Chelan Harkin: The Feminine Is Here

Photos are by Molly

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 to pull you

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 the discipleship

of an outward master

and lay you at the altar

of truth

that has been waiting latent

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,

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

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 

the Whirl With the Beloved