Endings and Beginnings

Kali by Lisa Iris

~ A Kali celebration of renewals ~

Several years ago, I licensed this image from the artist for the Delphic Wave site as part of the Goddess Temple. It lives in Doreen Vitue’s Goddess Oracle deck and in various of Lisa’s sites online.

When you gaze at this image, what calls you?

As I meditated with Kali for years on end, various bits of this image spoke to me. Ultimately, we are all flowers in the hand of the Goddess. Source, if you prefer that terminology.

Some of you, who have gone through extreme physical issues, have reported, “I got it. I will have Her body or no body at all.”

That assessment is often true from a certain point of view. What is more important now is that our old ways of being and doing have dissolved. We are fledglings, tossed from our most beloved nests into a new reality. What will we make of this? What will we be made of? How often did we used to say, “Don’t make light of that,” when speaking of something serious? And yet, is that not what we have been doing all along? Have we not been ‘making light’ of all that we believe we are not and all that we believe ourselves to be?

The litany reads, “Bless me Mother for I have sinned.” Though I was not raised in that tradition, it took decades for the end of that sentence to transform. The habit of feeling we are less than Divine is so deeply ingrained it can feel impossible to transcend. What if that transcendence was the point and had no point, simultaneously?

It is said that a paradox can be solved by the realization that one of our premises is not true. What if both sides of such an equation are illusory at best? I have found that the solution to any paradox, any double bind, is surrender to Truth.

As all things end and begin again, what do we value? What is worth? What if we never had to strive for anything other than the full embodiment of our alignment in light? A tall order? What if there was no mountain? What if ascending to the heights is ascending to the depths? A contradiction in terms? Is it? What if it is our terms, our assumed labels, that create the illusion and the contradictions?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” My Mum had a small china plaque engraved with this saying. She kept it over the prep area in her kitchen. As a young person, I rolled my eyes as anyone would. What does that mean anyway? What do you love? That is what you are.

What if you could relax into that love and simply be?

Mum has been around lately, as my Father makes his decisions regarding the time he has left and whether or not he wants more time. The dual presence of parental rules and roles has given me a fresh perspective on paradox and role-playing. What did they value in one another? What did that mirroring teach them, and me? What if it was all dust in the wind?

As the crunch creeps in, let it dissolve in your bright shining Oneness. We will never pass this way again. What have we valued? That makes a completion. What is that assessment worth to our evolution? And, are we correct in our assessments?

What is value? What is worth? What if we are that already? What if it does not matter what blinds us from our own light? What if it matters how we manifest it?

Dive deep. Ladle your light. All will be well, one way and another.