Chelan Harkin is among my most beloved poets and I treasure each of her beautiful books. What I am sharing here today is a chapter from her latest book — The Prophetess. So deeply powerful and wise. And anyone who has read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran will recognize the parallels with his work.
I was first moved to share with my husband The Feminine as I absorbed its profound message. And now I am called to share more widely something which I believe holds the potential to be of great benefit to us all. — Molly
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THE FEMININE
Speak to us of The Feminine. And The Prophetess spoke.
We often mistake The Feminine for a pretty and graceful fair maiden or a Goddess of only nurturance who, subservient to our comforts, decorates our lives, sings to us, and feeds us only our ease.
But The Feminine is a three-headed Goddess made of Truth, Justice, and Power from within. She breathes the fire of dominion and radical acceptance, and while She is loving, She is rarely comfortable. She is not here to castrate or emasculate men but to help them claim their crown. And She does not only abide in women — She abides in the human soul. She is the eco-warrior who unapologetically bursts through the dams blocking you from the vitality of your grief. She is what will not stay small and tidy and polite to keep you from the immeasurable fullness of your life.
The Feminine is shorthand for the great divine force that lives within you, that wants to restore you to your inner power, that comes from embracing your wholeness. She wants to exonerate and ennoble your messy, imperfect, scuffed, glorious, and completely essential humanity. She bursts through ideological pavings that have covered our soul's knowing to introduce us to the embodied God who is not afraid to roar or weep. She is the revolutionary who will undo conquering consciousness that represses so much of ourselves and has sickened and made limp the heart of the world. She is intolerant of our separation from ourselves to please the old dogma of conditional love. We are malnourished in our continuous competition with others for the resources we first reject in ourselves. She wants us well fed.
She is the primordial form of the holy word "No" that begins forming in our gut, in our hips, in the deepest furrows of our knowing. She is what will not tolerate the denigration of human worth and inherent dignity. She is the toppler of the terrible illusion of hierarchy.
She is the marvelous unraveller of the status quo, that corset stifling the deep breath of society's truth. She is gloriously irreverent to all falsities that make God out to be anything but the infinite embrace of your entirely. She is the wisdom and life stored in your pain that will not stop howling until you stop your busy life to kneel by her side and find value in the voice you once learned to silence.
The Feminine is here to crack open your body, women and men and all, to 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 that mapless territory of your heart.
The Feminine is here to remind you that God can live in the earth, in the hips, in the deepest shadows. She reminds us that God is planted like a wild rose in the darkest furrows of your pain to teach you to mother your frailties rather than dominate them and bring the wound from exile into embrace.
The Feminine is here to reunite tenderness with power and to help you source this from the great, hidden sea within you — She wants 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 that though we have tried to bury Her, we are in the process of Her great resurrection. She has been buried in our bodies, but our bodies are not burial grounds but birthing rooms. She has been gestating there. We are carrying Her ancient wisdom, and a great, never-before-seen beauty is soon due to be born.
— Chelan Harkin
Excerpted from THE PROPHETESS: The Return
of The Prophet from The Voice of
The Divine Feminine
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