What I see and what I write is only the beginning. I can tell that the Goddess is gently nudging her way into my life. She has been doing this for many years as the feminine has called to me in sometimes subtle and sometimes striking ways. What I am waking to is mostly inside of me, but it is encouraged by the feminine all around me.
It could be that what I have been calling the feminine leanings in me and in the world are actually the energy and power of the Goddess. The two are one, feminine and Goddess. My culture has largely declared that the sacred and divine is male. The sacred and divine are separate, somewhere unseen, unheard and ‘out there.’ While I have been convinced of the immanence of the sacred, I am mainly recognizing the feminine attributes of that immanence. The Goddess has stirred from beneath the covers of my male-dominated, male-god dominated culture.
Actually, the Goddess has been there all the time, sounding the sweet harp of her presence. She has appeared to me in so many art forms and in many of the women I know. My own natural affinity for the feminine has in reality been an affinity for the Goddess, for the manifestations of her wise, life-giving fecundity of her sacred presence.
It is a continuing revelation as veils are drawn back. I am noticing the feminine attributes of the deep and erotic energy that is present in all things. No separate entity, the Goddess alive is in the whole world around me. She is more obvious in some places, but she is present in everything, everyone willing to manifest her.
I am learning not only how to recognize her but also how to express her power and energy, her attributes and her presence. I am fortunate to have teachers who are around me and who speak to me in art and books. I am fortunate to have a garden where the Goddess is alive and manifests an alluring presence. I am fortunate that I can feel the Goddess coming more alive in me.