Last weekend several women elders gathered at my home and virtually, via the telephone, to be in meditation for three full days in response to the many needs of humanity and our planet. These beautiful elders receive no payment, accolades or acknowledgment for their gift. They do it quietly and with great love.
What makes this meditation challenging is that throughout the three days the women do nothing for humanity and the earth. They set no intentions, send no energy, and say no prayers. Rather than engage in doing, they allow themselves to become the very essence of the Sacred Feminine—they hold us in love.
This sounds really simple, until you sit down to simply be love as you witness others in their pain and struggles. Throughout the three days, people, animals and nature from around the world will find their way to the women, where they will be given the opportunity to simply be held in love. If people choose to be held energetically in love by these women elders, they will experience no judgment for their choices or hope for how they should be. They will simply be loved for who they are. To discover more about this practice of holding, learn more about the Creation Meditation at: http://www.newdreamfoundation.com/forums/index.php?board=29.0
Certainly, there is nothing wrong with holding people accountable for their actions, nor is there anything inappropriate in desiring a better life for someone. But the elders know an ancient secret about what happens when we are loved completely for simply existing. When we are loved, without conditions, we relax and soften, and ultimately surrender to the Divine love that we are. From that awareness of Divine love, we are reborn or re-emerge, to engage life from the perspective of one that knows he or she is fully loved.
So the elders lovingly hold whoever enters the energetic field of their sacred space, whether they are child victims or adult perpetrators, refugees or mercenaries, abused or abuser—all are held in love. Each person is accepted as an expression of Divine Consciousness born from the primordial womb of all life. As such, each person was born from Divine love, though we may struggle as individuals to remember the perfection of that love. By holding each person, regardless of their choices, in the embrace of the Sacred Feminine, it opens a doorway of awareness to our Divine origins, and once again we are free to express our lives from and in that love.
This is equally true for the animals and elements of our planet. We, as humans, tend to forget we live in symbiotic relationship with nature. The animals and elements of nature also carry blueprints of the Divine. When we are struggling to make our choices from a place of Divine love, they reflect our struggle. We become selfish and abuse the resources available to us. We stop taking care of ourselves and stop taking care of the gifts from the Mother. We choose to care for one element of nature but not another. We wait for someone else to clean up our messes and nature pays the price for our lack of stewardship. Recognizing this, the women hold the animals and the elements of nature in their love as well, so that the Divine love that created all things is honored in all of life.
To be able to hold purely, without interference in another’s life or decisions, is a great challenge. Women elders are invited to this meditation because they have consistently demonstrated a capacity to meditate at length, and to enter into the essence of the Sacred Feminine that can love unconditionally. Many of these women have devoted years of their life to devotional practice that has prepared them for these three days in the heart of the Divine Feminine.
We call it a Visioning Ceremony for the world, not because the elders are holding an intention and vision for the world, but rather because they are holding us and we carry our own visions and intentions. By holding each of us in Divine love, we emerge with a clearer sense of self and sacred purpose. In this clarity and in this love, our natural and pure visions for the world, effortlessly emerge—in health, happiness, wholeness, and fulfillment.
Sally,
Truly, the wisdom of the Sacred Feminine is moving through many of us right now. I was deeply touched to read how her voice is flowing through you. I am from the bloodline of Mary Magdalene and in my cells I can sense that she was a powerful carrier of the essence of the Sacred Feminine. Her wisdom is as appropriate now as it was 2,000 years ago.
Thank you for letting us know that the ancient knowledge is alive and awakening in many ways within us.
All so beautiful…Thank you for your writing and sharing. This is a meditation from December 5th in my book, BLESSINGS FROM MARY and it speaks to stillness and the abundance of Spiritual Resources available to us All.
December 25th
Somewhere deep in the cells of your being, you remember our ancient calling. Come again and again and receive our blessing.
Wisdom of Mary Magdalene
“The great challenge of asking for what you want is receiving it with openness and gratitude when it comes. Some of the spiritual journeying that we do requires us to be still and allow to seep into our bones what we have been called here to provide as a service to others. When this clarity and knowing comes, there is focus, surrender, trust and a path is laid before you to follow. The doubts, worries and concerns about the opinions and perspectives of oth-ers come when we move ourselves away from the stillness of our knowing and clarity within.
You have been given your memory back. Your mission of service is to inspire individuals to connect with their Divine purpose from within and the courage to carry this out. When you move from the stillness of knowing this truth, you will worry about others, fear their opinions and carry their shame and unconsciousness.
Bring yourself back to stillness and remember. From here, this place with us will remind you and your wounded ego will not dis-tract you. Use us as your guides and foundation for remembering. All is well. All is clear. All is known. That which matters, as a place to put our attention and energy, will reemerge again and again. We are with you.”
Renya,
You share your experience so beautifully. As humans, we do sometimes try to complicate things, and it can be such a delight to discover how profoundly simple it really is—being love. Thank you for sharing this wisdom from your heart and experience.
Thank you Misa for your most beautiful and powerful sharing “HOLDING US IN LOVE.” Simply Being ~ Being Love is how I commune with the essence of all that is within and around me.
This morning I went out to brush Sancho, sweet mini donkey. My favorite thing to do is close my eyes and “be love together.” After a while of being, lullaby type sounds pour through my lips. I’ve grown accustomed to realizing that when I surrender into love, sometimes the love of being is quiet and other times the love creates audible sounds. I do not understand the sounds and words and it matters not. It is simply deeply loving, and we both love it, perhaps even more than grooming. I love communing with life in this way… it truly feels ecstatic from the inside out being in the state of symbiotic union with life.
Thank you Misa for reminding us to BE LOVE and thank you Grandmothers for Holding Us In Love. I close my eyes and Hold You in Love too.