Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Chelan Harkin: THE FEMININE IS HERE

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THE FEMININE IS HERE

The Feminine is here
to crack open your body,
women AND men
and finally release the poison
of every ancient, uncleaned wound.
 
The Feminine is here
to crack open your old ideologies
and shoot new life through you
like a seed
hard and closed for so many years
and suddenly kissed into transformation
by the great destruction
of light.
 
The Feminine is here
from the measured, surveyed land
at the edge
of the wild forest
of your dreams
and finally toss you
into the mapless territory
of your heart.
 
The Feminine is here
to lay your impressive
certificates of learning
at the feet of inner knowing,
 
to pluck you from discipleship
of an outward master
and lay you at the altar
of your inner truth,
 
to active this inner truth
that has long been waiting latent
and so eager to erupt
from your soul.
 
The Feminine is here
to remind you that God
can live in the earth, in the hips
in the deepest shadows,
 
that She is planted
like a wild rose
in the darkest
furrows
of your pain,
to reteach you
to mother your frailties
rather than dominate them
and bring the wound from exile
into embrace.
 
The Feminine is here to bring you home
just as you are now,
to undo conditions
around enoughness,
to undo every patriarchal corset
cinched around your voice and spirit
and return you to the full belly
of your sacred breath. 
 
The Feminine is here to reunite
tenderness with power,
to help you source this
from the great, hidden sea within,
and for you to feel the intimacy of God
pulsing Her embodied song
through the rivers of your blood
and back to the holy ocean
of your heart.
 
The Feminine is here to tell us
in no uncertain terms
we are carrying new wisdom,
a gestation of God
in the womb of our consciousness,
 
and a great, never before seen beauty
is soon due
 to be born. 
 
Chelan Harkin
From Let Us Dance!: The Stumble
and Whirl With the Beloved
 
 

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