Temple Guardians

I’m diving into an enormous topic here, here’s the rub.

Women have gotten the short end of the stick for millennia now.

Our culture is clutching at the illusion of safety so tightly, for fear of losing control, and there is so much of human disfunction that can be laid at the feet of men. Or to be more precise, at the feet of a masculine energy that seeks out control of others as means of pursuing internal well-being. Generation after generation of scared boys raising other scared boys controlling other scared boys, suppressing other boys and girls who begin to find courage in their voice.

This is hinting at a beautiful discussion around ‘The Wound’, and how to restore balance and harmony. How to acknowledge the pain, grief, and suffering at the hands of power-hungry rulers that filtered down into oppressive relationships in each home. Unravelling my contribution to these cycles has been humbling and softening. Overall, its teaching me the value of letting go of the question, ‘what do I want’, which allows the deception of the ego to project out into the world…instead, embracing the question. what wants to move through me.

I don’t have a lot of ideas for global solutions, but I am beginning to get a felt sense of how I can show up in my daily life to set things right. As the Emerald Tablet says “Visit the innermost parts of the Earth; by setting things right, you will find the hidden Stone.” The Stone being, a soul’s gnosis of expression in this world, free of lack, free of judgement, free of control. Simple, imaginative, innocent play.

One tragedy that I’ve identified in his-story is the highjacking of temple guardianship. I’ve witnessed the passion to devotion amongst women that leaves me speechless and teary. While men can certainly possess zeal and fervency in prayer and ritual, there is a unique relationship that women have to the Earth, through the Womb portal, that must be restored.

‘The womb is not a place for fear and pain. The womb is place to create, and to give birth to new life.’

I feel in my bones, that spaces for healing of the womb is vital to our reconnection to each other. Space for women to gather and practice all the secret women’s business they feel to move into and through. Without this healing, we will continue to give birth through womb portals encrusted with barnacles of pain, guilt, shame, grief, and fear.

As part of partnership with the ‘restoration of all things’, and building the temple within…I design and build temple spaces for women to gather. As I hone my craft, I am able to bring pure service of excellence to create spaces that honour the feminine within me, and thus, the feminine without.

As I learn to make space for my relationships to honour the deep spaces that the immature masculine has not allowed, I am better able to feel the pain of the Mother and to integrate a more holistic Knowing of my place in the world.

I believe the torch of Temple Guardianship would best be handed back to the feminine. And in return, I ask for nothing. As I have no right to have taken so much for so long.

Though, if I may humbly encourage you. Find space in your heart to forgive, not for my sake, but yours. The guilt that I am learning to accept is mine to transmute in the fires of my own furnace. I will keep the fire burning within me to reclaim proper responsibility, so that you have space to dance around the pools of your sovereign Queendom.