark that lives in all of us.

It’s not really a choice, but if I have to make one, the vision wins every time. I may be way out, but at least I’m going to have fun while I’m there.

Passages: Patricia Monaghan

Posted on November 13, 2012 by trasie

The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her. (The Goddess Path, 4)

Another of our feminist foremothers has passed from this world. Patricia Monaghan, academic and poet, was one of many women whose words I treasured on my path (back) to knowing the Goddess. Even today, when I need the name of a Goddess or an aspect to invoke, her works are among the first I turn to. We have lost so much of our past. I honour those who have dedicated their time to reconnecting us with our herstory, and I am comforted as they in turn have comforted us:

The most important fact about goddesses, it seems to me, is that they are invariably connected to polytheism. Put another way: there is no monotheistic religion based on a goddess. Not a single goddess appears without friends, companions, lovers, children. The presence of the goddess demands the presence of other goddesses, and gods as well. This is comforting for me, for in my vision of the world redeemed, the world made whole, I yearn for connection, not for separation. (The New Book of Goddesses & Heroines, xiii)

Blessed Be.

On Remembrance

Posted on November 11, 2012 by trasie

Today is a day of Remembrance. Mary Daly defined Re-membering as “Realizing the power to See and to Spell our connections among apparently disparate phenomena” – to bring together that which has been taken apart, to heal that which has been torn from each other, to work for harmony and peace.

To See is to be aware of that which is around us. To See is to understand that we are not a nation of war.

To Spell is to connect what we see with what we are trying to create. To Spell is to understand that remembrance isn’t enough to stop war.

To Remember is to connect our Selves to the history of Peace so we can name what needs to be done as we work for Peace.

Today, I again commit my Self to the work of Peace, asking Goddess to guide my thoughts, words and actions on this path. I Remember those who have come before me, those who work with me, and those who will come after me. I See with clear eyes and I Spell with a clear heart. Blessed Be!